[{"query": ["He was famous , sir , in his profession , and it was his great right to be so - Gerard de Narbon .", "Do wrong to none ; be able for thine enemy", "In delivering my son from me , I bury a second husband .", "\u2018 Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise in . The remembrance of her father never approaches her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all livelihood from her cheek . No more of this , Helena ; go to , no more , lest it be rather thought you affect a sorrow than to have-", "Heaven bless him ! Farewell , Bertram . Exit", "Advise him .", "That thee may furnish , and my prayers pluck down ,", "Rather in power than use , and keep thy friend", "This young gentlewoman had a father - O , that \u2018 had , \u2019 how sad a passage \u2018 tis ! - whose skill was almost as great as his honesty ; had it stretch 'd so far , would have made nature immortal , and death should have play for lack of work . Would , for the King 's sake , he were living ! I think it would be the death of the King 's disease .", "But never tax 'd for speech . What heaven more will ,"], "true_target": ["Be thou blest , Bertram , and succeed thy father", "What hope is there of his Majesty 's amendment ?", "In manners , as in shape ! Thy blood and virtue", "Under thy own life 's key ; be check 'd for silence ,", "\u2018 Tis an unseason 'd courtier ; good my lord ,", "Fall on thy head ! Farewell . My lord ,", "Contend for empire in thee , and thy goodness", "If the living be enemy to the grief , the excess makes it soon mortal .", "Share with thy birthright ! Love all , trust a few ,", "His sole child , my lord , and bequeathed to my overlooking . I have those hopes of her good that her education promises ; her dispositions she inherits , which makes fair gifts fairer ; for where an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities , there commendations go with pity-they are virtues and traitors too . In her they are the better for their simpleness ; she derives her honesty , and achieves her goodness ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["And I in going , madam , weep o'er my father 's death anew ; but I must attend his Majesty 's command , to whom I am now in ward , evermore in subjection .", "Madam , I desire your holy wishes ."], "true_target": ["I heard not of it before .", "The best wishes that can be forg 'd in your thoughts be servants to you !Be comfortable to my mother , your mistress , and make much of her .", "What is it , my good lord , the King languishes of ?"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["A fistula , my lord .", "He cannot want the best", "You shall find of the King a husband , madam ; you , sir , a father . He that so generally is at all times good must of necessity hold his virtue to you , whose worthiness would stir it up where it wanted , rather than lack it where there is such abundance .", "That shall attend his love .", "Farewell , pretty lady ; you must hold the credit of your father . Exeunt BERTRAM and LAFEU", "I would it were not notorious . Was this gentlewoman the daughter of Gerard de Narbon ?"], "true_target": ["How call 'd you the man you speak of , madam ?", "Your commendations , madam , get from her tears .", "He was excellent indeed , madam ; the King very lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly ; he was skilful enough to have liv 'd still , if knowledge could be set up against mortality .", "How understand we that ?", "He hath abandon 'd his physicians , madam ; under whose practices he hath persecuted time with hope , and finds no other advantage in the process but only the losing of hope by time .", "Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead : excessive grief the enemy to the living ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull .", "A mother , and a mistress , and a friend ,", "Not my virginity yet .", "That I should love a bright particular star", "Must I be comforted , not in his sphere .", "That I wish well . \u2018 Tis pity-", "And you , monarch !", "Must die for love . \u2018 Twas pretty , though a plague ,", "Monsieur Parolles , you were born under a charitable star .", "But he assails ; and our virginity , though valiant in the defence , yet is weak . Unfold to us some warlike resistance .", "Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes ,", "Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie ,", "But now he 's gone , and my idolatrous fancy", "So is running away , when fear proposes the safety : but the composition that your valour and fear makes in you is a virtue of a good wing , and I like the wear well .", "The court 's a learning-place , and he is one-", "His arched brows , his hawking eye , his curls ,", "Which might be felt ; that we , the poorer born ,", "And show what we alone must think , which never", "To show her merit that did miss her love ?", "A phoenix , captain , and an enemy ,", "Gives us free scope ; only doth backward pull", "And these great tears grace his remembrance more", "His faith , his sweet disaster ; with a world", "His jarring concord , and his discord dulcet ,", "That makes me see , and cannot feed mine eye ?", "And think to wed it , he is so above me .", "If Bertram be away . \u2018 Twere all one", "How might one do , sir , to lose it to her own liking ?", "Ay . You have some stain of soldier in you ; let me ask you a question . Man is enemy to virginity ; how may we barricado it against him ?", "And no .", "Impossible be strange attempts to those", "Bless our poor virginity from underminers and blowers-up ! Is there no military policy how virgins might blow up men ?", "In his bright radiance and collateral light", "The King 's disease-my project may deceive me ,"], "true_target": ["The wars hath so kept you under that you must needs be born under Mars .", "What hath been cannot be . Who ever strove", "A guide , a goddess , and a sovereign ,", "But my intents are fix 'd , and will not leave me . Exit", "In our heart 's table-heart too capable", "His humble ambition , proud humility ,", "That weigh their pains in sense , and do suppose", "A counsellor , a traitress , and a dear ;", "To join like likes , and kiss like native things .", "Might with effects of them follow our friends", "When he was retrograde , I think , rather .", "To see him every hour ; to sit and draw", "Must sanctify his relics . Who comes here ?", "What power is it which mounts my love so high ,", "The mightiest space in fortune nature brings", "I do affect a sorrow indeed , but I have it too .", "Which we ascribe to heaven . The fated sky", "The hind that would be mated by the lion", "Carries no favour i n't but Bertram 's .", "That blinking Cupid gossips . Now shall he-", "Of pretty , fond , adoptious christendoms", "That wishing well had not a body i n't", "O , were that all ! I think not on my father ;", "I am undone ; there is no living , none ,", "Th \u2019 ambition in my love thus plagues itself :", "Than those I shed for him . What was he like ?", "I especially think , under Mars .", "I will stand for \u2018 t a little , though therefore I die a virgin .", "I know not what he shall . God send him well !", "Returns us thanks .", "You go so much backward when you fight .", "There shall your master have a thousand loves ,", "Of every line and trick of his sweet favour .", "I have forgot him ; my imagination"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["Virginity being blown down , man will quicklier be blown up ; marry , in blowing him down again , with the breach yourselves made , you lose your city . It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity . Loss of virginity is rational increase ; and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost . That you were made of is metal to make virgins . Virginity by being once lost may be ten times found ; by being ever kept , it is ever lost . \u2018 Tis too cold a companion ; away with't .", "There 's little can be said in \u2018 t ; \u2018 tis against the rule of nature . To speak on the part of virginity is to accuse your mothers ; which is most infallible disobedience . He that hangs himself is a virgin ; virginity murders itself , and should be buried in highways , out of all sanctified limit , as a desperate offendress against nature . Virginity breeds mites , much like a cheese ; consumes itself to the very paring , and so dies with feeding his own stomach . Besides , virginity is peevish , proud , idle , made of self-love , which is the most inhibited sin in the canon . Keep it not ; you cannot choose but lose by't . Out with't . Within ten year it will make itself ten , which is a goodly increase ; and the principal itself not much the worse . Away with't .", "There is none . Man , setting down before you , will undermine you and blow you up .", "That 's for advantage .", "Why think you so ?", "Little Helen , farewell ; if I can remember thee , I will think of thee at court .", "Keep him out .", "Why under Man ?"], "true_target": ["What 's pity ?", "I am so full of business I cannot answer thee acutely . I will return perfect courtier ; in the which my instruction shall serve to naturalize thee , so thou wilt be capable of a courtier 's counsel , and understand what advice shall thrust upon thee ; else thou diest in thine unthankfulness , and thine ignorance makes thee away . Farewell . When thou hast leisure , say thy prayers ; when thou hast none , remember thy friends . Get thee a good husband and use him as he uses thee . So , farewell .", "Save you , fair queen !", "No .", "What one , i \u2019 faith ?", "When he was predominant .", "Are you meditating on virginity ?", "Let me see . Marry , ill to like him that ne'er it likes . \u2018 Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with lying ; the longer kept , the less worth . Off with't while \u2018 tis vendible ; answer the time of request . Virginity , like an old courtier , wears her cap out of fashion , richly suited but unsuitable ; just like the brooch and the toothpick , which wear not now . Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek . And your virginity , your old virginity , is like one of our French wither 'd pears : it looks ill , it eats drily ; marry , \u2018 tis a wither 'd pear ; it was formerly better ; marry , yet \u2018 tis a wither 'd pear . Will you anything with it ?", "Under Mars , I ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["I fill a place , I know't . How long is't , Count ,", "A certainty , vouch 'd from our cousin Austria ,", "Prejudicates the business , and would seem", "His tongue obey 'd his hand . Who were below him", "Exception bid him speak , and at this time", "A braving war .", "He us 'd as creatures of another place ;", "And Florence is denied before he comes ;", "Of younger spirits , whose apprehensive senses", "To talk of your good father . In his youth", "He was much fam 'd .", "Lend me an arm-the rest have worn me out", "Hath well compos 'd thee . Thy father 's moral parts", "And wore us out of act . It much repairs me", "Ere they can hide their levity in honour .", "To grow there , and to bear - \u2018 Let me not live \u2019 -", "As when thy father and myself in friendship", "Mayst thou inherit too ! Welcome to Paris .", "When it was out - \u2018 Let me not live \u2019 quoth he", "The Tuscan service , freely have they leave", "But goers backward .", "In their poor praise he humbled . Such a man", "Discipled of the bravest . He lasted long ;", "So like a courtier , contempt nor bitterness", "Which , followed well , would demonstrate them now", "Clock to itself , knew the true minute when", "On the catastrophe and heel of pastime ,", "Were in his pride or sharpness ; if they were ,", "Since the physician at your father 's died ?", "Nay , \u2018 tis most credible . We here receive it ,", "I quickly were dissolved from my hive ,", "The Florentines and Senoys are by th \u2019 ears ;", "This his good melancholy oft began ,", "Mere fathers of their garments ; whose constancies"], "true_target": ["Debate it at their leisure . Welcome , Count ;", "First tried our soldiership . He did look far", "But on us both did haggish age steal on ,", "Yet , for our gentlemen that mean to see", "What 's he comes here ?", "With caution , that the Florentine will move us", "I , after him , do after him wish too ,", "And bow 'd his eminent top to their low ranks ,", "With several applications . Nature and sickness", "If he were living , I would try him yet-", "My son 's no dearer .", "To-day in our young lords ; but they may jest", "He had the wit which I can well observe", "His equal had awak 'd them ; and his honour ,", "Frank nature , rather curious than in haste ,", "For speedy aid ; wherein our dearest friend", "Into the service of the time , and was", "\u2018 After my flame lacks oil , to be the snuff", "Till their own scorn return to them unnoted", "Youth , thou bear'st thy father 's face ;", "To give some labourers room .", "I would I had that corporal soundness now ,", "To stand on either part .", "All but new things disdain ; whose judgments are", "Would I were with him ! He would always say-", "He hath arm 'd our answer ,", "To have us make denial .", "Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home ,", "Methinks I hear him now ; his plausive words", "Expire before their fashions . \u2019 This he wish 'd .", "Have fought with equal fortune , and continue", "Might be a copy to these younger times ;", "He scatter 'd not in ears , but grafted them", "Making them proud of his humility"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["So \u2018 tis reported , sir .", "For amplest credence .", "His love and wisdom ,"], "true_target": ["Approv 'd so to your Majesty , may plead", "It is the Count Rousillon , my good lord ,", "Young Bertram ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["It well may serve", "A nursery to our gentry , who are sick"], "true_target": ["You 're loved , sir ;", "For breathing and exploit .", "They that least lend it you shall lack you first ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Thank your Majesty . Exeunt", "His good remembrance , sir ,", "As in your royal speech ."], "true_target": ["Lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb ;", "Some six months since , my lord .", "So in approof lives not his epitaph", "My thanks and duty are your Majesty 's ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["In what case ?", "Have to the full appeach 'd .", "And pray God 's blessing into thy attempt .", "To tell me truly .", "Sirrah , tell my gentlewoman I would speak with her ;", "Is this all your worship 's reason ?", "You ne'er oppress 'd me with a mother 's groan ,", "Well , now .", "Embowell 'd of their doctrine , have let off", "Adoption strives with nature , and choice breeds", "That truth should be suspected . Speak , is't so ?", "Do you love my son ?", "Methought you saw a serpent . What 's in \u2018 mother \u2019", "May the world know them ?", "Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry .", "The state of your affection ; for your passions", "God shield you mean it not ! \u2018 daughter \u2019 and \u2018 mother \u2019", "Yes , Helen , you might be my daughter-in-law .", "Nor I your mother ?", "Wherefore ? Tell true .", "A poor unlearned virgin , when the schools ,", "And put you in the catalogue of those", "They , that they cannot help . How shall they credit", "To those of mine in court . I 'll stay at home ,", "Such friends are thine enemies , knave .", "To say I am thy mother ? What 's the matter ,", "The many-colour 'd Iris , rounds thine eye ?", "Nay , a mother .", "To go to Paris ?", "As heaven shall work in me for thine avail ,", "Confess it , th \u2019 one to th \u2019 other ; and thine eyes", "You 'll be gone , sir knave , and do as I command you .", "You know , Helen ,", "For Paris , was it ? Speak .", "Your salt tears \u2019 head . Now to all sense \u2018 tis gross", "A native slip to us from foreign seeds .", "Thy marriage , sooner than thy wickedness .", "Faith I do . Her father bequeath 'd her to me ; and she herself , without other advantage , may lawfully make title to as much love as she finds . There is more owing her than is paid ; and more shall be paid her than she 'll demand .", "Against the proclamation of thy passion ,", "Why , Helen , thou shalt have my leave and love ,", "Love you my son ?", "My fear hath catch 'd your fondness . Now I see"], "true_target": ["If it be so , you have wound a goodly clew ;", "I mean .", "What does this knave here ? Get you gone , sirrah . The complaints I have heard of you I do not all believe ; \u2018 tis my slowness that I do not , for I know you lack not folly to commit them and have ability enough to make such knaveries yours .", "YOU have discharg 'd this honestly ; keep it to yourself . Many likelihoods inform 'd me of this before , which hung so tott'ring in the balance that I could neither believe nor misdoubt . Pray you leave me . Stall this in your bosom ; and I thank you for your honest care . I will speak with you further anon . Exit STEWARD Enter HELENA Even so it was with me when I was young . If ever we are nature 's , these are ours ; this thorn Doth to our rose of youth rightly belong ; Our blood to us , this to our blood is born . It is the show and seal of nature 's truth , Where love 's strong passion is impress 'd in youth . By our remembrances of days foregone , Such were our faults , or then we thought them none . Her eye is sick o n't ; I observe her now .", "But tell me then , \u2018 tis so ; for , look , thy cheeks", "So strive upon your pulse . What ! pale again ?", "That were enwombed mine . \u2018 Tis often seen", "What , one good in ten ? You corrupt the song , sirrah .", "The danger to itself ?", "Wilt thou ever be a foul-mouth 'd and calumnious knave ?", "See it so grossly shown in thy behaviours", "I say I am your mother .", "Why not a mother ? When I said \u2018 a mother , \u2019", "Well , sir .", "I am a mother to you .", "God 's mercy , maiden ! does it curd thy blood", "Yet I express to you a mother 's care .", "If it be not , forswear't ; howe'er , I charge thee ,", "Had you not lately an intent-speak truly-", "Means and attendants , and my loving greetings", "That you start at it ? I say I am your mother ,", "Get you gone , sir ; I 'll talk with you more anon .", "What I can help thee to thou shalt not miss . Exeunt", "I will now hear ; what say you of this gentlewoman ?", "You love my son ; invention is asham 'd ,", "But think you , Helen ,", "Be gone to-morrow ; and be sure of this ,", "This was your motive", "Dost thou believe't ?", "That this distempered messenger of wet ,", "Why , that you are my daughter ?", "Wilt thou needs be a beggar ?", "The myst'ry of your loneliness , and find", "Are of a mind : he , that they cannot help him ;", "He would receive it ? He and his physicians", "Helen", "If you should tender your supposed aid ,", "And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue ,", "That in their kind they speak it ; only sin", "To say thou dost not . Therefore tell me true ;", "Go not about ; my love hath i n't a bond", "Whereof the world takes note . Come , come , disclose"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 2}, {"query": ["Madam , I was very late more near her than I think she wish 'd me . Alone she was , and did communicate to herself her own words to her own ears ; she thought , I dare vow for her , they touch 'd not any stranger sense . Her matter was , she loved your son . Fortune , she said , was no goddess , that had put such difference betwixt their two estates ; Love no god , that would not extend his might only where qualities were level ; Diana no queen of virgins , that would suffer her poor knight surpris 'd without rescue in the first assault , or ransom afterward . This she deliver 'd in the most bitter touch of sorrow that e'er I heard virgin exclaim in ; which I held my duty speedily to acquaint you withal ; sithence , in the loss that may happen , it concerns you something to know it .", "Madam , the care I have had to even your content I wish might be found in the calendar of my past endeavours ; for then we wound our modesty , and make foul the clearness of our deservings , when of ourselves we publish them ."], "true_target": ["May it please you , madam , that he bid Helen come to you . Of her I am to speak .", "I know , madam , you love your gentlewoman entirely ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 2}, {"query": ["In Isbel 's case and mine own . Service is no heritage ; and I think I shall never have the blessing of God till I have issue o \u2019 my body ; for they say bames are blessings .", "I do beg your good will in this case .", "No , madam , \u2018 tis not so well that I am poor , though many of the rich are damn 'd ; but if I may have your ladyship 's good will to go to the world , Isbel the woman and I will do as we may .", "For I the ballad will repeat ,", "That man should be at woman 's command , and yet no hurt done ! Though honesty be no puritan , yet it will do no hurt ; it will wear the surplice of humility over the black gown of a big heart . I am going , forsooth . The business is for Helen to come hither .", "Which men full true shall find :", "A prophet I , madam ; and I speak the truth the next way :", "Y'are shallow , madam-in great friends ; for the knaves come to do that for me which I am aweary of . He that ears my land spares my team , and gives me leave to in the crop . If I be his cuckold , he 's my drudge . He that comforts my wife is the cherisher of my flesh and blood ; he that cherishes my flesh and blood loves my flesh and blood ; he that loves my flesh and blood is my friend ; ergo , he that kisses my wife is my friend . If men could be contented to be what they are , there were no fear in marriage ; for young Charbon the puritan and old Poysam the papist , howsome'er their hearts are sever 'd in religion , their heads are both one ; they may jowl horns together like any deer i \u2019 th \u2019 herd .", "One good woman in ten , madam , which is a purifying o \u2019 th \u2019 song . Would God would serve the world so all the year ! We 'd find no fault with the tithe-woman , if I were the parson . One in ten , quoth \u2018 a ! An we might have a good woman born before every blazing star , or at an earthquake , \u2018 twould mend the lottery well : a man may draw his heart out ere \u2018 a pluck one .", "With that she sighed as she stood ,", "My poor body , madam , requires it . I am driven on by the flesh ; and he must needs go that the devil drives .", "\u2018 Among nine bad if one be good ,", "With that she sighed as she stood ,"], "true_target": ["Among nine bad if one be good ,", "\u2018 Tis not unknown to you , madam , I am a poor fellow .", "I am out o \u2019 friends , madam , and I hope to have friends for my wife 's sake .", "I have been , madam , a wicked creature , as you and all flesh and blood are ; and , indeed , I do marry that I may repent .", "\u2018 Was this fair face the cause \u2019 quoth she", "Your cuckoo sings by kind .", "And gave this sentence then :", "Was this King Priam 's joy ? \u2019", "Faith , madam , I have other holy reasons , such as they are .", "\u2018 Why the Grecians sacked Troy ?", "Your marriage comes by destiny ,", "Fond done , done fond ,", "There 's yet one good in ten . \u2019"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 2}, {"query": ["Yet never know how that desert should be .", "My master , my dear lord he is ; and I", "You are my mother , madam ; would you were-", "I care no more for than I do for heaven ,", "To cure the desperate languishings whereof", "Here on my knee , before high heaven and you ,", "Be not offended , for it hurts not him", "But give me leave to try success , I 'd venture", "Wish chastely and love dearly that your Dian", "The well-lost life of mine on his Grace 's cure .", "The Count Rousillon cannot be my brother :", "Then I confess ,", "There 's something i n't", "Whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth ,", "And manifest experience had collected", "Else Paris , and the medicine , and the King ,", "Had from the conversation of my thoughts", "For general sovereignty ; and that he will 'd me", "You know my father left me some prescriptions", "Madam , I had .", "My friends were poor , but honest ; so 's my love .", "Indeed my mother ! Or were you both our mothers ,", "Did ever in so true a flame of liking", "So I were not his sister . Ca n't no other ,", "I still pour in the waters of my love ,", "There is a remedy , approv 'd , set down ,", "Was both herself and Love ; O , then , give pity", "To her whose state is such that cannot choose", "I will tell truth ; by grace itself I swear .", "But , I your daughter , he must be my brother ?", "Yet in this captious and intenible sieve", "But knows of him no more . My dearest madam ,", "As notes whose faculties inclusive were", "That before you , and next unto high heaven ,", "That he is lov 'd of me ; I follow him not"], "true_target": ["The sun that looks upon his worshipper", "For loving where you do ; but if yourself ,", "Religious in mine error , I adore", "He must not be my brother .", "By such a day and hour .", "Haply been absent then .", "Ay , madam , knowingly .", "Good madam , pardon me .", "No note upon my parents , his all noble .", "By th \u2019 luckiest stars in heaven ; and , would your honour", "Shall for my legacy be sanctified", "Let not your hate encounter with my love ,", "I know I love in vain , strive against hope ;", "I love your son .", "In heedfull'st reservation to bestow them ,", "But , riddle-like , lives sweetly where she dies !", "Of his profession , that his good receipt", "More than my father 's skill , which was the great'st", "Of rare and prov 'd effects , such as his reading", "What is your pleasure , madam ?", "More than they were in note . Amongst the rest", "Pardon , madam .", "That I am not .", "Your pardon , noble mistress .", "That seeks not to find that her search implies ,", "I am from humble , he from honoured name ;", "By any token of presumptuous suit ,", "Nor would I have him till I do deserve him ;", "So that my lord your son were not my brother-", "His servant live , and will his vassal die .", "The King is render 'd lost .", "Do not you love him , madam ?", "But lend and give where she is sure to lose ;", "My lord your son made me to think of this ,", "And lack not to lose still . Thus , Indian-like ,", "Mine honourable mistress ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 2}, {"query": ["I knew him .", "To empirics ; or to dissever so", "I 'll fee thee to stand up .", "Will not confess he owes the malady", "Though more to know could not be more to trust ,", "Do not throw from you . And you , my lords , farewell ;", "Our great self and our credit to esteem", "Farewell , young lords ; these war-like principles", "The gift doth stretch itself as \u2018 tis receiv 'd ,", "And what impossibility would slay", "The bravest questant shrinks , find what you seek ,", "This haste hath wings indeed .", "As high as word , my deed shall match thy deed .", "Proffers not took reap thanks for their reward .", "Thy resolv 'd patient , on thee still rely .", "And is enough for both .", "When our most learned doctors leave us , and", "What dar'st thou venture ?", "Youth , beauty , wisdom , courage , all", "Of worthy Frenchmen ; let higher Italy-", "What her is this ?", "I would I had ; so I had broke thy pate ,", "They say our French lack language to deny ,", "A senseless help , when help past sense we deem .", "May spend our wonder too , or take off thine", "Now , good Lafeu ,", "Art thou so confident ? Within what space", "Thy life is dear ; for all that life can rate", "No , no , it cannot be ; and yet my heart", "Thou thought'st to help me ; and such thanks I give", "Those girls of Italy , take heed of them ;", "We thank you , maiden ;", "So stain our judgment , or corrupt our hope ,", "Those bated that inherit but the fall", "Of the last monarchy-see that you come", "I must not hear thee . Fare thee well , kind maid ;", "Methinks in thee some blessed spirit doth speak", "Thus he his special nothing ever prologues . Re-enter LAFEU with HELENA", "Hop'st thou my cure ?", "Make thy demand ."], "true_target": ["Sweet practiser , thy physic I will try ,", "Whether I live or die , be you the sons", "Unquestion 'd welcome and undoubted blest .", "More should I question thee , and more I must ,", "But what at full I know , thou know'st no part ;", "Share the advice betwixt you ; if both gain all ,", "Farewell .Come hither to me . The KING retires attended", "Upon thy certainty and confidence", "That ministers thine own death if I die .", "If they demand ; beware of being captives", "Skill infinite or monstrous desperate .", "Here is my hand ; the premises observ 'd ,", "Not to woo honour , but to wed it ; when", "That happiness and prime can happy call .", "I knowing all my peril , thou no art .", "By wond'ring how thou took'st it .", "Thy will by my performance shall be serv 'd .", "Worth name of life in thee hath estimate :", "Now , fair one , does your business follow us ?", "So make the choice of thy own time , for I ,", "Ay , by my sceptre and my hopes of heaven .", "The congregated college have concluded", "As one near death to those that wish him live .", "Give me some help here , ho ! If thou proceed", "And ask 'd thee mercy for't .", "Thou this to hazard needs must intimate", "From whence thou cam'st , how tended on . But rest", "But may not be so credulous of cure ,", "That doth my life besiege . Farewell , young lords ;", "To prostitute our past-cure malady", "Before you serve .", "Thy pains , not us 'd , must by thyself be paid ;", "I cannot give thee less , to be call 'd grateful .", "That labouring art can never ransom nature", "No .", "His powerful sound within an organ weak ;", "From her inaidable estate-I say we must not", "In common sense , sense saves another way .", "That fame may cry you aloud . I say farewell .", "Bring in the admiration , that we with the"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 3}, {"query": ["After well-ent'red soldiers , to return", "We shall , noble Captain .", "There 's honour in the theft ."], "true_target": ["O my sweet lord , that you will stay behind us !", "Farewell , Captain .", "And find your Grace in health .", "\u2018 Tis our hope , sir ,"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 3}, {"query": ["Health , at your bidding , serve your Majesty !", "Sweet Monsieur Parolles !"], "true_target": ["I am your accessary ; and so farewell .", "O , \u2018 tis brave wars !"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 3}, {"query": ["Use a more spacious ceremony to the noble lords ; you have restrain 'd yourself within the list of too cold an adieu . Be more expressive to them ; for they wear themselves in the cap of the time ; there do muster true gait ; eat , speak , and move , under the influence of the most receiv 'd star ; and though the devil lead the measure , such are to be followed . After them , and take a more dilated farewell .", "What will ye do ?", "Mars dote on you for his novices ! Exeunt LORDS", "Noble heroes , my sword and yours are kin . Good sparks and lustrous , a word , good metals : you shall find in the regiment of the Spinii one Captain Spurio , with his cicatrice , an emblem of war , here on his sinister cheek ; it was this very sword entrench 'd it . Say to him I live ; and observe his reports for me .", "Worthy fellows ; and like to prove most sinewy sword-men ."], "true_target": ["An thy mind stand to \u2018 t , boy , steal away bravely .", "Commit it , Count .", "Most admirable ! I have seen those wars .", "\u2018 Tis not his fault , the spark .", "Re-enter the KING"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 3}, {"query": ["But one to dance with . By heaven , I 'll steal away .", "\u2018 Too young \u2019 and next year \u2019 and \u201c Tis too early . \u2019", "Stay ; the King !", "And I will do so ."], "true_target": ["Till honour be bought up , and no sword worn", "I grow to you , and our parting is a tortur 'd body .", "Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry ,", "I am commanded here and kept a coil with", "I shall stay here the forehorse to a smock ,"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 3}, {"query": ["Then here 's a man stands that has brought his pardon .", "Why , Doctor She ! My lord , there 's one arriv 'd ,", "My noble grapes , an if my royal fox", "His Majesty seldom fears . I am Cressid 's uncle ,", "Nay , I 'll fit you ,", "To give great Charlemain a pen in 's hand", "Good faith , across !", "In this my light deliverance , I have spoke", "Nay , come your ways .", "This is his Majesty ; say your mind to him .", "No grapes , my royal fox ? Yes , but you will", "And not be all day neither . Exit LAFEU", "That done , laugh well at me .", "That dare leave two together . Fare you well . Exit", "Wisdom , and constancy , hath amaz 'd me more", "If seriously I may convey my thoughts", "And write to her a love-line ."], "true_target": ["And that at my bidding you could so stand up .", "Pardon , my lord , for me and for my tidings .", "Quicken a rock , and make you dance canary", "With spritely fire and motion ; whose simple touch", "Could reach them : I have seen a medicine", "If you will see her . Now , by my faith and honour ,", "Of your infirmity ?", "But , my good lord , \u2018 tis thus : will you be cur 'd", "I would you had kneel 'd , my lord , to ask me mercy ;", "Than I dare blame my weakness . Will you see her ,", "With one that in her sex , her years , profession ,", "Is powerful to araise King Pepin , nay ,", "O , will you eat", "Nay , come your ways ;", "A traitor you do look like ; but such traitors", "For that is her demand , and know her business ?", "That 's able to breathe life into a stone ,"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 3}, {"query": ["Health shall live free , and sickness freely die .", "But know I think , and think I know most sure ,", "Where hope is coldest , and despair most fits .", "Then shalt thou give me with thy kingly hand", "Traduc 'd by odious ballads ; my maiden 's name", "Since you set up your rest \u2018 gainst remedy .", "The rather will I spare my praises towards him ;", "Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass ,", "Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring ,", "Myself against the level of mine aim ;", "Many receipts he gave me ; chiefly one ,", "The help of heaven we count the act of men .", "Tax of impudence ,", "Knowing him is enough . On 's bed of death", "With that malignant cause wherein the honour", "So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown ,", "A modest one to bear me back again .", "Dear sir , to my endeavours give consent ;", "Humbly entreating from your royal thoughts", "Which , as the dearest issue of his practice ,", "I am not an impostor , that proclaim", "In what he did profess , well found .", "As \u2018 tis with us that square our guess by shows ;", "My art is not past power nor you past cure .", "And well deserv 'd . Not helping , death 's my fee ;", "My low and humble name to propagate", "Where most it promises ; and oft it hits", "Of heaven , not me , make an experiment .", "Gerard de Narbon was my father ,", "With all bound humbleness .", "But , if I help , what do you promise me ?", "When judges have been babes . Great floods have flown", "I come to tender it , and my appliance ,", "Ay , my good lord ."], "true_target": ["With any branch or image of thy state ;", "A strumpet 's boldness , a divulged shame ,", "The greatest Grace lending grace .", "From simple sources , and great seas have dried", "Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring", "Exempted be from me the arrogance", "It is not so with Him that all things knows ,", "Moist Hesperus hath quench 'd his sleepy lamp ,", "Sear 'd otherwise ; ne worse of worst-extended", "What I can do can do no hurt to try ,", "I will no more enforce mine office on you ;", "With vilest torture let my life be ended .", "Oft expectation fails , and most oft there", "But will you make it even ?", "And of his old experience th \u2019 only darling ,", "Inspired merit so by breath is barr 'd .", "Of my dear father 's gift stands chief in power ,", "My duty then shall pay me for my pains .", "He bade me store up as a triple eye ,", "Safer than mine own two , more dear . I have so :", "If I break time , or flinch in property", "Or four and twenty times the pilot 's glass", "To choose from forth the royal blood of France ,", "When miracles have by the greatest been denied .", "Oft does them by the weakest minister .", "Of what I spoke , unpitied let me die ;", "What is infirm from your sound parts shall fly ,", "And , hearing your high Majesty is touch 'd", "Is free for me to ask , thee to bestow .", "But such a one , thy vassal , whom I know", "But most it is presumption in us when", "What husband in thy power I will command .", "Ere twice in murk and occidental damp", "He that of greatest works is finisher"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 3}, {"query": ["Haste you again . Exeunt", "Have you , I , say , an answer of such fitness for all questions ?", "I think , sir , you can eat none of this homely meat .", "Marry , that 's a bountiful answer that fits all questions .", "You were lately whipp 'd , sir , as I think .", "Do you cry \u2018 O Lord , sir ! \u2019 at your whipping , and \u2018 spare not me \u2019 ? Indeed your \u2018 O Lord , sir ! \u2019 is very sequent to your whipping . You would answer very well to a whipping , if you were but bound to't .", "I play the noble housewife with the time ,", "And urge her to a present answer back ;", "To entertain it so merrily with a fool ."], "true_target": ["It must be an answer of most monstrous size that must fit all demands .", "Not much employment for you . You understand me ?", "An end , sir ! To your business : give Helen this ,", "Will your answer serve fit to all questions ?", "Sir , I am a poor friend of yours , that loves you .", "To be young again , if we could , I will be a fool in question , hoping to be the wiser by your answer . I pray you , sir , are you a courtier ?", "Commend me to my kinsmen and my son . This is not much .", "Come on , sir ; I shall now put you to the height of your breeding .", "To the court ! Why , what place make you special , when you put off that with such contempt ? But to the court !"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 4}, {"query": ["O Lord , sir ! - Thick , thick ; spare not me .", "But a trifle neither , in good faith , if the learned should speak truth of it . Here it is , and all that belongs to't . Ask me if I am a courtier : it shall do you no harm to learn .", "It is like a barber 's chair , that fits all buttocks-the pin buttock , the quatch buttock , the brawn buttock , or any buttock .", "I ne'er had worse luck in my life in my \u2018 O Lord , sir ! \u2019 I see thing 's may serve long , but not serve ever .", "From below your duke to beneath your constable , it will fit any question .", "Most fruitfully ; I am there before my legs .", "Truly , madam , if God have lent a man any manners , he may easily put it off at court . He that cannot make a leg , put off 's cap , kiss his hand , and say nothing , has neither leg , hands , lip , nor cap ; and indeed such a fellow , to say precisely , were not for the court ; but for me , I have an answer will serve all men ."], "true_target": ["O Lord , sir ! - Spare not me .", "I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught . I know my business is but to the court .", "As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney , as your French crown for your taffety punk , as Tib 's rush for Tom 's forefinger , as a pancake for Shrove Tuesday , a morris for Mayday , as the nail to his hole , the cuckold to his horn , as a scolding quean to a wrangling knave , as the nun 's lip to the friar 's mouth ; nay , as the pudding to his skin .", "Not much commendation to them ?", "O Lord , sir ! - There 's a simple putting off . More , more , a hundred of them .", "O Lord , sir ! - Why , there't serves well again .", "O Lord , sir ! - Nay , put me to't , I warrant you ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 4}, {"query": ["I may truly say it is a novelty to the world .", "Of all the learned and authentic fellows-", "\u2018 Fore God , I think so .", "Generally thankful .", "\u2018 A Showing of a Heavenly", "My mouth no more were broken than these boys \u2019 ,", "The devil it is that 's thy master . Why dost thou garter up thy arms o \u2019 this fashion ? Dost make hose of thy sleeves ? Do other servants so ? Thou wert best set thy lower part where thy nose stands . By mine honour , if I were but two hours younger , I 'd beat thee . Methink'st thou art a general offence , and every man should beat thee . I think thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon thee .", "These boys are boys of ice ; they 'll none have her . Sure , they are bastards to the English ; the French ne'er got \u2018 em .", "Why , your dolphin is not lustier . \u2018 Fore me , I speak in respect-", "I had rather be in this choice than throw ames-ace for my life .", "Yes , good faith , ev'ry dram of it ; and I will not bate thee a scruple .", "Uncertain life and sure death .", "Go to , sir ; you were beaten in Italy for picking a kernel out of a pomegranate ; you are a vagabond , and no true traveller ; you are more saucy with lords and honourable personages than the commission of your birth and virtue gives you heraldry . You are not worth another word , else I 'd call you knave . I leave you .", "Effect in an Earthly Actor . \u2019", "Your lord and master did well to make his recantation .", "That gave him out incurable-", "Very hand of heaven .", "I would it were hell pains for thy sake , and my poor doing eternal ; for doing I am past , as I will by thee , in what motion age will give me leave . Exit", "Ay ; is it not a language I speak ?"], "true_target": ["Are you companion to the Count Rousillon ?", "Not to be help'd-", "Sirrah , your lord and master 's married ; there 's news for you ; you have a new mistress .", "Do you hear , monsieur ? A word with you .", "Do not plunge thyself too far in anger , lest thou hasten thy trial ; which if-Lord have mercy on thee for a hen ! So , my good window of lattice , fare thee well ; thy casement I need not open , for I look through thee . Give me thy hand .", "There 's one grape yet ; I am sure thy father drunk wine-but if thou be'st not an ass , I am a youth of fourteen ; I have known thee already .", "In a most weak-", "And writ as little beard .", "I must tell thee , sirrah , I write man ; to which title age cannot bring thee .", "To what is count 's man : count 's master is of another style .", "Ev'n as soon as thou canst , for thou hast to pull at a smack o \u2019 th \u2019 contrary . If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten , thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage . I have a desire to hold my acquaintance with thee , or rather my knowledge , that I may say in the default \u2018 He is a man I know . \u2019", "I did think thee , for two ordinaries , to be a pretty wise fellow ; thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel ; it might pass . Yet the scarfs and the bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burden . I have now found thee ; when I lose thee again I care not ; yet art thou good for nothing but taking up ; and that thou'rt scarce worth .", "Lustig , as the Dutchman says . I 'll like a maid the better , whilst I have a tooth in my head . Why , he 's able to lead her a coranto .", "Who ? God ?", "Do all they deny her ? An they were sons of mine I 'd have them whipt ; or I would send them to th \u2019 Turk to make eunuchs of .", "I 'd give bay Curtal and his furniture", "They say miracles are past ; and we have our philosophical persons to make modern and familiar things supernatural and causeless . Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors , ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear .", "To be relinquish 'd of the artists-", "Ay , with all my heart ; and thou art worthy of it ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 5}, {"query": ["This is hard and undeserved measure , my lord .", "Why , \u2018 tis the rarest argument of wonder that hath shot out in our latter times .", "Just ; you say well ; so would I have said .", "Mort du vinaigre ! Is not this Helen ?", "Why , these balls bound ; there 's noise in it . \u2018 Tis hard : A young man married is a man that 's marr 'd . Therefore away , and leave her bravely ; go . The King has done you wrong ; but , hush , \u2018 tis so . Exeunt", "Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon thee-", "Why , there \u2018 tis ; so say I too .", "Your pleasure , sir ?", "Well , I shall be wiser .", "Right ; so I say .", "To any count ; to all counts ; to what is man .", "And debile minister , great power , great transcendence ; which should , indeed , give us a further use to be made than alone the recov'ry of the King , as to be-", "I have not , my lord , deserv 'd it .", "I would have said it ; you say well . Here comes the", "Right ; as \u2018 twere a man assur 'd of a-", "Ay , that would be known . To th \u2019 wars , my boy , to th \u2019 wars ! He wears his honour in a box unseen That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home , Spending his manly marrow in her arms , Which should sustain the bound and high curvet Of Mars 's fiery steed . To other regions ! France is a stable ; we that dwell i n't jades ; Therefore , to th \u2019 war !", "What 's the matter , sweetheart ?", "That 's it ; I would have said the very same ."], "true_target": ["I most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to make some reservation of your wrongs . He is my good lord : whom I serve above is my master .", "What I dare too well do , I dare not do .", "King .", "Nay , \u2018 tis strange , \u2018 tis very strange ; that is the brief and the tedious of it ; and he 's of a most facinerious spirit that will not acknowledge it to be the-", "The tread of a man 's foot . To th \u2019 wars !", "My lord , you give me most egregious indignity .", "A most harsh one , and not to be understood without bloody succeeding . My master !", "It is indeed . If you will have it in showing , you shall read it in what-do-ye-call't here .", "Recantation ! My Lord ! my master !", "Well , thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off me : scurvy , old , filthy , scurvy lord ! Well , I must be patient ; there is no fettering of authority . I 'll beat him , by my life , if I can meet him with any convenience , an he were double and double a lord . I 'll have no more pity of his age than I would have of - I 'll beat him , and if I could but meet him again . Re-enter LAFEU", "Good , very , good , it is so then . Good , very good ; let it be conceal 'd awhile .", "So I say-both of Galen and Paracelsus .", "Ay ; so I say .", "What , what , sweetheart ?", "Ay , sir .", "My lord , you do me most insupportable vexation .", "Will this capriccio hold in thee , art sure ?", "France is a dog-hole , and it no more merits", "You are too old , sir ; let it satisfy you , you are too old ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 5}, {"query": ["Was in my nobler thoughts most base is now", "A poor physician 's daughter my wife ! Disdain", "Although before the solemn priest I have sworn ,", "My wife , my liege ! I shall beseech your Highness ,", "But never hope to know why I should marry her .", "Go with me to my chamber and advise me .", "Acquaint my mother with my hate to her ,", "It shall be so ; I 'll send her to my house ,", "I cannot love her , nor will strive to do \u2018 t .", "But follows it , my lord , to bring me down", "Is as \u2018 twere born so .", "And wherefore I am fled ; write to the King", "I take her hand .", "I 'll to the wars , she to her single sorrow .", "In such a business give me leave to use", "My fancy to your eyes . When I consider", "Where noble fellows strike . War is no strife"], "true_target": ["The help of mine own eyes .", "I will not bed her .", "Pardon , my gracious lord ; for I submit", "The praised of the King ; who , so ennobled ,", "What great creation and what dole of honour", "Rather corrupt me ever !", "She had her breeding at my father 's charge .", "Flies where you bid it , I find that she which late", "And so \u2018 tis .", "Must answer for your raising ? I know her well :", "There 's letters from my mother ; what th \u2019 import is I know not yet .", "That which I durst not speak . His present gift", "O my Parolles , they have married me ! I 'll to the Tuscan wars , and never bed her .", "Shall furnish me to those Italian fields", "Undone , and forfeited to cares for ever !", "Yes , my good lord ;", "I 'll send her straight away . To-morrow", "To the dark house and the detested wife ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 5}, {"query": ["The property by what it is should go ,", "It is in us to plant thine honour where", "Which both thy duty owes and our power claims ;", "Without all terms of pity . Speak ; thine answer .", "A lying trophy ; and as oft is dumb", "Than our fore-goers . The mere word 's a slave ,", "Sit , my preserver , by thy patient 's side ;", "Expecting absent friends . As thou lov'st her ,", "I can create the rest . Virtue and she", "Know'st thou not , Bertram ,", "Loosing upon thee in the name of justice ,", "Into the staggers and the careless lapse", "Would quite confound distinction , yet stand off", "Make choice and see :", "Enter three or four LORDS", "Thou wrong'st thyself , if thou shouldst strive to choose .", "Not by the title . She is young , wise , fair ;", "We , poising us in her defective scale ,", "Why , then , young Bertram , take her ; she 's thy wife .", "O'er whom both sovereign power and father 's voice", "Smile upon this contract ; whose ceremony", "Obey our will , which travails in thy good ;", "Fair maid , send forth thine eye . This youthful parcel", "I can build up . Strange is it that our bloods ,", "Or I will throw thee from my care for ever", "When rather from our acts we them derive", "The confirmation of my promis 'd gift ,", "All that is virtuous-save what thou dislik'st ,", "And be perform 'd to-night . The solemn feast", "Proud scornful boy , unworthy this good gift ,", "Exit an ATTENDANT", "My love and her desert ; that canst not dream", "Thou know'st she has rais 'd me from my sickly bed .", "If thou canst like this creature as a maid ,", "Peruse them well . Not one of those but had a noble father .", "A poor physician 's daughter-thou dislik'st", "I have to use . Thy frank election make ;", "A balance more replete .", "I must produce my power . Here , take her hand ,"], "true_target": ["Go , call before me all the lords in court .", "Shall more attend upon the coming space ,", "Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing ,", "The place is dignified by the doer 's deed ;", "Do thine own fortunes that obedient right", "In differences so mighty . If she be", "Good fortune and the favour of the King", "A counterpoise , if not to thy estate", "Which challenges itself as honour 's born", "And with this healthful hand , whose banish 'd sense", "Which but attends thy naming .", "We please to have it grow . Check thy contempt ;", "Thou hast power to choose , and they none to forsake .", "What she has done for me ?", "And tell her she is thine ; to whom I promise", "And is not like the sire . Honours thrive", "\u2018 Tis only title thou disdain'st in her , the which", "From lowest place when virtuous things proceed ,", "Who shuns thy love shuns all his love in me .", "It is a dropsied honour . Good alone", "My honour 's at the stake ; which to defeat ,", "Thy love 's to me religious ; else , does err .", "Where great additions swell 's , and virtue none ,", "In these to nature she 's immediate heir ;", "Debauch 'd on every tomb , on every grave", "Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief ,", "Where dust and damn 'd oblivion is the tomb", "Thou has repeal 'd , a second time receive", "Of virtue for the name ; but do not so .", "Is her own dower ; honour and wealth from me .", "That dost in vile misprision shackle up", "Of colour , weight , and heat , pour 'd all together ,", "Of youth and ignorance ; both my revenge and hate", "Of honour 'd bones indeed . What should be said ?", "Is good without a name . Vileness is so :", "Shall weigh thee to the beam ; that wilt not know", "And these breed honour . That is honour 's scorn", "Take her by the hand ,", "Believe not thy disdain , but presently"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 5}, {"query": ["Before I speak , too threat'ningly replies .", "We 'll ne'er come there again . \u2019", "Now , Dian , from thy altar do I fly ,", "Heaven hath through me restor 'd the King to health .", "Her that so wishes , and her humble love !", "To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress", "I dare not say I take you ; but I give", "Thanks , sir ; all the rest is mute .", "Let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever ,", "Into your guiding power . This is the man .", "That you are well restor 'd , my lord , I 'm glad . Let the rest go .", "Find fairer fortune , if you ever wed !", "\u2018 We blush that thou shouldst choose ; but , be refused ,", "Which great Love grant ; and so I take my leave .", "You are too young , too happy , and too good ,"], "true_target": ["The honour , sir , that flames in your fair eyes ,", "Blessing upon your vows ; and in your bed", "Gentlemen ,", "My wish receive ,", "Please it your Majesty , I have done already .", "The blushes in my cheeks thus whisper me :", "Do my sighs stream . Sir , will you hear my suit ?", "Fall , when love please . Marry , to each but one !", "To make yourself a son out of my blood .", "Me and my service , ever whilst I live ,", "That I protest I simply am a maid .", "Love make your fortunes twenty times above", "I am a simple maid , and therein wealthiest", "And to imperial Love , that god most high ,", "Be not afraid that I your hand should take ;", "I 'll never do you wrong for your own sake ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 5}, {"query": ["What more commands he ?", "If she be very well , what does she ail that she 's not very well ?", "In everything I wait upon his will .", "Come , sirrah . Exeunt"], "true_target": ["My mother greets me kindly ; is she well ?", "I hope , sir , I have your good will to have mine own good fortunes .", "I pray you . Exit PAROLLES", "What 's his else ?", "What two things ?"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Truly , she 's very well indeed , but for two things .", "Marry , you are the wiser man ; for many a man 's tongue shakes out his master 's undoing . To say nothing , to do nothing , to know nothing , and to have nothing , is to be a great part of your title , which is within a very little of nothing .", "You should have said , sir , \u2018 Before a knave th'art a knave \u2019 ; that 's \u2018 Before me th'art a knave . \u2019 This had been truth , sir ."], "true_target": ["She is not well , but yet she has her health ; she 's very merry , but yet she is not well . But thanks be given , she 's very well , and wants nothing i \u2019 th \u2019 world ; but yet she is not well .", "One , that she 's not in heaven , whither God send her quickly ! The other , that she 's in earth , from whence God send her quickly !", "So that you had her wrinkles and I her money , I would she did as you say .", "Did you find me in yourself , sir , or were you taught to find me ? The search , sir , was profitable ; and much fool may you find in you , even to the world 's pleasure and the increase of laughter ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["That , having this obtain 'd , you presently", "Why , I say nothing .", "You had my prayers to lead them on ; and to keep them on , have them still . O , my knave , how does my old lady ?", "Madam , my lord will go away to-night :", "The great prerogative and rite of love ,", "And pleasure drown the brim .", "Strength'ned with what apology you think", "Attend his further pleasure .", "But puts it off to a compell 'd restraint ;", "Away ! th'art a knave .", "Whose want , and whose delay , is strew 'd with sweets ,"], "true_target": ["Which , as your due , time claims , he does acknowledge ;", "A good knave , i \u2019 faith , and well fed .", "Go to , thou art a witty fool ; I have found thee .", "To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy", "Which they distil now in the curbed time ,", "A very serious business calls on him .", "That you will take your instant leave o \u2019 th \u2019 King ,", "Bless you , my fortunate lady !", "May make it probable need .", "And make this haste as your own good proceeding ,", "I shall report it so ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["O , I know him well . Ay , sir ; he , sir , \u2018 s a good workman , a very good tailor .", "But I hope your lordship thinks not him a soldier .", "A good traveller is something at the latter end of a dinner ; but one that lies three-thirds and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with , should be once heard and thrice beaten . God save you , Captain .", "Pray you , sir , who 's his tailor ?"], "true_target": ["And shall do so ever , though I took him at 's prayers . Fare you well , my lord ; and believe this of me : there can be no kernal in this light nut ; the soul of this man is his clothes ; trust him not in matter of heavy consequence ; I have kept of them tame , and know their natures . Farewell , monsieur ; I have spoken better of you than you have or will to deserve at my hand ; but we must do good against evil . Exit", "Then my dial goes not true ; I took this lark for a bunting .", "You have it from his own deliverance .", "I have then sinn 'd against his experience and transgress 'd against his valour ; and my state that way is dangerous , since I cannot yet find in my heart to repent . Here he comes ; I pray you make us friends ; I will pursue the amity", "You have made shift to run into \u2018 t , boots and spurs and all , like him that leapt into the custard ; and out of it you 'll run again , rather than suffer question for your residence ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 7}, {"query": ["I have writ my letters , casketed my treasure ,", "Which holds not colour with the time , nor does", "Will she away to-night ?", "End ere I do begin .", "On my particular . Prepar 'd I was not", "I think so .", "I leave you to your wisdom .", "I shall obey his will .", "Yes , my lord , and of very valiant approof .", "I do assure you , my lord , he is very great in knowledge , and accordingly valiant .", "Is there any unkindness between my lord and you , monsieur ?", "For such a business ; therefore am I found", "Where are my other men , monsieur ?", "What would you have ?", "Yes , I do know him well ; and common speech", "\u2018 Twill be two days ere I shall see you ; so", "Given order for our horses ; and to-night ,", "That presently you take your way for home ,", "And by other warranted testimony ."], "true_target": ["Gives him a worthy pass . Here comes my clog .", "The ministration and required office", "Whilst I can shake my sword or hear the drum .", "Greater than shows itself at the first view", "Go thou toward home , where I will never come", "Well , what would you say ?", "When I should take possession of the bride ,", "I pray you , stay not , but in haste to horse .", "For my respects are better than they seem ,", "So much unsettled . This drives me to entreat you", "Is she gone to the King ?", "Come , come , no more of that .", "It may be you have mistaken him , my lord .", "Away , and for our flight .", "And rather muse than ask why I entreat you ;", "Farewell ! Exit HELENA", "And my appointments have in them a need", "Let that go . My haste is very great . Farewell ; hie home .", "You must not marvel , Helen , at my course ,", "To you that know them not . This to my mother ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 7}, {"query": ["An idle lord , I swear .", "I know not how I have deserved to run into my lord 's displeasure .", "Why , do you not know him ?", "She is ."], "true_target": ["These things shall be done , sir .", "Bravely , coragio ! Exeunt", "As you 'll have her .", "Sir !"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 7}, {"query": ["To equal my great fortune .", "I shall not break your bidding , good my lord .", "I would not tell you what I would , my lord .", "Spoke with the King , and have procur 'd his leave", "With true observance seek to eke out that", "Nor dare I say \u2018 tis mine , and yet it is ;", "Something ; and scarce so much ; nothing , indeed .", "And ever shall", "Some private speech with you .", "Pray , sir , your pardon ."], "true_target": ["But , like a timorous thief , most fain would steal", "Wherein toward me my homely stars have fail 'd", "Strangers and foes do sunder and not kiss .", "I have , sir , as I was commanded from you ,", "Sir , I can nothing say", "Faith , yes :", "I am not worthy of the wealth I owe ,", "For present parting ; only he desires", "But that I am your most obedient servant .", "What law does vouch mine own ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 7}, {"query": ["Therefore we marvel much our cousin France", "And more thirsts after .", "Whose great decision hath much blood let forth", "Welcome shall they be", "The fundamental reasons of this war ;", "Against our borrowing prayers ."], "true_target": ["And all the honours that can fly from us", "Be it his pleasure .", "Would in so just a business shut his bosom", "Shall on them settle . You know your places well ;", "When better fall , for your avails they fell .", "To-morrow to th \u2019 field . Flourish . Exeunt", "So that , from point to point , now have you hear"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 8}, {"query": ["Holy seems the quarrel", "On the opposer .", "Upon your Grace 's part ; black and fearful"], "true_target": ["But I am sure the younger of our nature ,", "Come here for physic .", "That surfeit on their ease , will day by day"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 8}, {"query": ["Say what I think of it , since I have found", "By self-unable motion ; therefore dare not", "Myself in my incertain grounds to fail", "As often as I guess 'd ."], "true_target": ["That the great figure of a council frames", "The reasons of our state I cannot yield ,", "Good my lord ,", "But like a common and an outward man"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 8}, {"query": ["If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine ,", "That the first face of neither , on the start ,", "It hath happen 'd all as I would have had it , save that he comes not along with her .", "Find you that there ?", "My son corrupts a well-derived nature", "What is the - matter ?", "Thou robb'st me of a moiety . He was my son ;", "Written to bear along .", "I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief", "Why should he be kill 'd ?", "To tell him that his sword can never win", "But only she ; and she deserves a lord", "Y'are welcome , gentlemen .", "There 's nothing here that is too good for him", "And to be a soldier ?", "Think upon patience . Pray you , gentlemen-", "That twenty such rude boys might tend upon ,"], "true_target": ["I will entreat you , when you see my son ,", "\u2018 I have sent you a daughter-in-law ; she hath recovered the King and undone me . I have wedded her , not bedded her ; and sworn to make the \u201c not \u201d eternal . You shall hear I am run away ; know it before the report come . If there be breadth enough in the world , I will hold a long distance . My duty to you . Your unfortunate son , BERTRAM . \u2019 This is not well , rash and unbridled boy , To fly the favours of so good a king , To pluck his indignation on thy head By the misprizing of a maid too virtuous For the contempt of empire . Re-enter CLOWN", "Not so , but as we change our courtesies . Will you draw near ? Exeunt COUNTESS and GENTLEMEN", "Return you thither ?", "But I do wash his name out of my blood ,", "The honour that he loses . More I 'll entreat you", "Nothing in France until he have no wife !", "I prithee , lady , have a better cheer ;", "Parolles , was it not ?", "What have we here ?", "And call her hourly mistress . Who was with him ?", "Can woman me unto \u2018 t. Where is my son , I pray you ?", "By what observance , I pray you ?", "And thou art all my child . Towards Florence is he ?", "Brought you this letter , gentlemen ?", "With his inducement .", "A very tainted fellow , and full of wickedness .", "Let me see what he writes , and when he means to come ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 9}, {"query": ["Why , he will look upon his boot and sing ; mend the ruff and sing ; ask questions and sing ; pick his teeth and sing . I know a man that had this trick of melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song .", "I have no mind to Isbel since I was at court . Our old ling and our Isbels o \u2019 th \u2019 country are nothing like your old ling and your Isbels o \u2019 th \u2019 court . The brains of my Cupid 's knock 'd out ; and I begin to love , as an old man loves money , with no stomach .", "E'en that you have there . Exit"], "true_target": ["Nay , there is some comfort in the news , some comfort ; your son will not be kill 'd so soon as I thought he would .", "O madam , yonder is heavy news within between two soldiers and my young lady .", "So say I , madam , if he run away , as I hear he does the danger is in standing to \u2018 t ; that 's the loss of men , though it be the getting of children . Here they come will tell you more . For my part , I only hear your son was run away . Exit", "By my troth , I take my young lord to be a very melancholy man ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 9}, {"query": ["The fellow has a deal of that too much", "\u2018 Tis but the boldness of his hand haply , which his heart was not consenting to .", "Which holds him much to have .", "Ay , my good lady , he ."], "true_target": ["A servant only , and a gentleman", "Save you , good madam .", "Indeed , good lady ,", "Which I have sometime known .", "Ay , madam , with the swiftest wing of speed ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 9}, {"query": ["As oft it loses all . I will be gone .", "The air of paradise did fan the house ,", "That ride upon the violent speed of fire ,", "His death was so effected . Better \u2018 twere", "\u2018 Tis bitter .", "Those tender limbs of thine to the event", "France . \u2019", "Fly with false aim ; move the still-piecing air ,", "That all the miseries which nature owes", "Of smoky muskets ? O you leaden messengers ,", "Whence honour but of danger wins a scar ,", "Shall I stay here to do \u2018 t ? No , no , although", "Then hast thou all again . Poor lord ! is't", "Whoever charges on his forward breast ,", "That drive thee from the sportive court , where thou", "And angels offic 'd all . I will be gone ,", "To consolate thine ear . Come , night ; end , day .", "Were mine at once . No ; come thou home , Rousillon ,"], "true_target": ["For with the dark , poor thief , I 'll steal away . Exit", "Look on this letter , madam ; here 's my passport .\u2018 When thou canst get the ring upon my finger , which never shall come off , and show me a child begotten of thy body that I am father to , then call me husband ; but in such a \u201c then \u201d I write a \u201c never . \u201d This is a dreadful sentence .", "Nothing in France until he has no wife !", "\u2018 Till I have no wife , I have nothing in France . \u2019", "That pitiful rumour may report my flight", "With sharp constraint of hunger ; better \u2018 twere", "Wast shot at with fair eyes , to be the mark", "I am the caitiff that do hold him to't ;", "That chase thee from thy country , and expose", "Whoever shoots at him , I set him there ;", "Ay , madam .", "\u2018 Till I have no wife , I have nothing in", "Of the non-sparing war ? And is it I", "My being here it is that holds thee hence .", "I met the ravin lion when he roar 'd", "That sings with piercing ; do not touch my lord .", "Thou shalt have none , Rousillon , none in France", "And though I kill him not , I am the cause", "Madam , my lord is gone , for ever gone ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 9}, {"query": ["That good convenience claims .", "Thither we bend again .", "And , after some dispatch in hand at court ,", "Ay , madam ;", "In that and all your worthiest affairs .", "Such is his noble purpose ; and , believe \u2018 t ,", "We serve you , madam ,"], "true_target": ["Ay , madam .", "The Duke will lay upon him all the honour", "And for the contents \u2019 sake are sorry for our pains .", "Florence .", "Madam , he 's gone to serve the Duke of", "We met him thitherward ; for thence we came ,", "Do not say so ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 9}, {"query": ["The General of our Horse thou art ; and we ,", "Great in our hope , lay our best love and credence", "As thy auspicious mistress !"], "true_target": ["Then go thou forth ;", "And Fortune play upon thy prosperous helm ,", "Upon thy promising fortune ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["To th \u2019 extreme edge of hazard .", "Make me but like my thoughts , and I shall prove", "Sir , it is", "This very day ,"], "true_target": ["A lover of thy drum , hater of love . Exeunt", "We 'll strive to bear it for your worthy sake", "Great Mars , I put myself into thy file ;", "A charge too heavy for my strength ; but yet"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["As letting her pass so ; had I spoke with her ,", "Bless this unworthy husband ? He cannot thrive ,", "Might you not know she would do as she has done", "What angel shall", "Dispatch the most convenient messenger .", "Grief would have tears , and sorrow bids me speak . Exeunt", "Unless her prayers , whom heaven delights to hear", "Of greatest justice . Write , write , Rinaldo ,", "Rinaldo , you did never lack advice so much", "By sending me a letter ? Read it again .", "And loves to grant , reprieve him from the wrath", "Which thus she hath prevented .", "To this unworthy husband of his wife ;"], "true_target": ["Hearing so much , will speed her foot again ,", "When haply he shall hear that she is gone", "Let every word weigh heavy of her worth", "Though little he do feel it , set down sharply .", "That he does weigh too light . My greatest grief ,", "Is dearest to me I have no skill in sense", "He will return ; and hope I may that she ,", "I could have well diverted her intents ,", "My heart is heavy , and mine age is weak ;", "Led hither by pure love . Which of them both", "Ah , what sharp stings are in her mildest words !", "Alas ! and would you take the letter of her ?", "To make distinction . Provide this messenger ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["His taken labours bid him me forgive ;", "I , his despiteful Juno , sent him forth", "If I had given you this at over-night ,", "Pursuit would be but vain .", "Write , write , that from the bloody course of war", "She might have been o'er ta'en ; and yet she writes", "Whom I myself embrace to set him free . \u2019", "Ambitious love hath so in me offended", "Where death and danger dogs the heels of worth ."], "true_target": ["Bless him at home in peace , whilst I from far", "That barefoot plod I the cold ground upon ,", "\u2018 I am Saint Jaques \u2019 pilgrim , thither gone .", "My dearest master , your dear son , may hie .", "His name with zealous fervour sanctify .", "Pardon me , madam ;", "With sainted vow my faults to have amended .", "From courtly friends , with camping foes to live ,", "He is too good and fair for death and me ;"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["Here you shall see a countryman of yours", "At the Saint Francis here , beside the port .", "But she is arm 'd for him , and keeps her guard", "Already at my house .", "It is reported that he has taken their great'st commander ; and that with his own hand he slew the Duke 's brother .We have lost our labour ; they are gone a contrary way . Hark ! you may know by their trumpets .", "He does , indeed ;", "If you will tarry , holy pilgrim ,", "Her heart weighs sadly . This young maid might do her", "That has done worthy service .", "That , Escalus .", "But till the troops come by ,", "A shrewd turn , if she pleas 'd .", "I hope so . Look , here comes a pilgrim . I know she will lie at my house : thither they send one another . I 'll question her . God save you , pilgrim ! Whither are bound ?", "Corrupt the tender honour of a maid ;", "There 's four or five , to great Saint Jaques bound ,"], "true_target": ["In honestest defence .", "You came , I think , from France ?", "The troop is past . Come , pilgrim , I will bring you", "I sweet , good creature , wheresoe'er she is", "That is Antonio , the Duke 's eldest son ;", "Where you shall host . Of enjoin 'd penitents", "So , now they come .", "Ay , marry , is't . Hark you ! They come this way .", "Marry , hang you !", "And brokes with all that can in such a suit", "If you shall please so , pilgrim .", "As ample as myself .", "Nay , come ; for if they do approach the city we shall lose all the sight .", "I will conduct you where you shall be lodg 'd ;", "I have told my neighbour how you have been solicited by a gentleman his companion .", "The rather for I think I know your hostess"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 12}, {"query": ["He were much goodlier . Is't not a handsome gentleman ?", "He-", "That leads him to these places ; were I his lady", "There is a gentleman that serves the Count", "As \u2018 tis reported , for the King had married him", "The Count Rousillon . Know you such a one ?", "That jack-an-apes with scarfs . Why is he melancholy ?", "Alas , poor lady !", "They say the French count has done most honourable service .", "He 's bravely taken here . He stole from France ,"], "true_target": ["Of a detesting lord .", "Against his liking . Think you it is so ?", "That with the plume ; \u2018 tis a most gallant fellow .", "I would he lov 'd his wife ; if he were honester", "I would poison that vile rascal .", "\u2018 Tis a hard bondage to become the wife", "Monsieur Parolles .", "What some'er he is ,", "You shall not need to fear me .", "Reports but coarsely of her .", "\u2018 Tis pity he is not honest . Yond 's that same knave"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 12}, {"query": ["I know that knave , hang him ! one Parolles ; a filthy officer he is in those suggestions for the young earl . Beware of them , Diana : their promises , enticements , oaths , tokens , and all these engines of lust , are not the things they go under ; many a maid hath been seduced by them ; and the misery is , example , that so terrible shows in the wreck of maidenhood , cannot for all that dissuade succession , but that they are limed with the twigs that threatens them . I hope I need not to advise you further ; but I hope your own grace will keep you where you are , though there were no further danger known but the modesty which is so lost .", "And your courtesy , for a ring-carrier !"], "true_target": ["He 's shrewdly vex 'd at something . Look , he has spied us .", "The gods forbid else !", "Come , let 's return again , and suffice ourselves with the report of it . Well , Diana , take heed of this French earl ; the honour of a maid is her name , and no legacy is so rich as honesty ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 12}, {"query": ["Which is the Frenchman ?", "What 's his name ?", "Please it this matron and this gentle maid", "But by the ear , that hears most nobly of him ;", "His face I know not .", "I thank you , and will stay upon your leisure .", "Which is he ?", "I have not heard examin 'd .", "May be the amorous Count solicits her", "In argument of praise , or to the worth", "Is it yourself ?", "How do you mean ?", "Ay , surely , mere the truth ; I know his lady .", "I humbly thank you ."], "true_target": ["In the unlawful purpose .", "I like him well .", "To have her name repeated ; all her deserving", "His name , I pray you .", "To Saint Jaques le Grand . Where do the palmers lodge , I do beseech you ?", "Shall be for me , and , to requite you further ,", "I did so .", "I will bestow some precepts of this virgin ,", "Perchance he 's hurt i \u2019 th \u2019 battle .", "O , I believe with him ,", "Is this the way ?", "Of the great Count himself , she is too mean", "Worthy the note .", "Is a reserved honesty , and that", "To eat with us to-night ; the charge and thanking"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 12}, {"query": ["None in the world ; but return with an invention , and clap upon you two or three probable lies . But we have almost emboss 'd him . You shall see his fall to-night ; for indeed he is not for your lordship 's respect .", "Believe it , my lord , in mine own direct knowledge , without any malice , but to speak of him as my kinsman , he 's a most notable coward , an infinite and endless liar , an hourly promise-breaker , the owner of no one good quality worthy your lordship 's entertainment .", "Nay , good my lord , put him to't ; let him have his way .", "O , for the love of laughter , hinder not the honour of his design ; let him fetch off his drum in any hand ."], "true_target": ["I with a troop of Florentines will suddenly surprise him ; such I will have whom I am sure he knows not from the enemy . We will bind and hoodwink him so that he shall suppose no other but that he is carried into the leaguer of the adversaries when we bring him to our own tents . Be but your lordship present at his examination ; if he do not , for the promise of his life and in the highest compulsion of base fear , offer to betray you and deliver all the intelligence in his power against you , and that with the divine forfeit of his soul upon oath , never trust my judgment in anything .", "On my life , my lord , a bubble .", "As't please your lordship . I 'll leave you . Exit", "I must go look my twigs ; he shall be caught .", "No more than a fish loves water . Is not this a strange fellow , my lord , that so confidently seems to undertake this business , which he knows is not to be done ; damns himself to do , and dares better be damn 'd than to do \u2018 t ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["We 'll make you some sport with the fox ere we case him . He was first smok 'd by the old Lord Lafeu . When his disguise and he is parted , tell me what a sprat you shall find him ; which you shall see this very night .", "But you say she 's honest .", "You do not know him , my lord , as we do . Certain it is that he will steal himself into a man 's favour , and for a week escape a great deal of discoveries ; but when you find him out , you have him ever after .", "With all my heart , my lord . Exeunt", "None better than to let him fetch off his drum , which you hear him so confidently undertake to do ."], "true_target": ["A pox on \u2018 t ; let it go ; \u2018 tis but a drum .", "O , for the love of laughter , let him fetch his drum ; he says he has a stratagem for't . When your lordship sees the bottom of his success i n't , and to what metal this counterfeit lump of ore will be melted , if you give him not John Drum 's entertainment , your inclining cannot be removed . Here he comes .", "It were fit you knew him ; lest , reposing too far in his virtue , which he hath not , he might at some great and trusty business in a main danger fail you .", "If your lordship find him not a hiding , hold me no more in your respect .", "That was not to be blam 'd in the command of the service ; it was a disaster of war that Caesar himself could not have prevented , if he had been there to command ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["Now will I lead you to the house , and show you", "And found her wondrous cold ; but I sent to her ,", "Why , if you have a stomach , to't , monsieur . If you think your mystery in stratagem can bring this instrument of honour again into his native quarter , be magnanimous in the enterprise , and go on ; I will grace the attempt for a worthy exploit . If you speed well in it , the Duke shall both speak of it and extend to you what further becomes his greatness , even to the utmost syllable of our worthiness .", "Why , do you think he will make no deed at all of this that so seriously he does address himself unto ?", "I know th \u2019 art valiant ; and , to the of thy soldiership , will subscribe for thee . Farewell .", "And this is all I have done . She 's a fair creature ;", "I would I knew in what particular action to try him .", "Your brother , he shall go along with me .", "By this same coxcomb that we have i \u2019 th \u2019 wind ,"], "true_target": ["The lass I spoke of .", "Will you go see her ?", "That 's all the fault . I spoke with her but once ,", "Do you think I am so far deceived in him ?", "But you must not now slumber in it .", "How now , monsieur ! This drum sticks sorely in your disposition .", "May I be bold to acquaint his Grace you are gone about it ?", "Well , we cannot greatly condemn our success . Some dishonour we had in the loss of that drum ; but it is not to be recovered .", "Tokens and letters which she did re-send ;", "It might , but it is not now ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["I love not many words . Exit", "By the hand of a soldier , I will undertake it .", "But a drum ! Is't but a drum ? A drum so lost ! There was excellent command : to charge in with our horse upon our own wings , and to rend our own soldiers !"], "true_target": ["It might have been recovered .", "I 'll about it this evening ; and I will presently pen down my dilemmas , encourage myself in my certainty , put myself into my mortal preparation ; and by midnight look to hear further from me .", "I know not what the success will be , my lord , but the attempt I vow .", "It is to be recovered . But that the merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer , I would have that drum or another , or \u2018 hic jacet . \u2019"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["Why then to-night", "Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed ,", "But that your daughter , ere she seems as won ,", "To what is pass 'd already .", "Is so from word to word ; and then you cannot ,", "As we 'll direct her how \u2018 tis best to bear it .", "Howe'er repented after .", "Where both not sin , and yet a sinful fact .", "And lawful meaning in a lawful act ;", "To marry her , I 'll add three thousand crowns", "Desires this ring ; appoints him an encounter ;", "To buy his will , it would not seem too dear ,", "In most rich choice ; yet , in his idle fire ,", "When I have found it . The Count he woos your daughter", "But I shall lose the grounds I work upon .", "If you misdoubt me that I am not she ,", "That she 'll demand . A ring the County wears", "But let 's about it . Exeunt"], "true_target": ["Let us assay our plot ; which , if it speed ,", "By the good aid that I of you shall borrow ,", "Resolv 'd to carry her . Let her in fine consent ,", "I know not how I shall assure you further", "FIRST give me trust the Count he is my husband ,", "In fine , delivers me to fill the time ,", "Which I will over-pay and pay again", "Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty ,", "That downward hath succeeded in his house", "Take this purse of gold ,", "From son to son some four or five descents", "You see it lawful then . It is no more", "Nor would I wish you .", "Herself most chastely absent . After this ,", "Err in bestowing it .", "And what to your sworn counsel I have spoken", "And let me buy your friendly help thus far ,", "Now his important blood will nought deny", "Since the first father wore it . This ring he holds"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["Nothing acquainted with these businesses ;", "To chide him from our eaves , for he persists", "In any staining act .", "Y'are great in fortune .", "May prove coherent . Every night he comes", "And would not put my reputation now", "As if his life lay on \u2018 t .", "To her unworthiness . It nothing steads us"], "true_target": ["I should believe you ;", "For you have show 'd me that which well approves", "Though my estate be fall'n , I was well born ,", "Now I see", "I have yielded .", "The bottom of your purpose .", "Instruct my daughter how she shall persever ,", "With musics of all sorts , and songs compos 'd", "That time and place with this deceit so lawful"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["\u2018 A will betray us all unto ourselves-", "Throca movousus , cargo , cargo , cargo .", "Till then I 'll keep him dark and safely lock 'd .", "Is it possible he should know what he is , and be that he is ?", "But what linsey-woolsey has thou to speak to us again ?", "How deep ?", "\u2018 Twould not do .", "Hardly serve .", "Art not acquainted with him ? Knows he not thy voice ?", "Go , tell the Count Rousillon and my brother"], "true_target": ["Inform on that .", "Three great oaths would scarce make that be believed .", "You shall hear one anon .", "This is the first truth that e'er thine own tongue was guilty of .", "We have caught the woodcock , and will keep him muffled", "He must think us some band of strangers i \u2019 th \u2019 adversary 's entertainment . Now he hath a smack of all neighbouring languages , therefore we must every one be a man of his own fancy ; not to know what we speak one to another , so we seem to know , is to know straight our purpose : choughs \u2019 language , gabble enough , and good enough . As for you , interpreter , you must seem very politic . But couch , ho ! here he comes ; to beguile two hours in a sleep , and then to return and swear the lies he forges .", "He can come no other way but by this hedge-corner . When you sally upon him , speak what terrible language you will ; though you understand it not yourselves , no matter ; for we must not seem to understand him , unless some one among us , whom we must produce for an interpreter .", "Oscorbidulchos volivorco .", "We cannot afford you so .", "Till we do hear from them ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["Boskos vauvado . I understand thee , and can speak thy tongue . Kerely-bonto , sir , betake thee to thy faith , for seventeen poniards are at thy bosom . PAROLLES . O !", "Something to save thy life .", "Good captain , let me be th \u2019 interpreter .", "And , hoodwink 'd as thou art , will lead thee on", "To gather from thee . Haply thou mayst inform", "Boskos thromuldo boskos ."], "true_target": ["The General is content to spare thee yet ;", "No , sir , I warrant you .", "But wilt thou faithfully ?", "O , pray , pray , pray ! Manka revania dulche .", "Acordo linta . Come on ; thou art granted space .", "E'en such as you speak to me ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["Or the baring of my beard ; and to say it was in stratagem .", "A drum now of the enemy 's !", "And all the secrets of our camp I 'll show ,", "I would the cutting of my garments would serve the turn , or the breaking of my Spanish sword .", "O , let me live ,", "I would I had any drum of the enemy 's ; I would swear I recover 'd it .", "I 'll discover that which shall undo the Florentine .", "If I do not , damn me .", "Their force , their purposes . Nay , I 'll speak that", "What the devil should move me to undertake the recovery of this drum , being not ignorant of the impossibility , and knowing I had no such purpose ? I must give myself some hurts , and say I got them in exploit . Yet slight ones will not carry it . They will say \u2018 Came you off with so little ? \u2019 And great ones I dare not give . Wherefore , what 's the instance ? Tongue , I must put you into a butterwoman 's mouth , and buy myself another of Bajazet 's mule , if you prattle me into these perils ."], "true_target": ["Thirty fathom .", "O , ransom , ransom ! Do not hide mine eyes .", "I know you are the Muskos \u2019 regiment ,", "And I shall lose my life for want of language .", "Though I swore I leap 'd from the window of the citadel-", "Ten o'clock . Within these three hours \u2018 twill be time enough to go home . What shall I say I have done ? It must be a very plausive invention that carries it . They begin to smoke me ; and disgraces have of late knock 'd to often at my door . I find my tongue is too foolhardy ; but my heart hath the fear of Mars before it , and of his creatures , not daring the reports of my tongue .", "If there be here German , or Dane , Low Dutch ,", "Italian , or French , let him speak to me ;", "Or to drown my clothes , and say I was stripp 'd .", "Which you will wonder at ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["So I will , sir ."], "true_target": ["Captain , I will ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["So should you be .", "They told me that your name was Fontibell .", "As you are now , for you are cold and stern ;", "When you are dead , you should be such a one", "If the quick fire of youth light not your mind ,", "In me to lose .", "No more o'that !", "But give thyself unto my sick desires ,", "When your sweet self was got .", "How have I sworn !", "By love 's own sweet constraint , and will for ever", "It is an honour \u2018 longing to our house ,", "And I 'll be bid by thee .", "I 'll lend it thee , my dear , but have no power", "My house , mine honour , yea , my life , be thine ,", "Bequeathed down from many ancestors ;", "A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee ."], "true_target": ["And worth it , with addition ! But , fair soul ,", "I was compell 'd to her ; but I love the", "To give it from me .", "Change it , change it ;", "And now you should be as your mother was", "That you do charge men with . Stand no more off ,", "Here , take my ring ;", "And my integrity ne'er knew the crafts", "Which were the greatest obloquy i \u2019 th \u2019 world", "I prithee do not strive against my vows .", "Who then recovers . Say thou art mine , and ever", "My love as it begins shall so persever .", "Titled goddess ;", "Do thee all rights of service .", "You are no maiden , but a monument ;", "Be not so holy-cruel . Love is holy ;", "In your fine frame hath love no quality ?"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 16}, {"query": ["When you have conquer 'd my yet maiden bed ,", "Bequeathed down from many ancestors ;", "No .", "Now will I charge you in the band of truth ,", "My mother told me just how he would woo ,", "To swear by him whom I protest to love", "Have the like oaths . He had sworn to marry me", "Are words and poor conditions , but unseal'd-", "Will you not , my lord ?", "When back again this ring shall be deliver 'd .", "Which were the greatest obloquy i \u2019 th \u2019 world", "Only , in this disguise , I think't no sin", "My mother did but duty ; such , my lord ,", "Till we serve you ; but when you have our roses", "And on your finger in the night I 'll put", "Another ring , that what in time proceeds", "That we 'll forsake ourselves . Give me that ring .", "You may so in the end .", "As you owe to your wife .", "Brings in the champion Honour on my part", "A wife of me , though there my hope be done .", "And mock us with our bareness .", "When his wife 's dead ; therefore I 'll lie with him", "If I should swear by Jove 's great attributes", "Against your vain assault .", "Marry that will , I live and die a maid ."], "true_target": ["When I am buried . Since Frenchmen are so braid ,", "My chastity 's the jewel of our house ,", "No , my good lord , Diana .", "When I did love you ill ? This has no holding ,", "But the plain single vow that is vow 'd true .", "Ay , so you serve us", "May token to the future our past deeds .", "What is not holy , that we swear not by ,", "\u2018 Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth ,", "At least in my opinion .", "My reasons are most strong ; and you shall know them", "You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves ,", "As if she sat in 's heart ; she says all men", "In me to lose . Thus your own proper wisdom", "Remain there but an hour , nor speak to me :", "That I will work against him . Therefore your oaths", "But take the High'st to witness . Then , pray you , tell me :", "I lov 'd you dearly , would you believe my oaths", "She then was honest .", "For which live long to thank both heaven and me !", "When midnight comes , knock at my chamber window ;", "To cozen him that would unjustly win . Exit", "I 'll order take my mother shall not hear .", "I see that men make ropes in such a scarre", "Adieu till then ; then fail not . You have won", "Mine honour 's such a ring :"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 16}, {"query": ["Nay , look not so upon me ; we shall hear of your lordship anon .", "He hath out-villain 'd villainy so far that the rarity redeems him .", "God save you , noble Captain .", "Good Captain , will you give me a copy of the sonnet you writ to Diana in behalf of the Count Rousillon ? An I were not a very coward I 'd compel it of you ; but fare you well .", "Boblibindo chicurmurco .", "Hush , hush ! Hoodman comes . Portotartarossa .", "Bring him forth .Has sat i \u2019 th \u2019 stocks all night , poor gallant knave .", "When you have spoken it , \u2018 tis dead , and I am the grave of it .", "That approaches apace . I would gladly have him see his company anatomiz 'd , that he might take a measure of his own judgments , wherein so curiously he had set this counterfeit .", "I have told your lordship already the stocks carry him . But to answer you as you would be understood : he weeps like a wench that had shed her milk ; he hath confess 'd himself to Morgan , whom he supposes to be a friar , from the time of his remembrance to this very instant disaster of his setting i \u2019 th \u2019 stocks . And what think you he hath confess 'd ?", "They shall be no more than needful there , if they were more than they can commend .", "Is it not meant damnable in us to be trumpeters of our unlawful intents ? We shall not then have his company to-night ?", "Ay , and the particular confirmations , point from point , to the full arming of the verity .", "Excellently .", "I begin to love him for this ."], "true_target": ["He 's very near the truth in this .", "Nay , I assure you , a peace concluded .", "If the business be of any difficulty and this morning your departure hence , it requires haste of your lordship .", "In the meantime , what hear you of these wars ?", "He has much worthy blame laid upon him for shaking off so good a wife and so sweet a lady .", "Y'are deceiv 'd , my lord ; this is Monsieur Parolles , the gallant militarist-that was his own phrase-that had the whole theoric of war in the knot of his scarf , and the practice in the chape of his dagger .", "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn , good and ill together . Our virtues would be proud if our faults whipt them not ; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherish 'd by our virtues . Enter a MESSENGER How now ? Where 's your master ?", "Sir , his wife , some two months since , fled from his house . Her pretence is a pilgrimage to Saint Jaques le Grand ; which holy undertaking with most austere sanctimony she accomplish 'd ; and , there residing , the tenderness of her nature became as a prey to her grief ; in fine , made a groan of her last breath , and now she sings in heaven .", "Nothing , but let him have thanks . Demand of him my condition , and what credit I have with the Duke .", "The stronger part of it by her own letters , which makes her story true even to the point of her death . Her death itself , which could not be her office to say is come , was faithfully confirm 'd by the rector of the place .", "Now , God delay our rebellion ! As we are ourselves , what things are we !", "You have not given him his mother 's letter ?", "How mightily sometimes we make us comforts of our losses !", "I perceive , by this demand , you are not altogether of his counsel .", "His confession is taken , and it shall be read to his face ; if your lordship be i n't , as I believe you are , you must have the patience to hear it ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["I am heartily sorry that he 'll be glad of this .", "How is this justified ?", "They cannot be too sweet for the King 's tartness .", "I have deliv'red it an hour since . There is something i n't that stings his nature ; for on the reading it he chang 'd almost into another man .", "Hath the Count all this intelligence ?", "Merely our own traitors . And as in the common course of all treasons we still see them reveal themselves till they attain to their abhorr 'd ends ; so he that in this action contrives against his own nobility , in his proper stream , o'erflows himself .", "Not till after midnight ; for he is dieted to his hour .", "And how mightily some other times we drown our gain in tears ! The great dignity that his valour hath here acquir 'd for him shall at home be encount'red with a shame as ample .", "Enter BERTRAM", "Especially he hath incurred the everlasting displeasure of the King , who had even tun 'd his bounty to sing happiness to him . I will tell you a thing , but you shall let it dwell darkly with you .", "Why does he ask him of me ?"], "true_target": ["What will Count Rousillon do then ? Will he travel higher , or return again into France ?", "He hath perverted a young gentlewoman here in Florence , of a most chaste renown ; and this night he fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour . He hath given her his monumental ring , and thinks himself made in the unchaste composition .", "This is your devoted friend , sir , the manifold linguist , and the amnipotent soldier .", "Here 's his lordship now .", "God bless you , Captain Parolles .", "We will not meddle with him till he come ; for his presence must be the whip of the other .", "I hear there is an overture of peace .", "How now , my lord , is't not after midnight ?", "Let it be forbid , sir ! So should I be a great deal of his act .", "I will never trust a man again for keeping his sword clean ; nor believe he can have everything in him by wearing his apparel neatly .", "Captain , what greeting will you to my Lord Lafeu ? I am for France ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Nay , by your leave , hold your hands ; though I know his brains are forfeit to the next tile that falls .", "What shall be done to him ?", "But I con him no thanks for't in the nature he delivers it .", "I could endure anything before but a cat , and now he 's a cat to me .", "For this description of thine honesty ? A pox upon him ! For me , he 's more and more a cat .", "I have to-night dispatch 'd sixteen businesses , a month 's length apiece ; by an abstract of success : I have congied with the Duke , done my adieu with his nearest ; buried a wife , mourn 'd for her ; writ to my lady mother I am returning ; entertain 'd my convoy ; and between these main parcels of dispatch effected many nicer needs . The last was the greatest , but that I have not ended yet .", "A pox on him ! he 's a cat still .", "A plague upon him ! muffled ! He can say nothing of me ."], "true_target": ["I mean the business is not ended , as fearing to hear of it hereafter . But shall we have this dialogue between the Fool and the Soldier ? Come , bring forth this counterfeit module has deceiv 'd me like a double-meaning prophesier .", "He shall be whipt through the army with this rhyme in 's forehead .", "Good morrow , noble Captain .", "No matter ; his heels have deserv 'd it , in usurping his spurs so long . How does he carry himself ?", "Our interpreter does it well .", "Damnable both-sides rogue !", "All 's one to him . What a past-saving slave is this !", "Nothing of me , has \u2018 a ?"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Half won is match well made ; match , and well make it ;", "We 'll see what may be done , so you confess freely ; therefore , once more to this Captain Dumain : you have answer 'd to his reputation with the Duke , and to his valour ; what is his honesty ?", "Do you know this Captain Dumain ?", "Bosko chimurcho .", "Thine , as he vow 'd to thee in thine ear ,", "Well , is this captain in the Duke of Florence 's camp ?", "\u2018 Dian , the Count 's a fool , and full of gold . \u2019", "Here \u2018 tis ; here 's a paper . Shall I read it to you ?", "What is his reputation with the Duke ?", "I 'll whisper with the General , and know his pleasure .", "For count of this , the Count 's a fool , I know it ,", "If you could find out a country where but women were that had received so much shame , you might begin an impudent nation . Fare ye well , sir ; I am for France too ; we shall speak of you there . Exit with SOLDIERS", "There is no remedy , sir , but you must die . The General says you that have so traitorously discover 'd the secrets of your army , and made such pestiferous reports of men very nobly held , can serve the world for no honest use ; therefore you must die . Come , headsman , of with his head .", "\u2018 When he swears oaths , bid him drop gold , and take it ;", "I perceive , sir , by our General 's looks we shall be fain to hang you .", "And say a soldier , Dian , told thee this :", "His qualities being at this poor price , I need not to ask you if gold will corrupt him to revolt .", "PAROLLES . \u2019", "Who pays before , but not when he does owe it ."], "true_target": ["After he scores , he never pays the score .", "Shall I set down your answer so ?", "You are undone , Captain , all but your scarf ; that has a knot on \u2018 t yet .", "That shall you , and take your leave of all your friends .So look about you ; know you any here ?", "Men are to mell with , boys are not to kiss ;", "Well , that 's set down . \u2018 You shall demand of him whether one Captain Dumain be i \u2019 th \u2019 camp , a Frenchman ; what his reputation is with the Duke , what his valour , honesty , expertness in wars ; or whether he thinks it were not possible , with well-weighing sums of gold , to corrupt him to a revolt . \u2019 What say you to this ? What do you know of it ?", "Well , that 's set down .", "What 's his brother , the other Captain Dumain ?", "What say you to his expertness in war ?", "Nay , I 'll read it first by your favour .", "YOU are a merciful general . Our General bids you answer to what I shall ask you out of a note .", "\u2018 First demand of him how many horse the Duke is strong . \u2019 What say you to that ?", "If your life be saved , will you undertake to betray the Florentine ?", "What 's he ?", "Well , that 's set down .", "Marry , we 'll search .", "He ne'er pays after-debts , take it before .", "He calls for the tortures . What will you say without \u2018 em ?", "\u2018 Demand of him of what strength they are a-foot . \u2019 What say you to that ?"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["\u2018 Twould burst at this . Captain I 'll be no more ;", "My meaning i n't , I protest , was very honest in the behalf of the maid ; for I knew the young Count to be a dangerous and lascivious boy , who is a whale to virginity , and devours up all the fry it finds .", "I 'll after them . Exit", "Let him fear this ; for it will come to pass", "As captain shall . Simply the thing I am", "My life , sir , in any case ! Not that I am afraid to die , but that , my offences being many , I would repent out the remainder of nature . Let me live , sir , in a dungeon , i \u2019 th \u2019 stocks , or anywhere , so I may live .", "Yet am I thankful . If my heart were great ,", "I humbly thank you , sir . A truth 's a truth-the rogues are marvellous poor .", "I beseech you , let me answer to the particular of the inter'gatories . Demand them singly .", "Ay , and the Captain of his Horse , Count Rousillon .", "Faith , sir , has led the drum before the English tragedians-to belie him I will not-and more of his soldier-ship I know not , except in that country he had the honour to be the officer at a place there called Mile-end to instruct for the doubling of files-I would do the man what honour I can-but of this I am not certain .", "Upon my knowledge , he is , and lousy .", "O Lord , sir , let me live , or let me see my death !", "And truly , as I hope to live .", "\u2018 Five or six thousand horse \u2019 I said-I will say true - \u2018 or thereabouts \u2019 set down , for I 'll speak truth .", "Shall make me live . Who knows himself a braggart ,", "E'en a crow o \u2019 th \u2019 same nest ; not altogether so great as the first in goodness , but greater a great deal in evil . He excels his brother for a coward ; yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is . In a retreat he outruns any lackey : marry , in coming on he has the cramp .", "Safest in shame . Being fool 'd , by fool'ry thrive ."], "true_target": ["But I will eat , and drink , and sleep as soft", "In good sadness , I do not know ; either it is there or it is upon a file with the Duke 's other letters in my tent .", "Rust , sword ; cool , blushes ; and , Parolles , live", "Do ; I 'll take the sacrament on \u2018 t , how and which way you will .", "I will confess what I know without constraint ; if ye pinch me like a pasty , I can say no more .", "I know him : \u2018 a was a botcher 's prentice in Paris , from whence he was whipt for getting the shrieve 's fool with child-a dumb innocent that could not say him nay .", "Who cannot be crush 'd with a plot ?", "The Duke knows him for no other but a poor officer of mine ; and writ to me this other day to turn him out o \u2019 th \u2019 band . I think I have his letter in my pocket .", "\u2018 Poor rogues \u2019 I pray you say .", "Sir , for a cardecue he will sell the fee-simple of his salvation , the inheritance of it ; and cut th \u2019 entail from all remainders and a perpetual succession for it perpetually .", "He will steal , sir , an egg out of a cloister ; for rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus . He professes not keeping of oaths ; in breaking \u2018 em he is stronger than Hercules . He will lie , sir , with such volubility that you would think truth were a fool . Drunkenness is his best virtue , for he will be swine-drunk ; and in his sleep he does little harm , save to his bedclothes about him ; but they know his conditions and lay him in straw . I have but little more to say , sir , of his honesty . He has everything that an honest man should not have ; what an honest man should have he has nothing .", "By my troth , sir , if I were to live this present hour , I will tell true . Let me see : Spurio , a hundred and fifty ; Sebastian , so many ; Corambus , so many ; Jaques , so many ; Guiltian , Cosmo , Lodowick , and Gratii , two hundred fifty each ; mine own company , Chitopher , Vaumond , Bentii , two hundred fifty each ; so that the muster-file , rotten and sound , upon my life , amounts not to fifteen thousand poll ; half of the which dare not shake the snow from off their cassocks lest they shake themselves to pieces .", "That is not the Duke 's letter , sir ; that is an advertisement to a proper maid in Florence , one Diana , to take heed of the allurement of one Count Rousillon , a foolish idle boy , but for all that very ruttish . I pray you , sir , put it up again .", "There 's place and means for every man alive .", "That every braggart shall be found an ass .", "Five or six thousand ; but very weak and unserviceable . The troops are all scattered , and the commanders very poor rogues , upon my reputation and credit , and as I hope to live .", "I do not know if it be it or no .", "I 'll no more drumming . A plague of all drums ! Only to seem to deserve well , and to beguile the supposition of that lascivious young boy the Count , have I run into this danger . Yet who would have suspected an ambush where I was taken ?"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["His Grace is at Marseilles , to which place", "To recompense your love . Doubt not but heaven", "Dear almost as his life ; which gratitude", "My husband hies him home ; where , heaven aiding ,", "And answer \u2018 Thanks . \u2019 I duly am inform 'd", "Ere I can perfect mine intents , to kneel .", "With what it loathes , for that which is away .", "Our waggon is prepar 'd , and time revives us .", "One of the greatest in the Christian world", "We have convenient convoy . You must know", "Defiles the pitchy night . So lust doth play", "But more of this hereafter . You , Diana ,", "Yet , I pray you :", "I am supposed dead . The army breaking ,", "Nor you , mistress ,", "Ever a friend whose thoughts more truly labour", "But with the word the time will bring on summer ,"], "true_target": ["Something in my behalf .", "Time was I did him a desired office ,", "Under my poor instructions yet must suffer", "Hath brought me up to be your daughter 's dower ,", "And be as sweet as sharp . We must away ;", "That you may well perceive I have not wrong 'd you !", "As it hath fated her to be my motive", "When saucy trusting of the cozen 'd thoughts", "When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns", "And helper to a husband . But , O strange men !", "All 's Well that Ends Well . Still the fine 's the crown .", "We 'll be before our welcome .", "That can such sweet use make of what they hate ,", "Whate'er the course , the end is the renown . Exeunt", "Through flinty Tartar 's bosom would peep forth ,", "Shall be my surety ; fore whose throne \u2018 tis needful ,", "And by the leave of my good lord the King ,"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["Gentle madam ,"], "true_target": ["Your business was more welcome .", "You never had a servant to whose trust"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["Let death and honesty"], "true_target": ["Go with your impositions , I am yours", "Upon your will to suffer ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["They are not sallet-herbs , you knave ; they are nose-herbs .", "I like him well ; \u2018 tis not amiss . And I was about to tell you , since I heard of the good lady 's death , and that my lord your son was upon his return home , I moved the King my master to speak in the behalf of my daughter ; which , in the minority of them both , his Majesty out of a self-gracious remembrance did first propose . His Highness hath promis 'd me to do it ; and , to stop up the displeasure he hath conceived against your son , there is no fitter matter . How does your ladyship like it ?", "Lady , of that I have made a bold charter ; but , I thank my God , it holds yet . Re-enter CLOWN", "Whether dost thou profess thyself-a knave or a fool ?", "Who 's that ? A Frenchman ?", "Madam , I was thinking with what manners I might safely be admitted .", "A shrewd knave , and an unhappy .", "\u2018 Twas a good lady , \u2018 twas a good lady . We may pick a thousand sallets ere we light on such another herb .", "So you were a knave at his service , indeed .", "No , no , no , son was misled with a snipt-taffeta fellow there , whose villainous saffron would have made all the unbak 'd and doughy youth of a nation in his colour . Your daughter-in-law had been alive at this hour , and your son here at home , more advanc 'd by the King than by that red-tail 'd humble-bee I speak of ."], "true_target": ["A scar nobly got , or a noble scar , is a good liv'ry of honour ; so belike is that .", "Go thy ways , I begin to be aweary of thee ; and I tell thee so before , because I would not fall out with thee . Go thy ways ; let my horses be well look 'd to , without any tricks .", "His Highness comes post from Marseilles , of as able body as when he number 'd thirty ; \u2018 a will be here to-morrow , or I am deceiv 'd by him that in such intelligence hath seldom fail 'd .", "Let us go see your son , I pray you ;", "I long to talk with the young noble soldier .", "What prince is that ?", "No , no , no .", "I will subscribe for thee ; thou art both knave and fool .", "Hold thee , there 's my purse . I give thee not this to suggest thee from thy master thou talk'st of ; serve him still .", "Your distinction ?"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["With very much content , my lord ; and I wish it happily effected .", "So \u2018 a is . My lord that 's gone made himself much sport out of him . By his authority he remains here , which he thinks is a patent for his sauciness ; and indeed he has no pace , but runs where he will ."], "true_target": ["It rejoices me that I hope I shall see him ere I die . I have letters that my son will be here to-night . I shall beseech your lordship to remain with me tal they meet together .", "You need but plead your honourable privilege .", "I would I had not known him . It was the death of the most virtuous gentlewoman that ever nature had praise for creating . If she had partaken of my flesh , and cost me the dearest groans of a mother . I could not have owed her a more rooted love ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["I am no great Nebuchadnezzar , sir ; I have not much skill in grass .", "A fool , sir , at a woman 's service , and a knave at a man 's .", "And I would give his wife my bauble , sir , to do her service .", "I would cozen the man of his wife , and do his service .", "The Black Prince , sir ; alias , the Prince of Darkness ; alias , the devil .", "O madam , yonder 's my lord your son with a patch of velvet on 's face ; whether there be a scar under \u2018 t or no , the velvet knows ; but \u2018 tis a goodly patch of velvet . His left cheek is a cheek of two pile and a half , but his right cheek is worn bare .", "Faith , there 's a dozen of \u2018 em , with delicate fine hats , and most courteous feathers , which bow the head and nod at every man ."], "true_target": ["I am a woodland fellow , sir , that always loved a great fire ; and the master I speak of ever keeps a good fire . But , sure , he is the prince of the world ; let his nobility remain in 's court . I am for the house with the narrow gate , which I take to be too little for pomp to enter . Some that humble themselves may ; but the many will be too chill and tender : and they 'll be for the flow'ry way that leads to the broad gate and the great fire .", "Why , sir , if I cannot serve you , I can serve as great a prince as you are .", "At your service .", "But it is your carbonado 'd face .", "If I put any tricks upon \u2018 em , sir , they shall be jades \u2019 tricks , which are their own right by the law of nature .", "Faith , sir , \u2018 a has an English name ; but his fisnomy is more hotter in France than there .", "Indeed , sir , she was the sweet-marjoram of the sallet , or , rather , the herb of grace ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["To come into his presence .", "And you shall find yourself to be well thank 'd ,", "But since you have made the days and nights as one ,", "Which I presume shall render you no blame ,", "I do presume , sir , that you are not fall'n", "In happy time !", "Sir , I have seen you in the court of France .", "Must wear your spirits low ; we cannot help it .", "I shall continue thankful .", "From the report that goes upon your goodness ;", "Be bold you do so grow in my requital", "All 's Well That Ends Well yet ,", "To give this poor petition to the King ;", "Our means will make us means .", "And aid me with that store of power you have", "This man may help me to his Majesty 's ear ,", "To wear your gentle limbs in my affairs ,"], "true_target": ["The use of your own virtues , for the which", "Enter a GENTLEMAN", "But this exceeding posting day and night", "That it will please you", "Commend the paper to his gracious hand ;", "I do beseech you , whither is he gone ?", "But rather make you thank your pains for it .", "Go , go , provide . Exeunt", "Whate'er falls more . We must to horse again ;", "Though time seem so adverse and means unfit .", "As nothing can unroot you .", "I do beseech you , sir ,", "Not here , sir ?", "Since you are like to see the King before me ,", "Which lay nice manners by , I put you to", "If he would spend his power . God save you , sir .", "And therefore , goaded with most sharp occasions ,", "I will come after you with what good speed"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 20}, {"query": ["And you .", "He hence remov 'd last night , and with more haste", "Than is his use .", "I have been sometimes there .", "This I 'll do for you ."], "true_target": ["Not indeed .", "Marry , as I take it , to Rousillon ;", "Whither I am going .", "The King 's not here .", "What 's your will ?"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 20}, {"query": ["Good Monsieur Lavache , give my Lord Lafeu this letter . I have ere now , sir , been better known to you , when I have held familiarity with fresher clothes ; but I am now , sir , muddied in Fortune 's mood , and smell somewhat strong of her strong displeasure .", "Pray you , sir , deliver me this paper .", "I praise God for you . Exeunt", "Nay , you need not to stop your nose , sir ; I spake but by a metaphor ."], "true_target": ["My name , my good lord , is Parolles .", "O my good lord , you were the first that found me .", "My lord , I am a man whom Fortune hath cruelly scratch 'd .", "It lies in you , my lord , to bring me in some grace , for you did bring me out .", "I beseech your honour to hear me one single word ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 21}, {"query": ["Foh ! prithee stand away . A paper from Fortune 's close-stool to give to a nobleman ! Look here he comes himself . Enter LAFEU Here is a pur of Fortune 's , sir , or of Fortune 's cat , but not a musk-cat , that has fall'n into the unclean fishpond of her displeasure , and , as he says , is muddied withal . Pray you , sir , use the carp as you may ; for he looks like a poor , decayed , ingenious , foolish , rascally knave . I do pity his distress in my similes of comfort , and leave him to your lordship ."], "true_target": ["Truly , Fortune 's displeasure is but sluttish , if it smell so strongly as thou speak'st of . I will henceforth eat no fish of Fortune 's butt'ring . Prithee , allow the wind .", "Indeed , sir , if your metaphor stink , I will stop my nose ; or against any man 's metaphor . Prithee , get thee further ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 21}, {"query": ["You beg more than word then . Cox my passion ! give me your hand . How does your drum ?", "Was I , in sooth ? And I was the first that lost thee ."], "true_target": ["And what would you have me to do ? \u2018 Tis too late to pare her nails now . Wherein have you played the knave with Fortune , that she should scratch you , who of herself is a good lady and would not have knaves thrive long under her ? There 's a cardecue for you . Let the justices make you and Fortune friends ; I am for other business .", "You beg a single penny more ; come , you shall ha't ; save your word .", "Out upon thee , knave ! Dost thou put upon me at once both the office of God and the devil ? One brings the in grace , and the other brings thee out .The King 's coming ; I know by his trumpets . Sirrah , inquire further after me ; I had talk of you last night . Though you are a fool and a knave , you shall eat . Go to ; follow ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 21}, {"query": ["Well excus 'd .", "You saw one here in court could witness it .", "Steals ere we can effect them . You remember", "Praising what is lost", "Beguiles the truer office of mine eyes ?", "What says he to your daughter ? Have you spoke ?", "The main consents are had ; and here we 'll stay", "While I was speaking , oft was fasten 'd to't .", "Our own love waking cries to see what 's done ,", "Find him , and bring him hither . Exit an ATTENDANT", "Than I have in this ring . \u2018 Twas mine , \u2018 twas Helen 's ,", "By him and by this woman here what know you ?", "Her estimation home .", "To make the even truth in pleasure flow .", "Where did you find it then ?", "Come , come , to th \u2019 purpose . Did he love this woman ?", "This ring was mine , I gave it his first wife .", "Though my revenges were high bent upon him", "Now , pray you , let me see it ; for mine eye ,", "Take her away .", "Makes the remembrance dear . Well , call him hither ;", "To prison with her . And away with him .", "In me at once . But to the brightest beams", "Methought you said", "Make trivial price of serious things we have ,", "I am wrapp 'd in dismal thinkings .", "I think thee now some common customer .", "Thou speak'st it falsely , as I love mine honour ;", "From the great compt ; but love that comes too late ,", "Unless thou tell'st me where thou hadst this ring ,", "How , I pray you ?", "Her eyes myself , could win me to believe", "Let us from point to point this story know ,", "For thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail", "She does abuse our ears ; to prison with her .", "The daughter of this lord ?", "Thou hast spoken all already , unless thou canst say they are married ; but thou art too fine in thy evidence ; therefore stand aside . This ring , you say , was yours ?", "Of what should stead her most ?", "Out of a casement .", "Unless she gave it to yourself in bed-", "While shameful hate sleeps out the afternoon .", "You got it from her . She call 'd the saints to surety", "As mad in folly , lack 'd the sense to know", "Where you have never come - or sent it us", "And yet I know not - thou didst hate her deadly ,", "Go speedily , and bring again the Count .", "Confess \u2018 twas hers , and by what rough enforcement", "My fore-past proofs , howe'er the matter fall ,", "Let 's take the instant by the forward top ;", "As thou art a knave and no knave . What an equivocal companion is this !", "That thou art so inhuman - \u2018 twill not prove so .", "You boggle shrewdly ; every feather starts you . Is this the man you speak of ?", "Wherefore hast thou accus 'd him all this while ?", "The heavens have thought well on thee , Lafeu ,", "\u2018 Upon his many protestations to marry me when his wife was dead , I blush to say it , he won me . Now is the Count Rousillon a widower ; his vows are forfeited to me , and my honour 's paid to him . He stole from Florence , taking no leave , and I follow him to his country for justice . Grant it me , O King ! in you it best lies ; otherwise a seducer flourishes , and a poor maid is undone . DIANA CAPILET . \u2019", "Oft our displeasures , to ourselves unjust ,", "But wilt thou not speak all thou know'st ?", "Thou kept'st a wife herself , thyself a maid. -", "What say'st thou to her ?", "We are reconcil 'd , and the first view shall kill", "Of that and all the progress , more and less ,", "Is there no exorcist", "Yet you desire to marry .", "Send forth your amorous token for fair Maudlin .", "For we are old , and on our quick'st decrees", "Upon her great disaster ."], "true_target": ["My honour 'd lady ,", "EPILOGUE", "And that you fly them as you swear them lordship ,", "Know you this ring ? This ring was his of late .", "Come hither , Count ; do you know these women ?", "Not knowing them until we know their grave .", "That thou didst love her , strikes some scores away", "This ring was mine ; and when I gave it Helen", "Take her away , I do not like her now ;", "And watch 'd the time to shoot .", "I am not a day of season ,", "Th \u2019 inaudible and noiseless foot of Time", "Resolvedly more leisure shall express .", "We 'll sift this matter further .", "If it were yours by none of all these ways ,", "What ring was yours , I pray you ?", "More than to see this ring . Take him away .", "How is that ?", "Be this sweet Helen 's knell . And now forget her .", "The bitter past , more welcome is the sweet .", "That she would never put it from her finger", "Plutus himself ,", "I bade her , if her fortunes ever stood", "We lost a jewel of her , and our esteem", "I have forgiven and forgotten all ;", "Thou diest within this hour .", "Choose thou thy husband , and I 'll pay thy dower ;", "Not fearing the displeasure of your master ,", "Whoever gave it you . Then , if you know", "To the great sender turns a sour offence ,", "Is't real that I see ?", "Crying \u2018 That 's good that 's gone . \u2019 Our rash faults", "Shall tax my fears of little vanity ,", "Distracted clouds give way ; so stand thou forth ;", "And mak'st conjectural fears to come into me", "Than in my thought it lies !", "Having vainly fear 'd too little . Away with him .", "If thou beest yet a fresh uncropped flower ,", "Which I would fain shut out . If it should prove", "Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried ,", "Sir , for my thoughts , you have them ill to friend", "Where did you buy it ? Or who gave it you ?", "That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine ,", "Who lent it you ?", "Then shall we have a match . I have letters sent me", "Necessitied to help , that by this token", "And she is dead ; which nothing , but to close", "Was made much poorer by it ; but your son ,", "All yet seems well ; and if it end so meet ,", "Which , on your just proceeding , I 'll keep off-", "How could you give it him ?", "I wonder , sir , sith wives are monsters to you .", "All is whole ;", "She hath that ring of yours .", "That you are well acquainted with yourself ,", "The story , then , goes false you threw it him", "For I can guess that by thy honest aid", "Destroy our friends , and after weep their dust ;", "Hath not in nature 's mystery more science", "Till your deeds gain them . Fairer prove your honour", "The time is fair again .", "Not one word more of the consumed time .", "I would relieve her . Had you that craft to reave her", "To see our widower 's second marriage-day .", "Tell me , sirrah-but tell me true I charge you ,", "That sets him high in fame .", "To bring forth this discov'ry . Seek these suitors ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["Hath it been ow 'd and worn . This is his wife :", "That ring 's a thousand proofs .", "He blushes , and \u2018 tis it .", "And I beseech your Majesty to make it", "When oil and fire , too strong for reason 's force ,", "Son , on my life ,", "I have seen her wear it ; and she reckon 'd it"], "true_target": ["Which better than the first , O dear heaven , bless ! Or , ere they meet , in me , O nature , cesse !", "Conferr 'd by testament to th \u2019 sequent issue ,", "Natural rebellion , done i \u2019 th \u2019 blaze of youth ,", "O'erbears it and burns on .", "At her life 's rate .", "\u2018 Tis past , my liege ;", "Now , justice on the doers !", "Of six preceding ancestors , that gem"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["Come on , my son , in whom my house 's name", "I will buy me a son-in-law in a fair , and toll for this . I 'll none of him .", "He looks well on \u2018 t .", "He 's a good drum , my lord , but a naughty orator .", "This I must say-", "Whose dear perfection hearts that scorn 'd to serve", "Whose beauty did astonish the survey", "Mine eyes smell onions ; I shall weep anon .Good Tom Drum , lend me a handkercher . So , I thank thee . Wait on me home , I 'll make sport with thee ; let thy curtsies alone , they are scurvy ones .", "Of richest eyes ; whose words all ears took captive ;", "Was a sweet creature ; such a ring as this ,", "But first , I beg my pardon : the young lord", "Your reputation comes too short for my daughter ; you are no husband for her .", "That she may quickly come ."], "true_target": ["And ev'ry hair that 's on \u2018 t , Helen , that 's dead ,", "By my old beard ,", "Humbly call 'd mistress .", "Offence of mighty note ; but to himself", "I saw the man to-day , if man he be .", "I am sure I saw her wear it .", "Did to his Majesty , his mother , and his lady ,", "The greatest wrong of all . He lost a wife", "The last that e'er I took her leave at court ,", "I saw upon her finger .", "All that he is hath reference to your Highness .", "Must be digested ; give a favour from you ,", "To sparkle in the spirits of my daughter ,", "This woman 's an easy glove , my lord ; she goes of and on at pleasure ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["With an importing visage ; and she told me", "To tender it herself . I undertook it ,", "Here 's a petition from a Florentine ,", "Your Highness with herself .", "Vanquish 'd thereto by the fair grace and speech", "I shall , my liege . Exit GENTLEMAN"], "true_target": ["Gracious sovereign ,", "Of the poor suppliant , who by this , I know ,", "Whether I have been to blame or no , I know not :", "Who hath , for four or five removes , come short", "Is here attending ; her business looks in her", "In a sweet verbal brief it did concern"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["Howe'er it pleases you to take it so ,", "He 's quoted for a most perfidious slave ,", "As all impediments in fancy 's course", "If she , my liege , can make me know this clearly ,", "I 'll love her dearly , ever , ever dearly .", "Are motives of more fancy ; and , in fine ,", "Hers it was not .", "I stuck my choice upon her , ere my heart", "To a most hideous object . Thence it came", "Wrapp 'd in a paper , which contain 'd the name", "Than for to think that I would sink it here .", "She 's impudent , my lord ,", "Where she yet never was . Exit , guarded", "As she had made the overture , she ceas 'd ,", "Where the impression of mine eye infixing ,", "Contempt his scornful perspective did lend me ,", "With all the spots o \u2019 th \u2019 world tax 'd and debauch 'd ,", "I could not answer in that course of honour", "Since I have lost , have lov 'd , was in mine eye", "What of him ?", "Her infinite cunning with her modern grace", "My high-repented blames ,", "Which warp 'd the line of every other favour ,", "Lay a more noble thought upon mine honour", "My lord , I do confess the ring was hers .", "And I had that which any inferior might", "But that I know them . Do they charge me further ?", "Extended or contracted all proportions", "Subdu 'd me to her rate . She got the ring ;", "In heavy satisfaction , and would never", "At market-price have bought ."], "true_target": ["She never saw it .", "And boarded her i \u2019 th \u2019 wanton way of youth .", "I think she has . Certain it is I lik 'd her ,", "My gracious sovereign ,", "The ring was never hers .", "She 's none of mine , my lord .", "Of her that threw it . Noble she was , and thought", "Whose nature sickens but to speak a truth .", "This ring was ever hers , you shall as easy", "In Florence was it from a casement thrown me ,", "Both , both ; o , pardon !", "I have it not .", "I stood engag 'd ; but when I had subscrib 'd", "The dust that did offend it .", "My lord , this is a fond and desp'rate creature", "Scorn 'd a fair colour or express 'd it stol'n ,", "Whom sometime I have laugh 'd with . Let your Highness", "To mine own fortune , and inform 'd her fully", "She knew her distance , and did angle for me ,", "And was a common gamester to the camp .", "You are deceiv 'd , my lord ; she never saw it .", "Madding my eagerness with her restraint ,", "If you shall prove", "Am I or that or this for what he 'll utter", "Receive the ring again .", "That she whom all men prais 'd , and whom myself ,", "Prove that I husbanded her bed in Florence ,", "Admiringly , my liege . At first", "My lord , I neither can nor will deny", "Durst make too bold herald of my tongue ;", "That will speak anything ?", "Dear sovereign , pardon to me ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["It might be yours or hers , for aught I know .", "He might have bought me at a common price .", "Either both or none .", "So bad an instrument ; his name 's Parolles .", "Good mother , fetch my bail . Stay , royal sir ;", "Whose high respect and rich validity", "Ay , my lord .", "You that have turn 'd off a first so noble wife", "Because he 's guilty , and he is not guilty .", "Who hath abus 'd me as he knows himself ,", "I never gave it him .", "And give me mine again .", "I have spoke the truth .", "Do not believe him . o , behold this ring ,", "I 'll never tell you .", "I am , my lord , a wretched Florentine ,", "My suit , as I do understand , you know ,", "May justly diet me . I pray you yet-", "I found it not .", "Though yet he never harm 'd me , here I quit him .", "The same upon your finger .", "Since you lack virtue , I will lose a husband-", "Sir , much like", "Ay , my good lord .", "He knows himself my bed he hath defil 'd ;", "Exit WIDOW", "I 'll put in bail , my liege .", "The jeweller that owes the ring is sent for ,", "He gave it to a commoner o \u2019 th \u2019 camp ,", "I am either maid , or else this old man 's wife .", "Send for your ring , I will return it home ,"], "true_target": ["You give away myself , which is known mine ;", "For I by vow am so embodied yours", "If you shall marry ,", "Do you know he promis 'd me marriage ?", "Did lack a parallel ; yet , for all that ,", "And he shall surety me . But for this lord", "He had not my virginity .", "And at that time he got his wife with child .", "Ask him upon his oath if he does think", "It was not lent me neither .", "And therefore know how far I may be pitied .", "He knows I am no maid , and he 'll swear to't :", "Great King , I am no strumpet , by my life ;", "And now behold the meaning .", "I must be patient .", "Why do you look so strange upon your wife ?", "You give away this hand , and that is mine ;", "That she which marries you must marry me ,", "It was not given me , nor I did not buy it .", "By Jove , if ever I knew man , \u2018 twas you .", "You give away heaven 's vows , and those are mine ;", "Dead though she be , she feels her young one kick ;", "I 'll swear I am a maid , and he knows not .", "Good my lord ,", "I did , my lord , but loath am to produce", "Re-enter WIDOW with HELENA", "And this was it I gave him , being abed .", "So there 's my riddle : one that 's dead is quick-", "If I be one .", "He does me wrong , my lord ; if I were so", "Derived from the ancient Capilet ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["And both shall cease , without your remedy ."], "true_target": ["I am her mother , sir , whose age and honour", "Both suffer under this complaint we bring ,"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["He lov 'd her , sir , and lov 'd her not .", "Yes , so please your Majesty . I did go between them , as I said ; but more than that , he loved her-for indeed he was mad for her , and talk 'd of Satan , and of Limbo , and of Furies , and I know not what . Yet I was in that credit with them at that time that I knew of their going to bed ; and of other motions , as promising her marriage , and things which would derive me ill will to speak of ; therefore I will not speak what I know .", "I am a poor man , and at your Majesty 's command ."], "true_target": ["So please your Majesty , my master hath been an honourable gentleman ; tricks he hath had in him , which gentlemen have .", "Faith , I know more than I 'll speak .", "Faith , sir , he did love her ; but how ?", "He did love her , sir , as a gentleman loves a woman ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["I found you wondrous kind . There is your ring ,", "If it appear not plain , and prove untrue ,", "O , my good lord , when I was like this maid ,", "\u2018 Tis but the shadow of a wife you see ,", "And , look you , here 's your letter . This it says :", "And are by me with child , \u2019 etc . This is done ."], "true_target": ["The name and not the thing .", "O my dear mother , do I see you living ?", "No , my good lord ;", "\u2018 When from my finger you can get this ring ,", "Deadly divorce step between me and you !", "Will you be mine now you are doubly won ?"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["Do you think the Prince will see the captain , little darling ?", "God be praised , Little Father : you are still spared to us .", "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 , you kicked his Highness downstairs .", "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 ."], "true_target": ["Little Father \u2014", "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 ?", "Little Father , tell us what to do . Our lives are yours ; but God knows you are not fit to die .", "Little darling honey , is his Highness the prince very busy ?", "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 .", "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 !"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 23}, {"query": ["You look perfect .", "Yes , yes , yes . Little English Father : God knows it is your duty to be brave and wait on the Empress . Come .", "My uncle is receiving you with unusual civility , Captain . He has just kicked a general downstairs .", "And you think you will impress an Englishman by receiving him as you are now , half drunk ?", "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 .", "Respect ! How can you respect the niece of a savage ?", "Come , little love : you can n't refuse me .", "She will ; but you must come .", "His real name ? Popof , of course . Why do you laugh , Little Father ?", "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 .", "! !", "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 ."], "true_target": ["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 .", "You must come . If you kick you will blacken my eyes .", "Carry him , uncle .", "Of course .", "Savage ! Boot ! It is a disgrace . No wonder the French sneer at us as barbarians .", "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 .", "I 'll not be shouted for . You have the voice of a bear , and the manners of a tinker .", "Come , come , come .", "Fi donc ! I do not look through keyholes .", "Pig . Ugh !", "Yes ?", "Monsieur le Capitaine !"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 23}, {"query": ["Come , baby , come . By this time they have made their way through the door and are out of hearing .", "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 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 .", "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 .", "Varinka !", "It is enough that you are a bachelor , darling : Catherine will supply the arts . Aha ! Another epigram ! I am in the vein today .", "Very well , then : I shall stay where I am , because I 'm drunk and you 're afraid of me .", "Come .", "I do n't want to know who you are . What do you want ?", "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 ?", "Darling beloved , I am drunk ; but I know what I am doing . I wish to stand well with the English .", "Heart ! Heart !", "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", "By the way , what was the piece of advice I was going to give you ?", "Get out .", "It is true : the English despise men who cannot drink . I must make myself wholly drunk", "Tsh-sh-sh . Little angel Mother : you must behave yourself before the English captain .", "Are you really an Englishman ?", "You lie , you dog . You lie .", "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 .", "I give it to you unasked , delightful Englishman . I remember it now . It was this . Do n't try to become Tsar of Russia .", "No : only English . He will amuse Catherine .Come , you shall tell the joke to the Empress : she is by way of being a humorist", "Darling , you appreciate my epigram .", "Persuade him , Little angel Mother .", "In er lerrer , darling , darling , darling , darling . Lerrer you showed me .", "Ho !", "You must not call her madam . You must call her Little Mother , and beautiful darling .", "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 .", "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 .", "Go and look through the keyhole of the Imperial bed-chamber ; and bring me word whether the Empress is awake yet .", "Why not ? She wo n't eat you ."], "true_target": ["Yes : I 'll carry you .", "Get out .Darling , have some diamonds . Have a fistful .", "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 .", "You have conscientious scruples ?", "Why not , darling ? I was an adventurer . I was a beggar .", "Call me darling .", "Well : what 's wrong with me ?", "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 ?", "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 ?", "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 .", "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 .", "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 ?", "What do you want ?", "You have no hearts , you English !", "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 ?", "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 ?", "He will not see any captain . Go to the devil !", "! !", "You want me to kick you upstairs , eh ? You want an audience of the Empress .", "Darling , there is no pleasing you . Do n't you like me ?", "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 .", "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 !", "In Russia a gentleman has no scruples . In Russia we face facts .", "Darling , a true Russian has a heart on both sides . The Sergeant enters carrying a goblet filled with precious stones .", "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 .", "Come along , darling .", "!! !", "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 .", "Tut tut ! I 'm going to take you to the Empress now , this very instant .", "Nonsense ! You shall come just as you are . You shall show her your calves later on .", "You think she murdered him ?", "You refuse !"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 23}, {"query": ["I have n't the slightest intention \u2014", "But how can I ?", "Your Highness understands that if I am missing , or if anything happens to me , there will be trouble .", "The other side , your Highness .", "The letter will explain to your Highness who I am .", "My respect for the lady will not permit it .", "No , really . I am not fit \u2014", "In England , sir , a gentleman never faces any facts if they are unpleasant facts .", "Oh , you !", "In these boots ? Impossible ! I must change .", "But you did n't read it .", "How do you know all this ?", "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 ?", "I assure you \u2014 it is quite out of the question \u2014 my clothes \u2014", "I tell you I do n't want to ask for anything . Do you suppose I am an adventurer and a beggar ?", "Impossible \u2014", "I must apologize for the disturbance I made , madam .", "!!! !", "Stand off .Order them off , if you do n't want a bullet through your silly head .", "A Russian general , madam ?", "I have found them useful .", "I thank your Highness ; but it is not the custom for English gentlemen to take presents of that kind .", "We wrestle rather well in my part of England .", "You want to get hold of me .", "Thank you , I do n't take presents .", "My union with Catherine ! You 're mad ."], "true_target": ["!", "I know that people have said so .", "Damn you ! do you take me for a prize-fighter ? How dare you make me such a proposal ?", "I must allow myself to say , madam , that your uncle had better not attempt to kick an English officer downstairs .", "Pardon , your Highness : your heart is on the other side .", "Certainly . I am a Bachelor of Arts .", "An audience of the Empress .Also some civility , if you please .", "I do not wish to discuss it .", "But it will take me only half an hour to \u2014", "It is not the English custom .", "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 .", "Dash it all , this is ridiculous !", "No . I had rather \u2014", "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", "I 'm not afraid of you , damn you !", "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 .", "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 .", "As you did not give it , I do n't know . Allow me to add that I have not asked for your advice .", "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 !", "No . Believe me \u2014 I do n't wish \u2014 I \u2014", "You are a Russian . That 's different .", "I have the scruples of a gentleman .", "How can anyone with a sense of humor help laughing ? Pop off !", "Oh , madam !", "Madam !", "Thank you . The occasion will not arise .I have the honor to wish your Highness good morning ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 23}, {"query": ["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 .", "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 .", "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 .", "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 ."], "true_target": ["Her Imperial Majesty is awake .", "The new museum , Little Mother . But the model will not be ready until tonight .", "Half-past ten , Little Mother .", "No , no . Please .", "She will have him knouted . He is a dead man ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 24}, {"query": ["Noticing that er \u2014?That er \u2014?", "Courtier !", "You have seen us before ?", "Go . I am offended .", "That is Prince Patiomkin .", "We are waiting for your answer .", "Go .", "Men have grown sober in Siberia for less , Prince .", "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 ?", "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 .", "But you say you asked the Prince to carry you .", "No , no ! Patiomkin ! What are you thinking of ?"], "true_target": ["So ?", "Heigho \u2014 ah \u2014 yah \u2014 ah \u2014 ow \u2014 what o'clock is it ?", "What a horrible noise ! Naryshkin , see what it is . Naryshkin goes to the door .", "Patiomkin , how dare you ?What is this ?", "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 .", "Dashkoff : you have no sense of humor .Hog .Oh ! You have broken my toe . Brute . Beast . Dashkoff is quite right . Do you hear ?", "Well , sir : is that all you have to say ?", "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 .", "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 ?", "They make me do it to keep up their own little dignities ? So ?", "Schweig , du Hund .Have you never been taught , sir , how a gentleman should enter the presence of a sovereign ?", "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 ?"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 24}, {"query": ["But what am I to do ? I cannot take such an answer to the Empress .", "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 .", "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 ."], "true_target": ["Scandalous ! An insult to your Imperial Majesty !", "Captain Edstaston , the Empress is robed , and commands your presence .", "Kick me . Disable me . It will be an excuse for not going back to her . Kick me hard ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 24}, {"query": ["Useless to struggle . Come along , beautiful baby darling . Come to Little Mother .March him baby , Baby , baby , Lit-tle ba-by bumpkins .", "Why ? Are n't you delighted ?", "P-P-P-P-P-P-W-W-W-W-W-rrrrrr!I must kick somebody .", "You have done it , darling . Superbly ! Beautifully !", "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 .", "Do n't scold , Lil Mother .", "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 ."], "true_target": ["!! !", "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 .", "No : not like pig . Like prince . Lil Mother made poor Patiomkin prince . Whas use being prince if I may n't drink ?", "What matter ? She is in England , is n't she ?", "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 .", "Yes : go . Go bye bye . Very sleepy . Berr go bye bye than go Siberia . Go bye bye in Lil Mother 's bed", "I do n't know . I am drunk . What is this , Varinka ?", "Yah !"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 24}, {"query": ["March him , baby , etc ., etc .", "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 .", "You do n't admire her , then ?", "It is true . He drinks like a pig ."], "true_target": ["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 .", "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 .", "What else did you presume to admire her Majesty for , pray ?", "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 ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 24}, {"query": ["Say I was gone before you arrived with the message .", "But I never said I admired your Majesty . The lady has twisted my words .", "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 .", "Do you mean to say you are not drunk ?", "Yes , Madam ; but I did not enter your presence : I was carried .", "All Europe is a party to that insolence , Madam .", "Madam , this drunken ruffian \u2014", "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 .", "Well , I \u2014 I \u2014 I \u2014 that is , I \u2014", "Ouf !"], "true_target": ["At the review , Madam .", "The devil she does !", "Delighted ! Gracious heavens , man , I am engaged to be married .", "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 .", "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", "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 .", "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 .", "Certainly not , Madam . I protested against it with all my might . I appeal to this lady to confirm me .", "No . She has just arrived in St. Petersburg ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 24}, {"query": ["Then you did see her close ?", "Well , you wanted to see her .", "Do n't be impertinent . How can I get admission to the palace ?", "She would not dare . Did you tell her you were engaged to me ?", "What a nuisance ! Mamma will be furious at having to pack , and at missing the Court ball this evening .", "Dearest : as if anyone could help it .", "What on earth do you mean ?", "Is she \u2014 is she good-looking when you see her close ?", "She has fallen in love with you !", "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 !"], "true_target": ["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 .", "Help ! help ! They are killing Charles . Help !", "Darling !", "Do not presume to call me your little angel mother . Where are the police ?", "May I tell her she will be knouted if we stay ?", "Serve you right ! Where have they taken Captain Edstaston to ?", "By whom ?", "Why ?", "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 .", "I will give you\u2014 Well : I do n't mind giving you two roubles if I can speak to the Empress .", "Why ?"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 25}, {"query": ["Fairly close .", "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", "Yes ; but the Empress has seen 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 .", "How did you know ?", "Do n't call me darling .", "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 .", "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"], "true_target": ["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 .", "Do , dearest . He kisses her and lets her go , expecting her to run into the house .", "Ah , would you , damn you !", "I have been called darling all the morning .", "I can n't help that . We have n't a moment to lose .", "Of course not .", "Not a patch on you , dearest .", "Because I did n't particularly want to have you knouted , and to be hanged or sent to Siberia myself ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 25}, {"query": ["Captain Edstaston : his Highness Prince Patiomkin sends you the pistols he promised you .", "We are the police in St Petersburg , little spitfire ."], "true_target": ["To the Empress , little beauty . He has insulted the Empress . He will receive a hundred and one blows of the knout .", "Tie him neck and crop . Ten thousand blows of the stick if you let him go .Yow \u2014 ow ! Have mercy , Little Mother .", "Agh !She has bitten me , the little vixen ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 25}, {"query": ["Owgh ! Murder ! Holy Nicholas ! Owwwgh !", "Everybody goes in and out of the palace , little love .", "You shall , dear Little Mother . You shall give the poor old Sergeant a rouble ; and the blessed Nicholas will make your salvation his charge .", "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 .", "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 !"], "true_target": ["Be merciful , Little angel Mother .", "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 so in the name of the Holy Nicholas , little beauty .", "He will feel only the first twenty and he will be mercifully dead long before the end , little darling .", "Lay hold of him there . Pin his arms . I have his pistols ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 25}, {"query": ["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 ?", "Be merciful , Little Mother . My heart is in my mouth .", "Little Mother : they have brought some instruments of torture . Will they be needed ?", "Remember to whom you are speaking ."], "true_target": ["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 .", "Why ?", "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 .", "Majesty : the model for the new museum has arrived .", "Advise the Empress ! !"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["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 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 .", "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 ?", "Not that I cannot make allowances . Your Majesty has , I know , been unfortunate in your experience as a married woman \u2014", "Ahowyou !!!! Agh ! oh ! Stop ! Oh Lord ! Ya-a-a-ah !", "Agh ! Cat !", "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 .", "Ahem ! Silence . Catherine reads on .", "Claire , loosen these straps , in Heaven 's name . Quick .", "Yes : we must all grow old , even the handsomest of us .", "Quack ! quack ! quack !", "Do n't go . Do n't leave me in this horrible state . Loosen me .", "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 ?", "I have no objection .", "You can n't mean to throw me over , Claire .Claire . Claire .", "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 !", "They tied me up , dear . I could n't help it . I fought for all I was worth .", "No : angel , angel !", "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 .", "Agh !!! I must really ask your Majesty not to put the point of your Imperial toe between my ribs . I am ticklesome .", "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 .", "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 .", "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 .", "Yagh ! Ah !If your Majesty does that again I will write to the London Gazette .", "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 ?"], "true_target": ["As I said before : Damn your eyes !", "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 .", "To oblige me . Catherine laughs good-humoredly and goes to the curtains and opens them . The band strikes up a Redowa .", "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 .", "Have you any back teeth ?", "I have n't come either time . I 've been carried . I call it infernal impudence .", "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 .", "Come ! I am sure he really loved you ; and you truly loved him .", "Not if you will loosen these straps . Quick : loosen me . I 'm fainting .", "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 ?", "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 !", "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 .", "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 .", "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", "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 .", "I feel your Majesty 's kindness so much that I really cannot leave you without a word of plain wholesome English advice .", "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 .", "Oh , well , of course , if you 're an ill-natured woman , hurting me on purpose , I have nothing more to say .", "Ow ! Agh ! Ahowyow !", "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 .", "It 's agreeable enough ; onlyfor heaven 's sake do n't touch me in the ribs .", "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 .", "Why ! Why ! Why , because they 're hurting me .", "Madam , I cannot talk tied up like this .", "Ahem ! ahem ! Silence .", "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 ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["No , Catherine . What would Voltaire say ?", "You think you can escape by appealing , like Prince Patiomkin , to my sense of humor ?", "I shall forget myself .", "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 .", "Do you wonder now that I love Russia as I love no other place on earth ?", "Why ?", "What are you grinning at ?", "Nothing . But oh , if I could only have had him for my \u2014 for my \u2014 for my \u2014", "I would not deprive you of him for worlds ; though really I think he 's rather a darling", "What", "No : for my museum .", "There is no help for it , Captain . This is Russia , not England .", "The soldiers seize Edstaston , and throw him roughly at the feet of the", "A monarch , sir , has sometimes to employ a necessary , and salutary severity \u2014", "Take care what you say .", "Do you still admire me as much as you did this morning ?", "Thank you .", "Empress .", "Wie komisch !", "Alle Wetter !! !", "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 !", "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 .", "Only a wo \u2014", "Keep quite still , Captain", "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 .", "Do you still intend to write to the London Gazette about me ?", "Also, you have put me to the trouble of sending for you twice . You had better have come the first time ."], "true_target": ["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 ?", "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 .", "Advice !! !", "Your young lady still seems to think that you enjoyed it .", "Certainly , if you wish . The stove by all means .", "So !", "I do n't think you are", "How dare you ?", "Geliebter !", "Well , just to show you how much kinder a Russian savage can be than an English onehere goes !", "Captain Edstaston , why did you refuse to come when I sent for you ?", "People sometimes learn through suffering . Manners , for instance .", "Is the spectacle so disagreeable ?", "Donnerwetter !", "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 .", "Have you changed your opinion of Monsieur Voltaire ?", "Ausgezeiehnet !", "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 ?", "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 ?", "My old \u2014", "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 .", "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 ?", "Obey your orders .", "Now self-control . Self-control , Catherine . Philosophy . Europe is looking on .", "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", "That is the favorite torture of Catherine the Second , Mademoiselle . I think the Captain enjoys it very much ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["I do not .Oh !", "Oh , dare your grandmother ! Where is my Charles ? What are they doing to him ?", "So I see , indeed .", "Then he can have as much more of it as he wants . I am sorry I intruded .", "Was THAT what I thought was your being tortured ?", "Oh , how dare they tie you up like that !You wicked wretch ! You Russian savage !", "Keep quiet , dear : I cannot get them off if you move .", "Let go . You are undignified and ridiculous enough yourself without making me ridiculous ."], "true_target": ["Majesty can keep him , as far as I am concerned .", "I am not detaining her .", "This is perfectly ridiculous .", "I 'll do anything if you 'll only let me alone .", "I know what I think . I will never speak to him again . Your", "You need n't trouble , thank you .Now get up , please ; and conduct yourself with some dignity if you are not utterly demoralized .", "I pardon him ! I pardon him !", "I do n't care : I do n't think you ought to have done it . I am very angry and offended ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["Father .", "He fought with the strength of lions and bears . God knows I shall carry a broken sweetbread to my grave .", "Pardon him , pardon him , lest the mighty man bring his whip to you . God knows we all need pardon !"], "true_target": ["Sainted Nicholas : bless your lambs !", "Sainted Nicholas !", "Receive her in the name of the holy Nicholas .", "The blessed Nicholas will multiply your fruits , Little"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["Hoo hoo !", "Only one kiss ! and on the forehead ! Fish . See how I kiss , though it is only my horribly ugly old uncle"], "true_target": ["Pardon him , pardon him , little delight , little sleeper in a rosy cradle .", "She begs you for a thousand dear little kisses all over her body .", "Oh , sweet little angel lamb , he loves you : it shines in his darling eyes . Pardon him , pardon him ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["Madman : take care !", "Embrace her , victor of Bunker 's Hill . Kiss her till she swoons ."], "true_target": ["For your lover ?", "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 ?", "Pardon him , pardon him , little cherub ! little wild duck ! little star ! little glory ! little jewel in the crown of heaven !"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["Give me his gage : lions make leopards tame .", "So much as of a thought of ill in him .", "If he appeal the Duke on ancient malice ,", "Then call them to our presence : face to face", "The unstooping firmness of my upright soul .", "Cousin of Hereford , what dost thou object", "We thank you both ; yet one but flatters us ,", "Be ready to direct these home alarms .", "The swelling difference of your settled hate :", "Cousin , throw down your gage : do you begin .", "Wrath-kindled gentlemen , be rul 'd by me ;", "Justice design the victor 's chivalry .", "How high a pitch his resolution soars ! Thomas of Norfolk , what say'st thou to this ?", "Hast thou , according to thy oath and band ,", "Be ready , as your lives shall answer it ,", "On some known ground of treachery in him ?", "Good uncle , let this end where it begun ;", "Such neighbour nearness to our sacred blood", "It must be great that can inherit us", "Mowbray , impartial are our eyes and ears :", "Now , by my sceptre 's awe I make a vow ,", "What doth our cousin lay to Mowbray 's charge ?", "Forget , forgive ; conclude and be agreed ,", "Brought hither Henry Hereford thy bold son ,", "Rage must be withstood :", "In rage , deaf as the sea , hasty as fire .", "Here to make good the boisterous late appeal ,", "There is no boot ."], "true_target": ["High-stomach 'd are they both and full of ire ,", "Namely , to appeal each other of high treason .", "Against the Duke of Norfolk , Thomas Mowbray ?", "The accuser and the accused freely speak .", "Old John of Gaunt , time-honoured Lancaster ,", "As well appeareth by the cause you come ;", "Free speech and fearless I to thee allow .", "And , Norfolk , throw down his .", "There shall your swords and lances arbitrate", "Norfolk , throw down ; we bid ;", "He is our subject , Mowbray ; so art thou :", "Lord Marshal , command our officers-at-arms", "Which then our leisure would not let us hear ,", "Which since we cannot do to make you friends ,", "Deep malice makes too deep incision :", "Our doctors say this is no month to bleed .", "We 'll calm the Duke of Norfolk , you your son .", "At Coventry , upon Saint Lambert 's day :", "Let 's purge this choler without letting blood :", "And frowning brow to brow , ourselves will hear", "Were he my brother , nay , my kingdom 's heir ,\u2014", "Against the Duke of Norfolk , Thomas Mowbray ?", "We were not born to sue , but to command :", "This we prescribe , though no physician ;", "Should nothing privilege him nor partialize", "Or worthily , as a good subject should ,", "Tell me , moreover , hast thou sounded him", "As he is but my father 's brother 's son ,\u2014", "Since we can not atone you , we shall see"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["Throw down , my son , the Duke of Norfolk 's gage .", "Aim 'd at your Highness , no inveterate malice .", "To be a make-peace shall become my age :"], "true_target": ["When , Harry , when ? Obedience bids I should not bid again .", "I have , my liege .", "As near as I could sift him on that argument ,", "On some apparent danger seen in him"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["Come I appellant to this princely presence .", "And wish , so please my sovereign , ere I move ,", "Or here , or elsewhere to the furthest verge", "O ! God defend my soul from such deep sin .", "Look , what I speak , my life shall prove it true ;", "Suggest his soon-believing adversaries ,", "Which fear , not reverence , makes thee to except :", "What my tongue speaks , my right drawn sword may prove .", "Before this outdar 'd dastard ? Ere my tongue", "Besides , I say and will in battle prove ,", "Further I say , and further will maintain", "Pale trembling coward , there I throw my gage ,", "Once more , the more to aggravate the note ,", "Or my divine soul answer it in heaven .", "Tendering the precious safety of my prince ,", "The which he hath detain 'd for lewd employments ,", "With a foul traitor 's name stuff I thy throat ;", "If guilty dread have left thee so much strength", "My gracious sovereign , my most loving liege !", "That ever was survey 'd by English eye ,", "And spit it bleeding in his high disgrace ,", "By that , and all the rites of knighthood else ,", "Complotted and contrived in this land ,", "That Mowbray hath receiv 'd eight thousand nobles", "Thou art a traitor and a miscreant ;", "Like a false traitor and injurious villain .", "This arm shall do it , or this life be spent .", "Will I make good against thee , arm to arm ,", "And free from other misbegotten hate ,"], "true_target": ["Shall wound my honour with such feeble wrong", "Which blood , like sacrificing Abel 's , cries ,", "Even from the tongueless caverns of the earth ,", "Now , Thomas Mowbray , do I turn to thee ,", "That all the treasons for these eighteen years", "Many years of happy days befall", "Where shame doth harbour , even in Mowbray 's face .", "First ,\u2014 heaven be the record to my speech !\u2014", "To me for justice and rough chastisement ;", "Upon his bad life to make all this good ,", "What I have spoke or thou canst worst devise .", "My body shall make good upon this earth ,", "And , by the glorious worth of my descent ,", "In name of lendings for your highness \u2019 soldiers ,", "Since the more fair and crystal is the sky ,", "Too good to be so and too bad to live ,", "Shall I seem crest-fall'n in my father 's sight ,", "And mark my greeting well ; for what I speak", "The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly .", "The slavish motive of recanting fear ,", "Disclaiming here the kindred of the king ;", "And consequently , like a traitor coward ,", "That he did plot the Duke of Gloucester 's death ,", "Or with pale beggar-fear impeach my height", "Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring .", "In the devotion of a subject 's love ,", "And lay aside my high blood 's royalty ,", "As to take up mine honour 's pawn , then stoop :", "Sluic 'd out his innocent soul through streams of blood :", "Or sound so base a parle , my teeth shall tear"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["Which in myself I boldly will defend ,", "Or chivalrous design of knightly trial :", "Myself I throw , dread sovereign , at thy foot .", "The honourable father to my foe ,", "Which breath 'd this poison .", "Upon remainder of a dear account ,", "Disburs 'd I duly to his highness \u2019 soldiers ;", "And when I mount , alive may I not light", "Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps ,", "The bitter clamour of two eager tongues ,", "Your highness to assign our trial day .", "O ! let my sovereign turn away his face", "I slew him not ; but to my own disgrace", "Since last I went to France to fetch his queen .", "Which gently laid my knighthood on my shoulder ,", "Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal :", "Mine honour is my life ; both grow in one ;", "The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood", "Setting aside his high blood 's royalty ,", "If I be traitor or unjustly fight !", "And I resign my gage . My dear dear lord ,", "Add an immortal title to your crown !", "Is spotless reputation ; that away ,", "Even in the best blood chamber 'd in his bosom .", "Which to maintain , I would allow him odds", "To dark dishonour 's use thou shalt not have .", "Till I have told this slander of his blood", "In that I live , and for that will I die .", "It issues from the rancour of a villain ,", "As to be hush 'd and nought at all to say .", "Which else would post until it had return 'd", "A recreant and most degenerate traitor ;", "By all my hopes , most falsely doth he lie .", "Meantime let this defend my loyalty :", "Each day still better other 's happiness", "This is my fault : as for the rest appeal 'd ,", "My life thou shalt command , but not my shame :", "Call him a slanderous coward and a villain :", "And let him be no kinsman to my liege ,", "Neglected my sworn duty in that case .", "In haste whereof , most heartily I pray"], "true_target": ["Three parts of that receipt I had for Calais", "\u2018 Tis not the trial of a woman 's war ,", "Take honour from me , and my life is done :", "Yea , but not change his spots : take but my shame ,", "Men are but gilded loam or painted clay .", "And meet him , were I tied to run afoot", "The one my duty owes ; but my fair name ,\u2014", "Wherever Englishman durst set his foot .", "Upon this overweening traitor 's foot ,", "First , the fair reverence of your highness curbs me", "Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast .", "The other part reserv 'd I by consent ,", "I am disgrac 'd , impeach 'd , and baffled here ;", "Despite of death , that lives upon my grave ,\u2014", "A trespass that doth vex my grieved soul ;", "And interchangeably hurl down my gage", "For that my sovereign liege was in my debt", "Until the heavens , envying earth 's good hap ,", "To prove myself a loyal gentleman", "I 'll answer thee in any fair degree ,", "Can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain ;", "The purest treasure mortal times afford", "For you , my noble Lord of Lancaster ,", "Yet can I not of such tame patience boast", "Now swallow down that lie . For Gloucester 's death ,", "The blood is hot that must be cool 'd for this .", "These terms of treason doubled down his throat .", "I do defy him , and I spit at him ,", "From giving reins and spurs to my free speech ;", "Then , dear my liege , mine honour let me try ;", "And bid his ears a little while be deaf ,", "Or any other ground inhabitable ,", "Your Grace 's pardon ; and I hope I had it .", "A jewel in a ten-times barr'dhYpppHeNup chest", "I did confess it , and exactly begg 'd", "Pierc 'd to the soul with slander 's venom 'd spear ,", "How God and good men hate so foul a liar .", "But ere I last receiv 'd the sacrament", "Then , Bolingbroke , as low as to thy heart ,", "I take it up ; and by that sword I swear", "Once did I lay an ambush for your life ,", "Through the false passage of thy throat , thou liest ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["Sister , farewell ; I must to Coventry . As much good stay with thee as go with me !", "Hath caus 'd his death ; the which if wrongfully ,", "Let heaven revenge , for I may never lift", "To God , the widow 's champion and defence .", "Which made the fault that we cannot correct ,", "Who , when they see the hours ripe on earth ,", "But since correction lieth in those hands"], "true_target": ["His deputy anointed in his sight ,", "To stir against the butchers of his life .", "An angry arm against his minister .", "God 's is the quarrel ; for God 's substitute ,", "Put we our quarrel to the will of heaven ;", "Will rain hot vengeance on offenders \u2019 heads .", "Doth more solicit me than your exclaims ,", "Alas , the part I had in Woodstock 's blood"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["One vial full of Edward 's sacred blood ,", "What shall I say ? To safeguard thine own life ,", "Ah , Gaunt ! his blood was thine : that bed , that womb ,", "Therefore commend me ; let him not come there ,", "To seek out sorrow that dwells every where .", "In some large measure to thy father 's death", "Commend me to thy brother , Edmund York .", "And throw the rider headlong in the lists ,", "A caitiff recreant to my cousin Hereford !", "With her companion , Grief , must end her life .", "Made him a man ; and though thou liv'st and breath'st ,", "Why then , I will . Farewell , old Gaunt .", "Some of those branches by the Destinies cut ;", "I shall remember more . Bid him \u2014 ah , what ?\u2014", "Call it not patience , Gaunt ; it is despair :", "But Thomas , my dear lord , my life , my Gloucester ,", "Thou go'st to Coventry , there to behold", "Be Mowbray 's sins so heavy in his bosom", "Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur ?", "The best way is to venge my Gloucester 's death .", "Is hack 'd down , and his summer leaves all vaded ,", "Who was the model of thy father 's life .", "By envy 's hand and murder 's bloody axe .", "But empty lodgings and unfurnish 'd walls ,", "Farewell , old Gaunt : thy sometimes brother 's wife", "And what hear there for welcome but my groans ?", "That they may break his foaming courser 's back ,", "Some of those seven are dried by nature 's course ,", "Hath love in thy old blood no living fire ?"], "true_target": ["The last leave of thee takes my weeping eye .", "Not with the empty hollowness , but weight :", "Alack ! and what shall good old York there see", "Unpeopled offices , untrodden stones ?", "Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts .", "Desolate , desolate , will I hence and die :", "That it may enter butcher Mowbray 's breast .", "Or seven fair branches springing from one root :", "O ! sit my husband 's wrongs on Hereford 's spear ,", "Yet art thou slain in him : thou dost consent", "Our cousin Hereford and fell Mowbray fight :", "Lo ! this is all : nay , yet depart not so ;", "One flourishing branch of his most royal root ,", "Where then , alas ! may I complain myself ?", "Is crack 'd , and all the precious liquor spilt ;", "In suffering thus thy brother to be slaughter 'd ,", "I take my leave before I have begun ,", "Were as seven vials of his sacred blood ,", "Teaching stern murder how to butcher thee :", "That which in mean men we entitle patience", "Though this be all , do not so quickly go ;", "Edward 's seven sons , whereof thyself art one ,", "With all good speed at Plashy visit me .", "Yet one word more . Grief boundeth where it falls ,", "That metal , that self-mould , that fashion 'd thee ,", "For sorrow ends not when it seemeth done .", "Thou showest the naked pathway to thy life ,", "Or , if misfortune miss the first career ,", "In that thou seest thy wretched brother die ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Except the Marshal and such officers", "As far as land will let me , by your side .", "Appointed to direct these fair designs .", "The Duke of Norfolk , sprightfully and bold ,", "My Lord Aumerle , is Harry Hereford arm 'd ?", "Go bear this lance to Thomas ,", "Duke of Norfolk .", "What is thy name ? and wherefore com'st thou hither", "Stay , the King hath thrown his warder down .", "Or daring-hardy as to touch the lists ,", "And craves to kiss your hand and take his leave .", "Stays but the summons of the appelant 's trumpet .", "My lord , no leave take I ; for I will ride ,"], "true_target": ["Speak like a true knight , so defend thee heaven !", "Against what man thou comest , and what thy quarrel .", "In God 's name and the king 's , say who thou art ,", "And why thou comest thus knightly clad in arms ,", "As so defend thee heaven and thy valour !", "The appellant in all duty greets your highness ,", "Receive thy lance ; and God defend the right !", "Before King Richard in his royal lists ?", "Sound trumpets ; and set forward , combatants .", "Harry of Hereford , Lancaster , and Derby ,", "On pain of death , no person be so bold", "Speak truly , on thy knighthood and thy oath ;", "Against whom comest thou ? and what 's thy quarrel ?"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Yea , at all points ; and longs to enter in .", "Why then , the champions are prepar 'd , and stay"], "true_target": ["For nothing but his Majesty 's approach .", "Cousin , farewell : what presence must not know ,", "From where you do remain let paper show ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Virtue with valour couched in thine eye .", "The hopeless word of \u2018 never to return \u2019", "Embrace each other 's love in banishment ;", "We will descend and fold him in our arms .", "Thy son is banish 'd upon good advice ,", "Nor never look upon each other 's face ;", "Farewell , my blood ; which if to-day thou shed ,", "The cause of his arrival here in arms :", "Pluck 'd four away .\u2014", "You never shall , so help you truth and God !\u2014", "Withdraw with us ; and let the trumpets sound", "Marshal , demand of yonder champion", "Hath from the number of his banish 'd years", "Swear by the duty that you owe to God ,\u2014", "And formally , according to our law ,", "Six frozen winters spent ,", "Farewell , my lord : securely I espy", "Nor never by advised purpose meet", "So be thy fortune in this royal fight !", "Let them lay by their helmets and their spears ,", "Cousin , farewell ; and , uncle , bid him so :", "This louring tempest of your home-bred hate ;", "To keep the oath that we administer :", "Why at our justice seem'st thou then to lower ?", "After our sentence plaining comes too late .", "Whereto thy tongue a party-verdict gave .", "While we return these dukes what we decree ."], "true_target": ["To plot , contrive , or complot any ill", "The dateless limit of thy dear exile ;", "Ask him his name , and orderly proceed", "To swear him in the justice of his cause .", "Which I with some unwillingness pronounce :", "Why , uncle , thou hast many years to live .", "Cousin of Hereford , as thy cause is right ,", "Lay on our royal sword your banish 'd hands ;", "Six years we banish him , and he shall go .", "Return with welcome home from banishment .", "Lament we may , but not revenge thee dead .", "Depose him in the justice of his cause .", "The sly slow hours shall not determinate", "\u2018 Gainst us , our state , our subjects , or our land .", "I see thy grieved heart : thy sad aspect", "Norfolk , for thee remains a heavier doom ,", "Uncle , even in the glasses of thine eyes", "Marshal , ask yonder knight in arms ,", "And both return back to their chairs again :", "It boots thee not to be compassionate :", "Our part therein we banish with yourselves \u2014", "Order the trial , Marshal , and begin .", "Both who he is and why he cometh hither", "Return again , and take an oath with thee .", "Nor never write , regreet , nor reconcile", "Breathe I against thee , upon pain of life .", "Thus plated in habiliments of war ;"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Against the Duke of Hereford that appeals me ;", "A loyal , just , and upright gentleman .", "Cast off his chains of bondage and embrace", "Within my mouth you have engaol 'd my tongue ,", "Is made my gaoler to attend on me .", "And as I truly fight , defend me heaven !", "Which robs my tongue from breathing native breath ?", "I am too old to fawn upon a nurse ,", "As to be cast forth in the common air ,", "Go I to fight : truth hath a quiet breast .", "Too far in years to be a pupil now :", "My name is Thomas Mowbray , Duke of Norfolk ,", "Who hither come engaged by my oath ,\u2014", "More than my dancing soul doth celebrate", "His golden uncontroll 'd enfranchisement ,", "And all unlook 'd for from your highness \u2019 mouth :", "Which God defend a knight should violate !\u2014", "And I , to keep all this .", "A traitor to my God , my King , and me :", "Save back to England , all the world 's my way .", "And dull , unfeeling , barren ignorance", "Or like a cunning instrument cas 'd up", "Or , being open , put into his hands", "Never did captive with a freer heart", "To God , my King , and my succeeding issue ,", "Doubly portcullis 'd with my teeth and lips ;"], "true_target": ["To prove him , in defending of myself ,", "As gentle and as jocund as to jest", "The language I have learn 'd these forty years ,", "A heavy sentence , my most sovereign liege ,", "My native English , now I must forgo ;", "But what thou art , God , thou , and I , do know ;", "That knows no touch to tune the harmony :", "Both to defend my loyalty and truth", "Farewell , my liege . Now no way can I stray ;", "What is thy sentence , then , but speechless death ,", "A dearer merit , not so deep a maim", "To dwell in solemn shades of endless night .", "There lives or dies , true to King Richard 's throne ,", "And , by the grace of God and this mine arm ,", "And all too soon , I fear , the king shall rue .", "This feast of battle with mine adversary .", "However God or fortune cast my lot ,", "My name be blotted from the book of life ,", "Than an unstringed viol or a harp ,", "Have I deserved at your highness \u2019 hands .", "And I from heaven banish 'd as from hence !", "Take from my mouth the wish of happy years .", "Most mighty liege , and my companion peers ,", "And now my tongue 's use is to me no more", "No , Bolingbroke : if ever I were traitor ,", "Then thus I turn me from my country 's light ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Then , England 's ground , farewell ; sweet soil , adieu ;", "To God of heaven , King Richard , and to me :", "Banish 'd this frail sepulchre of our flesh ,", "Must I not serve a long apprenticehood", "Than when it bites , but lanceth not the sore .", "That he 's a traitor foul and dangerous ,", "Though banish 'd , yet a true-born Englishman .", "Will but remember me what a deal of world", "By bare imagination of a feast ?", "Harry of Hereford , Lancaster , and Derby ,", "Even in the lusty haviour of his son .", "For me , if I be gor 'd with Mowbray 's spear .", "Lo ! as at English feasts , so I regreet", "By this time , had the king permitted us ,", "Of you , my noble cousin , Lord Aumerle ;", "Nay , rather , every tedious stride I make", "Norfolk , so far as to mine enemy :\u2014", "Then let us take a ceremonious leave", "Four lagging winters and four wanton springs", "Mine innocency and Saint George to thrive !", "For Mowbray and myself are like two men", "That sun that warms you here shall shine on me ;", "That it may enter Mowbray 's waxen coat ,", "Whose youthful spirit , in me regenerate ,", "I have too few to take my leave of you ,", "Strong as a tower in hope , I cry \u2018 amen \u2019 .", "As now our flesh is banish 'd from this land :", "But lusty , young , and cheerly drawing breath .", "To reach at victory above my head ,", "Add proof unto mine armour with thy prayers ,", "Am I ; who ready here do stand in arms ,", "And furbish new the name of John a Gaunt ,", "O thou , the earthly author of my blood ,", "And those his golden beams to you here lent", "O ! who can hold a fire in his hand", "Since thou hast far to go , bear not along", "O ! let no noble eye profane a tear", "Joy absent , grief is present for that time .", "My mother , and my nurse , that bears me yet !"], "true_target": ["And bow my knee before his Majesty :", "Fell sorrow 's tooth doth never rankle more", "To breathe the abundant dolour of the heart .", "Lord Marshal , let me kiss my sovereign 's hand ,", "By thinking on fantastic summer 's heat ?", "I swear .", "Shall point on me and gild my banishment .", "In lists , on Thomas Mowbray , Duke of Norfolk ,", "And loving farewell of our several friends .", "How long a time lies in one little word !", "As confident as is the falcon 's flight", "But that I was a journeyman to grief ?", "The clogging burden of a guilty soul .", "Against a bird , do I with Mowbray fight .", "Not sick , although I have to do with death ,", "When the tongue 's office should be prodigal", "By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ?", "And as I truly fight , defend me heaven !", "That vow a long and weary pilgrimage ;", "Having my freedom , boast of nothing else", "Or wallow naked in December snow", "End in a word : such is the breath of kings .", "Which finds it an enforced pilgrimage .", "The daintiest last , to make the end most sweet :", "One of our souls had wand'red in the air ,", "Your will be done . This must my comfort be ,", "My heart will sigh when I miscall it so ,", "To men in joy ; but grief makes one hour ten .", "To prove by God 's grace and my body 's valour ,", "And with thy blessings steel my lance 's point ,", "O , no ! the apprehension of the good", "Confess thy treasons ere thou fly the realm ;", "To foreign passages , and in the end ,", "My loving lord , I take my leave of you ;", "Where'er I wander , boast of this I can ,", "Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite", "Gives but the greater feeling to the worse :", "Doth with a twofold vigour lift me up", "I wander from the jewels that I love ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["That thou return'st no greeting to thy friends ?", "And pluck nights from me , but not lend a morrow ;", "Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow ,", "Be swift like lightning in the execution ;", "For , ere the six years that he hath to spend", "Are to a wise man ports and happy havens .", "What is six winters ? They are quickly gone .", "But little vantage shall I reap thereby :", "But dead , thy kingdom cannot buy my breath .", "A partial slander sought I to avoid ,", "I thank my liege that in regard of me", "Call it a travel that thou tak'st for pleasure .", "My oil-dried lamp and time-bewasted light", "The sullen passage of thy weary steps", "Go , say I sent thee forth to purchase honour ,", "Suppose the singing birds musicians ,", "You urg 'd me as a judge ; but I had rather", "Than a delightful measure or a dance ;", "Thy word is current with him for my death ,", "Devouring pestilence hangs in our air ,", "To lie that way thou go'st , not whence thou com'st .", "But thou the king . Woe doth the heavier sit ,", "My inch of taper will be burnt and done ,", "You would have bid me argue like a father .", "The flowers fair ladies , and thy steps no more", "Look , what thy soul holds dear , imagine it", "There is no virtue like necessity .", "I was too strict to make mine own away ;", "Rouse up thy youthful blood , be valiant , and live .", "All places that the eye of heaven visits"], "true_target": ["But you gave leave to my unwilling tongue", "Against my will to do myself this wrong .", "And in the sentence my own life destroy 'd .", "Of thy adverse pernicious enemy :", "Esteem as foil wherein thou art to set", "Thou can'st help time to furrow me with age ,", "Fall like amazing thunder on the casque", "Come , come , my son , I 'll bring thee on thy way . Had I thy youth and cause , I would not stay .", "But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage ;", "The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strew 'd ,", "God in thy good cause make thee prosperous !", "Thy grief is but thy absence for a time .", "Shall be extinct with age and endless night ;", "O ! had it been a stranger , not my child ,", "And let thy blows , doubly redoubled ,", "And thou art flying to a fresher clime .", "The precious jewel of thy home return .", "And blindfold death not let me see my son .", "The man that mocks at it and sets it light .", "Think not the king did banish thee ,", "For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite", "Where it perceives it is but faintly borne .", "O ! to what purpose dost thou hoard thy words ,", "Alas ! I look 'd when some of you should say", "Teach thy necessity to reason thus ;", "Can change their moons and bring their times about ,", "He shortens four years of my son 's exile ;", "To smooth his fault I should have been more mild . :", "But not a minute , king , that thou canst give :", "Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour .", "And not the King exil 'd thee ; or suppose"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["A traitor to his God , his King , and him ;", "And dares him to set forward to the fight .", "On pain to be found false and recreant ,"], "true_target": ["Harry of Hereford , Lancaster , and Derby ,", "Stands here for God , his sovereign , and himself ,", "To prove the Duke of Norfolk , Thomas Mowbray ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Both to defend himself , and to approve", "Here standeth Thomas Mowbray , Duke of Norfolk ,", "Courageously and with a free desire ,"], "true_target": ["To God , his sovereign , and to him disloyal ;", "Attending but the signal to begin .", "On pain to be found false and recreant ,", "Henry of Hereford , Lancaster , and Derby ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["He is our cousin , cousin ; but \u2018 tis doubt ,", "To deck our soldiers for these Irish wars .", "A brace of draymen bid God speed him well ,", "Now put it , God , in his physician 's mind", "As \u2018 twere to banish their affects with him .", "With \u2018 Thanks , my countrymen , my loving friends \u2019 ;", "They shall subscribe them for large sums of gold ,", "We did observe . Cousin Aumerle ,", "Whereto , when they shall know what men are rich ,", "Our substitutes at home shall have blank charters ;", "And say , what store of parting tears were shed ?", "And had the tribute of his supple knee ,", "Off goes his bonnet to an oyster-wench ;", "We are enforc 'd to farm our royal realm ;", "And he our subjects \u2019 next degree in hope .", "For our affairs in hand . If that come short ,", "Whether our kinsman come to see his friends .", "As were our England in reversion his ,", "And , for our coffers , with too great a court", "The revenue whereof shall furnish us"], "true_target": ["Come , gentlemen , let 's all go visit him :", "When time shall call him home from banishment ,", "What reverence he did throw away on slaves ,", "To help him to his grave immediately !", "Ourself , and Bushy , Bagot here and Green ,", "For we will make for Ireland presently .", "And liberal largess , are grown somewhat light ,", "The lining of his coffers shall make coats", "Wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles", "And patient underbearing of his fortune ,", "Pray God we may make haste , and come too late !", "And send them after to supply our wants ;", "Observ 'd his courtship to the common people ,", "What said our cousin when you parted with him ?", "Bushy , what news ?", "With humble and familiar courtesy ,", "Where lies he ?", "How far brought you high Hereford on his way ?", "How he did seem to dive into their hearts", "We will ourself in person to this war ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 30}, {"query": ["\u2018 Farewell : \u2019", "Awak 'd the sleeping rheum , and so by chance", "He should have had a volume of farewells ;", "And , for my heart disdained that my tongue", "I brought high Hereford , if you call him so ,", "Which then blew bitterly against our faces ,", "Did grace our hollow parting with a tear ."], "true_target": ["That words seem 'd buried in my sorrow 's grave .", "Marry , would the word \u2018 farewell \u2019 have lengthen 'd hours", "But since it would not , he had none of me .", "Faith , none for me ; except the north-east wind ,", "And added years to his short banishment ,", "But to the next highway , and there I left him .", "To counterfeit oppression of such grief", "Should so profane the word , that taught me craft"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 30}, {"query": ["For their advantage and your highness \u2019 loss .", "Now for the rebels which stand out in Ireland ;"], "true_target": ["Well , he is gone ; and with him go these thoughts .", "Ere further leisure yield them further means", "Expedient manage must be made , my liege ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 30}, {"query": ["To entreat your Majesty to visit him .", "Old John of Gaunt is grievous sick , my lord ,"], "true_target": ["Suddenly taken , and hath sent poste-haste", "At Ely House ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 30}, {"query": ["This earth of majesty , this seat of Mars ,", "Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast ;", "Will the King come , that I may breathe my last", "Live in thy shame , but die not shame with thee !", "This nurse , this teeming womb of royal kings ,", "Renowned for their deeds as far from home ,\u2014", "This happy breed of men , this little world ,", "Which art possess 'd now to depose thyself .", "And \u2014", "Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose ;", "From forth thy reach he would have laid thy shame ,", "Writ in remembrance more than things long past :", "That England , that was wont to conquer others ,", "The waste is no whit lesser than thy land .", "That thou respect'st not spilling Edward 's blood :", "Ill in myself to see , and in thee seeing ill .", "Is my strict fast , I mean my children 's looks ;", "With inky blots , and rotten parchment bonds :", "This precious stone set in the silver sea ,", "Gaunt am I for the grave , gaunt as a grave ,", "These words hereafter thy tormentors be !", "And therein fasting , hast thou made me gaunt .", "He that no more must say is listen 'd more", "Fear 'd by their breed , and famous by their birth ,", "Love they to live that love and honour have .", "It were a shame to let this land by lease ;", "And thou , too careless patient as thou art ,", "Where words are scarce , they are seldom spent in vain ,", "Or as a moat defensive to a house ,", "A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown ,", "Against the envy of less happier lands ;", "Like to a tenement or pelting farm :", "As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry", "Which serves it in the office of a wall ,", "He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes ;", "In wholesome counsel to his unstaid youth ?", "Consuming means , soon preys upon itself .", "Watching breeds leanness , leanness is all gaunt .", "Of those physicians that first wounded thee :", "Old Gaunt , indeed ; and gaunt in being old :", "This land of such dear souls , this dear , dear land ,", "Is now leas 'd out ,\u2014 I die pronouncing it ,\u2014", "Whose hollow womb inherits nought but bones .", "Light vanity , insatiate cormorant ,", "How happy then were my ensuing death .", "Of the world 's ransom , blessed Mary 's Son :", "Landlord of England art thou now , not king :", "England , bound in with the triumphant sea ,", "This blessed plot , this earth , this realm , this England ,", "For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain .", "Seen how his son 's son should destroy his sons ,", "For violent fires soon burn out themselves ;", "Thy state of law is bondslave to the law ,"], "true_target": ["My death 's sad tale may yet undeaf his ear .", "Methinks I am a prophet new inspir 'd ,", "Against infection and the hand of war ,", "More are men 's ends mark 'd than their lives before :", "O ! how that name befits my composition ;", "The pleasure that some fathers feed upon", "No , misery makes sport to mock itself :", "Committ'st thy anointed body to the cure", "As the last taste of sweets , is sweetest last ,", "My brother Gloucester , plain well-meaning soul ,\u2014", "Hast thou tapp 'd out , and drunkenly carous 'd :", "Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege", "And yet , incaged in so small a verge ,", "Whom fair befall in heaven \u2018 mongst happy souls !\u2014", "This fortress built by Nature for herself", "Dear for her reputation through the world ,", "For Christian service and true chivalry ,\u2014", "For sleeping England long time have I watch 'd ;", "Wherein thou liest in reputation sick :", "May be a precedent and witness good", "I mock my name , great king , to flatter thee .", "Small showers last long , but sudden storms are short ;", "This royal throne of kings , this scepter 'd isle ,", "Of watery Neptune , is now bound in with shame ,", "Join with the present sickness that I have ;", "And thy unkindness be like crooked age ,", "Enforce attention like deep harmony :", "O , no ! thou diest , though I the sicker be .", "To crop at once a too-long withered flower .", "O ! but they say the tongues of dying men", "Is it not more than shame to shame it so ?", "Hath made a shameful conquest of itself .", "Since thou dost seek to kill my name in me ,", "His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last ,", "And thus expiring do foretell of him :", "Deposing thee before thou wert possess 'd ,", "Ah ! would the scandal vanish with my life ,", "No , no ; men living flatter those that die .", "Though Richard my life 's counsel would not hear ,", "But for thy world enjoying but this land ,", "Thy death-bed is no lesser than thy land", "This other Eden , demi-paradise ,", "Why , cousin , wert thou regent of the world ,", "That blood already , like the pelican ,", "For that I was his father Edward 's son .", "O ! spare me not , my brother Edward 's son ,", "With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder :", "O ! had thy grandsire , with a prophet 's eye ,", "Convey me to my bed , then to my grave :", "Whose compass is no bigger than thy head ;", "And who abstains from meat that is not gaunt ?", "Now , he that made me knows I see thee ill ;", "The setting sun , and music at the close ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 31}, {"query": ["As praises of his state : then there are fond ,", "Take Hereford 's rights away , and take from Time", "You pluck a thousand dangers on your head ,", "O ! my liege .", "The King is come : deal mildly with his youth ;", "Call in the letters-patents that he hath", "But by bad courses may be understood", "That is not quickly buzz 'd into his ears ?", "His charters and his customary rights ;", "Report of fashions in proud Italy ,", "Is not his heir a well-deserving son ?", "Where will doth mutiny with wit 's regard .", "By his attorneys-general to sue", "But by fair sequence and succession ?", "What will ensue hereof there 's none can tell ;", "The open ear of youth doth always listen :", "Be York the next that must be bankrupt so ! Though death be poor , it ends a mortal woe .", "He loves you , on my life , and holds you dear", "Then all too late comes counsel to be heard ,", "I 'll not be by the while : my liege , farewell :", "Did not the one deserve to have an heir ?", "For young hot colts , being rag 'd , do rage the more .", "Is not Gaunt dead , and doth not Hereford live ?", "You lose a thousand well-disposed hearts ,", "Which honour and allegiance cannot think ."], "true_target": ["His livery , and deny his offer 'd homage ,", "I do beseech your Majesty , impute his words", "Now , afore God ,\u2014 God forbid I say true !\u2014", "\u2018 Tis breath thou lack'st , and that breath wilt thou lose .", "Not to be pardon 'd , am content withal .", "Pardon me , if you please ; if not , I , pleas 'd", "Limps after in base imitation .", "Direct not him whose way himself will choose :", "Whose manners still our tardy apish nation", "If you do wrongfully seize Hereford 's rights ,", "As Harry Duke of Hereford , were he here .", "Lascivious metres , to whose venom sound", "Was not Gaunt just , and is not Harry true ?", "So it be new there 's no respect how vile ,\u2014", "Let not to-morrow then ensue to-day ;", "The royalties and rights of banish 'd Hereford ?", "To wayward sickliness and age in him :", "Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity ,\u2014", "For all in vain comes counsel to his ear .", "Be not thyself ; for how art thou a king", "That their events can never fall out good .", "No ; it is stopp 'd with other flattering sounds ,", "And prick my tender patience to those thoughts", "Vex not yourself , nor strive not with your breath ;", "Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 31}, {"query": ["Make pale our cheek , chasing the royal blood", "Whereof our uncle Gaunt did stand possess 'd .", "Can sick men play so nicely with their names ?", "His time is spent ; our pilgrimage must be .", "For both hast thou , and both become the grave .", "We will for Ireland ; and \u2018 tis time , I trow :", "And let them die that age and sullens have ;", "Should run thy head from thy unreverent shoulders .", "The plate , coin , revenues , and moveables ,", "Which live like venom where no venom else", "Presuming on an ague 's privilege ,", "Dar'st with thy frozen admonition", "Towards our assistance we do seize to us", "To see this business . To-morrow next", "So much for that . Now for our Irish wars .", "But only they have privilege to live .", "Come on , our queen : to-morrow must we part ;", "What comfort , man ? How is't with aged Gaunt ?", "This tongue that runs so roundly in thy head", "Right , you say true : as Hereford 's love , so his ;"], "true_target": ["Wert thou not brother to great Edward 's son ,\u2014", "Should dying men flatter with those that live ?", "And for these great affairs do ask some charge ,", "For he is just , and always lov 'd us well .", "What says he ?", "I am in health , I breathe , and see thee ill .", "Go , Bushy , to the Earl of Wiltshire straight :", "And thou a lunatic lean-witted fool ,", "Our Uncle York lord governor of England ;", "Why , uncle , what 's the matter ?", "With fury from his native residence .", "The ripest fruit first falls , and so doth he :", "Be merry , for our time of stay is short .", "Now by my seat 's right royal majesty ,", "And we create , in absence of ourself ,", "As theirs , so mine ; and all be as it is .", "We must supplant those rough rug-headed kerns ,", "Thou , now a-dying , sayest thou flatterest me .", "His plate , his goods , his money , and his lands .", "Think what you will : we seize into our hands", "Bid him repair to us to Ely House"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 31}, {"query": ["Sir Thomas Erpingham , Sir John Ramston ,", "That which his ancestors achiev 'd with blows .", "With eight tall ships , three thousand men of war ,", "The first departing of the king for Ireland .", "Of noble blood in this declining land .", "Sir John Norbery , Sir Robert Waterton , and Francis Quoint ,", "And yet we strike not , but securely perish .", "In Brittany , receiv 'd intelligence", "But basely yielded upon compromise", "Redeem from broking pawn the blemish 'd crown ,", "How near the tidings of our comfort is .", "The king is not himself , but basely led", "Wipe off the dust that hides our sceptre 's gilt ,", "Words , life , and all , old Lancaster hath spent .", "His brother , Archbishop late of Canterbury ,", "Imp out our drooping country 's broken wing ,", "Perhaps they had ere this , but that they stay", "That late broke from the Duke of Exeter ,", "Wars hath not wasted it , for warr 'd he hath not ,", "Merely in hate , \u2018 gainst any of us all ,", "Away with me in post to Ravenspurgh ;", "Stay and be secret , and myself will go .", "That Harry Duke of Hereford , Rainold Lord Cobham ,", "Reproach and dissolution hangeth over him .", "But , lords , we hear this fearful tempest sing ,"], "true_target": ["Well , lords , the Duke of Lancaster is dead .", "Are making hither with all due expedience ,", "But if you faint , as fearing to do so ,", "His noble kinsman : most degenerate king !", "Nay , nothing ; all is said :", "By flatterers ; and what they will inform ,", "In him , a royal prince , and many moe", "And shortly mean to touch our northern shore .", "We see the wind sit sore upon our sails ,", "Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm ;", "That will the king severely prosecute", "My liege , old Gaunt commends him to your Majesty .", "If then we shall shake off our slavish yoke ,", "More hath he spent in peace than they in wars .", "His tongue is now a stringless instrument ;", "And make high majesty look like itself ,", "Then thus : I have from Le Port Blanc , a bay", "\u2018 Gainst us , our lives , our children , and our heirs .", "All these well furnish 'd by the Duke of Britaine ,", "I spy life peering ; but I dare not say", "Not so : even through the hollow eyes of death", "Nay , speak thy mind ; and let him ne'er speak more", "Now , afore God , \u2018 tis shame such wrongs are borne", "That speaks thy words again to do thee harm !", "Richly in both , if justice had her right ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 31}, {"query": ["And not against his friends ; his noble hand", "Of whom thy father , Prince of Wales , was first ;", "Or else he never would compare between .", "Which his triumphant father 's hand had won :", "About his marriage , nor my own disgrace ,", "Not Gloucester 's death , nor Hereford 's banishment ,", "Nor Gaunt 's rebukes , nor England 's private wrongs ,", "Have ever made me sour my patient cheek ,", "I am the last of noble Edward 's sons ,", "O Richard ! York is too far gone with grief ,", "Shall tender duty make me suffer wrong ?"], "true_target": ["In war was never lion rag 'd more fierce ,", "But bloody with the enemies of his kin .", "Or bend one wrinkle on my sovereign 's face .", "Nor the prevention of poor Bolingbroke", "Did win what he did spend , and spent not that", "Than was that young and princely gentleman .", "In peace was never gentle lamb more mild ,", "His hands were guilty of no kindred 's blood ,", "Accomplish 'd with the number of thy hours ;", "His face thou hast , for even so look 'd he ,", "But when he frown 'd , it was against the French ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 31}, {"query": ["Bereft and gelded of his patrimony .", "He hath not money for these Irish wars ,", "Be confident to speak , Northumberland :", "For ancient quarrels and quite lost their hearts .", "And unavoided is the danger now ,", "Ere't be disburdened with a liberal tongue .", "His burdenous taxations notwithstanding ,", "We three are but thyself : and , speaking so ,", "We see the very wrack that we must suffer ;", "The commons hath he pill 'd with grievous taxes ,"], "true_target": ["But by the robbing of the banish 'd Duke .", "And quite lost their hearts : the nobles hath he fin 'd", "No good at all that I can do for him ,", "And living too ; for now his son is Duke .", "My heart is great ; but it must break with silence ,", "The Earl of Wiltshire hath the realm in farm .", "Unless you call it good to pity him ,", "Thy words are but as thoughts ; therefore be bold .", "For suffering so the causes of our wrack .", "To horse , to horse ! Urge doubts to them that fear ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 31}, {"query": ["Quick is mine ear to hear of good towards him .", "Nay , let us share thy thoughts as thou dost ours .", "Barely in title , not in revenues .", "Hold out my horse , and I will first be there .", "Tends that thou wouldst speak to the Duke of Hereford ?"], "true_target": ["The King 's grown bankrupt like a broken man .", "If it be so , out with it boldly , man ;", "But what , o \u2019 God 's name , doth become of this ?", "And daily new exactions are devis 'd ;", "As blanks , benevolences , and I wot not what :"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 31}, {"query": ["Is all unpossible .", "Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows ,", "Show nothing but confusion ; ey 'd awry ,", "Why have you not proclaim 'd Northumberland", "Divides one thing entire to many objects ;", "Distinguish form : so your sweet Majesty ,", "For sorrow 's eye , glazed with blinding tears ,", "Like perspectives which , rightly gaz 'd upon ,", "But none returns . For us to levy power", "Well , we may meet again .", "Of what it is not . Then , thrice-gracious Queen ,", "Which shows like grief itself , but is not so ;", "Find shapes of grief more than himself to wail ;", "Which for things true weeps things imaginary .", "And entertain a cheerful disposition .", "Wherein the king stands generally condemn 'd ."], "true_target": ["Thither will I with you ; for little office", "Except like curs to tear us all to pieces .", "Looking awry upon your lord 's departure ,", "\u2018 Tis nothing but conceit , my gracious lady .", "Proportionable to the enemy", "Madam , your Majesty is too much sad .", "To lay aside life-harming heaviness ,", "And all the rest revolted faction traitors ?", "Despair not , madam .", "That 's as York thrives to beat back Bolingbroke .", "More than your lord 's departure weep not : more 's not seen ;", "Will the hateful commons perform for us ,", "The wind sits fair for news to go to Ireland ,", "Will you go along with us ?", "Which , look 'd on as it is , is nought but shadows", "Or if it be , \u2018 tis with false sorrow 's eye ,", "You promis 'd , when you parted with the king ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 32}, {"query": ["Who shall hinder me ?", "It may be so ; but yet my inward soul", "For nothing hath begot my something grief ,", "More than with parting from my lord the king .", "For his designs crave haste , his haste good hope :", "As my sweet Richard : yet again methinks ,", "I cannot but be sad , so heavy s , ad", "Makes me with heavy nothing faint and shrink .", "Which false hope lingers in extremity .", "With signs of war about his aged neck :", "I cannot do it ; yet I know no cause", "So , Green , thou art the midwife to my woe ,", "With nothing trembles ; at some thing it grieves", "O ! full of careful business are his looks .", "Then wherefore dost thou hope he is not shipp 'd ?", "A parasite , a keeper-back of death ,", "Now God in heaven forbid !", "Persuades me it is otherwise : howe'er it be ,", "Or something hath the nothing that I grieve :"], "true_target": ["To please the King , I did ; to please myself", "Why I should welcome such a guest as grief ,", "I will despair , and be at enmity", "Why hop'st thou so ? \u2018 Tis better hope he is ,", "As , though in thinking , on no thought I think ,", "Now hath my soul brought forth her prodigy ,", "With cozening hope : he is a flatterer ,", "\u2018 Tis nothing less : conceit is still deriv 'd", "Uncle , for God 's sake , speak comfortable words .", "But what it is , that is not yet known ; what", "\u2018 Tis in reversion that I do possess ;", "Is coming towards me , and my inward soul", "Save bidding farewell to so sweet a guest", "Who gently would dissolve the bands of life ,", "From some forefather grief ; mine is not so ,", "Some unborn sorrow , ripe in fortune 's womb ,", "Have woe to woe , sorrow to sorrow join 'd .", "And I , a gasping new-deliver 'd mother ,", "And Bolingbroke my sorrow 's dismal heir :", "I cannot name ; \u2018 tis nameless woe , I wot ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 32}, {"query": ["I hope the King is not yet shipp 'd for Ireland .", "Is numb'ring sands and drinking oceans dry :", "And all the household servants fled with him", "Hath broken his staff , resign 'd his stewardship ,", "Who strongly hath set footing in this land :", "Here comes the Duke of York .", "Ah ! madam , \u2018 tis too true ; and that is worse ,", "Alas , poor Duke ! the task he undertakes", "At Ravenspurgh .", "Where one on his side fights , thousands will fly .", "We have : whereupon the Earl of Worcester", "To Bolingbroke ."], "true_target": ["And driven into despair an enemy 's hope", "The Lord Northumberland , his son young Henry Percy ,", "God save your majesty ! and well met , gentlemen :", "And with uplifted arms is safe arriv 'd", "The banish 'd Bolingbroke repeals himself ,", "Besides , our nearness to the king in love", "That he , our hope , might have retir 'd his power ,", "Is near the hate of those love not the king .", "Well , I will for refuge straight to Bristol Castle . The Earl of Wiltshire is already there .", "With all their powerful friends , are fled to him .", "Farewell at once ; for once , for all , and ever .", "The Lords of Ross , Beaumond , and Willoughby ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 32}, {"query": ["Whilst others come to make him lose at home .", "God for his mercy ! what a tide of woes", "Is my kinsman , whom the king hath wrong 'd ,", "And everything is left at six and seven .", "Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made ;", "Sirrah , get thee to Plashy , to my sister Gloucester ;", "Comfort 's in heaven ; and we are on the earth ,", "And meet me presently at Berkeley Castle .", "Bid her send me presently a thousand pound .", "So my untruth had not provok 'd him to it ,\u2014", "The king had cut off my head with my brother 's .", "And duty bids defend ; the other again", "How shall we do for money for these wars ?", "I 'll dispose of you . Gentlemen , go muster up your men ,", "Should I do so , I should belie my thoughts :", "Who , weak with age , cannot support myself .", "Whom conscience and my kindred bids to right .", "What ! are there no posts dispatch 'd for Ireland ?", "I know not what to do : I would to God ,\u2014", "Well , somewhat we must do . Come , cousin ,"], "true_target": ["What is't , knave ?", "Never believe me . Both are my kinsmen :", "T'one is my sovereign , whom both my oath", "Where nothing lives but crosses , cares , and grief .", "And will , I fear , revolt on Hereford 's side .", "And bring away the armour that is there .", "He was ? Why , so ! go all which way it will !", "The nobles they are fled , the commons they are cold ,", "Your husband , he is gone to save far off ,", "But time will not permit . All is uneven ,", "Come , sister ,\u2014 cousin , I would say ,\u2014 pray , pardon me .\u2014", "Now shall he try his friends that flatter 'd him .", "Comes rushing on this woeful land at once !", "Gentlemen , will you go muster men ?", "Go , fellow , get thee home ; provide some carts ,", "If I know how or which way to order these affairs", "Hold , take my ring .", "Thus disorderly thrust into my hands ,", "I should to Plashy too :", "Here am I left to underprop his land ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 32}, {"query": ["An hour before I came the duchess died .", "To-day , as I came by , I called there ;"], "true_target": ["My lord , your son was gone before I came .", "My lord , I had forgot to tell your lordship :", "But I shall grieve you to report the rest ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 32}, {"query": ["Lies in their purses ; and whoso empties them ,", "And that is the wavering commons ; for their love", "Farewell : If heart 's presages be not vain ,", "No ; I will to Ireland to his Majesty ."], "true_target": ["By so much fills their hearts with deadly hate .", "I fear me , never .", "We three here part that ne'er shall meet again .", "If judgment lie in them , then so do we ,", "Because we ever have been near the king ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 32}, {"query": ["My gracious uncle , let me know my fault :", "My gracious uncle \u2014", "I thank thee , gentle Percy ; and be sure", "And as my fortune ripens with thy love ,", "A wandering vagabond ; my rights and royalties", "And these and all are all amiss employ 'd .", "Pluck 'd from my arms perforce , and given away", "I count myself in nothing else so happy", "Welcome , my lords . I wot your love pursues", "Is yet but unfelt thanks , which , more enrich 'd ,", "My lord , my answer is \u2014 to Lancaster ;", "How far is it , my lord , to Berkeley now ?", "Than your good words . But who comes here ?", "Stands for my bounty . But who comes here ?", "My noble uncle !", "As I was banish 'd , I was banish 'd Hereford ;", "But as I come , I come for Lancaster .", "Evermore thanks , the exchequer of the poor ;", "Of much less value is my company", "Here comes his Grace in person .", "The caterpillars of the commonwealth ,", "Which , till my infant fortune comes to years ,", "My heart this covenant makes , my hand thus seals it .", "What would you have me do ? I am a subject ,", "I am denied to sue my livery here ,", "And I must find that title in your tongue", "It shall be still thy true love 's recompense .", "On what condition stands it and wherein ?"], "true_target": ["To upstart unthrifts ? Wherefore was I born ?", "Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away .", "And , noble uncle , I beseech your Grace", "Had you first died , and he been thus trod down ,", "My father 's goods are all distrain 'd and sold ;", "Will you permit that I shall stand condemn 'd", "Look on my wrongs with an indifferent eye :", "By Bushy , Bagot , and their complices ,", "I see old Gaunt alive : O ! then , my father ,", "A banish 'd traitor ; all my treasury", "You have a son , Aumerle , my noble cousin ;", "And therefore personally I lay my claim", "It must be granted I am Duke of Lancaster .", "I shall not need transport my words by you ;", "As in a soul remembering my good friends ;", "To rouse his wrongs and chase them to the bay .", "And I am come to seek that name in England ;", "But we must win your Grace to go with us", "You are my father , for methinks in you", "An offer , uncle , that we will accept :", "To my inheritance of free descent .", "He should have found his uncle Gaunt a father", "Before I make reply to aught you say .", "And challenge law : attorneys are denied me ;", "To Bristol Castle , which they say is held", "And yet my letters-patents give me leave .", "Shall be your love and labour 's recompense .", "If that my cousin king be King in England ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 33}, {"query": ["How far is it to Berkeley ? And what stir", "Then learn to know him now ; this is the duke .", "In Ross and Willoughby , wanting your company ,", "Keeps good old York there with his men of war ?", "Believe me , noble lord ,", "It is my son , young Harry Percy ,", "Have you forgot the Duke of Hereford , boy ?", "But I bethink me what a weary way", "Here come the Lords of Ross and Willoughby ,", "I am a stranger here in Gloucestershire .", "The present benefit which I possess ;", "Why , is he not with the Queen ?", "The tediousness and process of my travel .", "What was his reason ? He was not so resolv 'd when last we spake together .", "But theirs is sweeten 'd with the hope to have", "We all have strongly sworn to give him aid ;", "By sight of what I have , your noble company ."], "true_target": ["And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar ,", "The noble Duke hath sworn his coming is", "From Ravenspurgh to Cotswold will be found", "Which , I protest , hath very much beguil 'd", "Making the hard way sweet and delectable .", "Bloody with spurring , fiery-red with haste .", "It is my Lord of Berkeley , as I guess .", "And let him never see joy that breaks that oath !", "The noble Duke hath been too much abus 'd .", "Shall make their way seem short , as mine hath done", "Sent from my brother Worcester , whencesoever .", "These high wild hills and rough uneven ways", "Harry , how fares your uncle ?", "Draws out our miles , and makes them wearisome ;", "And hope to joy is little less in joy", "But for his own ; and for the right of that", "Than hope enjoy 'd : by this the weary lords"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 33}, {"query": ["To more approved service and desert .", "Which ne'er I did remember ; to my knowledge ,", "Mann 'd with three hundred men , as I have heard ;", "Such as it is , being tender , raw , and young ;,", "But he , my lord , is gone to Ravenspurgh ,", "Then with directions to repair to Ravenspurgh .", "Broken his staff of office , and dispers 'd", "I had thought , my lord , to have learn 'd his health of you .", "Because your lordship was proclaimed traitor .", "No , my good lord ; he hath forsook the court ,"], "true_target": ["Which elder days shall ripen , and confirm", "My gracious lord , I tender you my service ,", "None else of name and noble estimate .", "What power the Duke of York had levied there ;", "No , my good lord ; for that is not forgot", "To offer service to the Duke of Hereford ;", "I never in my life did look on him .", "There stands the castle , by yon tuft of trees ,", "The household of the King .", "And in it are the Lords of York , Berkeley , and Seymour ;", "And sent me over by Berkeley , to discover"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 33}, {"query": ["Your presence makes us rich , most noble lord ."], "true_target": ["It stands your Grace upon to do him right ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 33}, {"query": ["And far surmounts our labour to attain it ."], "true_target": ["Base men by his endowments are made great ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 33}, {"query": ["The Duke of York , to know what pricks you on", "From the most gracious regent of this land ,", "And fright our native peace with self-borne arms .", "To raze one title of your honour out :"], "true_target": ["Mistake me not , my lord ; \u2018 tis not my meaning", "To take advantage of the absent time ,", "To you , my lord , I come , what lord you will ,", "My Lord of Hereford , my message is to you ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 33}, {"query": ["I do remain as neuter . So , fare you well ;", "And you that do abet him in this kind", "Because my power is weak and all ill left ;", "I cannot mend it , I must needs confess ,", "Unless you please to enter in the castle ,", "Be his own carver and cut out his way ,", "Things past redress are now with me past care .", "Whose duty is deceivable and false .", "Thou art a banish 'd man , and here art come", "I would attach you all and make you stoop", "I am no traitor 's uncle ; and that word \u2018 grace \u2019", "For I am loath to break our country 's laws .", "Grace me no grace , nor uncle me no uncle :", "Frighting her pale-fac 'd villages with war", "Now prisoner to the palsy , chastise the", "As when brave Gaunt , thy father , and myself", "From forth the ranks of many thousand French ,", "But since I cannot , be it known unto you", "Cherish rebellion , and are rebels all .", "And ostentation of despised arms ?", "O ! then how quickly should this arm of mine ,", "But in this kind to come , in braving arms ,", "Nor friends nor foes , to me welcome you are .", "In gross rebellion and detested treason :"], "true_target": ["But if I could , by him that gave me life ,", "Why have those banish 'd and forbidden legs", "And minister correction to thy fault !", "Unto the sovereign mercy of the king ;", "Before the expiration of thy time ,", "In an ungracious mouth is but profane .", "Dar 'd once to touch a dust of England 's ground ?", "Com'st thou because the anointed king is hence ?", "It may be I will go with you ; but yet I 'll pause ,", "Rescued the Black Prince , that young Mars of men ,", "But then more \u2018 why ? \u2019 why have they dar 'd to march", "To find out right with wrong , it may not be ;", "And labour 'd all I could to do him right ;", "I have had feeling of my cousin 's wrongs ,", "Were I but now lord of such hot youth", "Why , foolish boy , the king is left behind ,", "And in my loyal bosom lies his power .", "Tut , tut !", "In braving arms against thy sovereign .", "Well , well , I see the issue of these arms :", "Show me thy humble heart , and not thy knee ,", "And there repose you for this night .", "My lords of England , let me tell you this :", "So many miles upon her peaceful bosom ,", "Even in condition of the worst degree ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 33}, {"query": ["Rich men look sad , and ruffians dance and leap ,", "And yet we hear no tidings from the King ;", "The pale-fac 'd moon looks bloody on the earth", "The other to enjoy by rage and war .", "And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven ;", "\u2018 Tis thought the king is dead ; we will not stay .", "And lean-look 'd prophets whisper fearful change ;"], "true_target": ["And hardly kept our countrymen together ,", "The one in fear to lose what they enjoy ,", "The bay trees in our country are all wither 'd ,", "Farewell : our countrymen are gone and fled ,", "Therefore we will disperse ourselves : farewell .", "These signs forerun the death or fall of kings .", "My Lord of Salisbury , we have stay 'd ten days", "As well assur 'd Richard their king is dead ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 34}, {"query": ["I see thy glory like a shooting star", "Fall to the base earth from the firmament .", "Witnessing storms to come , woe , and unrest .", "The King reposeth all his confidence in thee ."], "true_target": ["Thy friends are fled , to wait upon thy foes ,", "And crossly to thy good all fortune goes .", "The sun sets weeping in the lowly west ,", "Ah , Richard ! with the eyes of heavy mind ,", "Stay yet another day , thou trusty Welshman ;"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 34}, {"query": ["Have stoop 'd my neck under your injuries ,", "Tell her I send to her my kind commends ;", "By you unhappied and disfigur 'd clean ;", "Save men 's opinions and my living blood", "Broke the possession of a royal bed ,", "With tears drawn from her eyes by your foul wrongs .", "I will unfold some causes of your deaths .", "Bushy and Green , I will not vex your souls \u2014", "Bring forth these men .", "Made a divorce betwixt his queen and him ,", "A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments ,", "Since presently your souls must part your bodies \u2014", "Awhile to work , and after holiday .", "To fight with Glendower and his complices .", "Thanks , gentle uncle . Come , lords , away ,", "And stain 'd the beauty of a fair queen 's cheeks", "From off my hands , here in the view of men", "To show the world I am a gentleman .", "This and much more , much more than twice all this ,"], "true_target": ["Eating the bitter bread of banishment ;", "Myself , a prince by fortune of my birth ,", "From my own windows torn my household coat ,", "Condemns you to the death . See them deliver 'd over", "Take special care my greetings be deliver 'd .", "You have misled a prince , a royal king ,", "Whilst you have fed upon my signories ,", "Till you did make him misinterpret me ,", "For \u2018 twere no charity ; yet , to wash your blood", "For God 's sake , fairly let her be entreated :", "My Lord Northumberland , see them dispatch 'd .", "Uncle , you say the Queen is at your house ;", "You have in manner with your sinful hours", "And sigh 'd my English breath in foreign clouds ,", "With too much urging your pernicious lives ,", "Near to the King in blood , and near in love", "Raz 'd out my impress , leaving me no sign", "To execution and the hand of death .", "Dispark 'd my parks and felled my forest woods ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 35}, {"query": ["More welcome is the stroke of death to me"], "true_target": ["Than Bolingbroke to England . Lords , farewell ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 35}, {"query": ["And plague injustice with the pains of hell ."], "true_target": ["My comfort is that heaven will take our souls ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 35}, {"query": ["With letters of your love to her at large ."], "true_target": ["A gentleman of mine I have dispatch 'd"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 35}, {"query": ["What say you now ? What comfort have we now ?", "Plays fondly with her tears and smiles in meeting ,", "He does me double wrong", "In murders and in outrage boldly here ;", "With solemn reverence : throw away respect ,", "Make dust our paper , and with rainy eyes", "To stand upon my kingdom once again .", "His treasons will sit blushing in his face ,", "To monarchize , be fear 'd , and kill with looks ,", "But when from under this terrestrial ball", "For God 's sake let us sit upon the ground", "Dogs , easily won to fawn on any man !", "We 'll serve him too , and be his fellow so :", "Say , is my kingdom lost ? Why , \u2018 twas my care ,", "Of that sweet way I was in to despair !", "Did triumph in my face , and they are fled ;", "Then murders , treasons , and detested sins ,", "He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines", "And nothing can we can our own but death ,", "The deputy elected by the Lord .", "Welcome , my lord . How far off lies your power ?", "For time hath set a blot upon my pride .", "Our lands , our lives , and all are Bolingbroke 's .", "So when this thief , this traitor , Bolingbroke ,", "Were brass impregnable ; and , humour 'd thus ,", "Cover your heads , and mock not flesh and blood", "Awake , thou coward majesty ! thou sleepest .", "Comes at the last , and with a little pin", "So weeping-smiling greet I thee , my earth ,", "Who all this while hath revell 'd in the night ,", "How can you say to me I am a king ?", "As a long-parted mother with her child", "That power I have , discharge ; and let them go", "Weak men must fall , for heaven still guards the right .", "Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp ;", "Not all the water in the rough rude sea", "If we prevail , their heads shall pay for it .", "And when they from thy bosom pluck a flower ,", "Stand bare and naked , trembling at themselves ?", "By heaven , I 'll hate him everlastingly", "But now , the blood of twenty thousand men", "Thou chid'st me well . Proud Bolingbroke , I come", "Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen", "Revolt our subjects ? That we cannot mend ;", "To ear the land that hath some hope to grow ,", "And that small model of the barren earth", "Speak sweetly , man , although thy looks be sour .", "And do thee favours with my royal hands .", "Throw death upon thy sovereign 's enemies .", "Would they make peace ? Terrible hell make war", "Feed not thy sovereign 's foe , my gentle earth ,", "Discharge my followers ; let them hence away ,", "Taste grief , need friends : subjected thus ,", "Mock not my senseless conjuration , lords .", "At thy great glory . Look not to the ground ,", "Whose double tongue may with a mortal touch", "Say , Scroop , where lies our uncle with his power ?", "That rounds the mortal temples of a king", "And till so much blood thither come again", "This ague fit of fear is over-blown ;", "Measure our confines with such peaceful steps ?", "Three Judases , each one thrice worse than Judas !", "Arm , arm , my name ! a puny subject strikes", "Discomfortable cousin ! know'st thou not", "Let 's choose executors and talk of wills ;", "A king , woe 's slave , shall kingly woe obey .", "Needs must I like it well : I weep for joy", "Have I not reason to look pale and dead ?", "Bores through his castle wall , and farewell , king !", "Behind the globe , that lights the lower world ,", "Thou hast said enough .", "To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown ,", "For you have but mistook me all this while :"], "true_target": ["Whilst we were wandering with the Antipodes ,", "Keeps Death his court ; and there the antick sits ,", "That they have let the dangerous enemy", "The cloak of night being pluck 'd from off their backs ,", "O villains , vipers , damn 'd without redemption !", "From Richard 's night to Bolingbroke 's fair day .", "They break their faith to God as well as us :", "Some poison 'd by their wives , some sleeping kill 'd ;", "A glorious angel : then , if angels fight ,", "Infusing him with self and vain conceit", "Yield stinging nettles to mine enemies ;", "Hath power enough to serve our turn . But who comes here ?", "The worst is death , and death will have his day .", "Is not the king 's name twenty thousand names ?", "Shall falter under foul rebellion 's arms .", "Allowing him a breath , a little scene ,", "Barkloughly Castle call they this at hand ?", "Mine ear is open and my heart prepar 'd :", "Tradition , form , and ceremonious duty ;", "For I have none . Let no man speak again", "To change blows with thee for our day of doom .", "Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos 'd ,", "Though rebels wound thee with their horses \u2019 hoofs :", "And darts his light through every guilty hole ,", "Beshrew thee , cousin , which didst lead me forth", "This earth shall have a feeling , and these stones", "God for his Richard hath in heavenly pay", "All murder 'd : for within the hollow crown", "How some have been deposed , some slain in war ,", "And heavy-gaited toads lie in their way ,", "I live with bread like you , feel want ,", "That when the searching eye of heaven is hid ,", "Which with usurping steps do trample thee .", "Upon their spotted souls for this offence !", "Too well , too well thou tell'st a tale so ill .", "What is become of Bushy ? Where is Green ?", "Dear earth , I do salute thee with my hand ,", "Where is the Earl of Wiltshire ? Where is Bagot ?", "But let thy spiders , that suck up thy venom ,", "For every man that Bolingbroke hath press 'd", "Doing annoyance to the treacherous feet", "Let 's talk of graves , of worms , and epitaphs ;", "As if this flesh which walls about our life", "And what loss is it to be rid of care ?", "Save our deposed bodies to the ground ?", "To alter this , for counsel is but vain .", "Shall see us rising in our throne , the east ,", "Which serves as paste and cover to our bones .", "I had forgot myself . Am I not king ?", "And tell sad stories of the death of kings :", "Can wash the balm off from an anointed king ;", "Guard it , I pray thee , with a lurking adder", "Not able to endure the sight of day ,", "Cry woe , destruction , ruin , loss , decay ;", "The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold .", "Prove armed soldiers , ere her native king", "Greater he shall not be : if he serve God", "An easy task it is to win our own .\u2014", "But self-affrighted tremble at his sin .", "That bids me be of comfort any more .", "Snakes , in my heart-blood warm 'd , that sting my heart !", "And yet not so \u2014 for what can we bequeath", "No matter where . Of comfort no man speak :", "Ye favourites of a king ; are we not high ?", "Go to Flint Castle ; there I 'll pine away ;", "I warrant they have made peace with Bolingbroke .", "All souls that will be safe , fly from my side ;", "Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth .", "That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue .", "High be our thoughts . I know my uncle York", "The breath of worldly men cannot depose", "Strives Bolingbroke to be as great as we ?", "Nor with thy sweets comfort his ravenous sense ;"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 36}, {"query": ["My liege , one word .", "Yea , my lord . How brooks your Grace the air", "Whilst Bolingbroke , through our security ,", "Comfort , my liege ! remember who you are .", "He means , my lord , that we are too remiss ;", "Where is the Duke my father with his power ?"], "true_target": ["Is Bushy , Green , and the Earl of Wiltshire dead ?", "Comfort , my liege ! why looks your Grace so pale ?", "And learn to make a body of a limb .", "My father hath a power ; inquire of him ,", "After your late tossing on the breaking seas ?", "Grows strong and great in substance and in friends ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 36}, {"query": ["And not neglected ; else , if heaven would ,", "Where fearing dying pays death servile breath .", "But presently prevent the ways to wail .", "The proffer 'd means of succour and redress .", "Fear and be slain ; no worse can come to fight ;", "The means that heaven yields must be embrac 'd", "To fear the foe , since fear oppresseth strength ,"], "true_target": ["Fear not , my lord ; that Power that made you king", "My lord , wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes ,", "And fight and die is death destroying death ;", "And so your follies fight against yourself .", "Gives , in your weakness , strength unto your foe ,", "Hath power to keep you king in spite of all .", "And we will not , heaven 's offer we refuse ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 36}, {"query": ["For all the Welshmen , hearing thou wert dead ,", "Are gone to Bolingbroke , dispers 'd , and fled .", "To-day , to-day , unhappy day , too late ,", "Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth .", "One day too late , I fear me , noble lord ,"], "true_target": ["Than this weak arm : discomfort guides my tongue", "O ! call back yesterday , bid time return ,", "Nor near nor farther off , my gracious lord ,", "O'erthrows thy joys , friends , fortune , and thy state ;", "And thou shalt have twelve thousand fighting men !", "And bids me speak of nothing but despair ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 36}, {"query": ["Your uncle York is join 'd with Bolingbroke ;", "Like an unseasonable stormy day", "Sweet love , I see , changing his property ,", "My tongue hath but a heavier tale to say .", "I play the torturer , by small and small", "Men judge by the complexion of the sky", "To bear the tidings of calamity .", "Of Bolingbroke , covering your fearful land", "Strive to speak big , and clap their female joints", "As if the world were all dissolv 'd to tears ,", "Than can my care-tun 'd tongue deliver him !", "Upon his party .", "With heads , and not with hands : those whom you curse", "White-beards have arm 'd their thin and hairless scalps", "With hard bright steel and hearts harder than steel .", "Against thy seat : both young and old rebel ,", "In stiff unwieldy arms against thy crown ;", "And all your southern gentlemen in arms"], "true_target": ["And all goes worse than I have power to tell .", "Ay , all of them at Bristol lost their heads .", "Yea , distaff-women manage rusty bills", "Against thy majesty ; and boys , with women 's voices ,", "Of double-fatal yew against thy state ;", "Thy very beadsmen learn to bend their bows", "And all your northern castles yielded up ,", "Have felt the worst of death 's destroying wound", "And lie full low , grav 'd in the hollow ground .", "To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken :", "Again uncurse their souls ; their peace is made", "Glad am I that your highness is so arm 'd", "Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate .", "More health and happiness betide my liege", "The state in inclination of the day ;", "So may you by my dull and heavy eye ,", "Peace have they made with him indeed , my lord .", "So high above his limits swells the rage", "Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 36}, {"query": ["With no less terror than the elements", "Be he the fire , I 'll be the yielding water ;", "So that by this intelligence we learn", "Rain 'd from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen ;", "The which , how far off from the mind of Bolingbroke", "So far be mine , my most redoubted lord ,", "My gracious lord , I come but for mine own .", "Welcome , Harry : what , will not this castle yield ?", "Henry Bolingbroke", "Go , signify as much , while here we march", "The fresh green lap of fair King Richard 's land ,", "That from this castle 's totter 'd battlements", "It is , such crimson tempest should bedrench", "And lands restor 'd again be freely granted ;", "Provided that my banishment repeal 'd", "My waters ; on the earth , and not on him .", "My stooping duty tenderly shall show .", "Our fair appointments may be well perus 'd .", "If not , I 'll use the advantage of my power", "To his most royal person ; hither come", "Let 's march without the noise of threat'ning drum ,", "Is gone to meet the king , who lately landed", "Even at his feet to lay my arms and power ,", "Into his ruin 'd ears , and thus deliver :"], "true_target": ["Noble lord ,", "And show fair duty to his Majesty .", "With some few private friends upon this coast .", "Methinks King Richard and myself should meet", "At meeting tears the cloudy cheeks of heaven .", "Upon the grassy carpet of this plain .", "Mistake not , uncle , further than you should .", "Stand all apart ,", "On both his knees doth kiss King Richard 's hand ,", "Royally ! Why , it contains no king ?", "March on , and mark King Richard how he looks .", "The Welshmen are dispers 'd ; and Salisbury", "Go to the rude ribs of that ancient castle ;", "The rage be his , whilst on the earth I rain", "As my true service shall deserve your love .", "And sends allegiance and true faith of heart", "Through brazen trumpet send the breath of parley", "Yea , my good lord .", "I know it , uncle ; and oppose not myself", "Against their will . But who comes here ?", "Of fire and water , when their thund'ring shock", "And lay the summer 's dust with showers of blood", "What says his Majesty ?", "My gracious lord ,\u2014"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 37}, {"query": ["And by the buried hand of warlike Gaunt ,", "My lord , in the base court he doth attend", "Comprising all that may be sworn or said ,", "To faithful service of your Majesty .", "O ! belike it is the Bishop of Carlisle .", "The King of Heaven forbid our lord the King", "Left I his title out .", "And by the royalties of both your bloods ,", "And as I am a gentleman I credit him .", "This swears he , as he is a prince , is just ;", "To speak with you ; may it please you to come down ?", "The news is very fair and good , my lord . Richard not far from hence hath hid his head .", "Makes him speak fondly , like a frantic man ;", "His coming hither hath no further scope"], "true_target": ["His glittering arms he will commend to rust ,", "Sorrow and grief of heart", "And by the honourable tomb he swears", "Enfranchisement immediate on his knees ;", "His barbed steeds to stables , and his heart", "Harry Bolingbroke , doth humbly kiss thy hand ;", "And by the worth and honour of himself ,", "That stands upon your royal grandsire 's bones ,", "Yet he is come .", "Which on thy royal party granted once ,", "Your Grace mistakes ; only to be brief ,", "Be rush 'd upon ! Thy thrice noble cousin ,", "Than for his lineal royalties , and to beg", "Should so with civil and uncivil arms", "Currents that spring from one most gracious head ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 37}, {"query": ["Have been so brief with you to shorten you ,", "That any harm should stain so fair a show !", "When such a sacred king should hide his head !", "For taking so the head , your whole head 's length .", "To say \u2018 King Richard ': alack the heavy day", "Yet he looks like a king : behold , his eye ,"], "true_target": ["The time hath been ,", "Take not , good cousin , further than you should ,", "As bright as is the eagle 's , lightens forth", "It would beseem the Lord Northumberland", "Controlling majesty : alack , alack , for woe ,", "Lest you mistake . The heavens are o'er our heads .", "Would you have been so brief with him , he would"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 37}, {"query": ["Sir Stephen Scroop , besides a clergyman", "It doth contain a king ; King Richard lies", "And with him are the Lord Aumerle , Lord Salisbury ,", "Within the limits of yon lime and stone ;"], "true_target": ["The castle royally is mann 'd , my lord ,", "Yes , my good lord ,", "Of holy reverence ; who , I cannot learn .", "Against thy entrance ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 37}, {"query": ["As doth the blushing discontented sun", "From out the fiery portal of the east ,", "When he perceives the envious clouds are bent"], "true_target": ["To dim his glory and to stain the track", "See , see , King Richard doth himself appear ,", "Of his bright passage to the occident ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 37}, {"query": ["And all the number of his fair demands", "My subjects for a pair of carved saints ,", "Set on towards London . Cousin , is it so ?", "My figur 'd goblets for a dish of wood ,", "For on my heart they tread now whilst I live ;", "Give Richard leave to live till Richard die ?", "My sceptre for a palmer 's walking-staff ,", "Wanting the manage of unruly jades .", "Well you deserve : they well deserve to have", "The king shall do it : must he be depos 'd ?", "Most mighty prince , my Lord Northumberland ,", "The name of king ? A God 's name , let it go :", "With words of sooth ! O ! that I were as great", "What says King Bolingbroke ? will his Majesty", "I talk but idly , and you laugh at me .", "Or not remember what I must be now .", "And make a dearth in this revolting land .", "Up , cousin , up ; your heart is up , I know ,", "I 'll give my jewels for a set of beads ,", "Would not this ill do well ? Well , well , I see", "My gorgeous palace for a hermitage ,", "Swell'st thou , proud heart ? I 'll give thee scope to beat ,", "What must the King do now ? Must he submit ?", "Fair cousin , you debase your princely knee", "His noble cousin is right welcome hither ;", "Two kinsmen digg 'd their graves with weeping eyes . \u2019", "Within the earth ; and , there inlaid : \u2018 There lies", "We 'll make foul weather with despised tears ;", "That know the strong'st and surest way to get .", "Or that I could forget what I have been ,", "As is my grief , or lesser than my name ,", "Shall be accomplish 'd without contradiction .", "A little little grave , an obscure grave ;", "For do we must what force will have us do .", "And buried once , why not upon my head ?", "That laid the sentence of dread banishment"], "true_target": ["Till they have fretted us a pair of graves", "And my large kingdom for a little grave ,", "With all the gracious utterance thou hast", "May hourly trample on their sovereign 's head ;", "Though you are old enough to be my heir .", "And make some pretty match with shedding tears ?", "To come at traitors \u2019 calls , and do them grace .", "Or I 'll be buried in the king 's highway ,", "Your own is yours , and I am yours , and all .", "Thus high at least , although your knee be low .", "Down , down I come ; like glist'ring Phaethon ,", "Some way of common trade , where subjects \u2019 feet", "We are amaz 'd ; and thus long have we stood To watch the fearful bending of thy knee , Because we thought ourself thy lawful king ; And if we be , how dare thy joints forget To pay their awful duty to our presence ? If we be not , show us the hand of God That hath dismiss 'd us from our stewardship ; For well we know no hand of blood and bone Can gripe the sacred handle of our sceptre , Unless he do profane , steal , or usurp . And though you think that all , as you have done , Have torn their souls by turning them from us , And we are barren and bereft of friends , Yet know-my master , God omnipotent , Is mustering in his clouds on our behalf Armies of pestilence ; and they shall strike Your children yet unborn and unbegot , That lift your vassal hands against my head And threat the glory of my precious crown . Tell Bolingbroke ,\u2014 for yond methinks he stands ,\u2014 That every stride he makes upon my land Is dangerous treason ; he is come to open The purple testament of bleeding war ; But ere the crown he looks for live in peace , Ten thousand bloody crowns of mothers \u2019 sons Shall ill become the flower of England 's face , Change the complexion of her maid-pale peace To scarlet indignation , and bedew Her pastures \u2019 grass with faithful English blood .", "Or shall we play the wantons with our woes", "You make a leg , and Bolingbroke says ay .", "Tears show their love , but want their remedies .", "For night-owls shriek where mounting larks should sing .", "On yond proud man should take it off again", "Uncle , give me your hand : nay , dry your eyes :", "In the base court ? Base court , where kings grow base ,", "Speak to his gentle hearing kind commends .", "In the base court ? Come down ? Down , court ! down , king !", "Aumerle , thou weep'st , my tender-hearted cousin !", "Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer corn", "To make the base earth proud with kissing it :", "Than my unpleas 'd eye see your courtesy .", "The king shall be contented : must he lose", "What you will have , I 'll give , and willing too ;", "Me rather had my heart might feel your love", "Then I must not say no .", "Cousin , I am too young to be your father ,", "As thus : to drop them still upon one place", "Northumberland , say , thus the king returns :", "Since foes have scope to beat both thee and me .", "My gay apparel for an almsman 's gown ,", "O God , O God ! that e'er this tongue of mine"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 37}, {"query": ["No , good my lord ; let 's fight with gentle words"], "true_target": ["Northumberland comes back from Bolingbroke .", "Till time lend friends , and friends their helpful swords ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 37}, {"query": ["Thy sorrow in my breast . Come , ladies , go ,", "To make a second fall of cursed man ?", "Let 's step into the shadow of these trees .", "How dares thy harsh rude tongue sound this unpleasing news ?", "Thou , old Adam 's likeness , set to dress this garden ,", "Cam'st thou by this ill tidings ? Speak , thou wretch .", "And that my fortune runs against the bias .", "And never borrow any tear of thee .", "O ! I am press 'd to death through want of speaking !", "Against a change : woe is forerun with woe .", "For if of joy , being altogether wanting ,", "It adds more sorrow to my want of joy ;", "What Eve , what serpent , hath suggested thee", "And I could sing , would weeping do me good ,", "Or if of grief , being altogether had ,", "When my poor heart no measure keeps in grief :", "Of neither , girl :", "To serve me last , that I may longest keep", "My legs can keep no measure in delight ,", "Dar'st thou , thou little better thing than earth ,", "To meet at London London 's king in woe ."], "true_target": ["For what I have I need not to repeat ,", "Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow !", "Therefore no dancing , girl ; some other sport .", "To drive away the heavy thought of care ?", "Of sorrow or of joy ?", "Nimble mischance , that art so light of foot ,", "But thou shouldst please me better wouldst thou weep .", "What was I born to this , that my sad look", "But stay , here come the gardeners .", "What sport shall we devise here in this garden", "My wretchedness unto a row of pins ,", "And what I want it boots not to complain .", "It doth remember me the more of sorrow ;", "Divine his downfall ? Say , where , when , and how ,", "\u2018 Tis well \u2019 that thou hast cause ;", "They will talk of state , for every one doth so", "\u2018 Twill make me think the world is full of rubs", "Should grace the triumph of great Bolingbroke ?", "Doth not thy embassage belong to me ,", "Why dost thou say King Richard is depos 'd ?", "Gardener , for telling me these news of woe ,", "And am I last that knows it ? O ! thou thinkest"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 38}, {"query": ["Madam , we 'll play at bowls .", "Madam , we 'll tell tales .", "Of either , madam ."], "true_target": ["I could weep , madam , would it do you good .", "Madam , we 'll dance .", "Madam , I 'll sing ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 38}, {"query": ["They might have liv 'd to bear , and he to taste", "And some few vanities that make him light ;", "He that hath suffer 'd this disorder 'd spring", "Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down .", "Rue , even for ruth , here shortly shall be seen ,", "They are ; and Bolingbroke", "All must be even in our government .", "Go thou , and like an executioner", "In the remembrance of a weeping queen .", "Poor Queen , so that thy state might be no worse ,", "Depress 'd he is already , and depos 'd", "Which , like unruly children , make their sire", "That look too lofty in our commonwealth :", "I 'll set a bank of rue , sour herb of grace .", "The soil 's fertility from wholesome flowers .", "I would my skill were subject to thy curse .", "Go , bind thou up yon dangling apricocks ,", "Besides himself , are all the English peers ,", "I mean the Earl of Wiltshire , Bushy , Green .", "I speak no more than every one doth know .", "In your lord 's scale is nothing but himself ,", "Hold thy peace .", "Give some supportance to the bending twigs .", "Of Bolingbroke : their fortunes both are weigh 'd .", "That seem 'd in eating him to hold him up ,", "With too much riches it confound itself :"], "true_target": ["Had he done so to great and growing men ,", "To breathe this news ; yet what I say is true .", "Their fruits of duty : superfluous branches", "King Richard , he is in the mighty hold", "Pardon me , madam : little joy have I", "Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays", "As we this garden ! We at time of year", "The weeds which his broad-spreading leaves did shelter ,", "To a dear friend of the good Duke of York 's", "Lest , being over-proud in sap and blood ,", "The noisome weeds which without profit suck", "Do wound the bark , the skin of our fruit trees ,", "That he had not so trimm 'd and dress 'd his land", "Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight :", "\u2018 Tis doubt he will be : letters came last night", "Had he done so , himself had home the crown ,", "And with that odds he weighs King Richard down .", "Hath seiz 'd the wasteful King . O ! what pity is it", "Post you to London , and you will find it so ;", "But in the balance of great Bolingbroke ,", "Hath now himself met with the fall of leaf ;", "Here did she fall a tear ; here in this place", "Are pluck 'd up root and all by Bolingbroke ;", "That tell black tidings .", "You thus employ 'd , I will go root away", "We lop away , that bearing boughs may live :"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 38}, {"query": ["Showing , as in a model , our firm estate ,", "Is full of weeds ; her fairest flowers chok 'd up ,", "What ! think you the king shall be depos 'd ?", "Why should we in the compass of a pale", "Keep law and form and due proportion ,"], "true_target": ["Her fruit trees all unprun 'd , her hedges ruin 'd ,", "When our sea-walled garden , the whole land ,", "Her knots disordered , and her wholesome herbs", "What ! are they dead ?", "Swarming with caterpillars ?"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 38}, {"query": ["Without suspicion .", "And little look 'd for at your helping hands .", "To all his lands and signories ; when he is return 'd ,", "Till Norfolk be repeal 'd : repeal 'd he shall be", "What thou dost know of noble Gloucester 's death ;", "Your differences shall all rest under gage", "In God 's name , I 'll ascend the regal throne .", "Go some of you and fetch a looking-glass .", "Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom", "Against Aumerle we will enforce his trial .", "Little are we beholding to your love ,", "Urge it no more , my Lord Northumberland .", "On Wednesday next we solemnly set down", "Who wrought it with the King , and who perform 'd", "Name it , fair cousin .", "You shall .", "He may surrender ; so we shall proceed", "Part of your cares you give me with your crown .", "The bloody office of his timeless end ."], "true_target": ["I thought you had been willing to resign .", "Go , some of you convey him to the Tower .", "Of good old Abraham ! Lords appellants ,", "Are you contented to resign the crown ?", "Lords , you that here are under our arrest ,", "Call forth Bagot .", "The shadow of your sorrow hath destroy 'd", "Procure your sureties for your days of answer .", "Now , Bagot , freely speak thy mind ;", "Whither ?", "And , though mine enemy , restor 'd again", "Yet ask .", "These differences shall all rest under gage", "Our coronation : lords , prepare yourselves .", "The shadow of your face .", "Why , Bishop , is Norfolk dead ?", "Bagot , forbear ; thou shalt not take it up .", "Cousin , stand forth , and look upon that man .", "Fetch hither Richard , that in common view", "Till we assign you to your days of trial"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 39}, {"query": ["Adding withal , how blest this land would be", "I heard you say \u2018 Is not my arm of length ,", "Scorns to unsay what once it hath deliver 'd .", "Then set before my face the Lord Aumerle .", "As far as Calais , to mine uncle 's head ? \u2019", "My Lord Aumerle , I know your daring tongue"], "true_target": ["In that dead time when Gloucester 's death was plotted", "The offer of an hundred thousand crowns", "In this your cousin 's death .", "Amongst much other talk that very time", "I heard you say that you had rather refuse", "That reacheth from the restful English Court", "Than Bolingbroke 's return to England ;"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 39}, {"query": ["To rid the realm of this pernicious blot ?", "Some honest Christian trust me with a gage .", "Princes , and noble lords ,", "I have a thousand spirits in one breast", "And never brandish more revengeful steel", "In all this presence that hath mov 'd me so .", "If he may be repeal 'd to try his honour .", "With the attainder of his slanderous lips .", "On equal terms to give him chastisement ?", "Either I must , or have mine honour soil 'd", "Thou darest not , coward , live to see that day .", "Excepting one , I would he were the best", "And will maintain what thou hast said is false"], "true_target": ["Shall I so much dishonour my fair stars", "Over the glittering helmet of my foe !", "And if I do not , may my hands rot off", "What answer shall I make to this base man ?", "Who sets me else ? By heaven , I 'll throw at all :", "That Norfolk lies , here do I throw down this ,", "There is my gage , the manual seal of death", "To stain the temper of my knightly sword .", "You holy clergymen , is there no plot", "Fitzwater , thou art damn 'd to hell for this .", "In thy heart-blood , through being all too base", "To answer twenty thousand such as you .", "That marks thee out for hell : I say thou liest ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 39}, {"query": ["As I intend to thrive in this new world ,", "Aumerle is guilty of my true appeal :", "To tie thee to my strong correction .", "How fondly dost thou spur a forward horse !", "Where it was forged , with my rapier 's point .", "\u2018 Tis very true : you were in presence then ,", "If I dare eat , or drink , or breathe , or live ,", "I dare meet Surrey in a wilderness ,", "And lies , and lies : there is my bond of faith", "And you can witness with me this is true .", "Besides , I heard the banish 'd Norfolk say"], "true_target": ["If that thy valour stand on sympathies ,", "If thou deny'st it twenty times , thou liest ;", "Now , by my soul , I would it were this hour .", "There is my gage , Aumerle , in gage to thine :", "I heard thee say , and vauntingly thou spak'st it ,", "And spit upon him , whilst I say he lies ,", "And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart ,", "By that fair sun which shows me where thou stand'st ,", "That thou wert cause of noble Gloucester 's death .", "Surrey , thou liest .", "To execute the noble duke at Calais .", "That thou , Aumerle , didst send two of thy men"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 39}, {"query": ["And that thou art so , there I throw my gage ,", "Of mortal breathing : seize it if thou dar'st ."], "true_target": ["Aumerle , thou liest ; his honour is as true", "In this appeal as thou art an unjust ;", "To prove it on thee to the extremest point"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 39}, {"query": ["From sun to sun : there is my honour 's pawn ;", "As may be halloa 'd in thy treacherous ear"], "true_target": ["And spur thee on with full as many lies", "Engage it to the trial if thou dar'st .", "I task the earth to the like , forsworn Aumerle ;"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 39}, {"query": ["As false , by heaven , as heaven itself is true .", "In earth as quiet as thy father 's skull .", "That it shall render vengeance and revenge", "The very time Aumerle and you did talk .", "My Lord Fitzwater , I do remember well"], "true_target": ["Till thou the lie-giver and that lie do lie", "In proof whereof , there is my honour 's pawn ;", "Dishonourable boy !", "That lie shall lie so heavy on my sword", "Engage it to the trial if thou dar'st ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 39}, {"query": ["Learn him forbearance from so foul a wrong .", "Shall here inhabit , and this land be call 'd", "The woe 's to come ; the children yet unborn", "Marry , God forbid !", "Although apparent guilt be seen in them ;", "Prevent it , resist it , let it not be so ,", "The blood of English shall manure the ground", "Lest child , child 's children , cry against you \u2018 woe ! \u2019", "His body to that pleasant country 's earth ,", "Should show so heinous , black , obscene a deed !", "Yet best beseeming me to speak the truth .", "Would God that any in this noble presence", "Against black pagans , Turks , and Saracens ;", "Anointed , crowned , planted many years ,", "It will the woefullest division prove", "Shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn .", "What subject can give sentence on his king ?", "Disorder , horror , fear , and mutiny ,", "My Lord of Hereford here , whom you call king ,", "Be judg 'd by subject and inferior breath ,", "I speak to subjects , and a subject speaks ,", "The field of Golgotha and dead men 's skulls .", "And his pure soul unto his captain , Christ ,", "And in this seat of peace tumultuous wars"], "true_target": ["That honourable day shall ne'er be seen .", "Under whose colours he had fought so long .", "Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels ,", "Of noble Richard ! Then true noblesse would", "Were enough noble to be upright judge", "As surely as I live , my lord .", "Streaming the ensign of the Christian cross", "To Italy ; and there , at Venice , gave", "Worst in this royal presence may I speak ,", "Many a time hath banish 'd Norfolk fought", "His captain , steward , deputy elect ,", "Stirr 'd up by God , thus boldly for his king .", "For Jesu Christ in glorious Christian field ,", "O ! if you raise this house against this house ,", "That in a Christian climate souls refin 'd", "Shall kin with kin and kind with kind confound ;", "And he himself not present ? O ! forfend it , God ,", "And if you crown him , let me prophesy ,", "Is a foul traitor to proud Hereford 's king ;", "And , toil 'd with works of war , retir 'd himself", "And shall the figure of God 's majesty ,", "And who sits here that is not Richard 's subject ?", "Thieves are not judg 'd but they are by to hear ,", "That ever fell upon this cursed earth .", "And future ages groan for this foul act ;"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 39}, {"query": ["From plume-pluck 'd Richard ; who with willing soul", "To do that office of thine own good will", "To the possession of thy royal hand .", "Which tired majesty did make thee offer ,", "Great Duke of Lancaster , I come to the"], "true_target": ["Ascend his throne , descending now from him ;", "To Henry Bolingbroke .", "And long live Henry , of that name the fourth !", "I will be his conduct .", "The resignation of thy state and crown", "Adopts thee heir , and his high sceptre yields"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 39}, {"query": ["My Lord of Westminster , be it your charge", "My lord ,\u2014", "Committed by your person and your followers", "Against the state and profit of this land ;", "No more , but that you read", "That , by confessing them , the souls of men", "May deem that you are worthily depos 'd ."], "true_target": ["To keep him safely till his day of trial .", "These accusations , and these grievous crimes", "The Commons will not then be satisfied .", "May it please you , lords , to grant the commons \u2019 suit ?", "Of capital treason we arrest you here .", "Read o'er this paper while the glass doth come .", "Well have you argued , sir ; and , for your pains ,", "My lord , dispatch ; read o'er these articles ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 39}, {"query": ["Nay , all of you that stand and look upon me", "God save the King ! Will no man say , amen ?", "For I have given here my soul 's consent", "Make me , that nothing have , with nothing griev 'd ,", "Would it not shame thee in so fair a troop", "Say that again .", "Now mark me how I will undo myself :", "O , good ! convey ? conveyers are you all ,", "No , not that name was given me at the font ,", "But they can see a sort of traitors here .", "Showing an outward pity ; yet you Pilates", "Containing the deposing of a king", "Whither you will , so I were from your sights .", "Though some of you , with Pilate , wash your hands ,", "Alack ! why am I sent for to a king", "Then give me leave to go .", "As brittle as the glory is the face ;", "They tend the crown , yet still with me they stay .", "With mine own hands I give away my crown ,", "That bucket down and full of tears am I ,", "And yet salt water blinds them not so much", "For there it is , crack 'd in a hundred shivers .", "Your care is gain of care , by new care won .", "Before I have shook off the regal thoughts", "No lord of thine , thou haught insulting man ,", "A brittle glory shineth in this face :", "That owes two buckets , filling one another ;", "Since it is bankrupt of his majesty .", "\u2018 Fair cousin \u2019 ! I am greater than a king ;", "The other down , unseen , and full of water .", "So Judas did to Christ : but he , in twelve ,", "God pardon all oaths that are broke to me !", "My weav'dhYpppHeNup follies ? Gentle Northumberland ,", "Are merely shadows to the unseen grief", "That like the sun did make beholders wink ?", "Good king , great king ,\u2014 and yet not greatly good ,", "My care is loss of care , by old care done ;", "How to lament the cause . I 'll beg one boon ,", "Like to my followers in prosperity ,", "And soon lie Richard in an earthly pit !", "So many blows upon this face of mine", "That every day under his household roof", "The favours of these men : were they not mine ?", "Therefore no no , for I resign to thee .", "Let it command a mirror hither straight ,", "Now is this golden crown like a deep well", "Give sorrow leave awhile to tutor me", "And these external manner of laments", "Here , cousin ,", "Ay , no ; no , ay ; for I must nothing be ;", "\u2018 Tis very true : my grief lies all within ;", "Nay , if I turn mine eyes upon myself ,", "How soon my sorrow hath destroy 'd my face .", "When I do see the very book indeed", "What more remains ?", "O ! that I were a mockery king of snow ,", "The shadow of my sorrow ! Ha ! let 's see :", "Is this the face which fac 'd so many follies", "There shouldst thou find one heinous article ,", "The emptier ever dancing in the air ,", "And water cannot wash away your sin .", "With mine own tongue deny my sacred state ,", "No deeper wrinkles yet ? Hath sorrow struck", "For thy great bounty , that not only givest", "Where all my sins are writ , and that 's myself .", "And shall I have ?", "That it may show me what a face I have ,"], "true_target": ["Did they not sometime cry \u2018 All hail ! \u2019 to me ?", "The cares I give I have , though given away ;", "I have a king here to my flatterer .", "The pride of kingly sway from out my heart ;", "Nor no man 's lord ; I have no name , no title ,", "T'undeck the pompous body of a king ;", "Give me the crown . Here , cousin , seize the crown .", "Proud majesty a subject , state a peasant .", "To do what service am I sent for hither ?", "And made no deeper wounds ? O flatt'ring glass !", "Must I do so ? And must I ravel out", "Found truth in all but one ; I , in twelve thousand , none .", "Were then but subjects ; being now a subject ,", "Me cause to wail , but teachest me the way", "That was at last out-fac 'd by Bolingbroke ?", "That swells with silence in the tortur 'd soul .", "Long mayst thou live in Richard 's seat to sit ,", "To melt myself away in water-drops !", "And then be gone and trouble you no more .", "For when I was a king , my flatterers", "With mine own breath release all duteous rites :", "Shall I obtain it ?", "There lies the substance : and I thank thee , king ,", "And know not now what name to call myself !", "To this submission . Yet I well remember", "Being so great , I have no need to beg .", "And thou with all pleas 'd , that hast an achiev 'd !", "Wherewith I reign 'd ? I hardly yet have learn 'd", "Am I both priest and clerk ? Well then , amen .", "But \u2018 tis usurp 'd : alack the heavy day !", "Mark 'd with a blot , damn 'd in the book of heaven .", "An if my word be sterling yet in England ,", "Drinking my griefs , whilst you mount up on high .", "On this side my hand , and on that side thine .", "God save King Henry , unking 'd Richard says ,", "Thou dost beguile me . Was this face the face", "Mine eyes are full of tears ; I cannot see :", "My crown I am ; but still my griefs are mine .", "Give me that glass , and therein will I read .", "And cracking the strong warrant of an oath ,", "They shall be satisfied ; I 'll read enough ,", "My acts , decrees , and statutes , I deny :", "Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke", "To read a lecture of them ? If thou wouldst ,", "I give this heavy weight from off my head ,", "And yet , amen , if heaven do think him me .", "Your cares set up do not pluck my cares down .", "My manors , rents , revenues , I forgo ;", "You may my glories and my state depose ,", "I find myself a traitor with the rest ;", "And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand ,", "Made glory base , and sovereignty a slave ,", "God save the King ! although I be not he ;", "Did keep ten thousand men ? Was this the face", "With mine own tears I wash away my balm ,", "That I have worn so many winters out ,", "If thy offences were upon record ,", "God keep all vows unbroke are made to thee !", "And send him many years of sunshine days !", "Mark , silent king , the moral of this sport ,", "Have here deliver 'd me to my sour cross ,", "To insinuate , flatter , bow , and bend my knee .", "Fiend ! thou torments me ere I come to hell .", "That rise thus nimbly by a true king 's fall .", "But not my griefs ; still am I king of those .", "Whilst that my wretchedness doth bait myself ,", "All pomp and majesty I do forswear ;"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 39}, {"query": ["A woeful pageant have we here beheld .", "A plot shall show us all a merry day .", "Your hearts of sorrow , and your eyes of tears :", "You shall not only take the sacrament", "Whatever I shall happen to devise ."], "true_target": ["Before I freely speak my mind herein ,", "Come home with me to supper ; I will lay", "I see your brows are full of discontent ,", "My lord ,", "To bury mine intents , but also to effect"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 39}, {"query": ["Ah ! thou , the model where old Troy did stand ;", "What ! is my Richard both in shape and mind", "So , now I have mine own again , be gone .", "Is doom 'd a prisoner by proud Bolingbroke .", "And wounds the earth , if nothing else , with rage", "And wash him fresh again with true-love tears .", "My fair rose wither ; yet look up , behold ,", "That I may strive to kill it with a groan .", "Banish us both , and send the king with me .", "But soft , but see , or rather do not see ,", "Which art a lion and the king of beasts ?", "Give me mine own again ; \u2018 twere no good part", "Here let us rest , if this rebellious earth", "Thou map of honour , thou King Richard 's tomb ,", "To be o'erpower ' d ; and wilt thou , pupil-like ,", "This way the King will come ; this is the way"], "true_target": ["The lion dying thrusteth forth his paw", "Transform 'd and weaken 'd ! Hath Bolingbroke depos 'd", "And fawn on rage with base humility ,", "Then whither he goes , thither let me go .", "And not King Richard ; thou most beauteous inn ,", "Take the correction mildly , kiss the rod ,", "To take on me to keep and kill thy heart .", "Thine intellect ? Hath he been in thy heart ?", "Have any resting for her true King 's queen .", "Why should hard-favour 'd grief be lodg 'd in thee ,", "When triumph is become an alehouse guest ?", "And must we be divided ? Must we part ?", "So longest way shall have the longest moans .", "To whose flint bosom my condemned lord", "To Julius Caesar 's ill-erected tower ,", "That you in pity may dissolve to dew ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 40}, {"query": ["Think I am dead , and that even here thou tak'st ,", "With good old folks , and let them tell thee tales", "And ere thou bid good night , to quit their griefs", "And send the hearers weeping to their beds ;", "And some will mourn in ashes , some coal-black ,", "The mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne ,", "Northumberland , thou ladder wherewithal", "And in compassion weep the fire out ;", "I had been still a happy king of men .", "Which our profane hours here have thrown down .", "For why , the senseless brands will sympathize", "To plant unrightful kings , wilt know again ,", "The love of wicked men converts to fear ;", "Where shivering cold and sickness pines the clime ;", "And he shall think that thou , which know'st the way", "To worthy danger and deserved death .", "The heavy accent of thy moving tongue ,", "Sent back like Hallowmas or short'st of day .", "To pluck him headlong from the usurped throne .", "So two , together weeping , make one woe .", "For the deposing of a rightful king .", "Shall break into corruption . Thou shalt think ,", "The time shall not be many hours of age", "Shows us but this . I am sworn brother , sweet ,", "Our holy lives must win a new world 's crown ,", "Good sometimes queen , prepare thee hence for France .", "We make woe wanton with this fond delay :", "To think our former state a happy dream ;", "Doubly divorc 'd ! Bad men , ye violate", "Part us , Northumberland : I towards the north ,", "In winter 's tedious nights sit by the fire"], "true_target": ["One kiss shall stop our mouths , and dumbly part ;", "And yet not so , for with a kiss \u2018 twas made .", "To grim Necessity ; and he and", "Of woeful ages long ago betid ;", "Thus give I mine , and thus take I thy heart .", "Ay , hand from hand , my love , and heart from heart .", "A king of beasts , indeed ; if aught but beasts ,", "As from my death-bed , thy last living leave .", "Once more , adieu ; the rest let sorrow say .", "From which awak 'd , the truth of what we are", "Come , come , in wooing sorrow let 's be brief ,", "To make my end too sudden : learn , good soul ,", "Twice for one step I 'll groan , the way being short ,", "A twofold marriage ; \u2018 twixt my crown and me ,", "Join not with grief , fair woman , do not so ,", "And cloister thee in some religious house :", "It is too little , helping him to all ;", "Being ne'er so little urg 'd , another way", "And then betwixt me and my married wife .", "And piece the way out with a heavy heart .", "She came adorned hither like sweet May ,", "Better far off than near , be ne'er the near .", "Since , wedding it , there is such length in grief .", "My wife to France , from whence set forth in pomp ,", "Weep thou for me in France , I for thee here ;", "Let me unkiss the oath \u2018 twixt thee and me ;", "Will keep a league till death . Hie thee to France ,", "That fear to hate ; and hate turns one or both", "Tell thou the lamentable tale of me ,", "More than it is , ere foul sin gathering head", "Though he divide the realm and give thee half", "Go , count thy way with sighs ; I mine with groans ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 40}, {"query": ["My lord , the mind of Bolingbroke is chang 'd ;", "My guilt be on my head , and there an end . Take leave , and part ; for you must part forthwith .", "You must to Pomfret , not unto the Tower ."], "true_target": ["That were some love , but little policy .", "And , madam , there is order ta'en for you :", "With all swift speed you must away to France ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 40}, {"query": ["Strike him , Aumerle . Poor boy , thou art amaz 'd .", "Of our two cousins \u2019 coming into London .", "Spur post , and get before him to the king ,", "For gay apparel \u2018 gainst the triumph day .", "Why , York , what wilt thou do ?", "I 'll not be long behind ; though I be old ,", "What is the matter ?", "We 'll keep him here : then what is that to him ?", "And beg thy pardon ere he do accuse thee .", "Is not my teeming date drunk up with time ?", "Welcome , my son : who are the violets now", "At that sad stop , my lord ,", "Thy life answer !", "And rob me of a happy mother 's name ?", "\u2018 Tis nothing but some bond that he is ent'red into", "Hence , villain ! never more come in my sight .", "Why , what is it , my lord ?", "Not like to me , or any of my kin ,", "And wilt thou pluck my fair son from mine age", "Sweet York , sweet husband , be not of that mind .", "What is the matter , my lord ?", "Till Bolingbroke have pardon 'd thee . Away ! be gone ."], "true_target": ["Wilt thou not hide the trespass of thine own ?", "Alack , poor Richard ! where rode he the whilst ?", "Where rude misgoverned hands from windows \u2019 tops", "As I have done , thou'dst be more pitiful .", "My Lord , you told me you would tell the rest ,", "Hadst thou groan 'd for him", "Here comes my son Aumerle .", "That I have been disloyal to thy bed", "I will not peace . What is the matter , Aumerle ?", "When weeping made you break the story off ,", "And that he is a bastard , not thy son :", "Is he not like thee ? Is he not thine own ?", "He is as like thee as a man may be", "He shall be none ;", "Have we more sons ? or are we like to have ?", "And yet I love him .", "That strew the green lap of the new come spring ?", "And never will I rise up from the ground", "I doubt not but to ride as fast as York :", "What should you fear ?", "Threw dust and rubbish on King Richard 's head .", "After , Aumerle ! Mount thee upon his horse ;", "But now I know thy mind : thou dost suspect"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 41}, {"query": ["And lasting fealty to the new-made king .", "To Bolingbroke are we sworn subjects now ,", "And madam , you must call him Rutland now .", "I would appeach him .", "What seal is that that without thy bosom ? Yea , look'st thou pale ? Let me see the writing .", "Boy , let me see the writing .", "Upon his visage ; and that all the walls", "Ho ! who is within there ?", "You would have thought the very windows spake ,", "Peace , foolish woman .", "Away , fond woman ! were he twenty times my son", "Well , bear you well in this new spring of time ,", "I will appeach the villain .", "With painted imagery had said at once", "Then , as I said , the Duke , great Bolingbroke ,", "Aumerle that was ;", "That he is bound to ? Wife , thou art a fool .", "Through casements darted their desiring eyes", "Bespake them thus , \u2018 I thank you , countrymen : \u2019", "Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed", "God for his mercy ! what treachery is here !", "Lest you be cropp 'd before you come to prime .", "You will be there , I know .", "The badges of his grief and patience ,", "Treason , foul treason ! Villain ! traitor ! slave !", "To whose high will we bound our calm contents .", "That had not God , for some strong purpose , steel 'd", "The hearts of men , they must perforce have melted ,", "Now , by mine honour , by my life , my troth ,", "Give me my boots , I say ; saddle my horse .", "Saddle my horse .", "To kill the King at Oxford .", "Give me my boots , I say .", "His face still combating with tears and smiles ,"], "true_target": ["And thus still doing , thus he pass 'd along .", "I will be satisfied ; let me see it , I say .", "Whilst all tongues cried \u2018 God save thee , Bolingbroke ! \u2019", "Bareheaded , lower than his proud steed 's neck ,", "\u2018 Jesu preserve thee ! Welcome , Bolingbroke ! \u2019", "Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off ,", "Even so , or with much more contempt , men 's eyes", "No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home ;", "Did scowl on Richard : no man cried \u2018 God save him ; \u2019", "What news from Oxford ? hold those justs and triumphs ?", "Bound to himself ! What doth he with a bond", "A dozen of them here have ta'en the sacrament ,", "But that is lost for being Richard 's friend ,", "So many greedy looks of young and old", "As in a theatre , the eyes of men", "With slow but stately pace kept on his course ,", "Bring me my boots . I will unto the King .", "Which his aspiring rider seem 'd to know ,", "Thinking his prattle to be tedious ;", "And interchangeably set down their hands", "Which for some reasons , sir , I mean to see . I fear , I fear \u2014", "Are idly bent on him that enters next ,", "Make way , unruly woman !", "Whilst he , from the one side to the other turning ,", "Where did I leave ?", "But heaven hath a hand in these events ,", "Whose state and honour I for aye allow .", "I am in Parliament pledge for his truth", "But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ,", "Thou fond mad woman ,", "After a well-grac 'd actor leaves the stage", "And barbarism itself have pitied him .", "No matter , then , who see it . I will be satisfied ; let me see the writing .", "Wilt thou conceal this dark conspiracy ?"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 41}, {"query": ["Good mother , be content ; it is no more", "I do beseech your Grace to pardon me ;", "My lord , \u2018 tis nothing .", "Which for some reasons I would not have seen .", "I do beseech you , pardon me ; I may not show it ."], "true_target": ["It is a matter of small consequence", "For aught I know , my lord , they do .", "If God prevent not , I purpose so .", "Madam , I know not , nor I greatly care not . God knows I had as lief be none as one .", "Than my poor life must answer ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 41}, {"query": ["To win thy after-love I pardon thee .", "From whence this stream through muddy passages", "So dissolute a crew .", "Good aunt , stand up .", "O loyal father of a treacherous son !", "This deadly blot in thy digressing son .", "Our scene is alter 'd from a serious thing ,", "Destruction straight shall dog them at the heels .", "I know she 's come to pray for your foul sin .", "Inquire at London , \u2018 mongst the taverns there ,", "To Oxford , or where'er these traitors are :", "I pardon him , as God shall pardon me .", "Recover breath ; tell us how near is danger ,", "Your mother well hath pray 'd , and prove you true .", "What is the matter with our cousin now ?", "So wildly ?", "Rise up , good aunt .", "O heinous , strong , and bold conspiracy !", "Thou sheer , immaculate , and silver fountain ,", "Villain , I 'll make thee safe .", "Which he , young wanton and effeminate boy ,", "May happily bring forth . But who comes here ?", "I see some sparks of better hope , which elder years", "Hath held his current and defil 'd himself !", "\u2018 Tis full three months since I did see him last .", "Takes on the point of honour to support", "What shrill-voic 'd suppliant makes this eager cry ?", "And beat our watch and rob our passengers ;"], "true_target": ["I would to God , my lords , he might be found .", "If on the first , how heinous e'er it be ,", "What is the matter , uncle ? speak ;", "Thy overflow of good converts to bad ;", "With all my heart", "I pardon him .", "Good uncle , help to order several powers", "But I will have them , if I once know where .", "Have thy desire .", "And what said the gallant ?", "Good aunt , stand up .", "Even such , they say , as stand in narrow lanes", "If any plague hang over us , \u2018 tis he .", "My dangerous cousin , let your mother in :", "But for our trusty brother-in-law and the abbot ,", "What means our cousin that he stares and looks", "And thy abundant goodness shall excuse", "With all the rest of that consorted crew ,", "For there , they say , he daily doth frequent", "Withdraw yourselves , and leave us here alone .", "They shall not live within this world , I swear ,", "As dissolute as desperate ; yet through both", "Uncle , farewell : and , cousin , adieu :", "And now chang 'd to \u2018 The Beggar and the King . \u2019", "With unrestrained loose companions ,", "Intended or committed was this fault ?", "Can no man tell me of my unthrifty son ?", "That we may arm us to encounter it ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 42}, {"query": ["And told him of those triumphs held at Oxford .", "My lord , some two days since I saw the prince ,", "And from the common'st creature pluck a glove"], "true_target": ["He would unhorse the lustiest challenger .", "And wear it as a favour ; and with that", "His answer was : he would unto the stews ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 42}, {"query": ["Unless a pardon ere I rise or speak .", "My tongue cleave to my roof within my mouth ,", "Stay thy revengeful hand ; thou hast no cause to fear .", "God save your Grace ! I do beseech your majesty ,", "Then give me leave that I may turn the key ,", "To have some conference with your Grace alone ."], "true_target": ["Remember , as thou read'st , thy promise pass 'd :", "That no man enter till my tale be done .", "My heart is not confederate with my hand .", "Unto my mother 's prayers I bend my knee .", "Where is the King ?", "For ever may my knees grow to the earth ,", "I do repent me ; read not my name there ;"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 42}, {"query": ["And he shall spend mine honour with his shame ,", "As thriftless sons their scraping fathers \u2019 gold .", "Thou kill'st me in his life ; giving him breath ,", "Peruse this writing here , and thou shalt know", "Open the door , or I will break it open .", "If thou do pardon , whosoever pray ,", "The traitor lives , the true man 's put to death .", "More sins for this forgiveness prosper may .", "Shall I , for love , speak treason to thy face ?", "A serpent that will sting thee to the heart .", "Fear , and not love , begets his penitence .", "I tore it from the traitor 's bosom , king ;", "This fester 'd joint cut off , the rest rest sound ;"], "true_target": ["Open the door , secure , foolhardy king :", "Thou hast a traitor in thy presence there .", "Mine honour lives when his dishonour dies ,", "Speak it in French , King , say \u2018 pardonne moy . \u2019", "Ill mayst thou thrive , if thou grant any grace !", "It was , villain , ere thy hand did set it down .", "My liege , beware ! look to thyself ;", "The treason that my haste forbids me show .", "This let alone will all the rest confound .", "So shall my virtue be his vice 's bawd ,", "Thou frantic woman , what dost thou make here ? Shall thy old dugs once more a traitor rear ?", "Forget to pity him , lest thy pity prove", "Against them both , my true joints bended be .", "Or my sham 'd life in his dishonour lies :"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 42}, {"query": ["\u2018 Pardon \u2019 should be the first word of thy speech .", "Ah ! my sour husband , my hard-hearted lord ,,", "An if I were thy nurse , thy tongue to teach ,", "And never see day that the happy sees ,", "I do not sue to stand ;", "Pity may move thee pardon to rehearse .", "Till thou give joy : until thou bid me joy", "We pray with heart and soul , and all beside :", "Come , my old son : I pray God make thee new .", "Pardon is all the suit I have in hand .", "No word like \u2018 pardon \u2019 for kings \u2019 mouths so meet .", "Our knees still kneel till to the ground they grow :", "Say \u2018 pardon , \u2019 king ; let pity teach thee how :", "I never long 'd to hear a word till now ;", "A beggar begs that never begg 'd before .", "His weary joints would gladly rise , I know ;", "Speak \u2018 pardon \u2019 as \u2018 tis current in our land ;", "The word is short , but not so short as sweet ;", "He prays but faintly and would be denied ;", "By pardoning Rutland , my transgressing boy .", "Yet am I sick for fear : speak it again ;", "Ours of true zeal and deep integrity .", "Or in thy piteous heart plant thou thine ear ,", "Speak with me , pity me , open the door :"], "true_target": ["A god on earth thou art .", "That hearing how our plaints and prayers do pierce ,", "Love , loving not itself , none other can .", "His words come from his mouth , ours from our breast ;", "Twice saying \u2018 pardon \u2019 doth not pardon twain ,", "His eyes do drop no tears , his prayers are in jest ;", "But makes one pardon strong .", "That sett'st the word itself against the word .", "Nay , do not say \u2018 stand up \u2019 ;", "His prayers are full of false hypocrisy ;", "What ho ! my liege , for God 's sake , let me in .", "A woman , and thine aunt , great king ; \u2018 tis I .", "Not yet , I thee beseech .", "That mercy which true prayer ought to have .", "Our prayers do out-pray his ; then let them have", "Thine eye begins to speak , set thy tongue there ,", "Pleads he in earnest ? Look upon his face ;", "Sweet York , be patient .Hear me , gentle liege .", "O happy vantage of a kneeling knee !", "The chopping French we do not understand .", "Say \u2018 pardon \u2019 first , and afterwards \u2018 stand up \u2019 .", "For ever will I walk upon my knees ,", "Dost thou teach pardon pardon to destroy ?", "O King , believe not this hard-hearted man :"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 42}, {"query": ["That would divorce this terror from my heart \u2019 ;", "\u2018 Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear ? \u2019", "As who should say \u2018 I would thou wert the man", "\u2018 Have I no friend ? \u2019 quoth he : he spake it twice", "Didst thou not mark the king , what words he spake ?"], "true_target": ["Was it not so ?", "Meaning the king at Pomfret . Come , let 's go .", "And urg 'd it twice together , did he not ?", "And , speaking it , he wistly looked on me ,", "I am the king 's friend , and will rid his foe ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 43}, {"query": ["These were his very words ."], "true_target": ["He did ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 43}, {"query": ["In humours like the people of this world ,", "Nor shall not be the last ; like silly beggars", "And none contented : sometimes am I king ;", "How now ! What means death in this rude assault ?", "The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear .", "That jade hath eat bread from my royal hand ;", "This hand hath made him proud with clapping him .", "Villain , thy own hand yields thy death 's instrument .", "Where no man never comes but that sad dog", "As thoughts of things divine , are intermix 'd", "While I stand fooling here , his Jack o \u2019 the clock .", "With nothing shall be pleas 'd till he be eas 'd", "To thread the postern of a needle 's eye . \u2019", "So is it in the music of men 's lives .", "For now hath time made me his numbering clock :", "Taste of it first as thou art wont to do .", "If thou love me , \u2018 tis time thou wert away .", "Is pointing still , in cleansing them from tears .", "My brain I 'll prove the female to my soul ;", "Music do I hear ?", "Persuades me I was better when a king ;", "Unlikely wonders ; how these vain weak nails", "Wast born to bear ? I was not made a horse ;", "That they are not the first of fortune 's slaves ,", "When time is broke and no proportion kept !", "And here have I the daintiness of ear", "Whereto my finger , like a dial 's point ,", "Nor I , nor any man that but man is", "May tear a passage through the flinty ribs", "Of such as have before endur 'd the like .", "Think that I am unking 'd by Bolingbroke ,", "Ha , ha ! keep time . How sour sweet music is", "Of that proud man that did usurp his back ?", "In me it seems it will make wise men mad .", "What art thou ? and how comest thou hither , man ,", "This prison where I live unto the world", "Rode he on Barbary ? Tell me , gentle friend ,", "But , for the concord of my state and time ,", "The devil take Henry of Lancaster and thee ! Patience is stale , and I am weary of it .", "And these same thoughts people this little world ,", "Runs posting on in Bolingbroke 's proud joy ,", "Then am I king 'd again ; and by and by", "Thoughts tending to ambition , they do plot", "As thus : \u2018 Come , little ones \u2019 ; and then again ,", "Forgiveness , horse ! Why do I rail on thee ,", "To check time broke in a disorder 'd string ;", "That staggers thus my person . Exton , thy fierce hand", "With being nothing ."], "true_target": ["For though it have holp madmen to their wits ,", "Go thou and fill another room in hell .", "And straight am nothing : but whate'er I be ,", "And in this thought they find a kind of ease ,", "A generation of still-breeding thoughts ,", "For \u2018 tis a sign of love ; and love to Richard", "And , for they cannot , die in their own pride .", "And yet I bear a burden like an ass ,", "And for because the world is populous ,", "That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire", "Show minutes , times , and hours ; but my time", "Which is the bell : so sighs and tears and groans", "And so I am : then crushing penury", "Who sitting in the stocks refuge their shame ,", "Thus play I in one person many people ,", "That many have and others must sit there :", "My thoughts are minutes ; and with sighs they jar", "Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world .", "And here is not a creature but myself ,", "Of this hard world , my ragged prison walls ;", "My soul the father : and these two beget", "Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward , here to die .", "This music mads me ; let it sound no more ;", "So proud that Bolingbroke was on his back !", "Since pride must have a fall ,\u2014 and break the neck", "With scruples , and do set the word itself", "I cannot do it ; yet I 'll hammer it out .", "Mount , mount , my soul ! thy seat is up on high ;", "Their watches on unto mine eyes , the outward watch ,", "I wasted time , and now doth time waste me ;", "Yet blessing on his heart that gives it me !", "Bearing their own misfortunes on the back", "Would he not stumble ? would he not fall down ,\u2014", "That brings me food to make misfortune live ?", "Now sir , the sound that tells what hour it is", "How went he under him ?", "Against the word :", "Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar ,", "Thoughts tending to content flatter themselves", "\u2018 It is as hard to come as for a camel", "Are clamorous groans , which strike upon my heart ,", "I have been studying how I may compare", "For no thought is contented . The better sort ,", "Hath with the king 's blood stain 'd the king 's own land .", "Had not an ear to hear my true time broke .", "Since thou , created to be aw 'd by man ,", "Thanks , noble peer ;", "Spur-gall 'd and tir 'd by jauncing Bolingbroke ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 44}, {"query": ["With much ado at length have gotten leave", "O ! how it yearn 'd my heart when I beheld ,", "That horse that I so carefully have dress 'd .", "My tongue dares not , that my heart shall say .", "So proudly as if he disdain 'd the ground .", "Hail , royal Prince !"], "true_target": ["In London streets , that coronation day ,", "When thou wert king ; who , travelling towards York ,", "I was a poor groom of thy stable , king ,", "To look upon my sometimes royal master 's face .", "That horse that thou so often hast bestrid ,", "When Bolingbroke rode on roan Barbary ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 44}, {"query": ["Who lately came from the king , commands the contrary .", "Help , help , help !"], "true_target": ["My lord , will't please you to fall to ?", "Fellow , give place ; here is no longer stay .", "My lord , I dare not : Sir Pierce of Exton ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 44}, {"query": ["Take hence the rest , and give them burial here .", "Both have I spilt ; O ! would the deed were good ;", "For now the devil , that told me I did well ,"], "true_target": ["Says that this deed is chronicled in hell .", "This dead king to the living king I 'll bear .", "As full of valour as of royal blood :"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 44}, {"query": ["Our town of Cicester in Gloucestershire ;", "Exton , I thank thee not ; for thou hast wrought", "That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow :", "Come , mourn with me for what I do lament ,", "I hate the murderer , love him murdered .", "Carlisle , this is your doom :", "So as thou livest in peace , die free from strife ;", "I 'll make a voyage to the Holy Land ,", "Kind uncle York , the latest news we hear", "More than thou hast , and with it joy thy life ;", "Lords , I protest my soul is full of woe ,", "Choose out some secret place , some reverend room ,", "With Cain go wander thorough shade of night ,", "Is that the rebels have consum 'd with fire", "They love not poison that do poison need ,", "In weeping after this untimely bier ."], "true_target": ["March sadly after ; grace my mournings here ,", "Right noble is thy merit , well I wot .", "A deed of slander with thy fatal hand", "But whether they be ta'en or slain we hear not .", "We thank thee , gentle Percy , for thy pains ;", "Upon my head and all this famous land .", "And put on sullen black incontinent .", "And never show thy head by day nor light .", "The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour ,", "For though mine enemy thou hast ever been ,", "Thy pains , Fitzwater , shall not be forgot ;", "To wash this blood off from my guilty hand .", "Nor do I thee : though I did wish him dead ,", "And to thy worth will add right worthy gains .", "High sparks of honour in thee have I seen .", "Welcome , my lord . What is the news ?", "But neither my good word nor princely favour :"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 45}, {"query": ["The heads of Salisbury , Spencer , Blunt , and Kent .", "First , to thy sacred state wish I all happiness ."], "true_target": ["At large discoursed in this paper here .", "The next news is : I have to London sent", "The manner of their taking may appear"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 45}, {"query": ["My lord , I have from Oxford sent to London", "The heads of Brocas and Sir Bennet Seely ,"], "true_target": ["Two of the dangerous consorted traitors", "That sought at Oxford thy dire overthrow ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 45}, {"query": ["With clog of conscience and sour melancholy ,", "Hath yielded up his body to the grave ;"], "true_target": ["The grand conspirator , Abbot of Westminster ,", "But here is Carlisle living , to abide", "Thy kingly doom , and sentence of his pride ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 45}, {"query": ["Great king , within this coffin I present", "From your own mouth , my lord , did I this deed ."], "true_target": ["Thy buried fear : herein all breathless lies", "Richard of Bordeaux , by me hither brought .", "The mightiest of thy greatest enemies ,"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 45}, {"query": ["Yes , General ?", "Look here , Treisure , it 's infernally awkward for everybody .", "Robert 's quite all right , is n't he ?", "Well , General , what 's the first move ?", "You locked \u2014", "Hallo ! Adela !", "He sold that weed you gave him , Dancy , to Kentman , the bookie , and these were the proceeds .", "Win at Bridge ?", "Ronny Dancy took a tenner off him , anyway , before dinner .", "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 ?", "She has on a lace cap over her finished hair , and the wrapper .", "Look here , Treisure , Mr De Levis has had a large sum of money taken from his bedroom within the last half hour .", "What d'you want me to do ?", "When was he up last ?", "Good Lord ! How much ?", "Newmarket at this time of night \u2014 four miles .", "In bed ?", "I know .", "What do you suggest ?", "Send her for Margaret and the Dancys \u2014 there 's nobody else in this wing .", "Where did you put them ?", "Good Lord ! We 're not in Town ; there 'll be nobody nearer than", "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 .", "You must have been marked down and followed here .", "Show him in .", "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 ?", "That young man has too much luck \u2014 the young bounder won two races to-day ; and he 's as rich as Croesus .", "Good evening , Inspector . Sorry to have brought you out at this time of night .", "We do .", "No ; send her to bed . We do n't want gossip . D'you mind going yourself ,", "He must have been followed here .After rain like that , there ought to be footmarks . The splutter of a motor cycle is heard .", "Quite .Come in ! TREISURE enters .", "Between the quarter and half past . He 'd locked his door and had the key with him .", "When did he go to bed ?", "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 .", "Of course , De Levis !", "What time did you shut up ?", "What were they ?", "Anybody about ?", "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 ?", "This seems to have happened between 11. 15 and 11. 30 . Is that right ?Any noise-anything outside-anything suspicious anywhere ?", "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 .", "Is he ?", "How was your window ?", "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 .", "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 ?"], "true_target": ["Yes ; but there 's a way of doing things .", "Look here , De Levis , eighty or ninety notes must have been pretty bulky . You did n't have them on you at dinner ?", "This is damned awkward , De Levis .", "Did you hear anything ?", "By Jove ! It will .", "Suspicious ?", "The door from the bedroom is suddenly opened and LADY ADELA appears .", "Who 's beyond them ?", "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 ?", "What 's the move now , General ?", "And saw nothing ?", "Who did ?", "And you found it locked \u2014 and took them from there to put under your pillow ?", "How long has Morison been up with you ?", "Right . Could you get him too ? D'you really want the police ,", "Run your mind over things , Treisure \u2014 has any stranger been about ?", "Thrilling ! What 's to be done ? He wants it back .", "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 .", "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 .", "He 'd tried her high , he said .", "All right . Get Robert up , but do n't say anything to him . By the way , we 're expecting the police .", "Who valets Mr De Levis ?", "Phew !", "Yes . General Canynge .", "Adela ?", "I entirely refuse to suspect anybody .", "Having a bath ; with his room locked and the key in his pocket .", "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 .", "Next to you ? The Dancys on this side , and Miss Orme on the other . What 's that to do with it ?", "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 .", "But did he go ?", "What !How do you mean stolen ?", "You might take it seriously , Margaret ; it 's pretty beastly for us all . What time did you come up ?", "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 an hour . Then she 's all right .", "Is it likely ?", "What ? That weed Dancy gave you in the Spring ?", "You 've got a balcony like this . Any sign of a ladder or anything ?", "Well , he can n't exist on backing losers .", "De Levis ?", "Yes ! What am I to do ? Fetch the servants out of their rooms ? Search the grounds ? It 'll make the devil of a scandal .", "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 .", "Have you got the numbers of the notes ?", "Treisure has been here since he was a boy . I should as soon suspect myself .", "Worse ; he 's had a lot of money stolen . Nearly a thousand pounds .", "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 .", "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 ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 46}, {"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": 3, "act_index": 46}, {"query": ["If Lord St Erth and General Canynge backed him he 'd get in if he did sell carpets !", "Gracious ! Where ?", "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 .", "Are n't you rather prejudiced ?", "They 're next door .", "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 .", "Nice child ; awfully gone on him .", "No \u2014 but if we had .", "Oh ! Charlie , he did look so exactly as if he 'd sold me a carpet when I was paying him .", "He says it 's too dull , now there 's no fighting .", "De Levis ; and Margaret Orme at the end . Charlie , do you realise that the bathroom out there has to wash those four ?", "Really ? And you say I have n't intuition !Morison 's in there .", "Of course !Oh ! But Oh ! it 's quite too unpleasant !"], "true_target": ["But how fearfully thrilling !", "What is it ? Are you ill , Mr De Levis ?", "I came up at eleven , and rang for her at once .", "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 .", "Consult General Canynge , Charlie .", "No fear .", "No ! How ?", "Do n't be so naughty , Meg .", "Is n't it just like him to get married now ? He really is the most reckless person .", "Lord St Erth and Ferdy De Levis .", "Quite indecently \u2014 both of them .", "Oh ! Mr De Levis !", "Poor young man ; I think we 're rather hard on him ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 46}, {"query": ["Damn it ! What do you mean ? I WAS !", "Oh , yes !", "Within the last twenty minutes , certainly .", "Certainly ; only , the way he \u2014", "Yes .", "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 .", "I ? All I know is \u2014 the money was there , and it 's gone .", "Nearly a thousand-nine hundred and seventy , I think .", "Just round the corner in the further paddock .", "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 .", "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 .", "I did n't notice anything .", "How would they know my room ?", "Unless there 's anybody you think \u2014", "Of course , he \u2014 I suppose you \u2014"], "true_target": ["No .", "No .", "Yes . I should like it back .", "I sold my Rosemary filly to-day on the course to Bentman the bookie , and he paid me in notes .", "One hundred , three fifties , and the rest tens and fives .", "I put it under my pillow and went to have a bath ; when I came back it was gone .", "No .", "Open .", "From under my pillow , Lady Adela \u2014 my door was locked \u2014 I was in the bath-room .", "In a boot , and the boot in my suitcase , and locked it . TREISURE smiles faintly .", "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 .", "They may have heard something .", "Well , I 'll go to my room . When the police come , perhaps you 'll let me know . He goes out .", "Yes , and had the key here .Look here !It 's been stuffed with my shaving papers .", "Yes , I do .", "How do you know ? TREISURE 's eyes rest on DE LEVIS ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 46}, {"query": ["No , Sir .", "The ladder has not been moved , General . There is n't a sign .", "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 .", "Twenty-three feet from the terrace , sir .", "In the ordinary course of things , about ten o'clock , sir .", "I dismissed at eleven .", "I am a pretty good judge of character , sir , if you 'll excuse me .", "Yes , sir ?", "Indeed , Sir !", "Robert , Sir ."], "true_target": ["I beg your pardon , sir .", "But if Mr De Levis feels otherwise , sir ?", "Inspector Dede , Sir .", "It is , sir .", "Thank you , sir .", "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 ?", "I trust they will not find a mare 's nest , sir , if I may say so . He goes .", "The proper thing , sir , I suppose , would be a cordon and a complete search \u2014 in our interests .", "No , sir .", "Very good , General .", "He is , sir .", "To the best of my knowledge . Is there anything I can do , sir ?"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 46}, {"query": ["Did you happen to look out of your window , Mrs Dancy ?", "You had better leave this in our hands , De Levis .", "Any ladders near ?", "We do n't want to rouse any ridiculous suspicion .", "We should n't have wanted the police .", "Just slip down , and see whether that 's been moved .", "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 ?", "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 .", "Just a minute , Charles . He draws dose to WINSOR as the others are departing to their rooms ."], "true_target": ["You were n't up for anything in between ?", "When ?", "That 's for the police .", "When exactly did you come up , Dance ?", "Yes , it 's just stopped . You saw nothing ?", "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 .", "We must be careful with this Inspector fellow . If he pitches hastily on somebody in the house it 'll be very disagreeable .", "Mr De Levis presses the matter ?", "Directly .Yes ? TREISURE enters . Well ?"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 46}, {"query": ["Only little Ferdy splashing .", "No . That 's it . The hotel touch .", "I hope he 'll want me ; it 's just too thrilling .", "Here 's the wind !", "Not even that , alas !"], "true_target": ["A thousand pounds ? I can n't even conceive having it .", "I came up with Adela . Am I suspected , Charles ? How thrilling !", "How quaint ! Just like an hotel . Does he put his boots out ?", "The mystery of the grey room .", "Did he say \u201c like the wind , \u201d Adela ? He must have imagination . Is n't this gorgeous ? Poor little Ferdy !"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 46}, {"query": ["Just about eleven , I should think . It was raining hard then .", "Oh ! Ronny , what bad luck !"], "true_target": ["Yes . I stood there quite five minutes .", "No .", "I 've been asleep nearly half an hour , and Ronny 's only just come up ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 46}, {"query": ["We probably should n't have found it out .", "Ought n't the grounds to be searched for footmarks ?", "The deuce ! Are they coming ?", "What time does he say the money was taken ?", "Oh !"], "true_target": ["No .", "I hope he wo n't want me ; I 'm dog-tired . Come on , Mabel .", "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 .", "He would .", "Come to you \u2014 as he did ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 46}, {"query": ["Good evenin \u2019 , sir . Mr WINSOR ? You 're the owner here , I think ?"], "true_target": ["Good evenin \u2019 , General . I understand , a large sum of money ?", "Right , sir ; I 've brought a man with me . They go out ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 46}, {"query": ["Were you there alone ?", "Where is your room ?", "You 're welcome , sir .", "Are you sure there was nobody in the room already ?", "Now , be careful . Did you go to bed at all ?", "We have , General . I can pick up nothing near the terrace .", "I 'm just going , gentlemen . The grounds , I 'm sorry to say , have yielded nothing . It 's a bit of a puzzle .", "If you 're coming in to the racing to-morrow , sir , you might give us a call . I 'll have seen Kentman by then .", "Did you happen to look under his bed ?", "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 .", "and a gentleman on this", "Thinkin \u2019 and cursin \u2019 a bit , I suppose . Ye-es ?", "In my experience , you can never have too much of that .", "Quite so . This is just clearing the ground , sir .", "Well ?", "Shutting the window ?", "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 ?", "Did not look under bed . Did you look under it after the theft ?", "A bookie . I do n't suppose he will , sir . It 's come and go with them , all the time .", "Very good . You can go . I 'll see them later on .", "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 .", "Were they in their rooms ?", "Precise , if you can give it me .", "I had not overlooked that , General .", "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 .", "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 .", "Drawin \u2019 the curtains back first ?", "Did you open the window , sir , or was it open when you first came in ?", "Just undressin \u2019 ? Did n't look over your bettin \u2019 book ?"], "true_target": ["You valet Mr \u2014 Mr De Levis , I think ?", "Well , sir , there 's your story corroborated .", "No prayers or anything ?", "Exactly .Now , sir , what time did you come up ?", "At what time did you take his clothes and boots ?", "Were you out of the room again after you went in ?", "What time did you go to bed ?", "Call him back . TREISURE calls \u201c Robert , \u201d and the FOOTMAN re-enters .", "Do they know of the affair ?", "Put them back . Hands keys to CONSTABLE , who goes out , followed by TREISURE . I 'll have to try every key in the house , sir .", "Did you notice anything particular about Mr De Levis 's clothes ?", "Then why did you say you did ? There 's been a theft here , and anything you say may be used against you .", "What did you make of that ?", "Did you come up again for 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 .", "Did you look for it ?", "Ah ! Now , what did you do after you came back from your bath ? Just give us that precisely .", "I mean \u2014 anything peculiar ?", "What were you doing , if you did n't go to bed ?", "I understand there 's a lady in the room on this side", "Pretty slippy with your undressin \u2019 as a rule ?", "Did you come up again , to bring the clothes back ?", "Mr WINSOR , what time did the gentleman come to you ?", "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 .", "Not lockin \u2019 the door ?", "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 !", "Let me have a look at those , sir .And then ?", "How do you fix that , sir ?", "Very good ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 47}, {"query": ["Yes . Say five past eleven .", "General , I know who took them .", "In my race , do you mean ?", "About eleven .", "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 ?", "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 .", "Yes .", "Very conclusive .", "Accusation .", "Dancy does .", "Since when is a thief a gentleman ? Thick as thieves \u2014 a good motto , is n't it ?", "Hospitality that skins my feelings and costs me a thousand pounds !", "I do n't know why it should need corroboration ,", "I have n't the least doubt of it .", "Inspector .", "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 opened it .", "I think I just sat on the bed .", "I do n't know . I never thought . I did n't look under the bed , if you mean that .", "Not so far as I shall go , General Canynge , if those notes are n't given back . WINSOR comes in .", "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 .", "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 ."], "true_target": ["I did n't want the mare ; I took her as a favour .", "No .", "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 .", "No .", "Not so mad as the conclusion Dancy jumped to when he lighted on my balcony .", "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 .", "No .", "I 'll say nothing about it , unless I get more proof .", "How do you know that he did n't ?", "No , I do n't .", "No . I did n't .", "Can I come in again ?", "No ; you do n't say these things , any of you .", "Do you suggest that I bet in ready money ?", "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 .", "My tongue is still mine , General , if my money is n't !", "You can deal with Dancy in your own way . All I want is the money back .", "Social blackmail ? H 'm !", "Rats !", "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 .", "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 .", "Then I put on my dressing-gown and went straight to Mr WINSOR .", "Ah ! But you have n't known me since I was a boy ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 47}, {"query": ["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 .", "It 's mad , sir , to jump to conclusions like this .", "You could get the numbers of the notes from Kentman the bookmaker , Inspector ; he 'll probably have the big ones , anyway .", "Then you can n't suggest any one who could have known ? Nothing else was taken , you see .", "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 .", "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 .", "Mr De Levis feels that he is only valued for his money , so that it is essential for him to have it back .", "Quite damp . It 's been raining . The two look at each other .", "It stopped before I came up , half an hour ago .", "Nor did I think it .", "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 ?", "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 .", "Go and get Dancy , WINSOR ; but do n't say anything to him . WINSOR goes out .", "Levis , but not many people with so large a sum in their pocket-books .", "\u2018 Pon my soul , Mr De Levis , you go too far .", "Young Dancy was an officer and is a gentleman ; this insinuation is pure supposition , and you must not make it . Do you understand me ?", "That other balcony is young Dancy 's , Mr De Levis ; a soldier and a gentleman . This is an extraordinary insinuation .", "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 ?", "There 's a development , WINSOR . Mr De Levis accuses one of your guests .", "WINSOR ! Dancy 's sleeve was damp .", "Inspector \u2014 you er \u2014 walked up to the window when you first came into the room .", "Without any proof . This is very ugly , De Levis . I must tell", "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 .", "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 .", "I agree . Intolerable .Mr De Levis ! DE LEVIS returns into view , in the centre of the open window ."], "true_target": ["You 've searched thoroughly ?", "Did you hear anything that throws light , Dancy ? As it was your filly originally , we thought perhaps you might .", "What !", "I said nothing of the sort .", "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 .", "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 .", "You can n't help us , then ?", "Do you know that he did ?", "Dancy .", "To anyone who aspires to be a gentleman , Sir .", "WINSOR .", "Did n't hear of the sale on the course at all ?", "Good-night !", "With an eye to possibilities , I venture to think \u2014 the principle guides a good many transactions .", "Nobody could have taken this money who did not know you had it .", "Well ?", "Of course . A knock on the door relieves a certain tension ,", "There are a good many people still rolling , besides Mr De", "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 .", "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 .", "Make up your mind . A pause .", "With the outside of the upper part of the arm ?", "The deuce you do ! Are you following the Inspector 's theory ?", "Nothing else , thank you ,", "It was coming down hard ; a minute out in it would have been enough \u2014"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 47}, {"query": ["I 'd just looked at the time , and told my wife to send her maid off .", "General , d'you mind touching that bell ? CANYNGE rings a bell by the bed .", "Half-past eleven .", "Damn it ! This is monstrous , De Levis . I 've known Ronald Dancy since he was a boy .", "I \u2014 I do n't follow \u2014", "You see , De Levis ? He did n't even know you 'd got the money .", "H 'm ! You 'll take it up from the other end , then , Inspector ?", "Really , De Levis , if this is the way you repay hospitality \u2014", "Damn De Levis and his money ! It 's deuced invidious , all this , General .", "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 .", "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 .", "TREISURE .", "No . DE LEVIS turns and goes out on to the balcony .", "He must have been out on his balcony since .", "Well ! You are \u2014! There is a knock on the door , and the INSPECTOR enters ."], "true_target": ["Yes .", "Miss Orme was ; Captain Dancy not .", "Right you are , Inspector . Good night , and many thanks .", "I 'll come with you , Inspector . He escorts him to the door , and they go out .", "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 .", "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 .", "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 .", "What do you say , De Levis ? D'you want everybody in the house knocked up so that their keys can be tried ?", "We do n't want a Meldon Court scandal , Inspector .", "It 's the extreme end of the house from this , Inspector . He 's with the other two footmen .", "What ?", "Come in .", "He 's been leaning on the wet stone , then .", "How d'you mean ?", "Very well , Inspector ; only \u2014 my butler has been with us from a boy .", "The footman ROBERT , a fresh-faced young man , enters , followed by"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 47}, {"query": ["Yes , Sir . I meant , I went to my room .", "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 .", "A pair of his boots this evenin \u2019 was reduced to one , sir .", "Only that they were very good , Sir .", "Ten o'clock , sir .", "No , Sir .", "No , Sir . Thomas and Frederick was there too .", "No , Sir ; I meant to draw his attention to it in the morning ."], "true_target": ["On the ground floor , at the other end of the right wing , sir .", "Yes , Sir .", "No , Sir .", "Yes , Sir .", "I thought he might have thrown the other at a cat or something .", "No , sir .", "Beggin \u2019 your pardon , Sir , we were playin \u2019 Bridge .", "Yes , Sir ?", "Just after eleven , Sir .", "No , Sir ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 47}, {"query": ["He won two races .", "No .", "I ? No ."], "true_target": ["De Levis is known to be rolling , as I am known to be stony .", "No . I can n't . Anything else ?", "I do n't know how you bet , and I do n't care ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 47}, {"query": ["Better develop it so that t-two can sit out , General .", "Hallo , C-Colford .", "I 'm sorry ; but has he t-taken it in quite the right way ? I should have thought \u2014 hearing it s-suddenly \u2014", "Dancy ! Great S-Scott !", "Rosemary ! And De Levis sold her ! But he got a good p-price , I suppose . The other three look at him .", "And the r-rub .", "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 ."], "true_target": ["Are you going to play any more ?", "They always try to take mine , General . I shall never belong to the noble f-fellowship of the horse .", "But of c-course he was , General . What did you expect ? A FOOTMAN enters .", "I thought the horse m-meant the same to everyone , General \u2014 chance to get the b-better of one 's neighbour .", "The Courts are b-beastly distrustful , do n't you know .", "Damages , and a stain on his c-character .", "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 .", "I thought his wanting to f-fight him a bit screeny ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 48}, {"query": ["It 's perfectly damnable for him .", "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 .", "Colford !The General felt his coat sleeve that night , and it was wet .", "I 've known him all his life .", "Yes . What 'll be his position even if he wins ?", "Is it fair to Dancy not to let him know ?", "You and I , Borring . He sits down in CANYNGE 'S chair , and the GENERAL takes his place by the fire .", "He only had the numbers of two \u2014 the hundred , and one of the fifties .", "Quite so , unless they find the real thief . People always believe the worst ."], "true_target": ["Of course , he 'll bring a case , when he 's thought it over .", "Well \u2014 if he did ?", "Are you going to retract , and apologise in front of Dancy and the members who heard you ?", "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 !", "Thank you . That 's all . FOOTMAN goes .", "Not yet . As he speaks , DE LEVIS comes in . He is in a highly-coloured , not to say excited state . COLFORD follows him .", "By George ! You do hold cards , Borring .", "If he did do it \u2014", "Unless you stop this at once , you may find yourself in prison . If you can stop it , that is ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 48}, {"query": ["And they have n't traced \u2018 em ?", "Well , Dancy ?", "Evidently . Deal ! As BORRING begins to deal the door is opened and MAJOR COLFORD appears \u2014 a lean and moustached cavalryman .", "I do n't like it .", "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 .", "If I were young Dancy , nothing should induce me .", "This Club has always had a decent , quiet name .", "What won the Cambridgeshire ?", "I looked in on my way down . CANYNGE sits very still , and WINSOR utters a disturbed sound .", "More damnable if he did it , WINSOR .", "He can make it a criminal action .", "Not a patch on the old whist \u2014 this game . Do n't know why I play it \u2014 never did .", "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 .", "No .", "Newmarket , Canynge , in spite of the weather .", "This concerns the honour of the Club . Are you going to take action ?", "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 ."], "true_target": ["It leaves a bad taste . I 'm sorry for young Mrs", "Dancy \u2014 poor woman !", "All the money goes to fellows who do n't know a horse from a haystack .", "What are we to do in the meantime ?", "You seem a venomous young man .", "That 'll do , Mr De Levis ; we wo n't keep you .Kindly consider your membership suspended till this matter has been threshed out .", "Captain Dancy , a serious accusation has been made against you by this gentleman in the presence of several members of the Club .", "Many a slip between price and pocket , young man .", "That you robbed him of that money at WINSOR 's .", "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", "WINSOR ?", "By the way , Canynge , young De Levis was blackballed .", "Captain Dancy !", "Well , Captain Dancy ?", "H 'm ! It never settled anything , except who could shoot straightest .", "Did Kentman ever give the police the numbers of those notes ,", "We 've told you \u2014 take action , to clear your name ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 48}, {"query": ["Let 's hear what 's won the", "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 .", "Cambridgeshire . Ring , wo n't you , WINSOR ?", "It 's for De Levis to prove what he asserts . You heard what he said about Goole ?", "Then bring Dancy up , will you ? But do n't say anything to him .", "And care less . Yes ! We want men racing to whom a horse means something .", "Choose your expressions more nicely , please !", "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 .", "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 .", "That 's the first we have heard about the door .", "What !", "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 .", "There is no decent way out of a thing of this sort ."], "true_target": ["One moment . Mr Borring , d'you mind \u2014", "You appear to have your breed on the brain , sir . Nobody else does , so far as I know .", "It 's a matter of indifference to me , sir , what you tell people .", "The horse is a noble animal , sir , as you 'd know if you 'd owed your life to them as often as I have .", "Steady , Colford !", "We 're as anxious to believe Dancy as you , Colford , for the honour of the Army and the Club .", "How long after you left the billiard-room ?", "Are those fellows still in there , Colford ?", "St Erth , shall we raise the flag for whist again ?", "What !", "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 .", "Our duty is to the Club now , WINSOR . We must have this cleared up . COLFORD comes in , followed by BORRING and DANCY .", "Cut !"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 48}, {"query": ["Rosemary , my lord . Sherbet second ; Barbizon third . Nine to one the winner ."], "true_target": ["Yes , my lord ?"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 48}, {"query": ["About five minutes .", "His word 's good enough for me .", "Would n't you have wanted a shot at the brute ? A law court ? Pah !", "Damn that effeminate stammering chap ! What can we do for", "I want your advice . Young De Levis in therehas started a blasphemous story \u2014", "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 .", "If Dancy 's asked to resign , you may take my resignation too .", "Yes .", "No .", "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 .", "My God ! If you repeat that \u2014"], "true_target": ["Certainly I did ; you were there when I went to the smoking-room .", "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 .", "Dancy , WINSOR ?", "Yes , by God !", "Well ! What proof 's that ? No , by George ! An old school-fellow , a brother officer , and a pal .", "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 .", "De Levis says he 's nothing to add to what he said to you before , on the subject .", "They do .", "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 .", "General ! Something in the tone of his voice brings them all to a standstill .", "Bosh !"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 48}, {"query": ["Why did you tell General Canynge you did n't know Kentman had paid me in cash ?", "Thief !", "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 .", "You 've let me down .", "I should like to hear what your wife says about it .", "I remembered it afterwards .", "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 .", "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 .", "Confront me with Dancy and give me fair play .", "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 ."], "true_target": ["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 .", "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 .", "No fear !", "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 .", "If you were downstairs all the time , as you say , why was your door first open and then shut ?", "But you did n't steal my money , Lord St Erth .", "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 !", "Well , General Canynge ! It 's a little too strong all this \u2014 a little too strong .", "Then Kentman and Goole lied \u2014 for no reason ?", "Well , I shall tell people that you and Lord St Erth backed me up for one Club , and asked me to resign from another .", "Suppose I had robbed Dancy , would you chase him out for complaining of it ?"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 48}, {"query": ["If he told me , I did n't take it in .", "That is a very expensive business , Lord St Erth , and", "I 'll settle this matter with any weapons , when and where he likes .", "I 'm hard up . I must think it over .", "What is it ?", "Leave my wife alone , you damned Jew !", "Will you retract ?", "If the brute wo n't fight , what am I to do , sir ?"], "true_target": ["Colford , you saw me in the hall writing letters after our game .", "Being downstairs , how should I know ? The wind , probably .", "Will you fight ?", "Indeed ! On what grounds is he good enough to say that ?", "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 ?", "It 's impossible for me to prove that I was there all the time .", "Because I did n't .", "That 's nothing to do with me ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 48}, {"query": ["I can n't realise \u2014 I simply can n't . If there 's a case would it be all right afterwards ?", "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 .", "No , no !", "But they 'll find the real thief .", "But you must \u2014 I was there all the time , with the door open .", "But you do . I must have seen , I must have heard .", "It 's for him they ought \u2014", "A desperate character .", "But how can we ? Everybody would say \u2014", "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 .", "I could n't bear people to think \u2014", "I hate half-hearted friends . Loyalty comes before everything .", "But \u2014\u2014 Good heavens !\u2014\u2014 Me !", "Ronny ! If all the world \u2014 I 'd believe in you . You know I would .", "Were they talking of this last night at the WINSOR 's ?", "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 .", "But I might \u2014 just as easily . What would you think of me if I ran away from it ?", "I must see Ronny . D'you mind if I go and try to get him on the telephone ?", "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 !", "I 'm almost sure .", "Oh ! I could n't \u2014 it looks like running away . We must stay and fight it !", "We 'll fight it tooth and nail !", "That he was robbing us .Ronny \u2014 you \u2014 did n't ? I 'd rather know .", "Ronny ! Why did n't you tell me ?", "Ronny , I do n't understand \u2014 suppose I 'd been accused of stealing pearls !", "In other words , I 'm lying ."], "true_target": ["If I can n't believe in you , who can ?", "But it 's monstrous !", "Oh ! How horrible of me \u2014 how horrible !", "Do you know what Margaret called you ?", "No ; he 's not at Tattersall 's , nor at the Club . LADY ADELA rises and greets her with an air which suggests bereavement .", "That wretch ! How dare he ? Darling !It 's hurt you awfully , I know .", "It 's wicked ! Yesterday afternoon at the Club , did you say ? Ronny has n't said a word to me . Why ?", "What do you mean ?", "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 ?", "Mr De Levis , you are robbing my husband of his good name .", "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 !", "He is in . Why do you want to see him ?", "No . I want it .", "Ronny !", "So easy , is n't it ? I could kill anybody who believes such a thing .", "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 .", "Come in . DE LEVIS comes in , and stands embarrassed . Yes ?", "That beast , De Levis ! I was in our room next door all the time .", "Nobody who does need come here , or trouble to speak to us again .", "I do n't know ; I \u2014 I think it was .", "What do you mean \u2014 Court ?", "It 's terrible , such a thing \u2014 terrible !", "Ronny ?", "Do n't ! You hurt me !", "Oh ! at once !", "Listen ! There 's Ronny ! DANCY comes in ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 49}, {"query": ["If only Ronny were n't known to be so broke .", "Well , you can say so in Court any way . Not that it matters . Wives are liars by law .", "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 ?", "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 ?", "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", "My dear , he 'll have to bring an action for defamation of character , or whatever they call it .", "Did you get him ?", "Yes ; have you ever read him ?", "Well , he 's all for esprit de corps and that . But he was awfully silent .", "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 .", "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 !", "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 .", "Stand for De Levis against one of ourselves ?", "Was the door into Ronny 's dressing-room open ?", "Does n't want you bothered ."], "true_target": ["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 !", "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 .", "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 .", "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 .", "It must be too frightfully thrilling .", "Well , you know a dinner-table , Mabel \u2014 Scandal is heaven-sent at this time of year .", "I do n't care . He 's my third cousin . Do n't you feel you could n't , Adela ?", "Yes . We 're just going . Oh ! Ronny , this is quite too \u2014", "Have n't you found out , Mabel , that he is n't exactly communicative ? No desperate character is .", "Ye-es ; but loyalties cut up against each other sometimes , you know .", "You 'll want a solicitor , Mabel , Go to old Mr Jacob Twisden .", "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 !", "So that 's why he was so silent .", "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 ?", "Mabel , you 're pure wool , right through ; everybody 's sorry for you .", "That 's the mistake . The General is n't mentioning the coat , is he ?"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 49}, {"query": ["Where is she ?", "You got it from Bergson , Meg . Is n't he wonderful ?", "But they 're so fond of each other !", "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 .", "Oh ! I shall remember that . Delightful !", "No .", "Oh , no ! It was only to Charles . MABEL returns .", "Nobody 's going to believe this , my dear .", "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 ."], "true_target": ["Charles sent his-love \u2014", "Never .", "That 's what I was afraid of ; you 're going to be defiant . Now do n't ! Just be perfectly natural .", "That 's very narrow , Meg .", "Meg , you 're very tantalising !", "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?", "Could n't \u2014 what ?", "Oh ! Do tell !", "My dear , my great grandmother was a Jewess . I 'm very proud of her .", "Yes ; he 's so comforting ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 49}, {"query": ["I wanted to see De Levis again first .", "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 .", "You will sign .", "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 .", "You are a little brick !", "I see .All right ! You shall have a run for your money . I 'll go and see old Twisden .", "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 .", "Ha ! I thought that was coming .", "Suppose I did n't get a verdict \u2014 you never can tell .", "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 .", "What have they been saying ?", "Yes . I want you to sign this .", "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", "What did you say to that swine ?"], "true_target": ["Very good of you to have come .", "Yes . You do n't know much of me , Mabel .", "Will staying here help them to do that ?", "Go ahead ! He goes out into the bedroom .", "Mabel , I want to speak to him alone .", "Well ! Do you agree with him ?", "Yes . But you 're my wife .", "That I would n't be playing this game unless \u2014", "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 .", "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 can n't .", "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 .", "Was it ?", "Not at all . The thing looks bad ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 49}, {"query": ["No ."], "true_target": ["Let them ! We sha n't be here ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 49}, {"query": ["Your husband , Mrs Dancy ?", "I admire your trustfulness , Mrs Dancy .", "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 .", "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 .", "You came to see me .", "A wife 's memory is not very good when her husband is in danger ."], "true_target": ["Not much !", "I will sign nothing .", "Quite right , Mrs Dancy . Black and tan swashbuckling will only make things worse for him .", "No . Your wish is mother to your thought , that 's all .", "No , Mrs Dancy .", "Unfortunately .", "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 ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 49}, {"query": ["A Mr Gilman , sir , to see Mr Twisden .", "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 .", "No , sir . But important , he says ."], "true_target": ["Orme .", "They enter , and the CLERK withdraws .", "Mr WINSOR , sir , and Miss"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 50}, {"query": ["His partner . Graviter my name is .", "How much did he give you in all ?", "What 's to be done about Dancy ?", "Phew !...Gosh ! It 's an awful thing for his wife .", "Do !", "Too respectable . If De Levis got those notes back , and the rest of the money , anonymously ?", "Yes ?", "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 .", "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 .", "The fifty-pounder . I see .", "As you say .", "Ask him , sir ; ask him .", "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 ?", "Mr Gilman ? Yes .", "What 's his address ? What ...?", "No . He 's at the Courts . They 're just up ; he should be in directly . But he 'll be busy .", "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 .", "The Bedford .", "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 .", "Most people have .", "D'you know , I believe she knows .", "Not uncommon .", "De Levis might have challenged the other ten , Miss Orme ."], "true_target": ["Very well ; then , perhaps , you 'll go in there .", "Bring Mrs Dancy up .MABEL DANDY is shown in , looking very pale . TWISDEN advances from the fire , and takes her hand .", "By appointment ?", "Thank you . All right .", "Good night , Mrs Dancy . MABEL goes .", "Man called Gilman waiting in there to see you specially .", "Did we shake Kentman or Goole ?", "How d'you do , Miss Orme ? How do you do , WINSOR ?", "No ?", "I should like to hear Mr Jacob on that , WINSOR . He 'll be in directly .", "Not yet .", "Can Sir Frederic spare Mr Twisden a few minutes now if he comes round ?He 's gone down to Brighton for the night .", "Yes , but not till you 've gone .", "Has n't that shaken you , sir ? It has me .", "Oho !", "We considered it . Sir Frederic decided that he could use him better in cross-examination .", "Exactly .", "Society cases ; they brew so long beforehand , you see .", "By George ! I feel bad about this .", "Excuse me . He goes .", "I do n't believe this alters what I 've been thinking .", "What are you going to do then , sir ?", "No ; I can n't say \u2014", "By the way , sir , what is your business ?"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 50}, {"query": ["Mr", "Well , I prefer my own countrymen , and that 's the truth of it . As he speaks , GRAVITER comes in by the door Left Forward .", "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", "Twisden , I believe ? My name 's Gilman , head of Gilman 's Department", "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 .", "Mr Twisden 's not in , then ?", "Thank you .You see , I 've never been mixed up with the law \u2014", "This is my card . Gilman 's \u2014 several branches , but this is the \u2018 ead .", "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 .", "I suppose ?", "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 .", "Stores . You have my card .", "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 ."], "true_target": ["Wo n't be finished for a day or two ?", "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 ?", "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 .", "It 's this Dancy-De Levis case that 's keepin \u2019 him at the Courts ,", "GRAVITER nods .", "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 ?", "Astonishin \u2019 the interest taken in it .", "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 .", "Old Mr Jacob Twisden \u2014 I 've heard of him .", "I suppose there 's nothing else I ought to do , in the interests of the law ? I 'm a careful man .", "GRAVITER shakes his head . No .", "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 .", "Mr Jacob Twisden ?"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 50}, {"query": ["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 .", "I 'd rather you did it , Margaret .", "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 ?", "Well , can I go and see Canynge ?", "They 're looking for something lurid .", "Half a second , Margaret . Wait for me . She nods and goes out . Mr Twisden , what do you really think ?", "If they get that out of him , and recall me , am I to say he told me of it at the time ?", "Twisden not back , Graviter ?", "Look here , Mr Twisden \u2014"], "true_target": ["They had Kentman , and Goole , the Inspector , the other bobby , my footman , Dancy 's banker , and his tailor .", "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", "Well , we 'll go together . I do n't want Mrs Dancy to hear .", "No , thanks . The door is closed .", "It 's becoming a sort of Dreyfus case \u2014 people taking sides quite outside the evidence .", "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 .", "I said Dancy ought to have called him .", "Well ! I do n't know that . Can I go and see him before he gives evidence to-morrow ?", "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 ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 50}, {"query": ["I daresay .", "When I was in the bog , I thought they were looking for me .I suppose I must n't smoke , Mr Graviter ?", "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 .", "Wo n't Mr Jacob have a fit ?", "Mr Jacob , how charming !", "Do tell me , Mr Jacob ; is he going to win ?"], "true_target": ["Oh ! but quite distinctly . Do n't you think they ought to have been challenged ?", "No , dear Mr Jacob .", "There are more of the chosen in Court every day . Mr Graviter , have you noticed the two on the jury ?", "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 !", "Just a whiff .", "No , of course ; but , Mr Jacob , they might ask ; they know it rained . And he is such a George Washington .", "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 ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 50}, {"query": ["It went very well to-day ; very well indeed .", "Ask if I can come round and see him .", "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 ?", "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 .", "Very rightly , Mr Gilman \u2014 very rightly .", "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 .", "Yes . GRAVITERChance brought this here , sir . That man wo n't talk \u2014 he 's too scared .", "Ah ! How are you , Charles ? How do you do , my dear ?", "Now , then ?", "But the case , Graviter ; the case .", "Yes ; it 's the very best thing you can do . GRAVITER turns his head , and looks at them unobserved .", "When did he give you this money ?", "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 .", "Better not .", "They did n't ask either of you . Still-no harm in your telling Dancy .", "Yes . What can we do for you ?", "No , no ! I \u2014 I can n't go on with the case . It 's breaking faith . Get Sir Frederic 's chambers .", "H 'm ! that is very vague . If that is all you can tell us , I 'm afraid \u2014", "Young Dancy !GRAVITER returns , carefully shuts the door , and going up to him , hands him RICARDOS \u2019 card .", "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 .", "I am Dancy 's lawyer , my dear Charles , as well as yours .", "H 'm ! What hotel ?", "Mr Gilman has brought this , of which he is holder for value . His customer , who changed it three days ago , is coming up .", "It does not become everybody as it becomes you , Margaret .", "With threats that you would tell his wife ?", "My dear Mrs Dancy , there 's no need at all for you to come down to-morrow ; take a rest and nurse your head .", "So far as we are able to prevent it \u2014 certainly .", "My partner means , did you press him for this settlement ?", "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 .", "I take it that General Canynge wo n't say anything he 's not compelled to say .", "At your service , sir . GILMAN comes forth , nursing his pot hat . Be seated . TWISDEN closes the window behind him , and takes his seat ."], "true_target": ["Thank you . GILMAN retreats , glances at RICARDOS , and turns again .", "Without knowing , I can n't tell you . WINSOR and MARGARET exchange looks , and TWISDEN drinks from the saucer . MARGARET . Tell him , Charles .", "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 .", "Now , sir , will you sit down . But RICARDOS does not sit ; he stands looking uneasily across the table at GRAVITER . You may speak out .", "Good afternoon !", "Come , sir , speak out !", "See Dancy at once . Get him on the phone .", "Gilman .", "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 .", "When in difficulty \u2014 complete frankness , sir .", "Charles ?", "You received it from \u2014?", "Yes , yes ; but I must know .", "No , no ! She believes in him implicitly . A staunch little woman . Poor thing !", "I must .", "I am afraid we must press you for the name of the gentleman .", "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 .", "Where have they gone ?", "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 ?", "A thorn in the flesh , Mr Gilman .", "Not as against the law .", "I think so , Margaret ; I think so .", "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 .", "Mr Ricardos , was it Captain Dancy ?", "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 .", "Well , I 'd like to see him before the Court sits . Send him on here as soon as he comes .", "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 .", "We can n't go on with the case .", "Directly . Turn up the light , would you , Graviter ?", "You were not aware that it was stolen ?", "Yes . But professional honour comes first . What time is that train ?", "I 'll go down ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 50}, {"query": ["The notes were a settlement to her from this gentleman , of whom she was a great friend .", "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 .", "Sare , if I tell you , will you give me your good word that my daughter shall not hear of it ?", "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 .", "It is a family matter , sare , I \u2014", "Yes , sare .", "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 , this is very painful for me . It is my daughter 's good name \u2014"], "true_target": ["I did think it my duty to my daughter to ask that he make compensation to her .", "Gentlemen , I am so fond of my daughter . I have only the one , and no wife .", "Oh ! no , sare .", "A minute , sare ; I would weesh to explain \u2014in private .", "The middle of Octobare last .", "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 .", "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 .", "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 .", "Sare , I trust you .\u2014 It was Captain Dancy . A long pause . GRAVITERWere you blackmailing him ?"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 50}, {"query": ["I 'm so tired of \u2014! Thank you so much for all you 're doing . Good night ! Good night , Mr Graviter !", "Oh ! Mr Twisden , when will it be over ? My head 's getting awful sitting in that Court .", "You must be awfully fed up with us ."], "true_target": ["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 .", "I do n't know , but he 'll be home before ten o'clock tohYpppHeNmorrow . Is there anything ?", "Really and truly ?", "How do you think it 's going ?"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 50}, {"query": ["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 .", "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 .", "It 's all damned kind of you .But I must think of my wife . Give me a few minutes .", "Why ? What is it to you ?", "No .", "But you get no excitement from year 's end to year 's end . It 'd drive me mad .", "There are alternatives .", "How can you stick this ?", "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 .", "By me it 's just on the half-hour , sir ."], "true_target": ["WINSOR came to me yesterday about General Canynge 's evidence . Is that what you wanted to speak to me about ?", "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 .", "Oh !", "That 's very good of you , considering .", "Not ?", "Good old Morocco !", "He wanted to see me before the Court sat .", "It is ! They all turn round in consternation .", "I do n't know yet .", "Not if she 's wise .", "Were you in the war ?", "No . What now ?"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 51}, {"query": ["My trouble was to stick that , 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 .", "A case like this is pretty exciting . I 'd give a lot to see us win it .", "Yes , sir . Mr Twisden will see you in one minute . He had to go out of town last night ."], "true_target": ["Yes .", "Yes , sir .", "On the table , sir .", "Captain Dancy 's waiting , sir ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 51}, {"query": ["Captain Dancy ?", "Well ?", "Very well . Mr Graviter gone to the", "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 .", "No . It is n't that .", "There 's no end to human nature , General .", "You wanted to see me ?", "Did he leave anything for me ?", "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 .", "I have very serious news for you .", "I 've advised him to go straight off to Morocco .", "Graviter \u2014 No ; show them in . The YOUNG CLERK goes .", "Yes . I do n't want you to go to the Court .", "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 .", "We are obliged to you , Sir . It was good of you to come .", "De Levis ? Ca n't see him .", "Slowly , without turning his head , rather like a man in a dream ,", "Yes . He 's in there deciding what he 'll do .", "\u201c All corroborates . \u201d H 'm !Now , Captain Dancy . Sorry to have kept you waiting ."], "true_target": ["And I serve the Law , sir .", "Will you go , then , at once , and leave me to break it to your wife ?", "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 .", "Hssh ! Dancy 's in there . He 's admitted it . Voices are subdued at once .", "DANCY walks across the room , and goes out .", "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", "What is it ?", "Courts ?", "That was unfortunately unavoidable .", "You must allow me to judge where my duty lay , in a very hard case .", "You must decide quickly , to catch a boat train . Many a man has made good . You 're a fine soldier .", "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 ?", "These two notes .After the Court rose yesterday we had a man called Ricardos here .Is there any need for me to say more ?", "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 ?", "Money is n't the point , Margaret .", "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 ?", "Thank you . The CLERK goes .", "Tell them to call a taxi .", "Better go ! There 's a war in Morocco .", "Yes . The CLERK goes out , and almost immediately GRAVITER and CANYNGE enter . Good-morning , General .Well ?"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 51}, {"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": 3, "act_index": 51}, {"query": ["De Levis is here ."], "true_target": ["You can see queerer things in the papers , any day .", "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 ?"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 51}, {"query": ["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 .", "Colford 's badly cut up . MARGARET ORME and COLFORD enter .", "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 ?", "Is there anything I can do ?", "You heard what he said , Dancy . You have no time to lose . But DANCY does not stir ."], "true_target": ["That poor young wife of his ! WINSOR gave me a message for you ,", "Graviter , give me a sheet of paper . I 'll write a letter for him .", "Colford , you do n't understand professional etiquette .", "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 .", "Twisden . If money 's wanted quickly to save proceedings , draw on him ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 51}, {"query": ["Twisden .", "Guilty or not , you ought to have stuck to him \u2014 it 's not playing the game , Mr Twisden .", "I thought a man was safe with his solicitor .", "But I serve the Country .", "No , thank God !"], "true_target": ["Old boy !", "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 .", "There must be some mistake about this , Mr", "I 'm going in to shake hands with him .", "Poor little Mabel Dancy ! It 's perfect hell for her . They have not seen that DANCY has opened the door behind them ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 51}, {"query": ["It 's ghastly ! It really is ."], "true_target": ["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"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 51}, {"query": ["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 ."], "true_target": ["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 ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 51}, {"query": ["Inspector !", "He was changing his clothes to go out . I think he has gone .", "It is . It 's in Me .", "What has happened , exactly ?", "Of course I 'll stick to you . DANCY seizes her hand and puts it to his lips . The bell rings .", "Ronny ! Oh , Ronny ! It wo n't be for long \u2014 I 'll be waiting ! I 'll be waiting \u2014 I swear it .", "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 .", "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 .", "Oh ! Why did n't I face it ? But I could n't \u2014 I had to believe .", "Why did n't you tell me then ? I would have gone .", "Ronny ! Do they want me in Court ?", "And break my heart ?", "No , no ! Kiss me ! A long kiss , till the bell again startles them apart , and there is a loud knock .", "Will you come in while I see ? She comes in , followed by the INSPECTOR .", "Do n't , Ronny ! Oh ! No ! Do n't !DANCY stands looking down at her .", "It was \u2014 it was to a woman . Ronny , do n't lie any more .", "To a woman ?", "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 ?"], "true_target": ["Yes ?", "But \u2014 money ! To keep it !", "If you \u2014 your wife \u2014", "To our bedroom .", "Oh !Who ?", "Oh ! No ! No , no ! I 'll follow \u2014 I 'll come out to you there .", "What is it , then ? Why are you back ?", "The woman \u2014 have you \u2014 since \u2014?", "Yes ; oh , yes ! I think I 've known a long time , really . Only \u2014 why ? What made you ?", "The INSPECTOR raises his hand , deprecating .", "Are you married ?", "Spun ? What do you mean ? What 's spun ?", "Inspector , I beseech you \u2014 just half an hour .", "A prosecution ? Prison ? Oh , go ! Do n't wait a minute ! Go !", "No . DANCY goes suddenly on his knees and seizes her hand .", "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 .", "I am not quite sure \u2014 I do n't think so .", "To the war there ?", "What do you want , Inspector ?"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 52}, {"query": ["Yes , but I had a debt to pay .", "Yes . There 's to be a warrant out .", "That 's not in human nature .", "Forgive me !", "Spun .", "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 .", "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 !", "Sir Frederic chucked up the case . I 've seen Twisden ; they want me to run for it to Morocco .", "The case . They 've found out through those notes .", "And now you can n't . It 's the end , Mabel .", "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 .", "I 've crocked up your life ."], "true_target": ["D'you mean you 'll stick to me ?", "Heads up , Mab ! Do n't show the brutes !", "This 'll be good-bye , then !", "You wanted this case . Well , it 's fallen down .", "No .", "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 .", "Pity you would n't come to Africa three months ago .", "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 .", "A debt of honour \u2014 it would n't wait .", "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 .", "Blast them !", "Me !"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 52}, {"query": ["It 's locked .", "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 .", "No , no \u2014 do n't you try to undermine me \u2014 I 'm sorry for you ; but do n't you try it !", "The bell rings .", "Well , madam , we 're \u2014 we 're not allowed to take that into consideration . The Law 's the Law .", "He 'll be in there , then .", "Captain Dancy in , madam ?", "I 'll want that , sir .", "I am .", "I wish to speak to him a minute . Stay here , Grover . Now , madam !"], "true_target": ["Come , now \u2014", "Is there another door to that room ?", "I should think you must be sure , madam . This is not a big place .", "Well , madam , it 's no use disguising it . I 'm exceedingly sorry , but I 've a warrant for his arrest .", "I 'm sure I 've every sympathy for you , madam ; but I must carry out my instructions .", "What lady and \u2014 Stand by , Grover !", "Now , madam \u2014 you must know my duty .", "Beg pardon ?", "What 's that door ?", "I , sir ? He shot himself .", "This is a very serious business , sir ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 52}, {"query": ["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 ."], "true_target": ["One minute !"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 52}, {"query": ["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 .", "Hara-kiri .", "You shall have it read at the inquest . Till then \u2014 it 's addressed to me , and I stick to it .", "For her sake , and his own ."], "true_target": ["All right , old boy ! The CURTAIN falls .", "Yes , Inspector ; you 've done for my best friend .", "Neatly \u2014 through the heart . MARGARETKeeps faith ! We 've all done that . It 's not enough .", "Leave her ! The longer she 's unconscious , the better ."], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 52}, {"query": ["Put \u2018 em on the salver .You may go , honest Burdock \u2014when I say you may go \u2014 that means you must ; the stable is your place when the family is not in Huntingdonshire , and at present the family is in London .", "James Burdock , you are incorrigible . Have I not given it to him once already ? and did n't he fling it in my face and call me a puppy ? I respect Mistress Vane , James ; but I must remember what 's due to myself \u2014 I sha n't take it .", "I am gone , madam .Porter to players ! and now usher to an author ! curse me if I stand it .", "I tell you he is not at home , sir .", "So ! malmsey , fruit , tea , coffee , yes ! all is ready against their leaving the dining-room !"], "true_target": ["Ugh !the simpleton .", "We write to her , James , and receive her replies .", "Gentleman !", "We intend to do so at our leisure \u2014 meanwhile we make ourselves happy among the wits and the players .", "James Burdock , property has its duties , as well as its rights . Master enjoys the rights in town , and mistress discharges the duties in the country ; \u2018 tis the division of labour \u2014 and now vanish , honest James , the company will be here directly , and you know master can n't abide the smell of the stable"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 53}, {"query": ["Your room , Miss Mabel ; no ! no ! that is Mr. Vane 's room , Ma'am .", "But , Master Colander , do let him have this letter from missus", "Aye ! but we do n't read \u2018 em , it seems .", "And I wish it was in Huntingdonshire , with the best part of it , and that 's mistress . Poor thing ! A twelvemonth married , and six months of it as good as a widow .", "Lord help her !", "No , Ma'am , he is in the dining-roomAnon ! anon !", "Poor thing ! poor thing !there goes that door again \u2014 darn me if I go till I 've seen Colander . Anon ,\u2014 Miss Mabel !\u2014", "Stop ! stop ! I do n't think master can see you , young woman .", "Well , my jack-a-dandy !"], "true_target": ["Yes , yes , madam ; you 'll startle him woundily .", "And she do make others happy among the poor and the suffering .", "Here he 's a bringing himself , my jack-a-dandy .", "Post letters , Master Colander .", "Yes , yes , quite well , and main happy .", "Then I will \u2014 there ! Poor dear lady ! I can n't abear that her letters , with her heart in \u2018 em , I 'll be sworn , should lie unopened . Barnet post mark !\u2014 why , how can that be ? Well , it 's not my business .Master shall have it thoughThere goes that door , ah ! I thought it would n't be quiet long \u2014 what a rake-helly place this London is !", "Lord , lord ! come at last ! oh ! how woundy glad I am , to be sure \u2014 oh ! lord , lord , my old head 's all of a muddle with joy to see your kind face again .", "Yes , Miss Mabel ,\u2014 that is , madam ; but had n't I better prepare him like ?", "Mistress ! why Miss Mabel \u2014 I ask your pardon , miss ,\u2014 I mean , madam . Bless your sweet face !\u2014 here , John , Thomas !"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 53}, {"query": ["I fear my trunks will not be here in time for me to dress ; but Ernest will not mind . He will see my heart in my face , and forgive my travelling sacque .", "No , silence gives consent ; but I beg your pardon , ladies, for being so glad to see my husband .", "Oh , another attention of Ernest 's \u2014 but", "What ! before you hear the news of dear Willoughby , Ernest ? Lady", "The good gentleman who helped my coach out of the slough yesterday .", "But yourself , madam ?", "Nay , sit down and rest you .You look sadly adust and tired .", "Had the visit been in any other character , do you think he would have chosen for it the day of my arrival ?", "Invite an actress to his house ! but Ernest is so warm-hearted and generous ; no doubt \u2018 tis as Mr. Triplet says ; he has admired her acting and wished to mark his sense of her merit by presenting her these verses , and a dinner .These poor actors and actresses ! I have seen some of them down in Huntingdonshire , and I know what a kindness it is to give them a good meal .", "Oh ! it will be so delightful to pop out upon him unawares \u2014 will it not , James ?", "Oh dear , so many lords and ladies !", "And you have had three days to prepare you , for I wrote like a good wife to ask leave before starting , ladies and gentlemen ; but he never so much as answered my letter , madam", "And is he very impatient to see me ?", "But you spoke just now of painting . Are you a painter too ?", "Nay ; you forget , I am a stranger to your friends . Will you not introduce me to them first ?", "But mind , James , not a word ; he does n't expect me till six , and \u2018 tis now scarce four . Oh ! I shall startle him so !", "Whom he had invited hither to present her with a copy of verses .", "Hush !", "I ought to know her better , sir .", "Another biscuit", "Nay \u2014 nay \u2014 be seated .", "Yes , yes ; but tell me ! this actress :\u2014 Mr. Vane admires her ?", "You forget , sir , you are speaking to his wife .", "Woffington ? No , there was no such name among the guests Mr. Vane received to-day .", "I am sorry Mr. Vane keeps you waiting .", "The lady ?", "No \u2014 no \u2014 no !Mr. Vane intended them for a surprise , and it would spoil his pleasure were I to hear them from you .", "You are not angry with me for this silly trick ? After all I am but two hours before my time . You know , dearest , I said six in my letter .", "Sir !", "Oh , what a clever man ! And so Ernest commissioned you to paint this portrait ?", "Betty , I had so many things to tell him , and he sends me away .", "Her portrait !", "How kind they all are to me , except him whose kindness alone I value , and he must take Lady Betty 's hand instead of mine ; but that is good breeding I suppose . I wish there was no such thing as good breeding in London , any more than in Huntingdonshire . COLANDERI tell you Mr. Vane is not at home .", "Old servants are such hard masters , my lady ; and my Barbary hen has laid two eggs , Ernest . Heaven knows the trouble we have had to bring her to it . And dame Besthas had soup and pudding from the hall every day ."], "true_target": ["Lady Betty Modish !", "Ernest , dear Ernest !", "And a play-writer ?", "A poet !Oh , I am so glad ! I never thought to see a living poet ; I do so love poetry !", "Not for the world . You know , James , when one is wishing for any one very much , the last hour 's waiting is always the most intolerable , so when he is most longing to see me , and counting the minutes to six , I 'll just open the door , and steal behind him , and fling my arms round his neck , and \u2014 but I shall be caught if I stay prattling here , and I must brush the dust from my hair , and smooth my dress , or I shall not be fit to be seen ; so not a word to anybody , James , I insist , or I shall be angry . Where is my room ?Oh , here !", "But Ernest \u2014 Mr. Vane , James , is he well \u2014 and happy \u2014 and\u2014 Eh ! he is well , James ?", "Take a biscuit , sir ?", "Why , James Burdock , have you forgotten your mistress ?", "I thought you were a poet , sir ?", "Yes ; and once she went so far as to say , \u201c it was n't altogether a bad pudding . \u201d I made it with these hands .", "Nay , I do not care to hear them , for I do not know the lady .", "There you see , Ernest . First , then , Grey Gillian is turned out for a brood mare , so old George wo n't let me ride her .", "An actor too !", "And he did know ; why hereare my letters announcing my intention to start \u2014 my progress on the road \u2014 the last written from Barnet , only yesterday .", "Act ! Is she an actress ?", "Nay , sir , I hope not ; but I warrant me you did not look for me so soon .", "Nay , sir , not in the hall , \u2018 tis cold there . Tell Mr. Vane the gentleman waits . Will you go , sirrah ?", "What ! Ernest did not tell you he expected me ?", "Show the gentleman in .", "And who in an actress 's sudden frolic , gave herself and her companions those titles without my husband 's connivance .", "Is it the office of a friend to calumniate the husband to the wife ?", "No wonder .", "Bless me ; cannibals !", "And she was to have been here ? There were none but persons of quality \u2014 Ah ! the news of my intended arrival \u2014 no doubt \u2014 well Mr .\u2014\u2014", "Do you suppose I did not know of his having invited Mrs. Woffington to his house to day ?", "Take another glass of wine first .", "Nay , you exaggerate her trifling act of civility .", "I may no longer hold a place in my husband 's heart \u2014 but I am still mistress of his house \u2014 leave it , Sir !", "The green room ?", "What is the matter ?", "Yes ;I find him changed .", "And is it possible that Ernest , Mr. Vane , frequents such places ?", "Oh , my Lord , you may , because you are so old ; but I do n't say so for a young gentleman , unless it was Ernest himself , and he does n't ask me .VANEMy dear Mabel , pray remember we are not at Willoughby .", "How can you say so , when you know he is in the garden .", "Well , Mr. Vane 's room is my room , I supposeHe is not there , is he ?"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 53}, {"query": ["For so pretty a creature , she hath an establishment of the veriest brutes . Ah ! here comes Master !", "Can'st bring me Sir Charles Pomander hither , my honest fellow ?", "Nay , I 'll disappoint him , and profit by sobriety ."], "true_target": ["I 've marked her down , sir . She is here \u2014 in that room .", "But to a rustic savage of a servant .", "Yes , Sir Charles .", "For all the world the twin brother to those bumpkins behind Hebe 's coach . Well , my honest fellow !"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 53}, {"query": ["Nay , Mr. Cibber , why assume that the house has lost its virtue in our friend 's hands ?", "Vane 's most humble servant .", "Is her arrival known ?", "I never read ancient history .", "You Antediluvians must not flatter yourselves you have monopolized iniquity , or that the deluge washed away intrigue , and that a rake is a fossil . We are still as vicious as you could desire , Mr. Cibber . What if I bet a cool hundred round that Vane has a petticoat in the next room , and Mrs. Woffington shall bring her out .", "There are not many who can so pass in six months from the larva state of Bumpkin to the butterfly existence of Beau .", "What ! you found her out ? you detected the Actress-of-all-work under the airs of Lady Betty Modish .", "On the contrary , madam ; but you would be sure to learn this , and it is best you should learn it at once and from a friend .", "Vane could not have explained it half so well . These women are incredibles .", "Good ! Take thy sheep 's face out of sight , incontinently .", "No doubt he wished to procure us that agreeable surprise , which you have procured him .", "Jealous , I see , already . Shall I tell her all ? No ; I will let the green-eyed monster breach the fortress , and then I shall walk in without a contest . CIBBERYour arm , Sir Charles .", "Now for the explosion ! VANEShe will shew me no mercy .", "Not yet , but you shall . Now do n't look so abominably innocent , my dear fellow , I ran her to earth in this house not ten minutes ago .", "Well ! is she arrived ?", "So , the train is laid and I hold the match in my hand", "Madam ! let me , who have learned to adore you \u2014\u2014", "Et cetera ."], "true_target": ["Changed ? transformed ! He is now the prop of the Cocoa-tree \u2014 the star of Ranelagh \u2014 the Lauzum of the Green Room .", "At your service , Mr. Cibber .", "Certainly not , if he knew you were coming .", "He has earned in six months a reputation that many a fine gentleman would give his ears for \u2014 not a scandalous journal he has not figured in \u2014 not an actress of reputation or no reputation , but gossip has given him for a conquest .", ", as he has already had the honour of avowing himself Mrs .", "She will watch them .", "Hold ! I have kept thee sober for two days . Here 's for thee to make a beast of thyself .", "I sincerely trust notI do not feel at all anxious to figure in the museum of town antiquities \u2014 labelled , \u201c Old Beau , very curious . \u201d", "Your wishes are my law,\u2014 but here they come !Use the right of a wife , watch them unseen , and you will soon learn whether I am mistaken , or you misinformed . MABELNo ! I will not dog my husband 's steps at the bidding of his treacherous friend", "When he admires the wife , he reprobates the husband 's ill-taste in neglecting her .", "What , madam , all alone , here as in Huntingdonshire ! Force of habit . A husband with a wife in Huntingdonshire is so like a bachelor .", "Ah , I forgot ! you are fresh from Eden ; the Green Room , my dear madam , is the bower where fairies put off their wings and goddesses become dowdies \u2014 where Lady Macbeth weeps over her lap-dog 's indigestion , and Belvidera groans over the amount of her last milliner 's bill . In a word , the Green Room is the place where actors and actresses become mere men and women , and the name is no doubt derived from the general character of its unprofessional visitors .", "And our excellent Ernest is such a favourite .", "The seals have not been broken , Madam . MABELUnopened ! It is too true ! Flung aside unread ! and I have learned by heart every word he ever wrote to me . Sir , you have struck down the hope and trust of my life without remorse . May heaven forgive you !", "Who will spare you the trouble of a description", "Missed fire ! Confound her ready wit . VANEI breathe again .", "I win", "Yes ; that was La Woffington ."], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 53}, {"query": ["I hate this detestable innovation of outlandish drawing-room drinks \u2014 your tea and coffee \u2014 pshaw !", "Really this is too bad , the coffee is getting cold", "Good wine is no superfluity , Mr. Cibber ; \u2018 tis a necessary of life , just as much as good victuals ."], "true_target": ["You refuse , Sir ?", "Soup and pudding ! that 's what I call true charity .", "All I regret is , that I go without having helped Mrs. Vane to buttered toast .", "A bit of toast , Mr. Cibber ?"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 53}, {"query": ["Mabel !", "Let me shew you to your apartmentBid the musicians play .", "No , no ; it is not usual to introduce in the polite world .", "But you forget the ladies , Mr. Quin , and in the presence of Mr. Cibber too , whom I cannot thank enough for the honor of this visit .", "Charles Pomander \u2014", "You had better retire , Mabel , and change your travelling dress .", "Yes \u2014 yes !", "How ?", "Ah !", "My \u2014 my wife !"], "true_target": ["help , here !\u2014 what have", "Mr. Cibber , age and infirmity are privileged ; but for you , Sir", "But one word \u2014 I can explain all . Let me accompany you to this painter 's . I am ready to renounce credit \u2014 character \u2014 wife \u2014 all for you !", "I done ?", "Why , you c \u2014 c \u2014 could n't doubt , Mabel ?", "Pray go , and change your dress , Mabel .", "Pomander !but we all know Pomander .", "Is this mockery , sir ?", "Who called me ? Mabel \u2014 my wife !", "A jest ; it must go no farther , or by Heaven !\u2014"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 53}, {"query": ["Lord Loungeville 's time . You may just remember him , Sir Charles ?", "Jemmy , you are a brute .", "Have her out , Peggy ! I know the run \u2014 there 's the cover \u2014 Hark forward ! Yoicks ! Ha , ha , ha !Ho , ho !", "Because , young gentleman , you all want s\u00e7avoir faire ; the fellows of the day are all either unprincipled heathens like you , or cold blooded Amadisses like our host . The true Preux des Dameswent out with the full periwig , stap my vitals !", "Puppy ! An unrivalled gallant , Peggy . Oh the petits soupers we have had here ! Loungeville was a great creature , Sir Charles . I wish you may ever be like him .", "\u2018 Fore Gad ! he is stronger than Loungeville ."], "true_target": ["No , Sir , I accept .", "Coxcomb ! Let me tell you your old beaux were the only ones worthy of winging the shafts from Cupid 's quiver .", "You have a charming house here , Mr. Vane , I knew it in poor dear", "Ah , laugh at us old fellows as you will , young people ; but I have known Loungeville entertain a fine lady in this very saloon , whilst a rival was fretting and fuming on the other side of that door . Ha , ha !It is all over now .", "Puppies !", "Nay , sir , I bring my wit in exchange for your wine ; we barter our respective superfluities ."], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 53}, {"query": ["Capital ! She alludes to Mr. Cibber 's pulvilio .", "Oh , evidently ."], "true_target": ["Delicious ! He alludes to Mr. Cibber 's little irritability .", "I vow Mr. Cibber is as lively as ever , and does n't look a day older : does he , Mr . Snarl ?"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 53}, {"query": ["And which he evidently enjoys so much .", "A pleasant party , Mr. Soaper .", "Witness Mr. Cibber"], "true_target": ["\u2018 Tis that there 's no room on Mr. Cibber 's face for another wrinkle .", "\u2018 Tis a failing , madam , you will soon get over in town", "And the crustier he gets ."], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 53}, {"query": ["Now , bear , where 's your paw ?", "So , no wonder Quin is getting warm \u2014Here , bear !"], "true_target": ["Madam !If she had made me a commoner , I 'd have exposed her on the spot .", "Poor Quin , first to quit his bottle half finished , and now , to leave the run of the table for a walk in the garden !"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 53}, {"query": ["Oh , Colley is like old port \u2014 the more ancient he grows the more exquisite his perfume becomes .", "That is Lord Foppington, a butterfly of long standing and a little gouty . Sir Charles Pomander !", "VANE", "Madam , for pity 's sake !", "Have you spared me ?", "Lady Lurewell !", "MABEL", "Sir John Brute ! QUINHang it ! Falstaff !", "Mr. Soaper , Mr . Snarl \u2014 gentlemen who would butter and cut up their own fathers !", "The barbarian !", "So , if you will permit me .", "Sir John Brute Falstaff ! we call him for brevity , Brute ."], "true_target": ["No ; critics .", "Who is this ?", "Do n't be angry . Do you not see it is a jest , and , as might be expected , a sorry one ?", "Some of us did not look for you at all .", "We always introduce ourselves", "I am the Lady Betty Modish , at your service . CLIVEAnd anybody else 's .", "No ; he told us the entertainment was in honor of a lady 's first visit to his house ; but he did not tell us that lady was his wife . VANESpare her !", "I go alone , sir . Call Mrs. Woffington 's coach .", "Oh , no , no !\u2014 you cannot use me so .", "Ernest ! Husband !", "Pray , madam , your budget of country news : clotted cream so seldom comes to London quite fresh .", "Yes ; there are triumphs out of the theatre .CIBBERMr. Vane 's garden will lack its fairest flower , madam , if you desert us ."], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 53}, {"query": ["Nay , really , \u2018 tis too cruel ."], "true_target": ["No , sir , it is gallantry ; an exercise that died before you were born . Madam , shall I have the honour of kissing one of the fair hands that made that most favoured of puddings ?", "Happy pudding !"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 53}, {"query": ["Madam, you do me infinite honour .\u201c When first from Albion 's isle \u2014\u2014 \u201d", "A thousand apologies , madam , for the trouble I put you to . I \u2014 madam \u2014 you overwhelm me with confusion .", "So I am , madam , from an epitaph to an epic . Let me convince you .\u201c When first from Albion 's isle \u2014\u2014 \u201d", "\u201c When first from Albion 's isle \u2014\u2014 \u201d", "Madam , I will", "No ; for that I am indebted to the lady herself .", "And she 's to sit to me for her portrait , too .", "Mrs. Woffington .", "Yes , Madam : the subject is \u201c Genius trampling on Envy . \u201d It begins \u2014\u201c When first from Albion 's Isle \u2014\u2014 \u201d", "Ha ! it is in your face , madam . I should be proud to have your opinion of this trifle composed by me for Mr. Vane , in honour of the lady he expected this morning . MABELDear Ernest ! how ungrateful I was . Nay , sir , I think I know the lady ; and it would be hardly proper for me to hear them .", "Triplet , madam ! James Triplet , 10 , Hercules Buildings , Lambeth : occasional verses , odes , epithalamia , elegies , dedications , translations , and every species of literary composition executed with spirit , punctuality , and secrecy . Portraits painted , and lessons given in declamation and the dramatic art . The card , madam ,of him , who , to all these qualifications adds a prouder still \u2014 that of being your humble , devoted , and truly grateful servant \u2014 James TripletThe fact is , madam , it may appear strange to you , but a kind hand has not so often been held out to me , that I should forget it , especially when that hand is so fair and gracious as yours . May I be permitted , madam ?you will impute it to gratitude rather than audacity \u2014 madam , I am gone \u2014 I flatter myself James Triplet , throughout this charming interview , has conducted himself like what he may not appear to be \u2014 a gentleman .\u2014 Madam , I take my final leave .", "Ah ! if you knew her as I do .", "From a scene to a sign-board ; from a house-front to an historical composition .", "By no means , Madam , it is very fortunate\u2014 I mean it procures me the pleasure ofyour society . Besides , the servants of the Muse are used to waiting . What we are not used to isbeing waited on by Hebe and the Twelve Graces , whose health I have the honour !\u2014 Falernian , as I 'm a poet !", "I expected to find her here ;\u2014 perhaps you can inform me whether she is arrived ? MABELNot my portrait after all . Who ?", "That is strange ! She was to be here ; and therefore I expedited the verses in her honour . MABELIn her honour ?"], "true_target": ["An actress , madam ! The Actress !\u2014 and you have never seen her ! Madam , you have a great pleasure before you ; to see her act is a privilege , but to act with her , as I once did , though she does n't remember it \u2014 I was hissed , madam , owing to circumstances which for the credit of our common nature I suppress .", "Her kindness to me , for instance : a poor devil like me , if I may be allowed the expression .", "Mr. Vane 's leisure in the hall .", "Plays , madam ! I have written a library of them ; but the madmen who manage the patent houses wo n't act them and make their fortunes . You see in me a dramatic gold mine , lost because no company will work me .", "As you please , madam ! But you would have liked them , for the theme inspired me . The kindest , the most generous and gifted of women !\u2014 do n't you agree with me , madam ? MABELNo , indeed !", "And it was in a farce of my own too , madam , which was damned \u2014 accidentally .", "Why , yes , madam ; it is a long way from Lambeth ; and the heat is surpassingI beg your pardon , I forgot myself . MABELPoor man , he looks sadly lean and hungry . And I 'll be bound you came in such a hurry , you forgot \u2014 you must n't be angry with me \u2014 to have your dinner first .", "Madam , as I said before , you overwhelm me . Walking certainly makes one hungryOh , yes , it certainly does; and though I do not usually eat at this time of the day .", "Few really know her ; but at least you have seen her act .", "I thank you infinitely .", "Oh , strictly correct , Madam . James Triplet never stooped to the loose taste of the town , even in trifles of this sort .\u201c When first from Albion 's isle \u2014\u2014 \u201d", "How strange ! Madam , you have guessed it . I did forget \u2014 he , he !\u2014 I have such a head \u2014 not that I need have forgotten it \u2014 but being used to forget it , I did not remember not to forget it to-dayMABELA glass of wine , sir ?", "A thousand thanks , madam , for this condescension ; I will wait", "Mr. Vane is a gentleman of taste , madam .", "Act of civility , madam ! Why she has saved me from despair \u2014 from starvation perhaps . MABELPoor thing ! how hungry he must have been .", "Nay , madamNectar , as I am a man .", "Madam , you are too condescending .Who can she be ?"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 53}, {"query": ["Escalus", "Angelo :"], "true_target": ["That to th \u2019 obseruer , doth thy history", "There is a kinde of Character in thy life ,"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 54}, {"query": ["Lead forth , and bring you backe in happinesse .", "I am not yet instructed", "I shall desire you , Sir , to giue me leaue", "A powre I haue , but of what strength and nature ,", "To haue free speech with you ; and it concernes me"], "true_target": ["Ile wait vpon your honor . Exeunt . Scena Secunda .", "To vndergoe such ample grace , and honour ,", "My Lord", "To looke into the bottome of my place :", "If any in Vienna be of worth", "It is Lord Angelo ."], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 54}, {"query": ["Beleeue not that the dribling dart of Loue", "haue to doe", "For Common Iustice , y'are as pregnant in", "Can pierce a compleat bosome : why , I desire thee", "I will , as \u2018 twere a brother of your Order ,", "As to your soule seemes good : Giue me your hand ,", "No more euasion :", "Dead to infliction , to themselues are dead ,", "Visit both Prince , and People : Therefore I pre'thee", "For terror , not to vse : in time the rod", "the lists of all aduice", "Like a true Frier : Moe reasons for this action", "When euill deedes haue their permissiue passe ,", "What figure of vs thinke you , he will beare .", "But that , to your sufficiency , as your worth is able ,", "Euen like an ore-growne Lyon in a Caue", "Supply me with the habit , and instruct me", "Matters of needfull value : We shall write to you", "Stands at a guard with Enuie : scarce confesses", "I haue on Angelo impos 'd the office ,", "Though it doe well , I doe not rellish well", "Of burning youth", "Onely to sticke it in their childrens sight ,", "So to inforce , or qualifie the Lawes", "That do 's affect it . Once more fare you well", "Their lowd applause , and Aues vehement :", "How I may formally in person beare", "Enter .", "No : holy Father , throw away that thought ,", "For you must know , we haue with speciall soule", "How it goes with vs , and doe looke to know", "What doth befall you here . So fare you well :", "More graue , and wrinkled , then the aimes , and ends", "I say , bid come before vs Angelo :", "My holy Sir , none better knowes then you", "I doe feare : too dreadfull :", "That it prefers it selfe , and leaues vnquestion 'd", "But doe not like to stage me to their eyes :", "And giuen his Deputation all the Organs", "Of Gouernment , the properties to vnfold ,", "Exceedes", "As Art , and practise , hath inriched any", "And held in idle price , to haunt assemblies", "With any scruple : your scope is as mine owne ,", "Where youth , and cost , witlesse brauery keepes .", "At our more leysure , shall I render you ;", "And not the punishment : therefore indeede"], "true_target": ["Since I am put to know , that your owne Science", "The Baby beates the Nurse , and quite athwart", "Goes all decorum", "Elected him our absence to supply ;", "More mock 'd , then fear 'd : so our Decrees ,", "Is more to bread then stone : hence shall we see", "That his blood flowes : or that his appetite", "Sith \u2018 twas my fault , to giue the people scope ,", "Proceeded to you ; therefore take your honors :", "Nor doe I thinke the man of safe discretion", "To do in slander : And to behold his sway", "Nor neede you", "That goes not out to prey : Now , as fond Fathers ,", "We haue with a leauen 'd , and prepared choice", "Our Cities Institutions , and the Termes", "We haue strict Statutes , and most biting Laws ,", "Ile priuily away : I loue the people ,", "Looke where he comes", "And libertie , plucks Iustice by the nose ;", "Lent him our terror , drest him with our loue ,", "And he supposes me trauaild to Poland ,", "I thanke you , fare you well", "Our haste from hence is of so quicke condition ,", "Hauing bound vp the threatning twigs of birch ,", "Onely , this one : Lord Angelo is precise ,", "To th \u2019 hopefull execution doe I leaue you ,", "My strength can giue you : Then no more remaines", "And so it is receiu 'd : Now", "To giue me secret harbour , hath a purpose", "And let them worke : The nature of our People ,", "You will demand of me , why I do this", "\u2018 Twould be my tirrany to strike and gall them ,", "I haue deliuerd to Lord Angelo", "If power change purpose : what our Seemers be .", "As time , and our concernings shall importune ,", "My haste may not admit it ,", "From which , we would not haue you warpe ; call hither ,", "For what I bid them doe : For , we bid this be done", "Of our owne powre : What thinke you of it ?", "Who may in th \u2019 ambush of my name , strike home ,", "How I haue euer lou 'd the life remoued", "That we remember : There is our Commission ,", "My absolute power , and place here in Vienna ,", "Which for this foureteene yeares , we haue let slip ,", "And yet , my nature neuer in the sight", "Would seeme in me t \u2019 affect speech & discourse ,", "Scena Quinta .", "Of your Commissions"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 54}, {"query": ["I come to know your pleasure", "Let there be some more test , made of my mettle ,", "The heauens giue safety to your purposes", "Be stamp't vpon it", "And we may soone our satisfaction haue", "Touching that point"], "true_target": ["Yet giue leaue", "That we may bring you something on the way", "Before so noble , and so great a figure", "Alwayes obedient to your Graces will ,", "\u2018 Tis so with me : Let vs withdraw together ,", "Now good my Lord"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 54}, {"query": ["Our doubts are traitors", "I beleeue thee : for I thinke thou neuer was't where Grace was said", "The wanton stings , and motions of the sence ;", "Is she your cosen ?", "Bore many gentlemen", "Proclaime you are no lesse : can you so steed me ,", "hath pickt out an act ,", "I hold you as a thing en-skied , and sainted ,", "I grant : as there may betweene the Lists , and the Veluet . Thou art the List", "Has censur 'd him already ,", "Expresseth his full Tilth , and husbandry", "All their petitions , are as freely theirs", "As bring me to the sight of Isabella ,", "I thinke thou do'st : and indeed with most painfull feeling of thy speech : I will , out of thine owne confession , learne to begin thy health ; but , whilst I liue forget to drinke after thee", "Lecherie ?", "In any proportion : or in any language", "To soften Angelo : And that 's my pith of businesse", "Art thou sure of this ?", "Beleeue me this may be : he promis 'd to meete me two howres since , and he was euer precise in promise keeping", "For that , which if my selfe might be his Iudge ,", "Fals into forfeit : he arrests him on it ,", "By fearing to attempt : Goe to Lord Angelo", "He", "She it is", "From his true meant designe : vpon his place ,", "And makes vs loose the good we oft might win ,", "His giuing-out , were of an infinite distance", "By your renouncement , an imortall spirit", "I pray shee may ; aswell for the encouragement of the like , which else would stand vnder greeuous imposition : as for the enioying of thy life , who I would be sorry should bee thus foolishly lost , at a game of ticketacke : Ile to her", "Within two houres", "As those that feed , grow full : as blossoming Time", "I haue purchas 'd as many diseases vnder her Roofe ,", "Men giue like gods : but when they weepe and kneele ,", "This is the point .", "Nay , nothealthy : but so sound , as things that are hollow ; thy bones are hollow ; Impiety has made a feast of thee", "Is very snow-broth : one , who neuer feeles", "I , why not ? Grace , is Grace , despight of all controuersie : as for example ; Thou thy selfe art a wicked villaine , despight of all Grace", "What , is't murder ?", "A Nouice of this place , and the faire Sister", "If they 'll doe you any good : Is Lechery so look 'd after ?", "With profits of the minde : Studie , and fast", "Gentle & faire : your Brother kindly greets you ;", "Hoa ? peace be in this place", "But doth rebate , and blunt his naturall edge"], "true_target": ["For 's execution", "If I could speake so wisely vnder an arrest , I would send for certaine of my Creditors : and yet , to say the truth , I had as lief haue the foppery of freedome , as the mortality of imprisonment : what 's thy offence , Claudio ?", "As they themselues would owe them", "And followes close the rigor of the Statute", "As with a Saint", "I , that he raz 'd", "And to be talk 'd with in sincerity ,", "Haile Virgin ,", "as those cheeke-Roses", "To make him an example : all hope is gone ,", "A hundred :", "Assay the powre you haue", "I warrant it is : And thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders , that a milke-maid , if she be in loue , may sigh it off : Send after the Duke , and appeale to him", "Doe not beleeue it : fewnes , and truth ; tis thus ,", "He should receiue his punishment , in thankes :", "Why how now Claudio ? whence comes this restraint", "In hand , and hope of action : but we doe learne ,", "Vnlesse you haue the grace , by your faire praier", "Behold , behold , where Madam Mitigation comes .", "He hath got his friend with childe", "To her vnhappie brother Claudio ?", "To teeming foyson : euen so her plenteous wombe", "\u2018 Tis true ; I would not , though \u2018 tis my familiar sin ,", "Away : let 's goe learne the truth of it .", "With childe , perhaps ?", "But speedily", "I take my leaue of you", "\u2018 Twixt you , and your poore brother", "That from the seednes , the bare fallow brings", "Thou conclud'st like the Sanctimonious Pirat , that went to sea with the ten Commandements , but scrap 'd one out of the Table", "With Maids to seeme the Lapwing , and to iest", "But , after all this fooling , I would not haue it so :", "Tongue , far from heart : play with all Virgins so :", "If the Duke , with the other Dukes , come not to composition with the King of Hungary , why then all the Dukes fall vpon the King", "And let him learne to know , when Maidens sue", "The Duke is very strangely gone from hence ;", "A French crowne more", "Not to be weary with you ; he 's in prison", "Gouernes Lord Angelo ; A man , whose blood", "As come to", "By those that know the very Nerues of State ,", "And as I heare , the Prouost hath a warrant", "Iudge", "Your brother , and his louer haue embrac 'd ;", "Vnder whose heauy sence , your brothers life"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 54}, {"query": ["Gent . What ? In meeter ?", "Gent . But most of all agreeing with the proclamatio", "Gent . And thou the Veluet ; thou art good veluet ; thou'rt a three pild-peece I warrant thee : I had as liefe be a Lyst of an English Kersey , as be pil 'd , as thou art pil 'd , for a French Veluet . Do I speake feelingly now ?", "Gent . Why ? \u2018 twas a commandement , to command the Captaine and all the rest from their functions : they put forth to steale : There 's not a Souldier of vs all , that in the thanks-giuing before meate , do rallish the petition well , that praies for peace", "Gent . How now , which of your hips has the most profound Ciatica ?", "Gent . I thinke , or in any Religion"], "true_target": ["Gen . I think I haue done my selfe wrong , haue I not ?", "Gent . Claudio to prison ? \u2018 tis not so", "Gent . I , and more", "Gent . Well : there went but a paire of sheeres betweene vs", "Gent . Thou art alwayes figuring diseases in me ; but thou art full of error , I am sound", "Gent . Heauen grant vs its peace , but not the King of Hungaries"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 54}, {"query": ["Gent . Thou shalt not Steale ?", "Gent . Besides you know , it drawes somthing neere to the speech we had to such a purpose", "Gent . To three thousand Dollours a yeare", "Gent . Who 's that I pray'thee ?"], "true_target": ["Gent . No ? a dozen times at least", "Gent . Yes , that thou hast ; whether thou art tainted , or free .", "Gent . Amen", "Gent . To what , I pray ?", "Gent . I neuer heard any Souldier dislike it"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 54}, {"query": ["Well , well : there 's one yonder arrested , and carried to prison , was worth fiue thousand of you all", "Nay , but I know \u2018 tis so : I saw him arrested : saw him carried away : and which is more , within these three daies his head to be chop 'd off", "Iulietta with childe", "I am too sure of it : and it is for getting Madam", "And what shall become of those in the Citie ?"], "true_target": ["What 's to doe heere , Thomas Tapster ? let 's withdraw ?", "Marry Sir , that 's Claudio , Signior Claudio", "Thus , what with the war ; what with the sweat , what with the gallowes , and what with pouerty , I am Custom-shrunke . How now ? what 's the newes with you .", "But shall all our houses of resort in the Suburbs be puld downe ?", "Why heere 's a change indeed in the Commonwealth : what shall become of me ?"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 54}, {"query": ["No : but there 's a woman with maid by him : you haue not heard of the proclamation , haue you ?", "Here comes Signior Claudio , led by the Prouost to prison : and there 's Madam Iuliet . Exeunt . Scena Tertia ."], "true_target": ["Groping for Trowts , in a peculiar Riuer", "A Woman", "Yonder man is carried to prison"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 54}, {"query": ["Well : what has he done ?", "But what 's his offence ?"], "true_target": ["What proclamation , man ?", "What ? is there a maid with child by him ?"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 54}, {"query": ["They shall stand for seed : they had gon down to , but that a wise Burger put in for them", "All howses in the Suburbs of Vienna must bee pluck 'd downe"], "true_target": ["To the ground , Mistris", "Come : feare not you ; good Counsellors lacke no Clients : though you change your place , you neede not change your Trade : Ile bee your Tapster still ; courage , there will bee pitty taken on you ; you that haue worne your eyes almost out in the seruice , you will bee considered"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 54}, {"query": ["Come Officer , away . Exeunt . Scena Quarta .", "Freshly on me : \u2018 tis surely for a name", "Of outward Order . This we came not to ,", "There is a prone and speechlesse dialect ,", "With Character too grosse , is writ on Iuliet", "Or whether that the body publique , be", "The stealth of our most mutuall entertainment", "And there receiue her approbation .", "I haue great hope in that : for in her youth", "So euery Scope by the immoderate vse", "And the new Deputie , now for the Duke ,", "Liberty", "He can command ; lets it strait feele the spur :", "Fellow , why do'st thou show me thus to th \u2019 world ? Beare me to prison , where I am committed", "A horse whereon the Gouernor doth ride ,", "Whatwould offend againe", "Onely for propogation of a Dowre", "Saue that we doe the denunciation lacke", "Call it so", "From too much liberty ,", "And well she can perswade", "I haue done so , but hee 's not to be found .", "I stagger in : But this new Gouernor", "Like Rats that rauyn downe their proper Bane ,", "And none of them beene worne ; and for a name", "Lucio , a word with you", "As surfet is the father of much fast ,", "To the strict deputie : bid her selfe assay him ,"], "true_target": ["Or in his Eminence that fills it vp", "A thirsty euill , and when we drinke , we die", "hung by th \u2019 wall", "This day , my sister should the Cloyster enter ,", "Such as moue men : beside , she hath prosperous Art", "Now puts the drowsie and neglected Act", "You know the Lady , she is fast my wife ,", "I got possession of Iulietas bed ,", "Vnhappely , euen so .", "Implore her , in my voice , that she make friends", "Till Time had made them for vs . But it chances", "One word , good friend :", "When she will play with reason , and discourse ,", "Which haue", "Turnes to restraint : Our Natures doe pursue", "Acquaint her with the danger of my state ,", "So long , that ninteene Zodiacks haue gone round ,", "Who newly in the Seate , that it may know", "No", "Whether it be the fault and glimpse of newnes ,", "From whom we thought it meet to hide our Loue", "I thanke you good friend Lucio", "doe me this kinde seruice :", "Thus stands it with me : vpon a true contract", "Awakes me all the inrolled penalties", "Whether the Tirranny be in his place ,", "Remaining in the Coffer of her friends ,", "I pre'thee"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 54}, {"query": ["I do it not in euill disposition ,"], "true_target": ["Away , Sir , you must goe", "But from Lord Angelo by speciall charge"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 54}, {"query": ["The words of heauen ; on whom it will , it will ,", "On whom it will not"], "true_target": ["Make vs pay downe , for our offence , by waight", "Thus can the demy-god", "yet still \u2018 tis iust"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 54}, {"query": ["Gladly , my Lord", "May your Grace speake of it ?", "It rested in your Grace"], "true_target": ["Then in Lord Angelo", "To vnloose this tyde-vp Iustice , when you pleas 'd :", "And it in you more dreadfull would haue seem 'd"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 54}, {"query": ["And haue you Nuns no farther priuiledges ?", "No longer staying , but to giue the Mother", "Oh , let him marry her", "I will about it strait ;", "Sir , make me not your storie", "Who 's that which cals ?", "Seeke his life ?", "My power ? alas , I doubt", "Good sir , adieu .", "Ile send him certaine word of my successe", "Alas : what poore", "I am that Isabella , and his Sister", "Yes truely ; I speake not as desiring more ,", "Ile see what I can doe"], "true_target": ["Some one with childe by him ? my cosen Iuliet ?", "Abilitie 's in me , to doe him good", "By vaine , though apt affection", "Notice of my affaire : I humbly thanke you :", "Vpon the Sisterhood , the Votarists of Saint Clare .", "Adoptedly , as schoole-maids change their names", "The rather for I now must make you know", "But rather wishing a more strict restraint", "You doe blaspheme the good , in mocking me", "Commend me to my brother : soone at night", "Lucio within .", "Why her vnhappy Brother ? Let me aske ,", "Peace and prosperitie : who is't that cals ?", "Woe me ; for what ?", "Doth he so ,"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 54}, {"query": ["Or if you show your face , you must not speake .", "He cals againe : I pray you answere him", "You may ; I may not : you are yet vnsworne :", "When you haue vowd , you must not speake with men ,"], "true_target": ["It is a mans voice : gentle Isabella", "But in the presence of the Prioresse ;", "Then if you speake , you must not show your face ;", "Turne you the key , and know his businesse of him ;", "Are not these large enough ?"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 54}, {"query": ["The miserable haue no other medicine But onely hope : I'haue hope to liue , and am prepar 'd to die", "Why giue you me this shame ?", "To be imprison 'd in the viewlesse windes", "What sinne you do , to saue a brothers life ,", "Why would he for the momentarie tricke", "From flowrie tendernesse ? If I must die ,", "Be perdurablie fin'de ? Oh Isabell", "To bath in fierie floods , or to recide", "Perpetuall durance ?", "To sue to liue , I finde I seeke to die ,", "The pendant world : or to be worse then worst", "And hugge it in mine armes", "If it were damnable , he being so wise ,", "The weariest , and most loathed worldly life", "I will encounter darknesse as a bride ,", "Death is a fearefull thing", "Now sister , what 's the comfort ?", "Oh heauens , it cannot be", "This sensible warme motion , to become", "A kneaded clod ; And the delighted spirit"], "true_target": ["And blowne with restlesse violence round about", "And seeking death , finde life : Let it come on .", "Let me ask my sister pardon , I am so out of loue with life , that I will sue to be rid of it", "The prenzie , Angelo ?", "Oh heare me Isabella", "Thinke you I can a resolution fetch", "In thrilling Region of thicke-ribbed Ice ,", "To lie in cold obstruction , and to rot ,", "Sweet Sister , let me liue .", "Can lay on nature , is a Paradise", "Nature dispenses with the deede so farre ,", "I humblie thanke you .", "That Age , Ache , periury , and imprisonment", "I , but to die , and go we know not where ,", "Imagine howling , \u2018 tis too horrible .", "That it becomes a vertue", "Nay heare me Isabell", "Of those , that lawlesse and incertaine thought ,", "To what we feare of death", "Most holie Sir , I thanke you"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 55}, {"query": ["Either this is Enuie in you , Folly , or mistaking : The very streame of his life , and the businesse he hath helmed , must vppon a warranted neede , giue him a better proclamation . Let him be but testimonied in his owne bringings forth , and hee shall appeare to the enuious , a Scholler , a Statesman , and a Soldier : therefore you speake vnskilfully : or , if your knowledge bee more , it is much darkned in your malice", "Then by selfe-offences weighing .", "To draw with ydle Spiders strings", "Though Angel on the outward side ?", "That dost this habitation where thou keepst", "That shall not be much amisse : yet , as the matter now stands , he will auoid your accusation : he made triall of you onelie . Therefore fasten your eare on my aduisings , to the loue I haue in doing good ; a remedie presents it selfe . I doe make my selfe beleeue that you may most vprighteously do a poor wronged Lady a merited benefit ; redeem your brother from the angry Law ; doe no staine to your owne gracious person , and much please the absent Duke , if peraduenture he shall euer returne to haue hearing of this businesse", "O , you hope the Duke will returne no more : or you imagine me to vnhurtfull an opposite : but indeed I can doe you little harme : You 'll for-sweare this againe ?", "Should be as holy , as seueare :", "I drinke , I eate away my selfe , and liue :", "Son , I haue ouer-heard what hath past between you & your sister . Angelo had neuer the purpose to corrupt her ; onely he hath made an assay of her vertue , to practise his iudgement with the disposition of natures . Shehath made him that gracious deniall , which he is most glad to receiue : I am Confessor to Angelo , and I know this to be true , therfore prepare your selfe to death : do not satisfie your resolution with hopes that are fallible , to morrow you must die , goe to your knees , and make ready", "But who comes heere ?", "Wise ? Why no question but he was", "That is thy meanes to liue . Do thou but thinke", "In speciall businesse from his Holinesse", "Whatmight be the cause ?", "What pleasure was he giuen to ?", "I can hardly beleeue that , since you know not what you speake . But if euer the Duke returnelet mee desire you to make your answer before him : if it bee honest you haue spoke , you haue courage to maintaine it ; I am bound to call vppon you , and I pray you your name ?", "I know not where : but wheresoeuer , I wish him well", "He who the sword of Heauen will beare ,", "He do 's well i n't", "Kils for faults of his owne liking :", "I know none : can you tell me of any ?", "\u2018 Tis not possible", "The euill that thou causest to be done ,", "Peace be with you .", "Nay , if the diuell haue giuen thee proofs for sin", "Bring them to heare me speak , where I may be conceal 'd", "So stinkingly depending ? Go mend , go mend", "Loue talkes with better knowledge , & knowledge with deare loue", "Left her in her teares , & dried not one of them with his comfort : swallowed his vowes whole , pretending in her , discoueries of dishonor : in few , bestow 'd her on her owne lamentation , which she yet weares for his sake : and he , a marble to her teares , is washed with them , but relents not", "Twice trebble shame on Angelo ,", "Be absolute for death : either death or life", "It is a rupture that you may easily heale : and the cure of it not onely saues your brother , but keepes you from dishonor in doing it", "Canst thou beleeue thy liuing is a life ,", "Fie , sirrah , a Bawd , a wicked bawd ,", "To weede my vice , and let his grow .", "None , but that there is so great a Feauor on goodnesse , that the dissolution of it must cure it . Noueltie is onely in request , and as it is as dangerous to be aged in any kinde of course , as it is vertuous to be constant in any vndertaking . There is scarse truth enough aliue to make Societies secure , but Securitie enough to make Fellowships accurst : Much vpon this riddle runs the wisedome of the world : This newes is old enough , yet it is euerie daies newes . I pray you Sir , of what disposition was the Duke ?", "Can censure scape : Back-wounding calumnie", "Making practise on the Times ,", "More , nor lesse to others paying ,", "Why should he die Sir ?", "If his owne life , Answere the straitnesse of his proceeding , It shall become him well : wherein if he chance to faile he hath sentenc 'd himselfe Esc I am going to visit the prisoner , Fare you well", "How may likenesse made in crimes ,"], "true_target": ["Thou wilt proue his . Take him to prison Officer :", "Most ponderous and substantiall things ?", "Can tie the gall vp in the slanderous tong ?", "So disguise shall by th \u2019 disguised", "Shame to him , whose cruell striking ,", "The whitest vertue strikes . What King so strong ,", "That we were all , as some would seeme to bee", "Oh , what may Man within him hide ,", "I neuer heard the absent Duke much detected for Women , he was not enclin 'd that way", "And performe an olde contracting .", "Vertue is bold , and goodnes neuer fearefull : Haue you not heard speake of Mariana the sister of Fredericke the great Souldier , who miscarried at Sea ?", "He shall know you better Sir , if I may liue to report you", "Pay with falshood , false exacting ,", "Seruile to all the skyie-influences", "Shee should this Angelo haue married : was affianced to her oath , and the nuptiall appointed : between which time of the contract , and limit of the solemnitie , her brother Fredericke was wrackt at Sea , hauing in that perished vessell , the dowry of his sister : but marke how heauily this befell to the poore Gentlewoman , there she lost a noble and renowned brother , in his loue toward her , euer most kinde and naturall : with him the portion and sinew of her fortune , her marriage dowry : with both , her combynate-husband , this well-seeming Angelo", "Shall thereby be the sweeter . Reason thus with life :", "His old betroathed", "You are pleasant sir , and speake apace", "From such a filthie vice : say to thy selfe ,", "With Angelo to night shall lye", "Deere sir , ere long Ile visit you againe", "From our faults , as faults from seeming free .", "Craft against vice , I must applie .", "Not of this Countrie , though my chance is now", "Blisse , and goodnesse on you", "Grace to stand , and Vertue go :", "Ere this rude beast will profit", "What \u2018 tis to cram a maw , or cloath a backe", "To vse it for my time : I am a brother", "That none but fooles would keepe : a breath thou art ,", "From their abhominable and beastly touches", "And you", "You do him wrong , surely", "Still thus , and thus : still worse ?", "If I do loose thee , I do loose a thing", "He professes to haue receiued no sinister measure from his Iudge , but most willingly humbles himselfe to the determination of Iustice : yet had he framed to himselfemanie deceyuing promises of life , which Ihaue discredited to him , and now is he resolu 'd to die", "Of gracious Order , late come from the Sea ,", "Prouost , a word with you", "Patterne in himselfe to know ,", "Correction , and Instruction must both worke", "How should he be made then ?", "Hold you there : farewell : Prouost , a word with you", "No might , nor greatnesse in mortality"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 55}, {"query": ["After the Moone : If thou art rich , thou'rt poore ,", "Thou bearst thy heauie riches but a iournie ,", "For what thou hast not , still thou striu'st to get ,", "That makes these oddes , all euen", "Of a poore worme : thy best of rest is sleepe ,", "Becomes as aged , and doth begge the almes", "Are nurst by basenesse : Thou'rt by no meanes valiant ,", "For thou exists on manie a thousand graines", "And what thou hast forgetst . Thou art not certaine ,", "And that thou oft prouoakst , yet grosselie fearst", "Thou art not noble ,", "But as it were an after-dinners sleepe", "That issue out of dust . Happie thou art not ,", "For thine owne bowels which do call thee , fire"], "true_target": ["Thy death , which is no more . Thou art not thy selfe ,", "For ending thee no sooner . Thou hast nor youth , nor age", "For thy complexion shifts to strange effects ,", "The meere effusion of thy proper loines", "Lie hid moe thousand deaths ; yet death we feare", "Dreaming on both , for all thy blessed youth", "Of palsied-Eld : and when thou art old , and rich", "Thou hast neither heate , affection , limbe , nor beautie", "Do curse the Gowt , Sapego , and the Rheume", "For thou dost feare the soft and tender forke", "That beares the name of life ? Yet in this life", "For like an Asse , whose backe with Ingots bowes ;", "And death vnloads thee ; Friend hast thou none .", "To make thy riches pleasant : what 's yet in this", "For all th \u2019 accommodations that thou bearst ,"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 55}, {"query": ["I thank you for this comfort : fare you well good father .", "Can this be so ? did Angelo so leaue her ?", "I am now going to resolue him : I had rather my brother die by the Law , then my sonne should be vnlawfullie borne . Buthow much is the good Duke deceiu 'd in Angelo : if euer he returne , and I can speake to him , I will open my lips in vaine , or discouer his gouernment", "Shew me how"], "true_target": ["The image of it giues me content already , and I trust it will grow to a most prosperous perfection", "What a merit were it in death to take this poore maid from the world ? what corruption in this life , that it will let this man liue ? But how out of this can shee auaile ?", "What hoa ? Peace heere ; Grace , and good companie", "Let me heare you speake farther ; I haue spirit to do any thing that appeares not fowle in the truth of my spirit"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 55}, {"query": ["So please you , this Friar hath beene with him , and aduis 'd him for th \u2019 entertainment of death", "As manie as you please", "And verie welcom : looke Signior , here 's your sister"], "true_target": ["What 's your will", "A Bawd of eleuen yeares continuance , may it please your Honor", "Who 's there ? Come in , the wish deserues a welcome", "In good time ."], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 55}, {"query": ["What saies my brother ?", "Yes , he would giu't thee ; from this rank offence", "To Morrow you set on", "And leaue you naked", "Through all the worlds vastiditie you had", "But fetter you till death", "So to offend him still . This night 's the time", "Where you shall be an euerlasting Leiger ;", "The sence of death is most in apprehension ,", "His filth within being cast , he would appeare", "Or else thou diest to morrow", "For such a warped slip of wildernesse", "Did vtter forth a voice . Yes , thou must die :", "And the poore Beetle that we treade vpon", "Oh faithlesse Coward , oh dishonest wretch ,", "If I would yeeld him my virginitie", "Oh \u2018 tis the cunning Liuerie of hell ,", "As when a Giant dies", "Yes brother , you may liue ;", "To cleaue a heart in twaine :", "There is a diuellish mercie in the Iudge ,", "\u2018 Tis best that thou diest quickly", "I iust , perpetuall durance , a restraint", "What is your Will", "In base appliances . This outward sainted Deputie ,", "Nere issu 'd from his blood . Take my defiance ,", "Which is the least ?", "Mercy to thee would proue it selfe a Bawd ,", "From thine owne sisters shame ? What should I thinke ,", "Why ,", "And six or seuen winters more respect", "Thou art too noble , to conserue a life", "Is't not a kinde of Incest , to take life", "Heauen shield my Mother plaid my Father faire :", "Whose setled visage , and deliberate word", "I haue no superfluous leysure , my stay must be stolen out of other affaires : but I will attend you a while"], "true_target": ["Be readie Claudio , for your death to morrow", "As Falcon doth the Fowle , is yet a diuell :", "Oh you beast ,", "Oh , I do feare thee Claudio , and I quake ,", "To a determin 'd scope", "In corporall sufferance , finds a pang as great ,", "There spake my brother : there my fathers graue", "Die , perish : Might but my bending downe", "O , were it but my life ,", "That I should do what I abhorre to name ,", "Lord Angelo hauing affaires to heauen", "Oh fie , fie , fie :", "As all comforts are : most good , most good indeede ,", "I'de throw it downe for your deliuerance", "None , but such remedie , as to saue a head", "Therefore your best appointment make with speed ,", "Least thou a feauorous life shouldst entertaine ,", "Nips youth i'th head , and follies doth emmew", "The damnest bodie to inuest , and couer", "Thou might'st be freed ?", "Would barke your honor from that trunke you beare ,", "Wilt thou be made a man , out of my vice ?", "In such a one , as you consenting too't ,", "My businesse is a word or two with Claudio", "And shamed life , a hatefull", "Ile pray a thousand praiers for thy death ,", "In prenzie gardes ; dost thou thinke Claudio ,", "A pond , as deepe as hell", "Alas , alas", "Repreeue thee from thy fate , it should proceede .", "Thy sinn 's not accidentall , but a Trade ;", "As frankely as a pin", "Intends you for his swift Ambassador ,", "If you'l implore it , that will free your life ,", "No word to saue thee", "I haue heard of the Lady , and good words went with her name", "Then a perpetuall Honor . Dar'st thou die ?"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 55}, {"query": ["When he would force it ? Sure it is no sinne ,", "That thus can make him bite the Law by th \u2019 nose ,", "Is there no remedie ?", "Let me know the point", "Thankes deere Isabell"], "true_target": ["Or of the deadly seuen it is the least", "Thou shalt not do't", "But is there anie ?", "Yes . Has he affections in him ,", "But in what nature ?"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 55}, {"query": ["That now you are come , you wil be gone : leaue me a while with the Maid , my minde promises with my habit , no losse shall touch her by my company", "It lies much in your holding vp : haste you speedily to Angelo , if for this night he intreat you to his bed , giue him promise of satisfaction : I will presently to SLukes , there at the moated-Grange recides this deiected Mariana ; at that place call vpon me , and dispatch with Angelo , that it may be quickly", "And you good Brother Father ; what offence hath this man made you , Sir ?", "Vouchsafe a word , yong sister , but one word"], "true_target": ["It is too general a vice , and seueritie must cure it", "This fore-named Maid hath yet in her the continuance of her first affection : his vniust vnkindenessehathmade it more violent and vnruly : Goe you to Angelo , answere his requiring with a plausible obedience , agree with his demands to the point : onely referre your selfe to this aduantage ; first , that your stay with him may not be long : that the time may haue all shadow , and silence in it : and the place answere to conuenience : this being granted in course , and now followes all : wee shall aduise this wronged maid to steed vp your appointment , goe in your place : if the encounter acknowledge it selfe heereafter , it may compell him to her recompence ; and heere , by this is your brother saued , your honor vntainted , the poore Mariana aduantaged , and the corrupt Deputy scaled . The Maid will I frame , and make fit for his attempt : if you thinke well to carry this as you may , the doublenes of the benefit defends the deceit from reproofe . What thinke you of it ?", "Might you dispense with your leysure , I would by and by haue some speech with you : the satisfaction I would require , is likewise your owne benefit", "Oh heauens , what stuffe is heere", "The hand that hath made you faire , hath made you good : the goodnes that is cheape in beauty , makes beauty briefe in goodnes ; but grace being the soule of your complexion , shall keepe the body of it euer faire : the assault that Angelo hath made to you , Fortune hath conuaid to my vnderstanding ; and but that frailty hath examples for his falling , I should wonder at Angelo : how will you doe to content this Substitute , and to saue your Brother ?"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 55}, {"query": ["Nay , if there be no remedy for it , but that you will needes buy and sell men and women like beasts , we shall haue all the world drinke browne & white bastard", "Come your way sir : \u2018 blesse you good Father", "Marry Sir , he hath offended the Law ; and Sir , we take him to be a Theefe too Sir : for wee haue found vpon him Sir , a strange Pick-lock , which we haue sent to the Deputie", "His necke will come to your wast , a Cord sir"], "true_target": ["Come your waies sir , come", "Frier", "He must before the Deputy Sir , he ha 's giuen him warning : the Deputy cannot abide a Whore-master : if he be a Whore-monger , and comes before him , he were as good go a mile on his errand", "For being a baud , for being a baud", "Come your waies sir , come"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 55}, {"query": ["I spy comfort , I cry baile : Here 's a Gentleman , and a friend of mine", "But yet Sir I would proue", "You will not baile me then Sir ?"], "true_target": ["Indeed , it do 's stinke in some sort , Sir :", "Yes faith sir", "Troth sir , shee hath eaten vp all her beefe , and she is her selfe in the tub", "I hope Sir , your good Worship wil be my baile ?"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 55}, {"query": ["Why \u2018 tis not amisse Pompey : farewell : goe say", "No indeed wil I not Pompey , it is not the wear : I will prayto encrease your bondage if you take it not patiently : Why , your mettle is the more : Adieu trustie Pompey . Blesse you Friar", "Well , then imprison him : If imprisonment be the due of a baud , why \u2018 tis his right . Baud is he doubtlesse , and of antiquity too : Baud borne . Farwell good", "Goe to kennell", "Sir , I know him , and I loue him", "Oh Sir , you are deceiu 'd", "Come Sir , I know what I know", "How now noble Pompey ? What , at the wheels of C\u00e6sar ? Art thou led in triumph ? What is there none of Pigmalions Images newly made woman to bee had now , for putting the hand in the pocket , and extracting clutch 'd ? What reply ? Ha ? What saist thou to this Tune , Matter , and Method ? Is't not drown 'd i'th last raine ? Ha ? What saist thou Trot ? Is the world as it was Man ? Which is the way ? Is it sad , and few words ? Or how ? The tricke of it ?", "What newes Frier of the Duke ?", "Do 's Bridget paint still , Pompey ? Ha ?", "I sent thee thether : for debt Pompey ? Or how ?", "Some report , a Sea-maid spawn 'd him . Some , that he was begot betweene two Stock-fishes . But it is certaine , that when he makes water , his Vrine is congeal 'd ice , that I know to bee true : and he is a motion generatiue , that 's infallible", "Some say he is with the Emperor of Russia : other some , he is in Rome : but where is he thinke you ?", "goe :"], "true_target": ["Then Pompey , nor now : what newes abroad Frier ? What newes ?", "Yes in good sooth , the vice is of a great kindred ; it is well allied , but it is impossible to extirpe it quite , Frier , till eating and drinking be put downe . They say this Angelo was not made by Man and Woman , after this downe-right way of Creation : is it true , thinke you ?", "No , pardon : \u2018 Tis a secret must bee lockt within the teeth and the lippes : but this I can let you vnderstand , the greater file of the subiect held the Duke to be wise", "Why \u2018 tis good : It is the right of it : it must be so . Euer your fresh Whore , and your pouder 'd Baud , an vnshun 'd consequence , it must be so . Art going to prison Pompey ?", "Sir , I was an inward of his : a shie fellow was the Duke , and I beleeue I know the cause of his withdrawing", "How doth my deere Morsell , thy Mistris ? Procures she still ? Ha ?", "It was a mad fantasticall tricke of him to steale from the State , and vsurpe the beggerie hee was neuer borne to : Lord Angelo Dukes it well in his absence : he puts transgression too't", "Ile be hang 'd first : Thou art deceiu 'd in mee", "I feare you not", "Sir my name is Lucio , wel known to the Duke", "Why , what a ruthlesse thing is this in him , for the rebellion of a Cod-peece , to take away the life of a man ? Would the Duke that is absent haue done this ? Ere he would haue hang 'd a man for the getting a hundred Bastards , he would haue paide for the Nursing a thousand . He had some feeling of the sport , hee knew the seruice , and that instructed him to mercie", "Why ? For filling a bottle with a Tunne-dish : I would the Duke we talke of were return 'd againe : this vngenitur 'd Agent will vn-people the Prouince with", "A very superficiall , ignorant , vnweighing fellow", "Who , not the Duke ? Yes , your beggar of fifty : and his vse was , to put a ducket in her Clack-dish ; the Duke had Crochets in him . Hee would be drunke too , that let me informe you", "A little more lenitie to Lecherie would doe no harme in him : Something too crabbed that way , Frier"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 55}, {"query": ["Rather reioycing to see another merry , then merrie at anie thing which profest to make him reioice . A Gentleman of all temperance . But leaue wee him to his euents , with a praier they may proue prosperous , & let me desire to know , how you finde Claudio prepar 'd ? I am made to vnderstand , that you haue lent him visitation", "Good \u2019 euen , good Father", "Contended especially to know himselfe", "You haue paid the heauens your Function , and the prisoner the verie debt of your Calling . I haue labour 'd for the poore Gentleman , to the extremest shore of my modestie , but my brother-Iustice haue I found so seuere , that he hath forc 'd me to tell him , hee is indeede Iustice", "Double , and trebble admonition , and still forfeite in the same kinde ? This would make mercy sweare and play the Tirant"], "true_target": ["Of whence are you ?", "Go , away with her to prison", "One , that aboue all other strifes ,", "That fellow is a fellow of much License : Let him be call 'd before vs , Away with her to prison : Goe too , no more words . Prouost , my Brother Angelo will not be alter 'd , Claudio must die to morrow : Let him be furnish 'd with Diuines , and haue all charitable preparation . If my brother wrought by my pitie , it should not be so with him", "What newes abroad i'th World ?"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 55}, {"query": ["My Lord , this is one Lucio 's information against me , Mistris Kate Keepe-downe was with childe by him in the Dukes time , he promis 'd her marriage : his Childe is a yeere and a quarter olde come Philip and Iacob : I haue kept it my selfe ; and see how hee goes about to abuse me"], "true_target": ["Good my Lord be good to mee , your Honor is accounted a mercifull man : good my Lord"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 55}, {"query": ["Ye have been fresh and green , Ye have been filled with flowers , And ye the walks have been Where maids have spent their hours . Like unthrifts , having spent Your stock , and needy grown , You 're left here to lament Your poor estates alone .", "A servant with this clause", ":", "Makes drudgerie divine .", "There 's a man 's house . It 's enough surely .", "There 's always something wrong . It keeps men busy , I suppose .", "Your father 's is like to be .", "And that 's three of you in one house . And this young Mr. Ireton has ideas , too , I believe .", "I said Methuselah .", "Yes , but do n't be so proud about it , John .", "What time is John coming ?", "I know , I know . But why must he come here to-night of all in the year ? Oliver 's like somebody out of the Bible about to-morrow as it is . This will make him worse . I wish John no harm , but \u2014 well , I hope he 's got a bad horse .", "You 're very vexatious sometimes , Oliver .", "Just because he wo n't pay a tax . How if everybody refused to pay taxes ? If you do n't have taxes , I do n't see how you are to have a government . Though I can n't see that it governs anybody , except those that do n't need it .", "This house is ready for any kind of revolution , John .", "Do n't be silly , Mr. Hampden \u2014 if you excuse me for saying so . Mr. Herrick is very serious indeed , only he is n't always telling us of it .", "It makes no matter what I think .", "Being right does n't make you less vexatious .", "You 're welcome , Master Ireton , I 'm sure . If you behave yourself , young man .", "Methuselah .", "Now , child , do n't you encourage your father , too . He 's eager enough without that .", "Oliver , boy , you were quite right \u2014 all that you said to those men , I mean . I do n't approve , mind you , but you were quite right .", "Well , it 's no bad judgment to stand for Mr. Herbert . Only I wo n't have nonsense talked about Mr. Herrick .", "As for thy laws , remember .", "Now you talk sense , Oliver . Mr. Herrick is very clear about that . So was"], "true_target": ["You can n't pretend he 'll make him more temperate .", "David .", "No , do n't ask me . Only do n't you and John come putting more notions into Oliver 's head . I 'm sure he 's got more than he can rightly manage as it is .", "He 's a poet , young man . And he 's for being quiet , and not bustling about everywhere . You ought to read him .", "Remember what Mr. Herbert says \u2014", "Of course he 's a boy .", "That accounts for it .", "He 'll be here soon enough . I 'm sorry the judges were against you , John . I do n't know what else you could expect , though . They are the King 's judges , I suppose .", "There 's Oliver coming . Now you can all be thunder .", "The door is along there , to the right .", "Will you give me my shawl , Henry Ireton .", "What will it all come to , John ?", "Now , Henry Ireton , these gentlemen may be bears , but I wo n't have you make this room into a bear-pit .", "I do n't know what will happen . I sometimes think the world is n't worth quarrelling about at all . And yet I 'm a silly old woman to talk like that . But Oliver is a brave fellow \u2014 and John , all of them . I want them to be brave in peace \u2014 that 's the way you think at eighty .This Mr. Donne is a very good poet , but he 's rather hard to understand . I suppose that is being eighty , too . Mr. Herrick is very simple . John Hampden sent me some copies from a friend who knows Mr. Herrick . I like them better than John does .Lord , Thou hast given me a cell Wherein to dwell ; A little house , whose humble roof Is waterproof ; Under the spars of which I lie Both soft and dry .... But Mr. Shakespeare was best of all , I do believe . A very civil gentleman , too . I spoke to him once \u2014 that was forty years ago , the year Oliver was born , I remember . He did n't hold with all this talk against kings .", "Well , John .", "Never mind your manners child . But do n't encourage your father . He does n't need it . This house is all commotion as it is .", "John Hampden is like that , too . He excites the boy .", "So you have hope for me yet , miss ?", "She 's a very old lady , and can n't speak for herself .", "Now , young man , Oliver does n't need any urging to it . He needs holding back .", ":", "Makes that and th \u2019 action fine .", "Well , it 's all very dangerous , and I 'm too old for it . Not but what Oliver 's brain is better than mine . But we have to sit still and watch . However \u2014Lord , \u2018 tis thy plenty-dropping hand That sows my land : All this , and better , dost thou send Me for this end : That I should render for my part A thankful heart , Which , fired with incense , I resign As wholly Thine : But the acceptance \u2014 that must be , O Lord , by Thee . Mr. Herrick has chosen a nice name for his book . Hesperides . He has taste as well as understanding .", "Who sweeps a room , as for thy laws ,", "Of course he 's right . But I 'm too old . I 've seen too many broken heads . He 'll be no righter for a broken head .", "Oliver troubles me , persuading everywhere . Restless like this ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 56}, {"query": ["But it was brave of John .", "At the meeting , yes .", "Have they finished in Long Close ?", "That will be John and Mr. Ireton .", "You must n't tease your grandmother , Bridget .", "In half an hour .", "There are kings and kings . Oliver finds no offence in kings \u2014 it 's in a king .", "Are you ready , Oliver ? They are coming .", "He 's forty .", "Oliver 's mind is made up about the common , whatever happens . John will make no difference .", "I 've sent down to the field .", "He says that the time is uneasy , and that we are part of it .", "How much ?", "Shall I give them something ?"], "true_target": ["It is said that the King gave leave .", "He says John 's the bravest man in England .", "I think they should be proud .", "What ?", "I wonder what will come of it . You never know , once you begin like this .", "Is the vine doing well this year , John ?", "Yes .", "Ours , too .", "By nightfall he said . Henry Ireton is coming with him .", "I know . But Oliver must be doing . You know how when he took the magistracy he would listen to none of us . He knows best .", "Yes , but mother , you will do nothing with Oliver by thinking of him as a boy .", "It 's very wrong to take away the common from the people . I think Oliver is right .", "Have you put the lavender in the rooms ?", "Oliver says it 's a wrong tax , this ship money ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 56}, {"query": ["Of course you do n't . None of us do . We could n't .", "You do n't think they just ought to be allowed to take the common away , do you , grandmother ?", "Mr. Ireton is twenty-eight .", "Why , grandmother , whose head is to be broken ?", "I can n't help it . There 's so much going on everywhere . The King does n't deal fairly by people , I 'm sure . Men like father must say it .", "Then the King gave what was n't his to give .", "Well said , Mr. Ireton .", "I meant no ill manners , grandmother .", "Grandmother .", "How do you do , Mr. Ireton ?", "Father , Mr. Ireton heard Cousin John 's case tried . Was n't he lucky ?", "You mean to-morrow ?"], "true_target": ["But he must do it . Why , the people have fished and kept cattle there longer than any one can remember . Who is an Earl of Bedford to take it away from them ? I know I would let my head be broken first .", "Cousin John .", "I wish I could have been there , Cousin John .", "The dancers came for some money , father .", "No . I 'll take it now .", "They all come up from the field for prayers , Mr. Ireton , at the day 's end .", "It was splendid , was n't it \u2014 although he lost , I mean ?", "Now , grandmother , you know you do n't think it 's just that .", "Father says that .", "Were you there , Mr. Ireton , when Cousin John 's case was tried ?", "But I must , grandmother . There 's too much of this kind of interference everywhere . Father says that Cousin John Hampden says \u2014", "Does father know , mother ?", "Yes , I like his book , too , Cousin John ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 56}, {"query": ["There are lessons to be learnt .", "I 'm glad of it , Oliver .", "We got the floods too late . But it has mended well enough .", "Is your hay good , Oliver ?", "Dancers ?", "But that 's fine for Oliver . Every man must speak to-day \u2014 and do as well , if it comes to it .", "They 're no offence , perhaps \u2014 but I 'm never quite sure .", "Yes , Oliver . Is all well ?", "That 's what we dispute , ma'am . The King says that they should serve him . We say that they should serve the laws .", "That 's what we shall have to decide , and before long , I think .", "Done .", "I 've nothing to say against that , though it 's not very serious ."], "true_target": ["Surely , we shall remember that always .", "I do n't know about brave , but I know it is good to be thanked like that .", "What , my friend ?", "You should tell your masters all that you see and hear . Do not flatter them . Let it be the truth . Say that men talk everywhere , more and more openly . Tell them that you heard John Hampden say that the King 's Star Chamber was an abomination , that the King soiled his majesty in treating Mr. Prynne and Mr. Bastwick so . Say that you and your like are reviled by all honest men .", "Well , Bridget , my girl .", "It 's the best year I remember .", "The common ? Yes .", "How do you do , ma'am ?", "One works from the spirit , Oliver .", "We were told down there that it 's to-morrow that my Lord of Bedford and his like are to claim the common rights .", "Sherry , Oliver .", "Yes : perhaps you 're right , ma'am . I prefer George Herbert ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 56}, {"query": ["Yes ; and , Mr. Cromwell \u2014", "Do you know Mr. Herrick 's work , Mr. Hampden ?", "It was just when Mr. Hampden was being heard . The law they said was the King 's old and loyal servant : that lex was not rex , but that none could gainsay that rex was lex .", "Who is Mr. Herrick , ma'am ?", "Well , I thank you , mistress .", "Not a bad mile on the journey .", "Good-evening , ma'am .", "How may that be , ma'am ?"], "true_target": ["Mr. Cromwell is to resist , they said .", "It was the note of deliverance .", "And you can say that it is no fear of earls or kings that spared you the whipping you would deserve if you were better than shadows .", "Yes .", "Thank you .", "I do n't think so , sir .", "I do n't know how things are going . But I feel that great events are making and that you and Mr. Hampden here may have power to use men . If it should be so , I would be used . That is all .", "But you find it everywhere , ma'am . All along the countryside , in the markets , in the church porches \u2014 everywhere ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 56}, {"query": ["No , friends , these men say but what they are sent to say .I should not speak to you but in the hope that you will report it to those that should know . I am a plain burgess of this city . I farm a few lands and am known to none . But I have a faith that the people of this country are born to be , under God , a free people . That is the fundamental principle of this English life , If your masters , be they who they may , forget that , then , as you say , there will be lessons to be learnt . Here in Ely it is my part to see that my fellows do not lose their birthright . You shall not find us ignorant nor afraid . I would have no violence ; let all be by persuasion and tolerance . But these just liberties must not be touched . Will you ask my Lord of Bedford to reconsider this ?", "Ask your father to stay , will you ? We shall want a song after that .", "Henry ?", "Well ?", "Aye , there are lessons . I do not speak to you , but to your master \u2014 to the King himself if it comes to that . You may tell him all that I have said . We folk of Ely will use our own commons , and let the Earl of Bedford keep within his own palings . There are lessons , say you . This is Mr. John Hampden . Will you speak to him of lessons ? Mr. Hampden 's ship money will be a King 's lesson , I tell you .", "Thank you , Seth .", "Henry , you , too ?", "Thank you , Seth .", "My mind is fixed . I think I have made my intention clear . That is all . You may go .", "I have n't much down this year . What there is , is good .", "What had they to say ?", "John 's the man . I 'm likely enough to stay the rest of my days in Ely .", "Well ?", "Aye , John . Do n't you hold with them ?", "How would a turn at bowling be , John ?", "It is .", "To-morrow you will proclaim these rights from the people to my lord of Bedford . To-morrow I shall tell the people that I alone , if needs be , will oppose it . I will fight it from court to court . I will make these rights my rights \u2014 as they are . These people of Ely shall speak through me . They shall pay me a groat a year for each head of cattle they graze , and they shall enjoy every foot of the land as long as I have a word or a pound left for resistance .", "Thank you , mother . I knew you would think so .", "You never know , wife .", "Assuredly .", "But you know I 'm right in this , mother .", "Amos ?", "Why , yes .", "Treason .", "These are all my friends . I have nothing to say that I would not have them hear .", "Yes . They will be here soon ."], "true_target": ["I have no more to say .", "There are times , mother , when we may not count the cost .", "To freedom , John . That 's good sherry . I respect not such ill reasoners as would keep all wine out of the country lest men should be drunk . Now , Amos . Come along , John , my touch was good last night . I shall beat you .", "Brethren in God , at the end of another day 's labour we are met to praise Him from whom are the means to labour and its rewards . As we go about these fields , He is with us . As you deal by me , and I by you , His eye sees us . Nothing good befalls us but it is by His will , no affliction is ours but His loving mercy will hear us . The Lord God walks at our hand . He is here now in our midst . His desires are our freedom , His wrath our tyranny one over another . Be very merciful in all your ways , for mercy is His name . May His counsel be always with our little fellowship . If I should fail towards any man , let him speak . May we be as brothers always , one to another . And may we serve Him to serve whom alone is wisdom . In Jesus Christ 's name , Amen . \u201c All people that on earth do dwell . \u201dAll people that on earth do dwell , Sing to the Lord , with cheerful voice ; Him serve with fear , his praise forth tell , Come ye before Him and rejoice . The Lord , we know , is God indeed . Without our aid He did us make ; We are his folk , He doth us feed , And for his sheep He doth us take . O enter then his gate with praise , Approach with joy his courts unto ; Praise , laud , and bless his name always , For it is seemly so to do .", "Thank you , Amos . Just a minute , will you ? When will supper be , wife ?", "John \u2014 it 's good to see you . You 're an hour before reckoning .", "Whoever heard that heard history being made , John . It was a great example to set .", "I know not how that may be . I know that these rights are the people 's , above any earl or king whatsoever . The King is to defend our rights , not to destroy them .", "Yes , yes . Bridget , girl .", "Was it good travelling ?", "By whose will ?", "Not that \u2014 but our courage is well enough . You are very welcome , Henry .", "Oh \u2014 a crown or two .", "That 's what they said .", "You threaten idly . My word is one spoken throughout the land . You can say so .", "Yes .", "It is plain sense .", "I do not desire your interest . What have you to say ?", "It 's no matter , mother . What do you want ?", "That 's what we must do . You 've heard about this affair down here ?", "Oh , but be sure , John . We must make no mistake about that . They are lovely , the dancers . I 'm all for singing and dancing . The Lord is one to sing and dance , I 'll be bound .", "There 's to be no yielding about that .", "These rights of pasture belong to the people . It is within no man 's powers to take them away .", "Seth .", "You are speaking to him .", "No ? Well . A glass of sherry , John \u2014 or gin ?", "To be sure ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 56}, {"query": ["Yes ."], "true_target": ["Friends , you are welcome to this house ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 56}, {"query": ["Treason , they call it .", "They were coming here , they said . To warn you , and persuade you against it if it might be .", "That was a brave thing to do , sir , that about the ship money . We common folk know what it means . I 'm sure we thank you with all our hearts .", "Yes , sir .", "Yes , sir ."], "true_target": ["Father . Master wants you to sing .", "As I came up from Long Close I stopped at the ale-house . Two fellows were there from the Earl of Bedford . Talking they were .", "If I might be so bold , sir ?", "It seems they know you are going to stand out for the people to-morrow .", "Seeing that my Lord of Bedford has the King 's authority , as it were .", "Yes , sir . That 's all . Good-even , sir ; good-even , mistress ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 56}, {"query": ["Is this Mr. Oliver Cromwell 's ?", "To see Mr. Cromwell .", "King 's anger is not light .", ":"], "true_target": ["Be you wary , Mr. Cromwell . These arrogances have their penalties . The", "This is plain treason .", "It is discretion for your sake .", "By the King 's ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 56}, {"query": ["His Lordship will reconsider nothing . The proclamation is to-morrow .", "The King decrees it .", "The Earl of Bedford and those with him have not drained these commons for nothing .", "You are very arrogant , Mr. Cromwell . There are lessons to be learnt .", "May we speak with you alone ?"], "true_target": ["It is said that you will oppose the proclamation to-morrow .", "Mr. Cromwell , we do not \u2014", "May we come in ?", "They have earned the rights to be proclaimed to-morrow .", "What will you do ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 56}, {"query": ["I 'd liefer have a pot of ale , master , if might be ."], "true_target": ["When I shall in the churchyard lie , Poor scholar though I be , The wheat , the barley , and the rye Will better wear for me . For truly have I ploughed and sown , And kept my acres clean ; And written on my churchyard stone This character be seen : \u201c His flocks , his barns , his gear he made His daily diligence , Nor counted all his earnings paid In pockets full of pence . \u201dTHE SCENE CLOSES"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 56}, {"query": ["I praise myself in that more than in most .", "I can spend one thousand pounds on arms .", "Sir , this question could not be argued to an end if we sat here for a week . Already we have considered it more closely and longer , I think , than any that has ever been before this House . It is morning . Each man has spoken freely from his mind . I move that the question now be put .", "Shall we go , Oliver ?"], "true_target": ["It may mean terror in this land .", "Amen .THE SCENE CLOSES", "My friend , I think , is deceived . This Remonstrance is not against the King . It is from the people of this country against a policy . We desire no judgment \u2014 all we ask is redress . If we assert ourselves as in this instrument , we but put the King in the way of just government . I think the King hardly knows the measure of his wrongs against us , and I say it who have suffered .To speak clearly as is here done will , I think , be to mend his mind towards us . This Remonstrance has been drawn with all care . Not only is its intent free of blame towards the King 's majesty and person , but it can , I hope , be read by no fair-minded man in the way that my friend fears . If I thought that , I should consider more closely my support of it . But I have considered with all patience , and it seems to me good .", "I beg you remember what business you are on . These are grave times , for stout wills , but temperate blood . I beg you , gentlemen .", "We must be diligent among the people ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 57}, {"query": ["Take him , good fellow . Care for him as you can . Get a surgeon for him .", "Take him to our lodging , daughter . Go with them , Ireton . I 'll follow .", "Arms . Yes . If it must be . But God may spare us .", "Yes .", "Could we see him ?", "What was it ? The girl has heart enough .", "No . Let us all see it out .", "John , you are my best-beloved friend .", "Our goods , our peace , our lives .", "But what is it , daughter ?", "It is the Lord 's will .", "Here 's money . No , no , old man .", "I call you to witness . That is a symbol . Before God , I will not rest until all that it stands for in this unhappy England is less than the dust . Amen ."], "true_target": ["Bassett .", "Well ?", "There \u2014 no \u2014 no .", "Any names ?", "Sir , this is a day when every man must speak the truth that is in him , or be silent in shame , and for ever . Mr. Hampden is my kinsman , as you know , one who has my best affection . His word has ever been a strength among us , and no man here but knows his valiance in the cause . His has been a long suffering , and his integrity but ripens . But I do not read this occasion as he does , nor , let me say , do I fear it as does our friend who spoke before . That gentleman pleads that this Remonstrance is a vote of want of confidence in the King , such as none of us would willingly pass . Mr. Hampden replies that it is no such vote . I say to you that it is such a vote , and that I would pass it with all my heart . Sir , this country , the spirit of man in this country , has suffered grievances too great to be borne . By whom are they laid upon us ? I say it is by the King . Is a man 's estate secure to himself ? Does not the King pass upon it levies for his own designs ? You know that it is so . Is there not ship money ? Mr. Hampden can tell you . Is not that the King 's affair ? Is there not a Star Chamber ? Ask Mr. Prynne and those others . These men disliked the King 's church \u2014 a very dangerous church as it seems to me \u2014 and were bold to say so . And for that each was fined five thousand pounds , and had his ears cut off , and is now in prison for life . And does not the Star Chamber belong to the King ? Who among you can deny it ? And this land is bruised , I tell you , by such infamies . There is no sureness in a man for his purse or his body , or his conscience . The King ,\u2014 not the head of the state , mark you , expressing the people 's will in one authority ,\u2014 but this man Charles Rex , may use all these as he will . I aim not to overthrow the monarchy . I know its use and fitness in the realm , as well as any . But this can endure no longer . The King is part of the state , but we have a King who has sought to put the state to his private use . The King should have his authority , but it is an authority subject to the laws of the people . This King denies it , and his judges flatter the heresy . You have but one question before you \u2014 there is in truth but one raised by this Remonstrance . Is England to be governed by the King or by elected representatives of the people ? That is what we have now to decide , not for ourselves alone , but for our children in the generations to come . If the King will profit by a lesson , I with any man will be his loyal and loving subject . But at this moment a lesson must be given . Why else have you appointed my Lord of Essex from Parliament to take command of the armed forces of this country ? Did you not fear that the King would use these also against you ? You know you did . I say it again , this that is now to be put to you is a vote of want of confidence in the King . I would it were so more expressly .", "Have you heard any Star Chamber news these last days ?", "They will be needed .", "There is a boy , Seth Tanner , we have a care for .", "Do , then .", "What has been done ?", "It is the beginning .", "It may . But the country must be delivered . I had thought to live in peace among my Ely acres . I sought none of this . But we must serve . If this Remonstrance had been rejected , I would have sold all I have and have never seen England more . And I know there are many other honest men of this same resolution .", "It was a good man 's doing . Where is he ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 57}, {"query": ["The House will divide . Tellers for the Yeas , Sir John Clotworthy , Mr. Arthur Goodwyn . Tellers for the Noes , Sir Frederick Cornwallis and Mr. Strangwayes . The Yeas to go forth .", "The question is , whether this question now be put .", "I think the \u201c Yeas \u201d have it .", "Then the question now before the House is whether this Declaration shall pass ."], "true_target": ["The Noes , 148 . The Yeas , 159 . The Yeas have it by eleven .", "I think the \u201c Noes \u201d have it .", "I think the \u201c Yeas \u201d have it .", "The question is , whether this Declaration shall be printed and distributed ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 57}, {"query": ["Sir , I move that this measure , as passed by this House , be printed and distributed throughout the land ."], "true_target": ["The issue is set . We may have to spend all that we have .", "I can speak for many in Nottinghamshire ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 57}, {"query": ["Father \u2014 father .", "Seth \u2014 you know he came to London last year .", "What will they do ? Is it too late ? Ca n't it be stopped ?", ":", "What did they do to him ?", "I went to your lodging and learnt that you were still here ."], "true_target": ["Amos . It was to be a Star Chamber matter .", "Father , it 's horrible . They do n't do things like that , do they ?", "We do n't know . I brought Amos up at once to find you . I wanted to come alone , but he would n't let me .", "He said Cousin John was a great patriot because he would n't pay . The", "King 's spies were there . Seth was taken . He got a message sent down to", "It seems he was in a tavern here one evening , and they were talking about ship money . Seth said it was a bad thing , and he spoke of our Cousin Hampden .", "Amos here \u2014 we had to come ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 57}, {"query": ["He remembered Mr. Hampden when he was at Ely , sir . He always took a great opinion of Mr. Hampden , Seth did .", "It 's not my Seth , is it , sir ? Not his tongue \u2014 and a bloody T. They would know how he could sing , and he looked like Gabriel in the books .", "Seth \u2014 Seth , boy .", "A bloody T. And dumb . God blast the King !", "Yes \u2014 but not Seth \u2014 it was n't Seth Tanner ?"], "true_target": ["It would n't be Seth .", "There was n't a better lad in the shire , sir .", "It was n't Seth , sir . It could n't be Seth \u2014 not like that . He was the beauty of the four parishes .", "My boy \u2014 there , I can n't tell .", "I could n't stay , sir . They 'll not have hurt him surely ?", "Dumb \u2014 and a bloody T \u2014 and the thumbs . It 's some other poor lad ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 57}, {"query": ["Nothing out of the way , sir . A few croppings and brandings .", "Jollyboy was one . That 's an anyhow name for a man , now , is n't it ? Lupton there was , too . He was cropped , both ears \u2014 said a bishop was a man . That was blasphemous . And a fellow about ship money . That was savage . Tanner his name was .", "Yes , sir .", "Nay \u2014 it 's no place to take you to . But I 'll fetch him if you will . He does n't sleep .", "It 's not proper hearing for your sort . But they let him go ."], "true_target": ["Both thumbs , both ears , the tongue , and a T on the forehead .", "I live under the walls here , as you might say .", "Tanner was all I heard .", "Was he something to do with you , sir ?", "Because I made bold to take him in . He was dazed , as it were \u2014 did n't seem to know where to go ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 57}, {"query": ["Yes . I see it .", "Were we really beaten ?", "Did you keep the horses you had when you left London ?", "He mends daily . Amos tends him like a mother .", "Robert Hall sings beautifully .", "Yes \u2014 if I can but help you to serve .", "I will , indeed , father .", "Yes .", "Is the arm \u2014", "They are wonderful , too , I think .", "Father , Henry Ireton has to speak to you .", "I was glad to see you then .", "The more for that . Yes , Henry .", "Father has written , grandmother . Shall I read it to you ?", "Yes .", "Were you one ?", "Yes ."], "true_target": ["I expect so .", "It 's as though life were different , suddenly . Do you feel it , grandmother ?", "\u201c This is God 's service , and all must be given . \u201d", "Amos and Seth want to speak to you , father . The men are coming .", "He has that .", "No . You expect him ?", "Yes , father . It is better so .", "To-night .", "Was it very terrible at Edgehill ?", "It 's wonderful . To stand like that .", "That may be the mayor . I will bring him .", "They are coming , father . Are you ready ?", "Was he ?", "It had to come , grandmother . The King was taking all .", "But you do think father is right ?", "Surely . He loves you , he has said it often .", "These are the best crusades .", "My dear daughter , I am lately arrived in London , from Edgehill in the county of Warwickshire , where for the first time our men met the King 's army in set dispute . It was late on the Sabbath afternoon , so that , as we lay for the attack , the sound of church bells came to us from three or four places . The King had the better ground , also they exceeded us in numbers , both horse and foot , and in cannon . It is hard to say which way the battle went , the advantage at one time being here , at another there . Their horsemen behaved very well , being commanded by Prince Rupert , a soldier of great courage in the field . Your Cousin Hampden managed a regiment with much honour , and twice or thrice delivered our cause . We were engaged until night stayed us . Some four thousand were slain , their loss , I hear , being the greater . Of the sixty in my own troop , eighteen fell . We had commendation from the general , and indeed I think we did not fail in resolution . But this matter will not be accomplished save we build , as it were , again from the foundation . This is God 's service , and all must be given . To which end I am now coming home , to call out all such men as have the love of England in their hearts , and fear God . I shall labour with them . It seems to me that I shall be called to great trust in this , and I will set such example as I can . Expect me as soon as you receive this , for indeed I leave London as soon almost as my letter . Your mother I saw here with her nephew . She loves you as I do . Henry Ireton comes with me \u2014 he served very stoutly at Edgehill , and hath a gunshot in the arm . None is like to serve these times better than he . Give my loving duty to your grandmother , which I shall at once deliver myself . God bless you . Your affectionate Father ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 58}, {"query": ["Yes , child . He could do no other . That 's his tribute to necessity . We all pay it . He will pay it greatly . We may be sure of that .Here they are .", "Thank her , truly . Well , boy , it has begun ?", "Youth , you are dear . With an old woman , it 's all reckoning . One sees the follies then of this man and that .", "These are my five Ely houses , and the Huntingdon farmlands . Use them .", "Mr. Lawes makes beautiful music , Oliver .", "I know . There are times when wrath comes , and beauty is forgotten . But it must be .", "May England prosper by you .", "You are born into a great story , child . I am old .", "It had to come . Men were no wiser than that . To make this of the land ! One Cain , as your father says .", "The Lord prosper you . But I am an old woman . Age can but have misgivings .", "Is it Colonel Ireton yet ?"], "true_target": ["Not wonder only , girl . There are griefs .", "Yes , child .", "Bless you , my son . Bless you always . And may the mercy of God be upon", "My needs are few , and I have not many days .", "Bless you , son . How d'ye do , Henry Ireton ?", "England .", "You commit yourself , boy , beyond turning back in all this .", "Yes . Even that .", "I will be no hindrance , son .", "Oliver .", "I must see .", ":"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 58}, {"query": ["Yes , Amos .", "Welcome , Mr. Mayor .", "Bridget 's leave ?", "Quite so . Mr. Cromwell . That 's very interesting now , is n't it ?", "I could do nothing more gladly . You have chosen well , both of you . I rejoice for you . But you must wait until this business we have in hand is gathered up a little .", "We must dispute it to the end now .", "Will you sit ?", "You are my zeal . I grew to it in you .", "Yes .", "How is Seth , Bridget ?", "Seth asked to see you , Henry .", "Well , mother . Almost before our own tidings , eh ?", "Elizabeth sends her devotion to you , mother .", "Yes . We must work at once .", "In such measure it shall be taken from all who will give . That is true in spirit , Amos . It shall be used .", "My friends , I know not to what labour you will next be called , but we are upon dark and proving days , coming to memorable issues . The tyranny that has worked among us so grievously and long now strikes at our all . We must betake ourselves to defence , or this will be but a rotten realm , fair for no man to live in henceforth . Do not be mistaken . In the way of life out of which has come this menacing destruction upon us is much of beauty , much of nobility , and the light of man 's mind . These things it will be for us in season to cherish and preserve . But where these have been is no warrant for authority abused . And authority this day is an abuse against us to the very pitch of wickedness . We are called to stand for the charter of all men 's faith , for the charter which is liberty , which is God . Against us are arrayed the ranks of privilege . They are mighty , well used in arms , fearless , and not easily to be turned aside . But we go to battle in the name of God . Let every man consider it . Each one of you is here and now called to service in that name , that hereafter in England a man may call his hearth his own . And now may the love of God inform you . In humble courage let us go forward , nourishing our strength , sure always in our cause . May God bless us , and teach us the true valiance , and may He spend us according to His will . Amen . The Lord is my Shepherd ; I shall not want .The Lord is my shepherd ; I shall not want . He maketh me to lie down in green pastures ; he leadeth me beside the still waters . He restoreth my soul ; he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name 's sake . Yea , though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death , I will fear no evil ; for thou art with me ... THE SCENE CLOSES", "It must be so . The choice has been made , and is past .", "Let your mother know of the betrothal . I will write as well .", "I dare say . You would be a very foolish young man else . And , what of"], "true_target": ["Yes , what is it ?", "Nothing is to be spared the cause must have all . We must be frugal , mother . Daughter , help as you can .", "Of that battle , yes . But I think the issue was there decided , some few of us there learning what must now be done . Those few held firmly at Edgehill , keeping us as far from defeat as we were , though that was little enough . For our troops are most of them old decayed serving-men , and tapsters , and such kind of fellows ; and their troops are gentlemen 's sons , younger sons and persons of quality . Do you think that the spirits of such base , mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen , that have honour and courage and resolution in them ? We must get men of a spirit that is likely to go on as far as gentlemen will go , or we shall be beaten still . We must raise such men as have the fear of God before them , such men as make some conscience of what they do . We must do this , Mr. Mayor . I never thought to use a sword , but now all must be given that it may be used well . I would have you send a summons to all the people of this town and countryside . Bid them meet two days hence in the market-place at noon . I will tell them of all these things . I will show them how the heart of England is threatened . We must give , we must be diligent in service , we must labour . An army is to be made \u2014 we must make it . We have no help but our own hands \u2014 by them alone we must save this country . Will you send out this summons ?", ":", "I should think so , too . Well ?", "Yes , mother .", "Soon , mother . He is marked .", "Upon England \u2014 Amen .", "I must see them . Send to Mistress Hall and Robert . Let us have music this evening . Anthony , too . Let him bring his flute . There 's good music here , Henry .", "Yes , Amos .", "Yes .", "Bridget has news for you , mother .", "With God 's help , amen .", "But it 's all you have .", "We must have none , mother . We have gone to this in prayer , we must establish it in belief . Every yeoman , all the workers in the land , all courtesy and brave reason look to us . What men hereafter shall make of their lives must be between them and God in their own hearts . But to-day it must be given to them , the right to live as they most truly may in the light of their own proper character . No king may be against us . He may lead us , but he may not be against us . Have no misgivings , mother . Faith everywhere , that is our shield .", "The mayor has not come yet ?", "Yes .", "I will use them , mother , worthily , with God 's help .", "Eh ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 58}, {"query": ["Will you wed a man so dedicated ?", "Shall we go ?", "You shape my service . In you shall all the figures of my service dwell . Will he take this kindly ?", "May we tell your father now ?", "I watched my fingers .", "By your leave I would marry Bridget .", "I once tried to learn the flute . It was no good . I could n't do it unless", "No , ma'am .", "Will you sing , too ?", "To be called , thus . To be led by such a one . I know your father will direct it \u2014 he must be the man . He is only a captain to-night , but in a month or two you will see . And we shall be a mighty following . I see them forming , terrible hosts . We must give all , truly . I shall give all , I think . It is little enough . Bridget .", "You know what is coming ?"], "true_target": ["We shall live with danger now . It may take years . Many of us will not see the end . We are no longer our own .", "Yes , Mr. Cromwell .", "No , nothing .", ":", "Your father was chief among them .", "Yes .", "He will lead armies . Every man will follow him . He never faltered , and there was no misjudgment , ever .", "You promised . I might speak again , you said .", "You consent ?", "Yes , both of us .", "No . A few saved us from that ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 58}, {"query": ["Your good-day , Captain Cromwell .", "Ma'am .", "It shall be done , this hour . My service to you ."], "true_target": ["At Edgehill in Warwickshire , I hear ?", "Sir .", "The issue was left uncertain , it is said ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 58}, {"query": ["Yes , mother ."], "true_target": ["It 's a good offer . Very well , Seth , we 'll serve together ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 58}, {"query": ["I should like to give the little I 've saved . You 'll spend it well , sir , I know . It 's a matter of two pound . It 's not a deal , but it might help by way of an example , as it might be .", "There 's to be great wars and spending , I know ."], "true_target": ["And then if I might speak for Seth .", "I meant to speak when you were down there , sir . But I 'm a bit slow . There 's two things , so to say .", "He 's dumb , sir , it 's true , but you 'll find no better heart nor wits . And he has a fair lot of book-learning now as well , and has come to handle a pen for all his poor hands were treated so . He would be your servant , sir , in the wars ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 58}, {"query": ["They are resting now . Till ten o'clock . We moved up at three .", "Good . Skippon and myself with the infantry there and there . Then the cavalry \u2014 you have one wing , Ireton , or you must command all , since General Cromwell is not come .", "At eleven .", "None .", "I said this to Westminster .", "In that case , the baggage is my concern .", "Yes , and the second line .", "You must choose . The horse entirely are your command now .", "If at last there should be a general retreat , it is to the west of", "Since we lack General Cromwell , more depends on you , Ireton , than on any man , perhaps . You will not be wanting , I know .", "None knows . These months he has been up and down the land , exhorting , stirring up opinion , watching the discipline of our new armies , lending his personal authority in bringing men 's minds to the cause . But to-day we need him here . He should have been sent . We need him .", "Yes , but there it is . Skippon must cover it as he can . We have spoken of it very exactly .", "No , not satisfied . But we cannot better it .", "They told us nothing .", "Yes . There 's a high hedge above there below Sulby . It would be useful to us then .", "You are welcome ; none can say how much .", "Gentlemen , let us promise ourselves nothing .", "They have had three hours . Let the army sleep till ten if it may be .", "Yes \u2014 there . It is moving , is n't it ?", "No . We should have heard .", "See .", "Finally , if we on the right have to fall back on Mill Hill , bring your horse down on to the Kilmarsh Road , Pemberton , if it be any way possible ."], "true_target": ["Watch . Come again at once .", "Naseby , remember .", "Not yet .", "That 's Cromwell again . And all to satisfy the pride of a few useless members that his self-denying ordinance keeps out of command .", "Yes ?", "Yes ?", "No . I have told them that to-day is to be made the fiercest trial of all , but they do not listen .", "Gentlemen , we must keep counsel with ourselves . This is to waste . Nerves must be unclouded to-day .", "Yes , yes . We are eleven thousand , eh , Pemberton ?", "Four thousand or so of them horse ?", "Between Mill Hill , and Sulby Hall , there . Broad Moor \u2014 yes . You measure their numbers at ten thousand , Staines ?", "What 's the hour ?", "Naseby will be three quarters \u2014 no , half a mile behind us .", "You may hear for yourself .\u201c The general esteem and affection which he hath with the officers and soldiers of this whole army , his own personal worth and ability for employment , his great care , diligence , courage , and faithfulness in the services you have already employed him in , with the constant presence and blessing of God that have accompanied him , make us look upon it as the duty we owe to you and the public , to make it our suit . \u201d", "Yes . Staines , let Spilsby see to that .", "Staines , will you tell Conway that five hundred of his best men must dispute the Naseby road to the east . And let Mitchell command under him .", "The battle is set . Our foot there , Skippon and myself . Colonel Ireton and Whalley are with the horse . They are at your service .", ":", "But there \u2014 we must not distress ourselves . We have our own loyalty . Keep in touch with Skippon , Staines . If you can push their right foot up towards Sibbertoft there , spare nothing in the doing . Have you all slept , gentlemen ? Ireton and the others : Yes , sir .", "Thank God !", "What else ? They are more jealous that he should come to no more honour than that we should succeed . And after all that has been given .", "There is no tracing him . He almost certainly does not know , or he would have insisted . There are rumours of him from the eastern counties , of some activities with his men , but no more ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 59}, {"query": ["They were never in better tune . It is as though every man were picked .", "It is thought so .", "Not more than ten , nor less than eight .", "It has been marked , and dug almost to the waterside .", "In his utterances , sir . His belief is in some question .", "If I might say it , would you choose him for that , sir ? It is a great responsibility , and he has been indiscreet . I thought not to use him to-day .", "Yes , sir ."], "true_target": ["Six o'clock , sir .", "Your appeal was plain , sir \u2014 weighty enough ?", "Yes , sir .", "Surely .", "Do you think it 's that , sir ?", "Yes , sir .", "They do not consider us at Westminster ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 59}, {"query": ["It is abominable .", "Our men are watching something . It is something moving . Horsemen \u2014 it must be .", "Where is General Cromwell ?", "Is there any word of him ?", "What is it ?", "Poor below Mill Hill , sir ."], "true_target": ["Yes \u2014 there 's a ford there , at the fork if we are upstream .", "It is shameful of them .", "Could it be ?", "Does the General himself know of our necessity , do you think , sir ?", "Eleven thousand and perhaps three hundred .", "Rupert is almost certain to see the weakness there ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 59}, {"query": ["Yes , sir .", "Urgently . Charles and Rupert are staking all on this .", "I think not .", "There is something .", "I 'll speak to Whalley , too .", "Whalley on the right , and you , Pemberton .", "And the hope of England here in grave peril . Westminster is disgraceful .", "The blood ."], "true_target": ["In endeavour at least \u2014 and we can die .", "It is disastrous of them to hesitate so . They do not understand .", "We carry too many callow soldiers against them . Example will be everything . General Cromwell and his chosen troops have that , and experience ; none like them .", "The right of the field is boggy , and pitted by rabbits . The action is like to move to the left .", "Yes . To the west . That there should be that even in the mind !", "And yet it seems to be moving .", "If either wing of our horse breaks , it means certain disaster there , even though Skippon could hold in the centre .", "It is . But that hope is gone . Do I take the left , sir ?", "Are you satisfied about those footmen on the left , sir ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 59}, {"query": ["Something moves across from the east , sir . It is very faint . It may be haze , or it may be dust ."], "true_target": ["General Cromwell is riding into the field with his Ironsides , sir , some six hundred strong ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 59}, {"query": ["Good \u2014 can I have two of the best regiments down here behind me ?", "Let Whalley be on my left here \u2014 give him fifteen hundred . I have six hundred . I 'll take the right with them myself , Are you on the left , sir ?", "Three hours for my men . It is enough . The order to advance at eleven ?", "Surely you are not well advised to turn off one so faithful to the cause , and so able to serve you as this man is . He is indiscreet , you say . It may be so in some things ; we all have human infirmities . Sir , the state , in choosing men to serve it , takes no notice of their opinions . If men be willing faithfully to serve it , that satisfies . Let it be Spilsby .", ":", "Spilsby is good .", "Is the word for the day chosen ?"], "true_target": ["Then that is the point ; it may be decisive there . You take the left ,", "Is the army well rested , sir ?", "There are many poor creatures at Westminster , sir . Many of them , I doubt not , would have willingly had me kept uninformed of this . But we are in time , and that 's all . Henry . Good-morning , gentlemen . How goes it ?", "A near thing , sir . I only heard from Westminster yesterday at noon .", "Indiscreet ?", "Henry .", "Let it be , \u201c God our strength . \u201d Gentlemen .THE SCENE CLOSES", "Rupert will be there . Langdale , if I mistake not , will be there . That road \u2014 is it good ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 59}, {"query": ["Finish that other letter , will you ?I can say this of Naseby . When I saw the enemy draw up and march in gallant order towards us , and we , a company of poor ignorant men to seek how to order our battle ,\u2014 the General having commanded me to order all the horse ,\u2014 I could not , riding along about my business , but smile out to God in my praises , in assurance of victory ,because God would , by things that are not , bring to naught the things that are . Of which I had great assurance , and God did it .THE SCENE CLOSES", "There , my son . Brave , brave . It is well .", "The danger is gone ?", "Seth , will you write , please .To the Speaker of the Commons of England , at Westminster . Sir ,\u2014 This , of which the General advises you , is none other but the hand of God , and to Him alone belongs the glory , wherein none are to share with him . The General served you with all faithfulness and honour ; and the best commendation I can give him is , that I dare say he attributes all to God , and would rather perish than assume to himself . Which is an honest and a thriving way ; and yet as much for bravery may be given to him , in this action , as to a man . Honest men served you faithfully in this action . Sir , they are trusty ; I beseech you , in the name of God , not to discourage them . I wish this action may beget thankfulness and humility in all that are concerned in it . He that ventures his life for the liberty of his country , I wish he trust God for the liberty of his conscience , and you for the liberty he fights for . In this he rests , who is your most humble servant .... From the camp at Naseby field , in Northamptonshire . ( He signs the letter . Outside in the night the Puritan troops are heard singing the One Hundred and Seventeenth Psalm : \u201c O praise the Lord , all ye nations : praise him , all ye people . For his merciful kindness is great toward us : and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever . Praise ye the Lord . \u201d They listen . IRETON sleeps . )"], "true_target": ["My dearest daughter ,\u2014 This in all haste . We have fought to-day at Naseby . The field at all points is ours . They are destroyed beyond mending . Henry is hurt , but he is well attended , and the surgeons have no fear . He shall be brought to you by the first means . He has great honour to-day for himself and for us all .", "They sing well .Go to General Peyton . Tell him to keep three troops of horse four miles down the Leicester road there . He is not to move them till daybreak . And ask Colonel Reade to let me have his figures as soon as he can .", "It is not mortal . You are sure of that ?", "They are scattered .", "Yes \u2014 it is done ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 60}, {"query": ["Yes . But it will be slow ."], "true_target": ["He is hurt , grievously , but he will live now ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 60}, {"query": ["Scattered . Write to Bridget .", "He loves you ."], "true_target": ["Whalley \u2014 there \u2014 in God 's name , man . Tell Spilsby to beat down under General Cromwell . There 's not a minute to lose . Whalley \u2014 that 's good \u2014 come \u2014 no man \u2014 left \u2014 left \u2014 now , once more . God is our strength .", "Read .", "How is it \u2014 out there ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 60}, {"query": ["Van Dyck draws marvellously in sanguine .", "It is our Parliament still . We cannot slight them .", "I ? Indeed , no .", "It is private to ourselves .", "These are notes for our own contemplation .", "We are not before our judges .", "Who are they ?", "You are very patient .", "We do not fear disaster .", "I respect these ambitions .", "Yes . Write .Clause I . For the reason that the Scots should invade England . Let the intrigues of Parliament with the army and its leaders \u2014 notably Oliver Cromwell \u2014 to the peril of the Church and the King , stand to the world in justification . Clause 2 . The royal forces in England shall move when and as the Duke of Hamilton directs . Clause 3 . The King shall guarantee Presbyterian control in England for three years from this date . But the King shall for himself be at liberty to use his own form of divine service . Clause 4 . All opinion and practice of those who call themselves Independents are to be suppressed . To see that this is diligently done may be left to the King 's pleasure .... Yes \u2014 once we are at Carisbrooke .... Copy that , Neal . I will sign it . Let it go by Andrews to-night .", "Is Cromwell coming to-night ?", "Yes , we need no counsel . You are sure that Cromwell was not coming to-night .", ":", "Mr. Cromwell , can ignore these .", "No . That is unquestionable .", "You offer much , and it should prosper . Or I think so . But I must consider . One has old habits , not easily to be put by . One grows to kingship thus , or thus \u2014 the manner does not readily change . But I will consider it .", "We are not insensitive .", "From Hamilton ?", "But we must consider ourselves . It would be folly to anger the House .", "But Parliament \u2014", "Then let us consider . These Scots . What was it ? Did you set it down ?"], "true_target": ["But not this time , Neal , believe me . Their House and their army are at odds . I 've seen to that . It has gained time , and perplexed their resolution . And now Scotland will strike again , and this time mortally . Yes , the end will be with us , mark me .", "But that is too fantastic . Between men so open one with another . Our scruples \u2014 persuasion \u2014 yes , these may take time . We may not always easily understand each other there . But that there should be any question of duplicity between us \u2014 it is monstrous . We may disagree , stubbornly , Mr. Cromwell , but we know each the other 's thought .", "This argument is ended .", "I have heard him say so .", "Scotch ?", "Yes , but a day or two . Say three days .", "Has it been opened ?", "As to what ?", "How shall I stand with the Episcopacy ?", "That approaches any of the masters , I think .", "Good . The commissioners from Scotland are in London . They are prepared to hear from us .", "Minds are strained in these days , It is shameless of them to say this .", "It is my hope , devoutly .", "Yes . A little heavy there in the nostril , perhaps , but good . Yes , very .", "Yes ?", "I imagined that it might be so . But your character and your reputation ,", "A power a little cropped , eh , Mr. Ireton ?", "Everything begins to move for us again . To-morrow they will miss us here , eh , Neal ? In a week we should be at Carisbrooke .", "Do it now .", "Mr. Cromwell . We did not expect you .", "Strangely , the fellow grows on me . But he 's a fool , Neal . Brave , but a fool . He sees nothing . Indeed , he 's too dull . Ireton too \u2014 they are heavy stuff . Clods . Poor country . She needs us again truly . To check such mummers as these \u2014 all means are virtuous for that , Neal , eh ?", "You persuade well . Honestly , I am sure ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 61}, {"query": ["That was as he said , sire .", "Andrews goes to London to-night . He is to be trusted .", "Yes , sire .", "Yes , sire ."], "true_target": ["Your Majesty knows .", "Do not be too confident , sire . Things have miscarried before .", "Yes , sire .", "I think not ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 61}, {"query": ["He said not ."], "true_target": ["May Your Majesty reckon truly ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 61}, {"query": ["Here are ten lines of the bitterest damnation that ever came from the mind of treason .The Scots to invade England . The King 's arms to be raised again . Presbytery to ... Freedom to be destroyed \u2014 and diligently , at the King 's pleasure . Word blaspheming word as we have spoken . Disastrous man !", "But I offer you an ascendancy undreamt of . It should be plain .", "I could take all . I do not want it . I want to restore your fortune , to give you back a regenerate kingship . Will you take it , sir ? It is of love I offer it , love of England , of your great office . And you should adorn that inheritance . Men should be proud to call you King , sir .", "It 's generous of him \u2014 the methods are so different .", "Parliament and the army are at one in asking for constitutional safeguards . All are agreed on that . But after that we are in dispute , irreconcileably . They want a Presbyterian despotism . This land , sir , has had enough of despotism , and we will not exchange one despotism for another . We , the army , demand liberty of opinion . We respect law , we stand , above all , for order and right behaviour , for an observance of the rights of others . But we demand that a man 's thought shall be his own , that his faith shall be directed by none . We stand for Bible freedom . And we , sir , are strong enough to make Parliament accept that , but Parliament can never make us accept the tyranny of the Presbyters . We are the new Independents , sir , the Independents of the spirit . We are determined that henceforth in England no man shall suffer for his faith .", "Parliament bends a little to my persuasion . If I could but induce Your", "To ourselves ? For our private pleasure we will destroy this country , and blast the people in it ! Read it , Ireton .", "I did not suppose it . But already I am beset by warnings . I dismiss them , giving my word in this for your integrity , as it were .", "Your Majesty knows that , in treating with you as we have done these months past , we have been subject to suspicions .", "I can disabuse rumour about Scotland , I can persuade Parliament about the Presbytery , I can convince the army of your good faith as to tolerance , if you will but give me the word . Let us together make Charles Rex the noblest name of Christendom .", "And so I was minded to come , and be sure by word of mouth , so to speak . Your Majesty knows how suspicions creep in absence , even of those whom we trust . And I have shown , sir , that I trust you .", "It is suggested that we become courtiers , and susceptible as courtiers are . But that is nothing . Continually we are told that Your Majesty will outwit us .", ":", "I believe it . You know nothing of these Scotch agents in London ?", "It will come . This iniquity means we know not what new bitterness of destruction . But know this , Charles Stuart , that , when we draw the sword again , it is the sword of judgment . Out there many call you the man of blood . I have laboured for you , have met them all in persuasion . I had prevailed . It is finished . Blood is upon us again , blood spilled for a perfidious king . The sword that we had put by for ever ! My God , how I have feared it ! Well , so be it . We go to the field again \u2014 but then , prepare you for the reckoning . It shall be to the uttermost ."], "true_target": ["Three days , then , sir . I brought Your Majesty this .It is newly drawn by Mr. Cooper . It is of a young man , Andrew Marvell , of whose verses Your Majesty would think well . He should do much . Cooper has drawn it well \u2014 it 's very decisive in line , sir ?", "To great ends . Why do you deliberate , sir ? What invention is needed ? All is so plain . And many wish you disaster . If you refuse this , it may be hard to deny them .", "What in the name of God is this ?", "I am told that Van Dyck admires him .", "Good \u2014 yes . And yet Hans Holbein was incomparable \u2014 not so assertive \u2014 no , copious , and yet as complete , simpler . But \u2014 yes , there is great dignity here .", "You do not know , sir ?", "No , sir . It is unexpected .", "Majesty to treat no longer directly with them , but to leave all to me .", "Time presses .", "The House can do nothing without us . And I have considered you , sir . I have persuaded the army that the monarchy is the aptest form of government for this country . It was difficult , but my belief has prevailed . I have even won respect for Your Majesty 's person . Do but give us our guarantees , and you will mount a securer throne , I think , than any king has yet held in England .", "This is just ; merciful even . Will you work with us together , sir , to the salvation of our country ?", "All tyrannies must go together . We mislike no bishops save that they stand by a tyrannous church . That we will destroy . It is there as I have said . We attack not faiths or opinions , but despotism . Let a man think as he will , but he shall command no other man to think it .", "All arguments are ended .THE SCENE CLOSES SCENE VII CROMWELL 'S house in London . The morning of January 30 , 1649 , the day of the King 's execution . Outside the window can be seen the grey winter gloom , brightened by fallen snow . The room , in which a fire is burning , is empty , and for a time there is silence . Then from a near street comes the soft sound of muffled drums . BRIDGET runs in , and goes to the window , opening it . Then she goes back to the door , and calls .", "We came , sir , to reassure ourselves .", "No , sir , enlarged . You have ruled by interest and fear . You can go back to rule by the affection of a free people . You have the qualities , sir \u2014 why waste them ?", "But , sir , you confuse things daily . If the army were no longer intact , it would be another matter . But now it is the army that must be satisfied \u2014 in the end there is the real authority . Remember , sir , that these men are not merely soldiers . They are the heart and the conscience of the nation in arms . By their arms thay have prevailed , how bloodily Your Majesty knows . They stand now to see that the settlement is not against that conscience that armed them ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 61}, {"query": ["Yes .", "No . Fairfax and Harrison \u2014 five of them .", "Yes .", "It means so much , you see , sir . Intrigues with Scotland \u2014 there are none , we are assured , but if there were it would almost inevitably bring civil war again . The mere shadow of that in men 's minds is enough , indeed , to overthrow them . No man can consider the possibility of that without desolation .", "Yes . That was inevitable . We are old campaigners .", "Not yet . In a minute or two . At half-past one . It 's three minutes yet .", "They arrived yesterday ."], "true_target": ["We will not persecute even our persecutors . But they shall stay their hands , now and for ever .", "He made life ignoble . He would have made it ignoble again , and always . He was a king and he despoiled his people . When that is , kings must perish .", "Yes . It is done .", "It is of that trust , truly worn , sir , that we may all yet look for a happy settlement .", "We have that pride \u2014 and we have suffered .", "No , sir . Parliament 's demands are not our demands . To give them what they ask will be to lose all opinion in the army . That would be fatal .", "How far has this gone ?", "Do but let us go to the army with that respect , and not a trooper but will renew your power for you ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 61}, {"query": ["I can see nothing but the pike-heads . The people seem very still . You can hear nothing but the drums .", "Perhaps \u2014 I do n't know . Will you have another shawl , grandmother ?", "Do n't you wish it could have been done without this , grandmother ?", "I think it will snow again .", "Yes . He betrayed his own people . That 's it .", "Has anything happened ?", "The King has just passed , grandmother .", "He said so .", "Henry says he could be king ."], "true_target": ["The drums have stopped .", "Yes .", "Is father there ?", "It must be past one .", "But Henry thinks it is right , too .", "Mother .", "It is the King . He is passing down to Whitehall .", "Yes . Thank you , grandmother . That is what I wanted . It was necessary .", "If he had but lived so .", "Do you think father is right , grandmother ? Saying that it had to be ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 61}, {"query": ["He has gone into Whitehall .", "Do n't look , child .", "He betrayed his own people . It was that .", "Yes .", "When your father wanted to give him back his throne , a little simple honesty in the King would have saved all . But he could not come to that ."], "true_target": ["Nearly one o'clock .", "What are the drums beating again for ?", "Not alone ?", "Henry meant to come back before the end , did n't he ?", "That he would never be . I know .", "Oliver says that he has been noble since death was certain ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 61}, {"query": ["Yes , I do think so .", "There could be no safety or hope while he lived .", "He will have to guide all .", "Is Henry with your father ?", "It 's very cold .", "Poor , silly king . Oliver will be here directly . Shut the window , Henry .THE SCENE CLOSES", "No , thank you ."], "true_target": ["Men will pity him . He had no pity .", "Oliver will be the foremost man in England .", "The King \u2014 very brave , I suppose ?", "What is the time ?", "Kings must love , too .", "If this be wrong , all was wrong .", "When the world labours in anger , child , you cannot name the hour .", "Oliver has just sent from Whitehall for his great coat . I 've sent Beth with it ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 61}, {"query": ["Can you come ? I 'm going now .", "Is that comfortable ?"], "true_target": ["Good-night .Bridget .", "Bridget is coming now . I must go down to Cheapside . I must see that man there myself ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 62}, {"query": ["You have been a good son .", "No , thank you . What date is this ?", "Truly , I think it . It will be a freer land because you have lived in it , my son . Our name may be forgotten , but it does not matter . You serve faithfully . I am proud .", "Yes , just a little . Mr. Milton was reading to me this afternoon . Your father asked him to come . He has begun a very good poem , about Eden and the fall of man . He read me some of it . He writes extremely well . I think I should like to hear something by that young Mr. Marvell . He copies them out for me \u2014 you 'll find them in that book , there . There 's one about a garden . Just two stanzas of it . I have marked them .", "Very well , my dear . Bridget is a good girl . I may be asleep before you come back . Good-night .", "Yes , my dear , very comfortable .", "I know that . Bridget , girl , be a stay to your father and your mother . They love you . If you should wed again , may you wed well .", ":", "You need not , son . You were right . There was none other . And you were right not to take a crown ."], "true_target": ["And now , I am tired . Bless you , Oliver , my son . The Lord cause His face to shine upon you , and comfort you in all your adversities , and enable you to do great things for the glory of your most high God , and to be a relief unto His people . My dear son . I leave my heart with you . A good night .", "It was kind of Mr. Milton to come this afternoon . I can n't remember whether I thanked him as I should like to .", "Is Amos Tanner here ?", "It 's nearly a year since they made you Protector , then .", "Be kind to all poets , Oliver . They have been very kind to me . They have the best doctrine .", "Ely \u2014 you remember \u2014 when John and Henry were there .", "I 'm glad you have come , my son . Though you are very busy , I 'm sure .", "Yes . Far other worlds , and other seas . I wish your father would come . I want to go to sleep , and you never know .", "Ask him to sing to me . Very quietly . The song he sang that night at"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 62}, {"query": ["Father , you have done all that a man might do . You have delivered", ":", "England .", "Why not always a commonwealth like this , father ?", "Yes , mother ."], "true_target": ["Yes , grandmother .", "I will cherish my father 's great estate , and I will be humble always .", "I think father is coming now .", "Shall I read , grandmother ?", "How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm , the oak , or bays , And their incessant labours see Crown 'd from some single herb or tree , Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid ; While all the flowers and trees do close To weave the garlands of repose . And then this one ? Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness ; The mind , that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find ; Yet it creates , transcending these , Far other worlds , and other seas ; Annihilating all that 's made To a green thought in a green shade .", "Yes ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 62}, {"query": ["Well , mother dear .", "This character be seen ;", "I have said a word for freedom , a poor , confused word . It was all I could reach to . We are frail , with our passions . We are beset .Thou hast made me , though very unworthy , a mean instrument to do the people some good , and Thee service . And many of them have set too high a value upon me , though others wish and would be glad of my death . But , Lord , however Thou dost dispose of me , continue and go on to do good for them . Give them one heart , and mutual love . Teach those who look too much upon Thy instrument to depend more upon Thyself . Pardon such as desire to trample upon the dust of a poor worm , for they are Thy people , too . And pardon the folly of this short prayer , even for Jesus Christ 's sake . And give us a good night if it be Thy pleasure . THE SCENE CLOSES", "And written on my churchyard stone", "For truly have I ploughed and sown ,", "Yes . I wonder .", "Nor counted all his earnings paid", "\u201c His flocks , his barns , his gear he made", "The monarchy will return . I know that .", "Daughter , we must be loving , one with another . No man is sure of himself , ever . He can but pray for faith .", "And kept my acres clean ;", "Will better wear for me ."], "true_target": ["That is an aim of mine \u2014 to find all men of worth and learning and genius \u2014 to give them due employment . The Lord speaks through them , I know . I would have none fail or want under my government .", "Hereafter there shall be a true commonwealth . We have done that for England . But there must be a king . There is no one to follow me . I am an interlude , as it were . But henceforth kings will be for the defence of this realm , not to use it . That has been our work . It is so , mother ?", "The wheat , the barley , and the rye", "You have been my blessed friend .", "Mother , dear .", "Poor scholar though I be ,", ":", "He likes to come .", "His daily diligence ,", "In pockets full of pence . \u201d", "When I shall in the churchyard lie ,", "The second of November .", "Is there anything I can do ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 62}, {"query": ["And said her duty claim 'd far other recompence .", "While her 's ne'er felt the power of that rude passion .", "While others thought you happiest of the happy ,", "The canker grief devours Elwina 's bloom ,", "His love is transport , her 's is trembling duty ;", "The endearing kindness of a sister 's love ;", "Crossing the portico I met Lord Douglas ,", "Hopeless , yet uncomplaining .", "To meet him here in private ?", "Can charm to rest . Ill are their spirits pair 'd ;", "She call 'd upon her father , call 'd him cruel ,", "Rage in his soul is as the whirlwind fierce ,", "Since my short sojourn here , I 've mark 'd this earl ,", "I ne'er beheld", "With all that nature , all that fortune gives ,", "Between the earls ?", "I fear 'd some sudden evil had befallen you .", "Often ,", "I shudder at his haughtiness of temper ,", "The king returns .", "Once , not long since , she thought herself alone ;", "Which not his gentle wife , the bright Elwina ,", "What may this mean ? Earl Douglas has enjoin 'd thee"], "true_target": ["And on her brow meek resignation sits ,", "Yet some dark mystery involves their fate :", "But hitherto in vain ; and yet she shews me", "You needs must go .", "But if I speak of Douglas \u2014\u2014", "And though the ties of blood unite us closely ,", "Should he now find he was the instrument", "I 've mark 'd you bending with a weight of sorrow .", "With broken voice , clasp 'd hands , and streaming eyes ,", "Your gentle soul so ruffled , yet I 've mark 'd you ,", "On that fam 'd spot where first the feuds commenc 'd", "Indeed \u2018 twas most unjust ; but say what follow 'd ?", "Of the Lord Raby 's vengeance ?", "Blest with whate'er the world calls great , or good ,", "Nor will return before his sov'reign comes .", "Though every various charm adorns Elwina ,", "\u2018 Twas then the pent-up anguish burst its bounds ;", "Disorder 'd were his looks , his eyes shot fire ;", "What do I hear ?", "And though the noble Douglas dotes to madness ,", "He call 'd upon your name with such distraction ,", "Did Douglas know , a marriage had been once", "His is the seat of frenzy , her 's of softness ,", "Propos 'd \u2018 twixt you and Percy ?"], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 63}, {"query": ["He starts , looks wild , then drops ambiguous hints ,", "Hast thou e'er question 'd her , good Birtha ?", "Who , at her nuptials , quitted this fair castle ,", "\u2018 Tis most strange .", "To prove himself at ease , betrays his pain .", "If I partook in all thy youthful griefs ,", "Then feigns to smile , and by his anxious care", "Press to the bulwarks of Jerusalem .", "Perhaps the mighty soul of Douglas mourns ,", "Resigning it to her , may thus afflict her .", "Because inglorious love detains him here ,", "See ! he comes . It would offend him should he find you here .", "But when he comes , big with some painful secret ,", "And every joy thou knew'st was doubly mine ,", "From distant Palestine ."], "true_target": ["My lord , I nothing know ; I came to learn .", "While our bold knights , beneath the Christian standard ,", "Is expected", "How will the fair Elwina grieve to hear it !", "Or have these few short months of separation ,", "The only absence we have ever known ,", "Have these so rent the bands of love asunder ,", "Frowns , hesitates , turns pale , and says \u2018 twas nothing ;", "Ah ! who ?", "Then tell me all the secret of thy soul :", "If we were bred from infancy together ,", "Yes , my sister ,", "Transporting news ! I fear 'd some hidden trouble vex 'd your quiet . In secret I have watch 'd \u2014\u2014", "That Douglas should distrust his Edric 's truth ?", "And this injunction I have oft receiv 'd ;", "Perhaps the absence of the good Lord Raby ,"], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 63}, {"query": ["But can you forego", "So terrible as Douglas .\u2014 O , Elwina \u2014\u2014", "\u2018 Twas wrong to cherish what disturb 'd my peace ;", "Now to observe how she receives the news !", "For ever on the watch to guard its secret ,", "How much you tremble to offend a tyrant", "Thou hast not learnt how terrible it is", "Yet do not press me to disclose my grief ,", "Which rival kings would cheaply buy with empire ?", "That was a crime the dutiful Elwina", "Shews rather an alarm 'd and vigilant spirit ,", "For whom your sighs will heave , your tears will flow ,", "Thou paragon of goodness !\u2014 pardon , pardon ,", "What have I said ? Forgive me , thou art noble :", "What wins the soul of woman \u2014 admiration ?", "What unwonted goodness !", "That you among the foremost bid him welcome .", "Ere they are made , and construing casual words", "Than the sweet calm of fearless innocence .", "Think on the curse which waits on broken oaths ;", "\u2018 Tis true ; yet Raby is no more belov 'd", "A world , where charms inferior far to yours", "Conscious it loves , and blest in being lov 'd ,", "Which cast their mournful sweetness on the ground ,", "The good Lord Raby , may at least expect", "I 'll try her farther .But reflect once more : When you shall hear that England 's gallant peers , Fresh from the fields of war , and gay with glory , All vain with conquest , and elate with fame , When you shall hear these princely youths contend , In many a tournament , for beauty 's prize ; When you shall hear of revelry and masking , Of mimic combats and of festive halls , Of lances shiver 'd in the cause of love , Will you not then repent , then wish your fate , Your happier fate , had till that hour reserv 'd you For some plumed conqueror ?", "\u2018 Tis fear , \u2018 tis hate , \u2018 tis terror , \u2018 tis aversion ,", "Do they not seem alarm 'd at my approach ?", "Less prudent and more fond ; the enamour 'd heart ,", "Who talk 'd of guilt ? Who testified suspicion ?", "That wakes me into madness . Hear me then ,", "Only presume to shine when you are absent !", "My friend , I know thee faithful as thou'rt brave ,", "Heart-rending word !\u2014 obedience ? what 's obedience ?", "\u2018 Tis the cold debt of ostentatious duty ,", "Long to eclipse the fair , and charm the brave ?", "Can you resolve", "For see Elwina 's here . Retire , my Edric ;", "Can you renounce the pleasures of a court ,", "The glistening tear stands trembling in your eyes ,", "I were too blest , Elwina , could I hope", "And trembles then , lest it has done too little .", "I am asham 'd to owe my happiness", "With less than what it gives . E'en now , Elwina ,", "Shar 'd the warm transports mine must ever feel", "If tenderness , not duty , brought Elwina ;", "The king 's each hour expected .", "To feel , distracting thought ! to feel you hate me !", "A spy , employ 'd , perhaps , to note my actions .", "As if they fear 'd to raise their beams to mine ,", "As much , my Edric , as I hate myself", "What have I said ?\u2014 Your father , sure , your father ,", "Ah ! I have gone too far .", "While duty measures the regard it owes", "Here let me kneel \u2014", "Can never pardon ; and believe me , madam ,", "O I were blest above the lot of man ,", "To feed a hopeless flame .\u2014 But hear , Elwina ,"], "true_target": ["And see , how suddenly they part ! Now Edric ,", "To ties which make you wretched .", "Nothing .\u2014 Disturb ! I ne'er was more at ease .", "You must attend the court .", "For my suspicions \u2014 I am ill at ease .", "One tender sigh .", "Gives , like a thoughtless prodigal , its all ,", "Love never reasons , but profusely gives ,", "Will you not long to meet the public gaze ?", "And trusts the passion it inspires and feels .\u2014", "\u2018 Tis past , \u2018 tis gone , it is not worth the telling ,", "Cold , ceremonious , and unfeeling duty ,", "And \u2018 tis Lord Raby 's pleasure", "When next we meet , thou shalt know all . Farewell .", "I 'll think of it no more .", "He will be here to-night :\u2014 He further adds ,", "Yes , madam , there is one , one man ador 'd ,", "Peace , peace ,", "O music to my ears !", "That wretched substitute for love : but know ,", "A knight is bound by more than vulgar ties ,", "And perjury in thee were doubly damn 'd .", "Hold , Edric , hold \u2014 thou hast touch 'd the fatal string", "Forbid it , Heaven ! For with him comes \u2014", "And read the language of reproachful love .", "For when thou know'st it , I perhaps shall hate thee", "And I will trust thee \u2014 but not now , good Edric ,", "I did not mean to chide ! but think , O think ,", "To formal accusations , trust me , madam ,", "To hide those wond'rous beauties in the shade ,", "My love 's so nice , so delicate my honour ,", "What pangs must rend this fearful doting heart ,", "At your approach .", "With scrupulous precision and nice justice ,", "Thou most obdurate , hear me .\u2014", "These letters from your father give us notice", "You met me here by choice , or that your bosom", "Nay then thou dost suspect there 's something wrong ?", "Enchanting sounds ! she does not wish to go \u2014", "The heart demands a heart ; nor will be paid", "Well then , the king of England \u2014", "Since he bestow 'd his daughter 's hand on Douglas :", "Madam , your pardon \u2014", "This warm defence , repelling all attacks", "Whose roofs resound with minstrelsy and mirth ?", "Ha ! watch 'd in secret ?", "With bars of adamant in thy close breast .", "How ! Edric and his sister in close conference ?", "For whom this hated world will still be dear ,", "Paid with insulting caution , to remind me", "To see you sink impatient of the grave ,", "My soul 's in transports !", "Reposes on the object it adores ,", "For whom you still would live \u2014\u2014", "This vindication ere you were accus 'd ,", "Death to all my hopes !", "Yes , I will kneel , and gaze , and weep , and wonder ;", "But let the deadly secret be secur 'd", "True tenderness is less solicitous ,"], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 63}, {"query": ["Can malice charge me with an act , a word ,", "Since at the altar I became your wife ,", "Hear then , with pity hear , my tale of woe ,", "Except by faithful duty , to inquire ,", "My misery , not my crime .", "An hour , a moment in Elwina 's life ,", "For your own lips shall vindicate my fame ,", "But who shall tell the agonies I felt ?", "Then leave me here , to tread the safer path", "O ! \u2018 twas a task too hard for all my duty :", "Can know no thought of peace but in his absence .", "How , Douglas here again ? some fresh alarm !", "\u2018 Twere most dreadful !", "I call attesting angels to be witness ,", "Alas , \u2018 tis ever thus ! Thus ever clouded is his angry brow .", "You have so oft profess 'd for poor Elwina ,", "On this devoted head .", "Unworthy of the gentle blood they serv 'd .", "And virtue 's safest station is retreat .", "Talk not of his return ! this coward heart", "From the Lord Percy 's herdsmen , churlish foresters ,", "As open to the eye of observation ,", "I fear you are not well , and come , unbidden ,", "Or reconcilement , which the Percy offer 'd ;", "Some moons have now completed their slow course", "Yet I shall meet , I trust , the king of terrors ,", "He thought , like you , it was a match of policy ,", "Beneath the studied pomp of boastful phrase", "As fearless innocence should ever live ?", "In this rude outrage , nor would hear of peace ,", "O I will tell thee all ! thou couldst not find", "Why should I dwell on the disastrous tale ?", "And my solicitude to please , offend .", "I will not go \u2014 I disobey thee , Douglas ,", "To die of grief ere half my days are number 'd ;", "I must not ,\u2014 cannot .\u2014 By the tender love", "Has doom 'd me to a life of hopeless anguish ,", "What may this mean ?", "Earl Douglas , whom till then I ne'er had seen ,", "And with him Percy comes !", "Not apt , like fearful vice , to shield its weakness", "Might rise to heaven , and not offend its ruler .", "Indeed I 'm most unhappy that my cares ,", "My conduct , or my heart , they 've aught discern 'd", "How ? the king ? Said you , the king ?", "On Cheviot Hills , Northumbria 's fair domain .", "It then grows proud , forgets its humble worth ,", "Shall be as silent as the shades around me ;", "These are delights in which the mind partakes not .", "If he did ,", "To please him .\u2014 Birtha ! thou can'st tell what follow 'd :", "My lord , I hop 'd the thousand daily proofs", "Which did not emulate their purity .", "But , when this virtue feels itself suspected ,", "Not sudden : no ; long has the storm been gathering ,", "I strove , and wept ; I strove \u2014 but still I lov 'd .", "My father lock 'd this motive in his breast ,", "Since my sad marriage .\u2014 Percy still is absent .", "Long since the battle \u2018 twixt the rival houses", "Must I , my lord ?", "Say , my lord ,", "One summer 's morn my father chas 'd the deer", "To your affliction ?", "The tender vows himself had bid me form \u2014\u2014", "My lord , retirement is a wife 's best duty ,"], "true_target": ["What if the slender thread by which I hold", "I have the means to minister relief", "And , O forgive , kind nature , filial piety ,", "And rates itself above its real value .", "Forbid to see me , Percy soon embark 'd", "The precious incense of a daughter 's sighs", "Of Douglas and of Percy , for whose hate", "When her full heart so long 'd to ease its burthen ,", "I sigh 'd , I struggled , fainted , and complied .", "Came to this castle ; \u2018 twas my hapless fate", "My lord , if I intrude ,", "Till now he never ventur 'd to accuse me .", "Of private life ; here , where my peaceful course", "Ill suits my humble , unambitious soul ;\u2014", "Soon as the jarring kingdoms were at peace ,", "Learn , sir , that virtue , while \u2018 tis free from blame ,", "I ought to blush at ? Have I not still liv 'd", "Is it Elwina 's crime , or heaven 's decree ?", "With our great king against the Saracen .", "To stray beyond the bounds of Raby Castle .", "And pour its sorrows in thy friendly bosom :", "He dragg 'd me trembling , dying , to the altar ,", "And pull destruction on me ere its time ?", "And feign 'd to have forgot the chace of Cheviot .", "Alas , my lord ! I thought", "Submissive and resign 'd , without one pang ,", "What disturbs my lord ?", "But disobey thee to preserve thy honour .", "If my presumptuous lips arraign a father !", "My barbarous father forc 'd me to dissolve", "This poor precarious being soon must break ,", "Though I have ever found him fierce and rash ,", "Which threatens speedily to burst in ruin", "The bustling world , the pomp which waits on greatness ,", "How poor th \u2019 evasion !\u2014 But my Birtha comes .", "Shall I solicit ruin ,", "Insulted , set at nought , its whiteness stain 'd ,", "Indulge this one request \u2014 O let me stay !", "For whom your tears will flow \u2014 these were his words \u2014", "Of my obedience \u2014\u2014", "Doom 'd me to give my trembling hand to Douglas ,", "Nor shall one vagrant wish be e'er allow 'd", "The cause which brings me claims at least forgiveness :", "My fate , my lord ,", "And then the wretched subterfuge of , Raby \u2014", "My father , proud and jealous of his honour ,", "Some of my father 's knights receiv 'd an insult", "If haply in my power , my little power ,", "The same . During the chace ,", "Full of obscure surmises and dark hints ,", "One fond regret , at leaving this gay world .", "Is modest , lowly , meek , and unassuming ;", "Which swells to hide the poverty it shelters ;", "Yet there is one , one man belov 'd , ador 'd ,", "This mighty globe 's too small a theatre ,", "Ah ! how 's this ?", "Hold , hold , my lord ,", "Swore that Northumberland had been concern 'd", "I , who have held it criminal to name him ?", "Is now bound up with yours .", "Yes , Birtha , that belov 'd , that cruel father ,", "If in my open deed , or secret thought ,", "\u2018 Twas all I had to give \u2014 my heart was \u2014 Percy 's .", "Nor knew our love surpass 'd our fathers \u2019 prudence .", "But bade me hate , renounce , and banish him ."], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 63}, {"query": ["To reach her heart , and bring her to the ground .", "Freedom and English grandeur are no more .", "O impious rage ! If thou would'st shun my curse ,", "The truly brave are still the truly gen'rous ;", "Percy is absent \u2014 They have never met .", "You ?\u2014 O spare my age 's weakness ! You do not know what \u2018 tis to be a father ; You do not know , or you would pity me , The thousand tender throbs , the nameless feelings , The dread to ask , and yet the wish to know , When we adore and fear ; but wherefore fear ? Does not the blood of Raby fill her veins ?", "But yet methinks I shall not feel I 'm welcome", "To see thee here by stealth in Douglas \u2019 absence ?", "If e'er you doted on my much-lov 'd child ,", "And every servant shar 'd his lord 's delight ;", "O why was I too old for this crusade !", "Come to my arms !", "And pluck the helmet which oppos 'd her kiss !", "Sure I mistake \u2014 am I in Raby Castle ?", "Now , I extend my longing arms in vain ;", "Look up , Elwina . Should her husband come ! Yet she revives not .", "If once our nobles scorn their rural seats ,", "And hurl 'd its arrow to her glorious height ,", "She will be well anon \u2014 mean time , Sir Hubert ,", "Who has traduc 'd my sweet , my innocent child ?", "I think it would have made me young again ,", "Where every passing stranger was a guest ,", "I us 'd to scatter pleasures when I came ,", "Should so presume , canst thou resolve to hate him ,", "O gallant boy , then I 'm thy foe no more ;", "without much Christian bloodshed ?", "Elwina !", "Blest be the God of armies ! Now , Sir Hubert ,", "\u2018 Tis an infirmity of nature in her ,", "And with her fondness overpay my toils !", "Sir , I trust I am ;", "Had been enroll 'd in such a list of heroes !", "As \u2018 tis most sure you made me think you did ,", "Elwina !", "Whose vaulted roof once rung with harmless mirth ,", "Did he ? Did Percy ?", "Their rural greatness , and their vassals \u2019 love ,", "But who ?", "She was not wont with ling'ring step to meet me ,", "Impossible ; that was the seat of smiles ;", "O they were happy days , when she would fly", "Yes , Elwina ,", "He knows that Percy \u2014\u2014", "What would'st thou do ?", "Unhappy Douglas !", "Be gentle to my child , and win her heart", "Till my Elwina bless me with her smiles :", "What proof of guilt is this ?", "Then , by the pangs which you may one day feel ,", "Where is the antient , hospitable hall ,", "Could I , like thee , have seen the hated crescent", "His fame shall add new glories to a house ,", "Thou hast no more to fear , since he is dead .", "Retire awhile , my daughter .", "Welcome to Raby Castle !\u2014 In one word ,", "By confidence and unreproaching love .", "And every guest a friend ? I fear me much ,", "And in defiance of thy marriage vows ,", "Is the king safe ? Is Palestine subdu 'd ?", "Thou hast appointed Harcourt", "No more , I charge thee .\u2014 Tell me , good Sir Hubert ,", "Where is the smile unfeign 'd , the jovial welcome ,", "Yet she 's too good to \u2018 scape calumnious tongues .", "If there 's a drop in thy degenerate veins", "Has she prov 'd otherwise ? I 'll not believe it ,", "And made Dependency forget its bonds ?"], "true_target": ["That glows not now , thou art not Raby 's daughter .", "To meet me from the camp , or from the chace ,", "You 'll grace our castle with your friendly sojourn .", "Tell me what this alarming silence means ?", "Before I take thee in these aged arms , Press thee with transport to this beating heart , And give a loose to all a parent 's fondness , Answer , and see thou answer me as truly As if the dread inquiry came from heaven ,\u2014 Does no interior sense of guilt confound thee ? Canst thou lay all thy naked soul before me ? Can thy unconscious eye encounter mine ? Canst thou endure the probe , and never shrink ? Can thy firm hand meet mine , and never tremble ? Art thou prepar 'd to meet the rigid Judge ? Or to embrace the fond , the melting , father ?", "The ponderous armour from my war-worn limbs ,", "Or greet my coming with a cold embrace ;", "Her words are barbed arrows in my heart .", "I know that Slander loves a lofty mark :", "But \u2018 tis too late .", "Earl Percy 's slain .", "Dost thou falter ? Have a care , Elwina .", "I 'm on the rack !", "Thou art Earl Douglas \u2019 wife .", "Release young Harcourt , let him see Elwina ,", "Deserv 'd regard . Does my child live ?", "Yield to the Christian cross .\u2014 How now , Elwina !", "It saw her soar a flight above her fellows ,", "You sigh , you do not speak , nay more , you hear not ;", "Presume to plead a guilty passion for thee ,", "Now , by my fears , thy husband told me truth .", "And Discontent maintains a sullen sway .", "It is religion 's cause , the cause of Heaven !", "And tremble for the treasure of your age ,", "O that my name", "Whate'er his former arrogant pretensions ?", "As there were nothing but your own sad thoughts", "How 's this ?", "Which cheer 'd the sad , beguil 'd the pilgrim 's pain ,", "Farewell , Douglas . Shew thou believ'st her faithful , and she 'll prove so .", "Thou hast a higher claim upon thy honour ;", "Say , have our arms achiev 'd this glorious deed ,", "And Cheerfulness and Joy were household gods .", "Blaspheming girl !", "Let the warrior enter .", "How ? What of Percy ?", "Upon a foe who has no power to hurt thee \u2014", "How eager would her tender hands unbrace", "But now Suspicion and Distrust dwell here ,", "Gentle knight , retire \u2014\u2014", "By all the saints , thou'rt a right noble knight !", "Ah ! have a care , my lord , I 'm not so old \u2014", "\u2018 Twill serve a double purpose , \u2018 twill at once", "My lord , if you respect an old man 's peace ,", "I might have prov 'd my love by dying for her .", "Douglas , hear me ; Thou hast nam 'd a Roman husband ; if she 's false , I mean to prove myself a Roman father .", "Prove Percy 's death , and thy unchang 'd affection .", "Who conquers for my country is my friend !", "If I was too infirm to serve my country ,", "Who have we lost ?", "Your lab'ring soul turns inward on itself ,", "If it be true that she did once love Percy ,", "To bless her father !", "She ever mourns at any tale of blood ;", "But if any", "When you , like me , shall be a fond , fond father ,", "Now , Douglas , is the time to prove thee both .", "Whate'er his name , whate'er his pride of blood ,", "Where never maid was false , nor knight disloyal .", "Thou art my child \u2014 thy mother 's perfect image .", "What do I hear ?", "But tell me of my child .", "Should some rash man , regardless of thy fame ,", "What ! cold at news which might awake the dead ?", "My child , my darling , does not come to fill them .", "Welcome , thou gallant knight ! Sir Hubert , welcome !", "Be patient ."], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 64}, {"query": ["My lord , you are welcome .", "Had the rash tongue of Slander so presum 'd ,", "And to curse her husband !", "But Douglas .", "Strictly enjoin 'd to speak to none but her ;", "Such deep , such deadly hate as I and Percy .", "That I can say , without a burning blush ,", "Percy ;\u2014 know'st thou that name ?", "She begg 'd to stay behind in Raby Castle ,", "My vengeance had not been of that slow sort", "But tortures soon shall force him to confess !", "To need a prompter ; nor should any arm ,", "She does .", "Let vulgar spirits basely wait for proof ,", "And start at bare suspicion .", "Of my bless 'd rival , happier even in death", "Do my senses fail me ?", "Ha \u2014\u2014 Elwina fainting ! My lord , I fear you have too harshly chid her . Her gentle nature could not brook your sternness . She wakes , she stirs , she feels returning life . My love !", "Arriv 'd young Harcourt , one of Percy 's knights ,", "And not the grave can bury my resentment .", "Did she not weep ? she did , and wept for Percy .", "And I 'll be milder than a summer 's breeze .", "No , if her alien heart dotes on another ,", "The privilege to die in her defence .", "O sweet delights , that never must be mine !", "I 'll copy every virtue , every grace ,", "Our days have still been cold and joyless all ;", "No \u2014 I am nice as the first C\u00e6sar was ,", "To my Elwina 's presence .", "Her sole return for all my waste of fondness .", "Percy was gentle , even a foe avows it ,", "Not the two Theban brothers bore each other", "Nothing : inquire no farther .", "I live again .\u2014 But hold \u2014"], "true_target": ["Be a tame convenient husband ,", "Just at the hour she thought I should be absent ,", "Her heart may yet be mine , transporting hope !", "The lily opening to the heaven 's soft dews ,", "At what a feeble hold you grasp for succour !", "Which first subdued my soul , and still enslave it ,", "E'er since our marriage ,", "By Heaven , thou counsel'st well ! it shall be done .", "If she laments him , he 's my rival still ,", "Now , now confess she well deserves my vengeance ! Before my face to call upon my foe !", "Painful restraint , and hatred ill disguis 'd ,", "He loves Elwina , and , my curses on him ! He is belov 'd again .", "She is unchaste , were not that other Percy .", "I seiz 'd the miscreant : hitherto he 's silent ,", "Go set him free , and let him have admittance", "She should repair to court ; with all those graces ,", "For courts and cities had no charms for her .", "Nor I so base , that I should tamely bear it ;", "This very morn I told her \u2018 twas your will", "And doted on the sweetness which deceiv 'd me .", "She loves another \u2014 \u2018 tis enough for Douglas .", "Will it content me that her person 's pure ?", "Northumberland is dead \u2014 that thought is peace !", "No , not a father 's , dare dispute with mine ,", "Curse my blind love ! I was again ensnar 'd ,", "I thought", "None dares accuse Elwina , but \u2014", "Nor am I so inur 'd to infamy ,", "She lives to be my curse !", "Was not so fragrant , and was not so chaste .", "As I and Percy ! When at the marriage rites , O rites accurs 'd ! I seiz 'd her trembling hand , she started back , Cold horror thrill 'd her veins , her tears flow 'd fast . Fool that I was , I thought \u2018 twas maiden fear ; Dull , doting ignorance ! beneath those terrors , Hatred for me and love for Percy lurk 'd .", "Yes , thou most lovely , most ador 'd of women ,", "And meanly wait for circumstantial guilt ?", "To be thus loved , than living to be scorn 'd .", "Hell , hell !"], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 64}, {"query": ["Which massacres the world he died to save .", "The desolate Elwina ?", "And , like the patriarch , wrestle for a blessing .", "And is that all ? so cold ?", "I am , indeed !", "And wears the sanctimonious garb of faith", "To bless the father who destroy 'd my peace .", "My father !", "War then is tenfold guilt .", "Only to colour fraud , and license murder ,", "Nor Palestine destroy 'd , nor Jordan 's banks", "Then he lives !", "Of your crusades , can bribe that Power who sees", "For why that question ? who should seek to please", "By your own promise , by a father 's promise ,", "No , by my life , nor knew I till this moment", "I will not be repuls 'd , I am your child ,", "My Percy , \u2018 tis Elwina calls .", "Deluged with blood of slaughter 'd infidels ;", "O Percy !", "The motive with the act . O blind , to think", "Were there no more ?", "Was forc 'd a helpless victim to the altar ,", "\u2018 Tis not the crosier , nor the pontiff 's robe ,", "O let me clasp his venerable knees ,", "Where is my father ? let me fly to meet him ,", "Torn from his arms who had her virgin heart ,", "Said'st thou \u2014 died ?", "And by a tie more strong , more sacred still ,", "That Harcourt was return 'd . Was it for this", "Did my weak soul break out in fond complaints ?", "You shall not throw me off , I will grow here ,"], "true_target": ["When the fond ties of early love were broken ,", "Oh !", "Abhors the sacrifice of human blood ,", "Mine , by the fast firm bond of mutual love .", "Was my destin 'd husband ;", "I taught my heart to struggle with its feelings ?", "Then I 'm undone indeed ! How stern his looks !", "Now , Heaven support me !", "Douglas here , My father and my husband ?\u2014 O for pity \u2014", "That cruel war can please the Prince of Peace !", "The saintly look , nor elevated eye ,", "And die of joy in his belov 'd embrace !", "Did I reproach thee ? Did I call thee cruel ?", "Was it for this I bore my wrongs in silence ?", "And all the false devotion of that zeal", "When policy assumes religion 's name ,", "Has he then complain 'd ? Has he presum 'd to sully my white fame ?", "Nor all the mad , pernicious , bigot rage", "What honour bids me do .", "No \u2014 I endur 'd it all ; and wearied Heaven", "Sir , do not fear me : am I not your daughter ?", "If he has told thee , that thy only child", "The child of that dear mother you ador 'd ;", "Why should I tremble thus ?", "Weak heart , be still , for what hast thou to fear ?", "Then I confess that he has told the truth .", "He , who erects his altar in the heart ,", "Forgive these tears of mingled joy and doubt ;", "And forc 'd to make false vows to one she hated ,", "Ha !", "Mysterious Heaven ! to what am I reserv 'd !", "No , nor the extinction of the eastern world ,"], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 64}, {"query": ["Entreats admittance ."], "true_target": ["But newly landed from the holy wars ,", "My lord , a knight , Sir Hubert as I think ,"], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 64}, {"query": ["My good lord of Raby ,", "He died the death of honour .", "Imperfect is the sum of human glory !", "Who bore his banner foremost in the field ,", "Would I could tell thee that the field was won ,", "Was Percy .", "I must return with speed \u2014 health to the lady .", "You do embalm him , lady , with your tears :", "Sir Harry Hastings , and the valiant Pembroke ,", "They grace the grave of glory where he lies \u2014"], "true_target": ["The noble Clifford , Walsingham , and Grey ,", "But the brave youth who gain 'd the palm of glory ,", "The flower of knighthood , and the plume of war ,", "The king is safe , and Palestine subdu 'd .", "All men of choicest note .", "Yet conquer 'd more by mercy than the sword ,", "Look to the lady .", "But few of noble blood .", "Without the death of such illustrious knights", "Beneath the towers of Solyma he fell .", "As make the high-flush 'd cheek of victory pale ."], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 64}, {"query": ["I should not be believ 'd in Percy 's camp ,", "Loiter 'd in shades , and pin 'd in rosy bowers ,", "More joys my soul than all the mighty conquests", "Not such as lovers wish and poets feign .", "For the soft melting of the lover 's lute !", "You have already heard .", "My embassy dispatch 'd , I left the castle ,", "Why are thine eyes still bent upon the bower ?", "Crush 'd all its blushing glories in their prime ,", "\u2018 Twas strange , indeed !", "He , at whose name the Saracen turn 'd pale ?", "I left her fainting in her father 's arms ,", "And when he fell , victorious armies wept ,", "So droop 'd the maid beneath the cruel weight", "Of my sad tale .", "Nor spoke to any of Lord Raby 's household ,", "That Percy lives , and is return 'd in safety ,", "Is this the man", "And envy 'd thee thy glory .", "The dying flower yet hanging on the tree ."], "true_target": ["And all the stirring clangor of the war ,", "Percy , thou hast seen the musk-rose , newly blown ,", "Disclose its bashful beauties to the sun ,", "She may be chang 'd ,", "Of my return . My joy to find you living", "To catch a transient gleam of two bright eyes .", "Renouncing Mars , dissolv 'd in amorous wishes ,", "Bow 'd its fair head , and blasted all its sweetness ;", "Beneath whose single arm an host was crush 'd ?", "What beam of brightness breaks through yonder gloom ?", "For fear the king should chide the tardiness", "Grant , Heaven , the fair one prove but half so true !", "The thunder of the war , the bold Northumberland ,", "How has he chang 'd the trumpet 's martial note ,", "Even Raby melted at the news I brought ,", "Spite of her tears , her fainting , and alarms .", "That sun beheld , which rose on Syria 's ruin .", "And mourn 'd a conquest they had bought so dear ?", "If I should tell them that their gallant leader ,", "I know the sex , know them as nature made \u2018 em ,", "Till an unfriendly , chilling storm descended ,"], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 65}, {"query": ["And turn 'd the hostile spear from Percy 's breast ,", "I know it well \u2014\u2014", "How look 'd , what said she ? Did she hear the tale", "O Hubert , let my soul indulge its softness !", "Not giving thee ; or , granting some small blessing ,", "But surely my Elwina 's faithful bosom", "But I would lose my life and that together \u2014", "Should Douglas know !", "This happy husband , this triumphant Douglas ,", "A gift so precious to my doating heart ,", "And yet I tremble . Why does terror shake", "Arrest my knight ! The Scot shall answer it .", "Kind as consenting peace , as conquest bright ,", "Here I repeat my vow .", "\u2018 Twas Heaven 's immediate work !", "Come , Harcourt ,", "Denies them my capacity to feel it .", "I would not boast , it was for thee I conquer 'd ;", "Be this the sacred pledge of faith between us .", "Wrought by the hand of love ! she bound it on ,", "Dresses it up in all the charms it wore ,", "Thy guardian genius hover 'd o'er the field ,", "And feel , but never question , what I mean .", "Married ! just Heaven !", "How we could ever think we were unhappy .", "And , smiling , cried , Whate'er befal us , Percy ,", "Married ! to whom ? Yet wherefore should I know ?", "Enough of conquest , and enough of war !", "Why \u2018 tis well !", "But let me now indulge a dearer joy ,", "Love stays for none of these . Thy father 's soften 'd ,", "Or I shall love thee still ; I shall forget", "Thou mean'st to tell me \u2018 tis Elwina 's husband ;", "Shall not insult my misery with his bliss .", "Raby is brave , and I have serv 'd my country ;", "Thou awful Power , why waste thy wrath on me ?", "With pity on the rest of human kind ,", "I 've told thee , good Sir Hubert , by what wonder", "Paints the bright image of the object lov 'd", "Come , let us seek this husband .", "End of my toils , and crown of all my cares !", "There is a sort of local sympathy ,", "Shall be so bless 'd , that we will learn to wonder", "The hour , the spot , is sacred to Elwina .", "That it should strike Northumberland with fear ?", "And scarcely can sustain the joy which waits me .", "Go \u2014 thou wast born to rule the fate of Percy . Thou art my conqueror still .", "But wherefore tell thee this ? for thou hast seen her .", "\u2018 Tis perfidy complete , \u2018 tis finish 'd falsehood ,", "Open , thou earth , and hide me from her sight ! Did'st thou not bid me curse thee ?", "I would not change this motionless , mute , joy", "I live , I am return 'd \u2014 am near Elwina !", "But Harcourt should have told thee all my fate ,", "How I surviv 'd \u2014\u2014", "Of my imagin 'd death without emotion ?", "Then I am blest ! His hate subdued , I 've nothing more to fear .", "Go , seek the haughty Scot , and tell him \u2014 no \u2014", "And have I \u2018 scap 'd the Saracen 's fell sword", "Why what new magic 's in the name of Douglas ,", "I never liv 'd till now .", "For every minute of our future lives", "When fate prepares us more than mortal bliss ,", "Why arm omnipotence to crush a worm ?", "\u2018 Twas in that very bower she gave this scarf ,", "But where is Harcourt ?", "This arm not idly the keen falchion brandish 'd :", "I would have bared my bosom to the foe ,", "Should beat in kind responses of delight ,"], "true_target": ["To doubt her virtue were suspecting Heaven ,", "I will command my rage \u2014 Go on .", "Then come , my love .", "Come , and behold the wretch who once was Percy .", "Which , when we view the scenes of early passion ,", "\u2018 Tis adding fresh perdition to the sin ,", "That thought is death . I go :", "Let the slow form , and tedious ceremony ,", "Can I speak my meaning ?", "Thy fatal marriage and my savage wrongs .", "Of that no more ;", "So tender and so true !", "Dearer than arms , and lovelier than renown !", "\u2018 Twere little less than infidelity !", "In stronger colours than remoter scenes", "Conduct me to him \u2014 nay , I will have way \u2014", "For the sweet strains of angels : I look down", "However great may be their fame of happiness ,", "What , is the tyrant jealous ?", "No time , nor circumstance , should force it from me ,", "Farewell , farewell !", "Enough \u2014 for vaunting misbecomes a soldier .", "Ere this he should have seen her , told her all ,", "Married to Douglas ! By my wrongs , I like it ;", "Hate thee ? Yes , As dying martyrs hate the righteous cause Of that bless 'd power for whom they bleed \u2014 I hate thee .", "O joy unspeakable ! My life , my love !", "How I surviv 'd , return 'd \u2014 and how I love !", "This was her fav'rite walk ; I well remember ,", "I 'll blast the golden promise of his joys .", "Only to perish by Elwina 's guilt ?", "Wait on the splendid victims of ambition .", "I would have died , had I but known you wish 'd it .", "Fly from Douglas ?", "Am I awake ? Is that Elwina 's voice ?", "Or my destruction .", "I knelt , and swore , call 'd every power to witness ,", "Talks to it nearer , frames its answers kinder ,", "Talk of a richer gift of Mercy 's hand ;", "I tremble at the near approach of bliss ,", "And filling up the measure of offence !", "Then cease , for Percy lives .", "Lest thy fair image should be wounded there .", "My honour to thy dearer honour yields .", "O she is truth itself !", "But that inflames me to superior madness .", "Why art thou thus alarm 'd ?", "Gives form to fancy , and embodies thought .", "That life preserv 'd is but a second blessing .", "Ambition 's cloy 'd \u2014 the heart resumes its rights .", "I could have fallen without this waste of ruin .", "\u2018 Tis of such magnitude that words would wrong it ;", "Those tears how eloquent !", "And think their niggard fate has given them nothing ,", "Conduct me to his presence .", "Let me not hear the music of thy voice ,", "Seest thou those turrets ? Yes , that castle holds her ;", "I was preserv 'd , though number 'd with the slain .", "O Hubert , Hubert , to a soul enamour 'd ,", "Speak , say , what art thou ?", "Hubert \u2014 she comes ! by all my hopes , she comes ! \u2018 Tis she \u2014 the blissful vision is Elwina ! But ah ! what mean those tears ?\u2014 She weeps for me ! O transport !\u2014 go .\u2014 I 'll listen unobserv 'd , And for a moment taste the precious joy , The banquet of a tear which falls for love . Enter Elwina .Shall I not weep ? and have I then no cause ? If I could break the eternal bands of death , And wrench the sceptre from his iron grasp ; If I could bid the yawning sepulchre Restore to life its long committed dust ; If I could teach the slaughtering hand of war To give me back my dear , my murder 'd Percy , Then I indeed might once more cease to weep .", "Could ever paint it ; realizes shade ,", "And you complied , most duteously complied !", "When England 's king , and England 's good , requir 'd ,", "It cannot add fresh horrors to thy crime ,", "These firm-strung nerves ? But \u2018 twill be ever thus ,", "Oh !", "He will forget the fatal Cheviot chace ;", "And gives us only human strength to bear it ."], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 65}, {"query": ["If ever fortitude sustain 'd thy soul ,", "Think not \u2018 tis Douglas \u2014 \u2018 tis \u2014", "Married !", "When I was robb 'd of all my peace of mind ,", "Cherish one wish , or harbour one desire ,", "What noise is that ?", "It was my fame .\u2014 \u2018 Tis a rich jewel , Percy ,", "Then thou may'st curse my weakness ; but if not ,", "Wherefore should I tremble ?", "Let thy imperial spirit now support thee .\u2014", "Ungenerous man !", "Without their sense of guilt .", "Alas ! I feel", "When vulgar minds have sank beneath the stroke ,", "Alas ! I have not seen him . Oh ! I have suffer 'd much .", "By your permission Harcourt was admitted ;", "Yet , yet thou art not gone !", "Hold , hold , my heart , thou hast much more to suffer !", "Fly , Percy , and for ever !", "Ye shatter 'd nerves , be strung with manly force ,", "Protect me , Heaven !", "Do not , O do not , curse me !\u2014 but thou wilt ,", "But thou wouldst plunder what e'en Douglas spar 'd ,", "If thou canst be so wond'rous merciful ,", "Hast thou e'er felt a father 's warm embrace ?", "And rob this single gem of all its brightness .", "My lord !", "My lord , \u2018 twas Harcourt ; sure you must have met him .", "\u2018 Twas no mysterious , secret introduction .", "O'erwhelm me with thy wrongs \u2014\u2014 I 'll bear it all .", "And I must keep it spotless , and unsoil 'd :", "Hast thou e'er seen a father 's flowing tears ,", "Dost thou not hate me , Percy ?", "Yes , I will bear his fearful indignation !", "I dare not meet the searching eye of Douglas . I must conceal my terrors . Douglas at the side with his sword drawn , Edric holds him .", "Alas ! what mean you ?", "The cruel tyranny of tenderness ?"], "true_target": ["How came you now releas 'd ?", "One solitary blessing , to console me ;", "Oh ! \u2018 twas my father 's deed ! he made his child", "Percy , hold ;", "Nor let this bleeding bosom lodge one thought ,", "I am , I am \u2014", "Then stay , barbarian , and at once destroy", "He wept and threaten 'd , sooth 'd me , and commanded .", "An instrument of vengeance on thy head .", "And known that thou could'st wipe those tears away ?", "Percy , I think I begg 'd thee not to curse me ;", "But now I do revoke the fond petition .", "Percy , I lov 'd thee most when most I wrong 'd thee ;", "My cruel fortune left me still one blessing ,", "Ah , they undid me ! Percy , dost thou know", "It is his voice \u2014 it is , it is , my Percy ! And dost thou live ?", "Speak ! ease thy bursting soul ; reproach , upbraid ,", "I dare not meet his fury .", "Percy , hear me .", "Oh ! \u2018 twill add to both . How shall I tell ? Prepare for something dreadful . Hast thou not heard of \u2014 Douglas ?", "Yes , by these tears I did .", "Thou melting heart , be firm as adamant ;", "That angels may not hear and Douglas know .", "A deed of wild despair , a deed of horror .", "Mercy ! mercy !", "Percy \u2014 I cannot speak .", "Hear him , Percy .", "And did my sighs , and did my sorrows , reach thee ? And art thou come at last to dry my tears ? How did'st thou \u2018 scape the fury of the foe ?", "If thou hast felt , and hast resisted these ,", "Percy , thou most ador 'd , and most deceiv 'd !", "My life and fame .", "That I may conquer all my sex 's weakness ,", "The cowardice and terrors of the wicked ,", "I could withstand his fury ; but his tears ,", "Thou must \u2014 for I have done a fearful deed ,", "Thou canst not pity , for thou canst not judge .", "O never , never , never !"], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 65}, {"query": ["Your noble father", "To do him homage .", "Forgive , my lord , your faithful knight \u2014\u2014", "And much he menac 'd me , but both alike", "My lord , \u2018 tis Douglas .", "Earl Douglas", "Knew , by my arms and my accoutrements ,", "That I belong 'd to you ; he question 'd much ,"], "true_target": ["Obtain 'd my freedom , having learn 'd from Hubert", "With grief I 've learn 'd the whole unhappy tale . Earl Douglas , whose suspicion never sleeps \u2014", "Sir , you had best retire ;", "Hearing the king 's return , has left the castle", "In vain ; he then arrested and confin 'd me .", "I fear , should Douglas know \u2014\u2014", "Your safety is endanger 'd by your stay .", "The news of Percy 's death . The good old lord ,"], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 65}, {"query": ["And yet you seem alarm 'd .\u2014 If Harcourt 's presence", "Thus agitates each nerve , makes every pulse", "If friendship can excite such strong emotions ,", "If there were no hell , It would defraud my vengeance of its edge , And she should live .", "Mount in quick rushing tumults to your cheek ;", "O exquisite dissembler !No one else !"], "true_target": ["What tremors had a lover 's presence caus 'd ?", "I feast upon her terrors .", "See she flies With every mark of guilt .\u2014 Go , search the bower ,", "Give me way .", "How I enjoy her criminal confusion !", "Thus wildly throb , and the warm tides of blood"], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 65}, {"query": ["The scarf !", "Dost thou expect I should recount my shame ,", "Hast thou examin 'd every avenue ? Each spot ? the grove ? the bower , her favourite haunt ?", "Of her cursed paramour ?", "Harcourt has raised his arm against my life ;", "Dwell on each circumstance of my disgrace ,", "Cannot produce a falser .\u2014 But what news", "Would stain the noble temper of my sword ;", "Or gain admittance here , without my knowledge .", "I took thee for thy leader .\u2014 Thy base blood", "The chronicles of hell", "How ! Edric here ?", "He fail 'd ; the blow is now reserv 'd for Percy ;", "But he shall die ! I 'll drown my rage in blood ,", "Nor will he bring her aught she 'll hold so dear ,", "He shall be yet pursued ."], "true_target": ["Take him away .", "As the curs 'd hand with which he slew her husband .", "Traitor , no more ! this letter shews thy office ;", "Now for the letter ! He begs once more to see her .\u2014 So \u2018 tis plain They have already met !\u2014 but to the rest \u2014\u2014\u201c In vain you wish me to restore the scarf ; Dear pledge of love , while I have life I 'll wear it , \u2018 Tis next my heart ; no power shall force it thence ; Whene'er you see it in another 's hand , Conclude me dead . \u201d \u2014 My curses on them both ! How tamely I peruse my shame ! but thus , Thus let me tear the guilty characters Which register my infamy ; and thus , Thus would I scatter to the winds of heaven The vile complotters of my foul dishonour .", "He 'll revel with that wanton o'er my tomb ;", "Set guards at every gate .\u2014 Let none depart", "But as the pander to thy master 's lust ,", "Is it not clear ?", "Twice hast thou robb 'd me of my dear revenge .", "Yes , the scarf ! Percy , I thank thee for the glorious thought ! I 'll cherish it ; \u2018 twill sweeten all my pangs , And add a higher relish to revenge !", "And swell my infamy into a tale ?", "Rage will not let me \u2014 But \u2014 my wife is false .", "Which I will offer as a rich libation", "On thy infernal altar , black revenge !", "Thou justly fall'st by a wrong 'd husband 's hand .", "Then , with his sword fresh reeking from my heart ,"], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 66}, {"query": ["Thy wife is innocent ."], "true_target": ["Percy , revenge my fall !"], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 66}, {"query": ["He has escap 'd .", "I 've search 'd them all .", "What can their purpose be ?", "My lord \u2014\u2014"], "true_target": ["Art thou convinc 'd ?", "What new distress ?", "Lord Douglas .", "My lord !"], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 66}, {"query": ["She , whom thou once didst love , is now another 's .", "Nor must their whiteness wear the stain of guilt .", "The gross of human-kind .\u2014 Then think , O think ,", "I will not be excus 'd by Percy 's crime ;", "For ever !\u2018 Tis past \u2014 the conflict 's past ! retire , my Birtha , I would address me to the throne of grace .", "O when shall I be eas 'd of all my cares ,", "But , glory !", "Strike at the wretched cause of all , strike here ,", "Douglas was soon appeas 'd ; he nothing knows .", "Then leave me , I conjure thee , nor again", "And in the quiet bosom of the grave", "To throw a brighter lustre round my virtue .", "His honour 's in my keeping , and I hold", "Inexorable duly , O forgive ,", "No more ;", "To meet his rival , yet I durst not do it .", "Too deeply should I feel each pang I gave ;", "The shade of others \u2019 faults to set it off ;", "Should Douglas intercept his flight !", "Percy ! too much this rebel heart is thine :", "\u2018 Tis but to make its careless prey secure .", "I do conjure thee , go .", "Enter Birtha .", "It bids me fly thee .", "O do not , do not , kill him !", "Whate'er his name , he claims respect from me :", "He never sought thy life .", "Lay down this weary head !\u2014 I 'm sick at heart !", "It blazes brighter ! Douglas was only brave \u2014 he now is generous !", "That danger 's past :", "No more , no more .", "But spare my injur 'd honour the affront", "Ah , then , indeed there 's danger !", "E'en by thy presence .", "\u2018 Tis not enough to be ,\u2014 we must appear so :"], "true_target": ["My Birtha , is he safe ? has he escap 'd ?", "If honour would allow the wife of Douglas", "Savage tyrant !", "Each avenue is so beset with guards ,", "Which I have ne'er receiv 'd . Douglas perhaps \u2014", "And lynx-ey 'd Jealousy so broad awake ,", "I would have fallen a silent sacrifice ,", "Birtha , whene'er Suspicion feigns to sleep ,", "Still gives as great occasions to exert them .", "I do not weep .", "Who knows ?", "Here sheath thy thirsty sword , but spare my husband .", "If thou wast form 'd so noble , great , and gen'rous ,", "Letter ! what letter ?", "Heaven , when it gives such high-wrought souls as thine ,", "So white my innocence , it does not ask", "Restore the scarf .", "Great souls disdain the shadow of offence ,", "To vindicate itself .", "Grant heaven it prove so !", "Then tell him , Birtha , But , Oh ! with gentleness , with mercy , tell him , That we must never , never , meet again . The purport of my tale must be severe , But let thy tenderness embalm the wound My virtue gives . O soften his despair ; But say \u2014 we meet no more . Enter Percy .Rash man , he 's here !", "Rouse , rouse , my slumb'ring virtue ! Percy , hear me .", "Stay , Percy , stay ,", "Endanger my repose . Yet , ere thou goest ,", "Percy , I charge thee , leave me .", "I cannot hate \u2014 but I will banish \u2014 thee .", "Look down , thou , awful , heart-inspecting Judge , Look down with mercy on thy erring creature , And teach my soul the lowliness it needs ! And if some sad remains of human weakness Should sometimes mingle with my best resolves , O breathe thy spirit on this wayward heart , And teach me to repent th \u2019 intruding sin In it 's first birth of thought !What noise is that ? The clash of swords ! should Douglas be return 'd !", "If I can do no more !", "Birtha , no ;", "The trust so pure , its sanctity is hurt", "Nor shall he need to sully his fair fame", "\u2018 Twas to surmount the passions which enslave", "He cannot pass unseen . Protect him , heaven !", "So thou had'st spar 'd my fame .\u2014 I never wrong 'd thee .", "Hold , Douglas , hold !\u2014 not for myself I kneel , I do not plead for Percy , but for thee : Arm not thy hand against thy future peace , Spare thy brave breast the tortures of remorse ,\u2014 Stain not a life of unpolluted honour , For , oh ! as surely as thou strik'st at Percy , Thou wilt for ever stab the fame of Douglas .", "O Percy \u2014 pity thee ! Imperious honour ;\u2014 surely I may pity him . Yet , wherefore pity ? no , I envy thee : For thou hast still the liberty to weep , In thee \u2018 twill be no crime : thy tears are guiltless , For they infringe no duty , stain no honour , And blot no vow ; but mine are criminal , Are drops of shame which wash the cheek of guilt , And every tear I shed dishonours Douglas ."], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 67}, {"query": ["I know not . I dispatch 'd young Harcourt to him ,", "He will submit to hear his final doom", "But how the hard injunction was receiv 'd ,", "Of everlasting exile .", "As I suspect , within the castle walls ,", "Restore the scarf , and never see you more .", "If he remains ,", "\u2018 Twere best admit him ; from thy lips alone", "Harcourt , t \u2019 elude his watchfulness ,"], "true_target": ["With seeming peace .", "\u2018 Twere best I sought him out .", "Should Percy once again entreat to see thee ,", "Be calm ;", "Douglas this very moment left the castle ,", "Or what has happen 'd since , I 'm yet to learn .", "May Heaven restore that peace thy bosom wants !", "To bid him quit the castle , as you order 'd ,", "Might prudently retire ."], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 67}, {"query": ["Not weep ? then why those eyes avoiding mine ? And why that broken voice ? those trembling accents ? That sigh which rends my soul ?", "And all the blessings kept in store for me ,", "Hear you , his friends ! Bear witness to the glorious , great exploit , Record it in the annals of his race , That Douglas , the renown 'd \u2014 the valiant Douglas , Fenc 'd round with guards , and safe in his own castle , Surpris 'd a knight unarm 'd , and bravely slew him .", "Have been to blame \u2014 Spite of her interdiction ,", "And in the field of honour I will meet thee ,", "For after this dear , mournful , tender moment ,", "Finish the bloody work .", "And leave their last beams here .", "I left thee here alone , to brave the danger", "Now shall this mutual fury be appeas 'd !", "I 'm taken in the toils .", "Celestial virtue , like the angel spirit ,", "And add to her account .\u2014 Yet turn once more ,", "All which reminds me that I once was happy .", "Yet I 've the deepest , deadliest , cause of hate ,", "Now thou'rt a noble foe ,", "Thus struggles to the last to keep his hold ;", "One effort and \u2018 tis done . The world shall say ,", "Shall fail its master .", "Enough ! a ray of thy sublimer spirit", "Stands guard on every charm ,\u2014 Elwina , yes ,", "Enough of words . Thou know'st I hate thee , Douglas ;", "And then a long dark night .\u2014 Hold , hold , my heart ,", "Forbids not that poor grace .", "Once and no more \u2014 farewell , farewell !", "I hither came . She 's pure as spotless saints .", "This action has restor 'd thee to thy rank ,", "I shall retract \u2014 I dare not gaze upon thee ;", "Douglas , I 'm in thy power ; but do not triumph ,", "As part of our unalienable birthright ,", "I now return to share .", "\u2018 Tis stedfast , fix 'd , hereditary hate ,", "Tyrant , no :", "And when the dire convulsive groan of death", "Then , ere thou goest , if we indeed must part ,", "Unkind Elwina , never !", "Hear me , Elwina ; the most savage honour", "As knight encount'ring knight .", "Thou Power supreme ! take all the length of days ,", "She knew not of my coming ;\u2014 I alone", "The mournful consolation to complain .", "But , love !", "Madam , forbear ;", "The poor departing wretch still grasps at being ,", "The fiends of jealousy torment and haunt me .", "I will be heard ; nay , fly not ; I will speak ;", "My feeble virtue staggers , and again"], "true_target": ["They tear my heart-strings .\u2014\u2014 Oh !", "Say but \u2014 thou pity'st me !", "Their godlike spirit is not so extinct ,", "Lost as I am , I will not be denied", "And fondly hovers o'er the form it lov 'd .", "Not till this good right arm", "That pang decides it . Come \u2014 I 'll die at once ;", "Percy 's betray 'd , not conquer 'd . Come , dispatch me .", "Go on \u2014 and tell me that that other 's Douglas .", "When they shall speak of my disastrous love ,", "Thou again hast conquer 'd .", "I blush at my obedience , blush to think", "Though dangers close me round on every side ,", "Has warm 'd my dying honour to a flame !", "I swear my jealous love e'en grudges thee", "As thine for me ; our fathers did bequeath it", "Percy deserv 'd Elwina though he lost her .", "To sooth the horrors of eternal exile ,", "Fond tears , blind me not yet ! a little longer ,", "To triumph over Douglas , we 'll be virtuous .", "One little look , one last , short glimpse of day ,", "Let my sad eyes a little longer gaze ,", "Cursed treachery ! But dearly will I sell my life .", "Defend thy own .", "\u2018 Tis terrible to nature !", "Dislodges the sad spirit \u2014 thus it stays ,", "O break not yet , while I behold her sweetness ;", "These eager hands shall soon be drench 'd in slaughter !", "\u2018 Tis all that 's left me of my buried joys ,", "I shall have nothing more to do with life .", "Why dost thou start ?", "I am but Percy , thou'rt \u2014 Elwina 's husband .", "Which nought but death can end .\u2014 Come , end it here .", "And makes thee worthy to contend with Percy .", "With pangs like these the soul and body part !", "Let our deaths suffice ,", "That I should owe my life to that vile Scot .", "My letter told thee I would ne'er restore it .", "Yes \u2014 like two famish 'd vultures snuffing blood ,", "And reverence virtue in that form inshrin 'd .", "Thus clings to life , thus dreads the dark unknown ,", "Whose flaming sword defended Paradise ,", "For by the glorious shades of my great fathers ,", "And panting to destroy , we 'll rush to combat ;", "That I sent by Harcourt .", "And thus , but oh , with far less agony ,", "And death besets me , I am Percy still .", "Thy sad pre-eminence in wretchedness ."], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 67}, {"query": ["Now your loose fancy kindles at the thought ,", "Thy minion shall expire before thy face ,", "Then take thy wish .", "The blasting sight converts me into stone ;", "This to thy heart , then .", "\u2018 Tis true \u2014 I am the very stain of knighthood . How is my glory dimm 'd !", "Her scarf upon his breast !", "In the cursed snare", "Yield , villain , yield !", "But I 'll defeat that wish .\u2014 Guards , bear her in .", "Yet he can only die \u2014 but death for honour !", "Adulteress , peace ! The villain Harcourt too \u2014 but he 's at rest .", "To spare the precious life of him you love .", "Seize on him .", "A banquet for my vengeance .", "And , wildly rioting in lawless hope ,", "In human bloodshed , give me some dire means ,", "The burning torch of never-dying vengeance", "At love 's expiring lamp .\u2014 But mark me , friends ,"], "true_target": ["And palsies my bold arm .", "Be all observance paid him .\u2014 Go , I follow thee .", "Ye powers of hell , who take malignant joy", "And I should fall , give him safe conduct hence ,", "Nay , do not struggle .", "Wild as my hate , and desperate as my wrongs !", "Turn , madam , and address those vows to me ,", "Withers my powers like cowardice or age ,", "Thy joy will be as short as \u2018 tis insulting .", "Curdles the blood within my shiv'ring veins ,", "Indulges the adultery of the mind .", "Confusion , death , and hell !", "Provoke my rage no farther .\u2014 I have kindled", "If Percy 's happier genius should prevail ,", "Even now you triumph in the death of Douglas ;", "And make his dying groans , and thy fond tears ,", "Sorceress , I 'll disappoint thee \u2014 he shall die ,", "That I may feast my hatred with your pangs ,", "Thou laid'st for me , traitor , thyself art caught ."], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 67}, {"query": ["Thou messenger of woe !", "Weep thy hard fate , and die to prove her truth .", "It cannot come in any shape will shock me .", "From all the flock you chose her out a mate ,", "The means are little where the end is kind .", "Re-enter Birtha .", "And scarce acquainted with calamity .", "Call it the sweet oblivion of my cares ,", "O Death ! suspend thy rights for one short moment ,", "My kind dismission from a world of sorrow ,", "Enter Birtha .", "Nor let this sin be on his head , or mine !", "\u2014 That my sad soul may not be stain 'd with blood ,", "Douglas \u2014 think not I faint , because thou see'st The pale and bloodless cheek of wan despair . Fail me not yet , my spirits ; thou cold heart , Cherish thy freezing current one short moment , And bear thy mighty load a little longer .", "O save me , shield me !", "Tell me that he lives ,", "And bless thy genius which has found the means", "When I can neither hope , nor think , nor pray ,", "You had a harmless lamb .", "Now , gracious heaven , sustain me in the trial ,", "By all my fears the insulting conqueror comes .", "As far as universal space can part us .", "O \u2018 twas a cordial draught \u2014 I drank it all .", "When each event is big with equal horror .", "We soon shall meet in peace .", "Then why this sorrow ?", "But something tells me \u2014 O those painful struggles !", "My very prayers may pull down ruin on me !", "Preserve my husband ! Ah , I dare not ask it ;", "And bow my spirit to thy great decrees !", "My balm of woe , my cordial of affliction ,", "Thou talk'st as if I were a child in grief ,", "Relieve the terrors of my lab'ring breast ,", "If it disturb thee , do not call it poison ;", "Thou seest me bold , but bold in conscious virtue .", "Now you are cruel .", "I 've but a faint remembrance of the past \u2014", "Let every gate be barr 'd \u2014 prevent his entrance .", "No matter ;", "Yes , Douglas , yes , my husband , I 'll obey thee ,", "Raise me a little \u2014 there \u2014", "Where sad austerity and ceaseless prayer", "From cheerful day-light , and the haunts of men ,", "Ev'n in that agony I 'll still be faithful .", "What , blood again ? We cannot kill him twice ! Soft , soft \u2014 no violence \u2014 he 's dead already ;\u2014 I did it \u2014 Yes \u2014 I drown 'd him with my tears ; But hide the cruel deed ! I 'll scratch him out A shallow grave , and lay the green sod on it ; Ay \u2014 and I 'll bind the wild briar o'er the turf , And plant a willow there , a weeping willow \u2014", "Come \u2014 I am ready ; but your tardy justice", "Heaven and earth , my husband !", "Then farewell , Percy !", "What of Douglas ?", "Heard you nothing ?", "Look down upon my woes , preserve my husband !", "Whence sprung the false report that thou had'st fall'n ?", "O thou Eternal ! take him to thy mercy ,", "But guilt involves me . Sure to know the worst", "Never to see him more .\u2014 Unhappy Douglas !", "Where are the knights ? I summon you \u2014 approach !", "A father 's blessing .\u2014 Once \u2014 and now \u2018 tis over .", "Till I have ta'en a father 's last embrace \u2014", "But while the shepherd slept , the wolf devour 'd it ."], "true_target": ["\u2018 Twas worthy of the bosom which conceiv 'd it !", "This adds another , sharper pang to death .", "Say I am clear of murder \u2014 say he lives ,", "Of \u2014 him \u2014 I dare not name ? And if he conquers ,", "How , is my husband dead ? Oh , speak !", "No . The sorrow 's weak that wastes itself in words , Mine is substantial anguish \u2014 deep , not loud ; I do not rave .\u2014 Resentment 's the return Of common souls for common injuries . Light grief is proud of state , and courts compassion ; But there 's a dignity in cureless sorrow , A sullen grandeur which disdains complaint ; Rage is for little wrongs \u2014 Despair is dumb .", "The deadly means to make obedience pleasant .", "See that the castle be securely guarded ,", "Blest be the fountain of eternal mercy , This load of guilt is spar 'd me ! Douglas lives ! Perhaps both live !Could I be sure of that , The poison were superfluous , joy would kill me .", "If Douglas should survive , what then becomes", "Do not defile me with those crimson hands .", "The combat 's over !", "His \u2014 the murderer of my husband .", "That when the legacy thy rage bequeath 'd me", "Speak out , unfold thy tale , whate'er it be ,", "And thou shall be the ruler of my fate ,", "To reconcile thy vengeance with my peace ,", "Yet \u2018 twas too merciful to be his own .", "But mists and darkness cloud my failing sight .", "And take the kiss of death from my cold lips !", "What did the dreadful preparation mean ?", "And die in holy hope of Heaven 's forgiveness ,", "Draw near , ye awful ministers of fate ,", "Come near , my father , nearer \u2014 I would see you ,", "Thou who in judgment still remember'st mercy ,", "Dire instruments of posthumous revenge !", "O you are kindly come to close my eyes ,", "Off \u2014 murderer , off !", "My cap of bliss , my passport to the skies .", "And Alps and oceans shall divide us ever ,", "He was the tenderest , truest !\u2014 Bless him , heaven ,", "I 've slain my husband . Agonizing state !", "Defrauds the injur 'd dead .\u2014 Go , haste , my friend ,", "Shall share my uncomplaining day between them .", "My gentle friend , what is there in a name ?", "Who knows what love and madness may attempt ?", "Spirit of Herod ! Why , \u2018 twas greatly thought !", "Say but that little word , that Percy lives ,", "Yes \u2014 I do remember", "Enter Douglas .", "Thou sayest that Percy and my husband live ;", "Of our past woes , look down , and hear me swear ,", "With crowns of glory and immortal joys !", "That I may spend my few short hours in peace ,", "For ever hide me in a convent 's gloom ,", "Where have I been ? The damps of death are on me .", "Cannot exceed the torture of suspense ,", "The drop of mercy to my fainting soul ,", "In sooth a fair one \u2014 you did bid her love it \u2014", "Receive me to thy mercy , gracious Heaven !", "O if thy troubled spirit still is conscious", "Bring me the poison .", "But here I swear by all that binds the good ,", "Works at my heart , and conquers struggling nature ,", "No \u2014 you are my father ;", "Then Percy 's dead !", "How \u2014 by thy hand ?", "For I am so familiar with affliction ,", "She who could never love , shall yet obey , thee ,"], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 68}, {"query": ["I obey .", "Whose entrance ?", "Was given long since , a toy of childish friendship ;", "She bade me bring the poison .", "Be it whate'er it would . Alas ! they swore .", "Take this , said he , it is a husband 's legacy ;", "If Douglas falls , Elwina must not live .", "What a task is mine !", "He 's single , we have hosts of friends .", "Percy may conquer \u2014 and \u2014 I have a wife !", "That they would see perform 'd his last request ,", "What means my lord ? This day ? That fatal scarf", "Douglas is fallen .", "He call 'd his chosen knights , then drew his sword ,", "O horror , horror , horror !", "Then to their hands he gave a poison 'd cup ,", "Not in a state of momentary passion ,", "When all was ready for the fatal combat ,", "Her grief wrought up to frenzy ,"], "true_target": ["Of woe , indeed !", "Confirm 'd by every rite religion bids ,", "Never to see thy rival . Instantly ,", "Elwina \u2014", "Compounded of the deadliest herbs and drugs ;", "O spare , for pity spare , my bleeding heart :", "But with a martyr 's dignity and calmness ,", "Still are you wrong ; the combat is not over . Stay , flowing tears , and give me leave to speak .", "She has , in her delirium , swallow 'd poison !", "And on it made them swear a solemn oath ,", "Long ere your marriage , ere you knew Elwina .", "Unfortunate indeed , but O most innocent !", "Inhuman to the last ! Unnatural poison !", "Monster ! Barbarian ! leave her to her sorrows .", "How shall I speak ? Thy husband \u2014\u2014", "But now , when we believ 'd thee dead , she vow 'd", "Your husband lives .", "Hark ! what alarm is that ?", "Never .", "O unexampled virtue !"], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 68}, {"query": ["Mine is the transport now , and thine the pang .", "He is .\u2014 O great revenge , thou now art mine !", "A hated husband , when thy guilty soul", "I would have spar 'd thy virtues , and thy age ,", "Percy , I must avow it , bravely fought ,\u2014", "Till she pronounce my pardon .", "To add a deadlier sting to disappointment ,", "And confirm 'd my mis'ry ! Twice did they meet to-day \u2014 my wife and Percy .", "Thou wast a witness , an approving witness ,", "I heard him \u2014 \u2018 Twas the guilty fraud of love .", "Despair had been my portion ! Fly , good Birtha ,", "No ! she shall feel the fulness of distress ,", "With wild complaints , and womanish upbraidings .", "\u2018 Tis speechless agony .\u2014 She must not faint \u2014", "Oh , \u2018 tis a day of horror !", "How ? is't possible ?", "What meanest thou ?", "Receives its vast , its ample retribution .", "Why this is well ! her sense of woe is strong !", "Curse thy detested fate which brings thee back", "Could medicine a disease so desperate .", "Find out the suffering saint \u2014 describe my penitence ,", "At least a tame one !", "She shall not \u2018 scape her portion of the pain .", "To swell the copious stream .", "Yes \u2014\u2014", "Both a husband 's gift ; But thus I do her justice . As Douglas goes to stab himself , enter Elwina distracted , her hair dishevelled , Percy 's scarf in her hand .", "Save that perfidious \u2014", "Thy venerable cheek is wet already .", "Has sent thee", "And paint my vast extravagance of fondness ,", "See how convulsive sorrow rends her frame !", "Ah ! what mean'st thou ?", "What art thou come to see thy race dishonour 'd ?", "And thy bright sun of glory set in blood ?", "And thou shalt help me plead the cause of love ,", "Forbear .", "Ha ! dost thou vindicate the wanton ?", "Nor need thy wither 'd veins , old lord , be drain 'd ,", "I had forgot \u2014 Percy commends him to thee ,", "Of him thou hast wrong 'd , adultress , \u2018 tis thy husband .", "Thus , thus I follow thee .", "Ha !", "I fall not singly , but , like some proud tower ,", "There will be blood enough ;"], "true_target": ["Died as a hero should ;\u2014 but , as he fell ,", "I shall grow mad indeed ; a guiltless lover ! Percy , the guiltless lover of my wife !", "My fond impatience brooks not her delay ;", "The sharp , keen tooth of gnawing grief devours her ,", "And sooth her troubled spirit into peace .", "Tell her I know her virtues , and adore them \u2014", "Then to reverse the scene ! polluted woman !", "O , hypocrite ! now , Vengeance , to thy office .", "Where , where , is she ?", "Since I must perish \u2018 twill be glorious ruin :", "Ha ! thou knew'st of my dishonour ?", "And by my hand \u2014", "And thou shalt weep \u2014 she cannot sure refuse", "A kneeling husband and a weeping father .", "O I will kneel , and sue for her forgiveness ,", "Quick , let me find her , hush her anxious soul ,", "The scarf , the scarf ! that proof of mutual passion ,", "To blast thee with the sight of him thou hat'st ,", "And join adulterous lust to bloody murder ;", "She lives ! bear , bear me to her ! We shall be happy yet .", "To give thy guilty breast a deeper wound ,", "Had'st thou done it ,", "She sheds no tears , her grief 's too highly wrought ;", "With my too happy rival ; when thou flew'st ,", "Feeds on her heart , and pays me back my pangs .", "Tell her I come , but dare not seek her presence ,", "The knowledge of her infamy .", "Come \u2014 give a loose to rage , and feed thy soul", "Given but this day to ratify their crimes !", "And make the devastation wide and dreadful .", "This , this is transport !\u2014 injur 'd honour now", "This precious pledge of love .", "Tell her I love as never mortal lov 'd \u2014", "And wake to keen perception of her loss .", "call 'd upon thy name ,", "It is too late . No remedy but this", "Revell 'd in fond , imaginary joys", "To gratify impatient , boundless passion ,", "I rais 'd it \u2014 I contriv 'd \u2014 I sent it thee .", "Canst thou renounce him ?", "Speak \u2014", "And his last guilty breath sigh 'd out \u2014 Elwina !", "Be honest now , for once , and curse thy stars ;", "I 'll crush surrounding objects in the wreck ,", "The poison ! Oh the poison ! Thou dear wrong 'd innocence \u2014"], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 68}, {"query": ["He loved her \u2014 was belov 'd \u2014 and I approv 'd .", "Who threw away the gem , nor knew its value ,", "I have undone you all \u2014 the crime is mine !", "I ,\u2014 I alone .", "Douglas , \u2018 tis true ; both , both were innocent ;", "My punishment is great \u2014 but oh ! \u2018 tis just .", "The strength of Hercules will nerve this arm ,", "My child is innocent ! ye choirs of saints ,", "Dost thou not know me ?", "Thou dost disdain my feeble arm ,", "I know it .", "I do not ask for comfort at thy hands .", "She 's gone ! for ever gone ! cold , dead and cold .", "Where fly for comfort ? Douglas , art thou here ?", "He of her marriage , she of his return .", "But left the plunder 'd owner quite a beggar .", "My heart will break . This is too much , too much !", "My precious hoard of wealth , and , like an idiot ,", "\u2018 Tis false . Had she been base , this sword had drank her blood .", "I 'd but one little casket where I lodged", "Forbad their marriage \u2014", "And scorn my age .", "A constant , tender , but a guiltless lover !", "Percy came , \u2018 tis true ,", "Am I a father ? Fathers love their children \u2014\u2014", "I gave my treasure to another 's keeping ,", "Wanton ?", "Frenzy and poison !"], "true_target": ["The daughter 's virtue for the father 's shield ,", "The bolt of vengeance from the hand of Heaven .", "My child is innocent ! I now would die ,", "Has made my crime become my chastisement .", "He was \u2014 the destin 'd husband of Elwina !", "Thou wilt not kill her ?", "O thou poor injur 'd saint , forgive thy father ,", "The tale is long .\u2014 I chang 'd my purpose since ,", "O whither shall a wretched father turn ?", "Distract my soul ,\u2014 Percy was not to blame ,", "Thou hast defam 'd a noble lady 's honour \u2014", "My spotless child \u2014 in me behold her champion :", "Lest fortune should grow weary of her kindness ,", "My soul submissive bows . A righteous God", "\u2018 Tis I am guilty .", "Douglas ! it is the dew of grateful joy !", "What means my child ?", "When lifted in defence of innocence .", "I had indeed !", "Ah , she revives !", "He kneels to his wrong 'd child .", "Catch the blest sounds \u2014 my child is innocent !", "He knew not she was married .", "Do we meet thus ?", "I murder mine ! With impious pride I snatch 'd", "Confusion , honour , pride , parental fondness ,", "Will make old Raby still invincible .", "And grudge me this short transport .", "Look up , my child ! O do not leave me thus ! Pity the anguish of thy aged father . Hast thou forgot me ?"], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 68}, {"query": ["By his own hand the wretched Douglas fell .", "Fear to speak falsely , Percy clear 'd her fame .", "Where is Douglas ?", "That much-injur 'd woman .", "I come to save him from the deadliest crime", "In the last solemn article of death ,"], "true_target": ["Convinc 'd too late of your unequall 'd virtues ,", "Revenge did ever meditate .", "And wrung with deep compunction for your wrongs ,", "That truth-compelling state , when even bad men", "Hold thy rash hand !", "This instant fly , and save thy guiltless wife ."], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 68}, {"query": ["The last ?", "Who , Philaster ?", "The second ?", "Sir , my ignorance in State-policy , will not let me know why Philaster being Heir to one of these Kingdoms , the King should suffer him to walk abroad with such free liberty .", "How do you worthy Sir ?", "Peace , we are one soul .", "Can you guess the cause ?"], "true_target": ["Kingdoms of Cicilie and Calabria .", "It must be ill done , if it be done .", "But do you weigh the danger you are in ?", "This speech calls him Spaniard , being nothing but", "Sir , it is thought , with her he shall enjoy both these", "Who does not ?", "A large inventory of his own commendations .", "She 's a profitable member ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 69}, {"query": ["We 'll waken all the gods , and conjure up", "And so begirt the dens of these Male-dragons ,", "Marry I think she is one whom the State keeps for the Agents of our confederate Princes : she 'll cog and lie with a whole army before the League shall break : her name is common through the Kingdom , and the Trophies of her dishonour , advanced beyond Hercules-pillars . She loves to try the several constitutions of mens bodies ; and indeed has destroyed the worth of her own body , by making experiment upon it , for the good of the Common-wealth .", "Do you know what you do ?", "She is one that may stand still discreetly enough , and ill favour'dly Dance her Measure ; simper when she is Courted by her Friend , and slight her Husband .", "Whilst we know what you are , and who you are ,", "Most honour 'd Sir , she is :", "Your desires upon you Ladies .", "That through the strongest safety , they shall beg", "Did he give fire to ! How he shook the King ,", ": shrink not , worthy Sir ,", "The outlandish Prince looks like a Tooth-drawer .", "Like a cold winter dew .", "He dares not stand the shock .", "Home , and bravely ? what a dangerous train", "And be as truly happy as thou art fearless :", "Your wrongs and", "H'as given him a general purge already , for all the right he has , and now he means to let him blood : Be constant Gentlemen ; by these hilts I'le run his hazard , although I run my name out of the Kingdom .", "Yes , whose Father we all know , was by our late King of Calabria , unrighteously deposed from his fruitful Cicilie . My self drew some blood in those Wars , which I would give my hand to be washed from .", "Whilst so brave a Gentleman 's wrong 'd and flung off .", "Go on :", "But add your Father to you : in whose name ,", "Lest the King prove false .", "Now it heats ."], "true_target": ["The rods of vengeance , the abused people ,", "See how his fancy labours , has he not spoke", "Has undertook a tedious Pilgrimage .", "When \u2018 tis at best , \u2018 twill be but half done ,", "I shall sit near you then Lady .", "Made his soul melt within him , and his blood", "A wise and modest Gentlwoman that attends the Princess .", "I fear not for my self , and yet I fear too :", "Sir , it isso meant . But \u2018 twill be a troublesome labour for him to enjoy both these Kingdoms , with safetie , the right Heir to one of them living , and living so vertuously , especially the people admiring the bravery of his mind , and lamenting his injuries .", "Well , we shall see , we shall see : no more .", "Here 's a fellow has some fire in 's veins :", "O Sir , the multitudespeak that they would have ; but the Prince , before his own approach , receiv 'd so many confident messages from the State , that I think she 's resolv 'd to be rul 'd .", "Sir , it seems your nature is more constant than to enquire after State news . But the Kingmade a hazard of both the Kingdoms , of Cicilie and his own , with offering but to imprison Philaster . At which the City was in arms , not to be charm 'd down by any State-order or Proclamation , till they saw Philaster ride through the streets pleas 'd , and without a guard ; at which they threw their Hats , and their arms from them ; some to make bonefires , some to drink , all for his deliverance . Whichis the cause , the King labours to bring in the power of a Foreign Nation to aw his own with .", "Mark but the King how pale he looks with fear . Oh ! this same whorson Conscience , how it jades us !", "Sir , it is plain about the Spanish Prince , that 's come to marry our Kingdoms Heir , and be our Soveraign .", "The King must please ,", "Who like to raging torrents shall swell high ,", "I cannot blame , him , there 's danger i n't . Every man in this age , has not a soul of Crystal for all men to read their actions through : mens hearts and faces are so far asunder , that they hold no intelligence . Do but view yon stranger well , and you shall see a Feaver through all his bravery , and feel him shake like a true Tenant ; if he give not back his Crown again , upon the report of an Elder Gun , I have no augury .", "And for the penance but of an idle dream ,", "Run into whay ! it stood upon his brow ,", "I wonder what 's his price ? For certainly he 'll tell himself he has so prais 'd his shape : But here comes one more worthy those large speeches , than the large speaker of them ? let me be swallowed quick , if I can find , in all the Anatomy of yon mans vertues , one sinew sound enough to promise for him , he shall be Constable . By this Sun , he 'll ne 're make King unless it be for trifles , in my poor judgment .", "For mercy at your swords point .", "Come Gentlemen , let 's make our friends acquainted ,", "I thank you Sir , you dare not for the people ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 69}, {"query": ["Manysay , she looks not on him like a Maid in Love .", "See , the Ladies , what 's the first ?", "Peace , the King .", "I do not think \u2018 twill prove so ."], "true_target": ["But are you sure it was the Princess sent ? It may be some foul train to catch your life .", "This will be hardly done .", "Miraculous .", "Do we love Heaven and honour ?", "I fear ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 69}, {"query": ["To you , brave Lord ; the Princess would intreat", "Why , well .", "Fear Madam ? sure he knows not what it is .", "his looks hid more", "To credit me at first .", "Here is my Lord Philaster .", "Good Madam let her go on ; what if they be ? Why if they be I will justifie , they cannot maintain discourse with a judicious Lady , nor make a Leg , nor say Excuse me .", "If you be call 'd Philaster , \u2018 tis to you .", "Madam , I mean to you .", "Madam , I think I hear him ."], "true_target": ["Near me perhaps : But there 's a Lady indures no stranger ; and to me you appear a very strange fellow .", "Then you must sit beside us .", "Nay , let her alone ; what if they should ? why , if they should , I say , they were never abroad : what Foreigner would do so ? it writes them directly untravel 'd .", "Do you laugh Madam ?", "Peace , if you love me : you shall see these Gentlemen stand their ground , and not Court us .", "Madam , the Prince is come to do his service .", "Fear ? Madam", "Madam ?", "Your present company .", "Dear Madam , you were wont", "Of love than fear ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 69}, {"query": ["Pride comfort your poor head-piece Lady : \u2018 tis a weak one , and had need of a Night-cap .", "This day within my knowledge .", "Ha , ha , ha .", "What if they should ?", "He is the worthiest the true name of man"], "true_target": ["Ladyes ,", "Why , what if they be ?", "Had he ne 're met this mischief . By my life ,", "A Dog it is .", "Ladies , what think you now of this brave fellow ?", "This would have been a pattern of succession ,"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 69}, {"query": ["What if they should ?", "I cannot tell what you may call your knowledge ,", "What if they be ?"], "true_target": ["A pretty talking fellow , hot at hand ; but eye yon stranger , is not he a fine compleat Gentleman ? O these strangers , I do affect them strangely : they do the rarest home things , and please the fullest ! as I live , could love all the Nation over and over for his sake .", "Me thinks he 's not so strange , he would quickly be acquainted .", "But the other is the man set in mine eye ;", "Oh ! \u2018 tis a Prince of wax ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 69}, {"query": ["I gave you not this freedom to brave our best friends ,", "Rise , you have it Sir .", "Sir , you wrong the Prince :", "Of any Dame , were she a Queen whose eye", "To you or me , but all ; and to confirm", "The Nobles , and the Gentry of these Kingdoms ,", "Philaster , tell me ,", "To give a stronger testimony of love", "Go to :", "though her few years and sex", "daughter ,", "What I have done thus publick , is not only", "As a subject", "I do not fancy this ,", "I pardon your wild speech , without so much", "As your imprisonment .", "Yet teach her nothing but her fears and blushes ,", "Both of life and spirit : For this time", "No Sir ; I boldly dare proclaim her , yet", "Now lov 'd and wondered at . Next , our intent ,", "We give you freedom .", "Both to our Blood and Kingdoms . For this Lady ,", "By oath to your succession , which shall be", "Will put upon you : smooth your brow , or by the gods .", "That must mould up a Virgin , are put on", "Within this month at most .", "No Woman . But woo her still , and think her modesty", "The injuries you aim at in your riddles ."], "true_target": ["Speak your intents Sir .", "That y'are and shall be at our pleasure , what fashion we", "An Artificial shadow to her nature :", "In making no ill day , knows no ill dreams .", "we have drawn you worthy Sir ,", "these undivided parts ,", "Be more your self , as you respect our favour :", "Think not", "To speak her perfect love to you , or add", "Last , noble son ,", "To make your fair indearments to", "A sweeter mistress than the offer 'd Language", "You'I stir us else : Sir , I must have you know", "You deserve our frown : go to , be better temper 'd .", "And worthy services known to our subjects ,", "Give me your wrongs in private .", "To add a comfort in particular", "Speaks common loves and comforts to her servants .", "Than sickly promises", "Call our Physicians : sure he is somewhat tainted .", "To shew her so , as borrowed ornaments ,", "Make her feel moderate health : and when she sleeps ,", "You displease us . You are too bold .", "I'le make you tamer , or I'le dispossess you", "Desires without desire , discourse and knowledge", "To plant you deeply , our immediate Heir ,", "Sure he 's possest .", "Away , I do not like this :", "Only of what her self is to her self ,"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 69}, {"query": ["To thank your Royal Father : and thus far ,", "Your servant ; you shall make him yours , for whom", "Writ in my heart .", "Happy , in their dear memories that have been", "Whose branch you are . The King will leave it me ;", "Great King , and these your subjects , mine that must be ,", "To what would he have an answer ?", "The Ceremonies of State are , that \u2018 twill be long", "You shall enjoy a man of men , to be", "To what a person , of what eminence ,", "\u2018 Tis an odd fellow Madam , we must stop", "To mutiny within you ; without disputing", "Mighty , and flourishing , defenced , fear 'd ,", "You are the blessed'st living ; for sweet Princess ,", "Manners and vertues you would wed your Kingdoms ?", "Which I must keep though it hath pleas 'd your fury", "Ripe expectation of what faculties ,", "Kings great and good , happy in yours , that is ,", "do I", "What you have seen in me , to stir offence ,", "What now ?", "Offer 'd into mine arms , with the succession ,", "Sirrah , I forbear you before the King .", "You in me have your wishes . Oh this Country ,", "To be my own free Trumpet . Understand", "But now the time is fitter , do but offer", "My reign shall be so easie to the subject ,", "The constitution of my body will never hold out till the wedding ; I must seek elsewhere .", "Opine myself most happy . Gentlemen ,", "And I dare make it mine ; you have your answer ."], "true_target": ["Before our hands be so : If then you please ,", "Your Genealogies , or taking knowledge", "I hope our hearts are knit ; and yet so slow", "I cannot find , unless it be this Lady", "My Princely Mistress , as true lovers ought ,", "Equall to be commanded and obey 'd ,", "And from you", "And tye it to this Country . And I vow", "I take leave ,", "And dearest Lady , to your dearest self", "Believe me in a word , a Princes word ,", "He 's mad beyond cure , mad .", "There shall be nothing to make up a Kingdom", "In outward Ceremonies , the dear love", "Kissing your white hand", "I think he would discharge it well . But Madam ,", "His mouth with some Office , when we are married .", "That every man shall be his Prince himself ,", "Being agreed in heart , let us not wait", "And by my sword .", "Delights , and so prevent our joyes to come .", "Though it be scarce habitable .", "let me say ,", "You are gone , by heaven I'le fetch you back .", "Great Queens must die .", "To make mention of right to any Kingdom ,", "I come to kiss these fair hands ; and to shew", "And his own law", "For dreaming for me , but take a little stoln", "But through the travels of my life I'le find it ,", "By more than all my hopes I hold it"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 69}, {"query": ["To any thing you wish 'd .", "The Princess send for me ! y'are mistaken .", "If you intreat , I will unmov'dly hear .", "I may live many years .", "But how this passion should proceed from you", "A Garland lay him by , made by himself ,", "So horribly , but that I thought my tongue", "Gentlemen ,", "Then took he up his Garland and did shew ,", "My wrongs would make ill riddles to be laught at .", "And makes nothing .", "Kiss her hand , and say I will attend her .", "was not left", "Sir , Prince of Poppingjayes , I'le make it well appear", "Who art nought but a valiant voice : But if", "Have studied it . I gladly entertain 'd him ,", "This very ground thou goest on , this fat earth ,", "Of which he borrow 'd some to quench his thirst ,", "Of many several flowers , bred in the bay ,", "Seeing such pretty helpless innocence", "Madam , you are too full of noble thoughts ,", "Not yet seen in the Court ; hunting the Buck ,", "And with a heart as Loyal as my knee ,", "Nor beast that I could turn from : shall I then", "I have done .", "Before that day of shame , shall gape and swallow", "The souls of all my name , and memories ,", "Take them , and ease me of a load would bow strong Atlas .", "If you could well be fiatter 'd at a price ,", "Having my self about me and my sword ,", "There 's all the danger i n't : but be what may ,", "Were base , where I deserve no ill : love you !", "His right unto a Scepter , and a Crown ,", "His tender eyes upon \u2018 um , he would weep ,", "You , and your greatness thus , thus into nothing :", "Who was glad to follow ; and have got", "In their Diseased age , retire , and live recluse .", "Of so poor use , that I shall make no price", "Into her hidden bowels : Prince , it shall ;", "I do not most intirely love this Prince ,", "Is she yet alive ?", "If you had my eyes Sir , and sufferance ,", "When thou art King , look I be dead and rotten ,", "To wait on you , and bear our hidden love .", "Thee and thy Nation , like a hungry grave ,", "And from this present , spight of all these bugs ,", "Yes , go to see a woman .", "Made me believe , you wisht to speak with me .", "Good Sir , let me go .", "Pha . Do you slight", "It must be Sir , when I am nobler us 'd .", "My Fathers friends made fertile with their faiths ,", "Shall I speak \u2018 um freely ? Be still my royal Soveraign .", "A thing so loath 'd , and unto you that ask", "Did signifie : and how all ordered thus ,", "And paid the Nymph again as much in tears ;", "Hide me from Pharamond ! When Thunder speaks , which is the voice of Jove , Though I do reverence , yet I hide me not ; And shall a stranger Prince have leave to brag Unto a forreign Nation , that he made Philaster hide himself ?", "Bore Thunder underneath , as much as his :", "So dreadful , but that I thought my self", "Her eye may shoot me dead , or those true red", "Ne 're stare nor put on wonder , for you must", "No .", "Leaving him to the mercy of the fields ,", "I cannot endure it : turn away my face ?", "No Sir , I am too tame ,", "Shine upon any but thine : were Pharamond", "My Lord Dion , you had", "We dare not trust our wills to : do you love me ?", "That ever Master kept : Him will I send", "To your inheritance , and I up and living ,", "To save a Ladies longing .", "As if he meant to make \u2018 um grow again .", "If I shall have an answer no directlier ,", "Which still , he thank 'd him , yielded him his light ,", "You shall not need .", "I never yet saw enemy that lookt", "And say I might have been ! I tell thee Pharamond ,", "And ring 'd among the choicest of his friends ,", "Danger in a sweet face ? By Jupiter I must not fear a woman .", "Or back such bellied commendations ,", "I am dead Sir , y'are my fate : it was not I", "And for your greatness ; know Sir , I can grasp", "Too much a Turtle , a thing born without passion ,", "By Nemesis it shall .", "To you I am not mad .", "And so well , that if the King please , I find", "Madam , both ?", "I beg your favour ."], "true_target": ["So violently , would amaze a man , that would be jealous .", "To lay a train for this contemned life ,", "And me ?", "I do .", "Which did not stop their courses : and the Sun ,", "My greatness so , and in the Chamber of the Princess !", "Dwell in his face , I ask 'd him all his story ;", "Yes , with my Fathers spirit ; It 's here O King ! A dangerous spirit ; now he tells me King , I was a Kings heir , bids me be a King , And whispers to me , these be all my Subjects . \u2018 Tis strange , he will not let me sleep , but dives Into my fancy , and there gives me shapes That kneel , and do me service , cry me King : But I'le suppress him , he 's a factious spirit , And will undo me : noble Sir ,hand , I am your servant .", "Which will for ever on my conscience lie .", "What every flower as Country people hold ,", "tell me", "Foolish : but for your fair and vertuous self ,", "You should hear further from me .", "To part so calmly with it , and sit still ,", "As truly valiant , as I feel him cold ,", "I do not think it Gentlemen : she 's noble ,", "I would do much to save that Noble life :", "I have a boy sent by the gods , I hope to this intent ,", "The trustiest , loving'st , and the gentlest boy ,", "It is a place to which I must confess", "Is't possible ?", "You have no suit to me ? I am no minion :", "Thou wert , and not lament it .", "Know Pharamond ,", "Then thus I turn", "Which gave him roots ; and of the Crystal springs ,", "Peace Pharamond : if thou \u2014", "It is a simple sin to hide my self ,", "I could afford my self to have no right", "The prettiest lecture of his Country Art", "Is it to me , or any of these Gentlemen you come ?", "I loath to brawl with such a blast as thou ,", "If thou wert sole inheritor to him ,", "And my name ashes ; For , hear me Pharamond ,", "Thou shalt provoke me further , men shall say", "Said I was not wrong 'd : I carry all about me ,", "I am gone .", "Stuck in that mystick order , that the rareness", "Such as would blush to talk such serious follies ,", "By my dead Father", "That made the world his ; and couldst see no sun", "As great a Basilisk as he ; or spake", "My language to you Prince , you foreign man .", "Madam , what more ?", "By all my hopes I do , above my life :", "Our years may he corrupted : \u2018 Tis an age", "Who dares in all this presence speak", "And honour his full vertues !", "Not to undo your Children : y'are all honest :", "like men that would be Courtiers ,", "My griefs upon you and my broken fortunes ,", "Right Noble Sir , as low as my obedience ,", "You stand", "Find in our stories , that Philaster gave", "Good Sir , do so still , I would not talk with you .", "Whom I do love ? Say you would have my life ,", "Friends , no more ,", "Well , very well ;", "My weak stars led me to all my weak fortunes .", "Delighted me : but ever when he turned", "Yet would be loth to have posterity", "I , at the Altar , there 's no place so safe ,", "Indure me , and you shall . This earth you tread upon", "A faint shadow , that every drunken cloud sails over ,", "These arms and some few friends , besides the gods ,", "Her single name hath arm 'd me .", "A vertuous Gentlewoman call 'd you Father ;", "Why , that which all the gods have appointed out for me .", "I owe a reverence : but wer't the Church ,", "What more ?", "Go get you home again , and make your Country", "A vertuous Court , to which your great ones may ,", "Give not a word , not a word back : Farewell .", "Why , I will give it you ; for it is of me", "That could be wisht : so that , me thought , I could", "Dare you be still my King and right me not ?", "And white friends in her face may steal my soul out :", "Exprest his grief : and to my thoughts did read", "Where thou dar'st injure me , but I dare kill thee :", "Madam , your messenger", "He told me that his Parents gentle dyed ,", "My want 's great , and now nought but hopes and fears ,", "Never Madam you .", "Madam , this truth which I shall speak , will be", "I will .", "I found him sitting by a Fountain side ,", "Which you may have for asking : to suspect", "Begin to fear sweet sounds ? a Ladies voice ,", "Though it should sleep for ever to the world ,"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 69}, {"query": ["Than this thy breath : but spend not hasty time ,", "In seeking how I came thus : \u2018 tis the gods ,", "Or lose that little life the gods prepared ,", "Injure a Princess and a scandal lay", "About my Marriage that these under-things", "And not a little fearful ?", "To trouble this poor piece of earth withall .", "He cannot know it .", "Why she did this , or that , but has her ends ,", "I must withdraw in honour .", "I have to say , and do so ill beseem", "To his claim unto the Kingdom .", "The way unto your justice , I obey .", "Both or I die : by Fate I die Philaster ,", "Will Philaster come ?", "If I not calmly may enjoy them both .", "With such a winning gesture , and quick look", "And we should part without it .", "To make the passion of a feeble maid", "Leave us Philaster .", "\u2018 Tis true , and worse You should come often : How shall we devise To hold intelligence ? That our true lovers , On any new occasion may agree , what path is best to tread ?", "Of love ? To whom ? to you ?", "With it , it were too little to bestow", "Thy love : without which , all the Land", "I should abide here long .", "But didst thou tell me so ?", "Why then should you in such a publick place ,", "My baser instruments to throw disgrace", "Do .", "Lest some unwelcome guest should fall betwixt us ,", "Bring him in :", "Nay then hear :", "Phi . \u2018 Twill be ill", "In that the secret justice of the gods", "Turn then away thy face .", "And yet am loth to speak them . Have you known", "And knows she does well ; never gave the world", "As fools in strife throw gold into the Sea ,", "Could not have fill 'd me with more strength and spirit ,", "Drown 'd in the doing : but I know he fears .", "What will you do Philaster with your self ?", "As he and I am : If a bowl of blood", "Lets thee not see the crosses of our births :", "I am forgetful , and my womans strength"], "true_target": ["What you are loth to hear : for my sake do .", "How look't he , when he told thee he would come ?", "The gods , that make me so ; and sure our love", "If you dare speak such thoughts ,", "Calling a great part of my dowry in question .", "In what he saies : for he is apt to speak", "Another soul into my body shot ,", "Then know I must have them and thee .", "On thee : Now , though thy breath doth strike me dead", "Dear , hide thy self . Bring in the Prince .", "Upon my fortunes , fam 'd to be so great :", "Drawn from this arm of mine , would poyson thee ,", "Of love to me ? Alas ! thy ignorance", "Yet for my sake a little bend thy looks .", "I must , and will have them , and more .", "I must enjoy these Kingdoms .", "You are all of his Faction ; the whole Court", "Upon your vertues ?", "But to be buried in .", "Is mingled with it . Let us leave and kiss ,", "Oh ! \u2018 tis well :", "You gods that would not have your dooms withstood ,", "Whose holy wisdoms at this time it is ,", "Have I in person wrong 'd you ? or have set", "That you have caught him ?", "\u2018 Tis true Philaster , but the words are such ,", "Comes he not ?", "Withdraw your self .", "Nature , that loves not to be questioned", "You were best make him your Controuler .", "A draught of his would cure thee . Of love to me ?", "Then good Philaster , give him scope and way", "Two things so opposite , so contrary ,", "\u2018 Tis well , no more .", "I have unript my breast .", "The mouth of woman , that I wish them said ,", "Is bold in praise of him , whilst I", "Dare not abide in such a troubled sea :", "Discovered yet , will serve me for no use ,", "Is so o'recharg ' d with danger like to grow", "Philaster , know", "Did you deliver those plain words I sent ,", "Will be the nobler , and the better blest ,", "May live neglected : and do noble things ,", "That I have ought detracted from your worth ?"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 69}, {"query": ["Thy love doth plead so prettily to stay ,", "Full of regard unto thy tender youth ,", "That thou hast well discharged this heavy trust ,", "The love of boyes unto their Lords is strange ,", "With joy receive thee ; as I live , I will ;", "That", "For my sake ,", "Thou wilt remember best those careful friends", "I have read wonders of it ; yet this boy", "Laid on so weak a one , I will again", "It is my business that doth call thee hence ,", "For thine own modesty ; and for my sake ,", "Nay weep not , gentle boy ; \u2018 Tis more than time", "A day to pay him for his loyalty ."], "true_target": ["But boy , it will prefer thee ; thou art young ,", "Thou didst attend the Princess .", "Alas ! I do not turn thee off ; thou knowest", "And when thou art with her thou dwel'st with me :", "would out-do story . I may see", "That plac 'd thee in the noblest way of life ;", "Think so , and \u2018 tis so ; and when time is full ,", "And thou shalt find her honourable boy ,", "I could weep to part with thee .", "Apter to give , than thou wilt be to ask , I , or deserve .", "She is a Princess I prefer thee to .", "To them that clap thy cheeks , and speak thee fair yet :", "And bearest a childish overflowing love", "But when thy judgment comes to rule those passions ,", "Why gentle boy , I find no fault at all in thy behaviour ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 70}, {"query": ["For once ; what Master holds so strict a hand", "I never knew a man hasty to part", "I am gone ;", "And only yet am something , by being yours ;", "But since I am to part with you my Lord ,", "May sick men , if they have your wish , be well ;", "Without one warning ? Let me be corrected", "More service for you ; take this little prayer ;", "Or kill 'd , because it might have been your chance ;", "And hastily , as men i'the streets do fire :", "Over his boy , that he will part with him", "To forget all respect of his own friends ,", "Then Madam , I dare swear he loves you .", "When he but hears of any Lady dead ,", "Mingled with starts , crying your name as loud", "To conster a simple innocence in me ,", "A wilful fault , think me not past all hope", "Love Madam ? I know not what it is .", "You trusted me unknown ; and that which you are apt", "Hardened in lies and theft ; yet ventur 'd you ,", "If grief will give me leave , Madam , I can .", "With a servant he thought trusty ; I remember", "To break my stubbornness if it be so ,", "Bellario .", "Perhaps , might have been craft ; the cunning of a boy"], "true_target": ["And none knows whether I shall live to do", "Sir , you did take me up when I was nothing ;", "Age and experience will adorn my mind", "To part my miseries and me : for which ,", "Till they were grown too sawcy for himself .", "If when he goes to rest", "With larger knowledge : And if I have done", "In that small time that I have seen the world ,", "If it be love to weep himself away ,", "A fault of ignorance , instruct my youth ;", "Sir , if I have made", "Madam , I have not chang 'd ; I wait on you ,", "To greater men than he , but did it not ,", "That bears more honour in her breast than you .", "Heaven bless your loves , your fights , all your designs .", "Rather than turn me off , and I shall mend .", "As others drop a bead , be to be in love ;", "I never can expect to serve a Lady", "To do him service .", "If it be love ,", "\u2018 Twixt every prayer he saies , to name you once", "To sit cross arm 'd and sigh away the day ,", "And Heavens hate those you curse , though I be one .", "I shall be willing , if not apt to learn ;", "My Father would prefer the boys he kept", "In thinking of your face ; if it be love"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 70}, {"query": ["Where be our waiters ? By my vexed soul ,", "What sawcy groom knocks at this dead of night ?", "I will not be dishonour 'd ;", "Bow down those branches , that the longing taste ,", "I'le ne'r part you sweetest . But we lose time ,", "Not to a willing mind , that will endeavour ; if I do not teach you to do it as easily in one night , as you'l go to bed , I'le lose my Royal blood for't .", "I say no .", "Can you love me ?", "Shall I not be a trouble ?", "I find no musick in these boys .", "Nay , nay , you are too quick ; by this sweet hand .", "Till morning ?", "Stick till to morrow .", "And for any other I see , excepting your dear self , dearest Lady , I had rather be Sir Tim the Schoolmaster , and leap a Dairy-maid .", "Sir , \u2018 tis a sign you make no stranger of me ,", "If there be two such more in this Kingdom , and near the Court , we may even hang up our Harps : ten such Camphire constitutions as this , would call the golden age again in question , and teach the old way for every ill fac't Husband to get his own Children , and what a mischief that will breed , let all consider .Here 's another ; if she be of the same last , the Devil shall pluck her on . Many fair mornings , Lady .", "Till when , this , and my heart go with thee .", "Which those fair suns above , with their bright beams", "Dear Lady , can you love ?", "To your Chamber .", "Ladies all good rest ; I mean to kill a Buck", "I'le go no further than your eye , or lip ,", "He that enters , enters upon his death ;", "By my life you shall not . I'le prompt you first : Can you do it now ?", "Nay , press not forward Gentlemen , he must come", "Make your own conditions , my purse shall seal \u2018 em , and what you dare imagine you can want , I'le furnish you withal : give two hours to your thoughts every morning about it . Come , I know you are bashful , speak in my ear , will you be mine ? keep this , and with it me : soon I will visit you .", "Not a bed Ladies ? y'are good sitters up ;", "Of the faint looker on , may meet those blessings ,", "Do it in prose ; you cannot miss it Madam .", "To your bed ; if you mistrust my faith , you do me the unnoblest wrong ."], "true_target": ["The King ?", "To bring these Renegados to my Chamber ,", "If your more serious business do not call you ,", "To morrow morning , ere y'ave done your dreams .", "Out quickly .", "This is a crafty wench , I like her wit well , \u2018 twill be rare to stir up a leaden appetite , she 's a Danae , and must be courted in a showr of gold . Madam , look here , all these and more , than \u2014", "I hold her wit ? The strength of all the Guard cannot hold it , if they were tied to it , she would blow \u2018 em out of the Kingdom , they talk of Jupiter , he 's but a squib cracker to her : Look well about you , and you may find a tongue-bolt . But speak sweet Lady , shall I be freely welcome ?", "At these unseason 'd hours .", "You mistake me Lady .", "Lady , you talk of nothing all this while .", "I'le teach you in a short sentence , cause I will not load your memory , that is all ; love me , and lie with me .", "And taste and live .", "Why should these Ladies stay so long ? They must come this way ; I know the Queen imployes \u2018 em not , for the Reverend Mother sent me word they would all be for the Garden . If they should all prove honest now , I were in a fair taking ; I was never so long without sport in my life , and in my conscience \u2018 tis not my fault : Oh , for our Country Ladies ! Here 's one boulted , I'le hound at her .", "He meets his death , that meets me , for this boldness .", "Lady , Lady .", "I'le sooner teach a Mare the old measures , than teach her any thing belonging to the function ; she 's afraid to lie with her self , if she have but any masculine imaginations about her ; I know when we are married , I must ravish her .", "Reflect upon , and ripen : sweetest beauty ,", "Out upon her ; she 's as cold of her favour as an apoplex : she sail 'd by but now .", "She gives good words yet ; Sure this wench is free .", "Makes me unmannerly , and say you cannot ;", "Let me hold quarter with you , we 'll take an hour", "I have some private reasons to my self ,", "There 's theme enough for one man for an age .", "Of some such pretty subject as your self .", "His form is Angel-like .", "Do Ladies of this Country use to give no more respect to men of my full being ?", "What think you of a pleasant dream to last", "If your Grace please to use me , I'le attend you", "O they are two twin 'd Cherries died in blushes ,", "Through my life , that comes here ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 70}, {"query": ["As good as any one can tell your Grace ,", "I have strained a point of modesty for you .", "Not to me Sir .", "Dear , Prince , how dear ! I ne 're cost you a Coach yet , nor put you to the dear repentance of a Banquet ; here 's no Scarlet Sir , to blush the sin out it was given for : This wyer mine own hair covers : and this face has been so far from being dear to any , that it ne 're cost penny painting : And for the rest of my poor Wardrobe , such as you see , it leaves no hand behind it , to make the jealous Mercers wife curse our good doings .", "I fear they are so heavy , you'l scarce find", "That saies she hath done that you would have wish 'd .", "Yes , all good night .", "In listning after bawdery ; I see , let a Lady live never so modestly , she shall be sure to find a lawful time , to harken after bawdery ; your Prince , brave Pharamond , was so hot o n't .", "What have you there , my Lord ? Gold ? Now , as I live tis fair gold ; you would have silver for it to play with the Pages ; you could not have taken me in a worse time ; But if you have present use my Lord , I'le send my man with silver and keep your gold for you .", "Your Grace !"], "true_target": ["Tis late .", "To night , his Lodging .", "The way to your lodging with \u2018 em to night .", "Lord , I do so ; would you or I could help it .", "Full being ! I understand you not , unless your Grace means growing to fatness ; and then your only remedyis in a morning a Cup of neat White-wine brew 'd with Carduus , then fast till supper , about eight you may eat ; use exercise , and keep a Sparrow-hawk , you can shoot in a Tiller ; but of all , your Grace must flie Phlebotomie , fresh Pork , Conger , and clarified Whay ; They are all dullers of the vital spirits .", "\u2018 Tis very true Sir , I talk of you .", "She 's coming Sir behind , will take white mony . Yet for all this I'le match ye .", "Why , with the Lady I suspect : I can tell the time and place .", "Oh thou pernicious Petticoat Prince , are these your vertues ? Well , if I do not lay a train to blow your sport up , I am no woman ; and Lady Towsabel I'le fit you for't .", "You'l be forsworn Sir , \u2018 tis but an old glove . If you will talk at distance , I am for you : but good Prince , be not bawdy , nor do not brag ; these two I bar , and then I think , I shall have sence enough to answer all the weighty Apothegmes your Royal blood shall manage ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 70}, {"query": ["Do you study to forget me , and I'le study", "Can no more vex my soul , than this base carriage ;", "Your fore-head , or your cheeks , and kiss you too .", "They can do little , and that small they do ,", "Such pretty begging blanks , I should commend", "But yet I should stick at it .", "You have your business Gentlemen , I lay here .", "I cannot chuse but laugh to see you merry .", "Her layes , leaps , and outlayes , and will discover all ;", "Has your Grace seen the Court-star Galatea ?", "I dare not Prince , I dare not .", "As many mornings bring as many dayes ,", "May be a Nun without probation .", "Or my glass wrongs me .", "And how do you hold her wit Sir ?", "The Princess , your dear Daughter , shall stand by me", "Methinks \u2018 tis easie , now I ha \u2019 do n't before ;", "I dare my Lord ; your whootings and your clamors ,", "Whither ?", "They hunt so hotly after ; let \u2018 em enjoy it .", "Be joy and nourishment .", "My Lord , my Chamber 's most unsafe , but when \u2018 tis night I'le find some means to slip into your lodging : till when \u2014", "On walls , and sung in ballads , any thing :", "Was it lie with you that you said ? \u2018 Tis impossible .", "Sir , you have in such neat poetry , gathered a kiss ,", "The Princess has a Hilas , an Adonis .", "I shall , I shall .", "Let \u2018 em enter Prince ,", "What would your Grace talk of ?", "Fair , sweet , and hopeful to your Grace .", "I should choose , my Lord , a pleasing wake before it .", "His hand and voice , binding your thoughts in sleep ;", "Urge me no more , I know her , and her haunts ,", "That if I had but five lines of that number ,", "To make publick the weakness of a Woman .", "Why Prince , you have a Lady of your own , that yet wants teaching .", "The Princess does provide him for you , and for her self ."], "true_target": ["She keeps , a handsome boy ; about eighteen :", "She 's jealous , as I live ; look you my Lord ,", "But I have vengeance yet in store for some ,", "Smooth , young enough , ripe enough , red enough ,", "Nor I .", "O delicate sweet Prince ;", "\u2018 Tis the poor breaking of a Ladies honour ,", "Do it to the height ?", "Faith Sir , you must pardon me ;", "To forget you .", "Fellows in it , as shall make noble mirth ;", "They have not wit to hide .", "Shall in the most contempt you can have of me ,", "More of my own ; I will have fellows , and such", "Sir , they stand right , and my lips are yet even ,", "Yes , to laugh at your worst : but I shall wrong you ,", "Come Sir , you put me to a womans madness ,", "The glory of a fury ; and if I do not", "O my Lord the King , this is not noble in you", "Love you my Lord ? How would you have me love you ?", "All happiness attend your Grace , Gentlemen good rest ,", "Why this is he , must , when you are wed ,", "To take the wanton spring of ten such lines off ,", "\u2018 Tis all", "Let \u2018 em enter , I am up , and ready ; I know their business ,", "Sit by your pillow , like young Apollo , with", "Your private whispers , and your broad fleerings ,", "If my skill fail me not .", "My eyes will do to lead me to my bed .", "By my honour , that 's a foul fault indeed , but time and your good help will wear it out Sir .", "By all these gods you swore by , and as many", "Alas ! good minded Prince , you know not these things ? I am loth to reveal \u2018 em . Keep this fault As you would keep your health from the hot air Of the corrupted people , or by heaven , I will not fall alone : what I have known , Shall be as publick as a print : all tongues Shall speak it as they do the language they Are born in , as free and commonly ; I'le set it Like a prodigious star for all to gaze at , And so high and glowing , that other Kingdoms far and Forreign Shall read it there , nay travel with it , till they find No tongue to make it more , nor no more people ; And then behold the fall of your fair Princess .", "Nay will dishonour her . I know the boy", "She that hath snow enough about her heart ,", "Know what she does with him , where , and when .", "If you do this , O King ; nay , if you dare do it ;", "Come shall we to bed ?"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 70}, {"query": ["Sir , you are sad to change your service , is't not so ?", "And builds himself caves to abide in them .", "\u2018 Tis thy Lords business hasts me thus ; Away .", "If destiny", "O when , and where ?", "\u2018 Tis a pretty sad talking lad , is it not ? Askt you his name ?", "Than any truth that saies he loves me not .", "For your Lords credit ; but thou knowest , a lie ,", "That bears this sound , is welcomer to me ,", "Thou canst sing , and play ?", "O y'are a cunning boy , and taught to lie ,", "Tell me thy name .", "When no", "yet , this match shall break .", "That in the heat of wooing throws me off ,", "Come Sir , tell me truly , does your Lord love me ?", "Canst thou know grief , and never yet knew'st love ?", "Upon my life it is : and I do hope ,", "have not decreed it so", "Wait you there .", "I prethee how ?", "In lasting leaves"], "true_target": ["Your Highness will not tye me to a man ,", "Gave you him gold to buy him cloaths ?", "Thou art not capable of other grief ;", "Lead the way Boy : Do you attend me too ;", "With other Ladies , leave the rest to me :", "Alas ! what kind of grief can thy years know ?", "And has he do n't ?", "Thou disclaim'st in me ;", "Hast thou discovered ?", "O you are welcome , what good news ?", "Where 's the boy ?", "Run thy self into the presence , mingle there again", "As if he wish 'd me well ?", "Thy brows and cheeks are smooth as waters be ,", "And takes another .", "Hadst thou a curst master , when thou went'st to School ?", "Thou art deceiv 'd boy ; does he speak of me", "reath troubles them : believe me boy ,", "Where 's the boy ?", "With whom ?", "\u2018 Tis well my Lord y'are courting of Ladies . Is't not late Gentlemen ?", "Care seeks out wrinkled brows , and hollow eyes ,"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 70}, {"query": ["I did .", "No Madam ."], "true_target": ["Here Madam .", "Yes Madam .", "Within Madam ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 70}, {"query": ["Do walk a mile , women should take an hour", "\u2018 Tis strange a man cannot ride a Stagg", "That they be not by some trick of State mistaken .", "Sure she hath a garrison of Devils in her tongue , she uttereth such balls of wild-fire . She has so netled the King , that all the Doctors in the Country will scarce cure him . That boy was a strange found out antidote to cure her infection : that boy , that Princess boy : that brave , chast , vertuous Ladies boy : and a fair boy , a well spoken boy : All these considered , can make nothing else \u2014 but there I leave you Gentlemen .", "Or two , to breath himself , without a warrant :", "Is up still , see , he comes , a Guard along", "What shall we do Gallants ? \u2018 Tis late , the King", "After supper : \u2018 Tis their exercise .", "\u2018 Tis a sweet boy , how brave she keeps him !"], "true_target": ["I saw him enter there .", "Come Ladies , shall we talk a round ? As men", "Serves he the Princess ?", "With him .", "What should this mean ?", "Sir , I have asked , and her women swear she is within , but they I think are bawds ; I told \u2018 em I must speak with her : they laught , and said their Lady lay speechless . I said , my business was important ; they said their Lady was about it : I grew hot , and cryed my business was a matter that concern 'd life and death ; they answered , so was sleeping , at which their Lady was ; I urg 'd again , she had scarce time to be so since last I saw her ; they smil 'd again , and seem 'd to instruct me , that sleeping was nothing but lying down and winking : Answers more direct I could not get : in short Sir , I think she is not there .", "If this geer hold , that lodgings be search 'd thus ,", "May your dreams be true to you ;", "Pray heaven we may lie with our own wives in safety ,"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 70}, {"query": ["Yes ."], "true_target": ["The Prince .", "Nay we'l go wander with you ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 70}, {"query": ["She parted hence but now with other Ladies .", "Sir ,", "So please your Grace I have seen a boy wait"], "true_target": ["Why here 's a Male spirit for Hercules , if ever there be nine worthies of women , this wench shall ride astride , and be their Captain .", "Yes Madam .", "On her , a fair boy .", "Get him another wench , and you bring him to bed in deed ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 70}, {"query": ["If Megra be in her lodging .", "Now Lady of honour , where 's your honour now ?", "And sear thy name with Candles upon walls :", "A vain discovery of our suspicion .", "That Lady had been better have embrac 'd", "To our self known : Enter I say .", "Has she a boy ?", "Fling rotten Oranges , make ribald Rimes ,", "By all the gods , all these , and all the Pages ,", "Conduct him to my lodging , and to bed .", "Made by a Painter and a Pothecary ;", "\u2018 Tis then no time to dally : you o'th \u2019 Guard ,", "Knock Gentlemen : knock loud : louder yet :", "If she be there , we shall not need to make", "Holds wealth or state from others , shall be curst ,", "Wait at the back door of the Princes lodging ,", "Not yet ? I do not think he sleeps , having this", "We shall imploy you : Is young Pharamond", "You gods I see , that who unrighteously", "Sir be resolv 'd , I must and will come . Enter .", "Had you none to pull on with your courtesies ,", "Of Infection ; them ripe Mine of all Diseases ;", "Onely I'le search your lodging , for some cause", "But he that must be mine , and wrong my Daughter ?", "Thou troubled sea of lust ; thou wilderness ,", "No man can fit your palat , but the Prince .", "In that , which meaner men are blest withall :", "Come down .", "No , \u2018 tis too late Prince , I'le make bold with yours .", "And see that none pass thence upon your lives .", "And all the Court shall hoot thee through the Court ,", "Why do you"], "true_target": ["Cureless Diseases ; get you to your rest ,", "Chafe your self so ? you are not wrong 'd , nor shall be ;", "Come to his lodging ?", "I'le break your meditations : knock again :", "Larum by him ; once more , Pharamond , Prince .", "For this time I'le study to forget you .", "Inhabited by wild thoughts ; thou swoln cloud", "You have wrong 'd a worthy Lady ; but no more ,", "Upon this understanding child of mine ,", "It shall be crossly matched : the gods themselves", "Shall sow wild strife betwixt her Lord and her ,", "I have committed , let it not fall", "Thou most ill shrowded rottenness ; thou piece", "She has not broke your Laws ; but how can I ,", "Go get you to your quarter :", "What , has their pleasure taken off their hearing ?", "Praying upon the ground I hold by wrong ?", "Left to inherit , and his name shall be", "Thou all Sin , all Hell , and last , all Devils , tell me ,", "Blotted from earth ; If he have any child ,", "Ages to come shall know no male of him", "If it be true ,", "Haste some of you , and cunningly discover ,", "We have cause of present Counsel with you .", "You shall be righted : Gentlemen draw near ,", "Look to be heard of gods , that must be just ,", "Do you laugh Lady Venus ?", "Yet , if it be your wills , forgive the sin", "Sir , I must dearly chide you for this looseness ,", "Look your intelligence be true .", "The same Sir , come down ,", "What boy is this she raves at ?", "Will you come down ?"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 70}, {"query": ["Prince , you wrong your thoughts , we are your friends ,"], "true_target": ["Come down ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 70}, {"query": ["It was his vertue and his noble mind .", "Upon his faith ?", "And like a field of standing Corn , that 's mov 'd", "The Gentry do await it , and the people", "Never before .", "But how shall we , if he be curious , work", "Why he utter 'd this ."], "true_target": ["It will be best .", "With a stiff gale , their heads bow all one way .", "Philaster is too backward i n't himself ;", "Against their nature are all bent for him ,", "Sir , remember this is your honour 'd friend ,", "Nay doubtless \u2018 tis true .", "That comes to do his service , and will shew you", "I \u2018 tis past speech , she lives dishonestly ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 71}, {"query": ["His mind ?", "As vertue , but will second your attempts .", "Since it is true , and tends to his own good ,", "This is most strange ;", "Oh noble Sir your vertues", "The only cause that draws Philaster back", "Why , she was taken at it .", "I'le make this new report to be my knowledge ,", "Into the hands of that lascivious Lady ,", "We come to urge that vertue which we know", "Sure he does love her .", "My good Lord ,", "And she was taken with her boy .", "Cannot look into the subtil thoughts of woman .", "By violence , may now be caught ; As for the King ,", "We have spent some time in seeking you .", "Is loath 'd as much as he .", "That ever heard the word , or knew such a thing", "Why , my Lord , are you so mov 'd at this ?", "Lives in your breast , forth , rise , and make a head ,", "For us , that should be freemen , to behold", "In short my Lord , I took them : I my self .", "With his own issue : Is it not a shame", "Philaster , prest down from his Royal right ,", "But now the Princess , whom they lov 'd .", "Married to yon strange Prince , who , but that people", "I , and \u2018 tis the gods"], "true_target": ["From this attempt , is the fair Princess love ,", "All the gods direct you .", "That rais 'd this Punishment to scourge the King", "But this my Lord is truth .", "Why Gentlemen , \u2018 tis without question so .", "And think what 's best to be done .", "My Lord \u2014", "That lives in lust with a smooth boy , now to be", "In that which should be his most noble part ,", "The Nobles , and the people are all dull 'd", "And see the Scepter ready to be cast", "I , know you him my Lord ?", "A man , that is the bravery of his age ,", "Why no , my Lord .", "I'le say I know it , nay , I'le swear I saw it .", "Please to let him be a Prince , is born a slave ,", "But good my Lord recal your self ,", "Which he admires and we can now confute .", "Here he comes . Good morrow to your honour ,", "A Page , a boy that serves her .", "How you my Lord ?", "She 's known a Whore .", "That which hereafter will not perhaps be reach 'd", "By this regardless King ; and only look ,", "You know the people have long hated him ;", "With this usurping King : and not a man", "For us , that should write noble in the land ;", "The time is fuller Sir , than you expect ;"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 71}, {"query": ["He was extream impatient .", "We all are satisfied within our selves .", "That man that would not stir with you ,", "Perhaps he'l not believe it ."], "true_target": ["To aid Philaster , let the gods forget ,", "That such a Creature walks upon the earth .", "\u2018 Twill move him .", "Have you known him so ill temper 'd ?", "Nay , good my Lord be patient ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 71}, {"query": ["Please you to leave me , I'le consider of it :", "Naked , as to her bed : I took her oath", "Can it ? Speak Gentlemen , for love of truth speak ;", "This deed is done , than simply that \u2018 tis done :", "For ever Arethusa . Oh you gods , Give me a worthy patience ; Have I stood Naked , alone the shock of many fortunes ? Have I seen mischiefs numberless , and mighty Grow lie a sea upon me ? Have I taken Danger as stern as death into my bosom , And laught upon it , made it but a mirth , And flung it by ? Do I live now like him , Under this Tyrant King , that languishing Hears his sad Bell , and sees his Mourners ? Do I Bear all this bravely , and must sink at length Under a womans falshood ? Oh that boy , That cursed boy ? None but a villain boy , to ease your lust ?", "This is much better still .", "He must be more than man , that makes these Crystals", "And she does clap thy cheeks ?", "If she were lustful , would she take a boy ,", "That will distract me , that will make me mad ,", "Fast for a night , and with the next sun gone .", "In loving thee my boy , she has made thee brave .", "Behind your back untruly , I had been", "More hell than hell has ; how your tongues like Scorpions ,", "My worthy friends , You that can keep your memories to know Your friend in miseries , and cannot frown On men disgrac 'd for vertue : A good day Attend you all . What service may I do worthy your acceptation ?", "Of love between us , by the hope of peace", "Thy heart will melt , and thou wilt utter all .", "O say not so , good Sir forbear to say so ,", "He walks still ; and the face you let him wear", "For I shall guess her love to me by that .", "Thou lyest .", "That knows not yet desire ? she would have one", "Is firm , what ere thou dost : It troubles me", "Oh , my fortune ,", "Think he is guilty .", "Not to be pardon 'd ; be it false as hell ,", "As I do know thy face .", "Should I have heard dishonour spoke of you ,", "And she stroakes thy head ?", "What of him ?", "Why , who can but believe him ? He does swear", "Of her good name , is an infectious sin ,", "To know it ; I will see thy thoughts as plain ,", "Now you may take that little right I have", "But miserable man ; See , see you gods ,", "By what strange means ?", "Or let plagues fall on me , if I destroy thee not .", "Hast thou a Medicine to restore my wits ,", "And thou shalt feel it ; I had thought thy mind", "But there are pains , false boy ,", "What ever thou deserv'st . Oh , where shall I", "As far from lies , as she is far from truth .", "How all the good you have , is but a shadow ,", "We should enjoy , to yield thee all delights", "Is't possible ? can women all be damn 'd ?", "Sweet as Arabian winds , when fruits are ripe ?", "How you are , being taken all together ,", "In an unjust report .", "As \u2018 twas before , finding no start in sleep .", "The gods would not endure him . Rise Bellario ,", "I'le follow him . O that I had a sea", "I'th \u2019 morning with you , and at night behind you ,", "And live to curse you ;", "With thousand changes in one subtle webb ,", "I had her do it ; I charg 'd her by all charms", "Would he had broken thee , that made thee know", "As I would wish her ? Speak some comfort to me .", "And give you answer", "Oh my heart !", "O that like beasts , we could not grieve our selves ,", "You are abus 'd , and so is she , and I .", "As if her heart were Mines of Adamant", "There dig a Cave , and preach to birds and beasts ,", "What boy ?", "Run into Rivers ; sweetest fair , the cause ;", "To blame to injure me , for I must love", "That did so well become thee : but good boy", "Tell me thy thoughts ; for I will know the least", "Tomorrow I will find your lodging forth ,", "Like Thunder from a Cloud .", "To this poor Kingdom ; give it to your Joy ,", "To all the world besides , but unto me ,", "Oh Bellario ,", "When he was innocent , is still the same ,", "Amongst the people , fruitful to increase", "\u2018 Tis false , O Heaven \u2018 tis false : it cannot be ,", "Had been of honour ; thus to rob a Lady", "For perjur 'd souls ; think but on these , and then", "Not blasted ; is this justice ? Do you mean", "To keep their Females standing in their sight ;", "Thou should'st enjoy her : Tell me gentle boy ,", "What woman is , and help to save them from you .", "Fie , fie , so young and so dissembling ;", "\u2018 Tis but your fond affection .", "Urge it no more , it is impossible ;", "Past and forgotten . How your vows are frosts ,", "Both heal and poyson ; how your thoughts are woven", "Should meet her thoughts and knows the sin he acts ,", "So farewel all my wo , all my delight .", "That I may cut off falshood , whilst it springs .", "I had forgot to ask him where he took them ,", "As much distemper 'd , and enrag 'd as now .", "And she does kiss thee boy ? ha !", "The boy , I'le get thee a far better .", "All evil they shall hear . Let me alone ,", "Ill ? No Bellario .", "Why ?", "Oh , what should I do ?", "Why all the world 's abus 'd", "Thy protestations are so deep ; and thou", "What boy ?"], "true_target": ["Than I love happiness , and plac 'd thee there ,", "And from the utmost top fall on his neck ,", "Tell me when and where thou di", "Treason so smooth a brow ? I cannot now", "Thou lyest ,", "Why should you think the Princess light ?", "Peace to your fairest thoughts , dearest Mistress .", "But take \u2018 em from them , and you take at once", "Their spleens away ; and they will fall again", "That I have call 'd the blood out of thy cheeks ,", "And worn so by you . How that foolish man ,", "And all this passion for a boy ?", "More circumstances will but fan this fire ;", "That love black deeds , learn to dissemble here ,", "Thou art deceiv 'd boy :", "The readiest way .", "Let me not see thee .", "From the four several corners of the earth ,", "Oh , but thou dost not know what \u2018 tis to die .", "Is she not all a lasting Mine of joy ?", "Blessing be with thee ,", "Fearest thou not death ? Can boys contemn that ?", "Thy honest looks , and take no revenge upon", "When any falls from vertue I am distract ,", "A maiden snow that melted with my looks .", "I do love fair truth :", "And as I am your slave , tied to your goodness ,", "O thou forgetful woman !", "With that we see not ; Bulls and Rams will fight ,", "How honourable is this love in you To me that have deserv 'd none ? Know my friendsI could afford To melt my self in thanks ; but my designs Are not yet ripe , suffice it , that ere long I shall imploy your loves : but yet the time is short of what I would .", "st enjoy her ,", "Jealous , who ?", "Unto their Pastures , growing fresh and fat ,", "Why then it cannot be .", "This Lady was not Loyal . Mistress , forget", "Come , come , I know she does .", "\u2018 Tis the truth that all womenkind is false ;", "Hell and sin know him ? Sir , you are deceiv 'd ;", "\u2018 em false , as were my hopes ,", "Which is the great delight of wickedness ;", "The winds that are let loose ,", "I'le reason it a little coldly with you ;", "That though I", "Till my last hour , I am bound to utter of you .", "That love cannot distinguish . These sad Texts", "Then \u2018 tis no time to dally with thee ; I will take thy life , for I do hate thee ; I could curse thee now .", "Now all the Devils thou didst flie from my rage , Would thou hadst ta'ne devils ingendring plagues : When thou didst take them , hide thee from my eyes , Would thou hadst taken Thunder on thy breast , When thou didst take them , or been strucken dumb For ever : that this foul deed might have slept in silence .", "Then \u2018 tis no idle jealousie . Let him go .", "Oh my heart ; this is a salve worse than the main disease .", "To run me through ?", "And dies believing it , is lost for ever .", "How heaven is in your eyes , but in your hearts ,", "I ask you pardon Sir ,", "And spread themselves all over sea and land ,", "Within my breast , to quench the fire I feel ;", "Your creature made again from what I was ,", "Is she not paralleless ? Is not her breath", "That made no medicine for a troubled mind !", "Hast thou discover 'd ? Is she fain to lust ,", "Tell me my boy how doth the Princess use thee ?", "\u2018 Twill never be redeem 'd , if it be sown", "Where never womankind durst set her foot ,", "A meer confusion , and so dead a Chaos ,", "So earnestly , that if it were not true ,", "And he that tells me this is honourable ,", "She kisses thee ?", "And taste the waters of the springs as sweet ,", "If I behold thee : if thou tender'st me ,", "For I have no joy in it . Some far place ,", "Go bath thy body ? Nature too unkind ,", "Why , what of her ?", "She is my Mistress , and who injures her ,", "To intrap mortality , that you allow", "Oh good gods , a little boy ?", "When I have lost \u2018 em ? If not , leave to talk , and do thus .", "Why , this is wondrous well :", "Now I perceive she loves me , she does shew it", "Thy tender youth ; A love from me to thee", "Thou art grown courtly boy . O let all women", "False Arethusa !", "Why then she does not love me ; come , she does ,", "Draws vengeance from me Sirs , let go my arms .", "Kiss not a chaste one . What friend bears a sword", "Set hills on hills betwixt me and the man", "It more afflicts me now , to know by whom", "Are not her breasts two liquid Ivory balls ?", "That dwells within thee , or will rip thy heart", "That reads the story of a womans face ,", "Here , by this paper she does write to me ,", "Thou shalt know all my drift , I hate her more ,", "And newly spirited , I'le right your honours .", "Let me not see thee more ; something is done ,", "I cannot urge thee further ; but thou wert", "I have an interest i n't .", "I thank you . I will do it ;", "My zeal to truth made me unmannerly :", "Thou think'st I will be angry with thee ; Come", "That utters this , and I will scale them all ,", "But what kind language does she feed thee with ?", "To pry with narrow eyes into her deeds ;", "Dost look so truly , when thou utterest them ,", "For bursting with her poisons , must I seek ,"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 71}, {"query": ["As I'de use one , that 's left unto my trust ,", "Shed at my hopeless parting , I can see", "Into the noblest minds ? Madam this grief", "I will fly as far", "With all her loving secrets ; and does call me", "Greater for me , than is your hate .", "Assist you in your sufferings ; hasty time", "My Lord she has attired me past my wish ,", "Yes .", "Should draw it from me .", "Not so my Lord .", "Though far unfit for me , who do attend .", "I'le love those pieces you have cut away ,", "\u2018 Tis less than to be born ; a lasting sleep ,", "The Princess doth commend her love , her life ,", "Whereto you tend ; fall Rocks upon his head ,", "Reveal the truth to your abused Lord ,", "How my Lord ?", "Past my desert , more fit for her attendant ,", "You add unto me is no more than drops", "Better than those that grow : and kiss these limbs ,", "Me thinks your words", "As chaste as Ice ; but were she foul as Hell", "Nor is there in your looks that quietness ,", "She is", "Go seek out some forgotten place to die .", "Why , so you do .", "Some villain has abus 'd you ; I do see", "Health to you my Lord ;", "Fall not from off your tongue so evenly ,", "Angry with men , hath sent this strange disease", "Why , she does tell me , she will trust my youth", "As there is morning , ere I give distaste", "Hew me asunder , and whilst I can think", "That I am nearer weeping when she ends", "Oh , what boy is he Can be content to live to be a man That sees the best of men thus passionate , thus without reason ?", "As mothers fond do use their only sons ;", "A tear shed from you in my memorie ,", "Regarded ; and such words of that soft strain ,", "And mine : That he may know your worth : whilst I", "by all the gods ,", "Something allied to her ; or had preserv 'd", "Heaven knows I never did : and when I lie"], "true_target": ["My heart held augury ; you are abus 'd ,", "And after find me Loyal , let there be", "For leaving you : shee'l see my services", "She does my Lord .", "I , now I see why my disturbed thoughts", "Than ere she spake .", "Because you made \u2018 em so .", "You need not bid me fly , I came to part ,", "And I shall rest at peace .", "For whom my life should pay , if he met harm ,", "That I was wont to see .", "My Lord , you did mistake the boy you sent : Had she the lust of Sparrows , or of Goats ; Had she a sin that way , hid from the world , Beyond the name of lust , I would not aid Her base desires ; but what I came to know As servant to her , I would not reveal , to make my life last ages .", "If you do hate you could not curse me worse ;", "And her and me . Farewel for evermore ;", "Scarce like her servant , but as if I were", "That put this to you ; \u2018 tis some subtil train ,", "Her life three times by my fidelity .", "To that most honour 'd mind . But through these tears", "So she does use me .", "From such a Lady , like a boy that stole ,", "The points of Swords , Tortures nor Bulls of Brass ,", "My Lord had struck his anger through my heart ,", "No by my life .", "Were so perplext . When first I went to her ,", "Yes , I do know my Lord ;", "I durst not run away in honesty ,", "To seas , for which they are not seen to swell ;", "If you shall hear , that sorrow struck me dead ,", "To save my life , may I live long and loath 'd .", "Or made some grievous fault ; the power of gods", "And this unto you .", "And let out all the hope of future joyes ,", "Oh what God", "Her pretty servant , bids me weep no more", "A thing we all pursue ; I know besides ,", "To bring that noble frame of yours to nought .", "A world of Treason practis 'd upon you ,", "A quiet resting from all jealousie ;", "May they fall all upon me whilst I live , If I be perjur 'd , or have ever thought Of that you charge me with ; if I be false , Send me to suffer in those punishments you speak of ; kill me .", "And I did know it , thus ; the breath of Kings ,", "The gods have not a punishment in store", "Are you ill my Lord ?", "It is but giving over of a game that must be lost .", "To take my latest leave , Farewel for ever ;"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 71}, {"query": ["In stories of your praise ? Who shall sing", "How , my Lord ?", "The pretty boy you gave me .", "Your crying Elegies ? And strike a sad soul", "And have my story written in my wounds .", "I marvel my boy comes not back again ;", "Why , thou wouldst hide thee under heaps of hills ,", "And when they see a vertue fortified", "I am in tune to hunt !", "Keeping her Honour safe ? Not with the living ,", "Oh never , never such a boy again , as my Bellario .", "Thou or another villain with thy looks ,", "Nay , then I am betray 'd ,", "Be merciful ye gods and strike me dead ;", "How I remembred him when his dear name", "Fool 'd by her passion ; but the conquest is", "Bathing , and turn me to a fearful Hind ,", "I think he be not ugly :", "He was your boy , and you put him to me ,", "Sir ?", "Nothing so great as wicked . Fly away ,", "I do no wrong , nor fear none .", "Do what Sir ? would you sleep ?", "Well qualified , and dutiful , I know him ,", "Into senseless Pictures , and make them mourn ?", "To find out constancy ? Save me , how black ,", "Your will is my command .", "May glory in the ashes of a Maid", "Jealous of me , may see the foulest thought", "And ten thousand such ; I should be angry at his stay .", "The loathed Office thou hast undergone ,", "that boy looks now ?", "Good Sir let me understand you .", "Lose his health in service ? wake tedious nights", "With thee my boy , farewel for ever ,", "All secrecy in servants : farewel faith ,", "Yes Sir .", "That I may die pursu 'd by cruel Hounds ,", "As with a man , let me discover thee", "Oh , how they cast to sink it ; and defeated", "Who shall swear it to you , and weep the tears I send ?", "Let me have reason for it Sir , and then", "The King .", "Over and over ; how I slept , wak 'd , talk 'd ;", "And make \u2018 em truths : they draw a nourishment"], "true_target": ["Let my command force thee to that , which shame", "They feed upon opinions , errours , dreams ,", "Strongly above the battery of their tongues ;", "Might talk me out of it , and send me naked ,", "Was last spoke , and how , when I sigh 'd , wept , sung ,", "They are jealous of him .", "Who shall now tell you , how much I lov 'd you ;", "Peace guide thee , th'ast overthrown me once ,", "Making me dream and cry , Oh my dear , dear Philaster .", "And all desire to do well for it self :", "Oh thou dissembler , that before thou spak'st", "What have I done my Lord ?", "Oh , my dearest servant I have a War within me .", "I feel the plot cast for my overthrow ; Oh I am wretched .", "My heart holds . Where shall a woman turn her eyes ,", "Who shall now bring you Letters , Rings , Bracelets ,", "Wert in thy cradle false ? sent to make lies ,", "He crown a silent sleep upon my eye-lid ,", "Let all that shall succeed thee , for thy wrongs ,", "I never ask 'd his age .", "And the loss of such must have a mourning for .", "I took him not for beauty .", "Transparent as pure Crystal , that the world", "None but my single self , I need no Guard ,", "What way have I deserv 'd this ? make my breast", "Oh , my best love ; that boy !", "Lest men should dig and find thee .", "Out of defamings , grow upon disgraces ,", "Where may a Maiden live securely free ,", "Oh cruel , are you hard hearted too ?", "My hair dishevel 'd through the fiery streets .", "And betray Innocents ; thy Lord and thou ,", "Yes Sir .", "And guilty", "But that I know my love will question him", "Must be no more mine .", "Would do without it . If thou understoodst", "And the cold Marble melt .", "Sell and betray chast love .", "strike the Monuments", "Yet if I had another Troy to lose ,", "Who shall take up his Lute , and touch it , till", "Where noble names lie sleeping : till they sweat ,", "Diana if thou canst rage with a maid ,", "A Page , a waiting boy .", "By your pardon why do you ask ?"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 71}, {"query": ["The common people speak it well already ,", "What kind of boy ?", "Shames me to speak of .", "Shame with me , and so near unto my self ,", "Is he full of service ?", "If you fear me , shew it in duty ; put away that boy .", "Do not you blush to ask it ? Cast him off ,", "\u2018 Tis a new language , that all love to learn ,", "Tell me : have you not a boy ?", "Put him away ."], "true_target": ["There be foul whispers stirring ; cast him off !", "He speaks , and sings and plays ?", "And suddenly do it : Farewel .", "Put him away , h'as done you that good service ,", "What are your meditations ? who attends you ?", "They need no Grammer ; understand me well ,", "That by my life , I dare not tell my self ,", "A handsome boy ?", "Or I shall do the same to you . Y'are one", "What you , my self have done .", "About Eighteen ?"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 71}, {"query": ["Madam , the King would hunt , and calls for you"], "true_target": ["With earnestness ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 71}, {"query": ["Saw you a Lady come this way on a Sable-horse stubbed with stars of white ?", "Indeed I cannot , unless you tell me where she is .", "Is't not a brave boy ? Well Sirs , I fear we were all deceived .", "That must be just .", "Let him seek his Daughter himself ; she cannot stray about a little necessary natural business , but the whole Court must be in Arms ; when she has done , we shall have peace .", "And for his horn , has left it at the Lodge where he lay late ; Oh , he 's a precious Lime-hound ; turn him loose upon the pursuit of a Lady , and if he lose her , hang him up i'th \u2019 slip . When my Fox-bitch Beauty grows proud , I'le borrow him .", "Death ? soft , our Law will not reach that , for this fault .", "Yes .", "Sir , this is not the way to find her out .", "See how they Muster one another ! O there 's a Rank Regiment where the Devil carries the Colours , and his Dam Drum major , now the world and the flesh come behind with the Carriage .", "Yes ; Rode she to the wood , or to the plain ?", "Yes , if you command things possible and honest .", "Yet you may do well to spare your Ladies Bed-fellow , and her you may keep for a Spawner .", "What will he carry it to Spain in 's pocket ?", "Come Gentlemen we here .", "Sir , I do not know .", "\u2018 Tis the Lord Philaster ."], "true_target": ["See , see , how modestly your Lady looks , as if she came from Churching with her Neighbour ; why , what a Devil can a man see in her face , but that she 's honest ?", "\u2018 Tis above wonder ! who should dare this ?", "No .", "This is the strangest sudden change ! You Woodman .", "Fear it not , their overwise heads will think it but a trick .", "He looks like an old surfeited Stallion after his leaping , dull as a Dormouse : see how he sinks ; the wench has shot him between wind and water , and I hope sprung a leak .", "Be but corrupted .", "Sir , take you heed ; how you dare the powers", "Betrayed ! no , apprehended .", "Pox of your questions then . What , is she found ?", "All Sir .", "This is he my Lord ,", "Stay Sir , what are you ?", "Upon my soul that hurt her ; \u2018 tis the boy ,", "I know some would give five thousand pounds to find her .", "That wicked boy that serv 'd her .", "He Articles with the gods ; would some body would draw bonds , for the performance of Covenants betwixt them .", "No ; nor smell sweet it self , if once the Lungs"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 72}, {"query": ["It is thy last . You fellows answer me ,", "There 's not a leaf shakes at our threatnings .", "To be serv 'd , flatter 'd , and ador 'd till we", "And when we come to try the power we have ,", "But I will have her .", "I say again , where is she ? Mutter not ;", "Possible and honest ; shew her me ,", "Come Princely Pharamond , this business past ,", "How is that ? Answer me so again .", "Yet would not thus be punish 'd ; let me chuse", "Yes , lie and damn , rather than tell me that ;", "I see the injuries I have done must be reveng 'd .", "Did not you know him ?", "Where is she ? Mark me all , I am your King .", "You have betray 'd me , y'have , let me lose", "Speak that again so boldly , and by Heaven", "Run all , disperse your selves : the man that finds her ,", "And stop the Flouds of Heaven ; speak , can it not ?", "him great .", "To shew her me , what am I not your King ?", "What , is she found ?", "Thou ambitious fool ; Thou that hast laid a train for thy own life ; Now I do mean to do , I'le leave to talk , bear him to prison .", "Upon your spirit ; none dare utter it .", "\u2018 Tis granted , take \u2018 em to you , with a Guard .", "We may with more security go on to your intended match .", "No , cannot the breath of Kings do this ?", "Will have it so , whose breath can still the winds ,", "I have sin 'd \u2018 tis true , and here stand to be punish 'd ;"], "true_target": ["Your venial trespass , let not that sit heavy", "Or", "And set her before me ; \u2018 tis the King", "\u2018 Tis well done : Hark ye further .", "Y'are all cunning to obey us for our hurt ,", "My way , and lay it on .", "Is the villain ta'ne ?", "To horse , to horse , we lose the morning , Gentlemen .", "Believe we hold within our hands your Thunder ,", "Y'are cloudy Sir , come we have forgotten", "Each man a several way , here I my self .", "I do command you all , as you are subjects ,", "Where is she ?", "Things possible and honest ! Hear me , thou ,", "Why do you gods place us above the rest ;", "The Jewel of my life , go ; bring her me ,", "Or let me perish , if I cover not all Cicily with bloud .", "The fellow that did fight with him will tell us .", "I wish to see my Daughter , shew her me ;", "If I , then am I not to be obeyed ?", "Command ! you should not .", "Thou Traytor , that darest confine thy King to things", "Is it so ? Take heed .", "the Traytor ; I'le", "Sir , speak you where is she ?", "Uncloud the Sun , charm down the swelling Sea ,", "Is your Boy turn 'd away ?", "Alas ! what are we Kings ?"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 72}, {"query": ["And I will study for a punishment ,", "But swear .", "Where am I now ? Feet find me out a way ,", "And do forgive him .", "To put me in a miserable life ,", "No jealousies in the other world , no ill there ?", "I felt it not .", "I should to earth go weeping : grant me then", "Their custodies , and that I may appoint", "Sir , they did plot together to take hence", "With Heavens and Earth .", "To be enrag 'd , and hear me .", "I'le follow you boldly about these woods ,", "\u2018 Tis not gently done ,", "O 're mountains , thorow brambles , pits , and flouds :", "Yet tell me this , will there be no slanders ,", "Shew me then the way .", "Ay me , I know he will .", "Without the counsel of my troubled head ,", "Sir , if it was he , he was disguised ."], "true_target": ["If you do take him , bring him quick to me ,", "Nay , good Sir ;", "What ill bred man art thou , to intrude thy self", "Dear Philaster , leave", "Great as his fault .", "You did command Sir , and I obey you .", "Kill you ?", "I shall do best without thee ; I am well .", "Some dishonest wretch , Alas I know him not ,", "Upon thy hand , I shall have peace in death .", "Their tortures and their death .", "Upon our private sports , our recreations ?", "I am prepared .", "This harmless life ; should it pass unreveng 'd ,", "If my fortunes be so good to let me fall", "Not at all , \u2018 tis some distracted fellow .", "Heavens guard my Lord .", "And hold me there ; I pray thee let me go ,", "Heaven I hope will ease me . I am sick .", "He has not hurt me .", "I am well , forbear ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 72}, {"query": ["Yonder , my Lord , creeps one away .", "Help to lead him hence .", "Sir , I cannot tell .", "Sure this Lady has a good turn done her against her will : before she was common talk , now none dare say , Cantharides can stir her , her face looks like a Warrant , willing and commanding all Tongues , as they will answer it , to be tied up and bolted when this Lady means to let her self loose . As I live she has got her a goodly protection , and a gracious ; and may use her body discreetly , for her healths sake , once a week , excepting Lent and Dog-days : Oh if they were to be got for mony , what a great sum would come out of the City for these Licences ?", "Is't possible this fellow should repent ? Me thinks that were not noble in him : and yet he looks like a mortified member , as if he had a sick mans Salve in 's mouth . If a worse man had done this fault now , some Physical Justice or other , would presentlyhave opened the obstructions of his Liver , and let him bloud with a Dog-whip ."], "true_target": ["I pray that this action lose not Philaster the hearts of the people .", "Lady you must go search too .", "There 's already a thousand fatherless tales amongst us ; some say her Horse run away with her ; some a Wolf pursued her ; others , it was a plot to kill her ; and that Armed men were seen in the Wood : but questionless , she rode away willingly .", "It was Philaster .", "Sir , shall I lie ?", "Nor will be I think ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 72}, {"query": ["Long as thy natural life , resolve to feel", "I will not leave one man alive , but the King ,", "If tortures can be found ,", "If I have her not ,", "Speak villain , who has hurt the Princess ?", "Troth no great matter to speak of , a foolish twinkling with the eye , that spoils her Coat ; but he must be a cunning Herald that finds it .", "Come let us seek .", "No , we have ta'ne her Horse . He gallopt empty by : there 's some Treason ; You Galatea rode with her into the wood ; why left you her ?", "How will you have me kill him ?", "I will know who hir 'd thee to this deed ?", "By this hand , I'le leave ne'er a piece of him bigger than a Nut , and bring him all in my Hat .", "I will .", "O thou damn 'd in thy creation ! What cause could'st thou shape to hurt the Princess ?", "What art thou ?"], "true_target": ["To this place we have tract him by his bloud .", "But who has hurt her ?", "Sir , here be two confess the deed ; but say it was", "Madam who did it ?", "Revenge , for what ?", "How 's this ?", "A Cook and a Taylor .", "Thy own tongue be thy judge .", "By all my love I will : Woodmen conduct the Princess to the King , and bear that wounded fellow to dressing : Come Gentlemen , we'l follow the chase close .", "The utmost rigour .", "Who 's that ?", "Philaster .", "O sacred spring of innocent blood !", "By this hand there shall be no more Cicily .", "The Princess Gentlemen ! Where 's the wound Madam ? Is it dangerous ?"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 72}, {"query": ["Who else ?", "Who shoots ?", "My Lord Dion .", "What , have you lodged the Deer ?"], "true_target": ["No she'l Hunt .", "That 's a good wench , and she would not chide us for tumbling of her women in the Brakes . She 's liberal , and by my Bow they say she 's honest , and whether that be a fault , I have nothing to do . There 's all ?", "He shall Shoot in a Stone-bow for me . I never lov 'd his beyond-sea-ship , since he forsook the Say , for paying Ten shillings : he was there at the fall of a Deer , and would needsgive Ten groats for the Dowcers ; marry the Steward would have had the Velvet-head into the bargain , to Turf his Hat withal : I think he should love Venery , he is an old Sir Tristram ; for if you be remembred , he forsook the Stagg once , to strike a Rascal Milking in a Medow , and her he kill 'd in the eye . Who shoots else ?", "That 's a firker I'faith boy ; there 's a wench will Ride her Haunces as hard after a Kennel of Hounds , as a Hunting-saddle ; and when she comes home , get \u2018 em clapt , and all is well again . I have known her lose her self three times in one Afternoonand it has been work enough for one man to find her , and he has sweat for it . She Rides well , and she payes well . Hark , let 's go ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 72}, {"query": ["Was she not young and tall ?", "Yes , they are ready for the Bow .", "She'l take a Stand I say .", "That you shall , and receive thanks ."], "true_target": ["Why the young stranger Prince .", "The Lady Galatea .", "Faith my Lord we saw none .", "The Princess .", "No , one more , Megra ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 72}, {"query": ["Leave me without reply ; this is the last", "A man in a more equal tune to die ?", "How thou dost drown the vertues thou hast shown", "\u2018 Tis not the treasure of all Kings in one ,", "You know she stood betwixt me and my right .", "Turn back you ravishers of Innocence ,", "Have held me thus else ? I must shift for life ,", "Slave , take what thou deservest .", "I'le take this offer 'd means of my escape :", "I was so . Oh my stars ! that I should live still .", "Upon this sleeping boy : I ha \u2019 none I think", "Of Basilisks , rather than trust to tongues ,", "Wilt thou take , that I may shun thee ;", "And I a loathed villain : if she be ,", "Despair await you : what , before my face ?", "If I were mad I should desire to live ;", "I have done ill , my conscience calls me false ,", "When I did fight , me thought I heard her pray", "Is he that stroke thee : take thy full revenge ,", "She will conceal who hurt her ; He has wounds ,", "Then you and this your boy , may live and raign", "That vertue . It was I that hurt the Princess .", "For thine eyes are poyson to mine ; and I", "Nourish ambitious thoughts , when I am dead :", "The gods to guard me . She may be abus 'd ,", "By all the Oaths that men ought most to keep :", "I hear the tread of people : I am hurt .", "Higher than hills of earth , and lend a voice", "Poyson of Aspes between your lips ; Diseases", "I'le teach thee to revenge this luckless hand", "Is there a Creature yet so miserable ,", "Be your best issues ; Nature make a Curse", "Would have transform 'd themselves to do ; be gone ,", "They have no mark to know me , but my wounds ,", "Loud as your Thunder to me , that from thence ,", "Use thy art , I'le not betray it . Which way", "The gods take part against me , could this Boor", "Sirs , feel my pulse ; whether have you known", "This way were freer ; Am I raging now ?", "Question it no more , it was .", "For I must perform a piece of justice . If your youth", "Of this damn 'd act . Hear me you wicked ones ,", "Leave us good friend .", "Then shew it ; Some good body lend a hand to draw us nearer . Would you have tears shed for you when you die ? Then lay me gentle on his neck that there I may weep flouds , and breath out my spirit : \u2018 Tis not the wealth of Plutus , nor the gold Lockt in the heart of earth , can buy away This arm-full from me , this had been a ransom To have redeem 'd the great Augustus Caesar , Had he been taken : you hard-hearted men , More stony than these Mountains , can you see Such clear pure bloud drop , and not cut your flesh To stop his life ? To bind whose better wounds , Queens ought to tear their hair , and with their tears , Bath \u2018 em . Forgive me , thou that art the wealth of poor Philaster .", "Remains there yet a plague untri 'd for me ?", "Am loth to grow in rage . This way , or that way ?", "I have caught my self ,", "I may discourse to all the under-world ,", "Have I no friend here ?", "Is it thou ? be gone :", "Earth cannot bear at once . Resolve to do , or suffer .", "In lust without control ; Wilt thou Bellario ?", "Then guide", "Not to be quench 'd with tears , for which may guilt", "Unkindly done , to vex me with thy sight ,", "To strike at her , that would not strike at me :", "Sit on your bosoms ; at your meals , and beds ,", "And search how temperate a heart I have ;", "The wealth of Tagus , nor the Rocks of Pearl ,", "If she be true ; if false , let mischief light"], "true_target": ["That I can pity ?", "To lose it , rather by my will than force .", "That pave the Court of Neptune , can weigh down", "I blame not thee ,", "Even so thou wept'st and spok'st when first", "Who 's this ; Bellario sleeping ? If thou beest", "And kist by Scorpions , or adore the eyes", "Know ye the price of that you bear away so rudely ?", "No .", "The worth that dwells in him .", "I took thee up ; curse on the time . If thy", "I have done ;", "Go sell those misbeseeming Cloaths thou wear'st ,", "My feeble hand , you that have power to do it ,", "That I have wounded thee : what wilt thou do ?", "Though I do loath it . I would find a course ,", "Art thou true to me ?", "May they divide thy soul and body ?", "Are mortal , nor would I lay greater on thee .", "How should'st thou think to cozen me again ?", "And I will second thee : Get a reward .", "With perjury . By all that 's good \u2018 twas I :", "Lasting to ages in the memory", "The loss of bloud hath stayed my flight . Here , here ,", "Th'art fain again to thy dissembling trade :", "So broken : Hark I am pursued : you gods", "Should be so sound , and mine , whom thou hast wrong 'd ,", "Now by my life this is", "I prethee kill me ; thou art poor , and maist", "Are you at peace ?", "Leave these untimely courtesies Bellario .", "Place me , some god , upon a Piramis ,", "Let me love lightning , let me be embrac 'd", "Then I shall die for grief , if not for this ,", "He toucht her not . Take heed Bellario ,", "And feed thy self with them .", "And cannot follow , neither knows he me .", "And Gods do punish most , when men do break ,", "Commanding tears can work on any other ,", "Of all our meeting . Kill me with this sword ;", "On all the world at once . Sword , print my wounds", "Use me , as I did mean thee , worse than death :", "Guilty , there is no justice that thy sleep", "When \u00c6olus locks up his windy brood ,", "Pursue thy own affairs : it will be ill To multiply bloud upon my head ; which thou wilt force me to .", "And throw it on you .", "How 's this ? Wouldst thou I should be safe ?", "You have put the hills on fire into this breast ,", "Have any way offended Heaven , let prayers", "Oh , that I had been nourished in these woods With Milk of Goats , and Acorns , and not known The right of Crowns , nor the dissembling Trains Of Womens looks ; but dig 'd my self a Cave , Where I , my Fire , my Cattel , and my Bed Might have been shut together in one shed ; And then had taken me some Mountain Girl , Beaten with Winds , chast as the hardened Rocks Whereon she dwells ; that might have strewed my Bed With leaves , and Reeds , and with the Skins of beasts Our Neighbours ; and have born at her big breasts My large course issue . This had been a life free from vexation .", "Dear Arethusa , do but take this sword ,", "Thou didst receive these hurts in staying me ,", "You will not kill me then ?", "Is less disturb 'd than I , I'le make you know it .", "Bellario ; thou hast done but that , which gods", "Forgive my passion , not the calm 'd sea ,", "Wounded the Princess , tell my followers", "And shrink these veins up ; stick me here a stone", "Short and effectual reconcile you to it .", "Be wise , or worse will follow : we are two"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 72}, {"query": ["Nothing assaults me here . See , my griev 'd Lord", "I'le help to cover you .", "Then I am betrayed .", "For ever if thou wilt : you sweet ones all ,", "That men strid o 're them carelesly , she did showr", "Fly , fly my Lord and save your self .", "Mine own revenge .", "Open once more those rosie twins , and send", "That I can stand no longer .", "By Beasts ; relieve me , if your names be men ,", "Unto my Lord , your latest farewell ; Oh , she stirs :", "How is it Madam ? Speak comfort .", "Because I had been great : In short , I knew", "The streams she had bestowed , leaving me worse", "This weary flesh with tortures .", "so much as may serve", "View my strange fortune , and bestow on me ,", "I rather were a Coarse strewed o 're with you ,", "I confess ;", "Her death . For charity let fall at once", "With my own wounds I'le bloudy my own sword .", "Weary of life , that would be glad to die .", "It pleas 'd her to receive", "Alas he 's mad , come will you lead me on ?", "And I am giddy ; Oh that I could take", "And more contemn 'd than other little brooks ,", "Or I shall perish .", "From that flowing store , drop some on dry ground ; see ,", "And I must sleep : Bear me thou gentle bank ,", "Alas ! my Lord , I can get nothing for them :", "Me as her Page , and when my fortunes ebb 'd ,", "I fear she faints . Madam look up , she breaths not ;", "But that the gods may save your", "Will try her Charity . Oh hear , you that have plenty ,", "Because I do not wish to live , yet I", "A wretched creature wounded in these Woods", "I set upon her , and did take my aim", "I need not counterfeit to fall ; Heaven knows ,", "For me to live . These little wounds I have ,"], "true_target": ["My Lord , help the Princess .", "Yonder 's my Lady ; Heaven knows I want nothing ;", "Break thy last commandment ; For I must speak ;", "Any will serve . But I will chuse to have", "The punishment you mean , and do not load", "Oh death I hope is come , blest be that hand ,", "Ha \u2019 not bled much , reach me that noble hand ,", "Than quick above you . Dulness shuts mine eyes ,", "To die reveng 'd .", "As storms arise at sea , she turn 'd her eyes", "From cold and hunger .", "Let me unworthy press you : I could wish", "Oh wicked men !", "Sits as his soul were searching out a way ,", "Creep in amongst those bushes : who does know", "According to your bounty", "Or let me perish loath 'd . Come my good Lord ,", "An innocent man may walk safe among beasts ,", "To leave his body . Pardon me that must", "Not for a world .", "You that are griev 'd can pity ; hear my Lord .", "My Lord , some man", "It meant me well ; again , for pities sake .", "Shift for my self well : peace , I hear \u2018 em come .", "Else it were vain", "Threatning the men that crost \u2018 em ; when as swift", "To touch such gay things .", "To burning Suns upon me , and did dry", "So sound a sleep , that I might never wake .", "Her welcome graces on me , and did swell", "breath ?", "The lively red is gone to guard her heart ;", "That path in chase that leads unto my grave .", "My fortunes , till they overflow 'd their banks ,", "Urge it no more , that big with evil thoughts", "To keep that little piece I hold of life", "I could not live , and therefore did desire", "The silly Country people think \u2018 tis Treason", "A heaviness near death sits on my brow ,", "Oh my Noble Lord ,"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 72}, {"query": ["To disobey the Daughter of my King ."], "true_target": ["\u2018 Twould ill become my Fortunes and my Birth", "She did command me ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 72}, {"query": ["But he must ease it here ?", "Tempt not a frail man , what 's he , that has a heart", "Oh monstrous ! Tempt me not ye gods , good gods"], "true_target": ["This killing truth . I will be temperate", "I'le tell her coolely , when and where I heard", "I am to blame to be so much in rage ,", "In speaking , and as just in hearing ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 72}, {"query": ["So does your tongue ."], "true_target": ["Alas my Lord , your pulse keeps madmans time ,"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 72}, {"query": ["Oh do you breath ?", "I cannot follow the Rogue . I pray thee wench come and kiss me now .", "I pray you friend let me see the King .", "God \u2018 uds , I understand you not , but I know the", "I'faith she lies , has hurt her in the breast , look else .", "I'le see the King if he be in the Forest , I have hunted him these two hours ; if I should come home and not see him my Sisters would laugh at me ; I can see nothing but people better horst than my self , that outride me ; I can hear nothing but shouting . These Kings had need of good brains , this whooping is able to put a mean man out of his wits . There 's a Courtier with his sword drawn , by this hand upon a woman , I think .", "Almost kil 'd I am for a foolish woman ; a knave has hurt her ."], "true_target": ["Rogue has hurt you .", "I told you a Rogue I ne 're saw him before , I .", "Then I have seen something yet .", "If I get clear with this , I'le go see no more gay sights .", "Hold dastard , strike a Woman ! th'art a craven I warrant thee , thou wouldst be loth to play half a dozen of venies at wasters with a good fellow for a broken head .", "He 's hurt too , he cannot go far , I made my Fathers old Fox flie about his ears .", "I know not your Rhetorick , but I can lay it on if you touch the woman .", "Is it the Princess ? Di . I ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 72}, {"query": ["It 's on the knees of the gods , Miss , as they say in the headlines .", "If the haudience knows you 've got \u2018 em there .", "You see , then you 've got \u2018 em on you .", "Guilty , Miss .", "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 .", "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 ?", "Drop the \u201c sir , \u201d my dear ; I 'm the Builders \u2019 man . Mr Herringhame in ?", "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 .", "Well , I never ! That does sound like \u2018 em ! Are you goin \u2019 to tell the guv'nor , Miss ?", "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 .", "Well ! To put \u2018 em in here ,", "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 .", "Only my shirt , Miss .", "In that case , I should please myself , Miss . To put \u2018 em in \u2018 ere 's warmer .", "Indeed , Miss ?", "What ! You 're not going , too , Miss Maud ?", "Fine , Miss . You have got a film face . What are they , if I may ask ?", "Wot oh !"], "true_target": ["I did n't know you \u2018 ad a taste this way , Miss Maud .", "Mrs Herringhame ? Oh ! young lady with dark hair and large expressive eyes ?", "Well , I should say that depends on your character . Of course I do n't know what your character is .", "I think there 's be a rehaction , Miss .", "Lunch has been ready some time , Miss Maud .", "So they 're married ?", "Well , I do n't suppose you 've \u2018 eard of it , Miss ; but as a matter of fact it 's the Cesarwitch .", "Rather a specialty of mine , Miss .", "I see . Well , it ai n't known to Builder , J. P ., either . That 's why there 's a message . See ?", "Miss , I should say is more \u2014 more pishchological .", "Miss Builder live here ?", "You 're not the first , Miss .", "I 've seen worse roll up .Dark horse , Miss Maud , at twenty to one .", "With an \u201c A . B . \u201d on her linen ?", "Let 's see .Mrs Herringhame , you said ?", "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 .", "If you think I might risk it , Miss , I 'd like to slip round to my dentist .", "Really , Miss .", "And \u201c Athene Builder \u201d on her drawings ?"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 73}, {"query": ["He was in the Army , sir .", "Oh ! no , Miss .", "Oh ! no , Sir .", "Oh ! no , sir ; Mrs Herringhame .", "Oh ! yes , sir .", "Oh ! I did n't think it right to take notice .", "Oh ! yes , sir .", "Vexin \u2019 and provokin \u2019 !Oh ! MR and MRS BUILDER enter .", "I never thought , Miss . And of course I do n't want to begin .", "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 .", "Oh ! yes , Miss . She makes a little curtsey and passes through into the kitchen .", "He 's very mild .", "Did you want anything , sir ?", "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 .", "Oh ! yes , sir . Is that all , please , sir ?", "Oh ! no , Miss ; that 's what I 've been thinking .", "Oh ! I 'm puttin \u2019 you out , Miss .", "Oh ! yes , Miss ; that 's why \u2018 e 's horrified .", "Oh ! ma'am , please , Miss , I want to go home .", "Yes , Miss ; that 's what I thought .", "Oh ! Sir , I do n't know , Sir .", "Oh ! yes , sir , I will . Good-bye , sir . Goodbye , Miss . She goes .", "You see , we can n't be married ; sir , till he gets his rise . So it 'll be a continual temptation to me .", "I do n't think they do , Miss .", "Oh ! yes , Sir .", "Oh ! no , sir . Of course you can n't be a family without , can you ?", "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 .", "Oh ! yes , Sir ."], "true_target": ["Somethin \u2019 like you , sir . But very respectable .", "Yes , sir .", "Oh ! yes , sir ; but not so respectable as that .", "Oh ! thank you , Miss . I 'm very sorry . Of course if you was to change your mind \u2014", "Yes , sir .", "Oh ! Sir , no , sir .", "Oh ! no , Sir .", "They have n't time . Father 's an engine driver .", "Oh ! yes , Miss .", "Oh ! yes , Miss .", "I \u2014 I could treat him the same , Miss .", "I d \u2014 do n't , sir .", "Oh ! no , sir \u2014 at mine .", "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 .", "Oh ! I do n't know , sir .", "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 .", "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 .", "Oh ! sir , please , sir \u2014 I 've told my young man .", "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 ! thank you , Miss .", "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 , sir , \u2018 e said there was nothing like Epsom salts .", "Oh ! yes , sir . Wo n't Mr Builder be pleased ?", "Oh !", "Yes , sir . \u2018 E said I \u2018 ad no strength of mind .", "Oh ! Sir , yes , Sir .", "No , Sir .", "\u2018 E was \u2018 orrified , Miss ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 73}, {"query": ["Monstrous ! Really monstrous ! CAMILLE enters from the hall . She has a little collecting book in her hand .", "Who put you up to this ?", "It 's the face that brings women to ruin , my girl .", "No . Then perhaps you 'll tell me what these mean ?", "I 'm not in a joking mood .", "H 'm ! Well !Give her that . He hands her a five-pound note .", "Julia , will you leave me to manage this ?", "I do n't care a damn .", "Where is she ?", "Why are n't you married to him ?", "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 ?", "My good girl , not \u201c Oh ! Sir , no , sir . \u201d Simply : No , Sir . See ?", "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 ?", "What on earth do you mean ?", "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", "We 're not in Paris .", "Now , Athene , what 's this ?", "Living ! Living !", "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 .", "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 .", "There you are .", "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 !", "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 .", "Life is n't all roses , Ralph .", "Do n't sneer at Christianity !", "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", "What am I doing ?", "Family life is n't idyllic , so she thinks she and the young man ought n't to have one .", "Now , do n't go saying you 're going in for Art , too , because I wo n't have it .", "Suppose my wife had come in ?", "A young flying bounder .", "With such views about marriage , what business had you to go near a man ? Come , now !", "News \u2014 what ?", "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 .", "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 .", "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 .", "I wanted to talk to you about Maud .", "H 'm !Have some ?", "Going out ?", "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 .", "What 's that ?", "What are you smiling at ? MRS BUILDER shrugs her shoulders . Look at this \u2014 Cigarettes !Strong , very \u2014 and not good !Kitchen !Bedroom !", "What business had you to ? I 'm a family man .", "Will she be back soon ?", "My God ! You \u2014 you \u2014!", "See what ?", "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 .", "No . Fact is , Ralph , something very horrible 's happened .", "Why should I ? CAMILLE comes in from the dining-room with the coffee . Put it there . I want some brandy , please .", "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 !", "Your \u2014 you \u2014!", "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 .", "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", "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", "I do n't know what 's bitten you .", "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 .", "What 's your name ?", "My God ! I thought we were a Christian family .", "What do you want with wills of your own till you 're married ?", "Hang it all , a family 's a family ! There must be a head .", "No lies ; out with it !", "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 .", "How do you know ?", "Dash it ! You must know !", "I sometimes think I try myself too high . Well , about that", "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 .", "What about her ?", "You can n't \u2014! Why ? You 've every indulgence .", "You 're talking the most arrant nonsense I ever heard .I 've a good mind to shake it out of you .", "Yes \u2014 quite well .", "What ! Because of a little thing like that \u2014 all over in two minutes , and I doing my utmost .", "Be explicit .", "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 .", "Look here , you know ! This wo n't do ! It wo n't do ! I \u2014 I 've got my reputation to think of !", "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 ?", "You 're an unnatural girl ! Go your own way to hell !", "Monsieur .", "When you 've quite done being funny , perhaps you 'll tell me why you 've behaved like a common street flapper .", "Well , Camille ?", "What 's that ? Say that again !", "Now then !", "That 's right !", "\u2018 Pon my soul ! This is outrageous !", "Monkey ! At the sound of a bolt shot , BUILDER goes up to the window . There is a fumbling at the door , and CAMILLE appears .", "You 've what ?Do n't talk nonsense ! Your sister has just tried me to the limit .", "What ? No ! Who 'd be happy in a household like mine ?", "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 ?", "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 !", "Well ?", "You ! You what ?", "How do you mean ?", "What explanation have you got ?", "Yes . Now then ?", "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 .", "H 'm !What 's to be done about Athene ?", "I am .", "It 's all against my \u2014 I wo n't do it ! It 's \u2014 it 's wrong !", "Look here , Julia ! That wretched girl said something to me about our life together . What \u2014 what 's the matter with that ?", "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 .", "I knew you were dangerous . I always knew it .", "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 .", "What ? His daughters have never done anything disgraceful , and his wife 's a pattern ."], "true_target": ["In law ?", "This is maddening !", "Very irritating sometimes to a plain Englishman \u2014 that 's all .", "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 .", "Who bolted it ?", "She'shYpppHeNshe ' s actually gone and \u2014", "Does your sister shave ?", "By George , Ralph , you may thank your stars you have n't got a delightful daughter . Yours are good , decent girls .", "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 .", "You keep everything to yourself , so ; I never have any notion what you 're thinking . What did you say to her ?", "Then what are you talking about ?", "Quaint and Dutch \u2014 pretty little figure !H 'm ! Extraordinary girls are ! Fancy Athene preferring this to home . What ?", "You disrespectful monkey ! Will you be quiet ?", "Love leads to marriage \u2014 and to nothing else , but the streets . What an example to your sister !", "Do n't \u201c dear \u201d me ! What have you noticed ? D'you mean I 'm not a good husband and father ?", "I \u2014 I forgot myself . They rise .", "Of course I 'm used to her . What else is marrying for ?", "Will you be quiet ?", "Of course I do .", "I was angry .", "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 .", "I did n't mean to . You go away \u2014 go away !", "Well , Maud ! You 'd have won your bet !", "Camille ? What 's she got to do with it ?", "Explain these ! My God ! Where 's that girl ?", "This is my job .", "I do n't know what on earth you mean .", "Mr and Mrs Builder . My daughter in ?", "You 've got my temper up and you 'll take the consequences . I 'll make you toe the line .", "If we mean to stay ! That 's good !", "What 's the matter with that door ? CAMILLE . It was bolted ,", "You do n't let your women folk do just as they like ?", "Oh ! And you have a key ?", "Do you mean to say you 've gone as far as that ?", "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 .", "Behaving like a \u2014", "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 ?", "Me ?", "Are you my daughter or are you not ?", "I try to .", "No . Bring the coffee !", "These rooms are not yours , are they ?", "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 !", "Do you live here ? Guy makes no sign .", "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 .", "Rubbish !", "You 're a temptress !", "who has taken up a pipe to fill , puts it down .", "I can n't be bothered \u2014 What is it ?", "That ! You were just kids .", "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 do n't want to hear you speak the truth . I 'll wait for my daughter .", "Come , Athene , do n't be childish ! Promise me !", "The war 's upset everything . Women are utterly out of hand . Why the deuce does n't she come ?", "No ; I suppose it 's in your blood . The French \u2014", "D'you mean to say you knew ?", "Rot ; only people who can support themselves have a right to independence .", "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 .", "When you think of how she 's been brought up . You would have thought that religion alone \u2014", "You little devil !", "Where ?", "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 .", "Ask your mistress to come here . He looks up , and catching her eye , looks away .", "Welsh contract ?", "You 've disgraced us , then ; that 's what it comes to .", "You 've always been so passive . When I want a thing , I 've got to have it .", "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 .", "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 !", "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 .", "It 's my opinion you 're a temptation of the devil . You know you sat down on purpose .", "I \u2014 I can n't express \u2014", "Are you married to this \u2014 this \u2014?", "You 've never tested your theory , I 'll bet .", "Why , what 's the matter with you ?", "I do wish you would n't turn things upside down in that ironical way . It is n't \u2014 English .", "I really think you 're mad .", "Julia thinks you might help . You never seem to have any domestic troubles .", "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 ?", "I do n't want any , either . Tell Topping I 'll have some coffee .", "They why do you say so ?Never mind ; do n't be nervous .", "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 !", "Toothache \u2014 poor devil ! H 'm ! I 'm expecting my brother , but I do n't know that I can see him .", "Please .", "Put no obstacle ? What do you mean ? Julia , how can you say a thing like that ? Why , I 've only just \u2014", "Be quiet , you \u2014\u2014!", "Nothing ! nothing !", "Then \u2014 then I should know where I was . As it is \u2014", "May I ask if you know whose they are ?", "Why ?", "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 .", "What happens if one of your girls wants to do an improper thing ?You do n't stop her ?", "D'you realise that I 've supported you in luxury and comfort ?", "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 .", "Now , mind \u2014 if you leave my house , I 've done with you .", "Some crazy rubbish about family life , of all things .", "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 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", "Well , I 'm fond of my girls too ; I suppose I 'm not amiable enough . H 'm ?", "How d'you account for it ?", "She 's learnt to know when I 'm in the right .", "Well , that 's something . She 's crazy . D'you suppose she was telling the truth about that young blackguard wanting to marry her ?", "Do n't be impudent ! My patience is at breaking-point , I warn you ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 73}, {"query": ["I can n't help having been born in Jersey .", "I 'm going in a moment .You owe it to me , Athene .", "I 'm sure you must think so .", "I think you had better go .", "Ask him in , Camille .", "The Camille , and the last straw !", "Yes . I will put no obstacle in the way of your pleasures .", "Suppose you leave me here to see her .", "I do n't know at present .", "I must tell you that I happened to look in a minute ago .", "John wants to consult you , Ralph .", "She would never stand that . Even wives object , nowadays .", "John , you must n't . Athene has the tiny beginning of a moustache , you know .", "Thank you ! I quite understand . But you must forgive my feeling it impossible to remain a wet blanket any longer .", "I 've noticed that .", "He 's only in a passion , my dear .", "Yes ?", "No .", "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 .", "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 .", "Your own family have lives and thoughts and feelings of their own .", "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 .", "It 's not dignified .", "Are you married to her ?", "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 .", "But I do now .", "John \u2014 please !", "Is n't it always a mistake to lose one 's temper ?", "I did n't say anything ."], "true_target": ["Told her it would never work .", "Yes ; Ralph is n't at all a family man .", "It must wait .", "I think it 's more mine .", "John ! Do n't !", "Good-bye !", "I thought perhaps you found her irritating .", "Perhaps Ralph could help .", "It is irritating .", "They 've never had any religion since .", "I think I 've earned it .", "I 'm afraid I can n't do that for you .", "Do n't ! I saw .", "John !", "Athene , you 're mistaken . I 've always stood up to him in my own way .", "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 'm sure of it .", "It seems a shame to add the strain of family life .", "When do you expect my daughter in ?", "We have lived together twenty-three years , John . No talk will change such things .", "You could \u2014 quite easily . You can tell people what you like .", "Shall I get rid of Camille ?", "Why not ?", "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 .", "Obviously .", "Yes ; you can go .", "How beautifully put !", "My dear , all men are not alike .", "You said you had done with her .", "It does n't work otherwise , Athene . A single loud bang on the door ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 73}, {"query": ["My sister 's .", "Hang it ! We 're not all like that .", "The deuce he was ! At our conduct ?", "Do n't try , sir .I think that 's her .Yes . Now , please !Your father and mother , Athene .", "Athene ?", "Oh ! Ah ! Those things ?", "Strength of mind ! Have a little , Athene wo n't you ?", "Now \u2014 directly .", "We beg your pardon .", "So her father has a firm hand too . But it takes her back to the nest . How 's that , Athene ?", "As a matter of fact this is my sister 's studio ; she 's in", "I 've always told her that , ma'am .", "No ; a flying man . The truth is \u2014", "But what about catching it ?", "Brute !", "France \u2014 and has a friend staying here .", "And what 's your young man , Annie ?", "Well , they do n't stick out .", "Look here ! Shall I shift him ? MRS BUILDER shakes her head and opens the door . BUILDER stands there , a furious figure .", "A knock on the door .", "Good-bye , Annie . Here 's five bob for the movies .", "It is . Come in , Annie . What 's wrong now ?", "My sister 's .", "Will you have a cigarette ?", "He 's a wag , your young man .", "That puts the top hat on . So persuasive !Well ! What 's to be done with these pretty things , now ?", "I 'm not going to say another word .", "I \u2014 I do n't think so .", "Thanks ."], "true_target": ["Guy Herringhame .", "Did he give her the protection ?", "H 'm ! That 's not exactly our reason .", "Nor yours , sir ?", "He 's not safe .", "It wo n't . Come on . Must take chances in this life .", "Right ! That 's a bargain .ATHENE quivers towards him . They embrace fervently as ANNIE enters with the bread pan . They spring apart .", "I prefer to say nothing .", "She wants to go home \u2014 she wants to go home !", "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 .", "Be very careful of him .", "There 's something in atavism , darling ; there really is . I like it", "Well ! Let 's see how it looks , anyway .", "Shall I \u2014?", "Need we go into this in your presence , ma'am ? It seems rather delicate .", "Yes . That is \u2014 no \u2014 o ; not altogether , I mean .", "Do n't you believe her , Annie ; if he 's decent \u2014", "I was about to say the same to you , sir .", "It 's all right , Annie . There 's only one more day 's infection before you . We 're to be married to-morrow morning .", "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 .", "I say , Annie , do n't go away thinking evil of us ; we did n't realise you knew we were n't married .", "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 ?", "Not quite . You can n't imagine I should ever be like that ,", "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 .", "Good for your young man .", "What have you got in that thing ? ANNIE is moving across with the bread pan . She halts at the bedroom door .", "\u2014 I do .", "Well , you see \u2014"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 73}, {"query": ["Except wills of our own .", "Marriage does wonders .", "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 .", "Do n't play with fire , Guy .", "I 'm sure you must , dear .", "There you are ! Force majeure !", "Yes .", "Annie ! ANNIE stops and turns to her . What are you afraid of ?", "When we quarrelled , father , you said you did n't care what became of me .", "Father , do n't call names , please .", "I knew it !", "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 .", "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 ?", "Do n't you ever look at your own face , father ? When you shave , for instance .", "I do n't want to be unkind , but you 've brought it on yourself .", "Truth often is .", "Well , all right , Annie . I hope you 'll never regret it .", "Well , good-bye , Annie . What are you going to say to your people ?", "Oh ! but , mother \u2014 listen ! The beating and rattling have recommenced , and the voice : \u201c Are you coming ? \u201d", "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 .", "It is n't satisfied , is it ?", "So you are now .", "It 's wicked .", "Guy !", "Well , I 've no right to influence you .", "Tragedy !", "Mother dear , will you go into the other room with Guy ?", "Yes . You and mother , and other things ; all sorts of things \u2014", "Look at mother . I suppose you can n't , now ; you 're too used to her .", "Now , father !", "I 've seen you again \u2014 Poor mother !", "But you did your best ; you left us .", "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", "We certainly did not .", "Guy , promise me \u2014 solemnly that you 'll never let me stand in your way , or stand in mine !", "Because I would rather she did n't hear the reason .", "D'you mean you 've never noticed how they treat each other ?", "That 's because he wants you . You wait till he does n't . ANNIE looks at GUY .", "No .", "So you want to come back ?", "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 .", "MRS BUILDER looks at the YOUNG MAN , who turns away out of hearing .", "Exactly .", "What sort of father and mother have you got , Annie ?"], "true_target": ["Well , Annie , get your things off , and lay lunch .", "Oh ! mother , I 'm so sorry for you . The handle of the door is rattled , a fist is beaten on it .", "Has mother never turned ?", "Well , what does he say ?", "I do n't ever want to feel sorry for Guy in that way .", "Burn them !", "To all intents and purposes .", "Oh ! yes ; go on . Guy follows MRS BUILDER , and after hesitation at the door they go out into the bedroom .", "Do you want a lot of reasons , or the real one ?", "She 's very married . Has she a will of her own ?", "Oh ! if somebody would give him a lesson !", "Awfully sorry , mother ; but do n't you see what a stunner father 's given me ?", "From your people ?", "BUILDER 's voice : \u201c Julia ! \u201d", "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 .", "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 .", "Nonsense , Annie . And here 's your fare home .", "Do n't you believe that , Annie !", "No ! We were on the edge of it . But now", "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 .", "Yes ; he gave her back to the husband . Was n't it \u2014 English ?", "Oh ! How are you , mother dear ? This is rather a surprise . Father always keeps his word , so I certainly did n't expect him .", "You forget mother !", "Would you have been firm with her ?", "Guy ! All right , Annie .", "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 .", "I do n't know \u2014 I do n't know ! If \u2014 it turned out \u2014", "You do n't see . What I mean is that when once he 's sure of you , he may change completely .", "I am not coming back home , father .", "Because I fell in love .", "That sounds like Annie again . Just see .", "What 's what ?", "Of course \u2014 but the point is , Annie , that marriage makes all the difference .", "I did n't want my face to get like that .", "I do n't think \u2014", "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 .", "Well , father , if you want to know the real reason , it 's \u2014 you .", "All right .", "Oh ! Guy , do n't be horrid . I feel awfully bad .", "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 .", "Have you ever tried , mother ?", "Well , here are your wages .", "And suppose you marry him , and he treats you like a piece of furniture ?", "If he beats on that door again , I shall scream . MRS BUILDER smiles , shakes her head , and turns to the door ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 73}, {"query": ["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 .", "I do n't want to be ungrateful ; but I \u2014 I can n't go on living at home .", "Do n't oppose it , father , please ! I 've always wanted to earn my own living .", "You can n't stop me , father , because I sha n't need support . I 've got quite good terms .", "If something 's gone wrong , they wo n't have any appetite , Topping .", "There ! Then you think I 've got it ?", "What is a cosmogony , Uncle ?", "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 .", "Topping ?", "Is it a good thing , then ?", "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 .", "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 .", "Except my face .", "That I want to live a life of my own . He edges nearer to her , and she edges to keep her distance .", "He can n't see it \u2014 he absolutely can n't !", "To seek my fortune .", "Oh ! So you did catch them out ?", "Put me ten bob on , Topping . I want all the money I can get , just now .", "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 .", "Good-bye , father !", "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", "So do I . To touch themis a bit obvious , is n't it ?", "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 ?", "Well , when I 'm there I wo n't come to you to rescue me .", "Got anything on ?", "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 !", "Yes . It 's all settled .", "That 's why you do n't want me to support myself ."], "true_target": ["No one . I 've been meaning to , ever so long . I 'm twenty-one , you know .", "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 .", "No ; that 's the beastly part of it \u2014 the author does n't , either . It 's all left to me .", "I 'm not joking , father .", "Yes ; I 've got them here .", "I say , Topping , do you know anything about the film ?", "I believe that 's them . Shivery funky . She runs off up Left .", "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 ?", "You see , I \u2014 I 've got a film face , and \u2014", "Of course .", "Oh ! father .", "Perhaps you 'd like to begin again ?", "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 .", "I 'd rather scrub floors now , than stay .", "Yes ; but \u2014", "Oh ! father , I \u2014 I 've got some news for you .", "Yes . There 's just one point , Topping ; it 's psychological .", "Art ? Oh ! no ! It 's the \u2014\u2014 the Movies .", "I 'm awfully sorry , but I-I 've got a job .", "I wo n't stand being shaken .", "The microbe of freedom ; it 's in the air .", "I do n't want any lunch . Did you give it ?", "All right , Topping ; hope you wo n't lose a tooth .", "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 ?", "Yes , I think you 're right . It 's more human .", "More than a taste , Topping \u2014 a talent .", "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", "I can remember occasions when your indulgence hurt , father .We never forgot or forgave that .", "Oh ! What race is being run this afternoon , then ,"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 73}, {"query": ["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 .", "Why should it be better if I thought it a sin ?", "Yes . What a pity ! But does it matter ?", "Will Monsieur have another glass of brandy before I take it ?", "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 ?", "Is Monsieur not well ?", "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 .", "What a thing to say of a little woman !", "A sistare from the Sacred \u2018 Eart , Monsieur \u2014 her little book for the orphan children .", "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 .", "A cutlet soubise ? No ?", "Oh ! La , la !", "Orphan , Monsieur .", "Oh ! Monsieur , that spoil it .", "But so strong a man \u2014 I wish I was a strong man , not a weak woman .", "No , Monsieur ?", "The brandy , sir . Monsieur Ralph Builder has just come ."], "true_target": ["Well , perhaps .", "Topping has gone to the dentist , Monsieur ; \u2018 e \u2018 as the toothache .", "Monsieur !", "I bring it , Monsieur . She goes back demurely into the dining-room .", "I can n't tell , Monsieur . She collects the cups , and halts close to him .Monsieur is not \u2018 appy .", "Oh ! Do n't suppose any such a disagreeable thing ! If you were not so strict , you would feel much \u2018 appier .", "Oh !", "I am sure she will be veree grateful for the poor little beggars . Madame says she will not be coming to lunch , Monsieur .", "The English \u2018 ave no idea of pleasure . They make it all so coarse and virtuous .", "Oh ! Monsieur \u2014", "But I admire you so !", "A light , Monsieur ?", "So \u2018 ave I ! But there is lots of time to think of it in between .", "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 .", "It was na-ice .", "Oh ! \u2018 Ow I wish we was !", "Kissing .", "BUILDER flames up and catches her in his arms"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 73}, {"query": ["We 're all fond of each other .", "I must ask at home .", "Hallo ! All well in your cosmogony , Maud ?", "Do n't say what you 'll regret , old man ! Athene always took things seriously \u2014 bless her !", "Athene gone and got married ?", "Always .", "Let 's take it .", "Sorry , old man .", "Athene 's tremendously good and decent , John . I 'd bet any money she 's doing this on the highest principles .", "That 's very gratifying . She passes him and goes out , leaving the two brothers eyeing one another . About the Welsh contract ?", "And why ?", "The \u2018 suaviter in modo \u2019 pays , John . The times are not what they were .", "Well , you profess the principles of liberty , but you practise the principles of government ."], "true_target": ["No \u2014 o. I do n't think we do .", "I see . Home experience ?", "I think if you did she 'd probably marry him .", "But no tail , old chap .", "Not yet .", "Only in practice .", "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 .", "Well , old man , you do get blood to the head . But what 's Athene 's point , exactly ?", "Exactly . And she does it . I do n't and she does n't .", "To whom ?", "Do you ?", "No , thank you . BUILDER fills and raises his glass .", "Athene 's a most interesting girl . All these young people are so queer and delightful ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 73}, {"query": ["On his way , sir .", "There 's one other charge , Mr Mayor \u2014 poaching . I told them to keep that back till after .", "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 .", "They 'll be over in five minutes , Mr Mayor ."], "true_target": ["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 .", "Most uncomfortable , Sir ; most uncomfortable !", "The constable 's .", "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 .", "Assaulting one of his own daughters with a stick ; and resisting the police ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 74}, {"query": ["Yes ? Tell us the truth .", "Mayor nods .", "H 'm !", "You are sure of that ?", "H 'm ! The Aerodrome . How did you come to be present ?", "You can sit down , Miss Builder . MAUD resumes her seat . Miss Athene Builder , you were present , I think ?", "You mean that he might have been , as one might say , beside himself ?", "Very good !", "Charges .", "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 ?", "What 's your name ?", "Speaking of your own knowledge , Mr Builder ?", "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 .", "The CURTAIN falls .", "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 .", "Did you appear on the scene , as the constable says , during the struggle ?", "Yes ; never mind what you 're given to understand .", "Mr Chantrey ?", "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", "He is . \u2018 Ot temper , and an \u2018 igh sense of duty .", "Did you hear any language ?", "Now , there was a young man .Is this the young man ?", "Be careful . Will you swear to that ?", "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 .", "I 'm afraid you must .", "What do you say to that , constable ?", "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 ?", "Is it your impression that the cane inflicted the injury ?", "He motions her to sit down . ATHENE , turning her eyes on her", "You wo n't swear to it ?", "What do you say to this blow ?", "You call that ordinary ?", "With or without deliberate intent ?", "Well , \u2018 Arris ?"], "true_target": ["Had you seen your brother ?", "Very good . Miss Maud Builder . MAUD stands up .", "But you were not in a position to see very well ?", "SERGEANT steps forward to read the charge as", "I \u2014 I did n't catch .", "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 .", "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 .", "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 ?", "Oh , the stick ? But \u2014 er \u2014 the stick was in \u2018 is \u2018 and , was n't it ?", "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 .", "The MAYOR and CHANTREY now consult each other inaudibly , and the", "My Aunt !", "Father 's impassive figure , sits .", "Miss Maud Builder , will you tell us what you know of this \u2014 er \u2014 occurrence ?", "What do you say to this matter ?", "The defendant said nothing ?", "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 .", "Sergeant ? MOON steps back two paces , and the SERGEANT steps two paces forward .", "But did \u2018 e \u2018 it \u2018 im with the stick ?", "Very well !", "Address ?", "Your sister having withdrawn her charge , we need n't go into that .", "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 ?", "Charges !", "Well , let us hear .", "Whose ?", "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 .", "Any questions to ask the Sergeant ? BUILDER continues to stare at the MAYOR without a word .", "Did he summon you to his aid ?", "I 've had some awkward things to deal with in my time , \u2018 Arris , but this is just about thelimit .", "Ah , Chantrey !", "I understand , then , that you do not wish to offer any explanation ?", "Very well , That seems to be the evidence . Defendant John Builder \u2014 what do you say to all this ?", "When you spoke of the defendant seeing red , what exactly did you mean ?", "Then who supplied the \u2014 er \u2014 momentum ?"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 74}, {"query": ["Nothing \u2014 nothing , he said , Mr Mayor .", "What was his \u2014 er \u2014 conduct in the \u2014 er \u2014 cab ?", "How de do , Mr Mayor ?This is extraordinarily unpleasant . The MAYOR nods . What on earth 's he been doing ?", "And then he saw black ?", "Of course you were bit ; we can see that . But with the cane or with the fist ?", "Daughter ! Charity begins at home .", "An acquaintance of yours ?", "Would you say as angry as he \u2014 er \u2014 is now ?"], "true_target": ["Touch of frost . Birds ought to come well to the guns \u2014 no wind . I like these October days .", "Mort aux vaches !", "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 !", "That seems \u2014", "Did you witness any particular violence other than a resistance to arrest ?", "Caesar 's wife .", "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 .", "How did the police come into it ?", "By George ! he will be mad . John Builder 's a choleric fellow ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 74}, {"query": ["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 !"], "true_target": ["He \u2018 as not opened his lips to my knowledge , Your Worship , from that hour to this .", "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 ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 74}, {"query": ["I \u2014 I \u2014 with the fist , sir .", "He sat quiet .", "I do n't deny there was a struggle , Your Worship , but it 's my impression I was \u2018 it .", "Yes , Your Worship ."], "true_target": ["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 .", "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": 9, "act_index": 74}, {"query": ["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 .", "I \u2014 I wish to withdraw the charge of striking me , please .", "Ye-yes . Only \u2014", "Oh ! the knob end , sir .", "I think there was a struggle for the cane , and it flew up ."], "true_target": ["Only , I do n't think my father hit the constable . I think the stick did that .", "I \u2014 I never meant to make it . I was in a temper \u2014 I saw red .", "Oh ! much more angry . RALPH BUILDER stands up .", "Must I ?", "I mean that my father was so angry that he did n't know what he was doing .", "No \u2014 no . I do n't think he did ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 74}, {"query": ["Yes , Sir .", "Yes .", "N \u2014 no , Mr Mayor , not of my father or mother ."], "true_target": ["I did n't see anything very clearly , but I think my sister 's account is correct , sir .", "No , Sir .", "Oh ! without . BUILDER looks at her .", "Yes ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 74}, {"query": ["Yes \u2014 No , sir . Miss Maud Builder did that .", "Nothing out of the ordinary , sir . One or two damns and blasts .", "Er \u2014 the Aerodrome , Sir . MAYOR . Private , I mean ? The moment is one of considerable tension .", "No , sir .", "Oh ! I saw that clearly .", "The constable 's arm struck the cane violently and it flew up and landed him in the eye ."], "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 .", "Quite sure , sir .", "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 .", "Guy Herringhame .", "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 .", "Yes , sir ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 74}, {"query": ["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 .", "Not a damned thing !"], "true_target": ["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", "I consider myself abominably treated , and I refuse to say another word ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 74}, {"query": ["Would you allow me to say a word , Mr Mayor ?", "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 ."], "true_target": ["Exactly , Sir .", "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"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 74}, {"query": ["Ah ! I should n't be surprised if he feels awful about you ,", "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 !", "Indeed , Miss . I thought perhaps she was about to be .", "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 .", "Comin \u2019 events . I saw the shadder yesterday .", "Not yet , my dear .", "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 .", "Move on ! He retreats from the window , opening the paper .", "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 ?", "\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 !", "Do n't you fret , Miss ; he 'll come through . His jaw 's above his brow , as you might say ."], "true_target": ["He wo n't throw up the sponge , Miss ; more likely to squeeze it down the back of their necks .", "Well , this little lot 's bust up ! The favourites will fall down . Johnny", "Why ?", "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 .", "Builder ! Who 'd have thought it ?", "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 !", "Not yet , Miss .", "What 's that you 're sayin \u2019 ? You take care !", "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 !", "Here !", "Miss .", "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 ?", "Ah ! However did it happen , Miss Maud ?"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 75}, {"query": ["Johnny Builder !", "Right , guv'nor ! Johnny Builder up before the beaks !", "Payper ! First edition ! J. P. chawged ! Payper !", "Johnny Builder ! As BUILDER turns sharply , it vanishes . \u2018 Oo beat \u2018 is wife ? BUILDER rushes to the window ."], "true_target": ["\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 !", "\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 .", "Ya-a-ah ! Missed ! BUILDER stands leaning out , face injected with blood , shaking his fist . The CURTAIN falls for a few seconds .", "It 's all \u2018 ere . Johnny Builder \u2014 beatin \u2019 his wife ! Dischawged ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 75}, {"query": ["Who will ask me ?", "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 .", "You f \u2014 frighten me .", "Well , you will see I have an opinion of my own .", "No ; I do n't like you to-day ! No !", "You are drunk !", "I am clevare .", "Because she take her jewels yesterday ."], "true_target": ["I have pack her tr-runks .", "A black eye !", "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 .", "He is an obstinate man .", "No . They read eagerly side by side .", "Yes , I am going . How can I stay when there is no lady in the \u2018 ouse ?", "No ; I do n't want to , to-day .", "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 .", "They are r-ready ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 75}, {"query": ["Oh !", "A Scotsman ?", "So would you , Uncle Ralph , if you had father about .", "And when you can n't ?", "This is a frightful business , Topping .", "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 !", "I 've come for mother 's things .", "Of course ; but which way ? Will he throw up the sponge , or try and stick it out here ?", "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 .", "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 ?", "Miss Athene was married this morning , Topping . We 've just come from the Registrar 's .", "Oh ! what will father be like now ?", "Not even if you 're asked to ?", "Yes ; how do you manage him ?", "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 ."], "true_target": ["Is my father back , Topping ?", "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 .", "Oh ! you are going ?", "I could n't help it , seeing father standing there all dumb .", "Where 's father , Uncle Ralph ?", "What ?", "That we shall see .", "Oh , yes ! why did n't you , Uncle ?", "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", "I 've got her things on the cab ; she ought to be perfectly free to choose .", "Yes \u2014 father may , and he may not .", "Horrible ! TOPPING re-enters from the hall .", "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 .", "I never wanted him for a father , Uncle .", "It is them . TOPPING goes out into the hall ; ATHENE and RALPH enter Right .", "Oh ! yes , you 're clear-headed enough ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 75}, {"query": ["The enemy stands within the gate , old chap .", "Steady , John !", "When you 've had a sleep . For the sake of the family name , John , do n't be hasty .", "As I look at faces \u2014", "Let 's boss our own natures before we boss those of other people . Have a sleep on it , John , before you do anything .", "I had n't many myself . TOPPING enters .", "They do wonderful things nowadays with inherited trouble . Come , are you going to be nice to him , both of you ?", "John !", "Undermine him when I can .", "You 've got freedom on the brain , Maud .", "There are a good many who stand on their rights left , John .", "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 ."], "true_target": ["I 've never yet given him in charge .", "This is an awful jar , old man !", "With his solicitor .", "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 .", "Well , it all sounds pretty undignified .", "Take a pull , old man ! Have a hot bath and go to bed .", "I say \u2014 keep your sense of humour , old boy .", "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 .", "I 'm his partner , my dear .", "Well , I wo n't worry you anymore , now .", "Good ! I do n't even now understand how it happened .", "Julia 's very upset , my dear fellow ; we all are . The girls came here to try and \u2014"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 75}, {"query": ["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 .", "You gave him the lead .", "It 's so queer you and he being brothers , Uncle Ralph ."], "true_target": ["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", "We 're going to try .", "What do you do , Uncle Ralph ?", "It was awful ! Uncle , why did n't you come back with Guy ?"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 75}, {"query": ["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 .", "If the law thinks it can force me to be one of your weak-kneed sentimentalists who let everybody do what they like \u2014", "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 .", "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 .", "Go !", "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 've paid a pretty price for you . But you 'll make up for it ; you and others .", "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 .", "What ?", "I would n't trust you a yard .", "What ! How can men stand on their rights left ?", "Tell him to go to \u2014", "Here ! CAMILLE comes doubtfully up to the writing table . Her forehead is puckered as if she were thinking hard .", "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 ?", "No ; come again to-morrow !", "So you want to be my mistress , do you ? CAMILLE makes a nervous gesture . Well , you shall . Come here .", "They 've chosen to drive me to extremes , now let them take the consequences . I do n't care a kick what anybody thinks .", "You little devil ! If I catch you , I 'll wring your blasted little neck !", "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 !"], "true_target": ["Sleep ? I had n't a wink last night . If you 'd passed the night", "Englishmen nowadays .", "What ! I told this young man I was n't an angel .", "A proper Englishman never is . But there are no proper", "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 .", "I had \u2014", "Very good of you !", "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 .", "He crosses the room in his fervour .", "Here ! But he is gone , and BUILDER is left staring at his brother , on whose face is still that look of whimsical commiseration .", "A voice says , \u201c Mr Builder ! \u201d BUILDER turns to see the figure of the", "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 do n't know that you would ; you look a soft sort ; but any man with any blood in him .", "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", "What 's that ?", "Ralph , oblige me ! See them off the premises !", "JOURNALIST in the hall doorway . TOPPING goes out .", "Humour ? I 've spent a night in a cell . See this !It disinherits my family .", "Shut the stable door ? No , my boy , the horse has gone .", "But you shall . They 've asked for it !"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 75}, {"query": ["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 .", "I 'm afraid you had a painful experience , sir .", "Very well , sir ; you shall have a proof , I promise . Good afternoon , and thank you .", "I 'm sure \u2014", "Quite !", "Thank you very much , Mr Builder . I 'm sure I can do you justice . Would you like to see a proof ?"], "true_target": ["No , I 'm sure \u2014 I 'm sure !", "Can one ask what she was doing , sir ? We could n't get that point quite clear .", "Or will you trust me ?", "No ! No ! of course .", "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 .", "Yes , Sir ; I quite understand .", "Excellent , Sir ; excellent !"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 75}, {"query": ["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 .", "I fair copped those young devils .", "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 .", "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 ."], "true_target": ["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 .", "Excuse me , sir , you must \u2018 ave digested yesterday morning 's breakfast by now \u2014 must live to eat , sir .", "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 .", "Shall I close in , sir ?"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 76}, {"query": ["I did n't strike a woman \u2014 I struck my daughter .", "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 .", "You shall have them in writing tomorrow .", "Well ?", "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 .", "Nor do I . Yes ! I 'll see him . TOPPING goes out , and BUILDER stands over by the fender , with his head a little down .", "I 'd rather put you into mine , as it was last night .", "I never yet met a man who could n't face another man 's position .", "You 're a good fellow .", "Save your powder , Mayor . I 've slept on it since I wrote you that note . Take my resignations ."], "true_target": ["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", "Not now .", "All right . Put it down .", "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 .", "Give me that paper on the table . No ; the other one \u2014 the Will . TOPPING takes up the Will and gives it to him .", "Eye-wash ! You came to beg me to resign .", "All right . I 'll ring .", "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 .", "Is that what you came for ?", "And what about my face ?"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 76}, {"query": ["Well , it 's precious awkward , Builder . We all feel \u2014", "Come ! That caution of mine was quite parliamentary . I \u2018 ad to save face , you know .", "Well , Builder ?", "That 's right . We must face your position .", "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 ."], "true_target": ["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 !", "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 ?", "After all , what is it ?", "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 .", "Well , you \u2014 you made it difficult for me . \u2018 Ang it all ! Put yourself into my place !", "Why \u2014 yes ; nobody can be more sorry than I \u2014"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 76}, {"query": ["JACOB TWISDEN ................... Senior Partner of Twisden & Graviter", "A YOUNG CLERK ................... Of Twisden & Graviter 's", "Owner of Meldon Court , near Newmarket", "MAJOR COLFORD ................... A Brother Officer of Dancy 's", "LORD ST ERTH .................... A Peer of the Realm", "ROBERT .......................... Winsor 's Footman", "A FOOTMAN ....................... Of the Club", "TREISURE ........................ Winsor 's Butler", "GENERAL CANYNGE ................. A Racing Oracle", "FERDINAND DE LEVIS .............. Young , rich , and new"], "true_target": ["MABEL ........................... His Wife", "AUGUSTUS BOBBING ................ A Clubman", "RICARDOS ........................ An Italian , in Wine", "A CONSTABLE ..................... Attendant on Dede", "CAPTAIN RONALD DANDY , D. S. O ..... Retired", "MARGARET ORME ................... A Society Girl", "EDWARD GRAVITER ................. A Solicitor", "INSPECTOR DEDE .................. Of the County Constabulary", "LADY ADELA ...................... His Wife", "GILMAN .......................... A Large Grocer"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 76}, {"query": ["Did you hear anything ?", "And you found it locked \u2014 and took them from there to put under your pillow ?", "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 .", "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 .", "Newmarket at this time of night \u2014 four miles .", "Robert 's quite all right , is n't he ?", "This is damned awkward , De Levis .", "His father did sell carpets , wholesale , in the City .", "Yes ; but there 's a way of doing things .", "How was your window ?", "Win at Bridge ?", "By Jove ! It will .", "Have you got the numbers of the notes ?", "Between the quarter and half past . He 'd locked his door and had the key with him .", "Hallo ! Adela !", "Half an hour . Then she 's all right .", "Of course , De Levis !", "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 .", "And saw nothing ?", "He 'd tried her high , he said .", "Look here , De Levis , eighty or ninety notes must have been pretty bulky . You did n't have them on you at dinner ?", "Good evening , Inspector . Sorry to have brought you out at this time of night .", "Send her for Margaret and the Dancys \u2014 there 's nobody else in this wing .", "What d'you want me to do ?", "Is it likely ?", "Yes . General Canynge .", "Run your mind over things , Treisure \u2014 has any stranger been about ?", "Right . Could you get him too ? D'you really want the police ,", "She has on a lace cap over her finished hair , and the wrapper .", "You must have been marked down and followed here .", "When was he up last ?", "That young man has too much luck \u2014 the young bounder won two races to-day ; and he 's as rich as Croesus .", "What were they ?", "Thrilling ! What 's to be done ? He wants it back .", "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 ?", "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 .", "Phew !", "Anybody about ?", "Adela ?", "You might take it seriously , Margaret ; it 's pretty beastly for us all . What time did you come up ?", "All right . Get Robert up , but do n't say anything to him . By the way , we 're expecting the police .", "How long has Morison been up with you ?", "He must have been followed here .After rain like that , there ought to be footmarks . The splutter of a motor cycle is heard .", "Yes ! What am I to do ? Fetch the servants out of their rooms ? Search the grounds ? It 'll make the devil of a scandal .", "I entirely refuse to suspect anybody .", "Look here , Treisure , Mr De Levis has had a large sum of money taken from his bedroom within the last half hour .", "Treisure has been here since he was a boy . I should as soon suspect myself ."], "true_target": ["You 've got a balcony like this . Any sign of a ladder or anything ?", "In bed ?", "Suspicious ?", "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 .", "He sold that weed you gave him , Dancy , to Kentman , the bookie , and these were the proceeds .", "Look here , Treisure , it 's infernally awkward for everybody .", "No ; send her to bed . We do n't want gossip . D'you mind going yourself ,", "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 ?", "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 .", "You locked \u2014", "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 .", "Well , he can n't exist on backing losers .", "What ? That weed Dancy gave you in the Spring ?", "We do .", "What do you suggest ?", "But did he go ?", "What 's the move now , General ?", "Is he ?", "De Levis ?", "Well , General , what 's the first move ?", "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 .", "Good Lord ! We 're not in Town ; there 'll be nobody nearer than", "I know .", "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 .", "Where did you put them ?", "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 ?", "What !How do you mean stolen ?", "The door from the bedroom is suddenly opened and LADY ADELA appears .", "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 ?", "Worse ; he 's had a lot of money stolen . Nearly a thousand pounds .", "Who did ?", "Ronny Dancy took a tenner off him , anyway , before dinner .", "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 .", "Next to you ? The Dancys on this side , and Miss Orme on the other . What 's that to do with it ?", "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 ?", "Yes , General ?", "Who 's beyond them ?", "De Levis has got wrong with Treisure .But , I say , what would any of us have done if we 'd been in his shoes ?", "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 .", "Show him in .", "What time did you shut up ?", "Having a bath ; with his room locked and the key in his pocket .", "Quite .Come in ! TREISURE enters .", "When did he go to bed ?", "Who valets Mr De Levis ?", "Good Lord ! How much ?", "This seems to have happened between 11. 15 and 11. 30 . Is that right ?Any noise-anything outside-anything suspicious anywhere ?"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 77}, {"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": 9, "act_index": 77}, {"query": ["Poor young man ; I think we 're rather hard on him .", "They 're next door .", "No fear .", "Nice child ; awfully gone on him .", "Oh ! Charlie , he did look so exactly as if he 'd sold me a carpet when I was paying him .", "Oh ! Mr De Levis !", "Really ? And you say I have n't intuition !Morison 's in there .", "Gracious ! Where ?", "No \u2014 but if we had .", "No ! How ?", "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 .", "Lord St Erth and Ferdy De Levis .", "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 ."], "true_target": ["Do n't be so naughty , Meg .", "Consult General Canynge , Charlie .", "Is n't it just like him to get married now ? He really is the most reckless person .", "I came up at eleven , and rang for her at once .", "Are n't you rather prejudiced ?", "He says it 's too dull , now there 's no fighting .", "Of course !Oh ! But Oh ! it 's quite too unpleasant !", "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 .", "De Levis ; and Margaret Orme at the end . Charlie , do you realise that the bathroom out there has to wash those four ?", "Quite indecently \u2014 both of them .", "But how fearfully thrilling !", "What is it ? Are you ill , Mr De Levis ?", "If Lord St Erth and General Canynge backed him he 'd get in if he did sell carpets !"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 77}, {"query": ["Certainly ; only , the way he \u2014", "Yes , and had the key here .Look here !It 's been stuffed with my shaving papers .", "In a boot , and the boot in my suitcase , and locked it . TREISURE smiles faintly .", "How would they know my room ?", "How do you know ? TREISURE 's eyes rest on DE LEVIS .", "They may have heard something .", "Unless there 's anybody you think \u2014", "Who 's next to me ?", "Yes .", "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 .", "I put it under my pillow and went to have a bath ; when I came back it was gone .", "Open .", "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 .", "From under my pillow , Lady Adela \u2014 my door was locked \u2014 I was in the bath-room .", "Within the last twenty minutes , certainly .", "I ? All I know is \u2014 the money was there , and it 's gone ."], "true_target": ["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 .", "Damn it ! What do you mean ? I WAS !", "I sold my Rosemary filly to-day on the course to Bentman the bookie , and he paid me in notes .", "Just round the corner in the further paddock .", "Yes . I should like it back .", "No .", "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 .", "One hundred , three fifties , and the rest tens and fives .", "Nearly a thousand-nine hundred and seventy , I think .", "Well , I 'll go to my room . When the police come , perhaps you 'll let me know . He goes out .", "Of course , he \u2014 I suppose you \u2014", "No .", "No .", "Yes , I do .", "Oh , yes !", "I did n't notice anything ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 77}, {"query": ["I beg your pardon , sir .", "Very good , General .", "No , sir .", "He is , sir .", "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 ?", "Robert , Sir .", "But if Mr De Levis feels otherwise , sir ?", "No , Sir .", "In the ordinary course of things , about ten o'clock , sir .", "One in the stables , Sir , very heavy . No others within three hundred yards .", "I am a pretty good judge of character , sir , if you 'll excuse me ."], "true_target": ["I trust they will not find a mare 's nest , sir , if I may say so . He goes .", "Twenty-three feet from the terrace , sir .", "Thank you , sir .", "To the best of my knowledge . Is there anything I can do , sir ?", "I dismissed at eleven .", "Robert is in readiness , sir ; but I could swear he knows nothing about it .", "Inspector Dede , Sir .", "Yes , sir ?", "Indeed , Sir !", "It is , sir .", "The proper thing , sir , I suppose , would be a cordon and a complete search \u2014 in our interests .", "The ladder has not been moved , General . There is n't a sign ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 77}, {"query": ["Did you happen to look out of your window , Mrs Dancy ?", "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 .", "That 's for the police .", "We do n't want to rouse any ridiculous suspicion .", "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 ?", "We must be careful with this Inspector fellow . If he pitches hastily on somebody in the house it 'll be very disagreeable .", "You were n't up for anything in between ?", "Any ladders near ?", "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 ."], "true_target": ["You had better leave this in our hands , De Levis .", "Just slip down , and see whether that 's been moved .", "Yes , it 's just stopped . You saw nothing ?", "Mr De Levis presses the matter ?", "When ?", "Directly .Yes ? TREISURE enters . Well ?", "Just a minute , Charles . He draws dose to WINSOR as the others are departing to their rooms .", "We should n't have wanted the police .", "When exactly did you come up , Dance ?"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 77}, {"query": ["Here 's the wind !", "Not even that , alas !", "The mystery of the grey room .", "I hope he 'll want me ; it 's just too thrilling .", "A thousand pounds ? I can n't even conceive having it ."], "true_target": ["How quaint ! Just like an hotel . Does he put his boots out ?", "Only little Ferdy splashing .", "No . That 's it . The hotel touch .", "Did he say \u201c like the wind , \u201d Adela ? He must have imagination . Is n't this gorgeous ? Poor little Ferdy !", "I came up with Adela . Am I suspected , Charles ? How thrilling !"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 77}, {"query": ["Yes . I stood there quite five minutes .", "I 've been asleep nearly half an hour , and Ronny 's only just come up ."], "true_target": ["No .", "Oh ! Ronny , what bad luck !", "Just about eleven , I should think . It was raining hard then ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 77}, {"query": ["The deuce ! Are they coming ?", "Oh !", "Come to you \u2014 as he did .", "He would .", "I hope he wo n't want me ; I 'm dog-tired . Come on , Mabel ."], "true_target": ["We probably should n't have found it out .", "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 .", "No .", "Ought n't the grounds to be searched for footmarks ?", "What time does he say the money was taken ?"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 77}, {"query": ["Good evenin \u2019 , General . I understand , a large sum of money ?"], "true_target": ["Right , sir ; I 've brought a man with me . They go out .", "Good evenin \u2019 , sir . Mr WINSOR ? You 're the owner here , I think ?"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 77}, {"query": ["Now , be careful . Did you go to bed at all ?", "Then why did you say you did ? There 's been a theft here , and anything you say may be used against you .", "At what time did you take his clothes and boots ?", "Are you sure there was nobody in the room already ?", "We have , General . I can pick up nothing near the terrace .", "Did you come up again for anything ?", "Pretty slippy with your undressin \u2019 as a rule ?", "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 .", "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 .", "Where is your room ?", "Were they in their rooms ?", "Were you there alone ?", "Call him back . TREISURE calls \u201c Robert , \u201d and the FOOTMAN re-enters .", "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 ?", "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 .", "Mr WINSOR , what time did the gentleman come to you ?", "Exactly .Now , sir , what time did you come up ?", "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 .", "Just undressin \u2019 ? Did n't look over your bettin \u2019 book ?", "Quite so . This is just clearing the ground , sir .", "A bookie . I do n't suppose he will , sir . It 's come and go with them , all the time .", "No prayers or anything ?", "You valet Mr \u2014 Mr De Levis , I think ?", "I had not overlooked that , General .", "You 're welcome , sir .", "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 ?", "Very good .", "How do you fix that , sir ?"], "true_target": ["Precise , if you can give it me .", "What did you make of that ?", "Thinkin \u2019 and cursin \u2019 a bit , I suppose . Ye-es ?", "Were you out of the room again after you went in ?", "Let me have a look at those , sir .And then ?", "Ah ! Now , what did you do after you came back from your bath ? Just give us that precisely .", "Very good . You can go . I 'll see them later on .", "I understand there 's a lady in the room on this side", "Put them back . Hands keys to CONSTABLE , who goes out , followed by TREISURE . I 'll have to try every key in the house , sir .", "Drawin \u2019 the curtains back first ?", "Shutting the window ?", "Did you come up again , to bring the clothes back ?", "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 !", "Did you open the window , sir , or was it open when you first came in ?", "I mean \u2014 anything peculiar ?", "Did you happen to look under his bed ?", "Did not look under bed . Did you look under it after the theft ?", "Well , sir , there 's your story corroborated .", "Do they know of the affair ?", "and a gentleman on this", "What were you doing , if you did n't go to bed ?", "What time did you go to bed ?", "Did you look for it ?", "If you 're coming in to the racing to-morrow , sir , you might give us a call . I 'll have seen Kentman by then .", "Well ?", "In my experience , you can never have too much of that .", "Did you notice anything particular about Mr De Levis 's clothes ?", "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 .", "I 'm just going , gentlemen . The grounds , I 'm sorry to say , have yielded nothing . It 's a bit of a puzzle ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 78}, {"query": ["Accusation .", "No . I did n't .", "I 'll say nothing about it , unless I get more proof .", "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 .", "Can I come in again ?", "No ; you do n't say these things , any of you .", "I do n't know why it should need corroboration ,", "No .", "Very conclusive .", "Rats !", "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 .", "Do you suggest that I bet in ready money ?", "How do you know that he did n't ?", "Then I put on my dressing-gown and went straight to Mr WINSOR .", "Not so mad as the conclusion Dancy jumped to when he lighted on my balcony .", "Ah ! But you have n't known me since I was a boy .", "Inspector .", "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 .", "Hospitality that skins my feelings and costs me a thousand pounds !", "Not so far as I shall go , General Canynge , if those notes are n't given back . WINSOR comes in .", "Dancy does .", "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 .", "I 'm not a fool , General . I know perfectly well that you can get me outed ."], "true_target": ["No .", "Yes .", "My tongue is still mine , General , if my money is n't !", "I do n't know . I never thought . I did n't look under the bed , if you mean that .", "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 .", "Do you think your code applies to me ? Do you , General ?", "Social blackmail ? H 'm !", "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 .", "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 .", "About eleven .", "General , I know who took them .", "I think I just sat on the bed .", "Since when is a thief a gentleman ? Thick as thieves \u2014 a good motto , is n't it ?", "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 .", "In my race , do you mean ?", "I did n't want the mare ; I took her as a favour .", "No .", "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 .", "You can deal with Dancy in your own way . All I want is the money back .", "I opened it .", "Yes . Say five past eleven .", "No , I do n't .", "I have n't the least doubt of it ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 78}, {"query": ["Levis , but not many people with so large a sum in their pocket-books .", "Mr De Levis feels that he is only valued for his money , so that it is essential for him to have it back .", "Did n't hear of the sale on the course at all ?", "With an eye to possibilities , I venture to think \u2014 the principle guides a good many transactions .", "Do you know that he did ?", "The deuce you do ! Are you following the Inspector 's theory ?", "Young Dancy was an officer and is a gentleman ; this insinuation is pure supposition , and you must not make it . Do you understand me ?", "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 .", "You 've searched thoroughly ?", "What !", "Without any proof . This is very ugly , De Levis . I must tell", "Nor did I think it .", "I agree . Intolerable .Mr De Levis ! DE LEVIS returns into view , in the centre of the open window .", "You can n't help us , then ?", "That other balcony is young Dancy 's , Mr De Levis ; a soldier and a gentleman . This is an extraordinary insinuation .", "With the outside of the upper part of the arm ?", "WINSOR .", "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 .", "WINSOR ! Dancy 's sleeve was damp .", "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 ?", "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 .", "Quite damp . It 's been raining . The two look at each other .", "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 ?", "To anyone who aspires to be a gentleman , Sir .", "Dancy ."], "true_target": ["Nobody could have taken this money who did not know you had it .", "Make up your mind . A pause .", "Then you can n't suggest any one who could have known ? Nothing else was taken , you see .", "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 .", "Nothing else , thank you ,", "\u2018 Pon my soul , Mr De Levis , you go too far .", "Well ?", "There 's a development , WINSOR . Mr De Levis accuses one of your guests .", "Inspector \u2014 you er \u2014 walked up to the window when you first came into the room .", "I said nothing of the sort .", "Go and get Dancy , WINSOR ; but do n't say anything to him . WINSOR goes out .", "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 .", "You could get the numbers of the notes from Kentman the bookmaker , Inspector ; he 'll probably have the big ones , anyway .", "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 .", "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 .", "It stopped before I came up , half an hour ago .", "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 .", "Did you hear anything that throws light , Dancy ? As it was your filly originally , we thought perhaps you might .", "It was coming down hard ; a minute out in it would have been enough \u2014", "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 .", "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 .", "Of course . A knock on the door relieves a certain tension ,", "It 's mad , sir , to jump to conclusions like this .", "There are a good many people still rolling , besides Mr De", "Good-night !"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 78}, {"query": ["Very well , Inspector ; only \u2014 my butler has been with us from a boy .", "Damn De Levis and his money ! It 's deuced invidious , all this , General .", "He 's been leaning on the wet stone , then .", "What ?", "What do you say , De Levis ? D'you want everybody in the house knocked up so that their keys can be tried ?", "Yes .", "We do n't want a Meldon Court scandal , Inspector .", "Really , De Levis , if this is the way you repay hospitality \u2014", "It 's the extreme end of the house from this , Inspector . He 's with the other two footmen .", "Damn it ! This is monstrous , De Levis . I 've known Ronald Dancy since he was a boy .", "TREISURE .", "The footman ROBERT , a fresh-faced young man , enters , followed by", "Right you are , Inspector . Good night , and many thanks .", "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 .", "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 ."], "true_target": ["I 'd just looked at the time , and told my wife to send her maid off .", "I \u2014 I do n't follow \u2014", "I 'll come with you , Inspector . He escorts him to the door , and they go out .", "Well ! You are \u2014! There is a knock on the door , and the INSPECTOR enters .", "You see , De Levis ? He did n't even know you 'd got the money .", "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 .", "He must have been out on his balcony since .", "Half-past eleven .", "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 .", "Come in .", "No . DE LEVIS turns and goes out on to the balcony .", "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 .", "H 'm ! You 'll take it up from the other end , then , Inspector ?", "Miss Orme was ; Captain Dancy not .", "General , d'you mind touching that bell ? CANYNGE rings a bell by the bed .", "How d'you mean ?"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 78}, {"query": ["Yes , Sir ?", "Beggin \u2019 your pardon , Sir , we were playin \u2019 Bridge .", "No , sir .", "No , Sir . Thomas and Frederick was there too .", "Yes , Sir .", "I thought he might have thrown the other at a cat or something .", "A pair of his boots this evenin \u2019 was reduced to one , sir .", "Ten o'clock , sir .", "No , Sir .", "Yes , sir ."], "true_target": ["No , sir ; they 're still downstairs .", "On the ground floor , at the other end of the right wing , sir .", "Only that they were very good , Sir .", "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 .", "Just after eleven , Sir .", "Yes , Sir .", "No , Sir ; I meant to draw his attention to it in the morning .", "No , Sir .", "No , Sir .", "Yes , Sir . I meant , I went to my room ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 78}, {"query": ["I do n't know how you bet , and I do n't care .", "No .", "No . I can n't . Anything else ?"], "true_target": ["He won two races .", "De Levis is known to be rolling , as I am known to be stony .", "I ? No ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 78}, {"query": ["Damages , and a stain on his c-character .", "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 .", "But of c-course he was , General . What did you expect ? A FOOTMAN enters .", "The Courts are b-beastly distrustful , do n't you know .", "I 'm sorry ; but has he t-taken it in quite the right way ? I should have thought \u2014 hearing it s-suddenly \u2014", "And the r-rub .", "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 ."], "true_target": ["Are you going to play any more ?", "They always try to take mine , General . I shall never belong to the noble f-fellowship of the horse .", "Better develop it so that t-two can sit out , General .", "I thought his wanting to f-fight him a bit screeny .", "Rosemary ! And De Levis sold her ! But he got a good p-price , I suppose . The other three look at him .", "I thought the horse m-meant the same to everyone , General \u2014 chance to get the b-better of one 's neighbour .", "Hallo , C-Colford .", "Dancy ! Great S-Scott !"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 79}, {"query": ["Of course , he 'll bring a case , when he 's thought it over .", "Is it fair to Dancy not to let him know ?", "Quite so , unless they find the real thief . People always believe the worst .", "Are you going to retract , and apologise in front of Dancy and the members who heard you ?", "Thank you . That 's all . FOOTMAN goes .", "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 .", "Unless you stop this at once , you may find yourself in prison . If you can stop it , that is .", "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 ."], "true_target": ["Well \u2014 if he did ?", "He only had the numbers of two \u2014 the hundred , and one of the fifties .", "Yes . What 'll be his position even if he wins ?", "If he did do it \u2014", "By George ! You do hold cards , Borring .", "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 !", "I 've known him all his life .", "Not yet . As he speaks , DE LEVIS comes in . He is in a highly-coloured , not to say excited state . COLFORD follows him .", "Colford !The General felt his coat sleeve that night , and it was wet ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 79}, {"query": ["WINSOR ?", "You seem a venomous young man .", "We ought to have stuck to the old game . Wish I 'd gone to", "It can n't be settled that way \u2014 you know very well . You must take it to the Courts , unless he retracts .", "Did Kentman ever give the police the numbers of those notes ,", "If I were young Dancy , nothing should induce me .", "It leaves a bad taste . I 'm sorry for young Mrs", "All the money goes to fellows who do n't know a horse from a haystack .", "I do n't like it .", "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 .", "H 'm ! It never settled anything , except who could shoot straightest .", "Evidently . Deal ! As BORRING begins to deal the door is opened and MAJOR COLFORD appears \u2014 a lean and moustached cavalryman .", "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 .", "Not a patch on the old whist \u2014 this game . Do n't know why I play it \u2014 never did .", "Well , Dancy ?", "He can make it a criminal action .", "Newmarket , Canynge , in spite of the weather ."], "true_target": ["Captain Dancy , a serious accusation has been made against you by this gentleman in the presence of several members of the Club .", "Dancy \u2014 poor woman !", "This concerns the honour of the Club . Are you going to take action ?", "By the way , Canynge , young De Levis was blackballed .", "Well , Captain Dancy ?", "That 'll do , Mr De Levis ; we wo n't keep you .Kindly consider your membership suspended till this matter has been threshed out .", "And they have n't traced \u2018 em ?", "Many a slip between price and pocket , young man .", "Captain Dancy !", "No .", "More damnable if he did it , WINSOR .", "This Club has always had a decent , quiet name .", "That you robbed him of that money at WINSOR 's .", "We 've told you \u2014 take action , to clear your name .", "What are we to do in the meantime ?", "I looked in on my way down . CANYNGE sits very still , and WINSOR utters a disturbed sound .", "What won the Cambridgeshire ?", "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 ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 79}, {"query": ["And care less . Yes ! We want men racing to whom a horse means something .", "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 .", "How long after you left the billiard-room ?", "Are those fellows still in there , Colford ?", "Then bring Dancy up , will you ? But do n't say anything to him .", "That 's the first we have heard about the door .", "It 's a matter of indifference to me , sir , what you tell people .", "What !", "St Erth , shall we raise the flag for whist again ?", "It 's for De Levis to prove what he asserts . You heard what he said about Goole ?", "Our duty is to the Club now , WINSOR . We must have this cleared up . COLFORD comes in , followed by BORRING and DANCY .", "You appear to have your breed on the brain , sir . Nobody else does , so far as I know .", "What !"], "true_target": ["Let 's hear what 's won the", "The horse is a noble animal , sir , as you 'd know if you 'd owed your life to them as often as I have .", "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 .", "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 .", "Cut !", "Steady , Colford !", "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 .", "Choose your expressions more nicely , please !", "Cambridgeshire . Ring , wo n't you , WINSOR ?", "There is no decent way out of a thing of this sort .", "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 .", "One moment . Mr Borring , d'you mind \u2014", "We 're as anxious to believe Dancy as you , Colford , for the honour of the Army and the Club ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 79}, {"query": ["Rosemary , my lord . Sherbet second ; Barbizon third . Nine to one the winner ."], "true_target": ["Yes , my lord ?"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 79}, {"query": ["Would n't you have wanted a shot at the brute ? A law court ? Pah !", "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 .", "Damn that effeminate stammering chap ! What can we do for", "His word 's good enough for me .", "General ! Something in the tone of his voice brings them all to a standstill .", "No .", "Bosh !", "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 .", "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 .", "My God ! If you repeat that \u2014", "Certainly I did ; you were there when I went to the smoking-room ."], "true_target": ["If Dancy 's asked to resign , you may take my resignation too .", "They do .", "Well ! What proof 's that ? No , by George ! An old school-fellow , a brother officer , and a pal .", "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 .", "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 .", "About five minutes .", "De Levis says he 's nothing to add to what he said to you before , on the subject .", "Yes , by God !", "I want your advice . Young De Levis in therehas started a blasphemous story \u2014", "Dancy , WINSOR ?", "Yes ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 79}, {"query": ["But you did n't steal my money , Lord St Erth .", "I should like to hear what your wife says about it .", "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 .", "Confront me with Dancy and give me fair play .", "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 .", "Thief !", "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 !", "Then Kentman and Goole lied \u2014 for no reason ?", "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 .", "No fear !"], "true_target": ["If you were downstairs all the time , as you say , why was your door first open and then shut ?", "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 .", "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 .", "Suppose I had robbed Dancy , would you chase him out for complaining of it ?", "Why did you tell General Canynge you did n't know Kentman had paid me in cash ?", "Well , General Canynge ! It 's a little too strong all this \u2014 a little too strong .", "I remembered it afterwards .", "Well , I shall tell people that you and Lord St Erth backed me up for one Club , and asked me to resign from another .", "You 've let me down .", "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 .", "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 ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 79}, {"query": ["Colford , you saw me in the hall writing letters after our game .", "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 .", "Will you retract ?", "Leave my wife alone , you damned Jew !", "Am I to take it that there is a doubt in your minds , gentlemen ?", "What is it ?", "Because I did n't .", "If the brute wo n't fight , what am I to do , sir ?"], "true_target": ["That is a very expensive business , Lord St Erth , and", "Indeed ! On what grounds is he good enough to say that ?", "It 's impossible for me to prove that I was there all the time .", "If he told me , I did n't take it in .", "Being downstairs , how should I know ? The wind , probably .", "I 'm hard up . I must think it over .", "That 's nothing to do with me .", "Will you fight ?", "I 'll settle this matter with any weapons , when and where he likes ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 79}, {"query": ["But I might \u2014 just as easily . What would you think of me if I ran away from it ?", "But you must \u2014 I was there all the time , with the door open .", "I must see Ronny . D'you mind if I go and try to get him on the telephone ?", "What do you mean ?", "Ronny !", "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 !", "Oh ! at once !", "No . I want it .", "Ronny , I do n't understand \u2014 suppose I 'd been accused of stealing pearls !", "I hate half-hearted friends . Loyalty comes before everything .", "But it 's monstrous !", "If I can n't believe in you , who can ?", "I 'm almost sure .", "Ronny ?", "Come in . DE LEVIS comes in , and stands embarrassed . Yes ?", "It 's wicked ! Yesterday afternoon at the Club , did you say ? Ronny has n't said a word to me . Why ?", "But how can we ? Everybody would say \u2014", "I can n't realise \u2014 I simply can n't . If there 's a case would it be all right afterwards ?", "So easy , is n't it ? I could kill anybody who believes such a thing .", "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 .", "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 !", "Nobody who does need come here , or trouble to speak to us again .", "We 'll fight it tooth and nail !", "Mr De Levis , you are robbing my husband of his good name .", "Do you know what Margaret called you ?", "Oh ! I could n't \u2014 it looks like running away . We must stay and fight it !"], "true_target": ["But you do . I must have seen , I must have heard .", "Were they talking of this last night at the WINSOR 's ?", "A desperate character .", "I could n't bear people to think \u2014", "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 .", "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 ?", "Oh ! How horrible of me \u2014 how horrible !", "But \u2014\u2014 Good heavens !\u2014\u2014 Me !", "Do n't ! You hurt me !", "That wretch ! How dare he ? Darling !It 's hurt you awfully , I know .", "Ronny ! Why did n't you tell me ?", "That he was robbing us .Ronny \u2014 you \u2014 did n't ? I 'd rather know .", "I do n't know ; I \u2014 I think it was .", "But they 'll find the real thief .", "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 .", "Listen ! There 's Ronny ! DANCY comes in .", "No , no !", "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 .", "In other words , I 'm lying .", "It 's terrible , such a thing \u2014 terrible !", "Ronny ! If all the world \u2014 I 'd believe in you . You know I would .", "It 's for him they ought \u2014", "No ; he 's not at Tattersall 's , nor at the Club . LADY ADELA rises and greets her with an air which suggests bereavement .", "He is in . Why do you want to see him ?", "What do you mean \u2014 Court ?", "That beast , De Levis ! I was in our room next door all the time ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 80}, {"query": ["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 ?", "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 !", "That 's the mistake . The General is n't mentioning the coat , is he ?", "It must be too frightfully thrilling .", "I do n't care . He 's my third cousin . Do n't you feel you could n't , Adela ?", "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 .", "Well , he 's all for esprit de corps and that . But he was awfully silent .", "Well , you know a dinner-table , Mabel \u2014 Scandal is heaven-sent at this time of year .", "Have n't you found out , Mabel , that he is n't exactly communicative ? No desperate character is .", "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 .", "You 'll want a solicitor , Mabel , Go to old Mr Jacob Twisden .", "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 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 ?", "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", "Was the door into Ronny 's dressing-room open ?"], "true_target": ["Yes . We 're just going . Oh ! Ronny , this is quite too \u2014", "Stand for De Levis against one of ourselves ?", "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 ?", "My dear , he 'll have to bring an action for defamation of character , or whatever they call it .", "Well , you can say so in Court any way . Not that it matters . Wives are liars by law .", "Yes ; have you ever read him ?", "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 !", "Does n't want you bothered .", "So that 's why he was so silent .", "Ye-es ; but loyalties cut up against each other sometimes , you know .", "Did you get him ?", "Mabel , you 're pure wool , right through ; everybody 's sorry for you .", "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 !", "If only Ronny were n't known to be so broke .", "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 .", "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 ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 80}, {"query": ["No .", "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 .", "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 .", "That 's what I was afraid of ; you 're going to be defiant . Now do n't ! Just be perfectly natural .", "That 's very narrow , Meg .", "Oh , no ! It was only to Charles . MABEL returns .", "You got it from Bergson , Meg . Is n't he wonderful ?", "Oh ! Do tell !", "But they 're so fond of each other !"], "true_target": ["Never .", "Where is she ?", "Yes ; he 's so comforting .", "Could n't \u2014 what ?", "Meg , you 're very tantalising !", "Nobody 's going to believe this , my dear .", "Oh ! I shall remember that . Delightful !", "Charles sent his-love \u2014", "My dear , my great grandmother was a Jewess . I 'm very proud of her .", "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?"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 80}, {"query": ["Was it ?", "Mabel , I want to speak to him alone .", "You are a little brick !", "Well ! Do you agree with him ?", "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 .", "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 .", "What did you say to that swine ?", "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 all right , Mabs ! That 's all right !Well , what shall we do ? Let 's go to that lawyer \u2014 let 's go \u2014", "Go ahead ! He goes out into the bedroom .", "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", "I wanted to see De Levis again first .", "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 .", "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"], "true_target": ["Not at all . The thing looks bad .", "Yes . You do n't know much of me , Mabel .", "Ha ! I thought that was coming .", "What have they been saying ?", "Will staying here help them to do that ?", "Very good of you to have come .", "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 .", "You will sign .", "Suppose I did n't get a verdict \u2014 you never can tell .", "That I would n't be playing this game unless \u2014", "I can n't .", "Yes . But you 're my wife .", "Yes . I want you to sign this .", "I see .All right ! You shall have a run for your money . I 'll go and see old Twisden ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 80}, {"query": ["No ."], "true_target": ["Let them ! We sha n't be here ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 80}, {"query": ["No . Your wish is mother to your thought , that 's all .", "A wife 's memory is not very good when her husband is in danger .", "Quite right , Mrs Dancy . Black and tan swashbuckling will only make things worse for him .", "I will sign nothing .", "Your husband , Mrs Dancy ?", "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 ."], "true_target": ["I admire your trustfulness , Mrs Dancy .", "You came to see me .", "Unfortunately .", "Not much !", "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 , Mrs Dancy .", "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 ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 80}, {"query": ["No , sir . But important , he says .", "Mr WINSOR , sir , and Miss", "A Mr Gilman , sir , to see Mr Twisden ."], "true_target": ["They enter , and the CLERK withdraws .", "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 .", "Orme ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 81}, {"query": ["Can Sir Frederic spare Mr Twisden a few minutes now if he comes round ?He 's gone down to Brighton for the night .", "Do !", "Did we shake Kentman or Goole ?", "No ?", "His partner . Graviter my name is .", "Ask him , sir ; ask him .", "D'you know , I believe she knows .", "I do n't believe this alters what I 've been thinking .", "No ; I can n't say \u2014", "I should like to hear Mr Jacob on that , WINSOR . He 'll be in directly .", "Most people have .", "Thank you . All right .", "By appointment ?", "Yes ?", "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 .", "Society cases ; they brew so long beforehand , you see .", "The Bedford .", "No . He 's at the Courts . They 're just up ; he should be in directly . But he 'll be busy .", "What 's to be done about Dancy ?", "As you say .", "Bring Mrs Dancy up .MABEL DANDY is shown in , looking very pale . TWISDEN advances from the fire , and takes her hand .", "The fifty-pounder . I see .", "Good night , Mrs Dancy . MABEL goes .", "Too respectable . If De Levis got those notes back , and the rest of the money , anonymously ?"], "true_target": ["Yes , but not till you 've gone .", "Mr Gilman ? Yes .", "Phew ! . . .Gosh ! It 's an awful thing for his wife .", "What 's his address ? What . . . ?", "It 'll let him in for a prosecution . He came to us in confidence .", "Very well ; then , perhaps , you 'll go in there .", "Not uncommon .", "Oho !", "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 .", "Not yet .", "De Levis might have challenged the other ten , Miss Orme .", "Excuse me . He goes .", "How d'you do , Miss Orme ? How do you do , WINSOR ?", "By the way , sir , what is your business ?", "Exactly .", "Has n't that shaken you , sir ? It has me .", "How much did he give you in all ?", "Man called Gilman waiting in there to see you specially .", "The public wants it 's money 's worth \u2014 always does in these", "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 .", "What are you going to do then , sir ?", "By George ! I feel bad about this .", "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 ?", "We considered it . Sir Frederic decided that he could use him better in cross-examination ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 81}, {"query": ["Wo n't be finished for a day or two ?", "Old Mr Jacob Twisden \u2014 I 've heard of him .", "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 .", "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 .", "Well , I prefer my own countrymen , and that 's the truth of it . As he speaks , GRAVITER comes in by the door Left Forward .", "GRAVITER shakes his head . No .", "Thank you .You see , I 've never been mixed up with the law \u2014", "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 ?", "Mr", "It 's this Dancy-De Levis case that 's keepin \u2019 him at the Courts ,", "Astonishin \u2019 the interest taken in it .", "Mr Jacob Twisden ?"], "true_target": ["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 .", "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", "Twisden , I believe ? My name 's Gilman , head of Gilman 's Department", "GRAVITER nods .", "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 ?", "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 .", "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 .", "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 .", "This is my card . Gilman 's \u2014 several branches , but this is the \u2018 ead .", "I suppose there 's nothing else I ought to do , in the interests of the law ? I 'm a careful man .", "I suppose ?", "Stores . You have my card .", "Mr Twisden 's not in , then ?"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 81}, {"query": ["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", "They had Kentman , and Goole , the Inspector , the other bobby , my footman , Dancy 's banker , and his tailor .", "No , thanks . The door is closed .", "I said Dancy ought to have called him .", "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 ?", "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 .", "Look here , Mr Twisden \u2014", "Well ! I do n't know that . Can I go and see him before he gives evidence to-morrow ?", "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 ."], "true_target": ["I 'd rather you did it , Margaret .", "It 's becoming a sort of Dreyfus case \u2014 people taking sides quite outside the evidence .", "Well , we 'll go together . I do n't want Mrs Dancy to hear .", "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 .", "They 're looking for something lurid .", "Half a second , Margaret . Wait for me . She nods and goes out . Mr Twisden , what do you really think ?", "Twisden not back , Graviter ?", "Well , can I go and see Canynge ?", "If they get that out of him , and recall me , am I to say he told me of it at the time ?"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 81}, {"query": ["Mr Jacob , how charming !", "No , dear Mr Jacob .", "Oh ! but quite distinctly . Do n't you think they ought to have been challenged ?", "There are more of the chosen in Court every day . Mr Graviter , have you noticed the two on the jury ?", "I daresay .", "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 !"], "true_target": ["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 .", "Wo n't Mr Jacob have a fit ?", "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 .", "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 ?", "Do tell me , Mr Jacob ; is he going to win ?", "No , of course ; but , Mr Jacob , they might ask ; they know it rained . And he is such a George Washington ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 81}, {"query": ["Yes , yes ; but I must know .", "Gilman .", "Good afternoon !", "Where have they gone ?", "We can n't go on with the case .", "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 .", "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 .", "It does not become everybody as it becomes you , Margaret .", "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 .", "With threats that you would tell his wife ?", "Now , sir , will you sit down . But RICARDOS does not sit ; he stands looking uneasily across the table at GRAVITER . You may speak out .", "Without knowing , I can n't tell you . WINSOR and MARGARET exchange looks , and TWISDEN drinks from the saucer . MARGARET . Tell him , Charles .", "Can you understand a gentleman \u2014?", "When did he give you this money ?", "Yes . What can we do for you ?", "Mr Ricardos , was it Captain Dancy ?", "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 .", "Yes . But professional honour comes first . What time is that train ?", "Better not .", "You were not aware that it was stolen ?", "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 .", "My dear Mrs Dancy , there 's no need at all for you to come down to-morrow ; take a rest and nurse your head .", "Well , I 'd like to see him before the Court sits . Send him on here as soon as he comes .", "I take it that General Canynge wo n't say anything he 's not compelled to say .", "Ah ! How are you , Charles ? How do you do , my dear ?", "I am afraid we must press you for the name of the gentleman .", "My partner means , did you press him for this settlement ?", "I 'll go down .", "Not as against the law .", "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 ?", "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 .", "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 ."], "true_target": ["At your service , sir . GILMAN comes forth , nursing his pot hat . Be seated . TWISDEN closes the window behind him , and takes his seat .", "H 'm ! that is very vague . If that is all you can tell us , I 'm afraid \u2014", "So far as we are able to prevent it \u2014 certainly .", "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 .", "A thorn in the flesh , Mr Gilman .", "No , no ! I \u2014 I can n't go on with the case . It 's breaking faith . Get Sir Frederic 's chambers .", "Young Dancy !GRAVITER returns , carefully shuts the door , and going up to him , hands him RICARDOS \u2019 card .", "See Dancy at once . Get him on the phone .", "Ask if I can come round and see him .", "They did n't ask either of you . Still-no harm in your telling Dancy .", "You received it from \u2014?", "Directly . Turn up the light , would you , Graviter ?", "Mr Gilman has brought this , of which he is holder for value . His customer , who changed it three days ago , is coming up .", "Very rightly , Mr Gilman \u2014 very rightly .", "When in difficulty \u2014 complete frankness , sir .", "Now , then ?", "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 ?", "I am Dancy 's lawyer , my dear Charles , as well as yours .", "But the case , Graviter ; the case .", "Yes . GRAVITERChance brought this here , sir . That man wo n't talk \u2014 he 's too scared .", "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 .", "Thank you . GILMAN retreats , glances at RICARDOS , and turns again .", "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 .", "Charles ?", "Come , sir , speak out !", "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 .", "No , no ! She believes in him implicitly . A staunch little woman . Poor thing !", "Yes ; it 's the very best thing you can do . GRAVITER turns his head , and looks at them unobserved .", "I must .", "I think so , Margaret ; I think so .", "H 'm ! What hotel ?", "It went very well to-day ; very well indeed ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 81}, {"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 .", "It is a family matter , sare , I \u2014", "I did think it my duty to my daughter to ask that he make compensation to her .", "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 .", "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 .", "The notes were a settlement to her from this gentleman , of whom she was a great friend .", "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 ."], "true_target": ["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 .", "Gentlemen , this is very painful for me . It is my daughter 's good name \u2014", "A minute , sare ; I would weesh to explain \u2014in private .", "Sare , I trust you .\u2014 It was Captain Dancy . A long pause . GRAVITERWere you blackmailing him ?", "Sare , if I tell you , will you give me your good word that my daughter shall not hear of it ?", "The middle of Octobare last .", "Gentlemen , I am so fond of my daughter . I have only the one , and no wife .", "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 .", "Yes , sare ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 81}, {"query": ["I 'm so tired of \u2014! Thank you so much for all you 're doing . Good night ! Good night , Mr Graviter !", "How do you think it 's going ?", "You must be awfully fed up with us ."], "true_target": ["I do n't know , but he 'll be home before ten o'clock tohYpppHeNmorrow . Is there anything ?", "Oh ! Mr Twisden , when will it be over ? My head 's getting awful sitting in that Court .", "Really and truly ?", "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 ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 81}, {"query": ["Oh !", "It is ! They all turn round in consternation .", "He wanted to see me before the Court sat .", "No . What now ?", "Not ?", "There are alternatives .", "Why ? What is it to you ?", "But you get no excitement from year 's end to year 's end . It 'd drive me mad .", "By me it 's just on the half-hour , sir .", "It 's all damned kind of you .But I must think of my wife . Give me a few minutes .", "To the life ."], "true_target": ["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 .", "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 .", "That 's very good of you , considering .", "How can you stick this ?", "I do n't know yet .", "Were you in the war ?", "Good old Morocco !", "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 .", "WINSOR came to me yesterday about General Canynge 's evidence . Is that what you wanted to speak to me about ?", "Not if she 's wise .", "No .", "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 ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 82}, {"query": ["A case like this is pretty exciting . I 'd give a lot to see us win it .", "On the table , sir .", "My trouble was to stick that , sir .", "Yes , sir . Mr Twisden will see you in one minute . He had to go out of town last night ."], "true_target": ["Yes , sir .", "Captain Dancy 's waiting , sir .", "Yes .", "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 ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 82}, {"query": ["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 ?", "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 .", "That was unfortunately unavoidable .", "No . It is n't that .", "You wanted to see me ?", "Yes . I do n't want you to go to the Court .", "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 ?", "Did he leave anything for me ?", "You must decide quickly , to catch a boat train . Many a man has made good . You 're a fine soldier .", "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 ?", "De Levis ? Ca n't see him .", "Will you go , then , at once , and leave me to break it to your wife ?", "You must allow me to judge where my duty lay , in a very hard case .", "I have very serious news for you .", "Yes . He 's in there deciding what he 'll do .", "These two notes .After the Court rose yesterday we had a man called Ricardos here .Is there any need for me to say more ?", "Slowly , without turning his head , rather like a man in a dream ,", "Money is n't the point , Margaret .", "We are obliged to you , Sir . It was good of you to come ."], "true_target": ["Yes . The CLERK goes out , and almost immediately GRAVITER and CANYNGE enter . Good-morning , General .Well ?", "Thank you . The CLERK goes .", "Well ?", "What is it ?", "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 .", "DANCY walks across the room , and goes out .", "Captain Dancy ?", "Courts ?", "There 's no end to human nature , General .", "Better go ! There 's a war in Morocco .", "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 .", "I 've advised him to go straight off to Morocco .", "Tell them to call a taxi .", "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 .", "Very well . Mr Graviter gone to the", "\u201c All corroborates . \u201d H 'm !Now , Captain Dancy . Sorry to have kept you waiting .", "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", "Hssh ! Dancy 's in there . He 's admitted it . Voices are subdued at once .", "And I serve the Law , sir .", "Graviter \u2014 No ; show them in . The YOUNG CLERK goes ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 82}, {"query": ["The taxi 's here , sir . Will you see Major Colford and Miss Orme ?"], "true_target": ["Yes , sir . Mr Graviter has come in , air , with General Canynge . Are you disengaged ?", "Yes , sir ?"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 82}, {"query": ["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 ?"], "true_target": ["De Levis is here .", "You can see queerer things in the papers , any day ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 82}, {"query": ["Graviter , give me a sheet of paper . I 'll write a letter for him .", "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 .", "You heard what he said , Dancy . You have no time to lose . But DANCY does not stir .", "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 ?", "Colford , you do n't understand professional etiquette ."], "true_target": ["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 .", "Is there anything I can do ?", "Colford 's badly cut up . MARGARET ORME and COLFORD enter .", "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 ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 82}, {"query": ["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 .", "Poor little Mabel Dancy ! It 's perfect hell for her . They have not seen that DANCY has opened the door behind them .", "But I serve the Country .", "Guilty or not , you ought to have stuck to him \u2014 it 's not playing the game , Mr Twisden .", "I thought a man was safe with his solicitor ."], "true_target": ["Old boy !", "I 'm going in to shake hands with him .", "Twisden .", "There must be some mistake about this , Mr", "No , thank God !"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 82}, {"query": ["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"], "true_target": ["It 's ghastly ! It really is ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 82}, {"query": ["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 ."], "true_target": ["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 ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 82}, {"query": ["Spun ? What do you mean ? What 's spun ?", "Oh ! No ! No , no ! I 'll follow \u2014 I 'll come out to you there .", "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 ?", "Ronny ! Do they want me in Court ?", "What do you want , Inspector ?", "Why did n't you tell me then ? I would have gone .", "No , no ! Kiss me ! A long kiss , till the bell again startles them apart , and there is a loud knock .", "If you \u2014 your wife \u2014", "Oh ! Why did n't I face it ? But I could n't \u2014 I had to believe .", "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 .", "To our bedroom .", "Yes ; oh , yes ! I think I 've known a long time , really . Only \u2014 why ? What made you ?", "And break my heart ?", "Do n't , Ronny ! Oh ! No ! Do n't !DANCY stands looking down at her .", "What has happened , exactly ?", "Inspector , I beseech you \u2014 just half an hour .", "It is . It 's in Me .", "Will you come in while I see ? She comes in , followed by the INSPECTOR ."], "true_target": ["Ronny ! Oh , Ronny ! It wo n't be for long \u2014 I 'll be waiting ! I 'll be waiting \u2014 I swear it .", "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 is it , then ? Why are you back ?", "I am not quite sure \u2014 I do n't think so .", "The woman \u2014 have you \u2014 since \u2014?", "A prosecution ? Prison ? Oh , go ! Do n't wait a minute ! Go !", "Of course I 'll stick to you . DANCY seizes her hand and puts it to his lips . The bell rings .", "Oh !Who ?", "Yes ?", "The INSPECTOR raises his hand , deprecating .", "He was changing his clothes to go out . I think he has gone .", "It was \u2014 it was to a woman . Ronny , do n't lie any more .", "To a woman ?", "Inspector !", "To the war there ?", "But \u2014 money ! To keep it !", "Are you married ?", "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 .", "No . DANCY goes suddenly on his knees and seizes her hand ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 83}, {"query": ["The case . They 've found out through those notes .", "Heads up , Mab ! Do n't show the brutes !", "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 .", "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 .", "That 's not in human nature .", "Me !", "No .", "Sir Frederic chucked up the case . I 've seen Twisden ; they want me to run for it to Morocco .", "Spun .", "D'you mean you 'll stick to me ?", "I 've crocked up your life .", "This 'll be good-bye , then !"], "true_target": ["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 .", "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 .", "Yes , but I had a debt to pay .", "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 .", "Forgive me !", "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 !", "A debt of honour \u2014 it would n't wait .", "You wanted this case . Well , it 's fallen down .", "Pity you would n't come to Africa three months ago .", "Yes . There 's to be a warrant out .", "And now you can n't . It 's the end , Mabel .", "Blast them !"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 83}, {"query": ["This is a very serious business , sir .", "Now , madam \u2014 you must know my duty .", "He 'll be in there , then .", "The bell rings .", "Well , madam , we 're \u2014 we 're not allowed to take that into consideration . The Law 's the Law .", "Well , madam , it 's no use disguising it . I 'm exceedingly sorry , but I 've a warrant for his arrest .", "I , sir ? He shot himself .", "I 'm sure I 've every sympathy for you , madam ; but I must carry out my instructions .", "Come , now \u2014", "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 ."], "true_target": ["What lady and \u2014 Stand by , Grover !", "What 's that door ?", "No , no \u2014 do n't you try to undermine me \u2014 I 'm sorry for you ; but do n't you try it !", "Beg pardon ?", "Captain Dancy in , madam ?", "I should think you must be sure , madam . This is not a big place .", "I 'll want that , sir .", "Is there another door to that room ?", "I wish to speak to him a minute . Stay here , Grover . Now , madam !", "It 's locked .", "I am ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 83}, {"query": ["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 ."], "true_target": ["One minute !"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 83}, {"query": ["You shall have it read at the inquest . Till then \u2014 it 's addressed to me , and I stick to it .", "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 .", "Neatly \u2014 through the heart . MARGARETKeeps faith ! We 've all done that . It 's not enough .", "PERSONS OF THE PLAY", "Leave her ! The longer she 's unconscious , the better .", "Hara-kiri ."], "true_target": ["For her sake , and his own .", "By John Galsworthy", "From the 5th Series of Plays", "Yes , Inspector ; you 've done for my best friend .", "All right , old boy !", "The CURTAIN falls .", "WINDOWS"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 83}, {"query": ["FAITH BLY ............ His Daughter", "MR BARNADAS .......... In Plain Clothes", "JOHNNY MARCH ......... Their Son", "BLUNTER .............. A Strange Young Man", "COOK ................. Their Cook"], "true_target": ["JOAN MARCH ........... His Wife", "The action passes in Geofrey March 's House , Highgate-Spring-time .", "MR BLY ............... Their Window Cleaner", "Freelance in Literature", "MARY MARCH ........... Their Daughter"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 83}, {"query": ["Have a care !", "Not me . What concern hast thou with me ? It is true thou holdest me here within thy grave-yard prison and compellest me to play the grave-digger with blows and taunts ; but let my prince once come this way again , and not another hour of service shalt thou have .... My prince , my gold-prince ! My sweet lad ! How I could burst with a single leap straight to thy side through all the world , and with my too-long-idle sword hurl down to hell the coward pack that presses round thee !... And thou art all to blame ,\u2014 yes , all . He had already quite enough agonizing longings , unfulfilled desires ; but thou must needs fan the warmly glowing flames to a devouring blaze . It was thou that lured him into that adventure , that willed his braving danger singlehanded ; and if he cracks the accursed nut , if I see the foam curl again about his prow ,\u2014 even if I clasp him to me and feel him safe indeed ,\u2014 who shall tell me that after all his prize is worth his pains ? Where is that woman thou hast showed to him , that pattern of beauty and purity , that paragon of softness and strength , she who was born to steal away his other longings ,\u2014 where is she ?\u2014 show her to me ! Burial-wife . My little Hans , my son , why stormest thou so ?", "Who , then ?", "I will go .", "So , so ! I just bethought myself . One question more : How come you here ?", "Thou hast the feathers ? Are they really heron 's feathers , from the very bird ?", "And if he brings them ? Burial-wife . Then I will make him conscious of miraculous power , through which he shall find and bind her to himself who awaits him in night and need ; for by this deed he grows a man , and worth the prize .", "Bravo ! Bravo !", "Not yet . Burial-wife . Thou hast dug many a deep still grave for me ; many a wanderer will come and find rest , therein . Over the gray path of the boundless sea will each one come bringing his life 's sorrow to lay it here upon my bosom . I open wide my arms to them as my father bade me , and blessing them I thus absolve myself from suffering and penance . Beneath my breath sin and crime straightway disappear ;\u2014 and smilingly I bear all my dear children to their rest .", "Forgive me , dear my lord and master , that I forgot a moment the bare fact itself , to thee so all-important . I knew thou wouldst never have returned without them , however my heart thirsted after thee .", "Where are they , master ? Dost thou bear them in thy breast ? I feel thou wouldest . Chide me if thou wilt , but show them to me .", "Thou hast done well to bring them ; if the fatal seed of death does not draw thee down to eternal failure thou must do well indeed ! For now the secret purpose of thy path is about to reveal itself ; now thy proud and self-poised soul pants to mount aloft ,\u2014 and here I stand and counsel thee : Hurl away thy prize !", "On the grave-straw ?Burial-wife . There landed two men yonder on a golden spring day , and wandered lost like wild things through the thicket . Who were they ?", "It is now scarce three years since we bore within the hall our master in his ash-hewn coffin . He raised his hand already cold , and pointed with his pallid , bony finger \u2014 not toward the bastard Danish conqueror , but towards his own true son , Prince Witte ; and him he left his country 's lord . The land was poor , the people rude , yet it had preserved its pride and loyalty un stained through a thousand murderous brawls . Three years ago as everybody knows , you would have murdered our young lord at summons of the Bastard and his fair promises ; and now \u2014 what are you ? Thieves , sand-fleas , loafers , riff-raff , haunting the moors and hiding in the thickets . Stop ! I will build a gallows for you presently ; my brave sword is too good for you .", "A good two years , master .", "Think what thou wilt . Covered with wounds I sunk it in the ocean 's depths .", "And your Duke ?", "Master , how changed thou art . Thy fire seems smothered , and thy passions burn less fiercely , being self-controlled .", "The way to death ! Burial-wife . \u201c There lies an isle in the northern seas , where day and night are merged in dawn ; never more shall he rejoice at sight of home who loses his path there in a storm . There lies thy path . And there , where the holy word is never taught , within a crystal house there lives a wild heron , worshiped as a god . From that heron thou must pluck three feathers out and bring them hither . \u201d", "Thy story , master ,\u2014 come , tell it to me !", "Bandits ! Just come on once !How is it ? I hope they have not hurt thee . Burial-wife . None can harm me , none molest me , who has not first wronged himself and all his hopes . OttarHo , Hans is playing with his love !"], "true_target": ["And then ? When he has got her , and sighs and coos and lies in her bosom half a hundred years , when he turns himself a very woman , I shall be the last to wonder at it . Look !I shovelled this shining glittering bauble out of the dune-sand . I have heaped up whole bushels of it in my greedy zeal . Now , as I toss from me this sticky mass of resin , that borrows the name and place of a stone , so with the act I hurl away in mocking laughter these many-colored lies of womankind .Now go and brew my evening draught . I will to the sea to seek my master .OttarHolloa , Gylf ! GylfWhat is it ?", "I drive naught , my lord , I am driven . DukeIt pleases thee to jest .", "Too late . It has begun .It looks as if the hearth-fire glowed straight through her parchment skin and wrapped her bones in flame .", "I and my master were the two . The villainy of his step-brother had rent from him his throne and kingdom . He was too young , he was too weak ,\u2014 there lay the blame . Burial-wife . Yet he was blustering and drew his sword and demanded with storm and threat that I should grant a wish for him . Still thou knowest him , my dear son ?", "But if she weaves enchantment , master ?", "And once more I stand broad-legged in thy unhappy path and shout : Do not destroy thyself ! Whoever runs after his desire shall perish in the race ; it only yields to him who hurls it from him . Thou dost not know as yet the old wife 's schemes ; thou standest now above enchantment , a young glowing god confiding in the magic of thine own strength . What thou dost know is that thy prize is hidden , and that the broad path of possibilities , on which thou thinkest to glide aloft , may be choked all at once between black walls and leave thee fevered and panting with the chase , with desire and loathing , eagerness and shrinking , to hasten on forever and never gain the end . PrinceLook there !", "Yes , you !", "No need . I know that trade a thousand miles away . You are wreckers ! AllOf course . HansSee , see !", "What is that , now thou art here ?And even if thy journey were in vain , if thou hast not brought the heron 's feathers back with thee , what is \u2014", "Cursed witch , thou hast \u2014Art thou singed ? PrinceI see naught .", "Let me curse . Burial-wife . Hush thee , and lie down here beside me on the straw , and listen what I tell thee .", "I look at thee in wonderment . I left thee a boy , I find thee a man . And for this , though my sword has itched in my hand to answer to my thoughts , though I have sat for hours on end in gnawing tedium and spat into the sea , for this result I bless the old wife there . Once more I may strike good blows for thee , once more be proud to guard thee as before . PrinceIt shall be so .... Yes , yes , my lad . Since I have been gone \u2014 how long is it ?", "No need , my lord , I have my pay .", "And thee to be galled thereat .", "Quite right ! Give us thy fist !... No use to wrangle !Thou hast need of a little scouring first , I think . Children , what fine fellows you would be , if only you were not such frightful rogues .Tell me now , what have you been at so long ? OttarWho ? We ?", "I am armed .The hangman \u2014", "Thou hast bewitched him finely .", "I am no Hans of thine . My name is Hans Lorbass . A knave who stalks stiff-necked and solemn up and down the world does not much relish being treated like a child . Burial-wife . Thou art my dear child none the less . Only grow old and gray ; and then shall thy body bear its scars and thy soul its sins back to the old wife .", "Do I know him ! Burial-wife . \u201c Thou desirest the fairest of women for thy bride ? \u201d I said . \u201c She is not here ; but if thou dost not shrink before the danger , I can show thee the way , my son . \u201d", "Do not blame me , master ; I know of what I speak . First of all , mistrust the old one . I fear her not ... but something horrible and slimy crawled in my throat when I first saw her crouching in a grave , all stiff , her brows drawn and her staring eyes turned inwards lifelessly .... When a storm stood coal-black in the heavens and gave the greedy coffins fresh food \u2014 lo , there she stood and bade me dig the graves ; and when the wave cast corpses up on the strand , she bore each one up the hill pressed mother-like to her breast , shaken meanwhile with a sly laugh ; and thus she laughed until they all lay quietly at rest beneath . Have a care for thyself !", "Are you so sure of it ?"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 84}, {"query": ["Death and the devil ! Then we are in Amberland . The ThirdThat is amber ?", "What do you call this ? Seize her !", "Who ? Dost thou mock at us ? Thou livest here and yet thou hast not heard of the Amberqueen , the marvel of beauty who has sworn to yield herself and her throne to the man that is victorious in a tournament for life and death , and bears all her other suitors to the earth ? The fair one is a widow , the heir an orphan ; so it is meat and drink to him who throws the others by the heels .", "Dog ! I 'll strike thee dead !", "Duke ?", "Thou wouldst draw us out then ?", "Give it to me !", "Well , where is the man who cares to try conclusions with our"], "true_target": ["Hans", "There 's a man ! He stands foremost in the attack . When the grappling-irons lay hold , when the javelin whistles in the air , when down upon the rashly canted dragon crashes the boarding-plank , when above they wait like calves for the slaughter , then rings his murder-cry : Ho huzzah !", "In what battle ? We have no more battles .", "Thou hadst gladly got us out of the way to dig all by thyself ? O , we all know thee , thou filthy fool ! SkoellMore pretty words , my friend ? Go on ! When we are our own men on shore again , I will see what I can do ;\u2014 but till that time I spare my skin .", "What 's the matter ?", "Thou gorging maw !", "Here is the tower , here lie the graves in a sandy spot ; run below to the Duke and tell him ; not a man to be seen , not even a worm , naught but a burying-ground , rooted up and worried as though we had been haunting it ourselves .", "Cowards !HansHo , there ! Let her alone , or \u2014", ", I reared one who will strike him down some day ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 84}, {"query": ["Nay , for we would have saved some of our loved dead for the raven , we would not have been so stingy as to bury them straightway .The First\u2014 Ho \u2014 there !", "What is this ?", "He is so droll , master , he would not let himself be killed .", "Thou dost not go along ?", "Hanschen , has thou clean forgot who was the fiercest bloodhound of us all ? Who was it always shouted \u201c I will do it , I ! \u201d till everyone spread sail before him and left him to his work ? Then wouldest thou come , wiping thy bloody hand , and laugh , and say : \u201c My work is done ! \u201d And then one saw no more of thee . Now when we find thee and rejoice at sight of thee , thou scornest us like a pack of thieves or birds of such a feather , and playest the judge sitting above us ;\u2014 fie , Hanschen , \u2018 tis not kind of thee ."], "true_target": ["Be quiet , fools , there is plenty more ! Go look in the tower , and you may curse me for a knave if you find the mouse-hole empty .", "Look ! Hans Lorbass !", "Only the name is not quite right . We are wreckers hereabouts ; but we chiefly rob upon the high seas .", "Hast thou not taken our measure , then ? Take notice of my sparkling glance \u2014 its tender fire : observe his air , like to a love-sick cock 's : Do we not smell of myrrh and balm ! In short , we go to gaze upon the bride .", "Tell us , old Hans , what brings thee here ? Is she thy latest love ? AllHans , Hans ! Poor old Hans !"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 84}, {"query": ["Come . The Two Others . Yes , come !", "Does not the boat pass there that yesterday crossed our path on the high seas , whose steersman threatened fight with our dragon ? How comes the bold rascal here ? The SecondI tell you , comrades , let the fellow go , and look what I have found ."], "true_target": ["Seize her ! Easy to say ! Dost thou court the palsy ?", "Past bearing ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 84}, {"query": ["I found it \u2014 it is mine !"], "true_target": ["Or fits , at least !", "Thieves ! Flayers !"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 84}, {"query": ["Seize him . SkoellMaster , our dearest companion , who never yet has played us false .HansThou art the master and wonted to victory ; but come too near , and thou hast only been the master !", "Who is that man that speaks with you ? Why have you not already struck him down ?", "Meseems ... Hans Lorbass \u2014 do I see aright ? What \u2014 what ?... Thou knowest I am in thy debt for business secretly done . I love not debts between master and man .", "That fellow 's corpse was never found ! Now clear thyself from the suspicion .", "At first thou seemedst to serve me diligently ; yet thou didst slip as suddenly from my throne as though thou hadst an ailing conscience . HansPerhaps . It may be ."], "true_target": ["Well , leave him then upon the path where thou hast found him . I had wellnigh killed instead of paying him .HansThen there is something holds his spirit in bonds ; will make his race a race of weaklings , will plunge the land itself in guilt ,\u2014 and yet they know not their own shame .... Right ! Just now I saw something . Did I not behold , not far from land a blood-red sail a-dazzle against the blue night cloud ? The keel bore sharply toward the shore \u2014 how gladly would I believe the old wife there , when \u2014 truly , it frets me so I must \u2014HansMaster !\u2014 Thou hast come ! Art thou safe ? Unharmed ? Here is thy nose \u2014 both ears \u2014 thy arm \u2014 and there thy sword ! Thy voice alone is lost , it seems .", "What drivest thou now ?", "I trust thee . If thou wilt swear thy truth to me , then come . With me all is feasting and revelry . HansThank thee , my lord . I care not to do murder , and I can play the robber by myself .", "Where hast thou stayed so long ? HansI am a servant . I have served .", "Why stand you there ? Did I send you ahead to chatter ? On with you ! What stops your mouths ? Clear the way ! And if I find you sluggish I will call out my cat-o \u2019 - nine-tails for you . HansHe drubs you then ?"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 84}, {"query": ["Look at my helmet . I understand thy eagerness . No sword can cleave them from me , no rush of wind displace them . They are the standard of my fortunes .", "What I demand now is that queen of women , after whom I have thirsted even while drinking , by the side of whom my princely dignity shall appear but as a herald ; for whose voice my soul starves though I sit in the wisest councils of the world ; in whom I see our torturing human weaknesses healed to a joyous beauty ; that woman before whom I , though mad with victory , must bend my proud knee in trembling and affright ; whose blushes shall bear witness to me how a longing heart can shield itself in modesty ; she who will stand in deepest need and beg with me at the cross-roads ; whose love can make death itself pass me by ; this woman , this deep peace , this calm still world in which when lost I cannot lose myself , where wrong itself must turn to right ,\u2014 this woman ,\u2014 mine \u2014 I now demand of thee . Burial-wife . Snatch down the prize from thy helmet : I will announce its promise to thee ; unless thou art blind or deaf , thou shalt pierce to the depth of the riddle . The first of the feathers is but a gleam from the lights and shadows that brew about thee . When thou throwest it into the fire , thou shalt behold her image in the twilight . The second of the feathers ,\u2014 mark it well \u2014 shall bring her to thee in love , for when thou burnest it alone in the dying glow , she must wander by night and appear before thee . And until the third has perished in the flame , thy hand stretched forth shall bless her ; but the third burning brings her death : and therefore guard it well and think upon the end .", "I see in the heavens a shadowy form , rosy with flame , pierced through with light . If it be thou on whom my longing hangs , I pray thee turn thy face and lighten me ! Lift the veil from thine eyes ! Remain , ah , vanish not behind the stars ,\u2014 step down that I may learn to love thee !... She does not hear . When we part , say how I may know thee again !... How shall I \u2014? Her figure sways , it fades with the clouds \u2014 was that the sign ?", "Wait , Hans . The hour will come , at drinking-time , while the dull camp-fire flickers to its end , and the fierce thirst of fighting will not let us sleep ,\u2014 then will I tell the tale and make it glow anew .", "I will . Unwarned , I let them wave aloft in mad presumption ; but now I will hide them safe within my gorget .Why shouldst thou look at me so grimly ? I know myself to be quite freed from sorrow ; all I lack is a faithful companion on the way .... \u201c When thou throwest the first into the fire thou shalt behold her image in the twilight . \u201dHansWhat wilt thou do ?", "Burial-wife ! Look me in the face ! Burial-wife . Thou hast come ! Welcome , dear son !", "Thou wert right . I knew it well .", "But yet thou mutterest ?", "Still she is mine , as I know who I am ! And should she never long to come to me , yet my soul 's longings shall be stronger than she herself . Hans Lorbass , my brave fellow-soldier , take thy sword and arm thyself straightway .", "Thy dear son \u2014 I am not . Thy creditor I am , and I demand my own . Burial-wife . What dost thou ask ?", "I brought not the heron 's feathers with me ? My nightly watches , twilight 's scanty rest , the morning 's ardent fiery prayers , and more than all , the consecrated labor of the day , wherein what has been obtained from God with tears , must be besieged anew with fierce resolve , and conquered by the teeth-set \u201c I will , \u201d won by obstinate unshrinking ,\u2014 sorrow \u2014 doubt \u2014 danger \u2014 struggle \u2014 unsuccess to-day and new onslaught tomorrow \u2014 and so on and on \u2014 and always forward \u2014 have I all this behind me , and yet have I returned without the feathers ?"], "true_target": ["I forced from thee the words that taught me my way ; the deed thou hast demanded is accomplished , and I claim the prize ! Burial-wife . What I have promised thee , I will faithfully fulfil , my child . A primal force lies within these white husks . They change their form according to their owner 's will . What , then , is thy desire ? A woman ?", "Let me be silent , friend . The horror I have seen stands black about me and takes the color from my joy .", "Yet why ? Her work is pious and she tends it faithfully .", "Set thy fears at rest ; the wonder is fulfilled , and all our pains dispersed in thankful prayer .", "The old wife now , and quickly , that she may open to me all the enchantment lurking in the feathers , to which I trusted and surrendered myself . The time has come for this unmolded life to shape itself after the law of its own desire . Why dost thou hesitate ?", "Thou art wrong , my friend ; in me there dwells no calm . I stir and seethe . Death itself , which I have conquered , reanimates in me . Only henceforth I gain by firmer paths the end which I have chosen . My country that betrayed me , lies small and half-forgotten in the distance . I measure myself against the great henceforth . What are they ? Myself shall be the arbiter , and fate shall never again allure me with her cruel \u201c Take what I offer thee \u201d to a starvation feast .", "Spare thy curses . She serves my happiness as best she can . Farewell ! We will seek the world over , and when the first promise is fulfilled \u2014 Farewell ! HansFarewell !The Burial-wifeGo , my children , face the combat , fight boldly , wield the feathers unrestrained ; when you weary , bring me back your outworn bodies , cast them here upon my shore . But till the time shall come when I will plant them like twigs in my garden , go and fight and love and dance ... for I can wait .... I can wait !", "A woman ? There are enough of women . More than one has borne me down to earth in the snare of her supple limbs , and hampered my soul 's flight . What is a woman ? A downfall and a heaviness , a darkness and a theft of alien lights , a sweet allurement in the eternal void , a smile without a thought , a cry for naught .", "Out of the way ?", "Thou ravest .", "I am the last from whom on that account a threat is fit . It has turned to blessing for me . To him who chooses sacrifice for his fate , there often comes the best of gifts ,\u2014 to see deep into the unsearchable , and smilingly to build as though within a pleasure-park , upon the very boundary of the ideal . Once more \u2014"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 84}, {"query": ["I know not whether he was a devil or an angel ; for without his shriek of hate we should still be lying beneath the foot of tyranny , bleeding and weaponless as he who lies below .", "I feel as though the earth itself did sway , as though my poor old head would burst in pieces . Now falls the Fatherland , which , kingless , thought it might escape from rapine ; yet all the while in its own breast there stood the powerfullest of robbers . Here where a continual harvest of peace once smiled , where inborn modesty of soul once paired joyously with ingrown habit and youth grew guiltless to maturity , the ruthless hand of tyranny will henceforth rest choking on our necks , and \u2014Who blusters at the door ? Go look . PageI see a spear-shaft glitter .What wilt thou without there ? Hans Lorbass 's Voice . Open the door ! PageWhy didst thou come up the steps ? The entrance is there below . Hans Lorbass 's Voice . I know that already . I did not care to sweat there in the crowd . Open the door .", "And yet thou thinkest of departure ? Art thou made of stone that thou hast not felt a thrust of pity like a knife , at the mere sight of that pious grace , that spring-like mildness ?", "Look ! What a sight !", "To a ...? Stranger , there burns in me a fever of speech ... they chide the doting chatter of old men , and yet \u2014", "I am as wrung as though the fate of the whole country hung on the iron strength of the lock .... Give him his way .", "Thou earnest on the day of the tournament ; and therefore thou hast come to free the Queen .", "Thou hast done well , my friend . Every wanderer is a welcome guest in this castle , for our Queen is one from whose soul there flow deeds of boundless kindness to all the world . From to-day , alas !... nay , call thy knight , and if he stands on two such good legs as his servant , I warrant he has shivered many a spear .", "Hast thou seen aright ? The Pommeranian ?", "We are groping here in a black riddle . ChancellorWitness thyself ."], "true_target": ["Who art thou , and what wouldst thou here ? Speak !", "What , stranger , art thou also of princely blood ?", "Thou listenest in silence to this unmeasured raving ? I ask not now upon what throne thy father sat , I only ask the weakling : Art thou a man ? Is this body that glows in prideful youth , only a hardly fed up paunch ? Is the angry red painted upon thy brow , and yet canst thou endure and not wipe out the insult thou hast received ? HansMaster , be stronger now than I have strength myself . I have naught to say , not I . Only say to me : \u201c Hans , we will go \u201d \u2014 and I will gulp down my rage ; and never to the last day of my life shall a look , a word , a motion of an eye-lash , remind thee of what befell today .", "Here is my hand , my guest . And though thou comest here in an unhappy hour , I look within thine eye , I gaze upon thy sword , and feel as though thou hadst lifted a cruel burden from my oppressed soul .", "We have for our guests \u2014 they will show it to thee .", "Thy threat hath no meaning today . Yet all the same I know that wert thou king , thou wouldst lay my gray head at thy feet .", "Put the link out , my son . It hangs on thy tired arm too heavily .... Yes , yes , this morning many a one thinks of his bed .... What , an alarm so early ? Man and steed armed ? SkoellBrother \u2014 thy health !", "Still thou sawest her when she and her women \u2014", "How else ? Would , though , the filthy wretch and his Duke too with his dissolute bravery , were smoked out of the country !... Still , I am not anxious . The Pommeranian prince \u2014 there is a man of glorious renown !\u2014 may win .", "No , no ! God forbid !\u2014 Well , unarm , my friend , ... so , so .", "Well then : our King , stricken with years , died and left us unprotected and afraid , for we had no guide nor saviour . The Queen , herself a child , carried trembling at her breast the babe she had borne him .... It is six years ago , and all this time have birds of prey scented the rich morsel from afar and come swooping down upon this fair land , where unmeasured riches lie . The danger grows \u2014 the people clamor for a master . And so our Queen , who had sat long sunk in modest grief , now divined in anguish her soul 's call , the echo of the kingly duty , and guessed the sacrifice her land demanded . She tore in twain her widow 's garlands , and made a vow that he who could bear all other suitors to her feet in battle , should be her lord and her country 's king . The day has come . The lists are hung , the people crowd into the tournament . Woe to them ! Their tears are doomed to fall , for all the princes who came hither have fled faint-heartedly before a single one , a man of terror , who is thus victorious without a struggle ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 85}, {"query": ["Look ! The fellow is still drunk .", "Yes ."], "true_target": ["I fear , my lord , thou art wrong . The horses of the Pommeranian snort below . They look as though they were about to start .", "What shall I do ?"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 85}, {"query": ["I tell thee , thou brute beast , thou calf , thou knave , thou thief , as truly as I love thee as my brother , I will kill thee !", "For what , my lord ? Here are the very bones whereon thine eyes desired to feast themselves . It is true they are covered with flesh for the present , but they are there inside , I swear to thee .", "Now gather all thy powers together , master ! And all my love for thee turn into fire and flame , that \u2014", "Whither then ?", "Ho , ho ! How the rascal puffs ! Yes , thou wilt learn to run , my fine fellow ! Another blow ! He struck him not ! Now for thy life !\u2014 What is he thinking of ?My master bleeds !", "He is saved ! If he were not , I 'd spring in the very face of death for him ,\u2014 I would spring down death 's very throat ; death and I , we know each other well .", "Well , did she please thee ? Hast thou found her worthy to awake thy idle sword to deeds of battle ?", "And I will answer thee : I myself am that justice . I bear it on my sword 's point , I carry it here beneath my cap , I pour it forth in my master 's name , who gave it for his glory and his happiness .If ye believe it not , then listen trembling to the thousand toned joy that peals from far away like spring thunder quivering in the air , and sweeps throughout the land the joyous message of deliverance : we are free !", "Away from here ! Whoever loves his life , whether man or woman , comes not too near ! QueenNot even I , my friend ? HansThou , Lady ,\u2014 yes . QueenSend for physicians that he may be saved .", "Thy master is here ?", "I counsel thee , take off thy hands ! SkoellCome , brother of my heart , be sensible , stay in thy seat ; down below there is just a mob of women , and thou wouldst be no use at all .", "The devil take him !What now ?", "My master , a brave knight and skilled in arms , born far in the north , where he was betrayed in feud with his stepbrother , to atone has undertaken a journey to the Holy Sepulchre . We have but just now entered your kingdom , and crave for God 's love , if not a refuge , at least a resting place .", "And I warrant , my lord , that thou hast warranted rightly .SkoellHans Lorbass \u2014 seize him !"], "true_target": ["I am the Prince 's servant !", "Master !", "Let the filthy rascal go , whoever he is , and come !", "What 's that ? Eh , there , sleepy-head , wake up !", "Wipe it off ! Whisk it away ! That little blood-letting but sharpens the anger , pricks the hate and \u2014", "What draws you here !", "There , which one of them drives the other in the corner , now ? Eh ?", "Who would it have been ? Some body-servant about the castle , perhaps , some \u2014", "Thou seest , O Queen , he speaks in fever . Do not listen , do not heed his words .", "When thou canst .", "True enough .The third call ! Now is the time !", "Here is thy shield . Quick , take it .", "Hsh \u2014 sh !", "Then come . Thy path is hot . Thy path is broad !\u2014 Then hasten ! Already far too long hast thou delayed before this tottering throne , from which an eye in speechless pleading calls for help .", "How \u2014 what \u2014? That witch-work to distract thee now ? Here is thy sword , and there the foe ! Play with him , tickle him , stroke his beard , till he weeps blood out of his mouth , till \u2014"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 85}, {"query": ["Thou callest me stranger , and will pardon me that I had heard naught of thy Queen .", "Silence , Hans ! This man stands above thy mockery ; for though he stole my inheritance in despicable treachery , yet he wears the crown of my fathers , and I bow before it . And until heaven 's cherubim call on me loudly to avenge the wrong , in practice for a better thing I bend before him , and grind my teeth .", "It would be no less than idleness for me to unsheathe my sword in her behalf ; for my field of battle lies not here .", "Your eyes all hang in hopeful question on my broad-edged sword ; and yet I may not tell you why I wear it , but must endure what ever you think . Still , know one thing ; all the shame which he has heaped today upon my dulled heart I will add to the need by which he shattered my young days . I will reckon with him for those thirsting nights wherein I drank the poison of renunciation ,\u2014 when my trust in mankind sank to ruin with my blood-defiled rights ,\u2014 when in despair I reckoned my coming manhood by my growing beard ,\u2014 when my fate became a lot of powerless shame ,\u2014 and I will grope along the path where my desires once ranged themselves when the rousing voice of hope rang out of abyssmal blankness .... And thus the scorn I have received to-day glides past my closed ears like unwelcome flattery ; and silently I go from hence .", "They are quite safe .", "Where is that ape that just now \u2014", "Hans , Hans ! HansTake care what thou sayest . PrinceI will away from here ...I must away !", "I saw her , yes .", "And this one \u2014 who is he ?", "They crowd in early at your doors ,\u2014 have I come to a festival ?"], "true_target": ["Whatever it was , I will go gladly . SkoellAll good spirits praise the Lord !", "Why , who was that , that went out in such a hurry ?", "Forgive me , Lady , if but hesitatingly I have sworn myself into thy service . Behold , I tread a half-obscured path , and the dim traces lead me into the far gray distance ... lead me \u2014 and I know not whither . I know not whether that great night which descends upon the crudest sorrow of our common day , bringing sleep to the wearied soul , will wrap me also in its folds , or whether as reward for that unquenched spirit in me that still must trust , endure , and spread its wings , the sunshine of the heights at last will smile upon me . I am Desire 's unwearied son ; I bear her token hidden in my breast , and till that token fades or disappears , well canst thou say : \u201c Come die for me , \u201d but never canst thou say : \u201c Remain . \u201d", "At first , when my desires pointed from hence , didst thou not beg me to delay ?\u2014 and now !\u2014 SkoellHeaven save us ! Brother , who is this ? I would know him a thousand miles away ! HansPerhaps I wished to test thee , or perhaps \u2014", "I see destruction naming in thine eyes ,\u2014 thou laughest in scorn .... Laugh on . For I shall not avenge myself , nor count it my duty to shatter the fearful edifice of thy throne . So long as it will uphold thee and thy blood-blinded sword , so long be thou and thy people worthy of one another . Enough ! Hans , set forth !", "O , that mine lay not so far from here ! There , where the clouds disperse in light , and the eternal sun kisses my brow , there ... Enough . Since thou hast asked no more than chance has in a measure forced me to , whether for good or evil I know not , I must needs grant thy wish . Hans , arm me . Duke, Skoell , do not forget ... where are the others ?", "Thou hast chosen me for thy confidant ... I listen gladly .", "I thank thee that thou holdest me worthy thy confidence . Yet I fear that thou art misled ; it was no fate drew us together , but only chance . Thinkest thou that because I took this path I was sent to thee ?", "Thou liest . HansNow defend thyself . Treason to thy being 's sanctuary is a half-voluntary deed .", "Where are my \u2014?", "Whether princely or not , my blood is mine , and I myself must be the judge of what suits it . My host , I thank thee .... I would right gladly have rested here , gladly have sat down at thy hearth as a humble guest \u2014"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 85}, {"query": ["That which I long for lies not here . My sober judgment whispers warningly within my breast of delay and thoughtless dalliance .SkoellQuite right ."], "true_target": ["If there is a man here in whom dwells a spirit of sacrifice , a worship of the right , and not of power and bloody gain , to him I speak , as to a stem of that ancient race which still springs from Gotland 's gods ; I boldly say : \u201c I am . \u201d But to that vicious misbegotten wight who cringes in the dust and worships tyranny if it but prosper him , to him I say : \u201c No , I am not . \u201d"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 85}, {"query": ["That was a blow !Hail to King Wid \u2014 HansBack from his body ! You men below there , is there one that wears a sword and armor ? Voices . I !\u2014 I !\u2014 I !", "Not so fierce !", "Well , my heart 's brother , so we are alone again .", "Now I can put my hands in my pockets and let them break each other 's necks ; if I only had something to drink , then \u2014Ouch ! Whew ! The devil , what a grip thou hast ! HansThere ! That was a blow ! Take that !Guard thyself ! Ah , that was good ! Now after him and strike !... He missed !I thought thou didst laugh !", "Well , old fellow , what wilt thou in this berth ?", "Thou knowest , thou rogue ! We are the jolliest of jolly good fellows ever found at a wedding . HansHas he the strength for this redeeming act , and would it break the bonds of the madness that holds him ?", "Ei , ei !", "All good spirits praise \u2014", "What should I do ?"], "true_target": ["Look !", "Leave me alone ! When I sleep I am happy . HansWhat \u2014 Skoell ?", "Who knows ?", "Woe is me ! Alas !", "Eh ? Yes , indeed .", "Yes . But they flung us out just now .", "Well , yes !", "What ?... I will stand above both sides and wait to see which one comes out ahead .", "Hans Lor \u2014", "What now ? Why now , we will have a drink ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 85}, {"query": ["But was there not a great feast to-night ?", "Hans Lorbass", "It seems to me , my lords , that the sword will show .", "Hans Lorbass , thou shalt pay for this !", "Listen ! And heed me well . As soon as that rascal has had enough and grovels in the dust , shout out with all thy might \u201c Hail to King Widwolf ! \u201d Dost thou understand ?", "And I tell thee , my lady Queen , he goes ! I answer for it with my sword . If there is a prayer within the hero-soul of him , it runs thus : dear God , graciously be pleased to spare my reputation only as far as yonder door ."], "true_target": ["Duke of Gotland !", "I am the Duke of Gotland !", "Behold , ye noble gentlemen ! Blood of the cross , what a hero we have here ! He halts here : makes a mighty clamor : naught has or ever can delay his march of triumph :\u2014 and then on a sudden he makes a short turn , breathes a deep sigh , and like the other poltroons , leaves the field to me . HansControl thyself , master , all this can be borne .", "Perhaps . And again perhaps , if this braggart who was sent hither and now crawls away again , did not quite take off that weak old head of thine , he would just have thee hanged , out of pure pity .", "Who speaks of pity , when I myself protect her with my shield ? Pity ?\u2014 how \u2014 wherefore ? Have a care !", "Thou knowest me well .", "He is the"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 85}, {"query": ["Let him speak ! He has the right ! And even were he a thousand times defeated , this man who lies before us bleeding , if he recover and seek it from me , shall be our lord and conqueror .Prince WitteThere lies the heron ! I have wrung his neck , I snatch my prize , my salvation ...where are the feathers ?", "And that youth who smiling received the sacrificial blow for you \u2014 think you his life so valueless that no one even remembers him as a poor reward ? Why are you silent ? Will no one speak ?", "O go not , stranger !", "A most unhappy woman stands before thee , and with streaming eyes casts away all the shame that modesty and rank combine to weigh her with , and prays thee : O go not ! For behold ! As I came to-day to God 's dwelling-house full of tormenting thoughts \u2014 I saw thee on the way , thou scarce didst notice me \u2014 while I stood there before thy face longing within me that a sign might be given me , it seemed as though there flowed a something like light , like a murmuring through the spacious place , as on a festal day the sacred miracle of His presence . And a voice spoke in my heart : have faith , O woman , he came and he is thine ; to thy people whose courage failed them , he shall be a hero , to thy child a father .... Then I fell thankfully upon my face . And now I beg thee : O go not !", "Then never shalt thou hear that bitter word , that word so full of weakness , come from my trembling lips . The blessing of this hour that passes now shall never rise to distract thee on thy path in the gray distance . Yet there shall be a charm , rising unspoken in the soul itself , which when thou pausest wearied on thy journey , shall whisper to thee where a home still blooms for thee .... Where a balsam is prepared to heal thy wounded feet , bleeding from the sharpness of thy path ... where a thousand arms reach out to greet their loved one ... whence those voices rise that call to thee out of the darkness ... and where there waits a smile , smothered with joy , to say to thee : \u201c I charmed thee not . \u201d \u2014 I will be silent , lest thou shouldst be weary of my speech ; since all my words speak only this desire : it rings within thine ears ,\u2014 longing must find a resting-place .", "Who stays for me if I will not for him ? And is it not fitting for an unhappy mother to protect the head of her child even with her own shattered arm ?Listen , my darling . Thou must go .Take him to my waiting-women . Without this sight his heart will all too soon burn with a thirst for blood . The Young Prince . Ah , mother !"], "true_target": ["What seekest thou , dear one ?", "Where is the stranger ? Why are you silent ? I saw him fall ... did he not conquer ? A MessengerHail to our Queen ! I bring glad tidings : the accursed Duke has fled upon a stolen horse . The people vent their long-stored spleen upon his rascally followers .", "I swear it on the iron sword of my kingdom , and on the runes carved thereupon ; though nature has denied it to a woman to avenge a violated oath with her own hand , yet I will never rest in my grave unless all is fulfilled that I have spoken . I swore it solemnly , and on this sword I will announce and reavow to you , that whosoever conquers in this fight may claim me for his wife when he desires .... Speak now , ye who cursed my mourning and my sorrow 's backward glance : do I fulfill your will with shuddering ? Do I not give ye the King ye seek ?", "While we go to throw upon his life .", "Nay , thou must . But nestle once again upon my breast , my dear one , so ! The Young PrincePlease , thou strange man , be so good as to conquer for us ! PrinceIf thou art good , my Prince !... How clear their glances sparkle ! From those eyes a world of sunshine bursts ; alas , I am not worthy of it !", "How is the Prince ?"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 85}, {"query": ["As children always are . At first he wept and tried to slip away . Then he lay still and had his playthings brought . Now he lies sprawling under a table , playing at dice , though he understands them not ."], "true_target": ["Oh ! dearest Lady , if I might speak I would beg thee to go . The sight of all the horrors that gather round us will shake thee sorely ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 85}, {"query": ["Who knows thee not ? Flames spread before thee hither like a banner , the vulture knows thee that shrieks after carrion , the auk knows thee on the blood-furrowed sea ; yet custom demands , the which thou knowest not , that thou shalt name thyself at this hour .", "That man whose summons hurled the brand of mutiny among us , look how great and small , man and woman crowd around him shouting and hustle the Duke to the door ! There , he is gone !\u2014 the other left ! Who was the devil ?", "A lofty mind , bred in the bitterness which deep sorrow brings , speaks in thy words and gives them weight . But yet \u2014 we know not who stands before us as the Duke of Gotland .", "True enough . If the Queen will .Hans LorbassRemember that thrust I showed thee once : at the arm-joint where the leather is easily cut , thou canst \u2014 Prince WitteWhere are the feathers ?"], "true_target": ["Thou who breathest out spume and fire as carelessly as though hell itself had brought thee forth , I ask thee who thou art , thou unclean spirit , who hast dared to raise this pious people to revolt by thy furious onslaught , and taught them to poison for themselves and the ensuing race the holy fount of justice ?", "Now to you who stand prepared to ring the throne and kingdom with the sharpness of your swords ; before the land submits itself to the victor , give answer who you are !", "Speak , O Queen ! Thy soldiers wait below . Methinks this servant of the defeated one has too much confidence ,\u2014 he speaks as though he were instead our lord and victor .", "Illustrious Lady , honored Queen , as chancellor of thy appointed realm , I offer thee this sword whereon to take the oath : that in thy hand , so strong because so weak , what first prevailed as thy country 's law , what now prevails , and what shall prevail again when violence and lust cease to clutch after our soul 's sanctuaries ,\u2014 that law on which we have relied , so mild it was , because created by a free and happy fatherland \u2014 will be forever new and vigorous .", "We know not whether he is dead , or lives , though sorely wounded . In every thrust he far over-reckoned the reach of his sword . A more grievous trouble than this , my Lady Queen , avails to banish our rejoicing ; a broken oath is here , an unatoned-for \u2014"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 85}, {"query": ["Back ! The passage is forbidden ."], "true_target": ["That may all be ; but hast thou not seen \u2014"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 85}, {"query": ["It was not given to everyone to know it ; but it has brought the King to me ! Hark , do I hear a horn ? How near it sounds ! My King is coming ! My King is here !", "My oath ?", "Just wait !", "Never , my friend ! In my soul there rings but one harp-tone , one voice , which says : be happy !", "The right that raised for him in that dark hour when the cruel wound gaped in his throat , a faithful servant to avenge him ; a servant whose brave shout and lifted blade have taught me this one thing : high above the right there stands the sword , and high above the sword stands love !", "Stop ! You , my women , seek your rest ; my son , to bed ! The Young Prince . And am I not to see the father again till morning ? Ah , mother , please !", "We are alone ... yet what a pity with too cool reason to chill the buds of the May evening , which plunges all the waking soul into sweet sickness .... But speak !", "If thou canst not sleep , Anna shall take thee up and bring thee here . Is it well so , dear one ? The Young Prince . Yes .", "Well , then , go out and dance and frolic and sing together all night long ! Know you the song that you should sing ?", "It is nothing ,\u2014 nothing !... Why , here ! What seek you my children ?... What not a word ? Have you a favor to be granted , a complaint to make ? If you cannot speak , why then you must go away again !", "It is your too easily wounded love complains of him ."], "true_target": ["I know he conquered , for he is here !", "Well ?", "Go out and drink the moonlight as it pours down through the branches ; I think we little know how blessed we are .QueenWhy are you old ones shivering ? Why look you so strange ? Is it cold ? Then you must rake the fire ! One of the Old Women . Mistress , we spin our winding-sheets . Shall we not be cold ? QueenDo not listen to them !The Young Prince . Oh , Uncle Coelestin !What hast thou brought me , Uncle Coelestin ? CoelestinA great sandman , and a small goodnight !", "The King is come ? Thou wouldst announce him ?", "But tell me , my dear friend , did he not conquer ?", "Of course . The Young Prince . Will he come before my bed-time ?", "And goodnight !", "The Young Prince . I will get her by the hair first !", "I do not know . The Young Prince . The wood is full of darkness , is it not ?", "Where our King goes , there is always light !... What , Anna , art thou eavesdropping ? Must I blush before thee , because I voiced a cry out of my soul 's longing , which envious time would smother ?", "Run , run , my child !"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 86}, {"query": ["Dear Mistress , there is an old custom that runs thus : when Easter-tide has come into the land , when the thorn bush grows faintly green , when the blue wave shines bluer , when our desire takes wing to sport among the flying things of spring ,\u2014 that then , upon the coming of the first full moon , the night must be watched out with sport and dance . In a word they would sing . QueenAh , yes !... But tell me , dear children , if you knew it , then why did this custom vanish from the land so many years ?", "Beloved Queen .... I know well that I am too young ; my little thoughts whisk twittering like swallows through my head ,\u2014 The Young Prince . And she pretends to me she is so wise !"], "true_target": ["Mistress forgive them . They are of thy train , and they have asked me to plead for them , lest their too eager speech should lose for them the favor they desire .", "We honored thy sorrow , my Queen .", "But if thou hast need of any one to whisper to , in whose breast at the still evening-time to plunge thine overflowing soul \u2014 of anyone who if need were , could go for thee to her death as to a feast ,\u2014 thou knowest , dearest Queen , I am that one ! QueenYes , deep in my heart I know that thou art mine .But if it be death here for any human being , I am that one ! Anna GoldhairWhat troubles thee , beloved Lady ?"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 86}, {"query": ["What madness has so blurred events for thee ?", "Still , hast thou never come upon that knowledge , deep within thy heart , which tells thee how in everything that is and was and needs must be throughout our lives , a never expiated wrong must weigh us down ?", "Lady , I know not how I shall begin . The words come stumbling from my lips . Thou knowest how we love him , and how , since thou hast given him thyself , there is no single life but stands prepared to serve him without a thought of self . And how does he reward us ? He shuns our glance , a smouldering suspicion breaks out whenever we would speak in seriousness to him , and throws its shadows on us darkly . The people idolize him . They greet him , great and small , with clapping hands and waving kerchiefs ,\u2014 why must we stand aloof ? Is he ashamed of us ?\u2014 or of himself ? I know not . A mysterious sadness clouds his eye so falcon-bright , and even while our hearts still yearn upon him , he grows a stranger to us , who was never our friend .", "May this wisdom please the Omnipotent , and may he pity thee , and all of us !"], "true_target": ["And thy oath , Lady ?", "If that danger \u2014 QueenI see it , but I scarce can blame it . I blame no one . I have built for myself out of dreams and smiles a strong strong wall , outside of which you wait , thieves of my happiness \u2014 nay , my friend , look not so grieved !\u2014 and out of which you know not how to lure me , either by cunning or by clamor .", "Didst thou not swear before us all and in the sight of heaven that he who hurled his rival to the earth , not he who lay there shameful in defeat , might dare approach thee as thy lord and king ?", "No , my Lady . We heard his horn in the distance , but it died away again . I come before thee a gloomy messenger . In the great hall beyond there waits the council of the realm ....", "Here indeed he is , but with what right ?"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 86}, {"query": ["Still thou knowest this once he serves a righteous cause .", "My lord , while thou didst tread the forest paths , following the hunt , a fierce onslaught of new trouble came swooping down upon our land .", "This time \u2014 King\u201c This time \u201c \u2014 I wager the state will crack in pieces !If they had naught at which to fear , I should have naught at which to laugh !", "My lord , I speak \u2014 not trembling , for long necessity has wonted us to terrors as to daily bread \u2014 of the fate which I have long seen approaching , and which now stands thirsting for blood before us . Duke Widwolf \u2014 KingDuke Widwolf !"], "true_target": ["Is mustering an army ! KingWhat then ?", "He makes his boast that when the ice on the northern sea has turned to sheeted foam , he will descend with full a hundred ships and fall upon us like an avenging spirit .", "Thou hast seen no hatred in us . A reflection of thine own feeling has deluded thee .", "We rue it not , my King !", "Is not this realm , O King , forfeit to him as a reward of victory ?"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 87}, {"query": ["So piteously thou callest me , child ! Thus piteously stands thy image in my soul 's midst .", "Let the child be . I love him , thou knowest it . A little unwillingly , but what is that ? He is not of my blood .... Let be . Speak of thyself . With every word thou drawest a thorn out of my soul .", "The charm says it must be done alone .", "May the word choke thee ! As a reward of victory ? Oh , stands it so with you , my lords ? Do you stare at me ? What means the scorn that lurks in your eyes ? Have I been here too long ? Do you already rue your act ?", "And thus thou gavest me thy life , without condition or return ; and with sweet service snatched me from the grave . But when I was whole once more , I felt so confined within the hedge thy tenderness had built about me , so twined about with thy gentle arms , so dazed by weakness and by shame , that I seized eagerly , as on a penance , upon thy offered throne . My deed seems voluntary now , and like a weak submission to the fate that bore me , the faithless one , here to thy feet . Thou art no less than I its victim ,\u2014 then forgive me if for a moment I rebelled at the sight of my last hope strewn to the winds .", "My manhood ! Let it burn , child , let it burn ! While I sat piously amid thy flock , there came a flame of piety upon me , burning more fiercely than myself , and burned and burned , until I was consumed with piety .... But thou , woman , that thou mayst know how in this dark hour thou hast snatched the cup of freedom from my longing lips ,\u2014 I ask thee , woman , what have I done to thee ? What have I done , that thy love-longing \u2014 I will not mock , else I had said love-lust \u2014 should force me , who was naught to thee , to grovel in the dust here at thy feet ? Now hast thou what thou wilt . Here stands thy spouse , the second father of thy son ,\u2014 thy mock , thy love potion and thy sleeping-draught , catch-poll of the great , butt of the small , and to both a vent for every scorn . Yes , gaze upon me in my pride ! This am I , this hast thou made of me !\u2014 speak , then , and stand not staring into space ! Strike back , defend thyself ; that is the way with happy married folk .... Well ?", "The avenging spirit is a worthy part for him to play .", "A man ? A husband ! That is the word ! That is my office . And my virtue . Wouldst thou soar ? Then load a burden on thy back . Art thou hungry ? Then toss away thy food . Dost thou hear thy heart clamor within thee after freedom ? Seek a prison , and lay thee down therein .", "Yield thyself , thou sayest . Belie thyself ,\u2014 it is the same . To me it is a polished farce , at which I play and play and play myself quite out , entangled sleepily in fog and mist . But sometimes comes a wandering south wind , and plays faintly with its wings upon my wearied soul , striking vague and half-audible dream tones .", "Look , what thou givest , thou Lady Bountiful , is not thine to give . But thou hast given so freely of thy kindness , that at thy words something like happiness itself flowers out of black necessity itself , whose slave I am . I may not be free in very truth ; but thou hast so generously hidden my chains , so mercifully forborne all blame of my weak struggle for self-redemption , that freedom 's self seems near . I welcome her , and feel new blood course through my tainted and empoverished frame .", "Perhaps ! It may be ! But can I learn to hope again ? I went forth a conqueror ; joyous self-confidence was my companion on the way \u2014 my bright horizon stretched itself to the boundless heavens . And now ? I wear a sickly crown , which did not fall to me as victor , but fell upon me as I fell myself ; and this fall has so sweated it to me that neither help of hands nor curses , but only death itself can tear it from my head .", "Hush ! It makes me glow with anger , only to look upon these gray countenances , gloomy as the grave , full of foreboding , heavy with woes , and yet with that little glint of malice in their half-lowered lids . Must I suck in these complaints that fall drop by drop upon me ? I might lay about me recklessly \u2014 but what am I to dare it ?", "I am smiling .", "Say yes , say yes ! Why so much pains with one who lay in the dust , whom you so mercifully raised up that everyone might value me as he chose , not as he must ? Was it that I should fawn upon you , stroke and caress and flatter you , and die , instead of that one death I owed you , a thousand daily deaths ?", "Thy name is Anna with the golden hair ? Anna GoldhairThey call me Goldhair \u2014 but \u2014", "Yes , for his own , not for a stranger 's .", "Let it be , it is true .Come here ! The Young Prince . Yes , father .", "I \u2014 call thee ?... But hush !... No , nothing , nothing ! No shadow climbs the starred blue sky ... no light ... only the moon laughs in the green water , and laughs ... and laughs .... The world is drained quite empty . Thou hast done well , Maria ... thou holdest thy watch faithfully . No spy could have done better .", "King am I ? Wilt thou mock me ? Dost thou think I am so besotted as not to know my state ? Yea , I might be king , were not the youth already ripening to maturity for whom I guard his throne from harm until he occupies it !", "Trouble , always trouble ! Mouldy , gray and blear , it lives far longer than one 's whole life ! Must you , even in the daytime , din your night-song in my ears ?", "The Young Prince", "Hark ! What is that ? Some one is singing . How their voices exult together , as if they mocked the sound !... The air thrills as with the tremulousness of virgin bells on Sunday from a far-off lonely height . QueenAre they not fair , thy singing land , thy moonlit house ?", "Hate her ? Her \u2014 from whose soul a mildness like honey drops on mine ? Her , in whose golden beauty the loveliness about her pales to a shadow ? If I knew a blot which she had hidden from me , a single grain of dust upon the mirror of her soul , a single pretext however bald or hollow , then I should have a weapon with which to pierce my shame , to free me from this need of speaking out my humility \u2014 oh , might I hate her , my God , it would be well for me ! But at that glance of sorrowing goodness with which she smiles on all our faults , all trace of defiant courage dies in me , and I am weaponless because she is .", "I will employ this hour of rest , while they dance there beneath the birches , to set the charm to work , and call my long-dead happiness as guest . Now go !", "Well , then ?", "Good night !", "Danger \u2014 for whom ?", "\u201c Alone in the dying glow , she must wander by night and appear before thee . \u201d", "Art thou still awake , my son ? The Voice of the Young Prince . Papa , may I come in ?"], "true_target": ["So then .Now calm , quite calm ! The Young PrinceHans , did they shoot much ?", "No one shall speak of them ,\u2014 neither I nor thou . The door is closed upon the past . All is done , is spent , and these feathers are nothing but a mark of my violent downfall , a monument to my dead longing .", "Well ?", "Well , my wife ?", "Here ?", "Very fine ! Quite beautiful ! Accept my thanks ! Hans ! Come here and tell me what thou sayest to all this . Hans LorbassLord Chancellor and Lord House Marshal , you nobles , councillors , and wise men all , who let yourselves be plagued with doubts like flea-bites ,\u2014 if you permit it I will say one thing to you : between sin and punishment , between right and wrong , between hate and love , and good and bad , between sand and sea , and swamp and stone , between flesh of women and dead men 's bones , between desire and possession , between field and furrow ,\u2014 he goes , a man of men , straight through ,\u2014 looking to neither right nor left ! KingGood words , for which we shall reward him . Yes , if you all thought with him , then I might bravely , out of the fulness of \u2014 Enough ! We each do what befits us and what it was decreed that we should do . We can no more . Time came upon us undesired and unasked ,\u2014 even to-day . Each of us drags listlessly our weight of humanity unto the grave . Farewell my lords .... Lay by your letters . I will prove , as it stands I will \u2014 Yes , and give your wisdom air , my dear friends , for it grows musty !Hans , stay !", "Come back ! Let the curtain fall ! Give me thy hand , and I will drink therefrom a draught of deep forgetfulness . Lay it upon my burning forehead , ah , so coolingly ! So rests the snow upon the slopes in my childhood 's home .... My home ... what is it to me now ?... A balmy wind blows over me ... it rises from a blue flower-besprinkled spot , far , far away , where happiness begins ... it seems so very long . I have not slept . I think ...QueenI hold thee to my breast , beloved prisoner ; at this hour thou art mine , even if tomorrow thou wouldst tread me in the dust . Until tomorrow is a long respite , to have thee and to hold thee , to give to thee a thousand golden gifts \u2014 if thou desirest them . How many joyous fountains might leap to the light of day from their deep sleep in my heart 's depths . Alas that no word breaks their enchantment ! They must sink back again from whence they came . Never will sunshine build its seven-hued bridge between my dream and the reality , between to-day and happiness . Thou wilt go from me , I must see but cannot hinder it ; but tonight thou still art mine ,\u2014 I may protect the slumber of my sleeping child .", "That he is . Yes .", "Thou wouldst still have come , to see that no thief was gliding up the steps of thy thronealone , alas , alone \u2014 a thief of fortune , such as pious women like thyself , whose longings form but to be granted , brew spectre-like in their porridge pots . Wouldst thou not ?", "What sayest thou ?", "Listen ! If thou hast that in thee that seethes and bubbles and strives to burst out , then smother it ! When others take to themselves the cream from off thy cup of life , do not curse and slay them ! Smile and be calm ,\u2014 quite calm , there still remains in my breast , I fear , a little of that former passion and unrest ; I will employ it to shield this calmness of thine . The Young Prince . Have I been bad , father ? When thou lookest at me so , I am afraid .", "Hast thou forgot what else she said ?", "Papa , papa !", "No statue stands in the cathedral gates as stony as thou art . Hatred grazes thee , envy seeks to belittle thy worth . But thou smilest not . Thou movest in silent resignation , so tense , so ... Say , how canst thou ?", "Hast called me ? Was that it ? I knew it well .", "And thee , my wife ,\u2014 forgive ! I look at thee and know that thou hast long hung in imploring anguish on my neck ; it shames me , for see , I love thee ! QueenI love thee . The Voice of the Young Prince . Papa .", "Say naught ! A man may wear his shame , may panting draw it draggled after him , and yet in spite of it he can hunger , thirst , and draw his sword . But when he must say to himself besides : thou hast squandered thy own happiness in shameful dalliance ,\u2014 to whom then , dare he show his face ? Yes , thou canst do all !... Yet one thing thou canst not do : thou never canst give back to the world its face of bloom . The great festal day that lay red and golden over all the earth , on which I closed my eyes when I lay down to rest , which roused me to joyous labor with its fanfare , which cast on toil itself a glorious light ,\u2014 that , thou canst never bring back to me . Never .... Never again . The spring-time gleams to-day in vain . In vain the blossoms crowd to show their splendor to me , in vain do autumn 's golden apples bow to my hand . Another hand will pluck them , while I descend my narrow path , hedged in with poverty , weighed down with despair , shut in with duties as with graves , and see my own grave stretched across the end . Thus I go on and on , so quietly ,\u2014 yet all the time I stifle in my throat a cry , a shriek ,\u2014 oh , save me from my daily burden , friend ! HansA last hope ,\u2014 but dare I venture it ? I must . Lest he languish and slip hither beneath my eye .Master , if thou cherishest a grief , thou hast then forgot the talisman \u2014", "Come here ! Come to me ! Sit down \u2014 nay , here !... How strange it is ! I thought to flee before thee , and only fled with all my pain straight to thy arms .", "To beg their bread ? Thou knowest that in this whole kingdom of which I am king , there is not a single crust of bread , not a rag , that I may call my own . It is all his .", "Shall I be free , Maria ?", "Thou mayst .", "Perhaps .", "Suppose she should come now and vanish again ?", "Is that the reason ?", "The what ? Hans LorbassThe feathers thou didst once possess . KingBe still .", "Ask thyself what it means \u2014 my hand stretched forth shall bless her \u2014 if I have and hold her ? Would fate withdraw her gift a second time and leave me no security ? Does a new misery lie in wait behind the dark disguise of these words ? Thus I have delayed the deed , hoping I might be new-redeemed , by my own strength , without the laming weakness of enchantment , to see and win the woman of whom my soul has dreamed . All that is past .... The broken pinion can no longer unfurl itself ....I hear laughter outside . What is it ? Hans LorbassOnly our maidens , who sport outside , modest and chaste as their land 's innocence .", "My boy , didst thou do well to leave thy bed and run with such haste to thy playfellow ?", "Be still , I tell thee , churl ! Hans LorbassCursed be the churl that dog-like yields himself to thee . Yet I will be thy dog , that I may howl , for at least I have that right .", "No ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 87}, {"query": ["I thy wife ?", "Thou lookest at me so earnestly .", "Witte , Witte !", "Free ; and more than that ; thou shalt be happy . I shall know thee so glad , so radiant , so buoyantly poised heaven-high above all black necessity , whether here or far away , so unfalteringly turned toward the light upon the eagle wing of thy desire , that a reflection of thy radiance shall laugh into my lonely darkness . KingListen , Maria ! Should I say : I thank thee ,\u2014 how raw \u2018 twould sound !... And yet I feel thy meaning ; as I drank in thy words , there slipped away and fell from my breast a ... Maria , thou art weeping ! QueenWhat slipped away , what fell ? Thou art silent again .", "I thought that he was dear to thee .", "And if thou hadst not called \u2014", "Yet sorrow looks from all thy features . My friend , I fear that thou canst never learn to yield thyself up to this country .", "We sit here hand in hand , and , third in our company sits misery . KingNay , if a man has found a friend whose voice is gentle , whose soul speaks harmony and keeps sweet accord with his in that holy hour which turns our griefs to calm , whose love rings true in sorrow and in joy ,\u2014 such a man is far from deepest misery .", "I cannot find the key that harmonizes with thy mood ; though once I knew how to resolve into harmony all the dissonance in the world . Perhaps the knowledge will come back again .", "He begged me , and I let him .", "Thou speakest so gently now , and yet thou couldst speak so cruelly before ! Nay , I mean no reproach , no blame . I have hung so long upon the hope of being thy happiness , that even the smallest change upon thy face has become to me a consciousness of some fault of mine . And when I saw a laugh in thine eye , a smile , or even a single friendly beam , the whole broad world lay straightway in sunshine . Yet do not tell me that I am too fond . It is not that ... or only a very , very little . For look , I have a child ; and my heart has the same gift for him . Thou canst believe there was a struggle there . And just because I yearned for thee so deeply , there fell a shadow over thine ... it was the child 's !", "I came because thou \u2014", "Witte , Witte !"], "true_target": ["Why should I judge thee , and not rather love ? For why else am", "For God 's sake , what burns there ?", "How many times hast thou beguiled the time in play and frolic with him , at all the little dreams that make his . Thou hast poured into his the strength of thy own soul .", "Thou torturest thyself .", "No more .", "What shall I say ? Am I so powerful , then ? And yet \u2014 I am ! Thou gavest my power to me ! Nay , before that \u2014 I learned it from a gray-haired man . Still half a child , I owed my love to him ; and gave it , though as yet I knew not how to love .", "It is past . It must be past . Alas , how many a night have I pictured myself thy happiness , thy refuge , thy solace ,\u2014 oh , pardon me ! I had so much love to give to thee , so wholly lay my trembling soul within thy hand , such streams of light and glory leaped and played about me ,\u2014 how could I know that what was so precious and so dear to me was naught at all to thee ? Now I know how I have deceived myself ; it grieves me sorely , and for many a year must I endure and sorrow . But to thee I grant the one gift left for me to give ,\u2014 thy freedom . Take it , but ah , believe , I love thee !", "So shouldst thou ! And so long as thou needest me , so long will I be at thy side .... But when thou sayest : \u201c Enough ! I ride abroad to seek my happiness , \u201d then all silently will I vanish from thy path .", "Come ! The Young Prince . The father is angry .", "And good night !", "All art thou , all darest thou , all hearts bow before thee ! Canst thou not guess their dumb entreaties , not understand their timid longings ? Look , they give thee so much , they give with open hands ; their love enfolds thee , blooms everywhere for thee to pluck ! Go down among them , then , step into their hearts , and speak , I beg thee , graciously and kindly . KingI will try , thanks to thee ! Speak , as thou knowest me : why does this anger and this curse fall daily and hourly over me ? My friends , mislike me not for my impatience , for one thing I know right well , that I stand deeply in your debt . And now , speak !", "Dear one \u2014!", "The father jests . The Young Prince . Good night !"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 87}, {"query": ["Why hast thou when so devil-ridden , not yielded to the strain ?", "What is in thy head ?", "Thou knowest , master , danger often comes from business such as this .", "Then get some of thy own .", "Where else ? I trust in the charm thou hast wrung from the witch-wife . I remember it well .\u201c The first of the feathers \u201d \u2014 no , it is burned .\u201c The second feather , mark it well , shall bring her to thee in love ; for when thou \u2014 burnest \u2014 it \u201d \u2014", "What she said \u2014 she spoke of the third feather . King\u201c Until the third has perished in the flame , thy hand stretched forth shall bless her \u201d \u2014 Hans Lorbass\u201c but the third burning brings her death \u201d \u2014", "Dost thou hate her so ?", "Well then ! I will hold a watch outside .The KingThe fire dies down ? Then thou canst strive to brighten it , as thou hast the flames of my will .... Too late ! Naught but this lazy , luke-warm heap of sodden ashes . What is to be done now ?\u2014 The torch , a-flicker there ! Though thy dim mocking glimmer has often frightened me in the forest it smiles alluringly at me now . And look , above , the parchments which so long have made my life a hell \u2014 now I know how to use you ! Out of the paper sorrows of my country I will kindle for myself a glad new morning ,\u2014 a new sun shall rise for me in their light !And now !KingWhat wilt thou here ? QueenDidst thou not call ?", "Since thou still wearest them on thy heart , why \u2014", "But why ?"], "true_target": ["Let me stay with thee ! Crouched in the farthest corner \u2014", "It is dead , then ? It lives and cries aloud ,\u2014 so loud that even the deaf could hear ! Have courage , wield the magic power , and call thy unknown bride to thee .", "Then come , escape ! KingTrue , the door stands open .", "And when we have once passed the border , thou canst learn to forget .", "A servant has no choice . Else had I torn from off its nail my spear which the worms are conquering , burnished my shield and mail , and with a shout of righteous anger which has gnawed its chain for years , I would leap forth \u2014 where ? Thou knowest , master ! KingWhat use ? He serves a righteous cause .", "Well ? KingThe thought thou hast thrown out in faring jest , has lain a last hope , deep within my hearts shrinking depths .", "Master , I will not look longer upon this farce ! Lay about thee , kindle flames , slay , torture , make a harvest of the people ,\u2014 but laugh and feel thyself a man once more !", "I serve .", "Well , at least thou hast it ; thou hast a crown , thou art king .", "But every man holds what he has and hopes to have , in security , in pawn , as it were , for his children ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 87}, {"query": ["Pah !\u2014 We !", "And still it grips me cruelly hard . The Young Prince . What is it thou grumblest in thy beard ? Come , let us fight .", "What signal ? The Young Prince . For the attack ?", "If I were a man !", "About the father . The Young Prince . Listen ! One night , quite lately , when I had been a little while in my bed , and was all alone , only think !\u2014 he came very softly within my chamber . I was afraid , because I had not seen him in so long , and all the people said : \u201c The King is wicked . \u201d But he stood there before my bed and looked at me ,\u2014 Hans , what is all that noise ?", "How was he before that ?", "Come here ! The Young Prince . I am not afraid .Just think , the people say the father hates me . I believe it not . Whatever he should do , I know right well he loves me ,\u2014 even as much as thou , my Hans .", "How dost thou know ? The Young Prince . What , Hans ?", "Give me a light . Anna GoldhairHans !", "We are attacked . The Duke has surrounded the castle by night with a thousand men . The battering-ram and beam had even begun their cursed work , when suddenly there came a lull , and by the glow of torches we saw upon the plain a white flag held aloft upon a lance-point . We held communication a spear 's length from the camp . There he stood , murder in his glance , and there stood Skoell and Gylf , and all the other vermin that have crawled to his feet ; and he rolled his eyes , gnashing his teeth like a nut-cracker \u2014 Heaven send we 're not the nut !", "Gabble or not , as thou choosest . Dost thou think the slime out of thy old mouth can make him slippery enough to \u2014", "Well then . The Young Prince . But he left it there ! Hans LorbassTo take it up again .The Young Prince . Wait ! I will kill thee !Hans LorbassThe fiend torment \u2014 The Young Prince . Thou bleedest \u2014 O me !", "Yes . For the attack and \u2014", "Thou knowest who alone may carry that ? The Young Prince . The King .", "Come here ! The Young Prince . Why dost thou look at me so sternly ? Just like the father .... Wouldst thou strike me ? No , thou shalt not .... I am a king 's son .", "Master .", "Is he asleep somewhere ?", "Well then , if that should disappear that stands in thy way ?Then wouldst thou take thy sword in both thy hands and storm exulting on the foe ?... Well ?", "Wha \u2014? Why ? His sick desires , his failing deeds , the dreams that mock his brain , that make the right seem wrong ,\u2014 if he might see a wish of his become a fact , as if by magic power , perhaps that knowledge of renewed strength might scatter his gloom to its accursed source and set him free . Now show thy worth and bleed here quietly on my breast \u2014 what dost thou there ! The Young PrinceI am learning to carry the King 's sword . Forward ! Hasten , the foe will come ! Very well . Then I shall be the victor .", "Let us fight , child ! If thou knewest how to fight indeed ! The Young Prince . How strange thou art to-day ? Say , Hans , is it true that a cruel enemy stands before the gate ?", "With him by the hand I would sit there on the landing and hold watch till he came down .", "Yes . Then what if I knew how to goad him into harness , so that even before the hour had struck , he had the Bastard by the throat with your all-avenging sword ?", "Quite true . The Young Prince . Will he come inside ?", "The Young Prince . What happiness ! Is it not , Hans ! If I were grown !", "Well ?", "Very soon . The Young Prince . Oh , that is splendid ! And why did the father go up to his tower ?", "Queens are no friends of thine ; the women will have none of thee now . Thou'dst best befriend thyself , and be thine own queen .KingWhen I was yet a little boy I loved to put my ear down to the earth and shudder at the danger coming toward me in the thunder of the horses \u2019 hoofs . Even so now , the voice of the north wind wails aloud in the chimney how grim-visored death stands threatening upon my outer wall .... Was it for this the sea once rolled in music to my feet , for this my drawn sword thrilled in my hand , for this a woman beckoned me from out the clouds ,\u2014 that here in this corner my young and lusty body should rot away to naught ? Patience yet ! I know my revenge ! Though every broil burst out here , though my life itself were forfeit , though I became a very brute , scurvy and bleeding , goaded to despair , yet justice should be done ! Only wait ! I will die right joyfully , but fight \u2014 I will not .What , Goldhair , thou awake ? Come here !\u2014 Come , I command thee ! Thou wast no joyous guest at the feast , I warrant . Nor I .... Do not speak , Goldhair .... Hush ! Lest they believe I vaunt my sin . But then , what they believe is naught to me . Come , give me thy hand . Thou art fettered to me ,\u2014 yet thou wast only a plaything , only a splinter of glass wherein I saw my image , only the last string of a broken lute .... Lean down . I will entrust something to thy care : here , under my doeskin corselet I carry a treasure . It is not much to see , neither gold nor precious stone ,\u2014 only a feather . I won it once , it was a prize ,\u2014 that was long since .... Enough , that it was precious to me . If I should come to harm to-day , take it and throw it in the fire . Wilt thou ?"], "true_target": ["Until the drums sound the attack . The Young Prince . Soon ?", "The very weakness of this child avenges itself in death . The Young Prince . Wilt thou not scold me !Take my kerchief ,\u2014 ah , please ! Wrap it about thy hand . Quick !", "A respite until day-break , in which time to yield thyself and me into his hands .", "Shall I ?", "Wilt thou come back ?", "Master !... No answer .", "Though his people offer themselves to the sword for him .", "Not yet . Before long . The Young Prince . How long ?", "And to-night \u2014 which way did he go ?", "Then , Major-domo ,\u2014 that is my affair .", "Where have the women gone , then ,\u2014 those wanton flaunting blossoms of his ?", "Then \u2014", "Thy good angel put the words into thy mouth ! Could he do so , my little man , then \u2018 twas a fever in his blood that spoke to-day ,\u2014 no hate of thee !... It seems as though thou wert even dearer to me now ,\u2014 and yet my thoughts have scarce deserved it .Now let me , let ... There below they call upon thy father , and he ... I have it ! I will take thee in my arms and show thee to the leaderless throng below , him who shall lead them when his form rears itself kinglike and his brow darkens . Come then ! Friend , if thy King fights not for thee to-day , then fight thou for thy King !", "What ? All empty ?... Thou shadow there , give answer what thou art . What , Goldhair , thou ? Asleep here on the stones ? Where is the King ?... The King , where is he ? Anna GoldhairI do not know .", "The people will fight .", "Put it down ! The Young Prince . Oh-oo ! That is sharp !", "And before the door , the foe .", "If not ? He swore ,\u2014 and here his spleen burst out \u2014 that let a single sword be raised against him , a single spear be laid in rest , and he would hang and quarter every living , breathing thing , without mercy . This he calls choking rebellion in the seed .", "Like their King himself .", "Much thanks .I do not want her . Take her with thee .", "If through some chance , quite unforseen , this land should all at once become thine own , entirely thine ? KingWhat dost thou mean ?", "Hasten ,\u2014 thou knowest not what it means to thee ! The Young Prince . And looked at me so stern and wild that I was frightened and pretended that I slept . Then he leaned over me , so low that I had nearly died of fright , and then ,\u2014 only think , my Hansel ,\u2014 he kissed me . Here on my forehead , on my hair and both my cheeks , and then very softly went away .", "Is it intended for a sign to me to turn back in my path ? The wish was there , but who knows when he cherished it , whether he was not so rent by torment , so quite unmanned as to harbor a thought that sprang therefrom ? He must ... Yea , and I must . The hour will slip away ....Hark , hark ! There it is ,\u2014 the time has come .Again ! The Young Prince . Is that the signal ?", "Because ... If I knew whether this young blood would be poured out in vain . To every foulness God created he has given a tongue to shriek : \u201c Behold my purpose ! \u201d And such a deed as this to-day ... but no ! \u201c If thou wert not ! \u201d The Young Prince . If I were not ,\u2014 what then ?", "Put it down ! The Young Prince . Ah , no !", "Yes . But I need the Prince .", "If I choose to cry him down , why it is my affair . I advise thee , old man , to let it be ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 88}, {"query": ["Since he so far betrayed morality as to draw to his lustful embraces the young maid with the golden hair , even from the very feet of his most virtuous spouse , it has gone ill with him and us . For half a year this shameless wanton bond has blazoned itself beneath this roof .", "Nay , with her thou canst have no concern . Thou knowest to whom thy mother sent thee , and what she graved so deep upon thy heart . The Young PrinceMy mother called me very early , and bid me come to thee before my breakfast with Uncle Coelestin , and kneel down here before thee , and ask thee \u2014 something ,\u2014 I forget .", "As to appease thy long-cherished revenge by scornful laughter in their hour of need , yet one thing I shall never think , sir King ,\u2014 that thou wilt yield without a struggle , and give up thy weaponless body to the slaughter .", "Have I ever yet mingled with the crowd that boldly raise their heads against him ? But now the foe hangs at our very heels ,\u2014 and he , instead of showing fist in need , buries a thorn in our own flesh ;\u2014 must I still be silent ?", "And may God bless thee in thy task .", "His lair is empty . The hall seems forsaken . Nothing , but the sighing of the autumn wind . Not even a trace of the women that herd with him .", "All my strength is broken against this madness , which destroys itself .... And the hour presses .... What can I do ? The crowd shrieks lamentations in my ear . Kneel down , my child , stretch out thy arms ,\u2014 perhaps , that silent picture will reach this heart .", "And then ?", "Good ! Though thou so hatest thy people \u2014", "Hark !The morning signal of the foe ! Hans LorbassCome , mighty hour !"], "true_target": ["It would be possible ? Thou couldst ?", "There is one way ... some one might ... with more influence than I ... seek out the King and fetch him here . The tardy day still lies in heavy sleep . . wilt thou go ?", "The Princeling ,\u2014 why ?", "The Queen left him in my care . But I know , Hans Lorbass that thou lovest him . Wilt thou , my little Prince ? The Young Prince . Dost thou ask me ? I love to stay with him ,\u2014 he teaches me to fight .", "Spare me thy plaints .... Well , wait , I will hide thee here behind the curtains of the door ; stay there , and do not move , and when she goes to the cathedral \u2014 come , come !Hans LorbassMy Prince ! The Young PrinceMy Hans !", "Then , my lord , according to the measure of my wisdom I must speak here for this child , who in his innocence cannot comprehend how basely thou hast forsaken thy people . I must embolden myself to speak a last warning to thee . I speak not of the sins that now already weigh thee down : eternal God shall judge them , for thou mayst not sin and not atone . But even now thy spirit , corroded with rancorous spite , hast turned the edge of our ancestral sword against thy honor and thy manhood . Lo , there it glistens in thy burning grasp ; and to that all-avenging sword I make my prayer : to the arm where still resides our safety : to the eyes from which looks out an unquenched thirst of fighting : that thou wilt lead to victory thy broken people , who surround the tower and call upon thee in their need .", "My Prince , my little Prince !", "Good !I am cold .", "Come , poor wench . The Young Prince . May Anna stay here , too ?", "Good reason for it .", "We are to suffer for his sins ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 88}, {"query": ["His greeting long since stiffened into silence and sternness . All night long his feet have wandered up and down the echoing passages .", "Hans \u2014 dost thou know what the Queen says of me ?", "He sprang up from the table to-night and drove them out with scourging ."], "true_target": ["Yes , sire .", "No .", "Oh , Coelestin , if I could hide somewhere , and see my dear Queen pass by just once !"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 88}, {"query": ["Silence , silence ! Thou knowest I have quenched the last embers of my desires . Thinkest thou to kindle a new blaze thereon by victory and sin ? A fire must run from heaven , must mount from hell , to light a new life in my fading course . A thing of horror must first come to pass ; whence it came would be as naught to me , if it could but rise wonder-like upon my sight . Alas , from out these ashes no miracle can rise for me ! I can no longer hope and struggle .... The door stands open to the upper room .... Once more I mount up to the height , once more behold the gray dawn turn to gold in rosy glory \u2014", "Will fight ? Will fight ? This flock of nestlings , lacking in every sort of strength , inspired by no courage-breeding fire , wanting in power , in discipline ,\u2014", "Nay , didst thou not think so ? I \u2014Away with the child !\u2014 I must die !Hans Lorbass\u201c A thing of horror must first come to pass . \u201d And then , \u201c If I might strike a blow for my own throne . \u201d \u201c If thou wert not . \u201d And looked at him with such eyes !\u2014 Coelestin , if I had something to ask \u2014 thou knowest , perhaps , the King will yield to me \u2014 more than \u2014 in short , I am beloved by him \u2014", "Like their King himself . Quite true . The shadow of a King , set on the throne by woman 's love , is not the man to lead a forlorn hope .", "I thank thee .Why dost thou shroud thy pretty hair with a grey veil ? It is still golden . Dost thou thus seek to shroud dreams of the past ? What look'st thou at so ?Is thy sorrow for thy Queen .", "And if ?", "The sword that I unthinking raised \u2014 led thereto by occasion only \u2014 I will lay down still clean . Thou callest it the all-avenging ; and it shall win that praise itself . Let the foe mow you down in sheaves , it shall be naught to me ,\u2014 it comes too late .", "Me , Hans , and alone . Hans Lorbass And if they yield he will allow his heart to melt with pity ; he will butter on both sides the bread of all the people who will shout for him . That is his way ; all innocence , like the rest of us .", "I understand thee not .", "If \u2014 what ?"], "true_target": ["What can I otherwise ? In whose blood shall I dip this body to make it consecrate ? With what right shall I plunge this sword into fiery service ? He who stands without there serves a righteous cause . So sayest thou . The Chancellor , likewise . You all agree . Therefore I counsel thee : be wise , rescue your country and make clean your house . There is still time ... the storm yet lulls . The Duke has need of me ; deliver me to him .", "Thou , Hans , here in my tower , which thou hast so avoided ? What brings thee here ?", "What offer did he make ?", "Then cease thy grief ... methinks the sword already clangs without to bring thee peace .", "Take care ; I have outgrown thy scorn .CoelestinOpen the door for the King 's son .", "I hate ye not .", "And what was the decision of the people ?", "Well ?", "Thou must . This house is his ; and if he chose to , he could drive me hence .The Young PrinceAnna ! Ah , Anna , art thou here ? The mother told me thou wast dead . Say . Anna , art thou vexed with me ? I eat my supper all alone , I say my prayers and go to bed all alone . I sing alone , I play alone ,\u2014 and oh , the mother weeps so much ! They said my father had been cruel to her ,\u2014 how sorry he would be to see her weep ! Anna , dear Anna , come and help us , for we are so sad !", "What now ?", "Stand up . . . Come here . . . Thou hast stood in my way , and yet I loved thee . A madness , an absurdity !Suppose : if thou wert not ,\u2014 if in this coming hour I might but strike a blow for my own throne .... Where now ? The young PrinceI am afraid . Hans LorbassThere is the pinch .And if \u2014 -"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 88}, {"query": ["Away , lest the Queen see thee ! Out of the way , wench ! QueenWho \u2014?Much evil has come upon us both ; therefore be it unto thee according to thy sorrow , not according to thy deed .ChancellorSend above to the King straightway . I cannot yet forbear to hope that when he \u2014 dost thou hear ? CoelestinWhere is the Prince ? Murmur of Voices . The King comes .KingWhy do ye stand there so amazed ? Do ye not know me ? I am he , your King , your much-loved King , he with whose hero-tread treason has entered in your flock , into your hearts . QueenMy King ! KingThou ! Thou hast come here ,\u2014 into this den where lust holds sway ? Burst open all the windows wide ! Perfume the air with fine resin ! Fetch sage and thyme and peppermint , that the fumes of this place may not attaint her breath ! Hasten ! Faded and withered , let them \u2014 CoelestinMy lord , where hast thou left the Prince ?"], "true_target": ["A second time thou turnest thy happiness and ours to lamentation ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 89}, {"query": ["An hour since was this blade still clean .... I seemed too great \u2014 nay , nay , too small \u2014 to wield it ; doubted and cursed myself and you and all the world . And yet defiance still blazed high in me ; I could be a warrior , perhaps a hero , and knew it not ... ah , cursed fool !... Now I gaze in envy at that man , could even kiss his feet , who with accusing conscience and hand yet free from blood-guiltiness , stood a transgressor here within this hall . O were this sword still clean , how might I wield it ! What miracles exultingly perform ! But for me now no saving miracle can come to pass ...Two NoblesGod be merciful ! Fly !\u2014 Save yourselves !Hans LorbassHere \u2014 take the child ! The foe is close at hand \u2014 within the court ! KingMy miracle !", "Farewell .", "Ha ! The angel of destruction broods over us .... Where is thy child ? Where is thy child ?", "What ? Who ? The \u2014 the \u2014 am I the Prince 's keeper ?", "Stay ! Let not a poisoned word pollute this moment , for now at last the riddling clouds of fate prepare to fall . I may slip the fetters from my body , which weakness , shame , unwilling gratitude , sorrow , and mistaken kindnesses , combined to weave about me . I dare to speak , for now the sword has freed me .... For that I have shrunk from thee , my wife , forgive me . Didst thou know how shudderingly I sent myself into an exile of inexpiable guilt ! From thence I now return , love-empty ; and still the harmony of thy grace , the breath of thy self-forgetful love , wafts like a summer breeze about my head , heavy with blessings . Yes , if I dared to stay , how much of all I have ... Hush !... I know not the path that I must choose . I only know the end . I only know that faint and far away there sounds a voice reproaching my delay . It calls me back into the eternal gray ,\u2014 that boundless country where thy blessing ends , where no guiding star rises to lead me on . Farewell . Forgive me if thou canst . If not ... I know no word to say that can lift the load of guilt from off my soul .... I must endure and bear it with me silently .", "Believest thou also that miracles still come to pass ?"], "true_target": ["Then \u2014Blood ! There is blood on it ! Coelestine ! Approach , lean down . Nearer . Thou hast asked me just now , only in pretence , where I ... I ask thee , with whom hast thou left the Prince ?", "Thinkest thou ?... Still ?... And that this hand is worthy , too , to raise it ?", "Thou art wrong , my friend . The door \u2014 fling open !KingTo me , man of the righteous cause !KingOn your knees .KingCarry this man 's body outside the door .... Let everyone submit himself unto the peace of God , which henceforth only he who courts his death will violate . Before we part , I will come down to you , and under the free air of heaven I , your Duke , will receive your oath and your allegiance . Away !Hans LorbassWho has it now , thou clown ? ChancellorMy gracious Lord and King , I would say : Forgive us , but the strength of all our words must break against thy glorious victory . I only say : We are returned to thee . No reproaches or regrets shall cheapen our return ; we only askthat honor be spared , and once again , after the cruel conflict of to-day , we offer thee our country 's throne in faith and loyalty .", "Yes ?... It is well .... See how the red shines bright on the gray steel ! The life that coursed within this blade cannot die \u2014 it lives \u2014 it lives and drags me down , a death-devoted man , unto a doubly shameful end . ChancellorSpeak again before this madness gains upon him !", "Alone ?", "I thank you noble lords , and put it from me ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 89}, {"query": ["Stoop to it . It is worth the stooping for .", "I believe in thee .", "Nay , my friend .... If thou hast laden thy life with guilt so heavily , then must thou give me of thy burden a share to bear . I think that all we leave unspoken to-day will burn our souls forever ; and therefore I make free confession : I have failed thee sorely . I saw thy misery , I saw the torture growing on thy pale brow , and yet I had but one thought ; one alone ; how to beguile him from that path on which his soul delays and hesitates , but whither his stumbling feet turn of themselves ,\u2014 that he might leave me never again , whether in love or hate ... this was my thought ... and as a bridal pair stand at the altar and exchange their rings , while the deep church-bells lull them into a smiling dream , so we in parting near each other , and offer , smiling , guilt for guilt .KingI thank thee . The Young PrincePapa ! KingThou too , my son ! Come here ! I made thee poor return \u2014 and had he notknown me better than I myself ... give him thy hand ; for thanks to him , I lay down undefiled this borrowed sword .Hans !"], "true_target": ["My King , the battle rages now already about the castle walls . The door still holds . The people wait , counting their heart-throbs till thou comest , trusting in thee still . There is yet time . There lies the kingly sword and waits for thee . KingIf Hans understood me rightly \u2014", "I know that he is safe , for the most faithful of the faithful guards him . Think of thyself and of thy sword .", "I trust in it as in immortal life .", "My King ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 89}, {"query": ["Alone ."], "true_target": ["Hans Lorbass was with him ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 89}, {"query": ["If you would save yourself , barricade this door , strengthen it ten-fold with beams , break off stones from the roof , roll them down and heap them up \u2014"], "true_target": ["Here , master !"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 89}, {"query": ["Yes , my lord .CoelestinAnd thou , Miklas , tell us thy story again and on thy faith . It was last night the strangers knocked at thy door ?"], "true_target": ["This is the place , my lord . CoelestinI thank thee , friend ! That is the tower ? FishermanAnd above it cross on cross ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 90}, {"query": ["Thinkest thou thy son \u2014?", "My eyes have failed me a little , else I might .My God , if it were they ! If the evening of my life might shine so clear that before I closed my eyes in death they might rest upon the Queen , their heart , their light , pleasured in happiness without alloy ! At such a sight I think I could not die .... Come , come ! Let us announce what we have seen ; then may that bond once so shamefully severed in wrong and need , be solemnly renewed , before we turn our joyous bark toward home . Come , come !Hans LorbassThere , take it , rascal , it is the last ! And leave !The clown has led us twelve whole hours without a path through bushes and morass . He knew well enough why he did it !", "Let me rest a little , I am dizzy . The way hither was hard . Yet I rejoice to know that worn-out as I am , I still may serve our young Prince . And more than him , our dear and holy lady , our Queen . Else surely I had \u2014 remained at home . FishermanThe tower seems empty . The door is barred . There was a storm quite late .... Who knows where she wanders now , scouting for new graves .", "She has gone , and I , the shadow of a shadow , stay behind . The MenHis is the blame ! Tear him from off her body !Hans LorbassAway there !Burial-wife . Children , cease your strife ! Can you not see his spirit wanders far ? He is wrapped about with the whisperings of eternity . The message of death is on the way , the stone of sacrifice doth reek for blood . Long has this man belonged to me ; and now \u2014\u2014 I come into my own .Hans LorbassMaster , master ! Burial-wife . Thus from lust and guilt and sorrow have I cleansed his soul . To both of them it shall be as though they had not been . Wrap them about with linen , bear them to my dark abode ; then go in silent thought from hence , for my work is done . Hans LorbassMine must begin anew . How gladly have I ever braved fresh dangers as my darling 's slave ! That service , too , is past ; but now his kingdom calls loudly on my sword for aid .Northward there lies a land debauched , crying from out its shame for justice , for a righteous law , for vengeance , for salvation ; for a master ,\u2014 and that shall the man become ! Translated by Helen Tracy Porter . MARAH OF SHADOWTOWN . The days pass by in Shadowtown Wearily , wearily ;\u2014 And Bitter-Sweet Marah of Shadowtown Sighs drearily , drearily . \u201c Mother , tell him to come to me While my hair is gold and beautiful And my lips and eyes are young While the songs that are welling up in my heart May still be sung . \u201c The days go by so wearily Like crooked goblins , eerily , Like silly shadows , fast and still , Wind-driven and drearily . \u201c Like the gray clouds are my eyes gray , mother , Like them , heavy as things grown old Only the clouds \u2019 tears are but dream-tears \u2014 Lifeless , cold . \u201c Last night I had the strangest dream ,\u2014 It seemed I stood on a barren hill Where the wings of the ragged clouds went by Hurrying and still . \u201c And all of a sudden the moon came out Making a pathway over the down ,\u2014 And turned my hair to a gold mist , mother , To light the way to Shadowtown . \u201c But when I did not see him coming , And because the clouds grew dark and gray I walked through the shadows down the hillside To help him better to find the way . \u201c And in some wise I came to a forest When all around was so strange and dim ,\u2014 That I thought , \u2018 If I should be lost in the darkness , How could my hair be light for him ? \u2019 \u201c But groping , I found I was on a pathway Where low soft branches swept my face ,\u2014 When suddenly , close beside , and before me I knew dim forms kept even pace . \u201c They were so cowering , shivering , white That I felt some ill thing came behind And I heard a moan on the wind go by \u2018 Ah , but the end of the path to find ! \u2019 \u201c Then I looked behind , and saw that near Like a wan marsh-fog , came a cloud Hurrying on ,\u2014 and I knew it wrapped A dead love \u2014 as a shroud . \u201c And guiltily the figures went , Like coward things in a guilty race And not one dared to look behind For fear he knew that dead love 's face . \u201c Then suddenly at my side I knew He I loved went ;\u2014 but , for my hair , Shadowed and blown about my face , He knew me not beside him there . \u201c And he , too , cowered with shaking hands Over his eyes , for fear to meet Haunting and still , my pallid face In that strange mist of winding-sheet . \u201c So on the shadowy figures went Hurrying the loathed cloud before ,\u2014 Seeking an end of a fated path That went winding evermore . \u201c Oh , Mother , that path was hideous ,\u2014 Long and ill and hideous \u2014 And the way was so near to Shadowtown ,\u2014 Fairer to Shadowtown \u2014 But the gold of my hair shall not light the way For anyone else to Shadowtown . \u201d Gray-eyed Marah of Shadowtown Turns away wearily , wearily Weaving her gold hair back and forth , Thus she sings , and drearily \u2014 \u201c Little Love , when you shall die , then so shall I , Ha , merrily ! \u201c Then let them put us in some deep spot Where one the growing of trees \u2019 roots hears And you at my heart , all wet with tears , All wet with tears . \u201c Your wings are draggled and limp and wet ,\u2014 Little Love ,\u2014 From what rainy land have you come , and far ,\u2014 Or who that has held you was crying so ,\u2014 Who , little Love \u2014? My eyes are heavy and wet with tears Whose eyes besides are heavy so \u2014? \u2014 Oh , little Love , how dumb you are !\u2014 \u201c Then , poor Love , that has lived in my heart Come , take my hand , we will go together , Hemlock boughs are full of sleep Out of the way of the weather . \u201c For a cavern of cold gray mist is my heart Will not the hemlock boughs be better Over our feet and under our heads Keeping us from the weather ? \u201d Her gold hair duskily glints in her hands Marah of Shadowtown sings \u2014 \u201c Together ,\u2014 You , little Love , and I , will go Into the Land of Pleasanter Weather . \u201d Anne Throop . DIES IRAE . Go fight your fight with Tagal and with Boer , Cheer in the lust of strength and brutal pride ; Beat down the lamb to fatten up the fox , Shout victory o'er the prostrate shape of truth . Take cross and pike and gold and sophistry , To pray and prod and purchase , wheedle , wile ; Stamp out the roses in a waste of weeds , Shout while the trembling voice of truth is hushed . Shatter with iron heel the poet 's dream , The prophet 's protest , and the ages \u2019 hope , Of brotherhood and light and love on earth \u2014 Of peace and plenty and a perfect race . Tear down the fabric of ten thousand years , The world 's best wisdom woven in its woe ; Lift ruthless hands to rend the fairy fane That holds the heart hopes of humanity . Let loose greed , envy , lust , and avarice , The myriad throated dragon of desire ; Let might rule , riot , batten on the meek , The tyranny of man o'er man seem right . Forget the Lord Christ smiled , forgave , and died ; Frowned down every appeal to brutish strength ; Bade man put up the sword , lest by the sword He perish ; prayed evil might be paid by good . Forget he turned cheek to the coward blow , Cried \u201c Pardon ! \u201d yes , seven and seventy times ! \u201c Judge not ; Do not condemn ; give coat as well as cloak ; Resist not evil , wrong 's not made right by wrong . \u201d Forget each drop of blood burns in the race , Cries for atonement while the last man lives ; That murder for the state is murder still , The gilded not less guilty though more great . Forget , and flay and flame ; in din grow deaf To piteous cries without , and voice within ; Conquer , triumph , and when the world is won , Turn terroring towards the demon in your heart . William Mountain . GEORGE MEREDITH ON THE SOURCE OF DESTINY . If , as has so often been said , literature is an expression of life , surely we may study literature to discover the laws of life . Not all our writers , but all our masters , have given us records from which we may learn what has been discerned and accepted concerning life by the race . The scientific study of our day has led men to consider genius from the modern point of view . Is genius a natural product ? If so , whence comes it , and what are its laws ? These are among the most interesting questions of the present time . Formerly , men contented themselves with calling the literary faculty a \u201c gift , \u201d the result of \u201c inspiration . \u201d Of late we have been told that it is a natural race impulse which finds expression in some individual . Personally , we believe genius to be the heated , pregnant condition of a great mind under the influence of a great enthusiasm . However our definitions of genius may differ , on one point we all agree . We are all sure that genius is true to life , that genius teaches us the truth . In its formed philosophical theories it may err , but not in its perceptions of life . Shelley may teach atheistic views in \u2018 Queen Mab , \u2019 and he may err , for intellectual belief is a matter of opinion . Nevertheless Shelley 's inspired interpretation of life can but be accepted as real . George Meredith may teach in his \u2018 Lord Ormond and his Aminta \u2019 doctrines of free love , resulting from an attempt to separate what can not be separated in our human lives ,\u2014 the physical and the spiritual loves ; and in doing this he may err . Nevertheless , in his inspired representations of life and character , coming not from thought alone but from his whole nature , Meredith cannot err . Those of us who read thoughtlessly , without formed theory , accept literature as real . Have you never , when asked : \u201c Did you ever know of a case of love at first sight ? \u201d answered carelessly : \u201c Oh , yes ! There 's Romeo and Juliet , you know ? \u201d Or have you never instanced , as the most persuasive oration you ever heard , Mark Antony 's speech in \u2018 Julius Caesar ? \u2019 Thinkers who claim a natural mental origin for the literary gift must believe in its reality as a matter of course . Those who speak reverently of its \u201c inspiration \u201d claim a spirit of truth , not of error , for its parent . Even those who enjoy comparisons of the states of genius and insanity , ranging from Shakespeare , with his words : \u201c The fool , the lover , and the poet are of imagination all compact \u201d to the masterly modern treatment of John Fiske , agree that the sharp division line of truth and error separates the two . They confess that while the insane mind may accept hallucinations , the mind of genius deals only with the truth . The results of both are imaginative ; only those of insanity are imaginary . All thinkers , then , accept the masterpieces of literature as among life 's real phenomena . Whether Meredith 's novels hold this high place is at present a matter of opinion . For men do not know Meredith very well . A knowledge of his position on this question of Destiny will help us to learn whether or not he ranks among the elect . In our great literature there has always appeared a close sequence between wisdom and success , righteousness and happiness , and , on the other hand , between the choice of moral evil and suffering . This sequence has been not merely expressed in words , but built into the very structure of the plot through the workings of the imagination kindled by genius . The law of this succession , and its relationship with other laws , philosophers have always been seeking . It is this search that has led men into the mazy discussions of freedom and fatalism . For in this law lies the crucial point of the question of human destiny . \u2018 Beowulf , \u2019 our first epic , tells us not only much of the manner of life of our rude Saxon ancestors , but also much of their thought . The note of fatalism in its chord of life is no weak one . \u201c A man must bear his fate , \u201d the hero says when about to go into a dangerous combat . Yet even in \u2018 Beowulf \u2019 we find the contrasting element , the character choice appearing . As a child boldly states a problem as though it were a solution , Beowulf naively says : \u201c Fate always aids the undoomed man , if his courage holds out . \u201d This expression side by side of the two elements of the question has never been surpassed , and is , in its way , matchless . Have we learned much more to-day ? We cannot fail to recognize the duality of the truth , but have we been able yet to join the two sides into one , to discover the unity that surely lies behind the seeming contrast ? Each side of the question has been largely developed . Some , in a narrow spirit , have echoed merely Beowulf 's , \u201c Fate always aids the undoomed man \u201d ; while others , often as narrowly , have answered , \u201c A man succeeds , if his courage holds out . \u201d Ever in our greatest literature the two elements have appeared side by side . The mystery has always been recognized . That even Shakespeare is reverent before fate , yet believes in the influence of character on a man 's life can easily be seen from words like Helena 's in \u2018 All 's Well that Ends Well ':\u2014 \u201c Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven ; the fated sky Gives us free scope , only doth backward pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull . \u201d \u2018 Macbeth , \u2019 with its successive steps of unhappiness following one critical evil choice is sufficient proof of Shakespear 's belief in the determining power of character . \u2018 King Lear , \u2019 with its sad result of folly shows his belief in the influence of the critical foolish decision . In the uncrowned king 's conversation with his fool , occur these words :", "And thou didst open it ?", "Still thou knowest him ?", "Thou will still \u2014?"], "true_target": ["Why ?", "There they stand ! KingWhat do you want ? A quarrel ? We two are snarling dogs . We blindly seize on everybody near . Now come on ! Speak ! The Young Prince . My father !", "My God , my God , how my old limbs do tremble ! It is joy !I see three coming .", "Go on .", "Who speaks of graves ? Fie ! The hour will ripen all too soon for us to yield our withered sinful bodies to the worms . Build a fire for me , since we must wait . The evening lowers and this March wind blows cold on me . Make haste .Run thou to our sovereign Lady , who so honored thee as to share thy hut , and tell her I beg her wait therein until we come to fetch her as she said .", "Consider . Full fifteen years have flown since that hour when he slew the cruel Duke .", "How many ?", "And the other ?"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 90}, {"query": ["Yes , my lord .", "It is hard to say .", "Yes , my lord . His step indeed was heavier , his face was paler ; and a gnawed and ragged beard hung about his mouth , stiffened with blood and sweat . Yet it was he , our King , our star , at very thought of whom our hearts must leap , to whose heroic deed we sing triumphant songs ,\u2014 it was he , and that I swear by God the Father .", "Yet , mindful of what happened once , I made as though I had never seen the two ; and when they asked whether there was a path that led to the sea and to the Burial-wife , and did not touch at town or capital , I said : \u201c Oh , yes ; yet it is difficult to follow it , and not wander lost by night among the bushes . Come in and sleep beside my hearth , and I will play the host and spread the straw for you , and early in the morning , for your sake and for God 's sweet service my son will lead you to the witch-wife . \u201d It was said and done . The fire of pine chips had scarcely burned to ashes ,\u2014 heigho !\u2014 I ran to the stable and flung the saddle on the horse ; and when the early dawn of the March morning lay abroad white and misty on the hedges , I held my rein before your castle ,\u2014 \u201c To the Queen \u201d my cry . Thou wert with me for the rest .", "Two .", "Lorbass stood before me ."], "true_target": ["Yes . I had lain a long time in bed , but I arose . The moonlight fell bright through the window-bars . I saw them and was afraid .", "The small one is my boy . The other two \u2014 thou knowest them ?", "The first had long white hair hanging all wild and shaggy about a gloomy brow . One leg was hacked off , and a wooden one replaced it .", "Set thyself at rest , My son has always been a clever youth and I answer for it they will be upon the spot before the sun there dips beneath the sea . Yes , if I mistake not ... but wait !Come here ! But crouch down well , that they may not spy us .", "As I know myself , my lord .", "Whoever looked into that eye , must know , my lord : Hans"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 90}, {"query": ["Why ?", "Come here . The grave is ready , but it is not empty . Look down and tell me what thou callest it , crouched there gray in the sand , that leers at me with staring eyes . Is it a corpse ? Is it a spirit ?", "What a life !", "Burial-wife ! Hans LorbassYes , call away , my friend !... Come here instead and sit down on this tub . The fire is singing ,\u2014 the water will soon boil ; come warm thyself .", "Good ! I am hungry .", "Honors are the mail-coat of the weary . I have need of them .", "Cook us our supper first .", "Then thou hast waited fifteen years and sorrowed not . So shalt thou learn my mystery . Two kingdoms I have won , to pleasure me ; the first has vanished into air , the second is my shame . Justice became a mock ,\u2014 all gifts a usury ; and everywhere I turned a murderous laugh pursued me . Then purity plunged in the mire , then honor mocked its own best gift : all this the magic of the heron wreaked upon me .... Yea , now thou knowest ; a charm was all my crime and all my fate , year after year . It blinded me to love and life , to wife and child ; it hunted me away from thee , and drove me from place to place ; and when a lucent flight of happiness sprang up from heaven after my downfall , it drowned its glory in a flood of tears . Behold !The enchantment 's last beguiling pledge I hold here in my hand . When this feather shrivels in the flame there sinks an unblessed woman to her death , that woman whose wraith stood in the heavens for me to gaze upon ,\u2014 that woman whom I sought and never found ! Behold ! I bury the madness in its grave , and with the act I put the longing from me .QueenNow are we two protected from all mischance .... I still ... have been thy happiness ... even in ... death .", "Go ! I know thee not . And yet \u2014 I know thee . Thou art my \u2014 peace . Thou art ... Naught art thou more for me .... My body withers and my strength is fallen asunder . Therefore I may not say : \u201c Thou art . \u201d ... Only \u201c Thou wast . \u201d Still thou wast once of a surety \u2014 my wife .", "The Young Prince", "Hans , be still !", "It is nothing ,\u2014 nothing ! All I have ever desired , all my soul 's treasure , all I could not attain , can be spoken in one word . And that I may not speak . In silence I decide , and put it from me . I tear it from my breast , where it has clung so long ; and with it all my longing pain blows like a faded leaf a world away .\u2014 Now I will lie down and sleep ; for I am weary .", "Out with her ! Hans LorbassListen to me . Thou knowest I have known her longer than thou . Leave her alone . She was wont to lie thus for hours and days , and heed no words nor prayers ; but seemed as dead . She is proof then against all summons and all blows ; but when her time comes , then her limbs will stir , and she will come up out of the grave .", "The corn was dear . Sometimes it costs us money , sometimes blood .", "Thou art wrong , my friend . Something wakes in me at sight of those roofs .... There the wings of happiness once grazed my cheek , there , though in the midst of torture joy ripened to summer in my heart . Let me gaze on the place where imploring trustfulness once confessed itself to me by joyous sacrifice , and the purest of womankind yielded herself up in sweet urgency , and an oppressed country confided in me as a master ; where even victory surrendered me her standard ; let me gaze upon the spot , and then , instead of stretching forth my kingly hand in love and gratitude , I must slip past it outlawed , like a beggar or a thief . I stand here now and gaze through tears at that white glow of light , and gnaw my lips to bleeding .", "Why , that spring is coming ."], "true_target": ["Nay , charm me not . I am not worthy . Life has seared me , and put a shameful kiss upon my brow .", "I shall come soon enough to Gotland , and soon enough shall see that refuge whence I once bore to save them those most daring wishes of my powerless youth .", "Where is she hiding , that I may rip that shriveled skin of hers about her ears ?", "We pay more . We give out bit by bit from our own souls for our lives \u2019 nakedest necessities , and pay for each mouthful with a shred of joy \u2014 if indeed there be joy in clinging like a pitiable miser to one 's last vacant remnants of hopeless hope .", "Thou art right . This cold sea wind pants like a bloodhound through the gorge .The country-people say that spring is coming . Is it true , I wonder ?", "Let be , old grumbler ! I seek naught in the distance .... But near by , floating in the haze of the spring evening , I think I see a dim shape of white battlements .", "It was thou ? It was thou ?", "Here is a fire . Is there corn in the sack ? Hans LorbassWait .... Yes .", "Wha \u2014? The Young Prince . My King ! King You would mock the man that fled from you ? The Young Prince . Down on your knees and honor him as I do ! KingHans !... But stand up !... Am I King ? A hapless wretch ,\u2014 naught but my man , my sword , and that pot of soup there , to call my own . I have no more . My very crown , the gloomy throne of Gotland must be fought for anew ; stand up my son .Hans ! Dost thou see who stands there in the twilight of the wood \u2014 how spirit-like , how severed from this world \u2014", "More than thou thinkest for .", "Do not ask .", "Dost thou think \u2014", "The Burial-wife ?", "Ah , Mother !", "How can I feel that scar or even the happiness after which I longed , now that those hours are past which knew thy love for me ?", "Listen ! Back in the hedge a shepherd pipes upon his willow whistle . The streams are beginning to thaw and run down hill .... Brown buds come out on all the branches . The very sunsets are different . Look , high up in the blue the wild geese fly in their triangle . Northward they go . Not I .... I must . We both must , Hans , for we have grown old ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 90}, {"query": ["Whither now ?", "Because our heads are white ? Thou art wrong , master . I dare venture many a conflict lies in our path before thou goest to thy fathers \u2019 lofty house , and anointest thyself with thy fathers \u2019 honors .", "Then I believe it , for my leg that I lost begins to pain me .", "I am not , too ?", "And do thy pains and desires all come to an end thus ? Look ! Above there , where the sandy turf broadens among frozen clods past the sun-pierced snow . The wisest of womankind has prepared a bed for pilgrims such as we . Look ! KingI see . It is just suited to a guest like me . Here , where \u2014Hans !", "Thou lookest toward the south ,\u2014 what seekest thou there ? Hast thou not known it all long since ? That sunny land , those blue , flower-sown havens , whither thy hasting step once fled ? Thou knowest they are full of stench and lamentation . Those beauteous women , fairest of the fair ,\u2014 or passing as the fairest ,\u2014 to bow in whose impious slavery once compassed all thy thoughts ? Thou knowest they are all as empty as drained-out casks . And so , because the desire was lacking in thee to fill them with thy own soul , thou hast sourly turned away and sought perfection farther on . Thou hast come hither over lands and seas , and climbest up into the star-teeming void . Yet thou wilt never , never reach thy star . And that vailed enchanting distance itself , if it would once unmask and let thee reach it , how miserable it would look ! Every conflict there would seem only a wrangle , every woman but a doll ! Come now , lay aside thy shoulder-belt stretch thyself out and eat thy supper .", "She who played our fate in the world is not at home when we come back so worsted by it .", "What ?", "If it be not happiness it is life .", "It was an evil-omened year . The worst of all , I think . It taught thy wild untrammeled spirit to circle-hopping in a cage , to limp instead of fly ."], "true_target": ["It may well be . The town is only three miles farther on , and the air is clear . Still I advise thee , do not think upon the past .", "Good , good !", "What is the matter ?", "Until a heron came .", "Our wants are over now . I wager if I climbed up to the top of the hill , I should find not one but three ships to take us to Gotland .", "Oh let it be , no matter !", "Thou ?", "Master !", "Oh look at it ! The badger is at work . Thou hast her now .", "We do not pay the blood .", "How can I , here in this place , where the sea and churchyard , yes , even the sea-wind itself , that strips the boughs with knife-like tongue , all vie with each other to tell us of that day when an old doting witch-wife with her cursed chatter , betrayed thee from thy confident path , to pause and play the hero ?"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 90}, {"query": ["I am to-day \u2014 I am a thousandfold ! Hast thou forgot what I promised thee the day thou gavest thyself with hesitation to my service ? I search thy face . I know thou turnest wearied back to thy northern home . Dost thou forget then where a balsam is prepared to heal thy bruised feet , dost thou forget where a thousand arms reach out to greet their loved one ? Knowest thou not where thy home stands and calls to thee ? Knowest thou not how well-nigh breathless with its joy my smile says unto thee : \u201c I charm thee not ? \u201d", "Witte !"], "true_target": ["Then let me cool it with my health-bringing hand , and thou wilt never feel the scar again .", "In no other have I trusted . I guarded thy son for thee ; and still thy throne stands empty , waiting its master ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 90}, {"query": ["What means your lordship !", "Could beauty , my lord , have better commerce than with honesty ?", "My lord , I have remembrances of yours"], "true_target": ["My lord ?", "I pray you now receive them .", "That I have longed long to redeliver ;", "My honor 'd lord , you know right well you did , And with them words of so sweet breath compos 'd As made the things more rich . Their perfume lost , Take them again ; for to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind . \u201d It seems clear that Ophelia returns these remembrances in pursuance of her father 's orders , express or implied ; that Hamlet repudiates them because , proud and sensitive , he would blot their old associations from his memory ; and that Ophelia insists on their return with a sad and tender recollection of those music-vows of love that he has made so often . But why she should accuse him of unkindness towards her is not so clear , since it is she who has broken off their intimacy . Her meaning is not doubtful in Quarto I , where this reference to Hamlet 's unkindness follows upon his comments on her honesty , and evidently refers to them . But in Quarto II Shakespeare changes the order of the conversation , and so apparently intends to make Ophelia 's suggestion of unkindness refer to Hamlet 's visit to her closet . Hence he had not only frightened her at that interview , as she informed her father , but he had hurt her , she realizes that he had renounced her , and in this gentle way she now upbraids him . But Hamlet , wrought to sudden fury by the reminiscence , like Othello , can see nothing but the supposed wrong which she has done him , and , like Othello , charges her with unchastity , without indicating the suspected man :"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 90}, {"query": ["That if you be honest and fair , your honesty should admit of no discourse to your beauty .", "\u2018 O Jephthah , judge of Israel , \u2019 what a treasure hadst thou !", "Why , \u2018 As by lot , God wot . \u2019 \u201d Here Hamlet again mystifies Polonius about his daughter , quoting from an old English ballad . Jephthah is pilloried in history as the man who sacrificed his daughter in payment for his worldly success . Shakespeare also refers to him in \u2018 3 Henry VI , \u2019 v , 1 , 91 : \u201c To keep that oath were more impiety than Jephthah 's when he sacrificed his daughter . \u201d Hamlet dubs Polonius \u201c Jephthah , \u201d because he believes that he has paid for political preferment by yielding his daughter to the King . And when Polonius says that , if he is to be called Jephthah , he admits that like Jephthah he loves his daughter , Hamlet replies in characteristic vein , \u201c Nay , that follows not \u201d ; meaning that it follows instead that like Jephthah he has sacrificed her . But when Polonius presses him to say what does follow , he conceals his real meaning , as his custom is , and diverts the old man 's mind by answering the line from the ballad . As was the case with regard to Ophelia , Hamlet is reluctant to make the open charge against her father . Thus in every instance in which Hamlet comes in contact with Ophelia , or refers to her , his actions and his words consistently point to the fact that he renounces her because he believes her to have thrust him aside while engaging in an intrigue with the King . And the fact that from this point of view there is a connected story of their relations told by the several interviews above discussed , that Hamlet 's conduct and language in them all are adequately explained , and that a single belief of his accounts for each of them , is strong confirmation of the theory 's correctness . It is in harmony with the general scheme of the drama also , all of whose important movements hinge on \u201c purposes mistook \u201d ; and it furnishes Hamlet with an adequate motive for his treatment of Ophelia , and removes from him the stigma of mere brutishness or insanity . Coleridge well says that there must have been \u201c some profound heart truth \u201d under the story , and the theory herein advanced seems to disclose it . David A. McKnight . Washington , D. C ., February 26 , 1898 . CLEWS TO EMERSON 'S MYSTIC VERSE .\u201c When a man 's verses cannot be understood , nor a man 's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding , it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room . \u201d \u2014 Touchstone . The phantasmal lords of life of the poem \u2018 Experience , \u2019 which we considered at the close of the last paper , were presumably suggested to Emerson by the following lines from Tennyson 's \u2018 Mystic , \u2019 published in 1830\u2014 \u201c Always there stood before him , night and day , Of wayward vary-colored circumstance The imperishable presences serene , Colossal , without form , or sense , or sound , Dim shadows but unwaning presences Four-faced to four corners of the sky . \u201d The \u201c silent congregated hours , \u201d \u201c daughters of time , divinely tall , \u201d with \u201c severe and youthful brows , \u201d in this same poem of Tennyson gave Emerson his \u201c daughters of Time , the hypocritic Days , \u201d congregated in procession . Tennyson 's mystic , who hears \u201c time flowing in the middle of the night \u201d recalls Emerson 's \u2018 Two Rivers , \u2019 in which the living All , the Infinite Soul , is figured as a stream flowing through eternity :\u2014 \u201c I hear the spending of the stream , Through years , through men , through nature fleet , Through love and thought , through power and dream . \u201d At the close of the poem \u2018 Wealth \u2019 there is a bit of scientific nature-ethics which is a little obscure . The greater part of the poem is a series of graphic pictures , detailing the process of world-development through the geologic ages down to the advent of man . Suddenly , at the end ,\u2014 just as at the end of the prose essay on the same subject ,\u2014 he remembers his manners and makes his bow to the august Soul , kindles a light in the Geissler tube of nature , sets it aglow interiorly with spiritual law :\u2014 \u201c But , though light-headed man forget , Remembering Matter pays her debt : Still , through her motes and masses , draw Electric thrills and ties of Law , Which bind the strength of Nature wild To the conscience of a child . \u201d The logical link connecting this part with the rest has dropped out in the poem , but is clear enough in the essay . The lines mean simply this : that , though man may forget to obey the laws of the universe , Nature never forgets her debt of obedience ; she bites and stings the transgressor and caresses and soothes him who obeys . In her own submission to law she has that artlessness and quasi-moral sense that affines her to the moral nature of a child . The \u201c awful victors \u201d and \u201c Eternal Rights \u201d of \u2018 Voluntaries \u2019 are only \u201c remembering Matter \u201d in another mask : with all their innocent obedience they are themselves terrible executors :\u2014 \u201c They reach no term , they never sleep , In equal strength through space abide ; Though , feigning dwarfs , they crouch and creep , The strong they slay , the swift outstride . \u201d In the following high pantheistic strain the seer chants the old rune that God is all :\u2014 \u201c The living Heaven thy prayers respect , House at once and architect , Quarrying man 's rejected hours , Builds therewith eternal towers ; Sole and self-commanded works , Fears not undermining days , Grows by decays , And , by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil , Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil ; Forging , through swart arms of Offence , The silver seat of Innocence . \u201d \u2014 \u2018 Spiritual Laws . \u2019 When the Living Universe builds a house , it builds it out of its own soul substance ; while man sleeps and loiters , the Unconscious ceaselessly toils . In the phrase \u201c grows by decays , \u201d Emerson embodies , I believe , the law of the conservation of energy . The magazine of divine power is exhaustless ; does energy sink out of sight here , it is only to reappear yonder ; the tree decays , but out of its fertilizing substance new plants may spring up ; the coal under the steam boiler of the locomotive is consumed , but the swart goblin has lost no whit of his might : he just slips darkling up into the steam , makes the driving-rods his swift-shuttling arms , and , grasping with his steel fingers the felloes of the wheel , whirls you half a thousand miles over the green bulge of the earth ere set of sun , The mystic Power grows by decays ; and also , by \u201c the famous might that lurks in reaction and recoil , \u201d reconciles apparent antinomies and opposites , and is the agent that visits evil upon the head of the evil doer and mercy upon the merciful . If a heavy body be rolled up an inclined plane , it acquires potential and kinetic energy just equal to the force expended in getting it there , and in reaction develops such a famous might that , if massive enough , it will knock you down if you stand in its way . If you lift the big pendulum of the clock in the corner , you also confer latent , or reactionary , energy upon it . Only it is of course hyperbolical for the poet to say that reaction is potent enough to actually freeze flame and make ice boil your kettle . That is only one of Emerson 's rhetorical Chinese crackers , his startling thaumaturgic way of illustrating his thesis . The key-thought of the essay \u2018 Spiritual Laws , \u2019 to which the occult lines we are considering were prefixed , is , Be noble ; for , if you are not , your face and life will , by the law of reaction and return , publish your lapse . Punishment and reward are fruits that ripen unsuspected in the deeds of men . The pertinency and application of many of Emerson 's titles are not at once apparent . In \u2018 Merops \u2019 the bard affirms that in his high philosophical soarings he cares not whether he can at once ticket his intuitions and perceptions with names or not . Merops was changed into an eagle , says Ovid , and placed among the constellations ,\u2014 hence , I suppose , is selected by Emerson as a good type of the kind of soaring thinker he is describing . That he also has in mind that Merops was the putative father of Phaethon is shown perhaps by the allusionto Phaethon 's mishap :\u2014 \u201c Space grants beyond his fated road No inch to the god of day , And copious language still bestowed One word , no more , to say . \u201d \u2018 Alphonso of Castile \u2019 is a dramatic monologue containing a whimsical suggestion for compounding a Man out of ordinary weak-timbered manikins by killing nine in ten of them and \u201c stuffing nine brains in one hat . \u201d It is put into the mouth of Alphonso , King of Castile , born in 1221 , called El Sabio , \u201c The Wise . \u201d He was a man who suffered much in his life . He wrote a famous code of laws , and first made the Castilian a national language by causing the Bible to be translated into it . Emerson chooses him as the vehicle of his own whimsey about the condensed homunculus chiefly on account of one famous sentence attributed to him : \u201c Had I been present at the creation , I could have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe . \u201d Emerson , in his rhymed soliloquy , put into Alphonso 's mouth , sarcastically twits Nature with her depleted stocks , her run-out strains of lemons , figs , roses , and men . The remedy proposed in the case of man , and outlined above , has the true Emerson-Swift bouquet , is colored and veined with a right Shakespearian scorn of the mob . \u2018 Mithridates \u2019 is a monologue put into the mouth of Mithridates the Great , King of Pontus , who is said to have discovered an antidote for poisons which made him poison-proof against his many enemies :\u2014 \u201c I cannot spare water or wine , Tobacco-leaf , or poppy , or rose ; From the earth-poles to the line , All between that works or grows , Everything is kin of mine . Give me agates for my meat ; Give me cantharids to eat ; From air and ocean bring me foods , From all zones and altitudes . \u201d As late as 1787 \u201c mithridate \u201d was the name for an antidote against poison included in the London pharmacopia . In Jonson 's \u2018 Every Man in his Humour , \u2019 Kitely , thinking he is poisoned , calls for mithridate and oil . It was composed of many ingredients and given in the form of electuaries . In our modern pharmacopoeias we have plenty of antidotes against virulent poisons ; e. g ., atropine for the deadly amanita mushroom . And counter-poisons are often used , as the tincture of foxglove for aconite , atropine for morphia , or morphia for belladonna . According to the tradition , Mithridates gradually inured his system to counter-poisons , and became poison-proof . At any rate , Emerson uses him for his metaphor , which , in untropical speech , is this : \u201c lam tired of the nambypamby and goody-goody ; give me things strong and rank ; give me evil for a change and a spur . \u201c Too long shut in strait and few , Thinly dieted on dew , I will use the world , and sift it , To a thousand humors shift it , As you spin a cherry . O doleful ghosts and goblins merry ! O all you virtues , methods , mights , Means , appliances , delights , Reputed wrongs and braggart rights , Smug routine , and things allowed , Minorities , things under cloud ! Hither ! take me , use me , fill me , Vein and artery , though ye kill me ! \u201d In brief , \u201c I have run the gauntlet of experience , sounded all the depths of passion , joy , woe , evil . I am dipped in Styx , more invulnerable than Siegfried , and strong now to use the world and be used by it . \u201d The mood of the poem is the wild longing that sometimes comes over the good man to break loose and have his fling , come what may , cry , Vive la bagatelle ! or run amuck and tilt at all he meets . It is needless to say that the staid Emerson never carried this mood farther than to smoke a cigar now and then , or take an Adirondack outing . His contemporary , the untrammelled Whitman , could both preach and practisethe Mithridatic doctrine ; and he was a more many-sided and symmetrical man in consequence . The last two lines of \u2018 Mithridates , \u2019 as printed from the autograph copy , were ,\u2014 \u201c God ! I will not be an owl , But sun me in the Capitol . \u201d These lines Emerson wisely dropped . \u2018 Forerunners \u2019\" mean one 's brave hopes and ideals of good to come , our dreams and aspirations . The lines \u201c No speed of mine avails To hunt upon their shining trails \u201d Thoreau evidently utilized as text for his well-known fable in \u2018 Walden \u2019 of the lost hound , bay horse , and turtle-dove . The portrait of Hermione , the patient-sweet wife of Leontes in \u2018 The Winter 's Tale \u2019 of Shakespeare , serves Emerson , in his poem \u2018 Hermione , \u2019 as the model of a perfect wife , and a more acceptable one to this age than Chaucer 's abject Griselda . Such a lady as Shakespeare 's Hermione , beautiful in person and of rare self-control and virtue , is an adumbration or epitome of the universal beauty . Looking at nature , the American poet finds the features of his Hermione there : \u201c mountains and the misty plains , Her colossal portraiture . \u201d I suppose that this sketch , tender and delicately toned as if with a silver point , is autobiographical , and is a shadowing forth of the character of Emerson 's first wife , the ethereal souled Ellen Tucker , who died of consumption after only a year and a half of married life . When her \u201c meteor glances came , \u201d he says , he was \u201c hermit vowed to books and gloom , \u201d and dwelling alone . In the lines \u201c The chains of kind The distant bind ; Deed thou doest she must do , \u201d he anticipatesthe telepathy of our days ,\u2014 kindred minds seeking similar places and thinking like thoughts , although in this case , to be sure , the kindred soul is thought of as merged with the inorganic world ,\u2014 the winds and waterfalls and twilight nooks . Search the whole world through , you shall find no predecessor of Emerson the poet . The only verse resembling his in general style is that of the enigmatic \u2018 Phoenix and the Turtle , \u2019 attributed to Shakespeare , and much admired by Emerson :\u2014 \u201c Let the bird of loudest lay , On the sole Arabian tree . Herald sad and trumpet be , To whose sound chaste wings obey . \u201d Emerson 's verses have also a slight Persian tinge now and then , caught from his studies of Saadi and Hafiz . In his fine lyric cry \u2018 Bacchus , \u2019 in which he calls for a wine of life , a cup of divine soma or amrita , that shall sinew his brain and exalt all his powers of thought and action to a godlike pitch ,\u2014 \u201c Bring me wine , but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape , That I intoxicated , And by the draught assimilated , May float at pleasure through all natures ; Quickened so , will I unlock Every crypt of every rock , \u201d \u2014 he unconsciously gave his lines , I think , the outward form of some verses by Hafiz , in which that singer intimates that , give him the right kind of wine , and he can perform wonders as if with Solomon 's ring or Jemschid 's wine-cup mirror . Emerson himself in one of his early editions gives a spirited verse translation of Hafiz 's poem . Mr. William R. Algertranslates Hafiz thus :\u2014 \u201c Bring me wine ! By my puissant arm The thick net of deceit and of harm Which the priests have spread over the world Shall be rent and in laughter be hurled . Bring me wine ! I the earth will subdue . Bring me wine ! I the heaven will storm through . Bring me wine , bring it quick , make no halt ! To the throne of both worlds will I vault . All is in the red streamlet divine . Bring me wine ! O my host , bring me wine ! \u201d \u2018 Etienne de la Boece \u2019 gets its titlefrom the name of one of Montaigne 's most intimate friends ,\u2014 Estienne de la Boetie . Montaigne tells us about him in Chapter xxvii of his Essays , affirming that he would have accomplished miracles , had he lived . He died when only thirty-three at BordeauxHis scholarship was solid , his translations from the Greek excellent . He was so eager to read Greek that he copied whole volumes with his own hand . A French critic says , \u201c Les qualites qui brillaient en lui imprimaient a toute sa personne un cachet distingue et un charme severe . \u201d Yet he seems to have been something of an imitator of his great friend ; and it is in this aspect of his life that Emerson regards him , using him , perhaps somewhat unjustly to his powers and developing genius , as the type of a too imitative disciple :\u2014 \u201c I serve you not , if you I follow , Shadowlike , o'er hill and hollow ; Vainly valiant , you have missed The manhood that should yours resist . \u201d Probably most Americans , if asked to explain the relevancy of the title of Emerson 's poem \u2018 Guy , \u2019 would be unable to answer offhand . The verses celebrate the lucky man :\u2014 \u201c The common waters fell As costly wine into his well . The zephyr in his garden rolled From plum-trees vegetable gold . Stream could not so perversely wind But corn of Guy 's was there to grind . \u201d The reference , of course , is to a man well known in England ,\u2014 Thomas Guy, founder of Guy 's Hospital in London . He was the George Peabody of his day . Beginning life as a bookseller , he made a good deal of money in printing Bibles , but acquired most of his enormous fortune by financial speculations . He was extremely economical ; for example , always ate his dinner on his shop counter , first spreading out a newspaper to catch the crumbs . His charities were boundless . To his hospital he gave $ 1 , 000 , 000 ; and at his death his will was found to contain an enormous number of special benefactions , including bequests to over ninety cousins . Emerson in his poem compares Guy to Polycrates , who was King of Samos some five hundred years before Christ . He says that Polycrates \u201c chained the sunshine and the breeze \u201d ; that is , the very elements seemed to be in his pay . This run of luck was without a break up to his death ; his fleet of a hundred ships was the largest then known ; he conquered all his enemies , and amassed great treasure . His ally , Amasis , King of Egypt , was so alarmed at his prosperity , fearing the envy of the gods , that he advised him to make some noteworthy sacrifice . The story goes that Polycrates accordingly threw his emerald signet-ring into the sea , but it came back to his kitchens in the belly of a large fish , as in the Arabian Nights story . The fears of Amasis were finally justified ; for the Persian satrap Ortes enticed Polycrates to the mainland , and crucified him . \u2018 Xenophanes \u2019 embodies poetically the doctrine of the earnest old Greek agnostic and monist of that name , that God , or the All , is uncreated , immovable , and one ,\u2014 not immovable in its parts , but as a whole , and just because it is all . Xenophanes saw the grandeur and incomprehensibility of the universe , he violently opposed what seemed to him the disgraceful polytheism of Homer , and anticipated the modern atomic theory and the doctrine of the unity of life as revealed by the spectroscope and the discovery of the conservation and mutual convertibility of forces . Or , as Emerson puts it in his haunting numbers ,\u2014 \u201c By fate , not option , frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower , One sound to pine-groves and to waterfalls , One aspect to the desert and the lake . It was her stern necessity . \u201d The title of the poem \u2018 Hamatreya \u2019 seemed at first to baffle a perfect and indubitable explanation . The word can be found in no English or foreign dictionary that the largest libraries afford . We are indebted , however , to Col. T. W. Higginsonfor not only giving us a clew to the title , but for pointing out the portion of the Vishnu Puranaon which Emerson based his \u2018 Earth Song \u2019 in \u2018 Hamatreya , \u2019 and , in fact , got the hint for the whole poem ; namely , at the close of Book IV . Maitreya is a disciple of Parasara , who relates to Maitreya the Vishnu Purana . Among other things he tells Maitreya of a chant of the Earth , who said , \u201c When I hear a king sending word to another by his ambassador , \u2018 This earth is mine : immediately resign your pretensions to it , \u2019 I am moved to violent laughter at first ; but it soon subsides in pity for the infatuated fool . \u201d Again , the Purana says , \u201c Earth laughs , as if smiling with autumnal flowers , to behold her kings unable to effect the subjugation of themselves \u201d ; which is Emerson 's \u201c Earth laughs in flowers , to see her boastful boys Earth-proud , proud of the earth which is not theirs . \u201d", "For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog , being a god kissing carrion \u2014 Have you a daughter ?", "I never gave you aught .", "Nay , that follows not .", "Let her not walk i \u2019 the sun . Conception is a blessing , but not as your daughter may conceive . Friend , look to it .", "Ha , ha ! are you honest ?"], "true_target": ["No , not I ;", "Then I would you were so honest a man .", "Why \u2018 One fair daughter , and no more , the which he loved passing well . \u2019", "Ay , truly ; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd , than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness . This was sometime a paradox , but now the time gives it proof . \u201d Though expressed figuratively , there can be no doubt of Hamlet 's intention in this passage to warn Ophelia against some temptation then assailing her , which is attacking her virtue through the medium of her beauty , and which will probably prevail over it . It concerns her \u201c honesty , \u201d \u2014 a virtuous woman being honest in respect of others who have claims on her , and chaste in respect of herself ,\u2014 and undoubtedly it refers to the temptation which assails all women who win unscrupulous admirers by their charms , and to which they sometimes succumb . In Ophelia 's case it has been to Hamlet an impossible possibility that she could prove unfaithful to him , but here and now , since he has discovered her secret visit to the King , it has become reality . Then , as the scene proceeds , Hamlet in a breath admits and denies his former love for her , thus plainly repudiating any present affection .Here he renounces her in words , as formerly he had renounced her by signs . Then he denounces himself and his \u201c old stock \u201d as being without virtue , and concludes the subject by declaring : \u201c We are arrant knaves , all ; believe none of us . Go thy ways to a nunnery . \u201d Here he unmistakeably warns her against the King , for of that old stock only they two are left . To the blandishments of both she has yielded , as he supposes , and since Hamlet no longer loves her , and the King but lusts after her , her only safe retreat is in a nunnery . In those old days a nunnery was often the only refuge for a woman who was fancied by a king , if she would retain her purity . At this juncture Hamlet discovers Polonius , as is evident by his suggestion that he had better remain at home when he desires to play the fool ; if the remark were not intended for his ear , it would be absurd . Of course he realizes that Polonius has been listening to their conversation , but he does not betray his knowledge , though the rest of his comments are perhaps more particularly intended for Polonius 's ear . His words turn \u201c wild and whirling , \u201d Ophelia notes the change , and her responses change in tone accordingly . He protests that though she marries she must lose that immediate jewel of her soul of which Iago prates , or that she will transform her husband into the horned monster of Othello 's fears . And then he inveighs against wanton womankind in general , but in such terms as might befit the woman he supposes that she has become . He puts on \u201c an antic disposition \u201d for the benefit of Polonius , but under it all is the pointed notice to Ophelia that their past relationship can never be renewed , and the masked charge that it is her adoption of the ways of her frail sisters that has made him mad ,\u2014 as her words indicate that she supposes him to be ,\u2014 and that has wrecked the future happiness of both of them . When Hero is charged by Claudio with unchastity , she fancies that something must be wrong with him , and says : \u201c Is my lord well , that he doth speak so wild ? \u201d Of Othello 's accusation Desdemona thinks that \u201c something , sure , of state ... Hath puddled his clear spirit . \u201d In a similar frame of mind Ophelia entreats : \u201c Ye heavenly powers restore him , \u201d and bewails the overthrow of Hamlet 's reason . These three tender hearted women are singularly alike in their mental attitudes under the accusation , and but too willing to extenuate the cruel blow and to forgive it . But both Hero and Desdemona defend themselves against the charge , whilst Ophelia , maintaining her habitual reticence , neither admits nor denies anything , and Hamlet 's conviction of her wrongdoing with the King remains unchanged . Thus far Hamlet has made no direct charge of the transfer of Ophelia 's affections from him to another , but he seems to do this at their next interview , which takes place at the time of the play of \u2018 Gonzago 's Murder . \u2019 There is a bitterness towards her in his speech , a brutality in his obscene allusions , and a degree of heartlessness in it all , which can be excused \u2014 if indeed it be deemed excusable \u2014 only on the theory that he believes her to have herself become a heartless , wicked woman . When he is commenting on the facts of the play , and Ophelia suggests that he is \u201c as good as a chorus , \u201d he snarlingly replies : \u201c I could interpret between you and your love if I could see the puppets dallying . \u201d Everything which Hamlet says is pregnant with meaning , and Ophelia evidently regards this as a keen thrust at her , which it plainly is . Both of them know that they two are no longer lovers , and each of them therefore understands that the allusion is to some other man with whom she treads \u201c the primrose path of dalliance . \u201d As usual Ophelia does not deny the charge , and it would not be singular if Hamlet were to accept her silence as an admission of its truth . To whom she thinks that he refers does not appear , but there can be no doubt that his conviction is that her new lover is the King . The next incident indicating this conviction is the interview in which Polonius undertakes with much complacency to \u201c board \u201d the Prince :", "Ay , sir ; to be honest , as this world goes , is to be one man picked out of ten thousand .", "Am I not i \u2019 the right , old Jephthah ?", "Excellent well ; you are a fishmonger .", "Are you fair ?"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 90}, {"query": ["Honest , my lord ?", "That 's very true , my lord .", "How say you by that ? Still harping on my daughter . Yet he knew me not at first ; he said I was a fishmonger . He is far gone , far gone . \u201dThere has been much discussion of this passage , but no satisfactory solution of it . It is a good sample of the enigmatic style of speech characteristic of Hamlet , which presumably the audiences of Shakespeare 's day comprehended , which of course the astute Polonius did not understand , and which puzzles later generations because they have lost the ancient significance of certain words . Polonius is so prejudiced in favor of his theory that it was \u201c the very ecstacy of love \u201d that troubled Hamlet , that he does not even attempt to fathom his allusions . And yet Hamlet 's last remark , warning him about his daughter , rivets his attention , and he demands to know what is meant by it ; but it is only for an instant , his illusion again diverts him from the matter , and the chance of explanation thus escapes . Malone says that \u201c fishmonger \u201d was a cant term for a \u201c wencher \u201d ; and in Barnabe Rich 's \u2018 Irish Hubbub \u2019 is the expression \u201c senex fornicator , an old fishmonger . \u201d Possibly this is its primary significance in Hamlet 's mind , for shortly afterwards he satirically says of Polonius to the players : \u201c He 's for a jig , or a tale of bawdry , or he sleeps . \u201d In several instances Shakespeare similarly alludes to \u201c fishing \u201d ; as in \u2018 Measure for Measure , \u2019 i , 2 , 91 : \u201c Groping for trouts in a peculiar river \u201d ; \u2018 Winter 's Tale , \u2019 i , 2 , 195 : \u201c And his pond fish 'd by his next neighbor \u201d ; and possibly in \u2018 Antony and Cleopatra , \u2019 i , 4 , 4 : \u201c He fishes , drinks , and wastes the lamps of night in revels . \u201d The word \u201c monger \u201d in compound words , as used by Shakespeare , does not always mean a trader in the article , but sometimes one who merely indulges in the act ; as in \u2018 Love 's Labour 's Lost , \u2019 ii , 1 , 253 : \u201c Thou art an old love-monger \u201d ; in \u2018 Romeo and Juliet , \u2019 ii , 4 , 30 : \u201c These strange flies , these fashion-mongers \u201d ; and in \u2018 Measure for Measure , \u2019 v , 1 , 337 : \u201c Was the Duke a fleshmonger ? \u201d In common usage the word has this double significance , indeed , dependent upon whether its adjunct refers to a thing or to an act ; as , for example , cheesemonger and scandalmonger , and other similar compounds which will readily suggest themselves . Hence \u201c fishmonger \u201d means both one given to \u201c fishing \u201d and a trader in fish . And doubtless the latter is its most important significance in Hamlet 's mind , when Polonius denies that he is a fishmonger , namely that he is a trader in a food which from time immemorial has been supposed to be an aphrodisiac . Wherefore we are to understand Hamlet as meaning that Polonius is not so honest a man as the fishmonger that Polonius has in mind , or the senex fornicator that he originally had in mind , but that he is a fleshmonger ,\u2014 a pander , as Tieck puts it ;\u2014 \u201c traders in flesh \u201d such persons are termed in \u2018 Troilus and Cressida , \u2019 v , 11 , 46 . It is supposed by Tieck that the allusion is to the way in which Polonius threw Hamlet and Ophelia together , by Friesen that it refers to his pandering to the desires of Claudius and the Queen before the old King 's death , and by Doering that it points to his promotion of the o'erhYpppHeNhasty marriage of the King and Queen . But the foregoing discussion shows that the secondary thought in Hamlet 's mind is that for some personal end Polonius permits Ophelia to accept the King 's attentions , knowing the necessary effect of her youth and beauty on his licentious nature ; for at his last interview with her he saw her father also , though apparently hiding from both of them , and therefore believes that he was cognizant of the fact that she had gone to the palace privately to meet the King . It is evidently this belief which inspires him with the contempt which he afterwards exhibits towards Polonius . His next speech manifests this contempt in a notable degree , but it has been unappreciated because of the failure to perceive the significance of the word \u201c sun . \u201d It is an argument intended to enforce what he had already said , and , supplying the omitted portion , the whole runs thus : You are not honest , and you cannot be honest ; \u201c for if the sunbreed maggots in a dead dog , being agod kissing carrion , \u201d even so will the sun of this realmengender misdeeds in you , a corrupt man caressed by an earthly god . In characteristic fashion Shakespeare uses \u201c sun \u201d in a double sense , as he has just used \u201c fishmonger , \u201d and again the occult reference is to Polonius as a procurer for the King . And Hamlet follows this up by the warning concerning Ophelia ; \u201c Let her not walk i \u2019 the sun; conception is a blessing , but not as your daughter may conceive\" \u201c Sun \u201d in this passage means \u201c sunshine \u201d or \u201c sunlight , \u201d as in ordinary usage it often does , but it is the light of the sun of royalty that he has just mentioned . Hamlet 's meaning is made so plain by this construction , that it scarcely needs argument to enforce it . It may however be remarked that , assuming its correctness in respect of the declaration that Polonius is not so honest as a fishmonger , its correctness as to the sun 's breeding maggots in carrion and causing conception in Ophelia necessarily follows . The three enigmatical statements , thus interpreted , complement and explain each other , and therefore tend to prove each other ; and the proof is strengthened by the fact that they are the sequelae of a single thought , namely , his belief in an intrigue between Ophelia and the King . On the other hand , conceding such a belief , a man of Hamlet 's character would most naturally think these thoughts , and utter them in characteristic style to Ophelia 's father :\u2014 The King breeds corruption in you as does the sun in a carrion dog , you are risking your daughter 's honor to win his favor , and the experiment will probably end in her dishonor . Hence Hamlet 's alleged belief , deduced from his three interviews with Ophelia , and these three resulting comments tend to prove each other 's correctness . Again , the sun is plainly credited by Hamlet with a double function , namely , corruptly breeding life in a dead dog and in a living woman , and the only possible means of harmonizing the two \u2019 statements , and of making sense out of the latter , is to assume that some man is typified by the second sun . It is generally admitted that an uncompleted argument is introduced by the particle \u201c for , \u201d and , such being the case , it is a fair assumption that that also shall contain a reference to \u201c the sun \u201d as doing something which a man may do . On such an assumption , the argument is readily followed up : \u201c For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog , \u201d so must \u201c the sun \u201d breed dishonesty in you , and so may \u201c the sun \u201d cause your daughter to conceive . These three propositions are consistent , the logical connection between them is perfect , and their reason and purpose is clear , if the term \u201c sun \u201d may figuratively indicate \u201c the King . \u201d Now , it is to be observed that Shakespeare not infrequently refers to kings as suns , and likens them to gods . When the King has pardoned her son , the Duchess of York exclaims : \u201c A god on earth thou art \u201d ; \u2018 Richard II , \u2019 v , 3 , 136 . \u201c Kings are earth 's gods , \u201d says Pericles ; \u2018 Pericles , \u2019 i , 1 , 103 . And again he says of the King , his father , that he \u201c Had princes sit like stars about his throne , And he the sun , for them to reverence , \u201d Ibid ., II , iii , 40 , In \u2018 Henry VIII , \u2019 i , 1 , 6 , Buckingham , referring to the meeting of the Kings of England and France on the Field of the Cloth of Gold , styles them \u201c Those suns of glory , those two lights of men . \u201d And Norfolk tells of the wondrous deeds done there , \u201c when these sunsby their heralds challenged The noble spirits to arms \u201d ; Ibid ., i , 1 , 33 . Again , adverting to the manner in which Cardinal Woolsey overshadows all other men in the King 's favor , Buckingham says : \u201c I wonder That such a keech can with his very bulk Take up the rays o \u2019 th \u2019 beneficial sun , And keep it from the earth \u201d ; Ibid ., i , 1 , 56 . When the Cardinal has procured the King to arrest him , Buckingham foresees his speedy death , and again uses this metaphor in a passage which has been much misunderstood , Ibid ., i . 1 , 236 : \u201c I am the shadow of poor Buckingham , Whose figure even this instant cloud puts on By dark'ning my clear sun \u201d ; that is , whose body was even that moment entombed by the darkening of the King 's countenance against him ; he was already a dead man .In like manner , in \u2018 King John , \u2019 ii , i , 500 , the Dauphin of France refers to himself as King , when he says to his father that his shadow , visible in the eye of the Princess , \u201c Becomes a sun and makes your son a shadow . \u201d In Richard II , \u2019 iii , 2 , 50 , the King , likening himself to the sun , says that , as the \u201c eye of heaven \u201d reveals the dark deeds of night when he fires the proud tops of the eastern pines , \u201c So when this thief , this traitor , Bolingbroke ... Shall see us rising on our throne , the east , His treasons will sit blushing in his face . \u201d And again , Ibid ., iv , 1 , 260 , transferring the metaphor to Bolingbroke , he wails : \u201c O , that I were a mockery King of snow Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke , To melt myself away in waterdrops . \u201d In \u2018 1 Henry IV , \u2019 iii , 2 , 79 , the King speaks of \u201c sunlike majesty , When it shines seldom in admiring eyes . \u201d In \u2018 Richard III . \u2019 i , 1 , 1 , Gloster says , referring to the King : \u201c Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York . \u201d In \u2018 Hamlet , \u2019 i , 2 , 67 , the King asks Hamlet : \u201c How is it that the clouds still hang on you ? \u201d and he ironically replies : \u201c Not so , my lord , I am too much i \u2019 the sun . \u201d Here again \u201c sun \u201d means \u201c sunshine , \u201d and Hamlet , choosing to understand the King literally , and referring to the fact that clouds are dissipated by a genial sun , sneeringly protests that he is too much in the sunshine of royalty to have clouds hanging about him . Referring to a different effect of the sun 's warmth , Prince John speaks of \u201c The man that sits within a monarch 's heart And ripens in the sunshine of his favor \u201d ; \u2018 2 Henry IV , \u2019 iv , 2 , 12 . There are other similar uses of the word \u201c sun , \u201d which need not now be cited . The last reference to Ophelia 's supposed relation to the King occurs when Polonius comes to announce the presence of the players :", "If you call me Jephthah , my lord , I have a daughter that", "I have , my lord ."], "true_target": ["What treasure had he , my lord ?", "Do you know me , my lord ?", "I love passing well .", "Not I , my lord .", "Still on my daughter", "What follows then , my lord ?"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 90}, {"query": ["Guthrie 's work indicates in its form some of the characteristics of the new literary art . Though his theories are undoubtedly good , the expression is as yet too crude to form much idea of its possibilities . Whatever may be the age of the author , his work indicates a certain inexperience and lacks the grasp and finish of the skilled workman . His work is too reminiscent ; he has not sufficiently assimilated his sources and impressed them with his own individuality , giving them a distinctive unity of conception and expression . Though we are quite willing to accept his assurance that he \u201c did not intend his work to resemble any known performance , \u201d we are continually reminded of passages in other writers who had inspired him . At times we are struck with admiration at his power for catching the very trick of his model . His work is as \u201c oddly suited \u201d as was Portia 's lover . For he suggests to us \u2014 Homer and the Greek tragedians of course in theme and expression ; Milton and Dante with their lofty ideals ; Piers Ploughman dreaming about his \u201c fair field full of folk . \u201d For the conception he owes much to Shelley 's \u2018 Prometheus , \u2019 whose theme is very similar , but his methods are more modern , with verse theories of Whitman , philosophy of Browning , a Wagnerian idea of rhythm , making each rhythmical theme represent a peculiar mood or image , which is frequently very effective but sometimes forced ."], "true_target": ["George Brown , in his Emerson primer , thinks that the key-thought of \u2018 Rhea \u2019 is in these lines from \u2018 The World-Soul \u2019 about the gods :\u2014 \u201c To him who scorns their charities Their arms fly open wide . \u201d But the parallelism somewhat halts . For mark : In the one case Napoleon 's maxim is embodied , that God is on the side of the strongest battalions . The one who scorns the favoritisms and alms of Heaven , and yet , will he nill he , receives its aid , is really the strong God himself in mask , the noble and resolute man executing his will in time and space . But in the case supposed in \u2018 Rhea , \u2019 of husband and wife , the ones who scorn love are those not deserving of gifts at all, but persons who receive gifts in charity from one altruistically nobler than themselves . It is just this idea of sublime self-sacrifice that gives to \u2018 Rhea \u2019 its strange subtlety and its uniqueness among poems on love . There is a consolatory under-thought in the palimpsest , too . By his illustration of the god and the mortal maid the poet wishes Rhea to divine that , if wives make moan over husbands \u2019 lost love , husbands no less often have reason to lament the cooled affection of wives . The central idea in \u2018 Uriel \u2019 is that there is no such thing as evil . This thesis is put into the mouth of Uriel , one of the seven archangels , because he was the \u201c interpreter \u201d of God 's will . So Milton says , in the locus classicus on Uriel in Book III of \u2018 Paradise Lost . \u2019 He also says he was \u201c The sharpest-sighted spirit of all in heav'n . \u201d His station was in the all-viewing sun . Uriel , in Milton , tells how , when the universe was yet chaos , \u201c Or ever the wild Time coined itself Into calendar months and days , \u201d he saw the worlds a-forming ,\u2014 earth , sun , and stars . Emersontakes Milton at his word , and leads us back into that dark backward and abysm of time , and lets us overhear a conversation between Uriel and the other seraphs . At his speech \u201c the gods shook , \u201d because if there is no sin , if all comes round to good , even a lie , then good-bye gods , hells and heavens , and their punishments . But note that , though the All turns your wrong to good in the end , yet you , an individual , suffer for your wrongdoing . In a genial paper in the Andover Review for March , 1887 , Dr. C. C. Everett says that Dr . Hedge suggested to him that \u2018 Uriel \u2019 probably took its origin in the discussions of the Boston Association of Ministers on the theme, \u201c There is no line in nature \": all is circular , and by the law of reaction every deed returns upon the doer . At any rate , it was written in 1838 , soon after his Divinity School Address .The god of boundaries in ancient Rome \u2014 Terminus \u2014 gives his name to the cheeriest of monodies or anchoring songs sung by the gayest of old sailors on the sea of eternity , and at last approaching port . Terminus , like Hermes , the Greek god of bounds , was shown in his statues without hands or feet , to indicate that he never moved . Was Emerson a little rusty in his classical lore , or did he boldly and knowingly defy classical verities when he says the divinity came to him \u201c in his fatal rounds \u201d ? He seems to have attributed to Terminus patrolling functions like those of his own New England village fence-viewers . Or , rather , speaking in noble and more adequate terms , has he not added to the world 's mythologies a new and poetical deity ,\u2014 the god of the bounds of human life , a kind of avant-courier or Death 's dragoman to announce to men their approaching end ? \u2018 Terminus \u2019 was written about 1866 , when Emerson was in or near his sixty-third year , and sixteen years before his death . William Sloane Kennedy . A DEFENCE OF BROWNING 'S LATER WORK . If a defence of Browning 's work were to include all he has written since the date when Edmund Gosse said his books were chiefly valuable as keeping alive popular interest in the poet , and as leading fresh generations of readers to what he had already published , it would needs begin as far back as 1868 ; and considering the amount of work done since that time would require at least a volume to do the subject justice . Fortunately it has long been admitted that Homer sometimes nods , though not with such awful effect as was said to attend the nods of Jove \u2014 Hence , in spite of Mr. Gosse 's undoubted eminence as a critic , we may dare to assume that in this particular instance he fell into the ancient and distinguished trick of nodding ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 90}, {"query": ["Of Judah , dear boy , of Judah . To be ignorant on such a vital matter makes it even more reprehensible . I cannot believe that our dear Miss Pinniger has so neglected your education that \u2014\u2014", "Ah , our young friend , Oliver ! And how are we this morning , dear lad ?", "Dear , dear , what will Miss Pinniger say to this interruption of our studies ?", "For men must work , Oliver , men must work . How doth the little busy bee \u2014 Yes , Miss Pinniger , I am with you ."], "true_target": ["Tut-tut , dear lad , that is not the way to speak of our mentors and preceptors . So refined and intelligent a lady as Miss Pinniger . Indeed I came here to see her this morning on a little matter of embroidered vestments . Where is she , dear lad ?", "Past nine , past nine .", "My dear Miss Pinniger ! You will forgive me for interrupting you in your labours , but there is a small matter of \u2014 ah !\u2014 -", "That 's well , that 's well . Deep in our studies , I see , deep in our studies . And what branch of Knowledge are we pursuing this morning ?", "Oliver ! Oliver ! My dear lad ! Swearing at your age ! Really , I almost feel it my duty to inform your aunt \u2014 -"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 91}, {"query": ["I do n't care .", "Which book ?", "Oo , yes . And he before his cottage door was sitting in the sun .Was sitting in the sun . Er \u2014\u2014 er \u2014 -", "I shall think I 'm on my desert island .", "and JILLLiquorice-powder !", "Oh yes , this is the one .", "Aunt Jane wanted her .", "Well , you see , I 've been wrecked , you see , and the ship has foundered with all hands , you see , and I 've been cast ashore on a desert island , you see .", "Oh yes , of course . And he before \u2014 er \u2014 and he before \u2014 er \u2014 It was a summer evening , Old Kaspar 's work was done , and he before \u2014 er \u2014 and he before \u2014 -  Er , it was a summer evening \u2014 -", "Beast !", "After Blenheim . It was a summer evening .", "Pin and Dearly Belov\u00e9d between them . She 's a bit batey this morning .", "It was a summer evening \u2014 -", "The one I always pretend I 'm on when I 'm thinking .", "I say , Jill , you are going it !", "It was a summer evening \u2014 It was a summer evening \u2014Old Kaspar 's work was done . It was a summer evening , Old Kaspar 's work was done \u2014 -", "My desk ?", "Oh , I say , I did n't know I had to learn the title .", "All right , thanks .", "Well , you will be this afternoon , of course . Well , you see , we land on the island , you see , and it 's a perfectly ripping island , you see , and \u2014 and we land on it , you see , and . . . .", "It is n't nine yet .", "After Blenheim , by Robert Southey , one of our greatest poets . It was a summer evening , Old Kaspar 's work was done \u2014 er \u2014 Old Kaspar 's work was done \u2014 er \u2014 work was done , er . . .", "Israel .", "I sha n't tell you . This is a special think I thought last night . As soon as I thought of it , I decided to keep it fora moment of great emergency ."], "true_target": ["No , Miss Pinniger .", "I expect you 'll think all sorts of silly things that never happen on a desert island .", "I just seem to have forgotten this bit , Miss Pinniger . And he before \u2014 -", "I \u2014 I think so , Miss Pinniger .", "Fifty-six . Old Kaspar 's work was done . Jolly well wish mine was . And he before his cottage door . Fat lot of good my learning this stuff if I 'm going to be a sailor . I bet Beatty did n't mind what happened to rotten old Kaspar when he saw a German submarine .", "All right .", "Oh , I know the one you mean . I must have put it down somewhere .", "You wait . Wo n't I jolly well bag something of hers one day , just when she wants it .", "It was just something tickling my throat , Miss Pinniger . Er \u2014 it was a summer evening .", "\u201c Marooned in the Pacific , \u201d or \u201c The Pirate 's Bride . \u201d", "I said somebody had bagged my sponge , and she would n't like me to come down to prayers all unsponged , and she said , \u201c Excuses , Oliver , always excuses ! Leave me . I will see you later . \u201d Suppose that means I 've got to go to bed this afternoon . Jill , if I do , be sporty and bring me up \u201c Marooned in the Pacific . \u201d", "Bet you what you like she knew .", "Shut up !", "Oo , lots of pirates and Dyaks and cannibals and \u2014 other people .", "Je-hoshaphat !", "Blenheim ? Oh no , it was after Blenheim .", "I suppose I shall have to think .", "What 's the matter with your chest ?", "Then I shall jolly well go up for a handkerchief this morning , and shove it in the bed , just in case . Cav\u00e9 \u2014 here 's Pin .", "Silly old beast .", "Well \u2014 well \u2014\u2014Well , you can if you like .", "Yes , I have , Miss Pinniger , only I can n't quite remember it . And he before his cottage door \u2014 -", "Fat lot of swearing in just mentioning one of the Kings of", "Hallo , Jill . Gone off with Dearly Belov\u00e9d . Her momentary absence from the room should make no difference to your zeal , my dear Geraldine . And what are we studying this morning , dear child ?It was a summer evening , Old Kaspar 's work was done ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 91}, {"query": ["I am talking to Oliver , Geraldine . Where is that book ,", "His cottage door .", "After Blenheim , by Robert Southey . One of our greatest poets .", "Thank you , I will take it .", "Geraldine , kindly attend to your own work .", "Close the book , and stand up and say it .Well ?", "You have a cough , Oliver . Perhaps the doctor had better see you when he comes to see Geraldine .", "Well , what was he before ?", "And he before \u2014 -", "Oliver ?", "Certainly , Mr. Smilax . I will walk down to the gate with you . Oliver , where is Geraldine ?"], "true_target": ["Ah , Mr. Smilax ; how pleasant to see you !", "The title and the author first , Oliver . Everything in its proper order .", "Well , we shall have to spend more time at our lessons , that 's all . This afternoon \u2014 ah \u2014 er \u2014 -", "Well , Oliver , have you learnt your piece of poetry ?", "And I will speak to your aunt at once about the behaviour of both of you .", "Oliver was coughing just now .", "Is it any good , Geraldine , asking you if you have got any of your sums right ?", "You have n't learnt it , Oliver ?", "Perhaps you put it in your desk .", "So you have already said , Oliver .", "We will now go on with our lessons . Oliver , you will have opportunities in your bedroom this afternoon of learning your poetry . By the way , I had better have that book which you were reading when I came in just now .", "Well , you should be at your lessons . It 's nine o'clock . The fact that I am momentarily absent from the room should make no difference to your zeal ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 91}, {"query": ["Oh ! . . . Oliver ?", "Which desert island ?", "What sort of other people ?", "I did try to help you , Oliver .", "I 'll try not to , Oliver , if you tell me .", "And all my sums have done themselves wrong .What 's nine times seven , Oliver ?", "I blew my nose rather loud at prayers this morning .", "Let me be on your desert island this time . Because I did try to help you .", "Of course she did , and she 'll tell the doctor , and he 'll be as beastly as he can . What did she say to you for being late ?", "Where 's Pin ?", "You see , it 's all gone wrong here , and I think I must have multiplied \u2014\u2014I think I must have multiplied \u2014\u2014", "Six and carry five . Aunt Jane has sent for the doctor to look at my chest ."], "true_target": ["What shall you think about ?", "I 've got one , Miss Pinniger . . . nearly right . . . except for some of the figures .", "I 'm afraid you 'll find the afternoon rather tiring without your book . What will you do ?", "Have n't I been cast ashore too ?", "It was n't my fault , Oliver . Aunt Jane turned over two pages at once and made me laugh , so I had to turn it into a blow .", "Oh , thank you , Oliver . Wo n't you tell me what it 's about , and then we can both think it together this afternoon .", "I feel quite well .", "Go on .", "Is that Pin ?", "After Blenheim .", "Miss Pinniger , if you 're multiplying rods , poles , or perches by nine , does it matter if \u2014 -", "They 'll lock the door . They always do .", "Is n't there any one else on it ever ?"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 91}, {"query": ["Castor-oil , liquorice-powder , ammoniated quinine \u2014 anything of that nature , doctor ?", "Which do they dislike least ?"], "true_target": ["I will see to it , doctor .", "I 'm sorry to interrupt lessons , Miss Pinniger , but I have brought the Doctor to see Geraldine .You will like her to go to her room ?", "Thank you , doctor ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 91}, {"query": ["A dangerous symptom . Plenty of rice-pudding .", "Ah ! His pulse \u2014\u2014 tut-tut ! His tongue \u2014Dear , dear ! The same treatment , dear lady , as prescribed in the other case ."], "true_target": ["As necessary , dear lady , as necessary . The system must be stimulated . Nature must be reinforced .", "No , no , dear lady . There is no need . Her pulse \u2014\u2014 - dear , dear ! Her tongue \u2014\u2014 tut-tut ! A milk diet , plenty of rice-pudding , and perhaps she would do well to go to bed this afternoon .", "Then concentrate on the other two , dear lady ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 91}, {"query": ["That one ? Rice-pudding tree .", "Tread carefully , Jill , there are lots of deadly rattlesnakes about .", "Glad to meet you , Commodore . I 'm \u2014 er \u2014 Two-toed Thomas , the Terror of the Dyaks . But you may call me Oliver , if you like . This is my sister Jill \u2014 the Pride of the Pampas .", "What about the domestic animals ? I suppose they 've got to eat .", "And hat and gloves and hymn-book too !", "Upon the plains of Timbuctoo", "All the same , you know , I jolly well should like to rescue somebody .", "Well , what else would you want them for ?", "Could n't . The ship sank with all hands before I could get them . But it does n't matter , becauseI recognise this as the bull'shYpppHeNeye tree .", "He has n't got a daughter .", "I say , shut up , Jill . You did n't think I meant it for you , did you ?", "Mine 's rather \u2014 Jill , have n't you got one ?", "My sister wants to marry you . Er \u2014 carry on .", "Silly ! It 's a cassowary , of course .", "Much better than that . Look in that cage there .", "Pistols .", "And how many pieces of eight have you ?", "Righto ! Good night , Fluffkins . Time little doctors were in bed .", "Good biz .", "Oo , rather .", "Nine times eight .", "Shut up , Jill ! A brigantine ? Ah yes , a rakish craft , eh , Commodore ?", "What 's your ship ? A sloop or a frigate ?", "Yes , we saw one just now .", "Any doubloons ?", "Not at all , Jill . Make yourself at home . I 've just been trying the doctor in the lagoon . There were sharks there , after all , so we 'll have to find another place for bathing . Oh , and I shot an elephant . What would you like to do now ?", "Ingots of gold ?", "Good-bye , you chaps .", "Jill , you did n't ever want to marry a pirate , did you ?", "I wish I were a cassowary", "Across a handkerchief .", "And then I 'd eat a missionary \u2014"], "true_target": ["I will .", "I thought of that in bed one night . Spiffing idea , is n't it ? I 've got some other ones in the plantation over there . Awfully good specimens . I feed \u2018 em on rice-pudding .", "and JILLYes ! Rather !", "There was nothing but breadfruit trees here the first time I was marooned on it . Rotten things to have on a decent island . So I planted a bull'shYpppHeNeye tree , and a barley-sugar-cane grove , and one or two other things , and made a jolly ripping place of it .", "You hear the noise of their rattles sometimes when the sun is sinking behind the swamp .There !", "Hallo ! Settled it ?", "A maiden in distress ! I will rescue her .", "And will you come to the party ?", "I was just going to ask you about your guns . You 've got \u2018 em fore and aft of course ?", "And do you ever have brothers-in-law in your ship ?", "I 'm teaching it .Come up there .", "Ah !What 's nine times eight ?", "It 's pretty decent , is n't it ? Wo n't you lie down ? I generally lie down here and watch the turtles coming out of the sea to deposit their eggs on the sand .", "That 's all it can say at present . I 'm going to give it a swim in the lagoon to-morrow . I want to see if there are any sharks . If there are n't , then we can bathe there afterwards .", "Jill ! Do n't you remember the rhyme ?", "Oh ! Carry on , Commodore .", "Come on , Jill .", "I do n't want to . If ever I 'm such a silly ass as to marry , which I 'm jolly well not going to be , I shall marry a \u2014 a dusky maiden . Jill , be sporty . All girls have to get married some time . It 's different with men .", "That 's right .", "Then , Captain Crookshank , you may take my sister !", "Here , I 'll show youWhat do you think of that ?", "If there 's anything you want , you know , you 've only got to say so . Pirates or anything like that . There 's a ginger-beer well if you 're thirsty .", "Those are n't . I always have their teeth taken out when ladies are coming . Besides , it 's daylight now .", "Bring some ?Oh , you mean from the wreck ?", "Yes , yes , of course .", "Jill , you must give the word . JILL . Are you ready ?", "And there 's just one other thing . If the brigantine happened to put in at an island for water , and the captain 's brother-in-law happened \u2014 just happened \u2014 to be a silly ass and go and marry a dusky maiden , whom he met on the beach \u2014 -", "Then you 've seventy-two thousand pieces altogether ?", "I suppose the captain 's brother-in-law is generally the first man to board the Spaniard with his cutlass between his teeth ?", "I say , we ought n't to miss tea .", "He says it 's his birthday to-morrow .", "Oh , three \u2014 or a hundred . Just depends how hungry I am . Have a bull'shYpppHeNeye , wo n't you ?", "Because I can get you an awfully decent pirate , if you like , and if I was his brother-in-law it would be ripping . I 've often been marooned with him , of course , but never as his brother-in-law ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 92}, {"query": ["How many do they de-deposit usually , Oliver ?", "It 's no good being sorry . Take another week 's notice .You must forgive my talking to my maid . She wants such a lot of looking after .That will do , Jane ,Dear , dear , how clumsy you are . What wages am I giving you now ?", "Oliver ! Take me back to the boat at once .", "But there 's only you and me on the island .", "Oh , I 'm so sorry ! I was forgetting about your ear .", "Yes , we 'll come back , wo n't we , Oliver ?", "I thought it was our tea gong .", "Wo n't you sit down , Commodore ?", "Well , I think it 's a lovely island .", "Ah , here it is .", "Well , Commodore ?", "Oh , did you bring some ?", "Oh , is that a cage ? I never noticed it . What do I do ?", "I know I had one , but I \u2014\u2014", "Oh , how lovely ! Have we got a goat and a parrot , and a \u2014 a \u2014", "And he 's going to polish up the four-pounder until I can see my face in it .", "Oliver !", "Why do n't you marry his daughter and be his son-in-law ?", "I 'm quite happy , Oliver , thank you .", "I hope you like China .Well , as I was saying \u2014 -You can clear away , Jane .", "It 's all settled , Oliver , between Eric and myself , but you will want to ask him about his prospects , wo n't you ?", "I expect Oliver will wish to reside at Hammersmith , so convenient for the City . You 'll like Hammersmith . You 'll go to St. Paul 's Church , I expect . The Vicar will be sure to call .Ah , here 's tea .You 're very slow , Jane .", "Oh , Oliver , how lovely ! Thank you .", "Thank you , Oliver .", "Eric , how sweet of you . But I think you must speak to my brother in the library first . Oli-ver !", "Nine times eight .", "I 'm so pleased to meet my brother 's future wife . It 's so nice of you to come to see me . You will have some tea , wo n't you ?I wanted to see you , because I can tell you so many little things about my brother , which I think you ought to know . You see , Eric \u2014 my husband \u2014"], "true_target": ["Well , you could think him one .", "And thank you all for a very pleasant afternoon .", "Yes . I wish you could see him . He 's so nice-looking . But I 'm afraid he wo n't be home to tea . That 's the worst of marrying a sailor . They are away so much . Well , I was telling you about Oliver . I think it would be better if you knew at once that \u2014 he does n't like rice-pudding .", "I had n't thought about it much , Oliver dear .", "Do n't mention it , Commodore .", "Good-bye , good-bye .", "What 's that tree over there ?", "I am waiting , Eric .", "Oh , Oliver , I love your island . I 've been thinking things all by myself . You 're married to Tua-heeta . You do n't mind , do you ?", "Oh , what a lovely island ! I think it 's lovely , Oliver .", "Well , we 'd better make it ninepence .Servants are a great nuisance , are n't they ? Jane is a peculiarly stupid person . She used to be aunt to my brother , and I have only taken her on out of charity .Milk ? Sugar ?", "Fluffkins .", "Is that all they 're for ?", "Oh , Oliver , is n't Eric a nice man ?", "Oo , rescue me , Oliver .", "Seventy-two .", "Oh , that 's what Oliver puts on his hair when he goes to a party .", "Excuses , Jane , always excuses . Leave me . Take a week 's notice .YOU must excuse my maid . She 's very stupid . Tea at once , Jane .What was I saying ? Oh yes , about Oliver . He does n't care for cod-liver oil in the way that some men do . You would be wise not to force it on him just at first . . . . Have you any idea where you are going to live ?", "Very well , Oliver . I do n't want to spoil your afternoon .", "Can this one talk ?", "What 's a cassowary ?", "Oh , Oliver , are they very deadly ? Because if they are , I do n't think I shall like your island .", "Just let 's lie here and see what happens .Oh , what a lovely bird ! Is it an ostrich ?", "Yes , from the wreck . I mean besides the axe and the bag of nails and the gunpowder .", "He went so quickly .", "Have you given it a name yet ? I think I should like to call it", "Oli-ver !", "Yes , he hates it . It is very important that you should remember that . Then there 's another thing \u2014He dislikes \u2014 Oh , there you are , Jane . You 've been a very long time answering the bell ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 92}, {"query": ["Madam , I am not a marrying man , not to any extent , but if you would care to be Mrs. Crookshank , I 'd undertake on my part to have the deck swabbed every morning , and to put a polish on the four-pounder that you could see your pretty face in .", "Gentles , your servant . Commodore Crookshank , at your service . Better known on the Spanish Main as One-eared Eric .", "Do n't mention it . A little discussion in the La Plata river with a Spanish gentleman . At the end of it I was an ear short and he was a head short . It was considered in the family that I had won ."], "true_target": ["Thank you , madam . The other side if I may . I shall hear better if you condescend to accept me .", "Wo n't you call me Eric ?", "Charmed !"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 92}, {"query": ["Steward ! Steward !", "I shall be very glad to tell you anything I can , sir . I think", "Well , I never have had yet , but I have always been looking about for one .", "A brigantine .", "Nine thousand .", "Yes , sir , about that .", "Nine times eight ."], "true_target": ["Extremely rakish .", "Lashings of \u2018 em .", "I may say that I am doing fairly well in my profession .", "I made it seventy-one , but I expect you 're right .", "Yes , sir . A four-pounder fore and a half-pounder haft .", "Bless you , it 's always happening to a captain 's brother-in-law .", "Hundreds of \u2018 em .", "You might almost say always . Many a ship on the Spanish Main I 've had to leave unboarded through want of a brother-in-law . They 're touchy about it somehow . Unless the captain 's brother-in-law comes first they get complaining ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 92}, {"query": ["Thank you .", "Rice-poodeeng ?"], "true_target": ["Live ?", "Ereec ?"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 92}, {"query": ["A shilling a month , ma'am .", "I 'm so sorry ma'am , I was just dressing ."], "true_target": ["I 'm sorry , ma'am .", "Yes , ma'am ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 92}, {"query": ["But I was just going a little walk \u2014 in this direction \u2014 if you will permit me .", "Dear , dear , dear . You did n't happen to ask him what was the object of his researches ?", "Dear , dear ! Fortunately \u2014 I say fortunately \u2014 this is not Timbuctoo !I take it that a cassowary residing in other latitudes is of a more temperate habit . His appetite , I venture to suggest , dear lady , would be under better restraint . That being so , I may perhaps safely \u2014\u2014Dear , dear , dear , dear , dear ! This is terrible ! You said , I think , that the \u2014 ah \u2014 bird in question was moving in this direction ?", "My dear sir , it is most kind of you to invite me , but a prior engagement in a different part of the country \u2014 a totally unexpected call upon me in another locality \u2014 will unfortunately \u2014\u2014", "Oh , what 's he saying ?"], "true_target": ["Come in ! . . . As I was saying , my dear sir \u2014\u2014Ca n't you see I 'm engaged \u2014\u2014 Oh dear , dear , dear , dear , dear !", "Yes , my dear sir , it is as you say , a beautiful morning .", "I am sorry to intrude upon your privacy , dear friends , but have you observed a cassowary on this island , apparently looking for something ?", "I have noticed it , my dear sir , I have often made that very observation to my parishioners .", "Then I shall move , hastily yet with all due precaution , in that direction .I beg your \u2014\u2014Dear , dear , dear , dear , dear !", "I wonder if you have ever heard of a little rhyme which apparently attributes to the bird in question , when residing in the level pastures of Timbuctoo , an unholy lust for the body and appurtenances thereto of an unnamed clerical gentleman ?"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 92}, {"query": ["Boria , boria , boo !", "Boria , boria , boo !"], "true_target": ["Boria , boria , boo !", "Boria , boria , boo !", "Wurra , wurra wug !"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 92}, {"query": ["Yes , sir .", "Yes , sir , coming , sir .", "Yes , sir , going , sir .", "Concertina , sir ."], "true_target": ["Yes , sir , here , sir .", "Yes , sir , coming , sir .", "Yes , sir , going , sir .", "Yes , sir , coming , sir ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 92}, {"query": ["But you 'll come back ? We shall always be waiting here for you whenever you want us .", "Listen !The Spanish Fleet is engaged !", "Steward !", "Wait , woman .Ernest , offer your seat to the lady .", "Done !Have you got a handkerchief ? I think I must have left mine on the dressing-table .", "Oliver ?Have we any Olivers on board ?", "Gentlemen !The crew of the Cocktail will carouse \u2014\u2014One !Two !Three !Four !So ! . . . Steward !", "Then we will cross-examine the prisoner .Name ?", "Having passed an hour thus in feasting and song \u2014\u2014", "French futile .", "Have we any Jills on board ?", "Having , as I say , slept off our carouse \u2014 -", "Arithmetic rotten .", "Look lively , my lad , look lively .", "You cannot be referring to Mrs. Crookshank , styled the Pride of the Pampas ?", "Now then , tumble up , my lad . I would carouse . Circulate the dry ginger .", "You cannot be referring to my brother-in-law , hight Two-Toed Thomas , the Terror of the Dyaks ?", "She could n't . History hopeless .", "At twenty paces ?", "Swords ?", "Two-toed Thomas , Terror of the Dyaks , and Pest of the North Pacific , truly thou art a well-plucked one . Wilt fight me for the wench ?", "The motion is carried .", "And what do you teach them ?"], "true_target": ["Dancing dubious .", "Give it to the woman .", "Concertina .", "Christian names , if any ?", "Thank you .Cecil , have you your pencil and notebook with you ?", "Basil , ask her a question in French .", "I do n't suppose it 's much use , Francis . But try her in Geography .", "And what are you for ?", "Pray do not mention it .You were asking \u2014 -", "Geography ghastly .", "Go , find that black beetle , and having found it , introduce it circumspectly by the back door .", "What else do you teach ?", "Those in favour \u2014 ay !", "This is an ill business . Five-and-thirty duels have I fought \u2014 and never before been delayed for lack of a handkerchief .", "Habits \u2014 untruthful . Appearance \u2014 against her . Got that ?", "Gentlemen , I think you will agree with me that the woman Pinniger has proved that she is utterly incapable of teaching anybody anything . Twenty-five years , man and boy , I have sailed the Spanish Main , and with the possible exception of a dumb and half-witted negro whom I shipped as cook in \u2018 64 , I have never met any one so profoundly lacking in intellect . I propose , therefore , that for the space of twenty-four hours the woman Pinniger should be incarcerated in the smuggler 's cave , in the company of a black beetle of friendly temperament .", "Spell it like a sneeze . Age ?", "The carouse is over .", "Ah , perhaps you 're right .", "Give her a last chance , Mervyn . See if she knows any history .", "Contrary \u2014 No !", "Can you dance a hornpipe ?", "A moment ! I would take counsel with Percy .Percy , what shall we ask her in Arithmetic ?Excellent .If you really are a teacher as you say , answer me this question . The brigantine Cocktail is in longitude 40 \u00b0 39 \u2019 latitude 22 \u00b0 50 \u2019 , sailing closehauled on the port tack at 8 knots in a 15-knot nor \u2019 - nor \u2019 westerly breeze \u2014 how soon before she sights the Azores ?"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 92}, {"query": ["No , I \u2014 -", "Oh no , no , I am so sorry . Perhaps I \u2014 er \u2014", "Oh please do n't trouble , I 'm getting out at the next station \u2014 I mean I \u2014", "Dancing \u2014\u2014", "It-run to ? But that is n't \u2014 of course I \u2014 -", "Oh , everything . Arithmetic , French , Geography , History ,", "Oliver ! Jill !Oh , I beg your pardon , I \u2014 er \u2014 -", "Oh , but I hardly \u2014 I \u2014 -", "Oh no , no \u2014 Just a small boy and his sister \u2014 Jill ."], "true_target": ["I teach . Oliver and Jill , you know .", "Music , dancing \u2014 er \u2014 but I do n't think \u2014 -", "I 'm afraid I \u2014 -", "Mercy ! Mercy !", "Twenty-three .", "I \u2014 I \u2014 I 'm afraid I \u2014 - You see \u2014 I \u2014\u2014", "Letitia .", "I \u2014 I was l-looking for a small boy \u2014 Oliver \u2014", "Pinniger .", "Oliver ! Oliver ! Jill ! You may get up now and come down to tea ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 92}, {"query": ["HUBBARDHave another , my love .", "HUBBARD . It is very strange . Possibly the fact that the chimney has not been swept for some years may have something to do with it . Or he may have forgotten our change of address . I cannot help feeling that if he knew how we had been left to starve in this way he would be very much annoyed .", "HUBBARD . Nor I , my love . But at least it will be written of us in the papers that the Hubbards perished in faultless evening dress . We are a proud race , and if Father Christmas deliberately cuts us off in this way , let us go down proudly . . . . Shall we go on reading or would you like to walk up and down the room ? Fortunately these simple pleasures are left to us .", "HUBBARD . Oh no , no , not at all , my love . . . After all , it is n't as if they were real children .", "HUBBARDA , B , C , D , E , F , G , H , I \u2014 dear me , have we got nine already ?", "HUBBARD . Nor I .", "HUBBARDA letter .", "HUBBARD . Well , well , perhaps some day Father Christmas will give us some .", "HUBBARDFather Christmas ! An invitation to Court !\u201c Father Christmas at Home , 25th December . Jollifications , 11. 59 P. M . \u201d My love , he has found us at last !", "HUBBARD . I almost wish now that my last suit had been a knickerbocker one . However , we must do what we can with a sock .", "HUBBARDDarling one , Frank has curly brown hair . It was an understood thing that you should choose the girls , and I should choose the boys . When we decided to take \u2014 A , B , C , D , E , F \u2014 a sixth child , it was my turn for a boy , and I selected Frank . He has curly brown hair and a fondness for animals ."], "true_target": ["HUBBARDDearest , you sighed ?", "HUBBARDIsabel ?", "HUBBARD . Darling , you did sigh . Tell me what grieves you .", "HUBBARDNow , dear , I will go down and put them in position . Let us hope that fortune will be kind to us .", "HUBBARD . True . But how would it be to hang up our stockings again this evening \u2014 now that we know he knows we are here ? I would suggest tied on to the door-knocker , to save him the trouble of coming down the chimney .", "HUBBARD . Yes .But we can n't go .", "HUBBARD . True , dear . Not only is it artistically furnished , as you say , but it is also blessed with that most precious of all things \u2014\u2014 a library .", "HUBBARD . Well , I mean they 're only the children we thought we 'd like to have if Father Christmas gave us any .", "HUBBARD . We have indeed . But I am selfish . Would you care to read ?", "HUBBARDJust make the room look a little more homey , dear , in case it 's any one important .", "HUBBARD . The Hubbards are a proud race . No male Hubbard would dream of appearing at Court without a gentleman 's gold Albert watch-chain . . . . Besides , there is another thing . There will be many footmen at Father Christmas 's Court , who will doubtless require coppers pressed into their palms . My honour would be seriously affected , were I compelled to whisper to them that I had no coppers .", "and MRS. HUBBARD , in faultless evening dress , are at home , MR. HUBBARD reading a magazine , MRS. HUBBARD with her hands in her lap . She sighs ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 93}, {"query": ["HUBBARD . Yes , yes , Henry , we have much to be thankful for .", "HUBBARDDarling , say you do n't think it 's too many .", "HUBBARD . Yes , dear , our youngest . Do n't you remember , she comes after Harold ?", "HUBBARDNo , no , Henry . In a luxurious and well-appointed home such as this , why should I sigh ?", "HUBBARDI hope Father Christmas wo n't give me a bicycle . A stocking never sets so well after it has had a bicycle in it .", "HUBBARD . I 've finished this page .", "HUBBARD . Some one at the door ! Who could it be ?", "HUBBARD . How can I possibly go without a diamond necklace ? None of the Montmorency-Smythe women has ever been to Court without a diamond necklace .", "HUBBARDHenry ! How can you say they are not real ?", "HUBBARD . Why does he neglect us so , Henry ? We hang up our stockings every year , but he never seems to notice them . Even a diamond necklace or a few oranges or a five-shilling postal order would be something .", "HUBBARD . I daresay you 're right , dear . Of course it is a little confusing when you never see your children ."], "true_target": ["HUBBARD . Quick !", "HUBBARD . Little Isabel . Her cough troubles me .", "HUBBARDHenry , I wonder ! But of course we will .", "HUBBARD . Thank you , thank you , Henry .", "HUBBARD . They are just as real to me as if they were here in the house . Ada , Bertram , Caroline , the high-spirited Dennis , pretty Elsie with the golden ringlets , dear little fair-haired Frank \u2014", "HUBBARD . And clothes . I have literally nothing but what I am standing up in \u2014 I mean sitting down in .", "HUBBARD . Let us hope so , darling . And quickly . Forit is a trifle cold .", "HUBBARD . It is very unfortunate . Father Christmas may have hundreds of presents waiting for us .", "HUBBARD . Well ?", "HUBBARDNo , I have no clothes .", "HUBBARD . Henry , how gratifying !"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 93}, {"query": ["An entertainment well devised , Master Ableways , sobeit the words of the second song remain with me after I am delivered of the first .", "It is so . I never made much of an Alleluia . It is not in my nature somehow . \u2018 Tis a vain boastful thing an Alleluia ."], "true_target": ["Hold , hold , Master Ableways ! Does it begin \u2014 No , that 's the other one .Ay , ay \u2014 I have it now \u2014 and bursting to get out of me . Proceed , Peter Ableways .", "What matter the feet , Martha Porritt , if the heart be warm with loving-kindness and seasonable emotions ?"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 94}, {"query": ["My feet are n't so cold now .", "Master Ableways !", "Are we to go on , Master Ableways ? My feet are cold ."], "true_target": ["Do n't forget the collection , Master Ableways .", "Well , nothing of me will be warm soon .", "Are we to begin soon , Master Ableways ? My feet are cold ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 94}, {"query": ["Ay , let 's begin , Peter Ableways , while we carry the tune in our heads . It is ill searching for the notes in the middle of the carol , as some singers do ."], "true_target": ["Ay , it makes a pleasing clink ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 94}, {"query": ["Ay , the collection .", "Well ! . . . Well ! . . . Well , friends , let us to the next house . We have got all that we can get here .", "Good evening , sir .", "So , a warming noise .", "Ay , lass !", "True , Mistress Jennifer . Master Humphrey speaks true .", "Well spoken , Mistress Jennifer . Now listen all , while I unfold the nature of the entertainment . Item \u2014 A carol or birth song to draw the attention of all folk to the company here assembled and the occasion celebrated . Item \u2014 Applause and the clapping of hands . Item \u2014 A carol or song of thanksgiving . Item \u2014 A collection ."], "true_target": ["Well sung , all .", "Remember the carol singers , sir .", "Well sung , all .", "One \u2014 two \u2014 three \u2014", "Are we all ready , friends ? I will say one \u2014 two \u2014 three \u2014 and at \u201c three \u201d I pray you all to give it off in a hearty manner from the chest . One \u2014 two \u2014", "Ay , friend , all is ready .", "Are all ready ? One \u2014 two \u2014 three !"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 94}, {"query": ["Have you the hat , Master Peter ?", "To it again , gentles ."], "true_target": ["The applause followed , good Master Peter , as ordained . Moreover , I have the tune of the second song ready within me . Likewise a la-la-la or two to replace such words as I have forgotten .", "Nay , not so fast , Master Peter . It would be ill if the good folk thought that our success this night were to be estimated by an empty hat . Place some of our money in it , Master Ableways . Where money is , money will come ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 94}, {"query": ["HUBBARDWhat is this ?Aha ! Money !"], "true_target": ["HUBBARD . Good evening , friends .", "HUBBARDMy dear friends , I will always remember you . This is most generous . I shall never forget your kindness . This is most unexpected . But not the less welcome , not the less \u2014 I think there 's a ha'penny down there that I missed \u2014 thank you . As I was saying , unexpected but welcome . I thank you heartily . Good evening , friends ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 94}, {"query": ["\u2018 Ere , quick , get rid of these . \u2018 Ide \u2018 em in the snow , or \u2014 -"], "true_target": ["What is it ?", "Wotcher get , Liz ?\u2018 Ow 's that ?"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 94}, {"query": ["H'st !"], "true_target": ["Copper !", "Bill !Look !We can come back for \u2018 em as soon as \u2018 e 's gone ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 94}, {"query": ["HUBBARDTry in here , my darling .", "HUBBARD . Undoubtedly , my love . Brought round to the front door just now by some of his messengers . By the way , dear \u2014\u2014 had n't we better put these on before we start ?", "HUBBARD . My love !Now you will be able to go to Court . You must say that your husband is unfortunately in bed with a bad cold . You can tell me all about it when you come home . I shall be able to amuse myself with \u2014", "HUBBARD . Are you ready , my love ?", "HUBBARD . A gentleman 's gold hunter and Albert watch-chain . My darling !", "HUBBARD . Allow me , my love .", "HUBBARD . Certainly . All the same , I hope \u2014 Will you look in yours , dear , first , or shall I ?", "HUBBARD . Thank you , dear . There 's just one little point . Father Christmas is sometimes rather shy about acknowledging the presents he gives . He hates being thanked . If , therefore , he makes any comment on your magnificent necklace or my handsome watch-chain , we must say that they have been in the family for some years .", "HUBBARD . My darling , what do you think ? Father Christmas has sent you a little present ."], "true_target": ["HUBBARD . Quick march !", "HUBBARDWell , well , we ought to be starting . My watch makes it 11. 58 .Has n't it got a sweet tick ?", "HUBBARD . I have n't looked yet , my love . Perhaps just a few nuts or something of that sort , with a card attached saying , \u201c To wish you the old , old wish . \u201d We must try not to be disappointed , whatever it is , darling .", "HUBBARD . Well , now we 're ready .", "HUBBARD . Does it suit me , darling ?", "HUBBARD . Of course , dear ! How forgetful of me ! . . . Children \u2014 \u2018 shun !Number !Right turn !", "HUBBARD . Money ?Heaps of it .", "HUBBARD . Really this is a very handsome watch-chain .", "HUBBARDObserve !"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 95}, {"query": ["HUBBARDNow I feel really dressed again ! Oh , I wish we had a looking-glass .", "HUBBARD . Henry ! My love !", "HUBBARD . Darling one , do n't you think we might bring the children ?", "HUBBARD . Henry ! Has he sent you one too ?", "HUBBARDHow perfectly sweet ! . . . Now let me put your watch-chain on for you , dear .", "HUBBARD . Darling one , I almost seem to hear them !", "HUBBARD . Of course , dear .", "HUBBARD . It becomes you admirably , Henry ."], "true_target": ["HUBBARD . Of course , Henry . After all , it is the kindly thought which really matters .", "HUBBARD . Of course . How silly of me !", "HUBBARD . Yes , Henry .", "HUBBARD . Sweet ! But starting where , Henry ? Do you mean we can really \u2014 But you have n't any money .", "HUBBARD . How sweet of him ! I wonder what mine is . What is yours , darling ?", "HUBBARD . I think I should like to , darling .It feels so exciting .Henry !", "HUBBARD . Let 's put them on at once , Henry , and see how they suit us .", "HUBBARD . Father Christmas ?", "HUBBARD . You look fascinating , Henry !"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 95}, {"query": ["How do you do ?", "Ladies and gentlemen , it gives me great pleasure to see you here at my Court this evening ; and in particular my friends Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard , of whom I have been too long neglectful . However , I hope to make up for it to-night .Disclose the Christmas Tree !", "Distribute the presents !", "I am delighted to welcome you to my Court . How are you both ?", "I see . You are lucky , madam , to have such beautiful jewels .And this delightful gold Albert watch-chain \u2014", "How do you do ?"], "true_target": ["Good evening , everybody .", "That 's right . We shall have a few more friends coming in soon . You have been giving each other presents already , I see . I congratulate you , madam , on your husband 's taste .", "How very interesting .", "How do you do ?", "How do you do ?", "Dear me , it wo n't prevent you dancing , I hope ?", "You will dance , wo n't you ?"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 96}, {"query": ["HUBBARD . Queen Elizabeth , and \u2014 er \u2014", "HUBBARD . There you are , darling , I told you he had curly brown hair . . . . Gwendoline !", "HUBBARD . Presented to an ancestor of mine , Sir Humphrey de", "HUBBARDWe are slightly overcome . Do you mind if we just dance it off .Come on , children !", "HUBBARDWhat 's this ?Ada , Bertram , Caroline \u2014 My darling one !", "HUBBARD . As you say , dear , Agincourt . By King Richard the \u2014 I should say William the \u2014 well , by the King .", "HUBBARD . Yes . My ancestor clove a scurvy knave from the chaps to the chine . I do n't quite know how you do that , but I gather that he inflicted some sort of a scratch upon his adversary , and the King rewarded him with this handsome watch-chain ."], "true_target": ["HUBBARDThank you , my man , thank you .", "HUBBARD . Very well , thank you , sir . My wife has a slight cold in one foot , owing to \u2014", "HUBBARDI do n't know if you 're interested in wolves at all , Miss Hood . I heard a very good story about one the other day .", "HUBBARD . We 'll soon see , dear . Ada !", "HUBBARD . Bertram ! . . .Frank !", "Hubbard , at the battle of \u2014 er \u2014", "HUBBARD . An ancestress of Mrs. Hubbard 's \u2014 a lady-in-waiting at the Tottenham Court \u2014 at the Tudor Court \u2014 was fortunate enough to catch the eye of \u2014 er \u2014", "HUBBARDNot at all , my man , not at all ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 96}, {"query": ["HUBBARDBe careful , dear ; he has a very bad reputation .", "HUBBARDDo come and see me , Mr. Crusoe . Any Friday . I should like your advice about my parrot . He 's moulting in all the wrong places .", "HUBBARDOh thank you so much . It is sweet of you .", "HUBBARDOh no , this is a very old heirloom of the Montmorency-Smythe family .", "HUBBARD . Oh no , sir ."], "true_target": ["HUBBARDA touch of gout , sir , inherited from my ancestors , the Montmorency-Smythes .", "HUBBARD . Henry ! Our children at last ! Oh , are they all \u2014 all there ?", "HUBBARD . Agincourt .", "HUBBARD . Elizabeth .", "HUBBARD . I think not just at first , thank you ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 96}, {"query": ["Mr. Robinson Crusoe !", "Miss Riding Hood !"], "true_target": ["Princess Goldilocks !", "Baron Bluebeard !"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 96}, {"query": ["Princess Goldilocks , may I speak to you on a matter of some importance to me ?", "Of course ! I ought to have said that . I have a great fondness for animals .", "Princess , I am a lonely man .", "Alone .", "All of them ."], "true_target": ["I have a hundred acres of oats .", "I am a little out of practice \u2014 er \u2014 but if you do n't mind \u2014 er \u2014", "I am not much of a one for society , and I do n't quite know how to put these things , but \u2014 er \u2014 if you would like to share my island , I \u2014 I should so love to have you there .", "I 'm a little late , I 'm afraid , sir . My raft was delayed by adverse gales .", "I have a very comfortable house , and a man-servant , and an excellent view from the south windows , and several thousands of acres of good rough-shooting , and \u2014 oh , do say you 'll come !"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 96}, {"query": ["Bluebeard , you are n't going to talk about your other wives all the time , are you ?", "I hope I am in time , sir . I had to look in on my grandmother on the way here .", "Sure ?", "Are you very alarming ? Wolves frighten me sometimes , but not just silly men . . . .All right then . But you 'll do what I said ?", "Oh , do let 's .", "But if I 'm never to go into it , I sha n't want the key .", "Oh then , I do n't mind . But I do hate being eaten .", "Why ?"], "true_target": ["That will be rather jolly .", "Do n't do it here . You 'll want some hot water .", "Then do n't be silly . And take this key , and go and tidy up that ridiculous room of yours , and when it 's nice and clean , and when you 've shaved off that absurd beard , perhaps I 'll marry you .", "Well , do you want to marry me ?", "You do n't eat people , do you ?", "Are you quite a nice man , Bluebeard ?", "Did you kill her ?", "Yes ?", "You 're putting it in the wrong way round ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 96}, {"query": ["But there is one room into which you must never go .Here is the key of it .", "Yes !", "May I have the pleasure ?", "Perhaps I ought to tell you at once , Miss Riding Hood , that", "I trust you have not been waiting for me , sir . I had a slight argument with my wife before starting , which delayed me somewhat .", "Never !", "My last wife unfortunately died just before I started out here this evening .", "You \u2014 you must have the key .", "N \u2014 no ."], "true_target": ["Madam !", "The \u2014 the others all had it .", "I have been married before .", "Shall we adjourn to the Buffet ?", "Thank you .", "I \u2014 I \u2014 I \u2014", "This is too much , this is \u2014", "More than ever . You 're the first woman I 've met who has n't been afraid of me .", "W-what do you mean ? I am a very rich man . If you will marry me , you will live in a wonderful castle , full of everything that you want .", "Beloved one , I will do anything for you .But enough of this . Let us get on to the great event of the evening . Ladies and gentlemen , are you all assembled ? Then silence , please , for FATHER CHRISTMAS ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 96}, {"query": ["I wish you would .", "Do you mind ? You can have your turn afterwards .", "Are we going to dance ? How lovely !", "Oh , Robbie !", "Then , Robinson , I am yours .There ! Now tell me \u2014 did you make all your clothes yourself ?"], "true_target": ["I brought the youngest bear with me \u2014 do you mind ?Say , how do you do , darling ?Will you give him a little porridge , please , and if you have got a nice bed where he could rest a little afterwards \u2014 he gets tired so quickly .", "How wonderful of you ! Really you hardly seem to want a wife .", "Come along !", "May I bring my bears with me ?", "How sweet of you ! But perhaps I ought to warn you that we all like porridge . Have you \u2014 -", "Yes , Robinson ?"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 96}, {"query": ["Certainly , your Royal Highness ."], "true_target": ["Here is the nominal roll , sir ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 96}, {"query": ["O my poore Rosaline , whether wilt thou goe ?", "No , let my Father seeke another heire :", "And wheresoere we went , like Iunos Swans ,", "To hide vs from pursuite that will be made", "Wilt thou change Fathers ? I will giue thee mine :", "And with a kinde of vmber smirch my face ,", "And neuer stir assailants", "Why so am I : we still haue slept together ,", "Leaue me alone to woe him ; Let 's away", "After my flight : now goe in we content", "Therefore deuise with me how we may flie", "It was your pleasure , and your owne remorse ,", "Prethee be cheerefull ; know'st thou not the Duke", "To seeke my Vncle in the Forrest of Arden", "Hem them away", "No , thy words are too precious to be cast away vpon curs , throw some of them at me ; come lame mee with reasons", "They are but burs , Cosen , throwne vpon thee in holiday foolerie , if we walke not in the trodden paths our very petty-coates will catch them", "Deuise the fittest time , and safest way", "I did not then intreat to haue her stay ,", "But now I know her : if she be a Traitor ,", "Something that hath a reference to my state :", "O , a good wish vpon you : you will trie in time in dispight of a fall : but turning these iests out of seruice , let vs talke in good earnest : Is it possible on such a sodaine , you should fall into so strong a liking with old Sir Roulands yongest sonne ?", "Heele goe along ore the wide world with me ,", "And doe not seeke to take your change vpon you ,", "Thou hast not Cosen ,", "I charge thee be not thou more grieu 'd then I am"], "true_target": ["I was too yong that time to value her ,", "Pronounce that sentence then on me my Leige ,", "To beare your griefes your selfe , and leaue me out :", "Doth it therefore ensue that you should loue his Sonne deerelie ? By this kinde of chase , I should hate him , for my father hated his father deerely ; yet I hate not Orlando", "Not a word ?", "Whether to goe , and what to beare with vs ,", "To libertie , and not to banishment .", "I cannot liue out of her companie", "Say what thou canst , Ile goe along with thee", "Come , come , wrastle with thy affections", "For by this heauen , now at our sorrowes pale ;", "The like doe you , so shall we passe along ,", "But is all this for your Father ?", "Why Cosen , why Rosaline : Cupid haue mercie ,", "What shall I call thee when thou art a man ?", "Still we went coupled and inseperable", "Deere Soueraigne heare me speake", "Which teacheth thee that thou and I am one ,", "And get our Iewels and our wealth together ,", "With his eies full of anger", "Why should I not ? doth he not deserue well ?", "Ile put my selfe in poore and meane attire ,", "Hath banish 'd me his daughter ?", "No longer Celia , but Aliena", "Shall we be sundred ? shall we part sweete girle ?", "No , hath not ? Rosaline lacks then the loue", "Rose at an instant , learn 'd , plaid , eate together ,"], "play_index": 12, "act_index": 97}, {"query": ["Did I offend your highnesse", "O they take the part of a better wrastler then my selfe", "The Duke my Father lou 'd his Father deerelie", "But what will you be call 'd ?", "Let me the knowledge of my fault beare with me :", "So was I when your highnes took his Dukdome ,", "Me Vncle", "But Cosen , what if we assaid to steale", "Ile haue no worse a name then Ioues owne Page ,", "to trauell forth so farre ?", "And therefore looke you call me Ganimed .", "So was I when your highnesse banisht him ;", "A bore-speare in my hand , and in my heart", "If with my selfe I hold intelligence ,", "Or haue acquaintance with mine owne desires ,", "Neuer so much as in a thought vnborne ,", "I doe beseech your Grace", "Weele haue a swashing and a marshall outside ,", "To thinke my pouertie is treacherous", "Alas , what danger will it be to vs ,", "What 's that to me , my Father was no Traitor ,", "No , some of it is for my childes Father : Oh how full of briers is this working day world", "Let me loue him for that , and do you loue him", "No faith , hate him not for my sake"], "true_target": ["I haue more cause", "Would he not be a comfort to our trauaile ?", "Or if we did deriue it from our friends ,", "That I did suite me all points like a man ,", "That doe outface it with their semblances", "Then there were two Cosens laid vp , when the one should be lam 'd with reasons , and the other mad without any", "I could shake them off my coate , these burs are in my heart", "Then good my Leige , mistake me not so much ,", "Yet your mistrust cannot make me a Traitor ;", "Treason is not inherited my Lord ,", "The clownish Foole out of your Fathers Court :", "Tell me whereon the likelihoods depends ?", "A gallant curtelax vpon my thigh ,", "Why , whether shall we goe ?", "I would try if I could cry hem , and haue him", "That he hath not", "Were it not better ,", "then deere Vncle ,", "If that I doe not dreame , or be not franticke ,", "As manie other mannish cowards haue ,", "Lye there what hidden womans feare there will ,", "Not one to throw at a dog", "Because that I am more then common tall ,", "Beautie prouoketh theeues sooner then gold", "Because I doe . Looke , here comes the Duke"], "play_index": 12, "act_index": 97}, {"query": ["Firme , and irreuocable is my doombe ,", "If you out-stay the time , vpon mine honor ,", "And get you from our Court", "Thou art thy Fathers daughter , there 's enough", "And thou wilt show more bright , & seem more vertuous", "I Celia , we staid her for your sake ,", "Else had she with her Father rang 'd along", "She is too subtile for thee , and her smoothnes ;", "Thou art a foole , she robs thee of thy name ,", "Her verie silence , and her patience ,", "So neere our publike Court as twentie miles ,", "Which I haue past vpon her , she is banish 'd"], "true_target": ["Within these ten daies if that thou beest found", "Speake to the people , and they pittie her :", "When she is gone : then open not thy lips", "You are a foole : you Neice prouide your selfe ,", "They are as innocent as grace it selfe ;", "Mistris , dispatch you with your safest haste ,", "If their purgation did consist in words ,", "Thus doe all Traitors ,", "Thou diest for it", "Let is suffice thee that I trust thee not", "You Cosen ,", "And in the greatnesse of my word you die ."], "play_index": 12, "act_index": 97}, {"query": ["COACH AND OTHER HIGHWAY PASSENGERS .", "DR. ALEXANDER SCOTT .", "ANOTHER LIEUTENANT .", "Naval Crews .", "Other English Naval Officers .", "..........", "Regiments of the English Army and Hanoverian .", "A HORSEMAN .", "Staff and other Officers of the English Army .", "ENGLISH CITIZENS AND BURGESSES .", "MESSENGERS , SERVANTS , AND RUSTICS .", "Captain Adair .", "SAILORS AND BOATMEN .", "Lieutenants Ram and Whipple .", "BURKE , PURSER ."], "true_target": ["SECRETARY SCOTT .", "A COMPANY OF SOLDIERS .", "The Lord Mayor and Corporation of London .", "POLLARD , A MIDSHIPMAN .", "DR. MAGRATH .", "DR. BEATTY .", "TWO BEACON-WATCHERS .", "WILTSHIRE , A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN", "COLLINGWOOD .", "Sergeant-Major Secker and Marines .", "A MILITIAMAN .", "..........", "HARDY .", "Lieutenant Pasco .", "A GENTLEMAN OF FASHION ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 98}, {"query": ["Yet know I am but the ineffectual Shade", "To It ; in all her labourings curbed and kinged !", "Wouldst substitute for this Intractable ?"], "true_target": ["What of the Immanent Will and Its designs ?", "Of her the Travailler , herself a thrall", "They may come , will they . I am not averse .", "And who , then , Cordial One ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 98}, {"query": ["Their motions free , their orderings supreme ;", "By bad mad acts of severance men contrived ,", "Of those it stirs , who", "The free trajection of our entities .", "Rather they show that , like a knitter drowsed ,", "Shall such be mooted now ? Already change", "But old Laws operate yet ; and phase and phase", "Whose fingers play in skilled unmindfulness ,", "Seem in themselves Its single listless aim ,", "Some , too , have told at whiles that rightfully", "Their aspects , and their movements , and their mould .", "Of men 's dynastic and imperial moils", "\u2018 Tis not in me to feel with , or against ,", "To click-clack off Its preadjusted laws ;", "Working such nescience by their own device .\u2014", "Shape on accustomed lines . Though , as for me ,", "In brief reminder of their instant points", "Our scope is but to register and watch", "dream", "What designate your titles Good and Ill .", "Open and chant the page", "Since life first was ; and ever will so weave .", "These are the Prime Volitions ,\u2014 fibrils , veins ,", "Evolving always that it wots not of ;", "Unchecks Its clock-like laws .", "The Will has woven with an absent heed", "Labouring through all , divisible from none ;", "These flesh-hinged mannikins Its hand upwinds", "Emprizes over-Channel are the key", "Methinks too much assurance thrills your note On secrets in my locker , gentle sprites ; But it may serve .\u2014 Our thought being now reflexed To forces operant on this English isle , Behoves it us to enter scene by scene , And watch the spectacle of Europe 's moves In her embroil , as they were self-ordained According to the naive and liberal creed Of our great-hearted young Compassionates , Forgetting the Prime Mover of the gear , As puppet-watchers him who pulls the strings .\u2014 You 'll mark the twitchings of this Bonaparte As he with other figures foots his reel , Until he twitch him into his lonely grave : Also regard the frail ones that his flings Have made gyrate like animalcula In tepid pools .\u2014 Hence to the precinct , then , And count as framework to the stagery Yon architraves of sunbeam-smitten cloud .\u2014 So may ye judge Earth 's jackaclocks to be No fugled by one Will , but function-free .The point of view then sinks downwards through space , and draws near to the surface of the perturbed countries , where the peoples , distressed by events which they did not cause , are seen writhing , crawling , heaving , and vibrating in their various cities and nationalities . ]", "And not dispute them . To the drama , then .", "And not their consequence .", "By phantom eyes like ours ; the while unguessed", "That heave throughout the Earth 's compositure .", "Will-tissues , nerves , and pulses of the Cause ,", "Well , no more this on what no mind can mete .", "Whose patterns , wrought by rapt aesthetic rote ,"], "true_target": ["Their sum is like the lobule of a Brain", "Yea , so it stands in certain chronicles ,", "By means of this great gift accorded us \u2014", "Hold what ye list , fond believing Sprites ,", "Which overrides them as a whole its parts", "Its warefulness , Its care , this planet lost", "Nay . In the Foretime , even to the germ of Being ,", "As one sad story runs , It lends Its heed", "As key-scene to the whole , I first lay bare The Will-webs of thy fearful questioning ; For know that of my antique privileges This gift to visualize the Mode is oneSee , then , and learn , ere my power pass again .", "It works unconsciously , as heretofore ,", "Thou'st lately writ , that sums these happenings ,", "I care not thy shape , or what they be .", "That cognizance has marshalled things terrene ,", "In other entities .", "Its own day 's measures ; balanced , self complete ;", "But only through my centuries to behold", "How does it stand ?", "Which thinking on , yet weighing not Its thought ,", "Each life apart from each , with power to mete", "in my span .", "Eternal artistries in Circumstance ,", "And whose procedure may but be discerned", "Hath played strange pranks since first I brooded here .", "Slighted by us amid our converse here .", "Nothing appears of shape to indicate", "The ruling was that we should witness things", "Though they subsist but atoms of the One", "You cannot swerve the pulsion of the Byss ,", "To other worlds , being wearied out with this ;", "When in her early growth and crudity", "Mercy I view , not urge ;\u2014 nor more than mark", "To this land 's stir and ferment .\u2014 Thither we .", "Though not in mine .", "Or will", "A Brain whose whole connotes the Everywhere ,", "Wherefore Its mindlessness of earthly woes .", "But this no further now . Deem yet man 's deeds self-done ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 98}, {"query": ["Hence we 've rare dramas going \u2014 more so since", "Ay ; begin small , and so lead up to the greater . It is a sound dramatic principle . I always aim to follow it in my pestilences , fires , famines , and other comedies . And though , to be sure , I did not in my Lisbon earthquake , I did in my French Terror , and my St. Domingo burlesque .", "Limbs of Itself : Each one a jot of It in quaint disguise ? I 'll fear all men henceforward !", "It wove Its web in the Ajaccian womb !", "To unimpel so stultifying a move !"], "true_target": ["Which would have marred the European broil ,", "I saw good sport therein , and paean 'd the Will", "Good , as before . My little engines , then , will still have play .", "And sheathed all swords , and silenced every gun", "That riddles human flesh ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 98}, {"query": ["This viewless , voiceless Turner of the Wheel ?", "Twining and serpenting round and through .", "Amid this scene of bodies substantive", "Now profits naught . For the large potencies", "Strange waves I sight like winds grown visible ,", "Such deeds were nulled , and this strange man 's career", "O say no more ;", "To bear in thought that though Its consciousness", "They are shapes that bleed , mere mannikins or no ,", "Are taking taint , and sink to common plots", "Forthwith conned closelier than your custom is .\u2014", "Instilled into his idiosyncrasy \u2014", "In her creation whose meek wraith we know .", "Did not respond to the said Emperor !", "For his own gain .", "Why doth It so and so , and ever so ,", "Wound up , as making inharmonious jars", "Also retracting threads like gossamers \u2014"], "true_target": ["Which bear men 's forms on their innumerous coils ,", "And each has parcel in the total Will .", "May please thy temper , Years , \u2018 twere better far", "To throne fair Liberty in Privilege \u2019 room \u2014", "Go to . Let this terrestrial tragedy \u2014", "Except in being irresistible \u2014", "Ill chanced it that the English monarch George", "The more that he , turned man of mere traditions ,", "Let this earth-tragedy", "On things terrene , then , I would say that though", "If aught could gratify the Absolute", "You seem to have small sense of mercy , Sire ?", "The human news wherewith the Rumours stirred us", "May be estranged , engrossed afar , or sealed ,", "Sublunar shocks may wake Its watch anon ?", "Whereof we spake , afford a spectacle", "\u2018 Twould verily be thy censure , not thy praise !", "Meet is it , none the less ,", "Which complicate with some , and balance all ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 98}, {"query": ["Upon the innocent ,", "The mild , the fragile , the obscure content", "In fair Compassions skilled ,", "Among the myriads of thy family .", "Men of deep art in life-development ;"], "true_target": ["Watchers and warders of thy varied lands ,", "And make their daily moves a melody .", "Those , too , who love the true , the excellent ,", "Men surfeited of laying heavy hands ,", "We would establish those of kindlier build ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 98}, {"query": ["And rendezvous westerly straightway", "With Spain 's aiding navies ,", "Put forth , and get clear ;", "Through months-long of cruizing ,"], "true_target": ["O Nelson , so zealous a watcher", "Thy foes may elide thee a moment ,", "Of Albion 's frontier !", "And hasten to head violation"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 98}, {"query": ["Hark now , and gather how the martial mood"], "true_target": ["Stirs England 's humblest hearts . Anon we 'll trace", "Its heavings in the upper coteries there ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 98}, {"query": ["Half across . And then another little half , and then all that 's behind \u2014 the Corsican mischief !", "What ! Encourage this man in an act of shameless presumption , and give him the pleasure of considering himself the equal of the King of England \u2014 whom he actually calls his brother !", "Sir , am I to deem you a friend of Bonaparte , a traitor to your country \u2014 -", "That 's why we have seen so many of these marching regiments on the road . This year his grandest attempt upon us is to be made , I reckon ."], "true_target": ["Whether or no , the King , rightly enough , did not reply in person , but through Lord Mulgrave our Foreign Minister , to the effect that his Britannic Majesty cannot give a specific answer till he has communicated with the Continental powers .", "Well , we ought to be . We 've had alarms enough , God knows .", "Yes , sir . A letter in his own hand , in which he expected the King to reply to him in the same manner .", "There seems to be a deal of traffic over Ridgeway , even at this time o \u2019 year .", "Certainly , sir . He requested peace with the King ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 98}, {"query": ["Yes . People who live hereabout \u2014 I am a native of these parts \u2014 feel the nearness of France more than they do inland .", "Is there truth in it that Bonaparte wrote a letter to the King last month ?"], "true_target": ["May we be ready !", "Gentlemen forbear , forbear ! Should such differences be suffered to arise on a spot where we may , in less than three months , be fighting for our very existence ? This is foolish , I say . Heaven alone , who reads the secrets of this man 's heart , can tell what his meaning and intent may be , and if his letter has been answered wisely or no .", "Yes . It is because the King and Court are coming down here later on . They wake up this part rarely !... See , now , how the Channel and coast open out like a chart . That patch of mist below us is the town we are bound for . There 's the Isle of Slingers beyond , like a floating snail . That wide bay on the right is where the \u201c Abergavenny , \u201d Captain John Wordsworth , was wrecked last month . One can see half across to France up here ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 98}, {"query": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; Never mind , mates ; we 'll be merry , though We may have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "true_target": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he wo n't sail , lest the wind should blow , We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol ! We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he be sea-sick , says \u201c No , no ! \u201d We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 98}, {"query": ["He must be taken for what he is , not for what he was ; and if he calls", "King George his brother it does n't speak badly for his friendliness .", "And was Boney 's letter friendly ?"], "true_target": ["Damn my wig , sir , if I 'll be called a traitor by you or any Court sycophant at all at all !", "Both the manner and the matter of the reply are British ; but a huge mistake .", "Sir , I apologize . He 's not to be trusted ! War is his name , and aggression is with him !", "And why should n't the King reply in the same manner ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 98}, {"query": ["A London messenger !"], "true_target": ["Bristol only .", "Any news , sir ? We are from"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 98}, {"query": ["Lieutenant Pasco .", "A HORSEMAN .", "TWO BEACON-WATCHERS .", "A GENTLEMAN OF FASHION .", "ANOTHER LIEUTENANT .", "MESSENGERS , SERVANTS , AND RUSTICS .", "A COMPANY OF SOLDIERS .", "COACH AND OTHER HIGHWAY PASSENGERS .", "ENGLISH CITIZENS AND BURGESSES .", "SECRETARY SCOTT .", "The Lord Mayor and Corporation of London .", "Staff and other Officers of the English Army .", "WILTSHIRE , A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN", "Other English Naval Officers .", "DR. ALEXANDER SCOTT ."], "true_target": ["..........", "Lieutenants Ram and Whipple .", "DR. BEATTY .", "SAILORS AND BOATMEN .", "POLLARD , A MIDSHIPMAN .", "COLLINGWOOD .", "..........", "Naval Crews .", "A MILITIAMAN .", "DR. MAGRATH .", "Sergeant-Major Secker and Marines .", "Regiments of the English Army and Hanoverian .", "Captain Adair .", "BURKE , PURSER .", "HARDY ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 99}, {"query": ["Wouldst substitute for this Intractable ?", "Of her the Travailler , herself a thrall", "They may come , will they . I am not averse ."], "true_target": ["Yet know I am but the ineffectual Shade", "To It ; in all her labourings curbed and kinged !", "What of the Immanent Will and Its designs ?", "And who , then , Cordial One ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 99}, {"query": ["Of men 's dynastic and imperial moils", "Unchecks Its clock-like laws .", "Some , too , have told at whiles that rightfully", "Their sum is like the lobule of a Brain", "It works unconsciously , as heretofore ,", "Though they subsist but atoms of the One", "The Will has woven with an absent heed", "Each life apart from each , with power to mete", "\u2018 Tis not in me to feel with , or against ,", "You cannot swerve the pulsion of the Byss ,", "How does it stand ?", "Emprizes over-Channel are the key", "When in her early growth and crudity", "Working such nescience by their own device .\u2014", "Their motions free , their orderings supreme ;", "Its own day 's measures ; balanced , self complete ;", "And not dispute them . To the drama , then .", "In brief reminder of their instant points", "Whose fingers play in skilled unmindfulness ,", "Rather they show that , like a knitter drowsed ,", "Mercy I view , not urge ;\u2014 nor more than mark", "In other entities .", "Whose patterns , wrought by rapt aesthetic rote ,", "Its warefulness , Its care , this planet lost", "Evolving always that it wots not of ;", "As key-scene to the whole , I first lay bare The Will-webs of thy fearful questioning ; For know that of my antique privileges This gift to visualize the Mode is oneSee , then , and learn , ere my power pass again .", "Our scope is but to register and watch", "Labouring through all , divisible from none ;", "To click-clack off Its preadjusted laws ;", "These are the Prime Volitions ,\u2014 fibrils , veins ,", "Wherefore Its mindlessness of earthly woes .", "By bad mad acts of severance men contrived ,", "That cognizance has marshalled things terrene ,", "But this no further now . Deem yet man 's deeds self-done .", "That heave throughout the Earth 's compositure .", "A Brain whose whole connotes the Everywhere ,", "By phantom eyes like ours ; the while unguessed"], "true_target": ["Methinks too much assurance thrills your note On secrets in my locker , gentle sprites ; But it may serve .\u2014 Our thought being now reflexed To forces operant on this English isle , Behoves it us to enter scene by scene , And watch the spectacle of Europe 's moves In her embroil , as they were self-ordained According to the naive and liberal creed Of our great-hearted young Compassionates , Forgetting the Prime Mover of the gear , As puppet-watchers him who pulls the strings .\u2014 You 'll mark the twitchings of this Bonaparte As he with other figures foots his reel , Until he twitch him into his lonely grave : Also regard the frail ones that his flings Have made gyrate like animalcula In tepid pools .\u2014 Hence to the precinct , then , And count as framework to the stagery Yon architraves of sunbeam-smitten cloud .\u2014 So may ye judge Earth 's jackaclocks to be No fugled by one Will , but function-free .The point of view then sinks downwards through space , and draws near to the surface of the perturbed countries , where the peoples , distressed by events which they did not cause , are seen writhing , crawling , heaving , and vibrating in their various cities and nationalities . ]", "Slighted by us amid our converse here .", "As one sad story runs , It lends Its heed", "dream", "And not their consequence .", "Which overrides them as a whole its parts", "Shall such be mooted now ? Already change", "To this land 's stir and ferment .\u2014 Thither we .", "in my span .", "Of those it stirs , who", "I care not thy shape , or what they be .", "Eternal artistries in Circumstance ,", "What designate your titles Good and Ill .", "By means of this great gift accorded us \u2014", "Yea , so it stands in certain chronicles ,", "To other worlds , being wearied out with this ;", "Since life first was ; and ever will so weave .", "And whose procedure may but be discerned", "Nay . In the Foretime , even to the germ of Being ,", "The ruling was that we should witness things", "Which thinking on , yet weighing not Its thought ,", "Nothing appears of shape to indicate", "Open and chant the page", "These flesh-hinged mannikins Its hand upwinds", "Though not in mine .", "Shape on accustomed lines . Though , as for me ,", "Hold what ye list , fond believing Sprites ,", "But only through my centuries to behold", "Hath played strange pranks since first I brooded here .", "Well , no more this on what no mind can mete .", "Thou'st lately writ , that sums these happenings ,", "Or will", "Their aspects , and their movements , and their mould .", "Seem in themselves Its single listless aim ,", "Will-tissues , nerves , and pulses of the Cause ,", "The free trajection of our entities .", "But old Laws operate yet ; and phase and phase"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 99}, {"query": ["Limbs of Itself : Each one a jot of It in quaint disguise ? I 'll fear all men henceforward !", "It wove Its web in the Ajaccian womb !", "That riddles human flesh .", "Good , as before . My little engines , then , will still have play .", "Hence we 've rare dramas going \u2014 more so since"], "true_target": ["Ay ; begin small , and so lead up to the greater . It is a sound dramatic principle . I always aim to follow it in my pestilences , fires , famines , and other comedies . And though , to be sure , I did not in my Lisbon earthquake , I did in my French Terror , and my St. Domingo burlesque .", "I saw good sport therein , and paean 'd the Will", "And sheathed all swords , and silenced every gun", "To unimpel so stultifying a move !", "Which would have marred the European broil ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 99}, {"query": ["Also retracting threads like gossamers \u2014", "Meet is it , none the less ,", "Forthwith conned closelier than your custom is .\u2014", "Are taking taint , and sink to common plots", "Whereof we spake , afford a spectacle", "Which complicate with some , and balance all .", "In her creation whose meek wraith we know .", "Why doth It so and so , and ever so ,", "They are shapes that bleed , mere mannikins or no ,", "Such deeds were nulled , and this strange man 's career", "May please thy temper , Years , \u2018 twere better far", "This viewless , voiceless Turner of the Wheel ?", "Instilled into his idiosyncrasy \u2014", "The human news wherewith the Rumours stirred us", "Did not respond to the said Emperor !", "Go to . Let this terrestrial tragedy \u2014", "Amid this scene of bodies substantive", "Twining and serpenting round and through ."], "true_target": ["For his own gain .", "O say no more ;", "On things terrene , then , I would say that though", "Except in being irresistible \u2014", "\u2018 Twould verily be thy censure , not thy praise !", "Wound up , as making inharmonious jars", "Strange waves I sight like winds grown visible ,", "May be estranged , engrossed afar , or sealed ,", "You seem to have small sense of mercy , Sire ?", "If aught could gratify the Absolute", "Which bear men 's forms on their innumerous coils ,", "The more that he , turned man of mere traditions ,", "Now profits naught . For the large potencies", "To bear in thought that though Its consciousness", "To throne fair Liberty in Privilege \u2019 room \u2014", "Let this earth-tragedy", "And each has parcel in the total Will .", "Ill chanced it that the English monarch George", "Sublunar shocks may wake Its watch anon ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 99}, {"query": ["We would establish those of kindlier build ,", "Men surfeited of laying heavy hands ,", "The mild , the fragile , the obscure content", "Watchers and warders of thy varied lands ,", "Men of deep art in life-development ;"], "true_target": ["Upon the innocent ,", "In fair Compassions skilled ,", "And make their daily moves a melody .", "Those , too , who love the true , the excellent ,", "Among the myriads of thy family ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 99}, {"query": ["O Nelson , so zealous a watcher", "Thy foes may elide thee a moment ,", "With Spain 's aiding navies ,", "Put forth , and get clear ;"], "true_target": ["And hasten to head violation", "Of Albion 's frontier !", "And rendezvous westerly straightway", "Through months-long of cruizing ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 99}, {"query": ["Stirs England 's humblest hearts . Anon we 'll trace"], "true_target": ["Its heavings in the upper coteries there .", "Hark now , and gather how the martial mood"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 99}, {"query": ["There seems to be a deal of traffic over Ridgeway , even at this time o \u2019 year .", "Well , we ought to be . We 've had alarms enough , God knows .", "Half across . And then another little half , and then all that 's behind \u2014 the Corsican mischief !", "Yes , sir . A letter in his own hand , in which he expected the King to reply to him in the same manner ."], "true_target": ["Whether or no , the King , rightly enough , did not reply in person , but through Lord Mulgrave our Foreign Minister , to the effect that his Britannic Majesty cannot give a specific answer till he has communicated with the Continental powers .", "That 's why we have seen so many of these marching regiments on the road . This year his grandest attempt upon us is to be made , I reckon .", "Certainly , sir . He requested peace with the King .", "What ! Encourage this man in an act of shameless presumption , and give him the pleasure of considering himself the equal of the King of England \u2014 whom he actually calls his brother !", "Sir , am I to deem you a friend of Bonaparte , a traitor to your country \u2014 -"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 99}, {"query": ["Gentlemen forbear , forbear ! Should such differences be suffered to arise on a spot where we may , in less than three months , be fighting for our very existence ? This is foolish , I say . Heaven alone , who reads the secrets of this man 's heart , can tell what his meaning and intent may be , and if his letter has been answered wisely or no .", "Yes . It is because the King and Court are coming down here later on . They wake up this part rarely !... See , now , how the Channel and coast open out like a chart . That patch of mist below us is the town we are bound for . There 's the Isle of Slingers beyond , like a floating snail . That wide bay on the right is where the \u201c Abergavenny , \u201d Captain John Wordsworth , was wrecked last month . One can see half across to France up here ."], "true_target": ["Is there truth in it that Bonaparte wrote a letter to the King last month ?", "May we be ready !", "Yes . People who live hereabout \u2014 I am a native of these parts \u2014 feel the nearness of France more than they do inland ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 99}, {"query": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he wo n't sail , lest the wind should blow , We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol ! We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he be sea-sick , says \u201c No , no ! \u201d We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "true_target": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; Never mind , mates ; we 'll be merry , though We may have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 99}, {"query": ["And was Boney 's letter friendly ?", "King George his brother it does n't speak badly for his friendliness .", "Both the manner and the matter of the reply are British ; but a huge mistake ."], "true_target": ["He must be taken for what he is , not for what he was ; and if he calls", "And why should n't the King reply in the same manner ?", "Sir , I apologize . He 's not to be trusted ! War is his name , and aggression is with him !", "Damn my wig , sir , if I 'll be called a traitor by you or any Court sycophant at all at all !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 99}, {"query": ["Bristol only ."], "true_target": ["Any news , sir ? We are from", "A London messenger !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 99}, {"query": ["TWO BEACON-WATCHERS .", "Naval Crews .", "SECRETARY SCOTT .", "Captain Adair .", "ANOTHER LIEUTENANT .", "DR. BEATTY .", "A GENTLEMAN OF FASHION .", "Other English Naval Officers .", "ENGLISH CITIZENS AND BURGESSES .", "Regiments of the English Army and Hanoverian .", "The Lord Mayor and Corporation of London .", "SAILORS AND BOATMEN .", "..........", "BURKE , PURSER .", "DR. MAGRATH ."], "true_target": ["POLLARD , A MIDSHIPMAN .", "MESSENGERS , SERVANTS , AND RUSTICS .", "A COMPANY OF SOLDIERS .", "A HORSEMAN .", "Lieutenant Pasco .", "..........", "COACH AND OTHER HIGHWAY PASSENGERS .", "Staff and other Officers of the English Army .", "Sergeant-Major Secker and Marines .", "Lieutenants Ram and Whipple .", "HARDY .", "WILTSHIRE , A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN", "DR. ALEXANDER SCOTT .", "A MILITIAMAN .", "COLLINGWOOD ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 100}, {"query": ["Of her the Travailler , herself a thrall", "Wouldst substitute for this Intractable ?", "And who , then , Cordial One ,"], "true_target": ["What of the Immanent Will and Its designs ?", "To It ; in all her labourings curbed and kinged !", "They may come , will they . I am not averse .", "Yet know I am but the ineffectual Shade"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 100}, {"query": ["Open and chant the page", "To this land 's stir and ferment .\u2014 Thither we .", "Their motions free , their orderings supreme ;", "Hath played strange pranks since first I brooded here .", "Of men 's dynastic and imperial moils", "Its warefulness , Its care , this planet lost", "Which overrides them as a whole its parts", "Of those it stirs , who", "That heave throughout the Earth 's compositure .", "dream", "The Will has woven with an absent heed", "Nay . In the Foretime , even to the germ of Being ,", "A Brain whose whole connotes the Everywhere ,", "You cannot swerve the pulsion of the Byss ,", "And not their consequence .", "Slighted by us amid our converse here .", "\u2018 Tis not in me to feel with , or against ,", "The free trajection of our entities .", "And whose procedure may but be discerned", "Mercy I view , not urge ;\u2014 nor more than mark", "Whose patterns , wrought by rapt aesthetic rote ,", "By bad mad acts of severance men contrived ,", "These are the Prime Volitions ,\u2014 fibrils , veins ,", "As key-scene to the whole , I first lay bare The Will-webs of thy fearful questioning ; For know that of my antique privileges This gift to visualize the Mode is oneSee , then , and learn , ere my power pass again .", "Since life first was ; and ever will so weave .", "The ruling was that we should witness things", "In brief reminder of their instant points", "That cognizance has marshalled things terrene ,", "Whose fingers play in skilled unmindfulness ,", "Its own day 's measures ; balanced , self complete ;", "Which thinking on , yet weighing not Its thought ,", "What designate your titles Good and Ill .", "But only through my centuries to behold", "Seem in themselves Its single listless aim ,", "Unchecks Its clock-like laws .", "How does it stand ?", "Their aspects , and their movements , and their mould ."], "true_target": ["Our scope is but to register and watch", "And not dispute them . To the drama , then .", "In other entities .", "Methinks too much assurance thrills your note On secrets in my locker , gentle sprites ; But it may serve .\u2014 Our thought being now reflexed To forces operant on this English isle , Behoves it us to enter scene by scene , And watch the spectacle of Europe 's moves In her embroil , as they were self-ordained According to the naive and liberal creed Of our great-hearted young Compassionates , Forgetting the Prime Mover of the gear , As puppet-watchers him who pulls the strings .\u2014 You 'll mark the twitchings of this Bonaparte As he with other figures foots his reel , Until he twitch him into his lonely grave : Also regard the frail ones that his flings Have made gyrate like animalcula In tepid pools .\u2014 Hence to the precinct , then , And count as framework to the stagery Yon architraves of sunbeam-smitten cloud .\u2014 So may ye judge Earth 's jackaclocks to be No fugled by one Will , but function-free .The point of view then sinks downwards through space , and draws near to the surface of the perturbed countries , where the peoples , distressed by events which they did not cause , are seen writhing , crawling , heaving , and vibrating in their various cities and nationalities . ]", "Each life apart from each , with power to mete", "Well , no more this on what no mind can mete .", "It works unconsciously , as heretofore ,", "Will-tissues , nerves , and pulses of the Cause ,", "Wherefore Its mindlessness of earthly woes .", "Eternal artistries in Circumstance ,", "When in her early growth and crudity", "By means of this great gift accorded us \u2014", "As one sad story runs , It lends Its heed", "Yea , so it stands in certain chronicles ,", "But this no further now . Deem yet man 's deeds self-done .", "Emprizes over-Channel are the key", "Rather they show that , like a knitter drowsed ,", "Their sum is like the lobule of a Brain", "Or will", "Hold what ye list , fond believing Sprites ,", "Shall such be mooted now ? Already change", "Though not in mine .", "in my span .", "To click-clack off Its preadjusted laws ;", "Shape on accustomed lines . Though , as for me ,", "Some , too , have told at whiles that rightfully", "By phantom eyes like ours ; the while unguessed", "Working such nescience by their own device .\u2014", "Evolving always that it wots not of ;", "Thou'st lately writ , that sums these happenings ,", "Labouring through all , divisible from none ;", "Nothing appears of shape to indicate", "I care not thy shape , or what they be .", "These flesh-hinged mannikins Its hand upwinds", "To other worlds , being wearied out with this ;", "Though they subsist but atoms of the One", "But old Laws operate yet ; and phase and phase"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 100}, {"query": ["Limbs of Itself : Each one a jot of It in quaint disguise ? I 'll fear all men henceforward !", "Hence we 've rare dramas going \u2014 more so since", "That riddles human flesh .", "Which would have marred the European broil ,", "It wove Its web in the Ajaccian womb !"], "true_target": ["Ay ; begin small , and so lead up to the greater . It is a sound dramatic principle . I always aim to follow it in my pestilences , fires , famines , and other comedies . And though , to be sure , I did not in my Lisbon earthquake , I did in my French Terror , and my St. Domingo burlesque .", "To unimpel so stultifying a move !", "I saw good sport therein , and paean 'd the Will", "And sheathed all swords , and silenced every gun", "Good , as before . My little engines , then , will still have play ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 100}, {"query": ["They are shapes that bleed , mere mannikins or no ,", "Now profits naught . For the large potencies", "Wound up , as making inharmonious jars", "Which complicate with some , and balance all .", "You seem to have small sense of mercy , Sire ?", "To throne fair Liberty in Privilege \u2019 room \u2014", "This viewless , voiceless Turner of the Wheel ?", "For his own gain .", "Except in being irresistible \u2014", "The human news wherewith the Rumours stirred us", "To bear in thought that though Its consciousness", "In her creation whose meek wraith we know .", "Amid this scene of bodies substantive", "Why doth It so and so , and ever so ,", "Strange waves I sight like winds grown visible ,", "Also retracting threads like gossamers \u2014", "Go to . Let this terrestrial tragedy \u2014", "Twining and serpenting round and through ."], "true_target": ["Which bear men 's forms on their innumerous coils ,", "Such deeds were nulled , and this strange man 's career", "If aught could gratify the Absolute", "Whereof we spake , afford a spectacle", "O say no more ;", "Instilled into his idiosyncrasy \u2014", "May be estranged , engrossed afar , or sealed ,", "Forthwith conned closelier than your custom is .\u2014", "Sublunar shocks may wake Its watch anon ?", "The more that he , turned man of mere traditions ,", "Are taking taint , and sink to common plots", "On things terrene , then , I would say that though", "Ill chanced it that the English monarch George", "May please thy temper , Years , \u2018 twere better far", "Let this earth-tragedy", "\u2018 Twould verily be thy censure , not thy praise !", "Meet is it , none the less ,", "Did not respond to the said Emperor !", "And each has parcel in the total Will ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 100}, {"query": ["In fair Compassions skilled ,", "The mild , the fragile , the obscure content", "Those , too , who love the true , the excellent ,", "We would establish those of kindlier build ,", "And make their daily moves a melody ."], "true_target": ["Watchers and warders of thy varied lands ,", "Upon the innocent ,", "Among the myriads of thy family .", "Men of deep art in life-development ;", "Men surfeited of laying heavy hands ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 100}, {"query": ["Thy foes may elide thee a moment ,", "O Nelson , so zealous a watcher", "Through months-long of cruizing ,", "With Spain 's aiding navies ,"], "true_target": ["And hasten to head violation", "Of Albion 's frontier !", "Put forth , and get clear ;", "And rendezvous westerly straightway"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 100}, {"query": ["Hark now , and gather how the martial mood"], "true_target": ["Its heavings in the upper coteries there .", "Stirs England 's humblest hearts . Anon we 'll trace"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 100}, {"query": ["Well , we ought to be . We 've had alarms enough , God knows .", "Sir , am I to deem you a friend of Bonaparte , a traitor to your country \u2014 -", "Half across . And then another little half , and then all that 's behind \u2014 the Corsican mischief !", "Certainly , sir . He requested peace with the King ."], "true_target": ["Yes , sir . A letter in his own hand , in which he expected the King to reply to him in the same manner .", "What ! Encourage this man in an act of shameless presumption , and give him the pleasure of considering himself the equal of the King of England \u2014 whom he actually calls his brother !", "Whether or no , the King , rightly enough , did not reply in person , but through Lord Mulgrave our Foreign Minister , to the effect that his Britannic Majesty cannot give a specific answer till he has communicated with the Continental powers .", "There seems to be a deal of traffic over Ridgeway , even at this time o \u2019 year .", "That 's why we have seen so many of these marching regiments on the road . This year his grandest attempt upon us is to be made , I reckon ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 100}, {"query": ["Is there truth in it that Bonaparte wrote a letter to the King last month ?", "Yes . It is because the King and Court are coming down here later on . They wake up this part rarely !... See , now , how the Channel and coast open out like a chart . That patch of mist below us is the town we are bound for . There 's the Isle of Slingers beyond , like a floating snail . That wide bay on the right is where the \u201c Abergavenny , \u201d Captain John Wordsworth , was wrecked last month . One can see half across to France up here ."], "true_target": ["May we be ready !", "Gentlemen forbear , forbear ! Should such differences be suffered to arise on a spot where we may , in less than three months , be fighting for our very existence ? This is foolish , I say . Heaven alone , who reads the secrets of this man 's heart , can tell what his meaning and intent may be , and if his letter has been answered wisely or no .", "Yes . People who live hereabout \u2014 I am a native of these parts \u2014 feel the nearness of France more than they do inland ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 100}, {"query": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he wo n't sail , lest the wind should blow , We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol ! We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he be sea-sick , says \u201c No , no ! \u201d We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "true_target": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; Never mind , mates ; we 'll be merry , though We may have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 100}, {"query": ["King George his brother it does n't speak badly for his friendliness .", "Damn my wig , sir , if I 'll be called a traitor by you or any Court sycophant at all at all !", "He must be taken for what he is , not for what he was ; and if he calls"], "true_target": ["Both the manner and the matter of the reply are British ; but a huge mistake .", "And was Boney 's letter friendly ?", "And why should n't the King reply in the same manner ?", "Sir , I apologize . He 's not to be trusted ! War is his name , and aggression is with him !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 100}, {"query": ["Bristol only ."], "true_target": ["A London messenger !", "Any news , sir ? We are from"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 100}, {"query": ["A COMPANY OF SOLDIERS .", "Lieutenants Ram and Whipple .", "Lieutenant Pasco .", "DR. MAGRATH .", "DR. ALEXANDER SCOTT .", "BURKE , PURSER .", "COACH AND OTHER HIGHWAY PASSENGERS .", "SAILORS AND BOATMEN .", "..........", "COLLINGWOOD .", "A HORSEMAN .", "SECRETARY SCOTT .", "POLLARD , A MIDSHIPMAN .", "A GENTLEMAN OF FASHION .", "A MILITIAMAN ."], "true_target": ["Regiments of the English Army and Hanoverian .", "..........", "ENGLISH CITIZENS AND BURGESSES .", "Staff and other Officers of the English Army .", "Captain Adair .", "ANOTHER LIEUTENANT .", "HARDY .", "DR. BEATTY .", "Sergeant-Major Secker and Marines .", "MESSENGERS , SERVANTS , AND RUSTICS .", "The Lord Mayor and Corporation of London .", "Naval Crews .", "Other English Naval Officers .", "TWO BEACON-WATCHERS .", "WILTSHIRE , A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 101}, {"query": ["They may come , will they . I am not averse .", "Yet know I am but the ineffectual Shade", "Wouldst substitute for this Intractable ?"], "true_target": ["And who , then , Cordial One ,", "What of the Immanent Will and Its designs ?", "Of her the Travailler , herself a thrall", "To It ; in all her labourings curbed and kinged !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 101}, {"query": ["A Brain whose whole connotes the Everywhere ,", "Mercy I view , not urge ;\u2014 nor more than mark", "Whose patterns , wrought by rapt aesthetic rote ,", "These flesh-hinged mannikins Its hand upwinds", "Some , too , have told at whiles that rightfully", "Though they subsist but atoms of the One", "Seem in themselves Its single listless aim ,", "But this no further now . Deem yet man 's deeds self-done .", "Which thinking on , yet weighing not Its thought ,", "Thou'st lately writ , that sums these happenings ,", "Unchecks Its clock-like laws .", "In other entities .", "By means of this great gift accorded us \u2014", "Since life first was ; and ever will so weave .", "dream", "Hath played strange pranks since first I brooded here .", "Methinks too much assurance thrills your note On secrets in my locker , gentle sprites ; But it may serve .\u2014 Our thought being now reflexed To forces operant on this English isle , Behoves it us to enter scene by scene , And watch the spectacle of Europe 's moves In her embroil , as they were self-ordained According to the naive and liberal creed Of our great-hearted young Compassionates , Forgetting the Prime Mover of the gear , As puppet-watchers him who pulls the strings .\u2014 You 'll mark the twitchings of this Bonaparte As he with other figures foots his reel , Until he twitch him into his lonely grave : Also regard the frail ones that his flings Have made gyrate like animalcula In tepid pools .\u2014 Hence to the precinct , then , And count as framework to the stagery Yon architraves of sunbeam-smitten cloud .\u2014 So may ye judge Earth 's jackaclocks to be No fugled by one Will , but function-free .The point of view then sinks downwards through space , and draws near to the surface of the perturbed countries , where the peoples , distressed by events which they did not cause , are seen writhing , crawling , heaving , and vibrating in their various cities and nationalities . ]", "Of men 's dynastic and imperial moils", "Eternal artistries in Circumstance ,", "Their sum is like the lobule of a Brain", "But old Laws operate yet ; and phase and phase", "The Will has woven with an absent heed", "Yea , so it stands in certain chronicles ,", "As key-scene to the whole , I first lay bare The Will-webs of thy fearful questioning ; For know that of my antique privileges This gift to visualize the Mode is oneSee , then , and learn , ere my power pass again .", "It works unconsciously , as heretofore ,", "Labouring through all , divisible from none ;", "As one sad story runs , It lends Its heed", "To other worlds , being wearied out with this ;", "Though not in mine .", "Their motions free , their orderings supreme ;", "That heave throughout the Earth 's compositure .", "Whose fingers play in skilled unmindfulness ,", "By bad mad acts of severance men contrived ,", "Nothing appears of shape to indicate", "Wherefore Its mindlessness of earthly woes .", "Of those it stirs , who", "in my span ."], "true_target": ["Shape on accustomed lines . Though , as for me ,", "And whose procedure may but be discerned", "The free trajection of our entities .", "Slighted by us amid our converse here .", "Its own day 's measures ; balanced , self complete ;", "By phantom eyes like ours ; the while unguessed", "When in her early growth and crudity", "Open and chant the page", "And not dispute them . To the drama , then .", "The ruling was that we should witness things", "In brief reminder of their instant points", "I care not thy shape , or what they be .", "Each life apart from each , with power to mete", "Evolving always that it wots not of ;", "Emprizes over-Channel are the key", "Or will", "What designate your titles Good and Ill .", "Nay . In the Foretime , even to the germ of Being ,", "These are the Prime Volitions ,\u2014 fibrils , veins ,", "How does it stand ?", "Will-tissues , nerves , and pulses of the Cause ,", "Rather they show that , like a knitter drowsed ,", "But only through my centuries to behold", "Well , no more this on what no mind can mete .", "Shall such be mooted now ? Already change", "You cannot swerve the pulsion of the Byss ,", "Working such nescience by their own device .\u2014", "Which overrides them as a whole its parts", "Their aspects , and their movements , and their mould .", "That cognizance has marshalled things terrene ,", "\u2018 Tis not in me to feel with , or against ,", "Our scope is but to register and watch", "And not their consequence .", "Hold what ye list , fond believing Sprites ,", "Its warefulness , Its care , this planet lost", "To click-clack off Its preadjusted laws ;", "To this land 's stir and ferment .\u2014 Thither we ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 101}, {"query": ["It wove Its web in the Ajaccian womb !", "And sheathed all swords , and silenced every gun", "Good , as before . My little engines , then , will still have play .", "Ay ; begin small , and so lead up to the greater . It is a sound dramatic principle . I always aim to follow it in my pestilences , fires , famines , and other comedies . And though , to be sure , I did not in my Lisbon earthquake , I did in my French Terror , and my St. Domingo burlesque .", "To unimpel so stultifying a move !"], "true_target": ["Limbs of Itself : Each one a jot of It in quaint disguise ? I 'll fear all men henceforward !", "I saw good sport therein , and paean 'd the Will", "Which would have marred the European broil ,", "That riddles human flesh .", "Hence we 've rare dramas going \u2014 more so since"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 101}, {"query": ["Forthwith conned closelier than your custom is .\u2014", "Ill chanced it that the English monarch George", "They are shapes that bleed , mere mannikins or no ,", "May be estranged , engrossed afar , or sealed ,", "Twining and serpenting round and through .", "Also retracting threads like gossamers \u2014", "\u2018 Twould verily be thy censure , not thy praise !", "Amid this scene of bodies substantive", "Which bear men 's forms on their innumerous coils ,", "Instilled into his idiosyncrasy \u2014", "On things terrene , then , I would say that though", "Did not respond to the said Emperor !", "Sublunar shocks may wake Its watch anon ?", "Such deeds were nulled , and this strange man 's career", "Which complicate with some , and balance all .", "Wound up , as making inharmonious jars", "To bear in thought that though Its consciousness", "Go to . Let this terrestrial tragedy \u2014"], "true_target": ["Except in being irresistible \u2014", "The more that he , turned man of mere traditions ,", "Now profits naught . For the large potencies", "You seem to have small sense of mercy , Sire ?", "To throne fair Liberty in Privilege \u2019 room \u2014", "Whereof we spake , afford a spectacle", "Strange waves I sight like winds grown visible ,", "And each has parcel in the total Will .", "This viewless , voiceless Turner of the Wheel ?", "May please thy temper , Years , \u2018 twere better far", "The human news wherewith the Rumours stirred us", "O say no more ;", "In her creation whose meek wraith we know .", "Why doth It so and so , and ever so ,", "Meet is it , none the less ,", "Let this earth-tragedy", "If aught could gratify the Absolute", "For his own gain .", "Are taking taint , and sink to common plots"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 101}, {"query": ["Those , too , who love the true , the excellent ,", "Men surfeited of laying heavy hands ,", "And make their daily moves a melody .", "We would establish those of kindlier build ,", "The mild , the fragile , the obscure content"], "true_target": ["In fair Compassions skilled ,", "Men of deep art in life-development ;", "Among the myriads of thy family .", "Watchers and warders of thy varied lands ,", "Upon the innocent ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 101}, {"query": ["And hasten to head violation", "Put forth , and get clear ;", "Of Albion 's frontier !", "Through months-long of cruizing ,"], "true_target": ["And rendezvous westerly straightway", "With Spain 's aiding navies ,", "Thy foes may elide thee a moment ,", "O Nelson , so zealous a watcher"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 101}, {"query": ["Hark now , and gather how the martial mood"], "true_target": ["Its heavings in the upper coteries there .", "Stirs England 's humblest hearts . Anon we 'll trace"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 101}, {"query": ["Sir , am I to deem you a friend of Bonaparte , a traitor to your country \u2014 -", "That 's why we have seen so many of these marching regiments on the road . This year his grandest attempt upon us is to be made , I reckon .", "What ! Encourage this man in an act of shameless presumption , and give him the pleasure of considering himself the equal of the King of England \u2014 whom he actually calls his brother !", "Whether or no , the King , rightly enough , did not reply in person , but through Lord Mulgrave our Foreign Minister , to the effect that his Britannic Majesty cannot give a specific answer till he has communicated with the Continental powers ."], "true_target": ["There seems to be a deal of traffic over Ridgeway , even at this time o \u2019 year .", "Certainly , sir . He requested peace with the King .", "Well , we ought to be . We 've had alarms enough , God knows .", "Half across . And then another little half , and then all that 's behind \u2014 the Corsican mischief !", "Yes , sir . A letter in his own hand , in which he expected the King to reply to him in the same manner ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 101}, {"query": ["Gentlemen forbear , forbear ! Should such differences be suffered to arise on a spot where we may , in less than three months , be fighting for our very existence ? This is foolish , I say . Heaven alone , who reads the secrets of this man 's heart , can tell what his meaning and intent may be , and if his letter has been answered wisely or no .", "Yes . People who live hereabout \u2014 I am a native of these parts \u2014 feel the nearness of France more than they do inland ."], "true_target": ["May we be ready !", "Yes . It is because the King and Court are coming down here later on . They wake up this part rarely !... See , now , how the Channel and coast open out like a chart . That patch of mist below us is the town we are bound for . There 's the Isle of Slingers beyond , like a floating snail . That wide bay on the right is where the \u201c Abergavenny , \u201d Captain John Wordsworth , was wrecked last month . One can see half across to France up here .", "Is there truth in it that Bonaparte wrote a letter to the King last month ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 101}, {"query": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; Never mind , mates ; we 'll be merry , though We may have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "true_target": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he wo n't sail , lest the wind should blow , We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol ! We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he be sea-sick , says \u201c No , no ! \u201d We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 101}, {"query": ["And was Boney 's letter friendly ?", "King George his brother it does n't speak badly for his friendliness .", "Damn my wig , sir , if I 'll be called a traitor by you or any Court sycophant at all at all !"], "true_target": ["Both the manner and the matter of the reply are British ; but a huge mistake .", "Sir , I apologize . He 's not to be trusted ! War is his name , and aggression is with him !", "He must be taken for what he is , not for what he was ; and if he calls", "And why should n't the King reply in the same manner ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 101}, {"query": ["Bristol only ."], "true_target": ["Any news , sir ? We are from", "A London messenger !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 101}, {"query": ["COACH AND OTHER HIGHWAY PASSENGERS .", "POLLARD , A MIDSHIPMAN .", "Other English Naval Officers .", "..........", "DR. BEATTY .", "Captain Adair .", "BURKE , PURSER .", "WILTSHIRE , A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN", "SECRETARY SCOTT .", "A HORSEMAN .", "..........", "Staff and other Officers of the English Army .", "SAILORS AND BOATMEN .", "A MILITIAMAN .", "A COMPANY OF SOLDIERS ."], "true_target": ["Regiments of the English Army and Hanoverian .", "Lieutenants Ram and Whipple .", "HARDY .", "DR. ALEXANDER SCOTT .", "ENGLISH CITIZENS AND BURGESSES .", "DR. MAGRATH .", "COLLINGWOOD .", "MESSENGERS , SERVANTS , AND RUSTICS .", "Lieutenant Pasco .", "Naval Crews .", "TWO BEACON-WATCHERS .", "ANOTHER LIEUTENANT .", "A GENTLEMAN OF FASHION .", "Sergeant-Major Secker and Marines .", "The Lord Mayor and Corporation of London ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 102}, {"query": ["Of her the Travailler , herself a thrall", "Wouldst substitute for this Intractable ?", "What of the Immanent Will and Its designs ?"], "true_target": ["And who , then , Cordial One ,", "They may come , will they . I am not averse .", "To It ; in all her labourings curbed and kinged !", "Yet know I am but the ineffectual Shade"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 102}, {"query": ["Of those it stirs , who", "The Will has woven with an absent heed", "Whose patterns , wrought by rapt aesthetic rote ,", "As key-scene to the whole , I first lay bare The Will-webs of thy fearful questioning ; For know that of my antique privileges This gift to visualize the Mode is oneSee , then , and learn , ere my power pass again .", "Thou'st lately writ , that sums these happenings ,", "To click-clack off Its preadjusted laws ;", "dream", "But old Laws operate yet ; and phase and phase", "Their motions free , their orderings supreme ;", "You cannot swerve the pulsion of the Byss ,", "Or will", "The free trajection of our entities .", "These flesh-hinged mannikins Its hand upwinds", "By bad mad acts of severance men contrived ,", "To other worlds , being wearied out with this ;", "Its warefulness , Its care , this planet lost", "Hath played strange pranks since first I brooded here .", "That cognizance has marshalled things terrene ,", "Which thinking on , yet weighing not Its thought ,", "Some , too , have told at whiles that rightfully", "Slighted by us amid our converse here .", "By phantom eyes like ours ; the while unguessed", "Methinks too much assurance thrills your note On secrets in my locker , gentle sprites ; But it may serve .\u2014 Our thought being now reflexed To forces operant on this English isle , Behoves it us to enter scene by scene , And watch the spectacle of Europe 's moves In her embroil , as they were self-ordained According to the naive and liberal creed Of our great-hearted young Compassionates , Forgetting the Prime Mover of the gear , As puppet-watchers him who pulls the strings .\u2014 You 'll mark the twitchings of this Bonaparte As he with other figures foots his reel , Until he twitch him into his lonely grave : Also regard the frail ones that his flings Have made gyrate like animalcula In tepid pools .\u2014 Hence to the precinct , then , And count as framework to the stagery Yon architraves of sunbeam-smitten cloud .\u2014 So may ye judge Earth 's jackaclocks to be No fugled by one Will , but function-free .The point of view then sinks downwards through space , and draws near to the surface of the perturbed countries , where the peoples , distressed by events which they did not cause , are seen writhing , crawling , heaving , and vibrating in their various cities and nationalities . ]", "But this no further now . Deem yet man 's deeds self-done .", "Hold what ye list , fond believing Sprites ,", "I care not thy shape , or what they be .", "And not their consequence .", "Wherefore Its mindlessness of earthly woes .", "Shape on accustomed lines . Though , as for me ,", "Evolving always that it wots not of ;", "Their sum is like the lobule of a Brain", "Of men 's dynastic and imperial moils", "Though not in mine .", "Seem in themselves Its single listless aim ,", "Emprizes over-Channel are the key", "As one sad story runs , It lends Its heed", "Whose fingers play in skilled unmindfulness ,"], "true_target": ["When in her early growth and crudity", "Eternal artistries in Circumstance ,", "Labouring through all , divisible from none ;", "Each life apart from each , with power to mete", "To this land 's stir and ferment .\u2014 Thither we .", "Working such nescience by their own device .\u2014", "Our scope is but to register and watch", "The ruling was that we should witness things", "Will-tissues , nerves , and pulses of the Cause ,", "Since life first was ; and ever will so weave .", "Though they subsist but atoms of the One", "Which overrides them as a whole its parts", "in my span .", "In other entities .", "Their aspects , and their movements , and their mould .", "Unchecks Its clock-like laws .", "Its own day 's measures ; balanced , self complete ;", "These are the Prime Volitions ,\u2014 fibrils , veins ,", "Well , no more this on what no mind can mete .", "In brief reminder of their instant points", "Shall such be mooted now ? Already change", "\u2018 Tis not in me to feel with , or against ,", "Mercy I view , not urge ;\u2014 nor more than mark", "But only through my centuries to behold", "And whose procedure may but be discerned", "That heave throughout the Earth 's compositure .", "Yea , so it stands in certain chronicles ,", "And not dispute them . To the drama , then .", "Nothing appears of shape to indicate", "By means of this great gift accorded us \u2014", "How does it stand ?", "Rather they show that , like a knitter drowsed ,", "A Brain whose whole connotes the Everywhere ,", "Open and chant the page", "What designate your titles Good and Ill .", "Nay . In the Foretime , even to the germ of Being ,", "It works unconsciously , as heretofore ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 102}, {"query": ["Ay ; begin small , and so lead up to the greater . It is a sound dramatic principle . I always aim to follow it in my pestilences , fires , famines , and other comedies . And though , to be sure , I did not in my Lisbon earthquake , I did in my French Terror , and my St. Domingo burlesque .", "That riddles human flesh .", "And sheathed all swords , and silenced every gun", "Which would have marred the European broil ,", "It wove Its web in the Ajaccian womb !"], "true_target": ["To unimpel so stultifying a move !", "Good , as before . My little engines , then , will still have play .", "I saw good sport therein , and paean 'd the Will", "Hence we 've rare dramas going \u2014 more so since", "Limbs of Itself : Each one a jot of It in quaint disguise ? I 'll fear all men henceforward !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 102}, {"query": ["Ill chanced it that the English monarch George", "Twining and serpenting round and through .", "Which bear men 's forms on their innumerous coils ,", "Such deeds were nulled , and this strange man 's career", "The more that he , turned man of mere traditions ,", "Also retracting threads like gossamers \u2014", "May please thy temper , Years , \u2018 twere better far", "Which complicate with some , and balance all .", "May be estranged , engrossed afar , or sealed ,", "Wound up , as making inharmonious jars", "The human news wherewith the Rumours stirred us", "\u2018 Twould verily be thy censure , not thy praise !", "In her creation whose meek wraith we know .", "Did not respond to the said Emperor !", "Are taking taint , and sink to common plots", "Forthwith conned closelier than your custom is .\u2014", "To throne fair Liberty in Privilege \u2019 room \u2014", "If aught could gratify the Absolute"], "true_target": ["Go to . Let this terrestrial tragedy \u2014", "To bear in thought that though Its consciousness", "This viewless , voiceless Turner of the Wheel ?", "Sublunar shocks may wake Its watch anon ?", "Now profits naught . For the large potencies", "Let this earth-tragedy", "O say no more ;", "Meet is it , none the less ,", "Strange waves I sight like winds grown visible ,", "Amid this scene of bodies substantive", "Except in being irresistible \u2014", "On things terrene , then , I would say that though", "For his own gain .", "Whereof we spake , afford a spectacle", "You seem to have small sense of mercy , Sire ?", "And each has parcel in the total Will .", "Instilled into his idiosyncrasy \u2014", "Why doth It so and so , and ever so ,", "They are shapes that bleed , mere mannikins or no ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 102}, {"query": ["Men surfeited of laying heavy hands ,", "Men of deep art in life-development ;", "We would establish those of kindlier build ,", "Watchers and warders of thy varied lands ,", "And make their daily moves a melody ."], "true_target": ["Those , too , who love the true , the excellent ,", "In fair Compassions skilled ,", "The mild , the fragile , the obscure content", "Upon the innocent ,", "Among the myriads of thy family ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 102}, {"query": ["And rendezvous westerly straightway", "Thy foes may elide thee a moment ,", "Put forth , and get clear ;", "Of Albion 's frontier !"], "true_target": ["With Spain 's aiding navies ,", "O Nelson , so zealous a watcher", "And hasten to head violation", "Through months-long of cruizing ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 102}, {"query": ["Its heavings in the upper coteries there ."], "true_target": ["Stirs England 's humblest hearts . Anon we 'll trace", "Hark now , and gather how the martial mood"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 102}, {"query": ["Whether or no , the King , rightly enough , did not reply in person , but through Lord Mulgrave our Foreign Minister , to the effect that his Britannic Majesty cannot give a specific answer till he has communicated with the Continental powers .", "Well , we ought to be . We 've had alarms enough , God knows .", "There seems to be a deal of traffic over Ridgeway , even at this time o \u2019 year .", "Sir , am I to deem you a friend of Bonaparte , a traitor to your country \u2014 -"], "true_target": ["What ! Encourage this man in an act of shameless presumption , and give him the pleasure of considering himself the equal of the King of England \u2014 whom he actually calls his brother !", "Half across . And then another little half , and then all that 's behind \u2014 the Corsican mischief !", "That 's why we have seen so many of these marching regiments on the road . This year his grandest attempt upon us is to be made , I reckon .", "Certainly , sir . He requested peace with the King .", "Yes , sir . A letter in his own hand , in which he expected the King to reply to him in the same manner ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 102}, {"query": ["Yes . People who live hereabout \u2014 I am a native of these parts \u2014 feel the nearness of France more than they do inland .", "May we be ready !"], "true_target": ["Gentlemen forbear , forbear ! Should such differences be suffered to arise on a spot where we may , in less than three months , be fighting for our very existence ? This is foolish , I say . Heaven alone , who reads the secrets of this man 's heart , can tell what his meaning and intent may be , and if his letter has been answered wisely or no .", "Yes . It is because the King and Court are coming down here later on . They wake up this part rarely !... See , now , how the Channel and coast open out like a chart . That patch of mist below us is the town we are bound for . There 's the Isle of Slingers beyond , like a floating snail . That wide bay on the right is where the \u201c Abergavenny , \u201d Captain John Wordsworth , was wrecked last month . One can see half across to France up here .", "Is there truth in it that Bonaparte wrote a letter to the King last month ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 102}, {"query": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he wo n't sail , lest the wind should blow , We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol ! We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he be sea-sick , says \u201c No , no ! \u201d We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "true_target": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; Never mind , mates ; we 'll be merry , though We may have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 102}, {"query": ["Sir , I apologize . He 's not to be trusted ! War is his name , and aggression is with him !", "Damn my wig , sir , if I 'll be called a traitor by you or any Court sycophant at all at all !", "King George his brother it does n't speak badly for his friendliness ."], "true_target": ["He must be taken for what he is , not for what he was ; and if he calls", "And why should n't the King reply in the same manner ?", "And was Boney 's letter friendly ?", "Both the manner and the matter of the reply are British ; but a huge mistake ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 102}, {"query": ["Bristol only ."], "true_target": ["A London messenger !", "Any news , sir ? We are from"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 102}, {"query": ["HARDY .", "ANOTHER LIEUTENANT .", "COACH AND OTHER HIGHWAY PASSENGERS .", "Sergeant-Major Secker and Marines .", "Other English Naval Officers .", "BURKE , PURSER .", "DR. BEATTY .", "WILTSHIRE , A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN", "The Lord Mayor and Corporation of London .", "Staff and other Officers of the English Army .", "Lieutenant Pasco .", "A GENTLEMAN OF FASHION .", "MESSENGERS , SERVANTS , AND RUSTICS .", "..........", "SAILORS AND BOATMEN ."], "true_target": ["A MILITIAMAN .", "SECRETARY SCOTT .", "TWO BEACON-WATCHERS .", "Naval Crews .", "Lieutenants Ram and Whipple .", "COLLINGWOOD .", "A COMPANY OF SOLDIERS .", "Captain Adair .", "A HORSEMAN .", "POLLARD , A MIDSHIPMAN .", "Regiments of the English Army and Hanoverian .", "DR. MAGRATH .", "..........", "DR. ALEXANDER SCOTT .", "ENGLISH CITIZENS AND BURGESSES ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 103}, {"query": ["Wouldst substitute for this Intractable ?", "To It ; in all her labourings curbed and kinged !", "Of her the Travailler , herself a thrall"], "true_target": ["They may come , will they . I am not averse .", "What of the Immanent Will and Its designs ?", "And who , then , Cordial One ,", "Yet know I am but the ineffectual Shade"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 103}, {"query": ["Of men 's dynastic and imperial moils", "in my span .", "Some , too , have told at whiles that rightfully", "The ruling was that we should witness things", "Hath played strange pranks since first I brooded here .", "Each life apart from each , with power to mete", "Working such nescience by their own device .\u2014", "To this land 's stir and ferment .\u2014 Thither we .", "Wherefore Its mindlessness of earthly woes .", "The free trajection of our entities .", "To other worlds , being wearied out with this ;", "Hold what ye list , fond believing Sprites ,", "Their aspects , and their movements , and their mould .", "Rather they show that , like a knitter drowsed ,", "In other entities .", "Will-tissues , nerves , and pulses of the Cause ,", "Thou'st lately writ , that sums these happenings ,", "Nothing appears of shape to indicate", "But only through my centuries to behold", "I care not thy shape , or what they be .", "In brief reminder of their instant points", "Their motions free , their orderings supreme ;", "These flesh-hinged mannikins Its hand upwinds", "As key-scene to the whole , I first lay bare The Will-webs of thy fearful questioning ; For know that of my antique privileges This gift to visualize the Mode is oneSee , then , and learn , ere my power pass again .", "Eternal artistries in Circumstance ,", "Nay . In the Foretime , even to the germ of Being ,", "These are the Prime Volitions ,\u2014 fibrils , veins ,", "\u2018 Tis not in me to feel with , or against ,", "And not dispute them . To the drama , then .", "Though not in mine .", "That cognizance has marshalled things terrene ,", "Their sum is like the lobule of a Brain", "Methinks too much assurance thrills your note On secrets in my locker , gentle sprites ; But it may serve .\u2014 Our thought being now reflexed To forces operant on this English isle , Behoves it us to enter scene by scene , And watch the spectacle of Europe 's moves In her embroil , as they were self-ordained According to the naive and liberal creed Of our great-hearted young Compassionates , Forgetting the Prime Mover of the gear , As puppet-watchers him who pulls the strings .\u2014 You 'll mark the twitchings of this Bonaparte As he with other figures foots his reel , Until he twitch him into his lonely grave : Also regard the frail ones that his flings Have made gyrate like animalcula In tepid pools .\u2014 Hence to the precinct , then , And count as framework to the stagery Yon architraves of sunbeam-smitten cloud .\u2014 So may ye judge Earth 's jackaclocks to be No fugled by one Will , but function-free .The point of view then sinks downwards through space , and draws near to the surface of the perturbed countries , where the peoples , distressed by events which they did not cause , are seen writhing , crawling , heaving , and vibrating in their various cities and nationalities . ]", "That heave throughout the Earth 's compositure .", "Yea , so it stands in certain chronicles ,", "How does it stand ?", "By means of this great gift accorded us \u2014"], "true_target": ["Which overrides them as a whole its parts", "By bad mad acts of severance men contrived ,", "Emprizes over-Channel are the key", "Its own day 's measures ; balanced , self complete ;", "But old Laws operate yet ; and phase and phase", "Of those it stirs , who", "And whose procedure may but be discerned", "Shall such be mooted now ? Already change", "dream", "Whose patterns , wrought by rapt aesthetic rote ,", "When in her early growth and crudity", "Labouring through all , divisible from none ;", "Open and chant the page", "Since life first was ; and ever will so weave .", "Slighted by us amid our converse here .", "Which thinking on , yet weighing not Its thought ,", "Though they subsist but atoms of the One", "Its warefulness , Its care , this planet lost", "Our scope is but to register and watch", "Evolving always that it wots not of ;", "Whose fingers play in skilled unmindfulness ,", "Mercy I view , not urge ;\u2014 nor more than mark", "Seem in themselves Its single listless aim ,", "Unchecks Its clock-like laws .", "By phantom eyes like ours ; the while unguessed", "A Brain whose whole connotes the Everywhere ,", "It works unconsciously , as heretofore ,", "Shape on accustomed lines . Though , as for me ,", "Or will", "And not their consequence .", "What designate your titles Good and Ill .", "As one sad story runs , It lends Its heed", "You cannot swerve the pulsion of the Byss ,", "But this no further now . Deem yet man 's deeds self-done .", "The Will has woven with an absent heed", "Well , no more this on what no mind can mete .", "To click-clack off Its preadjusted laws ;"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 103}, {"query": ["To unimpel so stultifying a move !", "I saw good sport therein , and paean 'd the Will", "And sheathed all swords , and silenced every gun", "It wove Its web in the Ajaccian womb !", "Ay ; begin small , and so lead up to the greater . It is a sound dramatic principle . I always aim to follow it in my pestilences , fires , famines , and other comedies . And though , to be sure , I did not in my Lisbon earthquake , I did in my French Terror , and my St. Domingo burlesque ."], "true_target": ["Hence we 've rare dramas going \u2014 more so since", "Good , as before . My little engines , then , will still have play .", "Limbs of Itself : Each one a jot of It in quaint disguise ? I 'll fear all men henceforward !", "That riddles human flesh .", "Which would have marred the European broil ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 103}, {"query": ["Are taking taint , and sink to common plots", "Instilled into his idiosyncrasy \u2014", "\u2018 Twould verily be thy censure , not thy praise !", "And each has parcel in the total Will .", "Also retracting threads like gossamers \u2014", "The more that he , turned man of mere traditions ,", "Whereof we spake , afford a spectacle", "Which bear men 's forms on their innumerous coils ,", "Wound up , as making inharmonious jars", "May please thy temper , Years , \u2018 twere better far", "Meet is it , none the less ,", "Twining and serpenting round and through .", "To bear in thought that though Its consciousness", "Now profits naught . For the large potencies", "Except in being irresistible \u2014", "Such deeds were nulled , and this strange man 's career", "Strange waves I sight like winds grown visible ,", "For his own gain ."], "true_target": ["Ill chanced it that the English monarch George", "Forthwith conned closelier than your custom is .\u2014", "Why doth It so and so , and ever so ,", "This viewless , voiceless Turner of the Wheel ?", "They are shapes that bleed , mere mannikins or no ,", "Let this earth-tragedy", "O say no more ;", "On things terrene , then , I would say that though", "Go to . Let this terrestrial tragedy \u2014", "Sublunar shocks may wake Its watch anon ?", "The human news wherewith the Rumours stirred us", "If aught could gratify the Absolute", "To throne fair Liberty in Privilege \u2019 room \u2014", "You seem to have small sense of mercy , Sire ?", "Did not respond to the said Emperor !", "Amid this scene of bodies substantive", "Which complicate with some , and balance all .", "In her creation whose meek wraith we know .", "May be estranged , engrossed afar , or sealed ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 103}, {"query": ["Those , too , who love the true , the excellent ,", "Upon the innocent ,", "Watchers and warders of thy varied lands ,", "In fair Compassions skilled ,", "Among the myriads of thy family ."], "true_target": ["Men surfeited of laying heavy hands ,", "Men of deep art in life-development ;", "And make their daily moves a melody .", "The mild , the fragile , the obscure content", "We would establish those of kindlier build ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 103}, {"query": ["Thy foes may elide thee a moment ,", "O Nelson , so zealous a watcher", "Put forth , and get clear ;", "And hasten to head violation"], "true_target": ["Through months-long of cruizing ,", "Of Albion 's frontier !", "And rendezvous westerly straightway", "With Spain 's aiding navies ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 103}, {"query": ["Stirs England 's humblest hearts . Anon we 'll trace"], "true_target": ["Hark now , and gather how the martial mood", "Its heavings in the upper coteries there ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 103}, {"query": ["Certainly , sir . He requested peace with the King .", "Yes , sir . A letter in his own hand , in which he expected the King to reply to him in the same manner .", "What ! Encourage this man in an act of shameless presumption , and give him the pleasure of considering himself the equal of the King of England \u2014 whom he actually calls his brother !", "Well , we ought to be . We 've had alarms enough , God knows ."], "true_target": ["Half across . And then another little half , and then all that 's behind \u2014 the Corsican mischief !", "Sir , am I to deem you a friend of Bonaparte , a traitor to your country \u2014 -", "There seems to be a deal of traffic over Ridgeway , even at this time o \u2019 year .", "Whether or no , the King , rightly enough , did not reply in person , but through Lord Mulgrave our Foreign Minister , to the effect that his Britannic Majesty cannot give a specific answer till he has communicated with the Continental powers .", "That 's why we have seen so many of these marching regiments on the road . This year his grandest attempt upon us is to be made , I reckon ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 103}, {"query": ["May we be ready !", "Yes . People who live hereabout \u2014 I am a native of these parts \u2014 feel the nearness of France more than they do inland ."], "true_target": ["Yes . It is because the King and Court are coming down here later on . They wake up this part rarely !... See , now , how the Channel and coast open out like a chart . That patch of mist below us is the town we are bound for . There 's the Isle of Slingers beyond , like a floating snail . That wide bay on the right is where the \u201c Abergavenny , \u201d Captain John Wordsworth , was wrecked last month . One can see half across to France up here .", "Gentlemen forbear , forbear ! Should such differences be suffered to arise on a spot where we may , in less than three months , be fighting for our very existence ? This is foolish , I say . Heaven alone , who reads the secrets of this man 's heart , can tell what his meaning and intent may be , and if his letter has been answered wisely or no .", "Is there truth in it that Bonaparte wrote a letter to the King last month ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 103}, {"query": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he wo n't sail , lest the wind should blow , We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol ! We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he be sea-sick , says \u201c No , no ! \u201d We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "true_target": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; Never mind , mates ; we 'll be merry , though We may have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 103}, {"query": ["King George his brother it does n't speak badly for his friendliness .", "Sir , I apologize . He 's not to be trusted ! War is his name , and aggression is with him !", "He must be taken for what he is , not for what he was ; and if he calls"], "true_target": ["Both the manner and the matter of the reply are British ; but a huge mistake .", "And was Boney 's letter friendly ?", "And why should n't the King reply in the same manner ?", "Damn my wig , sir , if I 'll be called a traitor by you or any Court sycophant at all at all !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 103}, {"query": ["A London messenger !"], "true_target": ["Bristol only .", "Any news , sir ? We are from"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 103}, {"query": ["WILTSHIRE , A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN", "DR. ALEXANDER SCOTT .", "Sergeant-Major Secker and Marines .", "COLLINGWOOD .", "POLLARD , A MIDSHIPMAN .", "A COMPANY OF SOLDIERS .", "BURKE , PURSER .", "ANOTHER LIEUTENANT .", "Naval Crews .", "The Lord Mayor and Corporation of London .", "A HORSEMAN .", "..........", "Lieutenant Pasco .", "Regiments of the English Army and Hanoverian .", "SECRETARY SCOTT ."], "true_target": ["Captain Adair .", "SAILORS AND BOATMEN .", "MESSENGERS , SERVANTS , AND RUSTICS .", "COACH AND OTHER HIGHWAY PASSENGERS .", "TWO BEACON-WATCHERS .", "Lieutenants Ram and Whipple .", "DR. MAGRATH .", "A GENTLEMAN OF FASHION .", "Staff and other Officers of the English Army .", "ENGLISH CITIZENS AND BURGESSES .", "DR. BEATTY .", "Other English Naval Officers .", "HARDY .", "A MILITIAMAN .", ".........."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 104}, {"query": ["Yet know I am but the ineffectual Shade", "Of her the Travailler , herself a thrall", "What of the Immanent Will and Its designs ?"], "true_target": ["And who , then , Cordial One ,", "Wouldst substitute for this Intractable ?", "They may come , will they . I am not averse .", "To It ; in all her labourings curbed and kinged !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 104}, {"query": ["I care not thy shape , or what they be .", "To click-clack off Its preadjusted laws ;", "Hold what ye list , fond believing Sprites ,", "Wherefore Its mindlessness of earthly woes .", "Eternal artistries in Circumstance ,", "As key-scene to the whole , I first lay bare The Will-webs of thy fearful questioning ; For know that of my antique privileges This gift to visualize the Mode is oneSee , then , and learn , ere my power pass again .", "Well , no more this on what no mind can mete .", "Of men 's dynastic and imperial moils", "Shape on accustomed lines . Though , as for me ,", "Their motions free , their orderings supreme ;", "That cognizance has marshalled things terrene ,", "Seem in themselves Its single listless aim ,", "By phantom eyes like ours ; the while unguessed", "These flesh-hinged mannikins Its hand upwinds", "Slighted by us amid our converse here .", "What designate your titles Good and Ill .", "To other worlds , being wearied out with this ;", "Though they subsist but atoms of the One", "dream", "Hath played strange pranks since first I brooded here .", "By means of this great gift accorded us \u2014", "The free trajection of our entities .", "By bad mad acts of severance men contrived ,", "Emprizes over-Channel are the key", "Its warefulness , Its care , this planet lost", "And not dispute them . To the drama , then .", "Their aspects , and their movements , and their mould .", "It works unconsciously , as heretofore ,", "Which thinking on , yet weighing not Its thought ,", "Rather they show that , like a knitter drowsed ,", "That heave throughout the Earth 's compositure .", "Whose fingers play in skilled unmindfulness ,", "Will-tissues , nerves , and pulses of the Cause ,", "When in her early growth and crudity", "Its own day 's measures ; balanced , self complete ;", "Of those it stirs , who", "A Brain whose whole connotes the Everywhere ,"], "true_target": ["But old Laws operate yet ; and phase and phase", "Yea , so it stands in certain chronicles ,", "Unchecks Its clock-like laws .", "\u2018 Tis not in me to feel with , or against ,", "To this land 's stir and ferment .\u2014 Thither we .", "The Will has woven with an absent heed", "In brief reminder of their instant points", "And whose procedure may but be discerned", "Thou'st lately writ , that sums these happenings ,", "Whose patterns , wrought by rapt aesthetic rote ,", "Each life apart from each , with power to mete", "Shall such be mooted now ? Already change", "Since life first was ; and ever will so weave .", "in my span .", "But this no further now . Deem yet man 's deeds self-done .", "As one sad story runs , It lends Its heed", "In other entities .", "Open and chant the page", "Some , too , have told at whiles that rightfully", "Or will", "Our scope is but to register and watch", "Labouring through all , divisible from none ;", "Methinks too much assurance thrills your note On secrets in my locker , gentle sprites ; But it may serve .\u2014 Our thought being now reflexed To forces operant on this English isle , Behoves it us to enter scene by scene , And watch the spectacle of Europe 's moves In her embroil , as they were self-ordained According to the naive and liberal creed Of our great-hearted young Compassionates , Forgetting the Prime Mover of the gear , As puppet-watchers him who pulls the strings .\u2014 You 'll mark the twitchings of this Bonaparte As he with other figures foots his reel , Until he twitch him into his lonely grave : Also regard the frail ones that his flings Have made gyrate like animalcula In tepid pools .\u2014 Hence to the precinct , then , And count as framework to the stagery Yon architraves of sunbeam-smitten cloud .\u2014 So may ye judge Earth 's jackaclocks to be No fugled by one Will , but function-free .The point of view then sinks downwards through space , and draws near to the surface of the perturbed countries , where the peoples , distressed by events which they did not cause , are seen writhing , crawling , heaving , and vibrating in their various cities and nationalities . ]", "Nay . In the Foretime , even to the germ of Being ,", "Working such nescience by their own device .\u2014", "These are the Prime Volitions ,\u2014 fibrils , veins ,", "How does it stand ?", "But only through my centuries to behold", "Though not in mine .", "The ruling was that we should witness things", "Which overrides them as a whole its parts", "Evolving always that it wots not of ;", "Nothing appears of shape to indicate", "Their sum is like the lobule of a Brain", "Mercy I view , not urge ;\u2014 nor more than mark", "And not their consequence .", "You cannot swerve the pulsion of the Byss ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 104}, {"query": ["Good , as before . My little engines , then , will still have play .", "Ay ; begin small , and so lead up to the greater . It is a sound dramatic principle . I always aim to follow it in my pestilences , fires , famines , and other comedies . And though , to be sure , I did not in my Lisbon earthquake , I did in my French Terror , and my St. Domingo burlesque .", "To unimpel so stultifying a move !", "And sheathed all swords , and silenced every gun", "I saw good sport therein , and paean 'd the Will"], "true_target": ["Limbs of Itself : Each one a jot of It in quaint disguise ? I 'll fear all men henceforward !", "It wove Its web in the Ajaccian womb !", "That riddles human flesh .", "Which would have marred the European broil ,", "Hence we 've rare dramas going \u2014 more so since"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 104}, {"query": ["May be estranged , engrossed afar , or sealed ,", "Why doth It so and so , and ever so ,", "Let this earth-tragedy", "Amid this scene of bodies substantive", "Wound up , as making inharmonious jars", "Which complicate with some , and balance all .", "Except in being irresistible \u2014", "Sublunar shocks may wake Its watch anon ?", "Instilled into his idiosyncrasy \u2014", "Such deeds were nulled , and this strange man 's career", "To bear in thought that though Its consciousness", "You seem to have small sense of mercy , Sire ?", "On things terrene , then , I would say that though", "\u2018 Twould verily be thy censure , not thy praise !", "For his own gain .", "Meet is it , none the less ,", "Strange waves I sight like winds grown visible ,", "To throne fair Liberty in Privilege \u2019 room \u2014"], "true_target": ["They are shapes that bleed , mere mannikins or no ,", "Forthwith conned closelier than your custom is .\u2014", "Ill chanced it that the English monarch George", "Also retracting threads like gossamers \u2014", "Now profits naught . For the large potencies", "Which bear men 's forms on their innumerous coils ,", "And each has parcel in the total Will .", "Whereof we spake , afford a spectacle", "If aught could gratify the Absolute", "In her creation whose meek wraith we know .", "This viewless , voiceless Turner of the Wheel ?", "The human news wherewith the Rumours stirred us", "Did not respond to the said Emperor !", "O say no more ;", "Are taking taint , and sink to common plots", "The more that he , turned man of mere traditions ,", "May please thy temper , Years , \u2018 twere better far", "Go to . Let this terrestrial tragedy \u2014", "Twining and serpenting round and through ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 104}, {"query": ["Upon the innocent ,", "Those , too , who love the true , the excellent ,", "Men of deep art in life-development ;", "Watchers and warders of thy varied lands ,", "In fair Compassions skilled ,"], "true_target": ["And make their daily moves a melody .", "Among the myriads of thy family .", "We would establish those of kindlier build ,", "The mild , the fragile , the obscure content", "Men surfeited of laying heavy hands ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 104}, {"query": ["O Nelson , so zealous a watcher", "Through months-long of cruizing ,", "Put forth , and get clear ;", "Of Albion 's frontier !"], "true_target": ["And rendezvous westerly straightway", "And hasten to head violation", "Thy foes may elide thee a moment ,", "With Spain 's aiding navies ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 104}, {"query": ["Its heavings in the upper coteries there ."], "true_target": ["Hark now , and gather how the martial mood", "Stirs England 's humblest hearts . Anon we 'll trace"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 104}, {"query": ["Well , we ought to be . We 've had alarms enough , God knows .", "That 's why we have seen so many of these marching regiments on the road . This year his grandest attempt upon us is to be made , I reckon .", "What ! Encourage this man in an act of shameless presumption , and give him the pleasure of considering himself the equal of the King of England \u2014 whom he actually calls his brother !", "Certainly , sir . He requested peace with the King ."], "true_target": ["Half across . And then another little half , and then all that 's behind \u2014 the Corsican mischief !", "There seems to be a deal of traffic over Ridgeway , even at this time o \u2019 year .", "Whether or no , the King , rightly enough , did not reply in person , but through Lord Mulgrave our Foreign Minister , to the effect that his Britannic Majesty cannot give a specific answer till he has communicated with the Continental powers .", "Yes , sir . A letter in his own hand , in which he expected the King to reply to him in the same manner .", "Sir , am I to deem you a friend of Bonaparte , a traitor to your country \u2014 -"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 104}, {"query": ["Yes . People who live hereabout \u2014 I am a native of these parts \u2014 feel the nearness of France more than they do inland .", "Is there truth in it that Bonaparte wrote a letter to the King last month ?"], "true_target": ["Gentlemen forbear , forbear ! Should such differences be suffered to arise on a spot where we may , in less than three months , be fighting for our very existence ? This is foolish , I say . Heaven alone , who reads the secrets of this man 's heart , can tell what his meaning and intent may be , and if his letter has been answered wisely or no .", "May we be ready !", "Yes . It is because the King and Court are coming down here later on . They wake up this part rarely !... See , now , how the Channel and coast open out like a chart . That patch of mist below us is the town we are bound for . There 's the Isle of Slingers beyond , like a floating snail . That wide bay on the right is where the \u201c Abergavenny , \u201d Captain John Wordsworth , was wrecked last month . One can see half across to France up here ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 104}, {"query": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; Never mind , mates ; we 'll be merry , though We may have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "true_target": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he wo n't sail , lest the wind should blow , We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol ! We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he be sea-sick , says \u201c No , no ! \u201d We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 104}, {"query": ["Both the manner and the matter of the reply are British ; but a huge mistake .", "And why should n't the King reply in the same manner ?", "King George his brother it does n't speak badly for his friendliness ."], "true_target": ["He must be taken for what he is , not for what he was ; and if he calls", "Sir , I apologize . He 's not to be trusted ! War is his name , and aggression is with him !", "Damn my wig , sir , if I 'll be called a traitor by you or any Court sycophant at all at all !", "And was Boney 's letter friendly ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 104}, {"query": ["A London messenger !"], "true_target": ["Any news , sir ? We are from", "Bristol only ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 104}, {"query": ["DR. ALEXANDER SCOTT .", "..........", "Other English Naval Officers .", "A GENTLEMAN OF FASHION .", "Staff and other Officers of the English Army .", "Lieutenants Ram and Whipple .", "DR. MAGRATH .", "Naval Crews .", "COACH AND OTHER HIGHWAY PASSENGERS .", "POLLARD , A MIDSHIPMAN .", "Regiments of the English Army and Hanoverian .", "A HORSEMAN .", "SECRETARY SCOTT .", "..........", "TWO BEACON-WATCHERS ."], "true_target": ["SAILORS AND BOATMEN .", "A MILITIAMAN .", "The Lord Mayor and Corporation of London .", "Sergeant-Major Secker and Marines .", "DR. BEATTY .", "ENGLISH CITIZENS AND BURGESSES .", "ANOTHER LIEUTENANT .", "Captain Adair .", "HARDY .", "Lieutenant Pasco .", "BURKE , PURSER .", "MESSENGERS , SERVANTS , AND RUSTICS .", "COLLINGWOOD .", "WILTSHIRE , A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN", "A COMPANY OF SOLDIERS ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 105}, {"query": ["Yet know I am but the ineffectual Shade", "To It ; in all her labourings curbed and kinged !", "Wouldst substitute for this Intractable ?"], "true_target": ["Of her the Travailler , herself a thrall", "What of the Immanent Will and Its designs ?", "And who , then , Cordial One ,", "They may come , will they . I am not averse ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 105}, {"query": ["To this land 's stir and ferment .\u2014 Thither we .", "Slighted by us amid our converse here .", "The ruling was that we should witness things", "in my span .", "Working such nescience by their own device .\u2014", "The Will has woven with an absent heed", "Emprizes over-Channel are the key", "Open and chant the page", "Seem in themselves Its single listless aim ,", "Their sum is like the lobule of a Brain", "Well , no more this on what no mind can mete .", "Whose fingers play in skilled unmindfulness ,", "Since life first was ; and ever will so weave .", "Hath played strange pranks since first I brooded here .", "To click-clack off Its preadjusted laws ;", "Shape on accustomed lines . Though , as for me ,", "In brief reminder of their instant points", "Rather they show that , like a knitter drowsed ,", "By phantom eyes like ours ; the while unguessed", "Unchecks Its clock-like laws .", "dream", "Yea , so it stands in certain chronicles ,", "Labouring through all , divisible from none ;", "And not their consequence .", "Or will", "Their motions free , their orderings supreme ;", "Though not in mine .", "Methinks too much assurance thrills your note On secrets in my locker , gentle sprites ; But it may serve .\u2014 Our thought being now reflexed To forces operant on this English isle , Behoves it us to enter scene by scene , And watch the spectacle of Europe 's moves In her embroil , as they were self-ordained According to the naive and liberal creed Of our great-hearted young Compassionates , Forgetting the Prime Mover of the gear , As puppet-watchers him who pulls the strings .\u2014 You 'll mark the twitchings of this Bonaparte As he with other figures foots his reel , Until he twitch him into his lonely grave : Also regard the frail ones that his flings Have made gyrate like animalcula In tepid pools .\u2014 Hence to the precinct , then , And count as framework to the stagery Yon architraves of sunbeam-smitten cloud .\u2014 So may ye judge Earth 's jackaclocks to be No fugled by one Will , but function-free .The point of view then sinks downwards through space , and draws near to the surface of the perturbed countries , where the peoples , distressed by events which they did not cause , are seen writhing , crawling , heaving , and vibrating in their various cities and nationalities . ]", "Nothing appears of shape to indicate", "Of those it stirs , who", "Their aspects , and their movements , and their mould .", "Though they subsist but atoms of the One", "But only through my centuries to behold", "As one sad story runs , It lends Its heed", "And whose procedure may but be discerned", "Which overrides them as a whole its parts", "As key-scene to the whole , I first lay bare The Will-webs of thy fearful questioning ; For know that of my antique privileges This gift to visualize the Mode is oneSee , then , and learn , ere my power pass again ."], "true_target": ["Hold what ye list , fond believing Sprites ,", "How does it stand ?", "Its warefulness , Its care , this planet lost", "\u2018 Tis not in me to feel with , or against ,", "That heave throughout the Earth 's compositure .", "Eternal artistries in Circumstance ,", "These are the Prime Volitions ,\u2014 fibrils , veins ,", "To other worlds , being wearied out with this ;", "Wherefore Its mindlessness of earthly woes .", "Nay . In the Foretime , even to the germ of Being ,", "When in her early growth and crudity", "Will-tissues , nerves , and pulses of the Cause ,", "What designate your titles Good and Ill .", "But this no further now . Deem yet man 's deeds self-done .", "Evolving always that it wots not of ;", "Which thinking on , yet weighing not Its thought ,", "Its own day 's measures ; balanced , self complete ;", "By bad mad acts of severance men contrived ,", "Mercy I view , not urge ;\u2014 nor more than mark", "That cognizance has marshalled things terrene ,", "You cannot swerve the pulsion of the Byss ,", "Shall such be mooted now ? Already change", "Each life apart from each , with power to mete", "The free trajection of our entities .", "These flesh-hinged mannikins Its hand upwinds", "Some , too , have told at whiles that rightfully", "I care not thy shape , or what they be .", "Thou'st lately writ , that sums these happenings ,", "Our scope is but to register and watch", "Whose patterns , wrought by rapt aesthetic rote ,", "A Brain whose whole connotes the Everywhere ,", "It works unconsciously , as heretofore ,", "Of men 's dynastic and imperial moils", "By means of this great gift accorded us \u2014", "But old Laws operate yet ; and phase and phase", "And not dispute them . To the drama , then .", "In other entities ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 105}, {"query": ["It wove Its web in the Ajaccian womb !", "Good , as before . My little engines , then , will still have play .", "Limbs of Itself : Each one a jot of It in quaint disguise ? I 'll fear all men henceforward !", "And sheathed all swords , and silenced every gun", "Which would have marred the European broil ,"], "true_target": ["To unimpel so stultifying a move !", "I saw good sport therein , and paean 'd the Will", "Ay ; begin small , and so lead up to the greater . It is a sound dramatic principle . I always aim to follow it in my pestilences , fires , famines , and other comedies . And though , to be sure , I did not in my Lisbon earthquake , I did in my French Terror , and my St. Domingo burlesque .", "Hence we 've rare dramas going \u2014 more so since", "That riddles human flesh ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 105}, {"query": ["May be estranged , engrossed afar , or sealed ,", "Meet is it , none the less ,", "Amid this scene of bodies substantive", "For his own gain .", "On things terrene , then , I would say that though", "Also retracting threads like gossamers \u2014", "The more that he , turned man of mere traditions ,", "\u2018 Twould verily be thy censure , not thy praise !", "Why doth It so and so , and ever so ,", "This viewless , voiceless Turner of the Wheel ?", "Except in being irresistible \u2014", "To bear in thought that though Its consciousness", "You seem to have small sense of mercy , Sire ?", "Sublunar shocks may wake Its watch anon ?", "Let this earth-tragedy", "Which bear men 's forms on their innumerous coils ,", "And each has parcel in the total Will .", "Strange waves I sight like winds grown visible ,"], "true_target": ["Such deeds were nulled , and this strange man 's career", "Ill chanced it that the English monarch George", "May please thy temper , Years , \u2018 twere better far", "Which complicate with some , and balance all .", "Go to . Let this terrestrial tragedy \u2014", "Wound up , as making inharmonious jars", "They are shapes that bleed , mere mannikins or no ,", "Instilled into his idiosyncrasy \u2014", "If aught could gratify the Absolute", "To throne fair Liberty in Privilege \u2019 room \u2014", "O say no more ;", "Forthwith conned closelier than your custom is .\u2014", "Twining and serpenting round and through .", "The human news wherewith the Rumours stirred us", "In her creation whose meek wraith we know .", "Are taking taint , and sink to common plots", "Whereof we spake , afford a spectacle", "Now profits naught . For the large potencies", "Did not respond to the said Emperor !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 105}, {"query": ["Those , too , who love the true , the excellent ,", "Men surfeited of laying heavy hands ,", "Watchers and warders of thy varied lands ,", "Among the myriads of thy family .", "And make their daily moves a melody ."], "true_target": ["The mild , the fragile , the obscure content", "Upon the innocent ,", "We would establish those of kindlier build ,", "In fair Compassions skilled ,", "Men of deep art in life-development ;"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 105}, {"query": ["And rendezvous westerly straightway", "Thy foes may elide thee a moment ,", "O Nelson , so zealous a watcher", "Put forth , and get clear ;"], "true_target": ["Through months-long of cruizing ,", "Of Albion 's frontier !", "With Spain 's aiding navies ,", "And hasten to head violation"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 105}, {"query": ["Hark now , and gather how the martial mood"], "true_target": ["Its heavings in the upper coteries there .", "Stirs England 's humblest hearts . Anon we 'll trace"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 105}, {"query": ["That 's why we have seen so many of these marching regiments on the road . This year his grandest attempt upon us is to be made , I reckon .", "Sir , am I to deem you a friend of Bonaparte , a traitor to your country \u2014 -", "Yes , sir . A letter in his own hand , in which he expected the King to reply to him in the same manner .", "There seems to be a deal of traffic over Ridgeway , even at this time o \u2019 year ."], "true_target": ["Half across . And then another little half , and then all that 's behind \u2014 the Corsican mischief !", "What ! Encourage this man in an act of shameless presumption , and give him the pleasure of considering himself the equal of the King of England \u2014 whom he actually calls his brother !", "Well , we ought to be . We 've had alarms enough , God knows .", "Certainly , sir . He requested peace with the King .", "Whether or no , the King , rightly enough , did not reply in person , but through Lord Mulgrave our Foreign Minister , to the effect that his Britannic Majesty cannot give a specific answer till he has communicated with the Continental powers ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 105}, {"query": ["Yes . It is because the King and Court are coming down here later on . They wake up this part rarely !... See , now , how the Channel and coast open out like a chart . That patch of mist below us is the town we are bound for . There 's the Isle of Slingers beyond , like a floating snail . That wide bay on the right is where the \u201c Abergavenny , \u201d Captain John Wordsworth , was wrecked last month . One can see half across to France up here .", "Yes . People who live hereabout \u2014 I am a native of these parts \u2014 feel the nearness of France more than they do inland ."], "true_target": ["Is there truth in it that Bonaparte wrote a letter to the King last month ?", "Gentlemen forbear , forbear ! Should such differences be suffered to arise on a spot where we may , in less than three months , be fighting for our very existence ? This is foolish , I say . Heaven alone , who reads the secrets of this man 's heart , can tell what his meaning and intent may be , and if his letter has been answered wisely or no .", "May we be ready !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 105}, {"query": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; Never mind , mates ; we 'll be merry , though We may have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "true_target": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he wo n't sail , lest the wind should blow , We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol ! We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he be sea-sick , says \u201c No , no ! \u201d We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 105}, {"query": ["Sir , I apologize . He 's not to be trusted ! War is his name , and aggression is with him !", "He must be taken for what he is , not for what he was ; and if he calls", "Both the manner and the matter of the reply are British ; but a huge mistake ."], "true_target": ["Damn my wig , sir , if I 'll be called a traitor by you or any Court sycophant at all at all !", "And why should n't the King reply in the same manner ?", "King George his brother it does n't speak badly for his friendliness .", "And was Boney 's letter friendly ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 105}, {"query": ["Any news , sir ? We are from"], "true_target": ["A London messenger !", "Bristol only ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 105}, {"query": ["Sergeant-Major Secker and Marines .", "TWO BEACON-WATCHERS .", "DR. MAGRATH .", "BURKE , PURSER .", "Regiments of the English Army and Hanoverian .", "A GENTLEMAN OF FASHION .", "COACH AND OTHER HIGHWAY PASSENGERS .", "DR. BEATTY .", "DR. ALEXANDER SCOTT .", "A HORSEMAN .", "Lieutenant Pasco .", "WILTSHIRE , A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN", "..........", "SECRETARY SCOTT .", "COLLINGWOOD ."], "true_target": ["Other English Naval Officers .", "SAILORS AND BOATMEN .", "POLLARD , A MIDSHIPMAN .", "A COMPANY OF SOLDIERS .", "..........", "MESSENGERS , SERVANTS , AND RUSTICS .", "ANOTHER LIEUTENANT .", "Staff and other Officers of the English Army .", "Naval Crews .", "Captain Adair .", "A MILITIAMAN .", "ENGLISH CITIZENS AND BURGESSES .", "The Lord Mayor and Corporation of London .", "Lieutenants Ram and Whipple .", "HARDY ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 106}, {"query": ["To It ; in all her labourings curbed and kinged !", "And who , then , Cordial One ,", "They may come , will they . I am not averse ."], "true_target": ["Wouldst substitute for this Intractable ?", "Of her the Travailler , herself a thrall", "What of the Immanent Will and Its designs ?", "Yet know I am but the ineffectual Shade"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 106}, {"query": ["That heave throughout the Earth 's compositure .", "As key-scene to the whole , I first lay bare The Will-webs of thy fearful questioning ; For know that of my antique privileges This gift to visualize the Mode is oneSee , then , and learn , ere my power pass again .", "How does it stand ?", "Rather they show that , like a knitter drowsed ,", "But this no further now . Deem yet man 's deeds self-done .", "Which thinking on , yet weighing not Its thought ,", "Wherefore Its mindlessness of earthly woes .", "To click-clack off Its preadjusted laws ;", "Shape on accustomed lines . Though , as for me ,", "Methinks too much assurance thrills your note On secrets in my locker , gentle sprites ; But it may serve .\u2014 Our thought being now reflexed To forces operant on this English isle , Behoves it us to enter scene by scene , And watch the spectacle of Europe 's moves In her embroil , as they were self-ordained According to the naive and liberal creed Of our great-hearted young Compassionates , Forgetting the Prime Mover of the gear , As puppet-watchers him who pulls the strings .\u2014 You 'll mark the twitchings of this Bonaparte As he with other figures foots his reel , Until he twitch him into his lonely grave : Also regard the frail ones that his flings Have made gyrate like animalcula In tepid pools .\u2014 Hence to the precinct , then , And count as framework to the stagery Yon architraves of sunbeam-smitten cloud .\u2014 So may ye judge Earth 's jackaclocks to be No fugled by one Will , but function-free .The point of view then sinks downwards through space , and draws near to the surface of the perturbed countries , where the peoples , distressed by events which they did not cause , are seen writhing , crawling , heaving , and vibrating in their various cities and nationalities . ]", "Seem in themselves Its single listless aim ,", "As one sad story runs , It lends Its heed", "Its warefulness , Its care , this planet lost", "Yea , so it stands in certain chronicles ,", "Hold what ye list , fond believing Sprites ,", "When in her early growth and crudity", "Though not in mine .", "In other entities .", "Some , too , have told at whiles that rightfully", "But only through my centuries to behold", "By phantom eyes like ours ; the while unguessed", "Labouring through all , divisible from none ;", "Their motions free , their orderings supreme ;", "You cannot swerve the pulsion of the Byss ,", "By means of this great gift accorded us \u2014", "Each life apart from each , with power to mete", "In brief reminder of their instant points", "Though they subsist but atoms of the One", "Whose patterns , wrought by rapt aesthetic rote ,", "Eternal artistries in Circumstance ,", "Our scope is but to register and watch", "To other worlds , being wearied out with this ;", "Whose fingers play in skilled unmindfulness ,", "Mercy I view , not urge ;\u2014 nor more than mark", "dream", "Well , no more this on what no mind can mete .", "Nay . In the Foretime , even to the germ of Being ,"], "true_target": ["Open and chant the page", "Or will", "And whose procedure may but be discerned", "And not dispute them . To the drama , then .", "Hath played strange pranks since first I brooded here .", "That cognizance has marshalled things terrene ,", "Emprizes over-Channel are the key", "By bad mad acts of severance men contrived ,", "To this land 's stir and ferment .\u2014 Thither we .", "Which overrides them as a whole its parts", "A Brain whose whole connotes the Everywhere ,", "\u2018 Tis not in me to feel with , or against ,", "Its own day 's measures ; balanced , self complete ;", "Their aspects , and their movements , and their mould .", "in my span .", "Since life first was ; and ever will so weave .", "These flesh-hinged mannikins Its hand upwinds", "The free trajection of our entities .", "Of those it stirs , who", "Shall such be mooted now ? Already change", "What designate your titles Good and Ill .", "Evolving always that it wots not of ;", "Slighted by us amid our converse here .", "Their sum is like the lobule of a Brain", "Of men 's dynastic and imperial moils", "I care not thy shape , or what they be .", "Working such nescience by their own device .\u2014", "And not their consequence .", "Thou'st lately writ , that sums these happenings ,", "Unchecks Its clock-like laws .", "Will-tissues , nerves , and pulses of the Cause ,", "Nothing appears of shape to indicate", "These are the Prime Volitions ,\u2014 fibrils , veins ,", "The ruling was that we should witness things", "But old Laws operate yet ; and phase and phase", "It works unconsciously , as heretofore ,", "The Will has woven with an absent heed"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 106}, {"query": ["That riddles human flesh .", "Limbs of Itself : Each one a jot of It in quaint disguise ? I 'll fear all men henceforward !", "Ay ; begin small , and so lead up to the greater . It is a sound dramatic principle . I always aim to follow it in my pestilences , fires , famines , and other comedies . And though , to be sure , I did not in my Lisbon earthquake , I did in my French Terror , and my St. Domingo burlesque .", "Hence we 've rare dramas going \u2014 more so since", "I saw good sport therein , and paean 'd the Will"], "true_target": ["It wove Its web in the Ajaccian womb !", "Which would have marred the European broil ,", "And sheathed all swords , and silenced every gun", "Good , as before . My little engines , then , will still have play .", "To unimpel so stultifying a move !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 106}, {"query": ["Except in being irresistible \u2014", "They are shapes that bleed , mere mannikins or no ,", "Which bear men 's forms on their innumerous coils ,", "May please thy temper , Years , \u2018 twere better far", "Whereof we spake , afford a spectacle", "The human news wherewith the Rumours stirred us", "Why doth It so and so , and ever so ,", "To throne fair Liberty in Privilege \u2019 room \u2014", "Go to . Let this terrestrial tragedy \u2014", "Let this earth-tragedy", "In her creation whose meek wraith we know .", "Also retracting threads like gossamers \u2014", "Such deeds were nulled , and this strange man 's career", "You seem to have small sense of mercy , Sire ?", "Twining and serpenting round and through .", "Wound up , as making inharmonious jars", "The more that he , turned man of mere traditions ,", "To bear in thought that though Its consciousness"], "true_target": ["Are taking taint , and sink to common plots", "Ill chanced it that the English monarch George", "Which complicate with some , and balance all .", "Did not respond to the said Emperor !", "For his own gain .", "Forthwith conned closelier than your custom is .\u2014", "Meet is it , none the less ,", "Strange waves I sight like winds grown visible ,", "Instilled into his idiosyncrasy \u2014", "If aught could gratify the Absolute", "\u2018 Twould verily be thy censure , not thy praise !", "Sublunar shocks may wake Its watch anon ?", "Amid this scene of bodies substantive", "Now profits naught . For the large potencies", "And each has parcel in the total Will .", "O say no more ;", "On things terrene , then , I would say that though", "May be estranged , engrossed afar , or sealed ,", "This viewless , voiceless Turner of the Wheel ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 106}, {"query": ["Upon the innocent ,", "The mild , the fragile , the obscure content", "Watchers and warders of thy varied lands ,", "Among the myriads of thy family .", "In fair Compassions skilled ,"], "true_target": ["And make their daily moves a melody .", "Men of deep art in life-development ;", "Men surfeited of laying heavy hands ,", "Those , too , who love the true , the excellent ,", "We would establish those of kindlier build ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 106}, {"query": ["And hasten to head violation", "Of Albion 's frontier !", "Through months-long of cruizing ,", "O Nelson , so zealous a watcher"], "true_target": ["Thy foes may elide thee a moment ,", "Put forth , and get clear ;", "And rendezvous westerly straightway", "With Spain 's aiding navies ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 106}, {"query": ["Hark now , and gather how the martial mood"], "true_target": ["Stirs England 's humblest hearts . Anon we 'll trace", "Its heavings in the upper coteries there ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 106}, {"query": ["Yes , sir . A letter in his own hand , in which he expected the King to reply to him in the same manner .", "Whether or no , the King , rightly enough , did not reply in person , but through Lord Mulgrave our Foreign Minister , to the effect that his Britannic Majesty cannot give a specific answer till he has communicated with the Continental powers .", "That 's why we have seen so many of these marching regiments on the road . This year his grandest attempt upon us is to be made , I reckon .", "Sir , am I to deem you a friend of Bonaparte , a traitor to your country \u2014 -"], "true_target": ["Certainly , sir . He requested peace with the King .", "There seems to be a deal of traffic over Ridgeway , even at this time o \u2019 year .", "Well , we ought to be . We 've had alarms enough , God knows .", "Half across . And then another little half , and then all that 's behind \u2014 the Corsican mischief !", "What ! Encourage this man in an act of shameless presumption , and give him the pleasure of considering himself the equal of the King of England \u2014 whom he actually calls his brother !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 106}, {"query": ["Gentlemen forbear , forbear ! Should such differences be suffered to arise on a spot where we may , in less than three months , be fighting for our very existence ? This is foolish , I say . Heaven alone , who reads the secrets of this man 's heart , can tell what his meaning and intent may be , and if his letter has been answered wisely or no .", "Yes . It is because the King and Court are coming down here later on . They wake up this part rarely !... See , now , how the Channel and coast open out like a chart . That patch of mist below us is the town we are bound for . There 's the Isle of Slingers beyond , like a floating snail . That wide bay on the right is where the \u201c Abergavenny , \u201d Captain John Wordsworth , was wrecked last month . One can see half across to France up here ."], "true_target": ["Is there truth in it that Bonaparte wrote a letter to the King last month ?", "May we be ready !", "Yes . People who live hereabout \u2014 I am a native of these parts \u2014 feel the nearness of France more than they do inland ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 106}, {"query": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; Never mind , mates ; we 'll be merry , though We may have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "true_target": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he wo n't sail , lest the wind should blow , We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol ! We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he be sea-sick , says \u201c No , no ! \u201d We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 106}, {"query": ["And was Boney 's letter friendly ?", "He must be taken for what he is , not for what he was ; and if he calls", "King George his brother it does n't speak badly for his friendliness ."], "true_target": ["Both the manner and the matter of the reply are British ; but a huge mistake .", "Sir , I apologize . He 's not to be trusted ! War is his name , and aggression is with him !", "And why should n't the King reply in the same manner ?", "Damn my wig , sir , if I 'll be called a traitor by you or any Court sycophant at all at all !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 106}, {"query": ["Bristol only ."], "true_target": ["A London messenger !", "Any news , sir ? We are from"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 106}, {"query": ["POLLARD , A MIDSHIPMAN .", "A COMPANY OF SOLDIERS .", "SAILORS AND BOATMEN .", "Naval Crews .", "BURKE , PURSER .", "A HORSEMAN .", "ANOTHER LIEUTENANT .", "SECRETARY SCOTT .", "DR. ALEXANDER SCOTT .", "Sergeant-Major Secker and Marines .", "Lieutenant Pasco .", "HARDY .", "Lieutenants Ram and Whipple .", "WILTSHIRE , A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN", "MESSENGERS , SERVANTS , AND RUSTICS ."], "true_target": ["Captain Adair .", "ENGLISH CITIZENS AND BURGESSES .", "Other English Naval Officers .", "A GENTLEMAN OF FASHION .", "Regiments of the English Army and Hanoverian .", "Staff and other Officers of the English Army .", "TWO BEACON-WATCHERS .", "The Lord Mayor and Corporation of London .", "A MILITIAMAN .", "DR. MAGRATH .", "..........", "COLLINGWOOD .", "DR. BEATTY .", "COACH AND OTHER HIGHWAY PASSENGERS .", ".........."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 107}, {"query": ["Yet know I am but the ineffectual Shade", "Of her the Travailler , herself a thrall", "What of the Immanent Will and Its designs ?"], "true_target": ["And who , then , Cordial One ,", "Wouldst substitute for this Intractable ?", "They may come , will they . I am not averse .", "To It ; in all her labourings curbed and kinged !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 107}, {"query": ["Our scope is but to register and watch", "Seem in themselves Its single listless aim ,", "Their aspects , and their movements , and their mould .", "And not their consequence .", "Labouring through all , divisible from none ;", "Yea , so it stands in certain chronicles ,", "I care not thy shape , or what they be .", "A Brain whose whole connotes the Everywhere ,", "Wherefore Its mindlessness of earthly woes .", "Working such nescience by their own device .\u2014", "In brief reminder of their instant points", "Well , no more this on what no mind can mete .", "That cognizance has marshalled things terrene ,", "The Will has woven with an absent heed", "To this land 's stir and ferment .\u2014 Thither we .", "Their motions free , their orderings supreme ;", "Unchecks Its clock-like laws .", "Of those it stirs , who", "And not dispute them . To the drama , then .", "To click-clack off Its preadjusted laws ;", "When in her early growth and crudity", "The free trajection of our entities .", "Though not in mine .", "To other worlds , being wearied out with this ;", "That heave throughout the Earth 's compositure .", "Which overrides them as a whole its parts", "Mercy I view , not urge ;\u2014 nor more than mark", "Each life apart from each , with power to mete", "Whose fingers play in skilled unmindfulness ,", "Thou'st lately writ , that sums these happenings ,", "Their sum is like the lobule of a Brain", "Nothing appears of shape to indicate", "Whose patterns , wrought by rapt aesthetic rote ,", "You cannot swerve the pulsion of the Byss ,", "These flesh-hinged mannikins Its hand upwinds", "Shape on accustomed lines . Though , as for me ,", "By bad mad acts of severance men contrived ,"], "true_target": ["But this no further now . Deem yet man 's deeds self-done .", "As one sad story runs , It lends Its heed", "Rather they show that , like a knitter drowsed ,", "Evolving always that it wots not of ;", "Some , too , have told at whiles that rightfully", "Of men 's dynastic and imperial moils", "Hold what ye list , fond believing Sprites ,", "Its warefulness , Its care , this planet lost", "Its own day 's measures ; balanced , self complete ;", "Though they subsist but atoms of the One", "But only through my centuries to behold", "Will-tissues , nerves , and pulses of the Cause ,", "Eternal artistries in Circumstance ,", "in my span .", "By means of this great gift accorded us \u2014", "Hath played strange pranks since first I brooded here .", "Since life first was ; and ever will so weave .", "Emprizes over-Channel are the key", "What designate your titles Good and Ill .", "Slighted by us amid our converse here .", "Open and chant the page", "By phantom eyes like ours ; the while unguessed", "It works unconsciously , as heretofore ,", "These are the Prime Volitions ,\u2014 fibrils , veins ,", "Methinks too much assurance thrills your note On secrets in my locker , gentle sprites ; But it may serve .\u2014 Our thought being now reflexed To forces operant on this English isle , Behoves it us to enter scene by scene , And watch the spectacle of Europe 's moves In her embroil , as they were self-ordained According to the naive and liberal creed Of our great-hearted young Compassionates , Forgetting the Prime Mover of the gear , As puppet-watchers him who pulls the strings .\u2014 You 'll mark the twitchings of this Bonaparte As he with other figures foots his reel , Until he twitch him into his lonely grave : Also regard the frail ones that his flings Have made gyrate like animalcula In tepid pools .\u2014 Hence to the precinct , then , And count as framework to the stagery Yon architraves of sunbeam-smitten cloud .\u2014 So may ye judge Earth 's jackaclocks to be No fugled by one Will , but function-free .The point of view then sinks downwards through space , and draws near to the surface of the perturbed countries , where the peoples , distressed by events which they did not cause , are seen writhing , crawling , heaving , and vibrating in their various cities and nationalities . ]", "Shall such be mooted now ? Already change", "In other entities .", "\u2018 Tis not in me to feel with , or against ,", "How does it stand ?", "Or will", "Nay . In the Foretime , even to the germ of Being ,", "dream", "Which thinking on , yet weighing not Its thought ,", "The ruling was that we should witness things", "And whose procedure may but be discerned", "But old Laws operate yet ; and phase and phase", "As key-scene to the whole , I first lay bare The Will-webs of thy fearful questioning ; For know that of my antique privileges This gift to visualize the Mode is oneSee , then , and learn , ere my power pass again ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 107}, {"query": ["Good , as before . My little engines , then , will still have play .", "Limbs of Itself : Each one a jot of It in quaint disguise ? I 'll fear all men henceforward !", "To unimpel so stultifying a move !", "And sheathed all swords , and silenced every gun", "Hence we 've rare dramas going \u2014 more so since"], "true_target": ["Which would have marred the European broil ,", "It wove Its web in the Ajaccian womb !", "That riddles human flesh .", "Ay ; begin small , and so lead up to the greater . It is a sound dramatic principle . I always aim to follow it in my pestilences , fires , famines , and other comedies . And though , to be sure , I did not in my Lisbon earthquake , I did in my French Terror , and my St. Domingo burlesque .", "I saw good sport therein , and paean 'd the Will"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 107}, {"query": ["This viewless , voiceless Turner of the Wheel ?", "\u2018 Twould verily be thy censure , not thy praise !", "In her creation whose meek wraith we know .", "Let this earth-tragedy", "Except in being irresistible \u2014", "Are taking taint , and sink to common plots", "Instilled into his idiosyncrasy \u2014", "Strange waves I sight like winds grown visible ,", "Whereof we spake , afford a spectacle", "Forthwith conned closelier than your custom is .\u2014", "Now profits naught . For the large potencies", "Such deeds were nulled , and this strange man 's career", "If aught could gratify the Absolute", "Which bear men 's forms on their innumerous coils ,", "Twining and serpenting round and through .", "May please thy temper , Years , \u2018 twere better far", "To bear in thought that though Its consciousness", "Meet is it , none the less ,"], "true_target": ["For his own gain .", "Did not respond to the said Emperor !", "O say no more ;", "You seem to have small sense of mercy , Sire ?", "The human news wherewith the Rumours stirred us", "Amid this scene of bodies substantive", "Why doth It so and so , and ever so ,", "And each has parcel in the total Will .", "To throne fair Liberty in Privilege \u2019 room \u2014", "Wound up , as making inharmonious jars", "Which complicate with some , and balance all .", "Also retracting threads like gossamers \u2014", "Ill chanced it that the English monarch George", "They are shapes that bleed , mere mannikins or no ,", "May be estranged , engrossed afar , or sealed ,", "On things terrene , then , I would say that though", "Go to . Let this terrestrial tragedy \u2014", "The more that he , turned man of mere traditions ,", "Sublunar shocks may wake Its watch anon ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 107}, {"query": ["Upon the innocent ,", "In fair Compassions skilled ,", "We would establish those of kindlier build ,", "Watchers and warders of thy varied lands ,", "Men surfeited of laying heavy hands ,"], "true_target": ["Men of deep art in life-development ;", "The mild , the fragile , the obscure content", "Among the myriads of thy family .", "Those , too , who love the true , the excellent ,", "And make their daily moves a melody ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 107}, {"query": ["Of Albion 's frontier !", "With Spain 's aiding navies ,", "And hasten to head violation", "Through months-long of cruizing ,"], "true_target": ["O Nelson , so zealous a watcher", "Thy foes may elide thee a moment ,", "And rendezvous westerly straightway", "Put forth , and get clear ;"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 107}, {"query": ["Its heavings in the upper coteries there ."], "true_target": ["Stirs England 's humblest hearts . Anon we 'll trace", "Hark now , and gather how the martial mood"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 107}, {"query": ["What ! Encourage this man in an act of shameless presumption , and give him the pleasure of considering himself the equal of the King of England \u2014 whom he actually calls his brother !", "There seems to be a deal of traffic over Ridgeway , even at this time o \u2019 year .", "That 's why we have seen so many of these marching regiments on the road . This year his grandest attempt upon us is to be made , I reckon .", "Certainly , sir . He requested peace with the King ."], "true_target": ["Whether or no , the King , rightly enough , did not reply in person , but through Lord Mulgrave our Foreign Minister , to the effect that his Britannic Majesty cannot give a specific answer till he has communicated with the Continental powers .", "Yes , sir . A letter in his own hand , in which he expected the King to reply to him in the same manner .", "Sir , am I to deem you a friend of Bonaparte , a traitor to your country \u2014 -", "Well , we ought to be . We 've had alarms enough , God knows .", "Half across . And then another little half , and then all that 's behind \u2014 the Corsican mischief !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 107}, {"query": ["May we be ready !", "Yes . People who live hereabout \u2014 I am a native of these parts \u2014 feel the nearness of France more than they do inland ."], "true_target": ["Is there truth in it that Bonaparte wrote a letter to the King last month ?", "Gentlemen forbear , forbear ! Should such differences be suffered to arise on a spot where we may , in less than three months , be fighting for our very existence ? This is foolish , I say . Heaven alone , who reads the secrets of this man 's heart , can tell what his meaning and intent may be , and if his letter has been answered wisely or no .", "Yes . It is because the King and Court are coming down here later on . They wake up this part rarely !... See , now , how the Channel and coast open out like a chart . That patch of mist below us is the town we are bound for . There 's the Isle of Slingers beyond , like a floating snail . That wide bay on the right is where the \u201c Abergavenny , \u201d Captain John Wordsworth , was wrecked last month . One can see half across to France up here ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 107}, {"query": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he wo n't sail , lest the wind should blow , We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol ! We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he be sea-sick , says \u201c No , no ! \u201d We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "true_target": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; Never mind , mates ; we 'll be merry , though We may have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 107}, {"query": ["Both the manner and the matter of the reply are British ; but a huge mistake .", "King George his brother it does n't speak badly for his friendliness .", "He must be taken for what he is , not for what he was ; and if he calls"], "true_target": ["Damn my wig , sir , if I 'll be called a traitor by you or any Court sycophant at all at all !", "And why should n't the King reply in the same manner ?", "Sir , I apologize . He 's not to be trusted ! War is his name , and aggression is with him !", "And was Boney 's letter friendly ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 107}, {"query": ["Any news , sir ? We are from"], "true_target": ["A London messenger !", "Bristol only ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 107}, {"query": ["..........", "Regiments of the English Army and Hanoverian .", "BURKE , PURSER .", "ENGLISH CITIZENS AND BURGESSES .", "DR. MAGRATH .", "The Lord Mayor and Corporation of London .", "Lieutenants Ram and Whipple .", "A MILITIAMAN .", "ANOTHER LIEUTENANT .", "POLLARD , A MIDSHIPMAN .", "..........", "DR. BEATTY .", "WILTSHIRE , A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN", "A HORSEMAN .", "MESSENGERS , SERVANTS , AND RUSTICS ."], "true_target": ["HARDY .", "COLLINGWOOD .", "Lieutenant Pasco .", "Staff and other Officers of the English Army .", "COACH AND OTHER HIGHWAY PASSENGERS .", "DR. ALEXANDER SCOTT .", "SAILORS AND BOATMEN .", "Sergeant-Major Secker and Marines .", "A COMPANY OF SOLDIERS .", "Captain Adair .", "A GENTLEMAN OF FASHION .", "TWO BEACON-WATCHERS .", "SECRETARY SCOTT .", "Other English Naval Officers .", "Naval Crews ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 108}, {"query": ["And who , then , Cordial One ,", "What of the Immanent Will and Its designs ?", "To It ; in all her labourings curbed and kinged !"], "true_target": ["They may come , will they . I am not averse .", "Wouldst substitute for this Intractable ?", "Of her the Travailler , herself a thrall", "Yet know I am but the ineffectual Shade"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 108}, {"query": ["Methinks too much assurance thrills your note On secrets in my locker , gentle sprites ; But it may serve .\u2014 Our thought being now reflexed To forces operant on this English isle , Behoves it us to enter scene by scene , And watch the spectacle of Europe 's moves In her embroil , as they were self-ordained According to the naive and liberal creed Of our great-hearted young Compassionates , Forgetting the Prime Mover of the gear , As puppet-watchers him who pulls the strings .\u2014 You 'll mark the twitchings of this Bonaparte As he with other figures foots his reel , Until he twitch him into his lonely grave : Also regard the frail ones that his flings Have made gyrate like animalcula In tepid pools .\u2014 Hence to the precinct , then , And count as framework to the stagery Yon architraves of sunbeam-smitten cloud .\u2014 So may ye judge Earth 's jackaclocks to be No fugled by one Will , but function-free .The point of view then sinks downwards through space , and draws near to the surface of the perturbed countries , where the peoples , distressed by events which they did not cause , are seen writhing , crawling , heaving , and vibrating in their various cities and nationalities . ]", "To click-clack off Its preadjusted laws ;", "Whose fingers play in skilled unmindfulness ,", "\u2018 Tis not in me to feel with , or against ,", "These are the Prime Volitions ,\u2014 fibrils , veins ,", "Though not in mine .", "What designate your titles Good and Ill .", "Each life apart from each , with power to mete", "These flesh-hinged mannikins Its hand upwinds", "By bad mad acts of severance men contrived ,", "The free trajection of our entities .", "Slighted by us amid our converse here .", "That heave throughout the Earth 's compositure .", "A Brain whose whole connotes the Everywhere ,", "In brief reminder of their instant points", "Nay . In the Foretime , even to the germ of Being ,", "Which thinking on , yet weighing not Its thought ,", "I care not thy shape , or what they be .", "Labouring through all , divisible from none ;", "Unchecks Its clock-like laws .", "Which overrides them as a whole its parts", "It works unconsciously , as heretofore ,", "To other worlds , being wearied out with this ;", "Seem in themselves Its single listless aim ,", "Or will", "Since life first was ; and ever will so weave .", "The Will has woven with an absent heed", "And not their consequence .", "But this no further now . Deem yet man 's deeds self-done .", "And not dispute them . To the drama , then .", "Wherefore Its mindlessness of earthly woes .", "You cannot swerve the pulsion of the Byss ,", "Open and chant the page", "In other entities .", "When in her early growth and crudity", "Eternal artistries in Circumstance ,", "And whose procedure may but be discerned"], "true_target": ["Nothing appears of shape to indicate", "Its own day 's measures ; balanced , self complete ;", "Our scope is but to register and watch", "Evolving always that it wots not of ;", "Emprizes over-Channel are the key", "By phantom eyes like ours ; the while unguessed", "Will-tissues , nerves , and pulses of the Cause ,", "Their motions free , their orderings supreme ;", "Shall such be mooted now ? Already change", "dream", "Of those it stirs , who", "Shape on accustomed lines . Though , as for me ,", "Though they subsist but atoms of the One", "Their sum is like the lobule of a Brain", "Well , no more this on what no mind can mete .", "To this land 's stir and ferment .\u2014 Thither we .", "But old Laws operate yet ; and phase and phase", "Whose patterns , wrought by rapt aesthetic rote ,", "Yea , so it stands in certain chronicles ,", "Some , too , have told at whiles that rightfully", "Thou'st lately writ , that sums these happenings ,", "But only through my centuries to behold", "Mercy I view , not urge ;\u2014 nor more than mark", "Its warefulness , Its care , this planet lost", "Hold what ye list , fond believing Sprites ,", "That cognizance has marshalled things terrene ,", "The ruling was that we should witness things", "in my span .", "As one sad story runs , It lends Its heed", "Their aspects , and their movements , and their mould .", "Of men 's dynastic and imperial moils", "How does it stand ?", "Rather they show that , like a knitter drowsed ,", "Working such nescience by their own device .\u2014", "Hath played strange pranks since first I brooded here .", "As key-scene to the whole , I first lay bare The Will-webs of thy fearful questioning ; For know that of my antique privileges This gift to visualize the Mode is oneSee , then , and learn , ere my power pass again .", "By means of this great gift accorded us \u2014"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 108}, {"query": ["Limbs of Itself : Each one a jot of It in quaint disguise ? I 'll fear all men henceforward !", "It wove Its web in the Ajaccian womb !", "Which would have marred the European broil ,", "Good , as before . My little engines , then , will still have play .", "And sheathed all swords , and silenced every gun"], "true_target": ["To unimpel so stultifying a move !", "I saw good sport therein , and paean 'd the Will", "Hence we 've rare dramas going \u2014 more so since", "Ay ; begin small , and so lead up to the greater . It is a sound dramatic principle . I always aim to follow it in my pestilences , fires , famines , and other comedies . And though , to be sure , I did not in my Lisbon earthquake , I did in my French Terror , and my St. Domingo burlesque .", "That riddles human flesh ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 108}, {"query": ["Ill chanced it that the English monarch George", "Are taking taint , and sink to common plots", "Let this earth-tragedy", "Whereof we spake , afford a spectacle", "Which bear men 's forms on their innumerous coils ,", "May be estranged , engrossed afar , or sealed ,", "For his own gain .", "\u2018 Twould verily be thy censure , not thy praise !", "If aught could gratify the Absolute", "Strange waves I sight like winds grown visible ,", "To bear in thought that though Its consciousness", "Amid this scene of bodies substantive", "Except in being irresistible \u2014", "Sublunar shocks may wake Its watch anon ?", "Why doth It so and so , and ever so ,", "This viewless , voiceless Turner of the Wheel ?", "May please thy temper , Years , \u2018 twere better far", "Did not respond to the said Emperor !"], "true_target": ["Now profits naught . For the large potencies", "In her creation whose meek wraith we know .", "Which complicate with some , and balance all .", "Go to . Let this terrestrial tragedy \u2014", "You seem to have small sense of mercy , Sire ?", "To throne fair Liberty in Privilege \u2019 room \u2014", "Wound up , as making inharmonious jars", "Forthwith conned closelier than your custom is .\u2014", "O say no more ;", "On things terrene , then , I would say that though", "The human news wherewith the Rumours stirred us", "Twining and serpenting round and through .", "Also retracting threads like gossamers \u2014", "Instilled into his idiosyncrasy \u2014", "They are shapes that bleed , mere mannikins or no ,", "The more that he , turned man of mere traditions ,", "Meet is it , none the less ,", "Such deeds were nulled , and this strange man 's career", "And each has parcel in the total Will ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 108}, {"query": ["And make their daily moves a melody .", "The mild , the fragile , the obscure content", "We would establish those of kindlier build ,", "Men surfeited of laying heavy hands ,", "Upon the innocent ,"], "true_target": ["In fair Compassions skilled ,", "Watchers and warders of thy varied lands ,", "Among the myriads of thy family .", "Men of deep art in life-development ;", "Those , too , who love the true , the excellent ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 108}, {"query": ["O Nelson , so zealous a watcher", "Put forth , and get clear ;", "Thy foes may elide thee a moment ,", "With Spain 's aiding navies ,"], "true_target": ["And hasten to head violation", "Through months-long of cruizing ,", "Of Albion 's frontier !", "And rendezvous westerly straightway"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 108}, {"query": ["Stirs England 's humblest hearts . Anon we 'll trace"], "true_target": ["Its heavings in the upper coteries there .", "Hark now , and gather how the martial mood"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 108}, {"query": ["Yes , sir . A letter in his own hand , in which he expected the King to reply to him in the same manner .", "Sir , am I to deem you a friend of Bonaparte , a traitor to your country \u2014 -", "Well , we ought to be . We 've had alarms enough , God knows .", "There seems to be a deal of traffic over Ridgeway , even at this time o \u2019 year ."], "true_target": ["What ! Encourage this man in an act of shameless presumption , and give him the pleasure of considering himself the equal of the King of England \u2014 whom he actually calls his brother !", "Certainly , sir . He requested peace with the King .", "Half across . And then another little half , and then all that 's behind \u2014 the Corsican mischief !", "Whether or no , the King , rightly enough , did not reply in person , but through Lord Mulgrave our Foreign Minister , to the effect that his Britannic Majesty cannot give a specific answer till he has communicated with the Continental powers .", "That 's why we have seen so many of these marching regiments on the road . This year his grandest attempt upon us is to be made , I reckon ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 108}, {"query": ["May we be ready !", "Gentlemen forbear , forbear ! Should such differences be suffered to arise on a spot where we may , in less than three months , be fighting for our very existence ? This is foolish , I say . Heaven alone , who reads the secrets of this man 's heart , can tell what his meaning and intent may be , and if his letter has been answered wisely or no ."], "true_target": ["Is there truth in it that Bonaparte wrote a letter to the King last month ?", "Yes . People who live hereabout \u2014 I am a native of these parts \u2014 feel the nearness of France more than they do inland .", "Yes . It is because the King and Court are coming down here later on . They wake up this part rarely !... See , now , how the Channel and coast open out like a chart . That patch of mist below us is the town we are bound for . There 's the Isle of Slingers beyond , like a floating snail . That wide bay on the right is where the \u201c Abergavenny , \u201d Captain John Wordsworth , was wrecked last month . One can see half across to France up here ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 108}, {"query": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; Never mind , mates ; we 'll be merry , though We may have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "true_target": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he wo n't sail , lest the wind should blow , We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol ! We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he be sea-sick , says \u201c No , no ! \u201d We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 108}, {"query": ["And was Boney 's letter friendly ?", "Both the manner and the matter of the reply are British ; but a huge mistake .", "King George his brother it does n't speak badly for his friendliness ."], "true_target": ["He must be taken for what he is , not for what he was ; and if he calls", "Sir , I apologize . He 's not to be trusted ! War is his name , and aggression is with him !", "And why should n't the King reply in the same manner ?", "Damn my wig , sir , if I 'll be called a traitor by you or any Court sycophant at all at all !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 108}, {"query": ["A London messenger !"], "true_target": ["Any news , sir ? We are from", "Bristol only ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 108}, {"query": ["BURKE , PURSER .", "The Lord Mayor and Corporation of London .", "Lieutenants Ram and Whipple .", "A COMPANY OF SOLDIERS .", "Regiments of the English Army and Hanoverian .", "ANOTHER LIEUTENANT .", "POLLARD , A MIDSHIPMAN .", "Sergeant-Major Secker and Marines .", "DR. ALEXANDER SCOTT .", "Naval Crews .", "SECRETARY SCOTT .", "ENGLISH CITIZENS AND BURGESSES .", "WILTSHIRE , A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN", "A GENTLEMAN OF FASHION .", "COLLINGWOOD ."], "true_target": ["..........", "A MILITIAMAN .", "DR. BEATTY .", "Staff and other Officers of the English Army .", "TWO BEACON-WATCHERS .", "COACH AND OTHER HIGHWAY PASSENGERS .", "Lieutenant Pasco .", "DR. MAGRATH .", "MESSENGERS , SERVANTS , AND RUSTICS .", "Captain Adair .", "Other English Naval Officers .", "..........", "SAILORS AND BOATMEN .", "A HORSEMAN .", "HARDY ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 109}, {"query": ["They may come , will they . I am not averse .", "Wouldst substitute for this Intractable ?", "Of her the Travailler , herself a thrall"], "true_target": ["To It ; in all her labourings curbed and kinged !", "Yet know I am but the ineffectual Shade", "What of the Immanent Will and Its designs ?", "And who , then , Cordial One ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 109}, {"query": ["Shape on accustomed lines . Though , as for me ,", "Though they subsist but atoms of the One", "Since life first was ; and ever will so weave .", "Whose patterns , wrought by rapt aesthetic rote ,", "But old Laws operate yet ; and phase and phase", "Their aspects , and their movements , and their mould .", "Nothing appears of shape to indicate", "By bad mad acts of severance men contrived ,", "Mercy I view , not urge ;\u2014 nor more than mark", "Unchecks Its clock-like laws .", "As one sad story runs , It lends Its heed", "And whose procedure may but be discerned", "dream", "To this land 's stir and ferment .\u2014 Thither we .", "That heave throughout the Earth 's compositure .", "Hold what ye list , fond believing Sprites ,", "Their motions free , their orderings supreme ;", "And not their consequence .", "Which thinking on , yet weighing not Its thought ,", "By means of this great gift accorded us \u2014", "A Brain whose whole connotes the Everywhere ,", "Labouring through all , divisible from none ;", "Wherefore Its mindlessness of earthly woes .", "Each life apart from each , with power to mete", "Thou'st lately writ , that sums these happenings ,", "When in her early growth and crudity", "Its own day 's measures ; balanced , self complete ;", "By phantom eyes like ours ; the while unguessed", "The free trajection of our entities .", "What designate your titles Good and Ill .", "Our scope is but to register and watch", "Hath played strange pranks since first I brooded here .", "You cannot swerve the pulsion of the Byss ,", "Which overrides them as a whole its parts", "How does it stand ?", "But only through my centuries to behold", "Working such nescience by their own device .\u2014"], "true_target": ["But this no further now . Deem yet man 's deeds self-done .", "Methinks too much assurance thrills your note On secrets in my locker , gentle sprites ; But it may serve .\u2014 Our thought being now reflexed To forces operant on this English isle , Behoves it us to enter scene by scene , And watch the spectacle of Europe 's moves In her embroil , as they were self-ordained According to the naive and liberal creed Of our great-hearted young Compassionates , Forgetting the Prime Mover of the gear , As puppet-watchers him who pulls the strings .\u2014 You 'll mark the twitchings of this Bonaparte As he with other figures foots his reel , Until he twitch him into his lonely grave : Also regard the frail ones that his flings Have made gyrate like animalcula In tepid pools .\u2014 Hence to the precinct , then , And count as framework to the stagery Yon architraves of sunbeam-smitten cloud .\u2014 So may ye judge Earth 's jackaclocks to be No fugled by one Will , but function-free .The point of view then sinks downwards through space , and draws near to the surface of the perturbed countries , where the peoples , distressed by events which they did not cause , are seen writhing , crawling , heaving , and vibrating in their various cities and nationalities . ]", "That cognizance has marshalled things terrene ,", "The ruling was that we should witness things", "In brief reminder of their instant points", "Yea , so it stands in certain chronicles ,", "Rather they show that , like a knitter drowsed ,", "The Will has woven with an absent heed", "To other worlds , being wearied out with this ;", "Open and chant the page", "Whose fingers play in skilled unmindfulness ,", "Some , too , have told at whiles that rightfully", "Slighted by us amid our converse here .", "Of men 's dynastic and imperial moils", "in my span .", "And not dispute them . To the drama , then .", "Their sum is like the lobule of a Brain", "Shall such be mooted now ? Already change", "I care not thy shape , or what they be .", "\u2018 Tis not in me to feel with , or against ,", "Though not in mine .", "Its warefulness , Its care , this planet lost", "Seem in themselves Its single listless aim ,", "These flesh-hinged mannikins Its hand upwinds", "Emprizes over-Channel are the key", "Eternal artistries in Circumstance ,", "Or will", "As key-scene to the whole , I first lay bare The Will-webs of thy fearful questioning ; For know that of my antique privileges This gift to visualize the Mode is oneSee , then , and learn , ere my power pass again .", "Evolving always that it wots not of ;", "Well , no more this on what no mind can mete .", "Of those it stirs , who", "In other entities .", "These are the Prime Volitions ,\u2014 fibrils , veins ,", "Will-tissues , nerves , and pulses of the Cause ,", "To click-clack off Its preadjusted laws ;", "Nay . In the Foretime , even to the germ of Being ,", "It works unconsciously , as heretofore ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 109}, {"query": ["Ay ; begin small , and so lead up to the greater . It is a sound dramatic principle . I always aim to follow it in my pestilences , fires , famines , and other comedies . And though , to be sure , I did not in my Lisbon earthquake , I did in my French Terror , and my St. Domingo burlesque .", "To unimpel so stultifying a move !", "Hence we 've rare dramas going \u2014 more so since", "Good , as before . My little engines , then , will still have play .", "Limbs of Itself : Each one a jot of It in quaint disguise ? I 'll fear all men henceforward !"], "true_target": ["It wove Its web in the Ajaccian womb !", "I saw good sport therein , and paean 'd the Will", "And sheathed all swords , and silenced every gun", "That riddles human flesh .", "Which would have marred the European broil ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 109}, {"query": ["Forthwith conned closelier than your custom is .\u2014", "Except in being irresistible \u2014", "Meet is it , none the less ,", "O say no more ;", "Which bear men 's forms on their innumerous coils ,", "Strange waves I sight like winds grown visible ,", "For his own gain .", "To bear in thought that though Its consciousness", "Did not respond to the said Emperor !", "This viewless , voiceless Turner of the Wheel ?", "In her creation whose meek wraith we know .", "Go to . Let this terrestrial tragedy \u2014", "Which complicate with some , and balance all .", "Ill chanced it that the English monarch George", "\u2018 Twould verily be thy censure , not thy praise !", "Why doth It so and so , and ever so ,", "May please thy temper , Years , \u2018 twere better far", "You seem to have small sense of mercy , Sire ?"], "true_target": ["They are shapes that bleed , mere mannikins or no ,", "The human news wherewith the Rumours stirred us", "The more that he , turned man of mere traditions ,", "Are taking taint , and sink to common plots", "Instilled into his idiosyncrasy \u2014", "Now profits naught . For the large potencies", "Amid this scene of bodies substantive", "Such deeds were nulled , and this strange man 's career", "Sublunar shocks may wake Its watch anon ?", "May be estranged , engrossed afar , or sealed ,", "Wound up , as making inharmonious jars", "On things terrene , then , I would say that though", "If aught could gratify the Absolute", "Let this earth-tragedy", "To throne fair Liberty in Privilege \u2019 room \u2014", "And each has parcel in the total Will .", "Also retracting threads like gossamers \u2014", "Twining and serpenting round and through .", "Whereof we spake , afford a spectacle"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 109}, {"query": ["Men of deep art in life-development ;", "In fair Compassions skilled ,", "We would establish those of kindlier build ,", "Upon the innocent ,", "The mild , the fragile , the obscure content"], "true_target": ["Watchers and warders of thy varied lands ,", "And make their daily moves a melody .", "Men surfeited of laying heavy hands ,", "Among the myriads of thy family .", "Those , too , who love the true , the excellent ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 109}, {"query": ["With Spain 's aiding navies ,", "And rendezvous westerly straightway", "Thy foes may elide thee a moment ,", "Through months-long of cruizing ,"], "true_target": ["O Nelson , so zealous a watcher", "Put forth , and get clear ;", "Of Albion 's frontier !", "And hasten to head violation"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 109}, {"query": ["Its heavings in the upper coteries there ."], "true_target": ["Stirs England 's humblest hearts . Anon we 'll trace", "Hark now , and gather how the martial mood"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 109}, {"query": ["There seems to be a deal of traffic over Ridgeway , even at this time o \u2019 year .", "Sir , am I to deem you a friend of Bonaparte , a traitor to your country \u2014 -", "Half across . And then another little half , and then all that 's behind \u2014 the Corsican mischief !", "That 's why we have seen so many of these marching regiments on the road . This year his grandest attempt upon us is to be made , I reckon ."], "true_target": ["Yes , sir . A letter in his own hand , in which he expected the King to reply to him in the same manner .", "Whether or no , the King , rightly enough , did not reply in person , but through Lord Mulgrave our Foreign Minister , to the effect that his Britannic Majesty cannot give a specific answer till he has communicated with the Continental powers .", "Well , we ought to be . We 've had alarms enough , God knows .", "What ! Encourage this man in an act of shameless presumption , and give him the pleasure of considering himself the equal of the King of England \u2014 whom he actually calls his brother !", "Certainly , sir . He requested peace with the King ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 109}, {"query": ["Gentlemen forbear , forbear ! Should such differences be suffered to arise on a spot where we may , in less than three months , be fighting for our very existence ? This is foolish , I say . Heaven alone , who reads the secrets of this man 's heart , can tell what his meaning and intent may be , and if his letter has been answered wisely or no .", "Yes . People who live hereabout \u2014 I am a native of these parts \u2014 feel the nearness of France more than they do inland ."], "true_target": ["May we be ready !", "Yes . It is because the King and Court are coming down here later on . They wake up this part rarely !... See , now , how the Channel and coast open out like a chart . That patch of mist below us is the town we are bound for . There 's the Isle of Slingers beyond , like a floating snail . That wide bay on the right is where the \u201c Abergavenny , \u201d Captain John Wordsworth , was wrecked last month . One can see half across to France up here .", "Is there truth in it that Bonaparte wrote a letter to the King last month ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 109}, {"query": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; Never mind , mates ; we 'll be merry , though We may have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "true_target": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he wo n't sail , lest the wind should blow , We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol ! We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he be sea-sick , says \u201c No , no ! \u201d We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 109}, {"query": ["And why should n't the King reply in the same manner ?", "Damn my wig , sir , if I 'll be called a traitor by you or any Court sycophant at all at all !", "King George his brother it does n't speak badly for his friendliness ."], "true_target": ["He must be taken for what he is , not for what he was ; and if he calls", "Both the manner and the matter of the reply are British ; but a huge mistake .", "And was Boney 's letter friendly ?", "Sir , I apologize . He 's not to be trusted ! War is his name , and aggression is with him !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 109}, {"query": ["A London messenger !"], "true_target": ["Bristol only .", "Any news , sir ? We are from"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 109}, {"query": ["SAILORS AND BOATMEN .", "..........", "A GENTLEMAN OF FASHION .", "A MILITIAMAN .", "COACH AND OTHER HIGHWAY PASSENGERS .", "DR. ALEXANDER SCOTT .", "Captain Adair .", "COLLINGWOOD .", "A COMPANY OF SOLDIERS .", "TWO BEACON-WATCHERS .", "Lieutenants Ram and Whipple .", "Sergeant-Major Secker and Marines .", "ANOTHER LIEUTENANT .", "..........", "WILTSHIRE , A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN"], "true_target": ["BURKE , PURSER .", "POLLARD , A MIDSHIPMAN .", "Lieutenant Pasco .", "DR. MAGRATH .", "Naval Crews .", "A HORSEMAN .", "DR. BEATTY .", "HARDY .", "Staff and other Officers of the English Army .", "SECRETARY SCOTT .", "ENGLISH CITIZENS AND BURGESSES .", "MESSENGERS , SERVANTS , AND RUSTICS .", "Regiments of the English Army and Hanoverian .", "The Lord Mayor and Corporation of London .", "Other English Naval Officers ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 110}, {"query": ["And who , then , Cordial One ,", "Of her the Travailler , herself a thrall", "What of the Immanent Will and Its designs ?"], "true_target": ["They may come , will they . I am not averse .", "Wouldst substitute for this Intractable ?", "To It ; in all her labourings curbed and kinged !", "Yet know I am but the ineffectual Shade"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 110}, {"query": ["Seem in themselves Its single listless aim ,", "These are the Prime Volitions ,\u2014 fibrils , veins ,", "Shape on accustomed lines . Though , as for me ,", "But old Laws operate yet ; and phase and phase", "Or will", "Of those it stirs , who", "Evolving always that it wots not of ;", "Their motions free , their orderings supreme ;", "Though not in mine .", "The free trajection of our entities .", "It works unconsciously , as heretofore ,", "Emprizes over-Channel are the key", "When in her early growth and crudity", "Which overrides them as a whole its parts", "Hold what ye list , fond believing Sprites ,", "That heave throughout the Earth 's compositure .", "These flesh-hinged mannikins Its hand upwinds", "Shall such be mooted now ? Already change", "Wherefore Its mindlessness of earthly woes .", "Its own day 's measures ; balanced , self complete ;", "The ruling was that we should witness things", "The Will has woven with an absent heed", "Eternal artistries in Circumstance ,", "Thou'st lately writ , that sums these happenings ,", "What designate your titles Good and Ill .", "Our scope is but to register and watch", "Nay . In the Foretime , even to the germ of Being ,", "Their sum is like the lobule of a Brain", "Some , too , have told at whiles that rightfully", "And not their consequence .", "But only through my centuries to behold", "How does it stand ?", "Mercy I view , not urge ;\u2014 nor more than mark", "As one sad story runs , It lends Its heed", "Will-tissues , nerves , and pulses of the Cause ,", "Methinks too much assurance thrills your note On secrets in my locker , gentle sprites ; But it may serve .\u2014 Our thought being now reflexed To forces operant on this English isle , Behoves it us to enter scene by scene , And watch the spectacle of Europe 's moves In her embroil , as they were self-ordained According to the naive and liberal creed Of our great-hearted young Compassionates , Forgetting the Prime Mover of the gear , As puppet-watchers him who pulls the strings .\u2014 You 'll mark the twitchings of this Bonaparte As he with other figures foots his reel , Until he twitch him into his lonely grave : Also regard the frail ones that his flings Have made gyrate like animalcula In tepid pools .\u2014 Hence to the precinct , then , And count as framework to the stagery Yon architraves of sunbeam-smitten cloud .\u2014 So may ye judge Earth 's jackaclocks to be No fugled by one Will , but function-free .The point of view then sinks downwards through space , and draws near to the surface of the perturbed countries , where the peoples , distressed by events which they did not cause , are seen writhing , crawling , heaving , and vibrating in their various cities and nationalities . ]", "As key-scene to the whole , I first lay bare The Will-webs of thy fearful questioning ; For know that of my antique privileges This gift to visualize the Mode is oneSee , then , and learn , ere my power pass again ."], "true_target": ["dream", "In other entities .", "Whose patterns , wrought by rapt aesthetic rote ,", "Well , no more this on what no mind can mete .", "Which thinking on , yet weighing not Its thought ,", "That cognizance has marshalled things terrene ,", "Hath played strange pranks since first I brooded here .", "Yea , so it stands in certain chronicles ,", "Its warefulness , Its care , this planet lost", "And not dispute them . To the drama , then .", "To other worlds , being wearied out with this ;", "To this land 's stir and ferment .\u2014 Thither we .", "Unchecks Its clock-like laws .", "By means of this great gift accorded us \u2014", "\u2018 Tis not in me to feel with , or against ,", "In brief reminder of their instant points", "And whose procedure may but be discerned", "Since life first was ; and ever will so weave .", "Their aspects , and their movements , and their mould .", "Labouring through all , divisible from none ;", "By phantom eyes like ours ; the while unguessed", "A Brain whose whole connotes the Everywhere ,", "Working such nescience by their own device .\u2014", "Rather they show that , like a knitter drowsed ,", "To click-clack off Its preadjusted laws ;", "But this no further now . Deem yet man 's deeds self-done .", "Nothing appears of shape to indicate", "Each life apart from each , with power to mete", "Though they subsist but atoms of the One", "You cannot swerve the pulsion of the Byss ,", "By bad mad acts of severance men contrived ,", "Open and chant the page", "Of men 's dynastic and imperial moils", "Whose fingers play in skilled unmindfulness ,", "in my span .", "Slighted by us amid our converse here .", "I care not thy shape , or what they be ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 110}, {"query": ["It wove Its web in the Ajaccian womb !", "Which would have marred the European broil ,", "I saw good sport therein , and paean 'd the Will", "Ay ; begin small , and so lead up to the greater . It is a sound dramatic principle . I always aim to follow it in my pestilences , fires , famines , and other comedies . And though , to be sure , I did not in my Lisbon earthquake , I did in my French Terror , and my St. Domingo burlesque .", "Good , as before . My little engines , then , will still have play ."], "true_target": ["That riddles human flesh .", "Limbs of Itself : Each one a jot of It in quaint disguise ? I 'll fear all men henceforward !", "And sheathed all swords , and silenced every gun", "To unimpel so stultifying a move !", "Hence we 've rare dramas going \u2014 more so since"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 110}, {"query": ["To throne fair Liberty in Privilege \u2019 room \u2014", "You seem to have small sense of mercy , Sire ?", "They are shapes that bleed , mere mannikins or no ,", "Such deeds were nulled , and this strange man 's career", "This viewless , voiceless Turner of the Wheel ?", "Did not respond to the said Emperor !", "On things terrene , then , I would say that though", "Why doth It so and so , and ever so ,", "Go to . Let this terrestrial tragedy \u2014", "Which complicate with some , and balance all .", "Whereof we spake , afford a spectacle", "Strange waves I sight like winds grown visible ,", "If aught could gratify the Absolute", "Sublunar shocks may wake Its watch anon ?", "Amid this scene of bodies substantive", "Also retracting threads like gossamers \u2014", "May please thy temper , Years , \u2018 twere better far", "The human news wherewith the Rumours stirred us"], "true_target": ["Instilled into his idiosyncrasy \u2014", "Let this earth-tragedy", "Meet is it , none the less ,", "Which bear men 's forms on their innumerous coils ,", "Twining and serpenting round and through .", "Wound up , as making inharmonious jars", "Ill chanced it that the English monarch George", "\u2018 Twould verily be thy censure , not thy praise !", "The more that he , turned man of mere traditions ,", "Are taking taint , and sink to common plots", "And each has parcel in the total Will .", "Except in being irresistible \u2014", "O say no more ;", "Now profits naught . For the large potencies", "For his own gain .", "In her creation whose meek wraith we know .", "To bear in thought that though Its consciousness", "May be estranged , engrossed afar , or sealed ,", "Forthwith conned closelier than your custom is .\u2014"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 110}, {"query": ["Men surfeited of laying heavy hands ,", "Watchers and warders of thy varied lands ,", "Those , too , who love the true , the excellent ,", "Upon the innocent ,", "And make their daily moves a melody ."], "true_target": ["We would establish those of kindlier build ,", "Men of deep art in life-development ;", "In fair Compassions skilled ,", "Among the myriads of thy family .", "The mild , the fragile , the obscure content"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 110}, {"query": ["And hasten to head violation", "Thy foes may elide thee a moment ,", "Of Albion 's frontier !", "Through months-long of cruizing ,"], "true_target": ["Put forth , and get clear ;", "With Spain 's aiding navies ,", "And rendezvous westerly straightway", "O Nelson , so zealous a watcher"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 110}, {"query": ["Its heavings in the upper coteries there ."], "true_target": ["Hark now , and gather how the martial mood", "Stirs England 's humblest hearts . Anon we 'll trace"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 110}, {"query": ["What ! Encourage this man in an act of shameless presumption , and give him the pleasure of considering himself the equal of the King of England \u2014 whom he actually calls his brother !", "Sir , am I to deem you a friend of Bonaparte , a traitor to your country \u2014 -", "There seems to be a deal of traffic over Ridgeway , even at this time o \u2019 year .", "Well , we ought to be . We 've had alarms enough , God knows ."], "true_target": ["Yes , sir . A letter in his own hand , in which he expected the King to reply to him in the same manner .", "Whether or no , the King , rightly enough , did not reply in person , but through Lord Mulgrave our Foreign Minister , to the effect that his Britannic Majesty cannot give a specific answer till he has communicated with the Continental powers .", "Half across . And then another little half , and then all that 's behind \u2014 the Corsican mischief !", "Certainly , sir . He requested peace with the King .", "That 's why we have seen so many of these marching regiments on the road . This year his grandest attempt upon us is to be made , I reckon ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 110}, {"query": ["May we be ready !", "Yes . People who live hereabout \u2014 I am a native of these parts \u2014 feel the nearness of France more than they do inland ."], "true_target": ["Is there truth in it that Bonaparte wrote a letter to the King last month ?", "Gentlemen forbear , forbear ! Should such differences be suffered to arise on a spot where we may , in less than three months , be fighting for our very existence ? This is foolish , I say . Heaven alone , who reads the secrets of this man 's heart , can tell what his meaning and intent may be , and if his letter has been answered wisely or no .", "Yes . It is because the King and Court are coming down here later on . They wake up this part rarely !... See , now , how the Channel and coast open out like a chart . That patch of mist below us is the town we are bound for . There 's the Isle of Slingers beyond , like a floating snail . That wide bay on the right is where the \u201c Abergavenny , \u201d Captain John Wordsworth , was wrecked last month . One can see half across to France up here ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 110}, {"query": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he wo n't sail , lest the wind should blow , We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol ! We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he be sea-sick , says \u201c No , no ! \u201d We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "true_target": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; Never mind , mates ; we 'll be merry , though We may have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 110}, {"query": ["Sir , I apologize . He 's not to be trusted ! War is his name , and aggression is with him !", "King George his brother it does n't speak badly for his friendliness .", "Damn my wig , sir , if I 'll be called a traitor by you or any Court sycophant at all at all !"], "true_target": ["And why should n't the King reply in the same manner ?", "Both the manner and the matter of the reply are British ; but a huge mistake .", "He must be taken for what he is , not for what he was ; and if he calls", "And was Boney 's letter friendly ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 110}, {"query": ["A London messenger !"], "true_target": ["Any news , sir ? We are from", "Bristol only ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 110}, {"query": ["POLLARD , A MIDSHIPMAN .", "DR. BEATTY .", "ANOTHER LIEUTENANT .", "Naval Crews .", "DR. MAGRATH .", "A MILITIAMAN .", "TWO BEACON-WATCHERS .", "..........", "Staff and other Officers of the English Army .", "Other English Naval Officers .", "WILTSHIRE , A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN", "DR. ALEXANDER SCOTT .", "Regiments of the English Army and Hanoverian .", "MESSENGERS , SERVANTS , AND RUSTICS .", "Sergeant-Major Secker and Marines ."], "true_target": ["A COMPANY OF SOLDIERS .", "SECRETARY SCOTT .", "SAILORS AND BOATMEN .", "ENGLISH CITIZENS AND BURGESSES .", "The Lord Mayor and Corporation of London .", "A HORSEMAN .", "COLLINGWOOD .", "..........", "HARDY .", "Captain Adair .", "Lieutenant Pasco .", "BURKE , PURSER .", "Lieutenants Ram and Whipple .", "A GENTLEMAN OF FASHION .", "COACH AND OTHER HIGHWAY PASSENGERS ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 111}, {"query": ["Wouldst substitute for this Intractable ?", "And who , then , Cordial One ,", "They may come , will they . I am not averse ."], "true_target": ["To It ; in all her labourings curbed and kinged !", "Of her the Travailler , herself a thrall", "What of the Immanent Will and Its designs ?", "Yet know I am but the ineffectual Shade"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 111}, {"query": ["These flesh-hinged mannikins Its hand upwinds", "Hold what ye list , fond believing Sprites ,", "Emprizes over-Channel are the key", "And whose procedure may but be discerned", "Which overrides them as a whole its parts", "A Brain whose whole connotes the Everywhere ,", "Working such nescience by their own device .\u2014", "Its warefulness , Its care , this planet lost", "Its own day 's measures ; balanced , self complete ;", "Slighted by us amid our converse here .", "\u2018 Tis not in me to feel with , or against ,", "You cannot swerve the pulsion of the Byss ,", "By bad mad acts of severance men contrived ,", "Though they subsist but atoms of the One", "Unchecks Its clock-like laws .", "And not dispute them . To the drama , then .", "Shall such be mooted now ? Already change", "Or will", "How does it stand ?", "The free trajection of our entities .", "These are the Prime Volitions ,\u2014 fibrils , veins ,", "Their motions free , their orderings supreme ;", "Well , no more this on what no mind can mete .", "Wherefore Its mindlessness of earthly woes .", "Nothing appears of shape to indicate", "In other entities .", "But this no further now . Deem yet man 's deeds self-done .", "To other worlds , being wearied out with this ;", "Our scope is but to register and watch", "By phantom eyes like ours ; the while unguessed", "Though not in mine .", "Methinks too much assurance thrills your note On secrets in my locker , gentle sprites ; But it may serve .\u2014 Our thought being now reflexed To forces operant on this English isle , Behoves it us to enter scene by scene , And watch the spectacle of Europe 's moves In her embroil , as they were self-ordained According to the naive and liberal creed Of our great-hearted young Compassionates , Forgetting the Prime Mover of the gear , As puppet-watchers him who pulls the strings .\u2014 You 'll mark the twitchings of this Bonaparte As he with other figures foots his reel , Until he twitch him into his lonely grave : Also regard the frail ones that his flings Have made gyrate like animalcula In tepid pools .\u2014 Hence to the precinct , then , And count as framework to the stagery Yon architraves of sunbeam-smitten cloud .\u2014 So may ye judge Earth 's jackaclocks to be No fugled by one Will , but function-free .The point of view then sinks downwards through space , and draws near to the surface of the perturbed countries , where the peoples , distressed by events which they did not cause , are seen writhing , crawling , heaving , and vibrating in their various cities and nationalities . ]", "Nay . In the Foretime , even to the germ of Being ,", "Will-tissues , nerves , and pulses of the Cause ,", "Whose fingers play in skilled unmindfulness ,", "Labouring through all , divisible from none ;", "Of men 's dynastic and imperial moils"], "true_target": ["Their sum is like the lobule of a Brain", "As one sad story runs , It lends Its heed", "As key-scene to the whole , I first lay bare The Will-webs of thy fearful questioning ; For know that of my antique privileges This gift to visualize the Mode is oneSee , then , and learn , ere my power pass again .", "When in her early growth and crudity", "But only through my centuries to behold", "Which thinking on , yet weighing not Its thought ,", "The ruling was that we should witness things", "By means of this great gift accorded us \u2014", "Rather they show that , like a knitter drowsed ,", "Hath played strange pranks since first I brooded here .", "Shape on accustomed lines . Though , as for me ,", "Of those it stirs , who", "Thou'st lately writ , that sums these happenings ,", "And not their consequence .", "Some , too , have told at whiles that rightfully", "dream", "Evolving always that it wots not of ;", "in my span .", "It works unconsciously , as heretofore ,", "That cognizance has marshalled things terrene ,", "Eternal artistries in Circumstance ,", "Mercy I view , not urge ;\u2014 nor more than mark", "The Will has woven with an absent heed", "Open and chant the page", "Yea , so it stands in certain chronicles ,", "Their aspects , and their movements , and their mould .", "What designate your titles Good and Ill .", "Seem in themselves Its single listless aim ,", "That heave throughout the Earth 's compositure .", "Whose patterns , wrought by rapt aesthetic rote ,", "Since life first was ; and ever will so weave .", "I care not thy shape , or what they be .", "Each life apart from each , with power to mete", "To click-clack off Its preadjusted laws ;", "But old Laws operate yet ; and phase and phase", "To this land 's stir and ferment .\u2014 Thither we .", "In brief reminder of their instant points"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 111}, {"query": ["Which would have marred the European broil ,", "And sheathed all swords , and silenced every gun", "That riddles human flesh .", "To unimpel so stultifying a move !", "It wove Its web in the Ajaccian womb !"], "true_target": ["Ay ; begin small , and so lead up to the greater . It is a sound dramatic principle . I always aim to follow it in my pestilences , fires , famines , and other comedies . And though , to be sure , I did not in my Lisbon earthquake , I did in my French Terror , and my St. Domingo burlesque .", "Limbs of Itself : Each one a jot of It in quaint disguise ? I 'll fear all men henceforward !", "Hence we 've rare dramas going \u2014 more so since", "Good , as before . My little engines , then , will still have play .", "I saw good sport therein , and paean 'd the Will"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 111}, {"query": ["The human news wherewith the Rumours stirred us", "Which bear men 's forms on their innumerous coils ,", "Now profits naught . For the large potencies", "Strange waves I sight like winds grown visible ,", "Meet is it , none the less ,", "To throne fair Liberty in Privilege \u2019 room \u2014", "Except in being irresistible \u2014", "Such deeds were nulled , and this strange man 's career", "Which complicate with some , and balance all .", "For his own gain .", "Are taking taint , and sink to common plots", "They are shapes that bleed , mere mannikins or no ,", "This viewless , voiceless Turner of the Wheel ?", "The more that he , turned man of mere traditions ,", "Forthwith conned closelier than your custom is .\u2014", "Wound up , as making inharmonious jars", "Let this earth-tragedy", "If aught could gratify the Absolute"], "true_target": ["\u2018 Twould verily be thy censure , not thy praise !", "You seem to have small sense of mercy , Sire ?", "Did not respond to the said Emperor !", "Sublunar shocks may wake Its watch anon ?", "O say no more ;", "Ill chanced it that the English monarch George", "In her creation whose meek wraith we know .", "Whereof we spake , afford a spectacle", "On things terrene , then , I would say that though", "Instilled into his idiosyncrasy \u2014", "Twining and serpenting round and through .", "Also retracting threads like gossamers \u2014", "May be estranged , engrossed afar , or sealed ,", "And each has parcel in the total Will .", "To bear in thought that though Its consciousness", "May please thy temper , Years , \u2018 twere better far", "Amid this scene of bodies substantive", "Why doth It so and so , and ever so ,", "Go to . Let this terrestrial tragedy \u2014"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 111}, {"query": ["We would establish those of kindlier build ,", "Men of deep art in life-development ;", "The mild , the fragile , the obscure content", "Those , too , who love the true , the excellent ,", "Upon the innocent ,"], "true_target": ["And make their daily moves a melody .", "Men surfeited of laying heavy hands ,", "Among the myriads of thy family .", "In fair Compassions skilled ,", "Watchers and warders of thy varied lands ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 111}, {"query": ["Put forth , and get clear ;", "Thy foes may elide thee a moment ,", "Of Albion 's frontier !", "O Nelson , so zealous a watcher"], "true_target": ["Through months-long of cruizing ,", "And hasten to head violation", "With Spain 's aiding navies ,", "And rendezvous westerly straightway"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 111}, {"query": ["Hark now , and gather how the martial mood"], "true_target": ["Its heavings in the upper coteries there .", "Stirs England 's humblest hearts . Anon we 'll trace"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 111}, {"query": ["Half across . And then another little half , and then all that 's behind \u2014 the Corsican mischief !", "Well , we ought to be . We 've had alarms enough , God knows .", "Whether or no , the King , rightly enough , did not reply in person , but through Lord Mulgrave our Foreign Minister , to the effect that his Britannic Majesty cannot give a specific answer till he has communicated with the Continental powers .", "That 's why we have seen so many of these marching regiments on the road . This year his grandest attempt upon us is to be made , I reckon ."], "true_target": ["Sir , am I to deem you a friend of Bonaparte , a traitor to your country \u2014 -", "Yes , sir . A letter in his own hand , in which he expected the King to reply to him in the same manner .", "There seems to be a deal of traffic over Ridgeway , even at this time o \u2019 year .", "What ! Encourage this man in an act of shameless presumption , and give him the pleasure of considering himself the equal of the King of England \u2014 whom he actually calls his brother !", "Certainly , sir . He requested peace with the King ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 111}, {"query": ["Gentlemen forbear , forbear ! Should such differences be suffered to arise on a spot where we may , in less than three months , be fighting for our very existence ? This is foolish , I say . Heaven alone , who reads the secrets of this man 's heart , can tell what his meaning and intent may be , and if his letter has been answered wisely or no .", "May we be ready !"], "true_target": ["Is there truth in it that Bonaparte wrote a letter to the King last month ?", "Yes . People who live hereabout \u2014 I am a native of these parts \u2014 feel the nearness of France more than they do inland .", "Yes . It is because the King and Court are coming down here later on . They wake up this part rarely !... See , now , how the Channel and coast open out like a chart . That patch of mist below us is the town we are bound for . There 's the Isle of Slingers beyond , like a floating snail . That wide bay on the right is where the \u201c Abergavenny , \u201d Captain John Wordsworth , was wrecked last month . One can see half across to France up here ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 111}, {"query": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; Never mind , mates ; we 'll be merry , though We may have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "true_target": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he wo n't sail , lest the wind should blow , We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol ! We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he be sea-sick , says \u201c No , no ! \u201d We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 111}, {"query": ["And why should n't the King reply in the same manner ?", "Sir , I apologize . He 's not to be trusted ! War is his name , and aggression is with him !", "Damn my wig , sir , if I 'll be called a traitor by you or any Court sycophant at all at all !"], "true_target": ["Both the manner and the matter of the reply are British ; but a huge mistake .", "And was Boney 's letter friendly ?", "King George his brother it does n't speak badly for his friendliness .", "He must be taken for what he is , not for what he was ; and if he calls"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 111}, {"query": ["Bristol only ."], "true_target": ["Any news , sir ? We are from", "A London messenger !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 111}, {"query": ["WILTSHIRE , A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN", "The Lord Mayor and Corporation of London .", "BURKE , PURSER .", "Naval Crews .", "SECRETARY SCOTT .", "A GENTLEMAN OF FASHION .", "ANOTHER LIEUTENANT .", "Staff and other Officers of the English Army .", "Sergeant-Major Secker and Marines .", "HARDY .", "MESSENGERS , SERVANTS , AND RUSTICS .", "Other English Naval Officers .", "COACH AND OTHER HIGHWAY PASSENGERS .", "DR. BEATTY .", "TWO BEACON-WATCHERS ."], "true_target": ["POLLARD , A MIDSHIPMAN .", "A MILITIAMAN .", "SAILORS AND BOATMEN .", "..........", "Lieutenant Pasco .", "Lieutenants Ram and Whipple .", "DR. ALEXANDER SCOTT .", "A HORSEMAN .", "A COMPANY OF SOLDIERS .", "Regiments of the English Army and Hanoverian .", "Captain Adair .", "DR. MAGRATH .", "COLLINGWOOD .", "ENGLISH CITIZENS AND BURGESSES .", ".........."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 112}, {"query": ["And who , then , Cordial One ,", "Yet know I am but the ineffectual Shade", "To It ; in all her labourings curbed and kinged !"], "true_target": ["Wouldst substitute for this Intractable ?", "They may come , will they . I am not averse .", "What of the Immanent Will and Its designs ?", "Of her the Travailler , herself a thrall"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 112}, {"query": ["Shape on accustomed lines . Though , as for me ,", "Nay . In the Foretime , even to the germ of Being ,", "And not their consequence .", "And whose procedure may but be discerned", "\u2018 Tis not in me to feel with , or against ,", "These flesh-hinged mannikins Its hand upwinds", "Each life apart from each , with power to mete", "To other worlds , being wearied out with this ;", "Or will", "Mercy I view , not urge ;\u2014 nor more than mark", "Shall such be mooted now ? Already change", "By phantom eyes like ours ; the while unguessed", "Hold what ye list , fond believing Sprites ,", "In other entities .", "in my span .", "The ruling was that we should witness things", "And not dispute them . To the drama , then .", "Though not in mine .", "Their sum is like the lobule of a Brain", "Their motions free , their orderings supreme ;", "That cognizance has marshalled things terrene ,", "Which overrides them as a whole its parts", "Working such nescience by their own device .\u2014", "It works unconsciously , as heretofore ,", "Its own day 's measures ; balanced , self complete ;", "To this land 's stir and ferment .\u2014 Thither we .", "Our scope is but to register and watch", "By bad mad acts of severance men contrived ,", "As key-scene to the whole , I first lay bare The Will-webs of thy fearful questioning ; For know that of my antique privileges This gift to visualize the Mode is oneSee , then , and learn , ere my power pass again .", "Slighted by us amid our converse here .", "Open and chant the page", "In brief reminder of their instant points", "Of men 's dynastic and imperial moils", "Well , no more this on what no mind can mete .", "That heave throughout the Earth 's compositure .", "But old Laws operate yet ; and phase and phase", "Wherefore Its mindlessness of earthly woes ."], "true_target": ["Nothing appears of shape to indicate", "Will-tissues , nerves , and pulses of the Cause ,", "Hath played strange pranks since first I brooded here .", "Whose patterns , wrought by rapt aesthetic rote ,", "But this no further now . Deem yet man 's deeds self-done .", "Methinks too much assurance thrills your note On secrets in my locker , gentle sprites ; But it may serve .\u2014 Our thought being now reflexed To forces operant on this English isle , Behoves it us to enter scene by scene , And watch the spectacle of Europe 's moves In her embroil , as they were self-ordained According to the naive and liberal creed Of our great-hearted young Compassionates , Forgetting the Prime Mover of the gear , As puppet-watchers him who pulls the strings .\u2014 You 'll mark the twitchings of this Bonaparte As he with other figures foots his reel , Until he twitch him into his lonely grave : Also regard the frail ones that his flings Have made gyrate like animalcula In tepid pools .\u2014 Hence to the precinct , then , And count as framework to the stagery Yon architraves of sunbeam-smitten cloud .\u2014 So may ye judge Earth 's jackaclocks to be No fugled by one Will , but function-free .The point of view then sinks downwards through space , and draws near to the surface of the perturbed countries , where the peoples , distressed by events which they did not cause , are seen writhing , crawling , heaving , and vibrating in their various cities and nationalities . ]", "Rather they show that , like a knitter drowsed ,", "To click-clack off Its preadjusted laws ;", "Emprizes over-Channel are the key", "Their aspects , and their movements , and their mould .", "These are the Prime Volitions ,\u2014 fibrils , veins ,", "Since life first was ; and ever will so weave .", "Seem in themselves Its single listless aim ,", "How does it stand ?", "dream", "Of those it stirs , who", "By means of this great gift accorded us \u2014", "Evolving always that it wots not of ;", "The free trajection of our entities .", "Labouring through all , divisible from none ;", "You cannot swerve the pulsion of the Byss ,", "When in her early growth and crudity", "Yea , so it stands in certain chronicles ,", "Eternal artistries in Circumstance ,", "A Brain whose whole connotes the Everywhere ,", "Its warefulness , Its care , this planet lost", "Thou'st lately writ , that sums these happenings ,", "But only through my centuries to behold", "I care not thy shape , or what they be .", "Whose fingers play in skilled unmindfulness ,", "Though they subsist but atoms of the One", "What designate your titles Good and Ill .", "Which thinking on , yet weighing not Its thought ,", "Some , too , have told at whiles that rightfully", "The Will has woven with an absent heed", "As one sad story runs , It lends Its heed", "Unchecks Its clock-like laws ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 112}, {"query": ["It wove Its web in the Ajaccian womb !", "That riddles human flesh .", "And sheathed all swords , and silenced every gun", "Hence we 've rare dramas going \u2014 more so since", "Limbs of Itself : Each one a jot of It in quaint disguise ? I 'll fear all men henceforward !"], "true_target": ["Ay ; begin small , and so lead up to the greater . It is a sound dramatic principle . I always aim to follow it in my pestilences , fires , famines , and other comedies . And though , to be sure , I did not in my Lisbon earthquake , I did in my French Terror , and my St. Domingo burlesque .", "Which would have marred the European broil ,", "I saw good sport therein , and paean 'd the Will", "Good , as before . My little engines , then , will still have play .", "To unimpel so stultifying a move !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 112}, {"query": ["They are shapes that bleed , mere mannikins or no ,", "You seem to have small sense of mercy , Sire ?", "The human news wherewith the Rumours stirred us", "The more that he , turned man of mere traditions ,", "To bear in thought that though Its consciousness", "Are taking taint , and sink to common plots", "Also retracting threads like gossamers \u2014", "On things terrene , then , I would say that though", "Amid this scene of bodies substantive", "Twining and serpenting round and through .", "Wound up , as making inharmonious jars", "Such deeds were nulled , and this strange man 's career", "If aught could gratify the Absolute", "Which complicate with some , and balance all .", "May please thy temper , Years , \u2018 twere better far", "Strange waves I sight like winds grown visible ,", "Go to . Let this terrestrial tragedy \u2014", "In her creation whose meek wraith we know ."], "true_target": ["Did not respond to the said Emperor !", "Instilled into his idiosyncrasy \u2014", "May be estranged , engrossed afar , or sealed ,", "O say no more ;", "Except in being irresistible \u2014", "Why doth It so and so , and ever so ,", "Now profits naught . For the large potencies", "\u2018 Twould verily be thy censure , not thy praise !", "Meet is it , none the less ,", "Sublunar shocks may wake Its watch anon ?", "Which bear men 's forms on their innumerous coils ,", "And each has parcel in the total Will .", "This viewless , voiceless Turner of the Wheel ?", "Whereof we spake , afford a spectacle", "Let this earth-tragedy", "Forthwith conned closelier than your custom is .\u2014", "To throne fair Liberty in Privilege \u2019 room \u2014", "Ill chanced it that the English monarch George", "For his own gain ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 112}, {"query": ["Watchers and warders of thy varied lands ,", "We would establish those of kindlier build ,", "Those , too , who love the true , the excellent ,", "Men surfeited of laying heavy hands ,", "Upon the innocent ,"], "true_target": ["In fair Compassions skilled ,", "And make their daily moves a melody .", "Men of deep art in life-development ;", "Among the myriads of thy family .", "The mild , the fragile , the obscure content"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 112}, {"query": ["Thy foes may elide thee a moment ,", "And hasten to head violation", "Put forth , and get clear ;", "And rendezvous westerly straightway"], "true_target": ["O Nelson , so zealous a watcher", "Through months-long of cruizing ,", "Of Albion 's frontier !", "With Spain 's aiding navies ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 112}, {"query": ["Stirs England 's humblest hearts . Anon we 'll trace"], "true_target": ["Its heavings in the upper coteries there .", "Hark now , and gather how the martial mood"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 112}, {"query": ["Sir , am I to deem you a friend of Bonaparte , a traitor to your country \u2014 -", "Certainly , sir . He requested peace with the King .", "Yes , sir . A letter in his own hand , in which he expected the King to reply to him in the same manner .", "Well , we ought to be . We 've had alarms enough , God knows ."], "true_target": ["There seems to be a deal of traffic over Ridgeway , even at this time o \u2019 year .", "Half across . And then another little half , and then all that 's behind \u2014 the Corsican mischief !", "That 's why we have seen so many of these marching regiments on the road . This year his grandest attempt upon us is to be made , I reckon .", "Whether or no , the King , rightly enough , did not reply in person , but through Lord Mulgrave our Foreign Minister , to the effect that his Britannic Majesty cannot give a specific answer till he has communicated with the Continental powers .", "What ! Encourage this man in an act of shameless presumption , and give him the pleasure of considering himself the equal of the King of England \u2014 whom he actually calls his brother !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 112}, {"query": ["Yes . It is because the King and Court are coming down here later on . They wake up this part rarely !... See , now , how the Channel and coast open out like a chart . That patch of mist below us is the town we are bound for . There 's the Isle of Slingers beyond , like a floating snail . That wide bay on the right is where the \u201c Abergavenny , \u201d Captain John Wordsworth , was wrecked last month . One can see half across to France up here .", "Is there truth in it that Bonaparte wrote a letter to the King last month ?"], "true_target": ["Yes . People who live hereabout \u2014 I am a native of these parts \u2014 feel the nearness of France more than they do inland .", "Gentlemen forbear , forbear ! Should such differences be suffered to arise on a spot where we may , in less than three months , be fighting for our very existence ? This is foolish , I say . Heaven alone , who reads the secrets of this man 's heart , can tell what his meaning and intent may be , and if his letter has been answered wisely or no .", "May we be ready !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 112}, {"query": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; Never mind , mates ; we 'll be merry , though We may have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "true_target": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he wo n't sail , lest the wind should blow , We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol ! We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he be sea-sick , says \u201c No , no ! \u201d We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 112}, {"query": ["Both the manner and the matter of the reply are British ; but a huge mistake .", "He must be taken for what he is , not for what he was ; and if he calls", "Damn my wig , sir , if I 'll be called a traitor by you or any Court sycophant at all at all !"], "true_target": ["And why should n't the King reply in the same manner ?", "Sir , I apologize . He 's not to be trusted ! War is his name , and aggression is with him !", "And was Boney 's letter friendly ?", "King George his brother it does n't speak badly for his friendliness ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 112}, {"query": ["A London messenger !"], "true_target": ["Bristol only .", "Any news , sir ? We are from"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 112}, {"query": ["Sergeant-Major Secker and Marines .", "Captain Adair .", "MESSENGERS , SERVANTS , AND RUSTICS .", "BURKE , PURSER .", "HARDY .", "SAILORS AND BOATMEN .", "Regiments of the English Army and Hanoverian .", "DR. MAGRATH .", "TWO BEACON-WATCHERS .", "WILTSHIRE , A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN", "A GENTLEMAN OF FASHION .", "DR. BEATTY .", "..........", "..........", "SECRETARY SCOTT ."], "true_target": ["ENGLISH CITIZENS AND BURGESSES .", "ANOTHER LIEUTENANT .", "A COMPANY OF SOLDIERS .", "Staff and other Officers of the English Army .", "A MILITIAMAN .", "Naval Crews .", "DR. ALEXANDER SCOTT .", "COACH AND OTHER HIGHWAY PASSENGERS .", "Other English Naval Officers .", "A HORSEMAN .", "COLLINGWOOD .", "Lieutenants Ram and Whipple .", "The Lord Mayor and Corporation of London .", "POLLARD , A MIDSHIPMAN .", "Lieutenant Pasco ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 113}, {"query": ["Wouldst substitute for this Intractable ?", "They may come , will they . I am not averse .", "To It ; in all her labourings curbed and kinged !"], "true_target": ["Of her the Travailler , herself a thrall", "Yet know I am but the ineffectual Shade", "And who , then , Cordial One ,", "What of the Immanent Will and Its designs ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 113}, {"query": ["Each life apart from each , with power to mete", "Mercy I view , not urge ;\u2014 nor more than mark", "By means of this great gift accorded us \u2014", "Of those it stirs , who", "As key-scene to the whole , I first lay bare The Will-webs of thy fearful questioning ; For know that of my antique privileges This gift to visualize the Mode is oneSee , then , and learn , ere my power pass again .", "When in her early growth and crudity", "In other entities .", "The free trajection of our entities .", "But old Laws operate yet ; and phase and phase", "Its warefulness , Its care , this planet lost", "Eternal artistries in Circumstance ,", "Our scope is but to register and watch", "Though they subsist but atoms of the One", "To click-clack off Its preadjusted laws ;", "Thou'st lately writ , that sums these happenings ,", "By phantom eyes like ours ; the while unguessed", "To other worlds , being wearied out with this ;", "But only through my centuries to behold", "The ruling was that we should witness things", "Evolving always that it wots not of ;", "Labouring through all , divisible from none ;", "As one sad story runs , It lends Its heed", "\u2018 Tis not in me to feel with , or against ,", "And whose procedure may but be discerned", "Some , too , have told at whiles that rightfully", "Methinks too much assurance thrills your note On secrets in my locker , gentle sprites ; But it may serve .\u2014 Our thought being now reflexed To forces operant on this English isle , Behoves it us to enter scene by scene , And watch the spectacle of Europe 's moves In her embroil , as they were self-ordained According to the naive and liberal creed Of our great-hearted young Compassionates , Forgetting the Prime Mover of the gear , As puppet-watchers him who pulls the strings .\u2014 You 'll mark the twitchings of this Bonaparte As he with other figures foots his reel , Until he twitch him into his lonely grave : Also regard the frail ones that his flings Have made gyrate like animalcula In tepid pools .\u2014 Hence to the precinct , then , And count as framework to the stagery Yon architraves of sunbeam-smitten cloud .\u2014 So may ye judge Earth 's jackaclocks to be No fugled by one Will , but function-free .The point of view then sinks downwards through space , and draws near to the surface of the perturbed countries , where the peoples , distressed by events which they did not cause , are seen writhing , crawling , heaving , and vibrating in their various cities and nationalities . ]", "Nay . In the Foretime , even to the germ of Being ,", "Slighted by us amid our converse here .", "And not their consequence .", "That cognizance has marshalled things terrene ,", "Shape on accustomed lines . Though , as for me ,", "Well , no more this on what no mind can mete .", "Hold what ye list , fond believing Sprites ,", "A Brain whose whole connotes the Everywhere ,", "Rather they show that , like a knitter drowsed ,", "Their aspects , and their movements , and their mould .", "Which overrides them as a whole its parts"], "true_target": ["These are the Prime Volitions ,\u2014 fibrils , veins ,", "Hath played strange pranks since first I brooded here .", "To this land 's stir and ferment .\u2014 Thither we .", "Or will", "What designate your titles Good and Ill .", "Their sum is like the lobule of a Brain", "Seem in themselves Its single listless aim ,", "Will-tissues , nerves , and pulses of the Cause ,", "Unchecks Its clock-like laws .", "Of men 's dynastic and imperial moils", "The Will has woven with an absent heed", "Open and chant the page", "in my span .", "That heave throughout the Earth 's compositure .", "It works unconsciously , as heretofore ,", "But this no further now . Deem yet man 's deeds self-done .", "Nothing appears of shape to indicate", "Whose patterns , wrought by rapt aesthetic rote ,", "Whose fingers play in skilled unmindfulness ,", "Yea , so it stands in certain chronicles ,", "By bad mad acts of severance men contrived ,", "Their motions free , their orderings supreme ;", "Its own day 's measures ; balanced , self complete ;", "Since life first was ; and ever will so weave .", "Shall such be mooted now ? Already change", "You cannot swerve the pulsion of the Byss ,", "These flesh-hinged mannikins Its hand upwinds", "dream", "Emprizes over-Channel are the key", "Wherefore Its mindlessness of earthly woes .", "Though not in mine .", "How does it stand ?", "Which thinking on , yet weighing not Its thought ,", "Working such nescience by their own device .\u2014", "I care not thy shape , or what they be .", "In brief reminder of their instant points", "And not dispute them . To the drama , then ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 113}, {"query": ["Good , as before . My little engines , then , will still have play .", "That riddles human flesh .", "And sheathed all swords , and silenced every gun", "To unimpel so stultifying a move !", "I saw good sport therein , and paean 'd the Will"], "true_target": ["Which would have marred the European broil ,", "Limbs of Itself : Each one a jot of It in quaint disguise ? I 'll fear all men henceforward !", "Ay ; begin small , and so lead up to the greater . It is a sound dramatic principle . I always aim to follow it in my pestilences , fires , famines , and other comedies . And though , to be sure , I did not in my Lisbon earthquake , I did in my French Terror , and my St. Domingo burlesque .", "It wove Its web in the Ajaccian womb !", "Hence we 've rare dramas going \u2014 more so since"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 113}, {"query": ["Strange waves I sight like winds grown visible ,", "O say no more ;", "Such deeds were nulled , and this strange man 's career", "On things terrene , then , I would say that though", "Meet is it , none the less ,", "In her creation whose meek wraith we know .", "Let this earth-tragedy", "To throne fair Liberty in Privilege \u2019 room \u2014", "Which bear men 's forms on their innumerous coils ,", "Are taking taint , and sink to common plots", "Also retracting threads like gossamers \u2014", "Ill chanced it that the English monarch George", "To bear in thought that though Its consciousness", "Twining and serpenting round and through .", "You seem to have small sense of mercy , Sire ?", "Did not respond to the said Emperor !", "Sublunar shocks may wake Its watch anon ?", "\u2018 Twould verily be thy censure , not thy praise !"], "true_target": ["If aught could gratify the Absolute", "May please thy temper , Years , \u2018 twere better far", "And each has parcel in the total Will .", "Go to . Let this terrestrial tragedy \u2014", "Whereof we spake , afford a spectacle", "This viewless , voiceless Turner of the Wheel ?", "Why doth It so and so , and ever so ,", "Now profits naught . For the large potencies", "The more that he , turned man of mere traditions ,", "Wound up , as making inharmonious jars", "Forthwith conned closelier than your custom is .\u2014", "Amid this scene of bodies substantive", "Except in being irresistible \u2014", "The human news wherewith the Rumours stirred us", "Which complicate with some , and balance all .", "Instilled into his idiosyncrasy \u2014", "They are shapes that bleed , mere mannikins or no ,", "May be estranged , engrossed afar , or sealed ,", "For his own gain ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 113}, {"query": ["Upon the innocent ,", "Watchers and warders of thy varied lands ,", "In fair Compassions skilled ,", "Those , too , who love the true , the excellent ,", "Men of deep art in life-development ;"], "true_target": ["Among the myriads of thy family .", "We would establish those of kindlier build ,", "The mild , the fragile , the obscure content", "Men surfeited of laying heavy hands ,", "And make their daily moves a melody ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 113}, {"query": ["And hasten to head violation", "Of Albion 's frontier !", "And rendezvous westerly straightway", "Put forth , and get clear ;"], "true_target": ["Thy foes may elide thee a moment ,", "O Nelson , so zealous a watcher", "Through months-long of cruizing ,", "With Spain 's aiding navies ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 113}, {"query": ["Hark now , and gather how the martial mood"], "true_target": ["Its heavings in the upper coteries there .", "Stirs England 's humblest hearts . Anon we 'll trace"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 113}, {"query": ["Certainly , sir . He requested peace with the King .", "Half across . And then another little half , and then all that 's behind \u2014 the Corsican mischief !", "Yes , sir . A letter in his own hand , in which he expected the King to reply to him in the same manner .", "Whether or no , the King , rightly enough , did not reply in person , but through Lord Mulgrave our Foreign Minister , to the effect that his Britannic Majesty cannot give a specific answer till he has communicated with the Continental powers ."], "true_target": ["What ! Encourage this man in an act of shameless presumption , and give him the pleasure of considering himself the equal of the King of England \u2014 whom he actually calls his brother !", "Well , we ought to be . We 've had alarms enough , God knows .", "That 's why we have seen so many of these marching regiments on the road . This year his grandest attempt upon us is to be made , I reckon .", "There seems to be a deal of traffic over Ridgeway , even at this time o \u2019 year .", "Sir , am I to deem you a friend of Bonaparte , a traitor to your country \u2014 -"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 113}, {"query": ["Yes . It is because the King and Court are coming down here later on . They wake up this part rarely !... See , now , how the Channel and coast open out like a chart . That patch of mist below us is the town we are bound for . There 's the Isle of Slingers beyond , like a floating snail . That wide bay on the right is where the \u201c Abergavenny , \u201d Captain John Wordsworth , was wrecked last month . One can see half across to France up here .", "Gentlemen forbear , forbear ! Should such differences be suffered to arise on a spot where we may , in less than three months , be fighting for our very existence ? This is foolish , I say . Heaven alone , who reads the secrets of this man 's heart , can tell what his meaning and intent may be , and if his letter has been answered wisely or no ."], "true_target": ["Yes . People who live hereabout \u2014 I am a native of these parts \u2014 feel the nearness of France more than they do inland .", "Is there truth in it that Bonaparte wrote a letter to the King last month ?", "May we be ready !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 113}, {"query": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; Never mind , mates ; we 'll be merry , though We may have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "true_target": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he wo n't sail , lest the wind should blow , We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol ! We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he be sea-sick , says \u201c No , no ! \u201d We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 113}, {"query": ["Both the manner and the matter of the reply are British ; but a huge mistake .", "Sir , I apologize . He 's not to be trusted ! War is his name , and aggression is with him !", "He must be taken for what he is , not for what he was ; and if he calls"], "true_target": ["King George his brother it does n't speak badly for his friendliness .", "And why should n't the King reply in the same manner ?", "And was Boney 's letter friendly ?", "Damn my wig , sir , if I 'll be called a traitor by you or any Court sycophant at all at all !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 113}, {"query": ["A London messenger !"], "true_target": ["Bristol only .", "Any news , sir ? We are from"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 113}, {"query": ["Stirs England 's humblest hearts . Anon we 'll trace"], "true_target": ["Hark now , and gather how the martial mood", "Its heavings in the upper coteries there ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 114}, {"query": ["To unimpel so stultifying a move !", "That riddles human flesh .", "And sheathed all swords , and silenced every gun"], "true_target": ["Ay ; begin small , and so lead up to the greater . It is a sound dramatic principle . I always aim to follow it in my pestilences , fires , famines , and other comedies . And though , to be sure , I did not in my Lisbon earthquake , I did in my French Terror , and my St. Domingo burlesque .", "I saw good sport therein , and paean 'd the Will", "Which would have marred the European broil ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 114}, {"query": ["Yes , sir . A letter in his own hand , in which he expected the King to reply to him in the same manner .", "That 's why we have seen so many of these marching regiments on the road . This year his grandest attempt upon us is to be made , I reckon .", "What ! Encourage this man in an act of shameless presumption , and give him the pleasure of considering himself the equal of the King of England \u2014 whom he actually calls his brother !", "There seems to be a deal of traffic over Ridgeway , even at this time o \u2019 year ."], "true_target": ["Certainly , sir . He requested peace with the King .", "Whether or no , the King , rightly enough , did not reply in person , but through Lord Mulgrave our Foreign Minister , to the effect that his Britannic Majesty cannot give a specific answer till he has communicated with the Continental powers .", "Sir , am I to deem you a friend of Bonaparte , a traitor to your country \u2014 -", "Well , we ought to be . We 've had alarms enough , God knows .", "Half across . And then another little half , and then all that 's behind \u2014 the Corsican mischief !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 114}, {"query": ["Yes . It is because the King and Court are coming down here later on . They wake up this part rarely !... See , now , how the Channel and coast open out like a chart . That patch of mist below us is the town we are bound for . There 's the Isle of Slingers beyond , like a floating snail . That wide bay on the right is where the \u201c Abergavenny , \u201d Captain John Wordsworth , was wrecked last month . One can see half across to France up here .", "Gentlemen forbear , forbear ! Should such differences be suffered to arise on a spot where we may , in less than three months , be fighting for our very existence ? This is foolish , I say . Heaven alone , who reads the secrets of this man 's heart , can tell what his meaning and intent may be , and if his letter has been answered wisely or no ."], "true_target": ["May we be ready !", "Yes . People who live hereabout \u2014 I am a native of these parts \u2014 feel the nearness of France more than they do inland .", "Is there truth in it that Bonaparte wrote a letter to the King last month ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 114}, {"query": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he wo n't sail , lest the wind should blow , We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol ! We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; If he be sea-sick , says \u201c No , no ! \u201d We shall have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "true_target": ["We be the King 's men , hale and hearty , Marching to meet one Buonaparty ; Never mind , mates ; we 'll be merry , though We may have marched for nothing , O ! Right fol-lol !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 114}, {"query": ["King George his brother it does n't speak badly for his friendliness .", "Both the manner and the matter of the reply are British ; but a huge mistake .", "He must be taken for what he is , not for what he was ; and if he calls"], "true_target": ["Sir , I apologize . He 's not to be trusted ! War is his name , and aggression is with him !", "And was Boney 's letter friendly ?", "Damn my wig , sir , if I 'll be called a traitor by you or any Court sycophant at all at all !", "And why should n't the King reply in the same manner ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 114}, {"query": ["Any news , sir ? We are from"], "true_target": ["A London messenger !", "Bristol only ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 114}, {"query": ["Ill chanced it that the English monarch George", "Did not respond to the said Emperor !"], "true_target": ["O say no more ;", "If aught could gratify the Absolute", "\u2018 Twould verily be thy censure , not thy praise !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 114}, {"query": ["And not dispute them . To the drama , then .", "The ruling was that we should witness things"], "true_target": ["To this land 's stir and ferment .\u2014 Thither we .", "Emprizes over-Channel are the key"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 114}, {"query": ["Show him in straightway .", "Come in ! Good news , I hope !", "From the Emperor"], "true_target": ["reads : \u201c I am resolved that no wild dream of Ind , And what we there might win ; or of the West , And bold re-conquest there of Surinam And other Dutch retreats along those coasts , Or British islands nigh , shall draw me now From piercing into England through Boulogne As lined in my first plan . If I do strike , I strike effectively ; to forge which feat There 's but one way \u2014 planting a mortal wound In England 's heart \u2014 the very English land \u2014 Whose insolent and cynical reply To my well-based complaint on breach of faith Concerning Malta , as at Amiens pledged , Has lighted up anew such flames of ire As may involve the world .\u2014 Now to the case : Our naval forces can be all assembled Without the foe 's foreknowledge or surmise , By these rules following ; to whose text I ask Your gravest application ; and , when conned , That steadfastly you stand by word and word , Making no question of one jot therein . \u201c First , then , let Villeneuve wait a favouring wind For process westward swift to Martinique , Coaxing the English after . Join him there Gravina , Missiessy , and Ganteaume ; Which junction once effected all our keels \u2014 While the pursuers linger in the West At hopeless fault .\u2014 Having hoodwinked them thus , Our boats skim over , disembark the army , And in the twinkling of a patriot 's eye All London will be ours . \u201c In strictest secrecy carve this to shape \u2014 Let never an admiral or captain scent Save Villeneuve and Ganteaume ; and pen each charge With your own quill . The surelier to outwit them I start for Italy ; and there , as \u2018 twere Engrossed in fetes and Coronation rites , Abide till , at the need , I reach Boulogne , And head the enterprize .\u2014 NAPOLEON . \u201d", "As I expected !", "Thanks . Be in waiting near ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 115}, {"query": ["And yours alone ."], "true_target": ["Sir , for your own hand"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 115}, {"query": ["Raw merchant-fellows from the counting-house ,", "Till the persuasion of its own plump words ,", "Raw labourers from the fields , who thumb for arms", "He buckles to the work . First to Villeneuve ,", "in this exploit", "Acting upon mercurial temperaments ,", "Change our homuncules , and observe forthwith", "Have been embodied as by sorcery ;", "And how the jacks lip out their reasonings there .", "Sprite of Compassions , ask the Immanent !", "How the High Influence sways the English realm ,", "Against these valiants balance England 's means :", "Shall profit not , and in one summer night", "They but proclaim the crowd ,", "I am but an accessory of Its works ,", "For this dead-ripe design on England 's shore ,", "As is the lightning prong . Our vast flotillas", "To rocking cities casemented with guns .", "Are , maybe , good as any ."], "true_target": ["The giving matter motion ; and these coils", "We 'll find us there ! \u201d", "Thou answerest well . But cease to ask of me .", "And cry them full-equipt . Their batteries ,", "Now lingering at Toulon , he jots swift lines ,", "Their flying carriages , their catamarans ,", "Whom the Ages render conscious ; and at most", "Clumsy untempered pikes forged hurriedly ,", "Meanwhile the mime proceeds .\u2014 We turn herefrom ,", "Which sings and shouts its hot enthusiasms", "The duly to Ganteaume .\u2014 They are sealed forthwith ,", "Soldiers made seamen , and the ports transformed", "Unwavering , keen , and irresistible", "Occasion will reveal .", "And superscribed : \u201c Break not till on the main . \u201d", "Nay , something hidden urged", "Figure as bounden witness of Its laws .", "His onetime companion and his boyhood 's friend ,", "Will show himself", "Makes hope as prophecy . \u201c Our Emperor"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 115}, {"query": ["Like those which thrill the hives at evenfall", "How ask the aim of unrelaxing Will ? Tranced in Its purpose to unknowingness ?"], "true_target": ["When swarming pends .", "But why any ?", "I hear confused and simmering sounds without ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 115}, {"query": ["By uncreation ? Howsoever wise", "And hold me travailling through fineless years", "Goad panting peoples to the throes thereof ,", "To down this dynasty , set that one up ,", "In vain and objectless monotony ,"], "true_target": ["When all such tedious conjuring could be shunned", "The governance of these massed mortalities ,", "Make wither here my fruit , maintain it there ,", "They had not been .", "What boots it , Sire ,", "A juster wisdom his who should have ruled"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 115}, {"query": ["Those forming bands to full activity .", "That this thwart Parliament whose moods we watch \u2014", "For one cause \u2014 if I read the signs aright \u2014", "And print its legend large on History .", "As prelude to the scene , as means to aid", "Is near his last , and themes to-night launched forth", "And Ins as Ins , and Outs as Outs , remain .", "So insular , empiric , un-ideal \u2014", "Pray spread your scripture , and rehearse in brief", "A timely token that we dally here !", "In the assembly of his long-time sway", "Our younger comrades in its construing ,", "We now cast off these mortal manacles ,", "Abide the event , young Shade :", "Will take a tincture from that memory ,", "Soon stars will shut and show a spring-eyed dawn ,", "That hung about his pleadings .\u2014 But no more ;"], "true_target": ["And hierarchy of Intelligences ,", "Hypotheses !\u2014 More boots it to remind", "And speed us seaward .", "I 'll humour thee ,", "The ministers their ministries retain ,", "Words of to-night form sequence .", "Though my unpassioned essence could not change", "Dislodging not one vote or prejudice ;", "When me recall the scene and circumstance", "To-night 's appearance of its Minister", "Did I incarn in moulds of all mankind !", "The younger here of our ethereal band", "The ritual of each party is rehearsed ,", "The reasonings here of late \u2014 to whose effects", "May figure forth in sharp and salient lines", "To retrospective eyes of afterdays ,", "And sunbeams fountain forth , that will arouse"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 116}, {"query": ["Feeble-framed dull unresolve , unresourcefulness , Sat in the halls of the Kingdom 's high Councillors , Whence the grey glooms of a ghost-eyed despondency Wanned as with winter the national mind .", "Aims to concentre , slack efforts to bind ."], "true_target": ["Once more doth Pitt deem the land crying loud to him .\u2014", "Frail though and spent , and an-hungered for restfulness", "Once more responds he , dead fervours to energize ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 116}, {"query": ["Jestingly , earnestly , shouting it serviceless ,", "Nakedly \u2014 not an ally in support of her ;", "Tardy , inept , and uncouthly designed .", "Projects of range and scope poorly defined ."], "true_target": ["Holding as hapless his dream of good guardianship ,", "Ere the first fruit thereof grow audible ,", "Men and munitions dispersed inexpediently ;", "England stands forth to the sword of Napoleon"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 116}, {"query": ["Hear them speak ,\u2014 gravely these , those with gay-heartedness ,\u2014", "Midst their admonishments little conceiving how"], "true_target": ["Scarlet the scroll that the years will unwind !", "So now , to-night , in slashing old sentences ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 116}, {"query": ["As though a power lay in their oraclings ,", "That wakes these tones ?", "It irks me that they thus should Yea and Nay", "And would be operant though unloosened were"], "true_target": ["Meanwhile what of the Foeman 's vast array", "Let us put on and suffer for the nonce The feverish fleshings of Humanity , And join the pale debaters here convened . So may thy soul be won to sympathy By donning their poor mould .", "A single lip !", "If each decision work unconsciously ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 116}, {"query": ["Of which we see no end !", "That the illustrious chief of Government", "Should have uprisen with such indecent speed", "With sudden blaze of pyrotechnic art", "O \u2019 the right incomparable gentleman !", "My summary shall be brief , and to the point .\u2014", "Is a well-worn citation whose close fit", "Has thought it proper to declare my speech", "We formerly admired .\u2014", "The Act he claims him urgent to repeal .", "Nec Deus intersit \u2014 and so-and-so \u2014", "His thunderous answer thus perforce condemns him !", "He implicates as gathered from long hoards", "On which my blame was founded !", "Of dire perversion that capacity", "Such quips and qizzings", "My motion unimpaired , convicting clearly", "A witcraft marked by nothing more of weight", "Stored up with cruel care , to be discharged", "Whose coalitions fail to coalesce ;", "Is it not strange , and passing precedent ,"], "true_target": ["This dab at secret treaties known to all ,", "Words from a person who has never read", "Than its presiding Deity opposite .", "The said right honourable Prime Minister", "By pledging them to Continental quarrels", "This minister", "He still thought best to leave intact the reasons", "Indeed such rattle as he rated it ,", "The jesting of an irresponsible ;\u2014", "Moreover , to top all , the while replying ,", "On the devoted , gentle , shrinking head", "The Bill I would have leave to introduce Is framed , sir , to repeal last Session 's Act , By party-scribes intituled a Provision For England 's Proper Guard ; but elsewhere known As Mr. Pitt 's new Patent Parish Pill .The ministerial countenances , I mark , Congeal to dazed surprise at my straight motion \u2014 Why , passes sane conjecture . It may be That , with a haughty and unwavering faith In their own battering-rams of argument , They deemed our buoyance whelmed , and sapped , and sunk To our hope 's sheer bottom , whence a miracle Was all could friend and float us ; or , maybe , They are amazed at our rude disrespect In making mockery of an English Law Sprung sacred from the King 's own Premier 's brain ! \u2014 I hear them snort ; but let them wince at will , My duty must be done ; shall be done quickly By citing some few facts . An Act for our defence ! It weakens , not defends ; and oversea Swoln France 's despot and his myrmidons This moment know it , and can scoff thereat . Our people know it too \u2014 those who can peer Behind the scenes of this poor painted show Called soldiering !\u2014 The Act has failed , must fail , As my right honourable friend well proved When speaking t'other night , whose silencing By his right honourable vis a vis Was of the genuine Governmental sort , And like the catamarans their sapience shaped All fizzle and no harm .The Act , in brief , Effects this much : that the whole force of England Is strengthened by \u2014 eleven thousand men ! So sorted that the British infantry Are now eight hundred less than heretofore ! In Ireland , where the glamouring influence Of the right honourable gentleman Prevails with magic might , ELEVEN men Have been amassed . And in the Cinque-Port towns , Where he is held in absolute veneration , His method has so quickened martial fire As to bring in \u2014 one man . O would that man Might meet my sight !A Hercules , no doubt , A god-like emanation from this Act , Who with his single arm will overthrow All Buonaparte 's legions ere their keels Have scraped one pebble of our fortless shore !... Such is my motion , sir , and such my mind .", "Whose circumventions never circumvent ,", "Than ignorant irregularity !", "And strenuously replied ? He , sir , knows well", "That vast and luminous talents like his own", "This darling of the aristocracy \u2014", "Thus , them , stands", "Could not have been demanded to choke off", "Has brought the millions to the verge of ruin ,", "But were my humble , solemn , sad oration", "None will perceive more clearly in the Fane"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 116}, {"query": ["Those mental gems and airy pleasantries", "And credit my deliverance here to-night ,", "And cry in acid voice : The ale is new !", "Can any hold of those who know my past", "And , as a serious man on serious things ,", "Will far outstrip him , and the thousands called", "As were our strivings in the previous war ,", "They are seen , they are known , by you and by us all .", "Doggedly bent to desolate our land ,", "Our efforts in the present shall transcend them ,", "We stand prepared ; and under Providence", "As texts for prophecy , is not my gift", "Unprinked by jewelled art .\u2014 But to the thing .", "Not one on this side but appreciates", "Times are they fraught with peril , trouble , gloom ;", "If germane to the theme , or not at all .", "Now vain indeed it were should I assay", "Of chronicle , take myth and merry tale", "Against the threatenings from yonder coast", "Sir , reading thus the full significance", "All in the House will take my tendered word ,", "We have to mark their lourings , and to face them .", "Whips from his pocket like a clerk-o \u2019 - works !...", "By this light measuring-rule my critic here", "Mouthed and maintained without a thought or care", "Shall fend whatever hid or open stroke", "\u2014", "Displays that are the conjurings of the moment ,", "Unprecedented and magnificent", "Being but a person primed with simple fact ,", "And toilsome , too , must be their criticism ,\u2014", "Of these big days , large though my lackings be ,", "Of English regiments \u2014 seasoned , cool , resolved \u2014", "Fermenting , barrelling , and spigoting ,", "Who shines in them by birthright . Each device", "Advance with a sustained activity .", "Must the House listen to such wilding words", "I now speak here .... I pledge myself to this :"], "true_target": ["As this proposal , at the very hour", "Ay , years may yet postpone ; whereby the Act", "Dry hoardings in his book of commonplace ,", "Tasking and toilsome war 's details must be ,", "Wherein our lot is cast , has no example .", "Who should , when malting , mixing , mashing 's past ,", "As fuel for his flaming eloquence ,", "The motion of the honourable gentleman", "To match him in such sort . For , sir , alas ,", "He heaps into one mass , and light and fans", "Quick taste the brew , and shake his sapient head ,", "The strange fatality that haunts the times", "Stored without stint of toil through days and months \u2014", "As men will learn . Such efforts are not sized", "That in this vital point of watch and ward", "Not in a moment 's stroke extemporized .", "No : by all honour no !\u2014 Were I convinced", "In furtherance of the threat , whose coming off ,", "The shade on England now ! So I do trust", "My sorrowing thereat would doubly shade", "That such could be the mind of members here ,", "But they evince no clear-eyed tentative", "But gravely , sir , I would conclude to-night ,", "When the Act 's gearing finds its ordered grooves", "Ere profiting by its advantages ?", "And why , then , should we dream of its repeal", "To glorious length and firm prepotency .", "A foe may deal .", "Reminds me aptly of a publican", "In process sure , if slow , will ratch the lines", "To use imagination as the ground", "Brew old , you varlets ; cast this slop away !", "And circles into full utility ?", "The preparations of the enemy ,", "Duly to join the ranks by its provisions ,", "Flashed by the honourable gentleman ,", "That I , of all men , slight our safeguarding ?", "Of drollery he has laboured to outshape ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 116}, {"query": ["For sureness of proceeding ? Must this House", "To profit by mistake ?", "As it may be in parentage and feature ,", "Is not of differences in wit and wit ,", "To move for its repeal !", "While enemies hang grinning round our gates", "A statesman \u2019 raw experiment . If ill ,", "Most grave and tragic in its consequence", "On idle guess-games . Fail the measure must ,", "Shall more experiments and more be tried", "The red machinery of desperate war .\u2014", "My friend who spoke", "To gratify a quaint projector 's whim ,"], "true_target": ["In stress of jeopardy that stirs demand", "We squander precious , brief , life-saving time", "This Act may prove . We are moving thoughtlessly ,", "Whatever it may do , or not , it stands ,", "The question that compels the House to-night", "Found comedy in the matter . Comical", "Resolve in its progenitor himself", "Exchange safe action based on practised lines", "For setting up with speed and hot effect", "But if for England it be well or no", "Nay , failed it has already ; and should rouse", "For yet more ventures into risks unknown", "To null the new-fledged Act , as one inept"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 116}, {"query": ["For more , far mightier , measures ! End an Act", "To those of my right honourable friend .", "Relaxing not his plans , has treasured time", "From which our coast is close assailable .", "By such an Act is but a madman 's dream ....", "Two vast united squadrons of his sail", "I , too , am one who reads the present pinch", "The fabrication of more trusty tackle", "That we are reasonably enfenced therefrom", "Will not be known to us till some black blow", "I rise but to subjoin a phrase or two"], "true_target": ["A commonwealth so situate cries aloud", "To mass his monstrous force on all the coigns", "Ay , even afloat his concentrations work :", "Move at this moment viewless on the seas .\u2014", "For why ? Our bold and reckless enemy ,", "For building up an army !", "Their whereabouts , untraced , unguessable ,", "Be dealt by them in some undreamt-of quarter", "To knell our rule .", "As passing all our risks heretofore .", "In Heaven 's name , then , which only can obstruct"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 116}, {"query": ["\u2014 to bring to birth a substitute !", "The latter loud iniquity .\u2014 One task", "Whatever it may prove , shall be entrusted !", "Is theirs who would inter this corpse-cold Act \u2014", "To whom such trick against intrusive foes ,", "With them the question is not how to frame", "Their cloaked intention and most secret aim !", "Sir , the point", "Or be blasphemed at sight . I firmly hold", "And this their deeds incautiously disclose"], "true_target": ["But who shall be the future ministers", "Sir , they have none ; they have given no thought to one ,", "A finer trick to trounce intrusive foes ,", "For ends so sinister and palpable !", "Whether the Act should have befitting trial", "Those gentlemen are sound , and of repute ;", "To join them in this job . But , God be praised ,", "To any sober mind is bright as noon ;", "Safeguard them from an onslaught on an Act", "Their names , their attainments , and their blood ,", "They even ask the country gentlemen"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 116}, {"query": ["Would swear that black is white , that night is day .", "Who 'd overthrow their country for their gain !"], "true_target": ["I disapprove of censures of the Act .\u2014", "No honest man will join a reckless crew", "All who would entertain such hostile thought"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 116}, {"query": ["An Act it is that studies to create", "But blot it out forthwith .", "It makes for sure oppression , binding men", "In the last speaker 's face my censure , based", "To serve for less than service proves it worth", "For these and late-spoke reasons , then , I say ,"], "true_target": ["A standing army , large and permanent ;", "On grounds most clear and constitutional .\u2014", "Let not the Act deface the statute-book ,", "With jealous-eyed disfavour in this House .", "Conditioned by no hampering penalty .", "Which kind of force has ever been beheld", "It is incumbent on me to declare"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 116}, {"query": ["There may react on things"], "true_target": ["Some influence from these , indefinitely ,", "And even on That , whose outcome we all are ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 116}, {"query": ["Why , Norton . You know Norton well enough ?", "They tell me , sure ,", "What on land and sea ? You look , old friend , full primed with latest thence .", "So be it . Yet this man is a volcano ;", "That do n't know my friends !"], "true_target": ["Ay . Inspirations now abound !", "Have ere now turned to earthquakes !", "But let me call him ! Monstrous silly this ,", "That he 's not here to-night !", "The treaty 's signed !", "And proven \u2018 tis , by God , volcanos choked"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 117}, {"query": ["What the news ?\u2014", "Good Lord , the thought gives me a sudden sweat ,", "To sleep in black silk sheets so funnily :\u2014", "For , said I to myself , \u201c O quaint old beau ,", "But how ensure its not unravelling ?", "Fair Italy ,", "Alas , alas !", "That fairly makes my linen stick to me !", "The chequerboard of diplomatic moves", "But I well scanned him \u2014 \u2018 twas Lord Abercorn ;"], "true_target": ["Or other tickling horror from abroad", "So to knit sounds well ;", "Nay , but your looks are grave ! That measured speech", "Is London , all the world knows : here are born", "Is it some piquant cruelty of his ?", "The packet has brought in ?", "Something uncanny 's in it all , if true .", "All inspirations of the Continent \u2014", "Betokened matter that will waken us .\u2014", "So tell !", "That is , if the town rumour o n't be true . \u201d"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 117}, {"query": ["From trampling foes ; deliver Switzerland ,", "The plans of Bonaparte by lightning-flight ,", "Well ; by the terms . There are among them these :", "From shore to shore ; and thoroughly guarantee", "It was not Norton .\u2014 \u2018 Twas some lively buck ,", "And enter for a whim . I 'll tell our host .", "Rethrone in Piedmont the Sardinian King ,", "Unbind the galled republic of the Dutch ,", "This precious pinch of salt on our raw skin ?", "Against the thrust of his usurping hand .", "Is more than manifested . How knows he", "A settled order to the divers states ;", "Five hundred thousand active men in arms", "Who is your friend that drops so airily"], "true_target": ["Thus rearing breachless barriers in each realm", "Ha-ha ! \u2018 Tis excellent . But we 'll find out", "Make Naples sword-proof , un-French Italy", "To free North Germany and Hanover", "Shall strike", "Before another man in England knows ?", "I can well swear", "All outraged Europe .", "\u2014 Meantime the absurdity of his report", "Who chose to put himself in masquerade", "Who this impostor was .", "Nay , \u2018 twas not he . Norton of course I know . I thought him Stewart for a moment , but \u2014 -", "Whereby the parties mutually agree", "To knit in union and in general league"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 117}, {"query": ["Now let us vision onward , till we sight", "The while they talk this stoutly !", "Yea , for a moment , wouldst ."], "true_target": ["They trow not what is shaping otherwhere", "Famed Milan 's aisles of marble , sun-alight ,", "And there behold , unbid , the Coronation-rite ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 117}, {"query": ["By bringing , ere material transit can ,", "And join them , and all blandly kindle them"], "true_target": ["Bid me go", "A new surprise !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 117}, {"query": ["And set upon his irrepressible brow", "The Treaty moves all tongues to-night .\u2014 Ha , well \u2014", "He speeds toward Milan , there to glory him", "Delivers from the French and Bonaparte"], "true_target": ["Lombardy 's iron crown .", "In second coronation by the Pope ,", "Yea , this . The Italy our mighty pact", "So much on paper !", "Makes haste to crown him !\u2014 Turning from Boulogne"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 117}, {"query": ["My wig , ma'am , no ! \u2018 Twas a much younger man .", "Yet thereby English folk"], "true_target": ["Are freed him .\u2014 Faith , as ancient people say ,", "It 's an ill wind that blows good luck to none !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 117}, {"query": ["Constrained by earthly duress to embrace", "Lieutenant Bonaparte ,", "Professed at first to flout antiquity ,", "By secret swellings of her armaments", "Mighty imperiousness as it were choice ,", "Of gracious purpose it was much to me .", "In planting on his brow the Lombard crown ,", "Would thou couldst !", "Scorn limp conventions , smile at mouldy thrones ,", "What is the creed that these rich rites disclose ?", "That vulgar stroke of vauntery he displayed", "Means sheer erasure of the Luneville pacts ,", "Makes strange decline , now labours to achieve", "To link her to his foes .\u2014 I 'll speak to him .", "Enough . And yet for very sorriness", "And level dynasts down to journeymen !\u2014", "Austria but waits her opportunity", "Would it not seemlier be to shut thy heart"], "true_target": ["Though in its early , lovingkindly days", "I feel , Sire , as I must ! This tale of Will", "Thus are the self-styled servants of the Highest", "And lets confusion loose on Europe 's peace", "Who , with a saturnine , sour-humoured grin ,", "The thing it overthrew .", "I did not recognize it here , forsooth ;", "For many an undawned year ! From this rash hour", "I cannot take !", "Whereby his active soul , fair Freedom 's child", "But move That scoped above percipience , Sire ,", "It cannot be !", "I cannot own the weird phantasma real !", "And Life 's impulsion by Incognizance", "For her thou swar'sthYpppHeNto first , fair Liberty ?", "To these unhealthy splendours ?\u2014 helmet thee", "And hand the Italian sceptre unto one", "Yet he , advancing swiftly on that track"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 118}, {"query": ["With all their many-mortaled planet train", "A local cult , called Christianity ,", "Which some of us have inkled to thee here ;", "And shut thee up a thousand years !\u2014", "Else wouldst thou not have hailed the Emperor ,", "Whose acts do but outshape Its governing .", "Affection ever was illogical .", "Which the wild dramas of the wheeling spheres", "Even made to feel by one men call the Dame .", "\u201c As they would say below there . \u201d", "Beyond whose span , uninfluenced , unconcerned ,", "Thou Iago of the Incorporeal World ,", "The systems of the suns go sweeping on"], "true_target": ["Show to thy sceptic eye the very streams", "Soft , jester ; scorn not puppetry so skilled ,", "And currents of this all-inhering Power ,", "Include , with divers other such , in dim", "And bring conclusion to thy unbelief .", "In mathematic roll unceasingly .", "A self-formed force had urged his loud career .", "Let me then once again", "Pathetical and brief parentheses ,", "Thou art young , and dost not heed the Cause of things", "Officious sprite ,", "O would that I could move It to enchain thee ,", "Thou reasonest ever thuswise \u2014 even if"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 118}, {"query": ["Not I , Sire . Not a soul ."], "true_target": ["Sire , with that clemency and right goodwill Which beautify Imperial Majesty , You deigned acceptance of the homages That we the clergy and the Milanese Were proud to offer when your entrance here Streamed radiance on our ancient capital . Please , then , to consummate the boon to-day Beneath this holy roof , so soon to thrill With solemn strains and lifting harmonies Befitting such a coronation hour ; And bend a tender fatherly regard On this assembly , now at one with me To supplicate the Author of All Good That He endow your most Imperial person With every Heavenly gift ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 118}, {"query": ["His lips with inheld laughter grow deformed ,", "And we may as well give all attention thereto , for the evils at work in other continents are not worth eyesight by comparison .", "The lady 's remark is apposite , and reminds me that I may as well hold my tongue as desired . For if my casual scorn , Father Years , should set thee trying to prove that there is any right or reason in the Universe , thou wilt not accomplish it by Doomsday ! Small blame to her , however ; she must cut her coat according to her cloth , as they would say below there ."], "true_target": ["Do not the prelate 's accents falter thin ,", "While blessing one whose aim is but to win", "The golden seats that other b \u2014 - s have warmed ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 118}, {"query": ["Men love to dub Dame Nature \u2014 that lay-shape", "The spectacle proceeds .", "Is an owned flaw in her consistency"], "true_target": ["Whose deftest mothering in fairest sphere", "Is girt about by terms inexorable !", "They use to hang phenomena upon \u2014", "Yea ; that they feel , and puppetry remain ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 118}, {"query": ["I know it . Such harsh utterance was not thine .", "Dear Josephine , my queen , didst call my name ?", "Thou didst not , tender spouse ;"], "true_target": ["Who spoke to me ?", "Upon a mind o'erwrought !", "\u2018 Tis God has given it to me . So be it . Let any who shall touch it now beware !", "It was aggressive Fancy , working spells"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 118}, {"query": ["And King of Italy , is crowned and throned !"], "true_target": ["Give ear ! Napoleon , Emperor of the French"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 118}, {"query": ["Pierced the real project of Napoleon .", "For the first time these thrice twelvemonths and more ,", "Our migratory Proskenion now presents", "As preface to the vision of the Fleets"], "true_target": ["And with him one whose insight has alone", "Spanish and French , linked for fell purposings .", "I 'll call in Nelson , who has stepped ashore", "An outlook on the storied Kalpe Rock ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 119}, {"query": ["Suffered from ghoulish ghast anxiety !"], "true_target": ["Note Nelson 's worn-out features . Much has he"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 119}, {"query": ["These foreign boasters ; yea , I 'll finish them ;", "Which , though I fear them not , I recognize !...", "By feigning forces .\u2014 Good God , Collingwood ,", "And then \u2014 well , Gunner Death may finish me !", "The villains aim to drop their anchors in ;", "\u2014 But let 's adjourn . I waste your hours ashore", "Ere I can get away .\u2014 I must be gone !", "In short , dear Coll , the letter which you wrote me", "That gives delight it shares not . Happiness ?", "Had so much pith that I was fain to see you ;", "Makes all my public service lustreless", "My word for it : they make the Wessex shore ,", "I must be gone ! Yet two more days remain", "Though all the world find satisfaction in him ,", "The true intent and compass of a plot", "It 's the philosopher 's stone no alchemy", "He who is with himself dissatisfied ,", "That my effective hours are shortening here ;", "Shall light on this world I am weary of .\u2014", "Could I with honour , and my country 's gain .", "So far your thoughtful and sagacious words", "In my own eyes .\u2014 I fear I am much condemned", "And her who was the sunshine of them all !..."], "true_target": ["A sense of strong and deep unworded censure ,", "I have a feeling here of dying fires ,", "Is meant to cloak the passage of their strength ,", "Out of the slow docks of the Admiralty", "However , by God 's help , I 'll live to meet", "Massed on those transports \u2014 we being kept elsewhere", "Good Collingwood , I know you trust in me ;", "Smiling I 'd pass to my long home to-morrow", "By such ill-timed confessions !", "And this vast squadron handled by Villeneuve", "Which , compassing about my private life ,", "But ships are ships , and do not kindly come", "Which means tough work awhile for you and me !", "And I have warnings , warnings , Collingwood ,", "Ah , Coll . Lead bullets are not all that wound ....", "And there 's a damned disparity of force ,", "Which I have spelled in vain .", "For those dear Naples and Palermo days ,", "Is like a rainbow-coloured bird gone blind ,", "Have hit the facts . But \u2018 tis no Irish bay", "Like wharfside pigeons when they are whistled for :\u2014", "For I am sure that you indeed divine", "Strange warnings now and then , as \u2018 twere within me ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 119}, {"query": ["The full-united squadron 's quick return .\u2014", "Your name will blow them back , as sou'west gales", "Then haste to Brest , there to relieve Ganteaume ,", "And next with four-or five-and fifty sail", "View not your life so gloomily , my lord :", "That and no more , and clear these coasts of us \u2014", "Gravina and Villeneuve , once back to Europe ,", "Or where , provided that the general end", "I read they aim to strike at Ireland still ,", "Should not be jeopardized \u2014 that is to say ,"], "true_target": ["Bear down upon our coast as they see fit .\u2014", "He cared not what was done at Martinique ,", "As formerly , and as I wrote to you .", "Can straight make Ferrol , raise there the blockade ,", "The gulls that beat against them from the shore .", "Wherever you may go to , my dear lord ,", "One charmed , a needed purpose to fulfil !", "I weighed it thus :", "The standing obstacle to his device \u2014", "You carry victory with you . Let them launch ,", "Their flight to the Indies being to draw us off ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 119}, {"query": ["He pens in fits , with pallid restlessness ,", "Like one who sees Misfortune walk the wave ,"], "true_target": ["O Eldest-born of the Unconscious Cause \u2014 If such thou beest , as I can fancy thee \u2014 Why dost thou rack him thus ? Consistency Might be preserved , and yet his doom remain . His olden courage is without reproach ; Albeit his temper trends toward gaingiving !", "And can nor face nor flee it ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 120}, {"query": ["Words that go heavily !...", "I say , as I have said long heretofore ,", "To his long friend the minister Decres", "We are in Its hand , as he ?\u2014 Here , as elsewhere ,", "That seem to shed a silent circling doom ;", "We do but as we may ; no further dare ."], "true_target": ["I know but narrow freedom . Feel'st thou not", "He 's such an one as can be so impressed ,", "Well bounded as they be .\u2014 Let us draw near him .", "We may impress him under visible shapes", "And this much is among our privileges ,", "He indites"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 120}, {"query": ["Yet I would die to-morrow \u2014 not ungladly \u2014", "\u2014 - Why dared I not disclose to him my thought ,", "Yes , Lauriston . I sign to every word .", "As nightly worded by the whistling shrouds ,", "To take the front in this red pilgrimage !", "My acts could scarcely wear a difference .", "As though some influence smote through yonder pane .", "Which , while I know , the Emperor knows not ,", "I 'll not command a course so conscienceless .", "And the pale secret chills ! Though some there be", "\u201c I am made the arbiter in vast designs Whereof I see black outcomes . Do I this Or do I that , success , that loves to jilt Her anxious wooer for some careless blade , Will not reward me . For , if I must pen it , Demoralized past prayer in the marine \u2014 Bad masts , bad sails , bad officers , bad men ; We cling to naval technics long outworn , And time and opportunity do not avail me To take up new . I have long suspected such , But till I saw my helps , the Spanish ships , I hoped somewhat .\u2014 Brest is my nominal port ; Yet if so , Calder will again attack \u2014 Now reinforced by Nelson or Cornwallis \u2014 And shatter my whole fleet .... Shall I admit That my true inclination and desire Is to make Cadiz straightway , and not Brest ? Alas ! thereby I fail the Emperor ; But shame the navy less .\u2014 \u201c Your friend , VILLENEUVE \u201d"], "true_target": ["For no self do these apprehensions spring ,", "Rather I 'll stand , and face Napoleon 's rage", "That facts have forced from me .", "Helming to north in pomp of cannonry", "Would beard contingencies and buffet all ,", "My apprehensions even outstep their cause ,", "\u2014 - If so it were , now , that I 'd screen my skin", "So far removed is carcase-care from me .", "That Brest will never see our battled hulls", "When he shall learn what mean the ambiguous lines", "From risks of bloody business in the brunt ,", "But for the cause .\u2014 Yes , rotten is our marine ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 120}, {"query": ["To wit : that a French fleet shall enter in", "Cornwallis battle , and release Ganteaume ;", "From Ferrol this near eve , runs thus and thus :\u2014", "Which I shall speed by special courier", "Now to be engined to the very close ,", "Admiral , my missive to the Emperor ,", "Thence , all united , bearing Channelwards :", "A step that sets in motion the first wheel"], "true_target": ["Such clear assurance to the Emperor", "That our intent is modelled on his will", "\u201c Gravina 's ships , in Ferrol here at hand ,", "In the proud project of your Majesty", "I hasten to dispatch to him forthwith .", "Embayed but by a temporary wind ,", "Are all we now await . Combined with these", "And hold the Channel four-and-twenty hours . \u201d \u2014", "We sail herefrom to Brest ; there promptly give"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 120}, {"query": ["Not overtaking him our admiral ,", "And Calder then drew off with his two wrecks", "My object and desire to be but this ,", "And write whilst I am in mind .", "Thus hastes the moment when the double fleet", "And steer you for the Channel with all your strength .", "First to Villeneuve :\u2014", "In getting fit and putting forth to sea ,", "Now to Ganteaume :\u2014", "That you forbid Villeneuve to lose an hour", "Come quick , Daru ; sit down upon the grass ,", "Hold the nigh sea but four-and-twenty hours", "And , but for mist , we had closed with victory .", "Wherewith I now am bettered . Quickly weigh ,", "Three weeks ago , whereof we dimly heard ,", "Is on the whole auspicious for our plan .", "Engaged the English off Cape Finisterre", "And our vast end is gained . \u201d", "Your enterprize , your vigour , to do this .", "These lines will greet you there . But pause not , pray :", "It seems that twenty of our ships and Spain 's \u2014", "And clear details of which I have just unsealed ,"], "true_target": ["Two English were much mauled , some Spanish damaged ,", "And Spain 's in tow , we giving chase forthwith .", "\u201c My telegraphs will have made known to you", "This moment . And the courier will depart And travel without pause .The point of view shifts across the Channel , the Boulogne cliffs sinking behind the water-line . ]", "To open the port of Brest and come on hither .", "Waste not a moment dallying . Sail away :", "And England 's soil is ours . All 's ready here ,", "Your fleet has opened Brest , and gone . If not ,", "With fifteen vessels of a hundred each .", "None over eighty-gunned , and some far less \u2014", "Sail hither , then ; and we will be avenged", "Not ? But they will ; and do it early , too ! There 's nothing hinders them . My God , they must , For I have much before me when this stroke At England 's dealt . I learn from Talleyrand That Austrian preparations threaten hot , While Russia 's hostile schemes are ripening , And shortly must be met .\u2014 My plan is fixed : I am prepared for each alternative . If Villeneuve come , I brave the British coast , Convulse the land with fear\u2014 Once on the English soil I hold it firm , Descend on London , and the while my men Salute the dome of Paul 's I cut the knot Of all Pitt 's coalitions ; setting free From bondage to a cold manorial caste A people who await it .Should it be Even that my admirals fail to keep the tryst \u2014 A thing scarce thinkable , when all 's reviewed \u2014 I strike this seaside camp , cross Germany , With these two hundred thousand seasoned men , And pause not till within Vienna 's walls I cry checkmate . Next , Venice , too , being taken , And Austria 's other holdings down that way , The Bourbons also driven from Italy , I strike at Russia \u2014 each in turn , you note , Ere they can act conjoined . Report to me What has been scanned to-day upon the main , And on your passage down request them there To send Daru this way .", "To profit by the fifty first-rate craft", "\u201c I trust , Vice-Admiral , that before this date", "Having the coast clear for his purposes ,", "We coolly fought and orderly as they ,", "I count upon your well-known character ,", "Decres , this action with Sir Robert Calder", "Entered Coruna , and found order there", "The troops alert , and every store embarked .", "For centuries of despite and contumely . \u201d", "Of Villeneuve and of Ganteaume should appear .", "Once bring my coupled squadrons Channelwards"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 121}, {"query": ["And should they not appear , your Majesty ?"], "true_target": ["The Emperor can be sanguine . Scarce can I . His letters are more promising than mine . Alas , alas , Villeneuve , my dear old friend , Why do you pen me this at such a time !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 121}, {"query": ["Lard , Lard , if \u2018 a were nabbed , it would n't make a deal of difference ! We should have nobody to zing , and play singlestick to , and grin at through horse-collars , that 's true . And nobody to sign our few documents . But we should rub along some way , goodnow ."], "true_target": ["Or another soon to follow it !There 's not a speck of an enemy upon that shiny water yet ; but the Brest fleet is zaid to have put to sea , to act in concert with the army crossing from Boulogne ; and if so the French will soon be here ; when God save us all ! I 've took to drinking neat , for , say I , one may as well have innerds burnt out as shot out , and \u2018 tis a good deal pleasanter for the man that owns \u2018 em . They say that a cannon-ball knocked poor Jim Popple 's maw right up into the futtock-shrouds at the Nile , where \u2018 a hung like a nightcap out to dry . Much good to him his obeying his old mother 's wish and refusing his allowance o \u2019 rum !", "Yes . I wonder King George is let venture down on this coast , where he might be snapped up in a moment like a minney by a her'n , so near as we be to the field of Boney 's vagaries ! Begad , he 's as like to land here as anywhere . Gloucester Lodge could be surrounded , and George and Charlotte carried off before he could put on his hat , or she her red cloak and pattens !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 122}, {"query": ["Everybody however was fairly gallied this week when the King went out yachting , meaning to be back for the theatre ; and the eight or nine o'clock came , and never a sign of him . I do n't know when \u2018 a did land ; but \u2018 twas said by all that it was a foolhardy pleasure to take ."], "true_target": ["Step up on this barrow ; you can see better . The troopers now passing are the York Hussars \u2014 foreigners to a man , except the officers \u2014 the same regiment the two young Germans belonged to who were shot four years ago . Now come the Light Dragoons ; what a time they take to get all past ! Well , well ! this day will be recorded in history ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 122}, {"query": ["The words of my Lord-Lieutenant was , whenever you see Kingsbere-Hill Beacon fired to the eastward , or Black'on to the westward , light up ; and keep your second fire burning for two hours . Was that our documents or was it not ?", "Come he is , though you do say it ! This , then , is the beginning of what England 's waited for !", "Tcht-tcht !\u2014 Well , I 'll have patience , and put it to him in another form . Dost know the world is round \u2014 eh ? I warrant dost n't !", "Canst be sharp enough in the wrong place as usual \u2014 I warrant canst ! However , I 'll have patience with \u2018 en and say on !\u2014 Suppose , now , my hat is the world ; and there , as might be , stands the Camp of Belong , where Boney is . The world goes round , so , and Belong goes round too . Twelve hours pass ; round goes the world still \u2014 so . Where 's Belong now ?", "We can n't heed your innocent pratings any longer , good neighbours , being in the King 's service , and a hot invasion on . Fall in , fall in , mate . Straight to the tinder-box . Quick march !", "There , there , Cantle ; do n't ye speak quite so large , and stand so over-upright . Your back is as holler as a fire-dog 's . Do ye suppose that we on active service here do n't know war news ? Mind you do n't go taking to your heels when the next alarm comes , as you did at last year 's .", "Ghastly ! Frightful !", "How d'ye make that out , when th'st never been to school ?"], "true_target": ["Who goes there ? Friend or foe , in the King 's name !", "Well , come in and taste a drop o \u2019 sommat we 've got here , that will warm the cockles of your heart as ye wamble homealong . We housed eighty tuns last night for them that sha n't be named \u2014 landed at Lullwind Cove the night afore , though they had a narrow shave with the riding-officers this run .", "Not a sign or sound \u2014 all 's as still as a churchyard . And how is your good man ?", "Now , Jems Purchess , once more mark my words . Black'on is the point we 've to watch , and not Kingsbere ; and I 'll tell \u2018 ee for why . If he do land anywhere hereabout \u2018 twill be inside Deadman 's Bay , and the signal will straightaway come from Black'on . But there thou'st stand , glowering and staring with all thy eyes at Kingsbere ! I tell \u2018 ee what \u2018 tis , Jem Purchess , your brain is softening ; and you be getting too old for business of state like ours !", "A form o \u2019 words , Mis'ess Cantle , no more ; ordained by his Majesty 's Gover'ment to be spoke by all we on sworn duty for the defence o \u2019 the country . Strict rank-and-file rules is our only horn of salvation in these times .\u2014 But , my dear woman , why ever have ye come lumpering up to Rainbarrows at this time o \u2019 night ?", "Church ? What have God A'mighty got to do with profane knowledge ? Beware that you baint blaspheming , Jems Purchess !", "That shows the curious depths of your ignorance . However , I 'll have patience , and say on . Didst ever larn geography ?", "To be sure we have ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 123}, {"query": ["No . Nor no other corrupt practices .", "I warrant I do !", "There 'll be a change in the weather soon , by the look o't . I can hear the cows moo in Froom Valley as if I were close to \u2018 em , and the lantern at Max Turnpike is shining quite plain .", "He 's come !", "You 've let your tongue wrack your few rames of good breeding , John ."], "true_target": ["I larned it at church , thank God .", "I say I did , whether or no ! \u2018 Twas the zingers up in gallery that I had it from . They busted out that strong with \u201c the round world and they that dwell therein , \u201d that we common fokes down under could do no less than believe \u2018 em .", "Ye can n't believe all ye hear .", "Just what you was praising the Lord for by-now , Private Cantle .", "He do n't know what it is ! That 's his pride and puffery . What is it that \u2019 so ghastly \u2014 hey ?", "I do n't gainsay it . And so I keep my eye on Kingsbere because that 's most likely o \u2019 the two , says I ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 123}, {"query": ["We 've been troubled with bad dreams , owing to the firing out at sea yesterday ; and at last I could sleep no more , feeling sure that sommat boded of His coming . And I said to Cantle , I 'll ray myself , and go up to Beacon , and ask if anything have been heard or seen to - night . And here we be .", "I can tell you a word or two o n't . It is about His victuals . They say that He lives upon human flesh , and has rashers o \u2019 baby every morning for breakfast \u2014 for all the world like the Cernal Giant in old ancient times !"], "true_target": ["Piece o \u2019 trumpery ! \u201c Who goes \u201d yourself ! What d'ye talk o \u2019 , John Whiting ! Ca n't your eyes earn their living any longer , then , that you do n't know your own neighbours ? \u2018 Tis Private Cantle of the Locals and his wife Keziar , down at Bloom'shYpppHeNEnd \u2014 who else should it be !", "Oh that I had n't married a fiery sojer , to make me bring fatherless children into the world , all through his dreadful calling ! Why did n't a man of no sprawl content me !", "Whether or no , I sometimes \u2014 God forgive me !\u2014 laugh wi \u2019 horror at the queerness o't , till I am that weak I can hardly go round the house . He should have the washing of \u2018 em a few times ; I warrant \u2018 a would n't want to eat babies any more !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 123}, {"query": ["Clk . I be all right ! I was in the ranks , helping to keep the ground at the review by the King this week . We was a wonderful sight \u2014 wonderful ! The King said so again and again .\u2014 Yes , there was he , and there was I , though not daring to move a \u2019 eyebrow in the presence of Majesty . I have come home on a night 's leave \u2014 off there again to - morrow . Boney 's expected every day , the Lord be praised ! Yes , our hopes are to be fulfilled soon , as we say in the army .", "That had nothing to do with fighting , for I 'm as bold as a lion when I 'm up , and \u201c Shoulder Fawlocks ! \u201d sounds as common as my own name to me . \u2018 Twas \u2014 -Have ye heard ?", "My meaning was \u2014 -"], "true_target": ["I only believe half . And I only own \u2014 such is my challengeful character \u2014 that perhaps He do eat pagan infants when He 's in the desert . But not Christian ones at home . Oh no \u2014 \u2018 tis too much .", "Ghastly , is n't it !", "Well , there , I can n't tell it . \u2018 Twas that that made the whole eighty of our company run away \u2014 though we be the bravest of the brave in natural jeopardies , or the little boys would n't run after us and call us and call us the \u201c Bang-up-Locals . \u201d"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 123}, {"query": ["Well ; be it so . My argument is that War makes rattling good history ; but Peace is poor reading . So I back Bonaparte for the reason that he will give pleasure to posterity ."], "true_target": ["This is good , and spells blood .I assume that It means to let us carry out this invasion with pleasing slaughter , so as not to disappoint my hope ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 123}, {"query": ["And wasting wars , by land and sea ,", "Rules what may or may not befall !"], "true_target": ["Fixed , like all else , immutably !", "The Immanent , that urgeth all ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 123}, {"query": ["The slaughters of the race were writ ,"], "true_target": ["Ere systemed suns were globed and lit"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 123}, {"query": ["Their oar-blades tossing twinkles to the moon ,", "That what was seen behind the midnight mist ,", "Was but a fleet of fishing-craft belated"], "true_target": ["By reason of the vastness of their haul ?", "Wither so fast , good neighbours , and before breakfast , too ? Empty bellies be bad to vamp on .", "Will you not hear"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 123}, {"query": ["These be inland men who , I warrant \u2018 ee , do n't know a lerret from a lighter ! Let 's take no heed of such , comrade ; and hurry on !"], "true_target": ["Hey ? And d'ye know it ?\u2014 Now I look back to the top o \u2019 Rudgeway the folk seem as come to a pause there .\u2014 Be this true , never again do I stir my stumps for any alarm short of the Day of Judgment ! Nine times has my rheumatical rest been broke in these last three years by hues and cries of Boney upon us . \u2018 Od rot the feller ; now he 's made a fool of me once more , till my inside is like a wash-tub , what wi \u2019 being so gallied , and running so leery !\u2014 But how if you be one of the enemy , sent to sow these tares , so to speak it , these false tidings , and coax us into a fancied safety ? Hey , neighbours ? I do n't , after all , care for this story !", "He 's landed west'ard , out by Abbot 's Beach . And if you have property you 'll save it and yourselves , as we are doing !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 123}, {"query": ["Was like the seven thunders heard in Heaven", "As will a flight of swallows toward dim eve ,", "Dropped down to west , and crossed our frontage here .", "To seek some eyot 's sedge .", "All yesterday the firing at Boulogne", "If Boney 's come , \u2018 tis best to be away ;"], "true_target": ["Descending on a smooth and loitering stream", "And if he 's not , why , we 've a holiday !", "When the fierce angel spoke . So did he draw", "Onwards again !", "Full-manned , flat-bottomed for the shallowest shore ,", "Seen from above they specked the water-shine"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 123}, {"query": ["We are sent to enlighten you and ease your soul ."], "true_target": ["To check the baseless scare .", "Even now a courier canters to the port"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 123}, {"query": ["A moment 's audience with your Majesty ,"], "true_target": ["Or now , or later .", "Monsieur the Admiral Decres awaits"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 124}, {"query": ["My long-conned project against yonder shore", "Villeneuve has just turned tail and run to Cadiz .", "Daru , sit down and write . Yes , here , at once ,", "\u2014 Let me reflect .\u2014 First Bernadotte \u2014 - but nay ,", "While Massena detains in Italy", "This room will serve me now . What think you , eh ?", "As \u2018 twere a juvenile 's snow-built device", "What !\u2014 Is , then , My scheme of years to be disdained and dashed By this man 's like , a wretched moral coward , Whom you must needs foist on me as one fit For full command in pregnant enterprise !", "I have of late had measured , mapped , and judged ;", "Each regiment 's daily pace and bivouac", "Is thus perforce delayed . But not for long .", "My God , my God , how can I talk thereon !", "Will turn its back on Britain 's tedious shore ,", "In some who feign to serve the cause of France ,", "Do so forthwith ; and send me in Daru .", "Well , well .\u2014 The order of our march from hence", "To help a friend you foul a country 's fame !\u2014 Decres , not only chose you this Villeneuve , But you have nourished secret sour opinions Akin to his , and thereby helped to scathe As stably based a project as this age Has sunned to ripeness . Ever the French Marine Have you decried , ever contrived to bring Despair into the fleet ! Why , this Villeneuve , Your man , this rank incompetent , this traitor \u2014 Of whom I asked no more than fight and lose , Provided he detain the enemy \u2014 A frigate is too great for his command ! what shall be said of one who , at a breath , When a few casual sailors find them sick , When falls a broken boom or slitten sail , When rumour hints that Calder 's tubs and Nelson 's May join , and bob about in company , Is straightway paralyzed , and doubles back On all his ripened plans !\u2014 Bring him , ay , bodily ; hale him out from Cadiz , Compel him up the Channel by main force , And , having doffed him his supreme command , Give the united squadrons to Ganteaume !", "Instead of crossing , thitherward I tour", "Write this .\u2014 A volte-face \u2018 tis indeed !\u2014 Write , write !", "Writ tablewise for ready reference ;", "Do make me other than myself just now !\u2014", "And , closing up with Augereau at Brest ,", "By roundabout contrivance not less sure !", "A plan well judged , well charted , well upreared ,", "Foreseeing such might shape ,", "Well ?", "Ah \u2014 here 's Daru .", "And these discussions on the ancient tongues", "The Archduke Charles .", "With bland inquiries why his royal hand", "To end in nothing !... Sit you down and write .", "Like swans into a creek at feeding-time ?", "Such spots as suit for depots chosen and marked ;", "Each high-and by-way to the Danube hence"], "true_target": ["So quite postponed \u2014 perhaps even overthrown \u2014", "I will advise .... My knock at George 's door", "Our breakfast , Monge , to-day has been cut short ,", "And joins at Mainz and Wurzburg Bernadotte ...", "Through Hesse upon Wurzburg and the Danube .\u2014", "What of the squadron 's movements , good Decres ?", "Withheld due answer to my friendly lines ,", "Entrap the Austrian column by their rear ;", "Wherein you shine , must yield to modern moils .", "So shall I crush the two gigantic sets", "Upon the Empire , now grown imminent .", "The while our purpose is to skirt its left ,", "Yes ; \u201c Bernadotte moves out from Hanover", "Well , have it so !\u2014 What are we going to do ? My brain has only one wish \u2014 to succeed !", "Nay , hasten not away ; though feeble wills ,", "First Bernadotte \u2014", "Bid him in at once \u2014", "Brest opened , and all sailing Channelwards ,", "Meet in Franconia Bernadotte and Marmont ;", "Set out full force due eastward ....", "Where , Austria settled , I engage the Tsar ,", "All which itineraries are sent herewith . \u201d", "Marmont from Holland bears along the Rhine ,", "Incompetence , ay , imbecility ,", "The courier to Marmont must go first .", "At last Villeneuve has raised the Brest blockade !", "And tossed the irksome business to his clerks ,", "By the Black forest feign a straight attack ,", "Traverse the Danube somewhat down from Ulm ;", "Surround them , cleave them ; roll upon Vienna ,", "Our Scottish route , and meet us eastwardly ?", "While these prepare their routes the army here", "But made for melting ! Think of it , Daru ,\u2014", "And what if they perceive"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 124}, {"query": ["I 'll write the scheme more clearly and at length ,", "And hence I haste in person to report", "Our projects for a junction of the fleets", "Have proved intractable , it seems , of late ;", "To catch the enemy 's eye and call their cruizers ,", "Such eyeless bravery Villeneuve has not ;", "Charms Fortune more . A certain sort of bravery", "To send across this daybreak . But events", "Being added to their innate clumsiness ,", "Yet these few words , as Minister of Marine ,", "Sailed out from Ferrol , fever raged aboard", "True is it that this man has been my friend", "You make the Channel by the eastern strait ,", "Some people have \u2014 to wit , this same Lord Nelson \u2014", "Cover the passage of our army-boats ,", "While rounding Scotland with the other half ,", "Carries the actor on , and serves him well", "I would recast them . Later in the year", "And there are times , Sire , when a shorter sight", "My voice wanes weaker with you , Sire ; is nought !", "I have thought of it , and planned a countermove ;", "And plant the blow .", "Is it his drawback that he sees too far .", "Harass the English till the winter time ,", "Brest and the Channel scheme , with vast regret", "Demoralized the whole ; until Villeneuve ,", "Leaving to other opportunity", "And prescient of unparalleled disaster", "To do his country service . Yet no less", "Bowed to the inevitable ; and thus , perforce ,", "Mischief assailed our Spanish comrades \u2019 ships ;", "To answer these reproaches , Sire , and ask"], "true_target": ["Swoln to the very verge of childishness ,", "Being well-discerned and read by every eye", "In things marine should win no confidence .", "That he would yield the heel-drops of his heart", "Your Majesty , while umbraged , righteously ,", "Sire , at the very juncture when the fleets", "Several ran foul of neighbours ; whose new hurts ,", "And send it hither to your Majesty .", "I speak ; but am unable to convince !", "By an event my tongue dragged dry to tell ,", "But , Sire , he is no coward .", "With joyful readiness this day , this hour ,", "Gave hap the upper hand ; and in quick course", "Since boyhood made us schoolmates ; and I say", "\u201c L'Achille \u201d and \u201c l'Algeciras \": later on ,", "Steered southward into Cadiz .", "Makes my hard situation over-hard", "In some nice issues clearer sight would mar .", "A headstrong blindness to contingencies", "Judging that Calder now with Nelson rode ,", "If he pushed on in so disjoint a trim ,", "; whereby", "Why years-long mindfulness of France 's fame", "Form sundry squadrons of this massive one ,", "I 'll venture now .\u2014 My process would be thus :\u2014", "The featless facts that just have dashed my \u2014 -", "Of motives such and such . \u2018 Tis not for me", "Which is but fatuous faith in one 's own star", "By your ascription to the actors i n't", "Through long postponement , England is prepared .", "Such news was what I 'd hoped , your Majesty ,", "Then rendezvous at Cadiz ; where leave half"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 124}, {"query": ["I 'll bring the writing to your Majesty ."], "true_target": ["I wait , your Majesty ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 124}, {"query": ["Ah \u2014 you have heard , of course . God speed him , Pitt .", "You do not need such aid . The splendid feat", "Such helps we need not . Pray you think upo n't ,", "Hey , what ? But what besides ?", "As to the aims by sea of Bonaparte", "What , what , again \u2014 in face of my sound reasons !", "He says our navy still is in thick night", "Has been more plain to all , dear Mr. Pitt ,", "Now the Boulogne attempt has fizzled out ,", "Why , then , go calling Fox and Grenville in ?", "Lord Nelson 's Captain \u2014 Hardy \u2014 whose old home", "And speak to me again .\u2014 We 've had alarms", "Was unexpected , forced perchance on him ?", "Heaven 's confidence in me and in my line ,", "And call no partners to our management .", "Now , Mr. Pitt , you must require repose ;", "Elsewhere in Europe ,\u2014 see its mark on me !\u2014", "What argue these late movements seen abroad ?", "And Nelson since has gone aboard and sailed ;", "That Bonaparte had landed close hereby .", "That you have achieved , so soon to put to shame", "\u2018 Twill be well earned . The bathing is unmatched", "The \u201c Victory \u201d lay that fortnight at Spithead ,", "And now he has left Boulogne with all his host ?", "On when you leave .", "We had best continue as we have begun ,", "It 's but a stage , a type of all the world . The burgesses have arranged it in my honour . At six o'clock this evening there are to be combats at single-stick to amuse the folk ; four guineas the prize for the man who breaks most heads . Afterward there is to be a grinning match through horse-collars \u2014 a very humorous sport which I must stay here and witness ; for I am interested in whatever entertains my subjects .", "Which you and I in common have to bear ,", "Well , well .\u2014 So this new march of Bonaparte 's", "Making us skip like crackers at our heels ,", "This wicked bombardier of dynasties", "To huskiness while leaving Southsea shore ,", "Consult your own convenience then , I beg ,", "Of signal augury , and one which bodes"], "true_target": ["What of the country , eh ? and of the war ?", "Gentle and simple wildly thronging round .", "And grant you audience gladly . More than that ,", "Who came two weeks ago to see his friends ,", "To fear dilemmas horning up ahead", "The air like liquid life .\u2014 But of this matter :", "What of the country now the session 's past ;", "From fierce debate , and other strains of office", "I must be firm . And if you love your King", "That rule by right Divine , goes straight to prove", "Your visit to this shore is apt and timely ,", "And what he schemes afloat with Spain combined .", "I talked to in this room a lengthy while .", "Rather than Fox , why , give me civil war !", "Yes , sailed again . The \u201c Royal Sovereign \u201d follows ,", "Of banding Europe in a righteous cause", "But nothing , sure ,", "The Chancellor 's here , and many friends of mine : Lady Winchelsea , Lord and Lady Chesterfield , Lady Bulkeley , General Garth , and Mr. Phipps the oculist \u2014 not the least important to me . He is a worthy and a skilful man . My eyes , he says , are as marvellously improved in durability as I know them to be in power . I have arranged to go to-morrow with the Princesses , and the Dukes of Cumberland , Sussex , and Cambridgefor a ride on the Ridgeway , and through the Camp on the downs . You 'll accompany us there ?", "Was it his object to invade at all ,", "Or was his vast assemblage there a blind ?", "Stands in a peaceful vale hard by us here \u2014", "This Fox-Grenville faction and its friends .", "You 'll goad him not so rashly to embrace", "But , but ;\u2014 I ask , what is his object now ?", "And if it do but yield you needful rest", "Our just crusade against the Corsican .", "And others her . Nelson was hailed and cheered", "Than that your own proved energy and scope", "I read it as a thing", "That I should rule as King in such an age !...", "Is ample , without aid , to carry on", "Believe me , Pitt , you underrate yourself ;", "Is not your wont . Nay , nay , now , Mr. Pitt ,", "Yes , yes ; I grasp your reasons , Mr. Pitt ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 125}, {"query": ["Demands a strong and active Cabinet", "Have lent my earnest efforts through long months ,", "What curious structure do I see outside , sir ?", "But , then ,\u2014 this coalition of resources", "Assured me that his latest papers word", "And leaves me sanguine on his overthrow .", "Whom I consulted ere I posted down ,", "Who stand by Fox . With us conjoined , they \u2014 -", "And cripple him , if not annihilate .", "Amen , amen !", "I am honoured by your Majesty 's commands .", "Not one in all the land but knows it , sir .", "Here Mack will intercept his agile foe", "Have made good speed across Bavaria", "I say besides , sir ,... nothing !", "To aid your Majesty 's directive hand ;", "Which common weal can tolerate but awhile .", "And thus I urge again the said additions \u2014", "And old ones blessed , and stroked him with their hands .", "With stop-gap functions thrust on offices", "To wait the French and give them check at Ulm ,", "So , for the weighty reasons I have urged ,", "Whereon to encounter them as they outwind", "Of Russia , Austria , England , whereto I", "Be straightway asked to join . With Melville gone ,", "With Sidmouth , and with Buckinghamshire too ,"], "true_target": ["I do repeat my most respectful hope", "That fortress-frontier-town , entrenched and walled ,", "A place long chosen as a vantage-point", "To what I have proposed .", "I thank your Majesty .", "Hasting to meet the Russians in Bohemia ,", "Of the Black Forest , worn with wayfaring .", "Thus now , sir , opens out this Great Alliance", "Ay , sir . Young women hung upon his arm ,", "To win your Majesty 's ungrudged assent", "From the blind shades and baffling green defiles", "Such rumours come as regularly as harvest .", "The steerage of affairs has stood of late", "How General Mack and eighty thousand men", "That Mr. Fox , Lord Grenville , and their friends ,", "The thoughts I have laid before your Majesty", "Last noon the Austrian ambassador ,", "It claps a muffler round the Cock 's steel spurs ,", "Somewhat provisional , as you , sir , know ,", "Had fortune favoured . He may try it yet .", "And , as I said , could we but close with Fox \u2014 -", "It may be so , your Majesty ; it may .", "These brilliant intellects of the other side", "Would make for this , in sum :\u2014", "And the realm gives her money , ships , and men .\u2014", "Undoubtedly he meant invasion , sir ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 125}, {"query": ["The body of our force stays here with me . And I am much surprised , your Highness , much , You mark not how destructive \u2018 tis to part ! If we wait on , for certain we should wait In our full strength , compacted , undispersed By such partition as your Highness plans .", "Should pierce the Schwarzwald , and through Memmingen ,", "It is my privilege firmly to submit That your Imperial Highness undertake No venturous vaulting into risks unknown .\u2014 Assume that you , Sire , as you have proposed , With your light regiments and the cavalry , Detach yourself from us , to scoop a way By circuits northwards through the Rauhe Alps And Herdenheim , into Bohemia : Reports all point that you will be attacked , Enveloped , borne on to capitulate . What worse can happen here ?\u2014 Remember , Sire , the Emperor deputes me , Should such a clash arise as has arisen , To exercise supreme authority . The honour of our arms , our race , demands That none of your Imperial Highness \u2019 line Be pounded prisoner by this vulgar foe , Who is not France , but an adventurer , Imposing on that country for his gain .", "Even then , small matter , your Imperial Highness ;", "Of armies bearing hither from the Rhine \u2014", "Confounds all codes of honourable war ,", "The Russians hail , and we regain our bays .", "It destines Bonaparte to pack him back", "Never care . Here we stay . In five more days", "And meet us in our front . But he must wind", "Be operating to untie this knot ,", "If English war-fleets be abreast Boulogne ,", "I have it . This we 'll do . You Jellachich , Unite with Spangen 's troops at Memmingen , To fend off mischief there . And you , Riesc , Will make your utmost haste to occupy The bridge and upper ground at Elchingen , And all along the left bank of the stream , Till you observe whereon to concentrate And sever their connections . I couch here , And hold the city till the Russians come . A GENERALDisjunction seems of all expedients worst : If any stay , then stay should every man , Gather , inlace , and close up hip to hip , And perk and bristle hedgehog-like with spines !", "Whether in peace or strenuous invasion \u2014"], "true_target": ["The conference is ended , friends , I say ,", "Across the Rhine again . We 've but to wait ,", "Bring that deserter hither once again .Well , tell us what he says .", "The accursed cunning of our adversary", "And corkscrew meanly round , where foot of man", "As these deserters tell , and ripe to land there ,", "And see him go .", "Which ever have held as granted that the track", "Ay , far within the eight days I have named \u2014", "The Russians near us daily , and must soon \u2014", "And orders will be issued here forthwith .", "Can scarce find pathway , stealing up to us", "Still retain him .", "If we hold on .", "Thiefwise , by out back door ! Nevertheless ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 126}, {"query": ["I stomach not such waiting . Neither hope", "My course is chosen . O this black campaign ,", "Can bore some hole in this engirdlement ;", "Outpass the gate north-east ; join General Werneck ,", "Which Pitt 's alarmed dispatches pricked us to ,", "Is full as like to compass our surrender", "But it seems clear to me that loitering here", "All unforseeing ! Any risk for me", "As moving hence . And ill it therefore suits"], "true_target": ["To pause inactive while await me means", "And somehow cut our way Bohemia-wards :", "Of desperate cure for these so desperate ills !", "Has kernel in it . I and my cavalry", "But who shall say if these bright tales be true ?", "With caution , when the shadow fall to-night ,", "Conjectures these \u2014 no more ;", "Well worth the hazard , in our straitened case !", "Rather than court humiliation here !", "The mood of one of my high temperature"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 126}, {"query": ["The Archduke bears him shrewdly in this course .", "We may as well look matters in the face ,", "That this man 's three years \u2019 ostentatious scheme", "As to leave not a span for such exploit ;", "Of our Allies the English was a \u2014 well \u2014", "The subtle often rack their wits in vain \u2014", "And with much circumspection , towards the Tyrol .", "Assay whole magazines of strategy \u2014", "But weld more closely .\u2014 Yet why stay at all ?", "To wit , that we conjunctly march herefrom ,", "Scarce other than a trick of thimble-rig", "And batter through , or die !\u2014"], "true_target": ["When simple souls by stumbling up to them", "Clear it is , too , that but a miracle", "That the investing French so ring us in", "To fling his army on the tempting shores", "There 's truth in urging we should not divide ,", "To shun ill loomings deemed insuperable ,", "And that we are cooped and cornered is most clear ;", "To still us into false security .", "Find the grim shapes but air . But let use grant", "Can work to loose us ! I have stoutly held", "Then go we \u2014 throw ourselves upon their steel ,", "Methinks there 's but one sure salvation left ,", "What say you , Generals ? Speak your minds , I pray ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 126}, {"query": ["But , on the whole , to southward seems the course", "Well , I know nothing . None needs list to me ,"], "true_target": ["I favour marching out \u2014 the Tyrol way .", "For lunging , all in force , immediately .", "I much prefer our self-won information ; And if we have Marshal Soult at Landsberg here ,And Dupont hard upon us at Albeck , With Ney not far from Gunzburg ; somewhere here , Or further down the river , lurking Lannes , Our game 's to draw off southward \u2014 if we can !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 126}, {"query": ["Ho-ho \u2014 what he 'll do now !"], "true_target": ["The Will throws Mack again into agitation :", "If he must ; And it 's good antic at a vacant time !A GENERAL He wavers like this smoke-wreath that inclines Or north , or south , as the storm-currents rule !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 126}, {"query": ["The clouds weep for him !"], "true_target": ["Nay , hard one , nay ;"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 126}, {"query": ["He still repeats That the whole body of the British strength Is even now descending on Boulogne , And that self-preservation must , if need , Clear us from Bonaparte ere many days , Who momently is moving ."], "true_target": ["Surely that 's from the Michaelsberg above us ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 126}, {"query": ["Behold me , Sire . Mack the unfortunate !", "To speak one word in answer ; which is this ,"], "true_target": ["Russia constrained him to it !", "No war was wished for by my Emperor :", "Permit me , your Imperial Majesty ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 127}, {"query": ["But I want nothing on this Continent :", "Ships , colonies , and commerce I desire ,", "To turn his feet the shortest way to peace .\u2014", "And in six weeks prove soldiers to the bone ,", "Whilst you recruits , compulsion 's scavengings ,", "All states must have an end , the weak , the strong ;", "Will see some marks of my resources there !", "Scarce weld to warriors after toilsome years .", "Ay ; even may fall the dynasty of Lorraine !", "If that be ,"], "true_target": ["Are not confined to these my musters here ;", "War , General , ever has its ups and downs , And you must take the better and the worse As impish chance or destiny ordains . Come near and warm you here . A glowing fire Is life on the depressing , mired , moist days Of smitten leaves down-dropping clammily , And toadstools like the putrid lungs of men .Cause them so stand to right and left of me .Listen , I pray you , Generals gathered her . I tell you frankly that I know not why Your master wages this wild war with me . I know not what he seeks by such injustice , Unless to give me practice in my trade \u2014 That of a soldier \u2014 whereto I was bred : Deemed he my craft might slip from me , unplied ? Let him now own me still a dab therein !", "Two hundred thousand volunteers , right fit ,", "My prisoners of war , in route for France ,", "You are no more a European power .\u2014", "I would point out to him that my resources", "Well , what cares England ! She has won her game ; I have unlearnt to threaten her from Boulogne .... Her gold it is that forms the weft of this Fair tapestry of armies marshalled here ! Likewise of Russia 's drawing steadily nigh . But they may see what these see , by and by .", "Let me then charge your Emperor , my brother ,", "Will join my standards at a single nod ,", "Yea , therewith to advantage you as me .", "The English only are my enemies ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 127}, {"query": ["Which , much amazing uninitiate eyes ,", "So let him speak , the while we clearly sight him"], "true_target": ["The all-compelling crystal pane but drags", "Moved like a figure on a lantern-slide .", "Wither the showman wills ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 127}, {"query": ["Might smile at his own art .", "Even as , in your phantasmagoric show ,", "The deft manipulator of the slide"], "true_target": ["Of Austria 's men-at-arms , so drolly done ;", "And yet , my friend ,", "The Will itself might smile at this collapse", "Logic 's in that . It does not , I must own , quite play the game ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 127}, {"query": ["Of making figments feel !"], "true_target": ["But O , the intolerable antilogy"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 127}, {"query": ["I know , I know .\u2014 I am calling here at Malmesbury 's At somewhat an unceremonious time To ask his help to translate this Dutch print The post has brought . Malmesbury is great at Dutch , Learning it long at Leyden , years ago .There 's news here unintelligible to me Upon the very matter ! You 'll come in ?", "enters , and meets LORD MULGRAVE . ]", "A man most capable and far of sight .", "And wings me this unreadable Dutch paper ,", "He centres by the Danube-bank at Ulm ,", "Dumfounding yokels at a country fair .", "I heed no word of it .\u2014 Impossible .", "Pardon this early call . The packet 's in ,", "By God , my lord , these statement must be false !", "From the Black Forest toward the Russian troops", "What does it say ?", "With Russia 's levies that Kutuzof leads ,", "So , as the offices are closed to-day ,", "Sustain his marches at the break-neck speed"], "true_target": ["O vacillating Prussia ! Had she moved , Had she but planted one foot firmly down , All this had been averted .\u2014 I must go . \u2018 Tis sure , \u2018 tis sure , I labour but in vain !", "That all report , they must have met ere now .", "I have brought it round to you .", "To intercept the French in their advance", "Has thrown the chief command on General Mack ,", "\u2018 Tis too much !", "Approaching from the east . If Bonaparte", "The Emperor Francis , partly at my instance ,", "These foreign prints are trustless as Cheap Jack", "A town well-walled , and firm for leaning on", "For God 's sake , read it out . You know the tongue .", "\u2014 There is a rumour ... quite impossible !...", "To lay down arms before the war 's begun ?", "What ! Eighty thousand Austrians , nigh in touch"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 128}, {"query": ["What has been heard o n't ? Have they clashed as yet ?", "The gathering Russian forces are unbroke .", "You still have faith in Mack as strategist ? There have been doubts of his far-sightedness .", "Is well-nigh past .\u2014 And so the game 's begun", "Between him and the Austro-Russian force ,", "All is not over yet ;", "From Boulogne shore , with which he has hocussed us ?\u2014", "Nelson to our defence !"], "true_target": ["As second movement in the faceabout", "And these things well might shake a stouter frame !", "With withered voices , hint that sunshine-time", "He alters fast , indeed ,\u2014 as do events .", "Too swiftly he declines to feebleness ,", "He 's staunch . He 's watching , or I am much deceived .", "Outrageous ! Ignominy unparalleled !", "Good day , Pitt . Ay , these leaves that skim the ground"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 128}, {"query": ["Well ; we shall see . Should Boney vanquish these ,", "His labour 's lost ; and all our money gone !", "And silence all resistance on that side ,", "His move will then be backward to Boulogne ,", "Note the assevered source of the report \u2014", "Ay ; where is Nelson ? Faith , by this time", "One beyond thought of minters of mock tales .", "To make for Cadiz ; so \u2018 twas then believed .", "It looks as if this doughty coalition", "Upon the bosom of his Dido dear ,", "On which we have lavished so much pay and pains", "And so upon us .", "Ha-ha ! The quip must sting the Corporal 's foes .", "He may be sodden ; churned in Biscay swirls ;", "But I fear it is too true !", "Of hiring and maintaining half her troops ,"], "true_target": ["Since passing Portland one September day \u2014", "Thanks to the obstinacy of the King .\u2014", "Are ominous signs . He may not be for long .", "And not their arms , to bring him victory .", "His single pair of shoulders has upborne ,", "Cry that the little Corporal now makes war", "Or sleeping amorously in some calm cave", "In a new way , using his soldiers \u2019 legs", "Or blown to polar bears by boreal gales ;", "On the Canaries \u2019 or Atlantis \u2019 shore", "Would end in wreck .", "The writer adds that military wits", "Of late the burden of all Europe 's cares ,", "His thin , strained face , his ready irritation ,", "I have glanced it through already \u2014 more than once \u2014 A copy having reached me , too , by now ... We are in the presence of a great disaster ! See here . It says that Mack , enjailed in Ulm By Bonaparte \u2014 from four side shutting round \u2014 Capitulated , and with all his force Laid down his arms before his conqueror !", "For all that we know ! Never a sound of him"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 128}, {"query": ["Leaps to meet war , storm , Nelson \u2014 even the grave .", "At a said sign on Italy operate .", "To put from Cadiz , gain Toulon , and straight"], "true_target": ["Moreover that Villeneuve , arrived as planned ,", "But word came , writ in mandatory mood ,", "Would find Rosily in supreme command .\u2014", "Gloomy Villeneuve grows rash , and , darkly brave ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 129}, {"query": ["Victory !", "Silently ."], "true_target": ["Where Nelson 's hulls are rising from the west ,", "Amid the vanmost , or for Death , or glad"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 129}, {"query": ["Sworn to be"], "true_target": ["Each linen wing outspread , each man and lad"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 129}, {"query": ["Whereby the peering frigates of their van", "Makes for the \u201c Santa Ana . \u201d In such case", "The foremost one"], "true_target": ["Have told them of our trend .", "All night we have read their signals in the air ,", "The \u201c Fougueux \u201d might assist her ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 129}, {"query": ["To heave them on into the fiercest fight .", "I say again", "\u2018 Tis well ! But see ; their course is undelayed ,", "Be it so \u2014", "Our only practicable thoroughfare", "The voice of honour then becomes the chief 's ;", "Signal the fleet to wear ; bid Gravina", "Yes , they are double-ranked , I think , like us ;", "And signal all to wear !\u2014 and come upon", "Listen they thereto , and set every stitch", "EACH CAPTAIN , PETTY OFFICER , AND MAN", "Is through Gibraltar Strait \u2014 a fatal door !", "Will take the touse of this bombastic blow .", "And still they near in clenched audacity !", "For signallings from me amid a strife", "They are signalling too \u2014 Well , business soon begins !", "The old \u201c Redoubtable 's \u201d hard sides , and ours ,", "Bid Gravina draw hither with his twelve ,", "IS ONLY AT HIS POST WHEN UNDER FIRE .", "Now I will sum up all : heed well the charge ;", "And work to our advantage when we close .\u2014", "When theirs cry Hail ! in the same sort of voice ."], "true_target": ["But we shall see anon .", "The larboard tack with every bow anorth !\u2014", "We 'll dash our eagle on the English deck ,", "That we display no admirals \u2019 flags at all", "Remember , too , what I have already told :", "Remind them of it now . They must not pause", "Now comes it ! The \u201c Santisima Trinidad , \u201d", "You will reserve your fire . And be it known", "And patch our rags up there . As we head now", "Until the action 's past . \u2018 Twill puzzle them ,", "And swear to fetch it !", "The enemy", "And ready to speak back in iron words", "And range himself in line .", "So we make Cadiz in the worst event .", "Makes threat as though to throw him on our stern :", "Whose chaos may prevent my clear discernment ,", "There 's time enough .\u2014 Our ships will be in place ,", "To come in from manoeuvring with his twelve ,", "Signal to close the line and leave no gaps .", "Or may forbid my signalling at all .", "Your grapnels and your boarding-hatchets \u2014 ready !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 129}, {"query": ["I make so bold to bode !"], "true_target": ["It 's morning before slaughterday with us ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 129}, {"query": ["Blows that were destined for his Admiral !", "Most gallantly bestirs him to outscheme .\u2014"], "true_target": ["See , how he strains , that on his timbers fall", "Which aim deft Lucas o \u2019 the \u201c Redoubtable \u201d"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 129}, {"query": ["Long live the Emperor !"], "true_target": ["Ay ! We swear . Huzza"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 129}, {"query": ["I serve all interests best by chancing it", "And dash the water into each new hole", "Now , Hardy , do n't offend me . They can n't aim ;", "If die I must .", "One of the women hit ,\u2014 and badly , too .", "Ay , rotten as peat . What 's that ? I think she has struck , or pretty nigh !", "Thank \u2018 ee , good friend . But no ,\u2014 I have n't time ,", ", HARDY , BLACKWOOD , SECRETARY SCOTT , LIEUTENANT PASCO , BURKE the Purser , CAPTAIN ADAIR of the Marines , and other officers are on or near the quarter-deck . ]", "What really is your honest love of me .", "Poor Scott , too , carried off ! Warm work this , Hardy ;", "Our guns have gouged in the \u201c Redoubtable , \u201d", "Poor wench ! Let some one shift her quickly down .", "They were awarded to me as an honour ,", "True .\u2014 While you deal good measure out to these ,", "I do assure you \u2014 not a trice to spare ,", "To prize it , I assure \u2018 ee .\u2014 Ah , look there ,", "Keep slapping at those giants over here \u2014", "But , faith , I have had my day . My work 's nigh done ;"], "true_target": ["Yes . My backbone is shot through . I have not long to live .Those tiller ropes They 've torn away , get instantly repaired !Cover my face . There will be no good be done By drawing their attention off to me . Bear me along , good fellows ; I am but one Among the many darkened here to-day !Doctor , I 'm gone . I am waste o \u2019 time to you .", "See , there , that noble fellow Collingwood , How straight he helms his ship into the fire !\u2014 Now you 'll haste back to yours\u2014 We must henceforth Trust to the Great Disposer of events , And justice of our cause !...Captain Adair , part those marines of yours , And hasten to disperse them round the ship .\u2014 Your place is down below , Burke , not up here ; Ah , yes ; like David you would see the battle !", "That you disguise as frigid policy", "Hardy , I think they 've done for me at last !", "To save ten lives like mine . I have no cause", "Or we shall all be set ablaze together .", "They only set their own rent sails on fire .\u2014", "And slight their gifts ? No , I will die with them ,", "Too warm to go on long .", "As you well will see .", "I know your meaning , Hardy ,; and I know", "But if they could , I would not hide a button", "Bid still the firemen bring more bucketfuls ,", "Ay , ay . Yes , yes ;", "To win'ard \u2014 swelling up so pompously .", "And shall I do despite to those who prize me ,", "Here with the commonest .\u2014 Ah , their heavy guns", "The \u201c Trinidad , \u201d I mean , and the \u201c Bucentaure , \u201d", "Are silenced every one ! Thank God for that ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 130}, {"query": ["Remove your stars and orders , I would beg ;", "That shot was aimed at you ."], "true_target": ["My lord , I use to you the utmost prayers", "That I have privilege to shape in words :"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 130}, {"query": ["Sets their old wood on fire .", "Their lower ports are blocked against our hull ,", "Your old greatcoat , my lord \u2014", "Are peppering round you quite perceptibly .", "Use average circumspection at an hour", "The \u201c Temeraire \u201d there on the other side .", "For those dependent on him . Much more , then ,", "That you do not expose yourself so clearly .", "Hills , go to Collingwood and let him know That we 've no Admiral here .A LIEUTENANT Now quick and pick him off who did the deed \u2014 That white-bloused man there in the mizzen-top .", "\u2018 Tis so . They only use their small arms now .", "Have dipped full down , or they would rake", "I think so , too ;", "Let me once more advise , entreat , my lord ,", "Those fellows in the mizzen-top up there", "At least let 's put you on"], "true_target": ["\u2014", "I hope not !", "And our charge now is less . Each knock so near", "So critical for us all .", "My lord , each humblest sojourner on the seas ,", "Thin our crew fearfully . Now , too , our guns", "Not yet .\u2014 Those small-arm men there , in her tops ,", "\u2018 Twill cover all . So while you still retain", "Your dignities , you baulk these deadly aims", "I 'll see no slackness shall be shown that way .", "Dock-labourer , lame longshore-man , bowed bargee ,", "Ah \u2014 what I feared , and strove to hide I feared !...", "Should one upon whose priceless presence here", "Such issues hang , so many strivers lean ,", "Sees it as policy to shield his life"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 130}, {"query": ["And Lucas , too .", "He stalked the deck in all his jewellery ,", "But at brief whiles .\u2014 The boarding band has fallen ,", "Can we in some way hail the \u201c Trinidad \u201d", "\u201c Bucentaure , \u201d O lucky good old ship !", "The \u201c Redoubtable \u201d", "We shall be crushed if matters go on thus .\u2014", "To-day shall leave him nothing to desire !", "Her decks all reeking with such gory shows ,", "And \u201c Victory \u201d there ,\u2014 they grip in dying throes !", "And so was hit .", "To try that longer , Fournier , is in vain", "Will not be mine ; his full refulgent eve", "I see him no more there . His red planks show", "Becomes my midnight ! Well ; the fleets shall see", "If it be true that , as HE sneers , success", "Amid the loud combustion of this strife", "Now that the fume has lessened , code my biddance", "Red-frothed ; and friends and foes all mixed therein .\u2014", "Then signal to the \u201c Hero \u201d that she strive", "My part in you is played . Ay \u2014 I must go ;", "Once more to drop this way .", "As well try holloing to the antipodes !...", "Upon this haggard , scorched , and ravaged hulk ,"], "true_target": ["I must tempt Fate elsewhere ,\u2014 if but a boat", "Sir , they say", "Impossible ;", "Demands of me but cool audacity ,", "Fallen almost to a man .\u2014 \u2018 Twas well assayed !", "Ah , God \u2014 he is too late ! Whence came the hurl", "That this foul tangle may be loosened clear !", "Upon our only mast , and tell the van", "That I can yield my cause with dignity .", "So here I am . The bliss of Nelson 's end", "At once to wear , and come into the fire .", "That he was shot some hour , or half , ago .\u2014", "Three hundred dead if one . Now for ourselves !", "How hideous are the waves , so pure this dawn !\u2014", "Of heavy grape ? The smoke prevents my seeing", "Surely the Admiral 's fallen ?", "A PETTY OFFICER", "And get a boat from her ?", "With dandyism raised to godlike pitch", "Her starboard side in rents , her stern nigh gone !", "Direct the \u201c Trinidad \u201d to let her drive ,", "How does she keep afloat ?\u2014", "Something 's amiss on board the English ship .", "Can bear me through this wreckage to the van ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 131}, {"query": ["Yes ! He commands no more ; and Lucas , joying ,", "That 's from their \u201c Temeraire , \u201d whose vicious broadside", "But in the thickened air what signal 's marked ?\u2014", "Has cleared poor Lucas \u2019 decks .", "We have scotched England in dispatching him ."], "true_target": ["Then Fortune shows her face !", "\u2018 Tis done , however .", "And his best men are mounting at his heels .", "Has taken steps to board . Look , spars are laid ,", "We may make signs ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 131}, {"query": ["There goes our foremast ! How for signalling now ?"], "true_target": ["As the cook 's skimmer , from their cursed balls !", "Our boats are stove in , or as full of holes"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 131}, {"query": ["Safe on the nation 's honour .... Let her have", "Ah !", "And may his wife , his friends , his little ones ,", "A MIDSHIPMAN", "Who in simplicity and sheer good faith", "Will nobody bring Hardy to me \u2014 none ?", "Who have just died ?", "Steal into my mind , too . But ah , my heart", "A business finished now , for me !\u2014 Good friend ,", "Not while I live , I hope ! No , Hardy ; no . Give Collingwood my order . Anchor all !", "That you and Blackwood witnessed . Now she rests", "Does love die with our frame 's decease , I wonder , Or does it live on ever ?...", "I 'd see to it ! But here I am \u2014 stove in \u2014", "But I saw stuff in you which admirals need", "My hair , and the small treasured things I owned ,", "Who 's that ? Ah \u2014 here you come ! How , Hardy , now ?", "To do my business with these braggarts in .", "Poor youngsters ! Scarred old Nelson joins you soon .", "As you well guess , pervades my memory now ;", "What are you thinking , that you speak no word ?", "No , Hardy .\u2014 Ever \u2018 twas your settled fault", "He must be killed , too . Surely Hardy 's dead ?", "So many lives \u2014 in such a glorious cause ....", "Strove but to serve his country . Rest be to him !", "Hardy , how goes the day with us and England ?", "That 's well . I swore for twenty .\u2014 But it 's well .", "Who have we lost on board here ? Nay , but tell me !"], "true_target": ["Keeps him from hastening hither as he would .", "I know , I know , good Beatty ! Thank you well Hardy , I was impatient . Now I am still . Sit here a moment , if you have time to spare ?", "She , and my daughter \u2014 I speak freely to you .", "And take care of her , as you care for me !", "Broken \u2014 all logged and done for ! Done , ay done !", "I join them soon , soon , soon !\u2014 O where is Hardy ?", "Come nearer to me , Hardy .\u2014 One of all ,", "Yes , Hardy ; yes ; I know it . You must go .\u2014 Here we shall meet no more ; since Heaven forfend That care for me should keep you idle now , When all the ship demands you . Beatty , too . Go to the others who lie bleeding there ; Them can you aid . Me you can render none ! My time here is the briefest .\u2014 If I live But long enough I 'll anchor .... But \u2014 too late \u2014 My anchoring 's elsewhere ordered !... Kiss me , Hardy :I 'm satisfied . Thank God , I have done my duty !", "And soothed amid the sorrow brought by me .", "When , taking thought , I chose the \u201c Victory 's \u201d keel", "\u2018 Twas good I made that codicil this morning", "And we , ourselves \u2014", "On his full heed of this most mortal fight", "To last one hour \u2014 until the battle 's done ,", "Could rig me up a jury-backbone now ,", "I do !\u2014 By God , if but our carpenter", "If such be had , be tided through their loss ,", "I 'll wait , I 'll wait . I should have thought of it .", "Slow shades are creeping me ... I scarce see you .", ", his face now pinched and wan with suffering , is lying undressed in a midshipman 's berth , dimly lit by a lantern . DR. BEATTY , DR. MAGRATH , the Rev . DR. SCOTT the Chaplain , BURKE the Purser , the Steward , and a few others stand around . ]", "He 's coming soon , my lord . The constant call", "No ; it is not that dust ; \u2018 tis dust of death That darkens me .What was that extra noise ?", "Our course will be to anchor . Let me know .", "So modestly to whittle down your worth .", "Knows not your calm philosophy !\u2014 There 's one \u2014", "Ay , thus do little things", "\u2018 Twas not worth while !\u2014 He was , no doubt , a man"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 132}, {"query": ["I must now turn to these .", "Lieutenant Ram and Mr. Whipple .", "Besides poor Scott , my lord , and Charles Adair ,", "There was no hope for them .", "Two hours and fifty minutes since he fell ,", "Who will confer with Collingwood at once .", "Two who were badly hit by now , my lord ;"], "true_target": ["Ah !\u2014 Hush around !... He 's sinking . It is but a trifle now Of minutes with him . Stand you , please , aside , And give him air .", "Lieutenant Ram , and Whipple , captain 's clerk ,", "And fifty odd of seamen and marines .", "And now he 's going .", "My lord , I must implore you to lie calm ! You shorten what at best may not be long .", "We 'll let the Captain know ,", "And wounded : Bligh , lieutenant ; Pasco , too , and Reeves , and Peake , lieutenants of marines , And Rivers , Westphall , Bulkeley , midshipmen , With , of the crew , a hundred odd just now , Unreckoning those late fallen not brought below .", "There 's Smith , and Palmer , midshipmen , just killed ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 132}, {"query": ["\u201c San Augustino , \u201c San Francisco , \u201d \u201c Aigle \u201d ;", "We know not with what truth . But , be as \u2018 twill ,", "Well ; very well , thank God for't , my dear lord .", "Has tacked to bear round on the \u201c Victory \u201d", "Three of our best I am therefore calling up ,", "Shall I , from you , bid Admiral Collingwood", "And our old \u201c Swiftsure , \u201d too , we 've grappled back ,", "He sheers away with all he could call round ,", "You mean the signal 's to be made forthwith ?", "Some fourteen of their first-rates , or about ,", "To every seaman 's joy . But now their van", "Thoughts all confused , my lord :\u2014 their needs on deck , Your own sad state , and your unrivalled past ; Mixed up with flashes of old things afar \u2014 Old childish things at home , down Wessex way . In the snug village under Blackdon Hill Where I was born . The tumbling stream , the garden , The placid look of the grey dial there , Marking unconsciously this bloody hour , And the red apples on my father 's trees , Just now full ripe .", "When our balls touch \u2018 em , blind the eyes , in truth .", "And make no doubt of worsting theirs , and France .", "The Spanish Admiral 's rumoured to be wounded ,", "The \u201c Fougueux , \u201d the \u201c Santisima Trinidad , \u201d"], "true_target": ["Take full on him the conduct of affairs ?", "See if your order 's gone , and then return .", "We 'll have \u2018 em yet ! But without you , my lord ,", "And some few frigates , straight to Cadiz port .", "And on this ship the more particularly .", "The smoke from ships upon our win'ard side ,", "Seeing your state , and that our work 's not done ,", "Villeneuve their Admiral has this moment struck ,", "The \u201c Santa Ana , \u201d the \u201c Redoubtable , \u201d", "We have to make slow plodding do the deeds", "And put himself aboard the \u201c Conqueror . \u201d", "That sprung by inspiration ere you fell ;", "Now I 'll leave ,", "But let me ask , my lord , as needs I must ,", "Thus far we 've got . The said \u201c Bucentaure \u201d chief :", "And the dust raised by their worm-eaten hulks ,", "And crush her by sheer weight of wood and brass :"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 132}, {"query": ["They say he 's lost an arm .", "The \u201c Formidable \u2019 passed us by , my lord ,", "By Captain Tyler , and the captain shot :"], "true_target": ["The \u201c Algeciras \u201d has been boarded , too ,", "But , on their side , the \u201c Hero 's \u201d captain 's fallen ;", "And thumped a stunning broadside into us .\u2014", "Admiral Gravina desperately holds out ;"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 132}, {"query": ["We took good care to settle ; and he fell", "Who made it his affair to wing you thus ,", "Such unbid sights obtrude"], "true_target": ["On death 's dyed stage !", "That fellow in the mizzen-top , my lord ,", "Like an old rook , smack from his perch , stone dead ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 132}, {"query": ["Meantime the \u201c Achille \u201d fought on ,", "It is the enemy 's first-rate , the \u201c Achille , \u201d Blown to a thousand atoms !\u2014 While on fire , Before she burst , the captain 's woman there , Desperate for life , climbed from the gunroom port Upon the rudder-chains ; stripped herself stark , And swam for the Pickle 's boat . Our men in charge , Seeing her great breasts bulging on the brine , Sang out , \u201c A mermaid \u2018 tis , by God ! \u201d \u2014 then rowed And hauled her in .\u2014", "Bobbing with tons of timber on the waves ,", "And splinter looped with entrails of the crew ."], "true_target": ["The spot is covered now with floating men ,", "Even while the ship was blazing , knowing well", "The fire must reach their powder ; which it did .", "Some whole , the main in parts ; arms , legs , trunks , heads ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 132}, {"query": ["There 's no more sea ."], "true_target": ["Yes .... He has homed to where"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 132}, {"query": ["Which was before , and shall be after you !", "In your more human tongue .", "If I report it meetly , came unmeant ,", "Young Spirits , be not critical of That", "Nay , blame not ! For what judgment can ye blame ?\u2014", "Yet superconscious ; a Clairvoyancy"], "true_target": ["In that immense unweeting Mind is shown", "One far above forethinking ; processive ,", "By listless sequence \u2014 luckless , tragic Chance ,", "Emerging with blind gropes from impercipience", "That knows not what It knows , yet works therewith .\u2014", "The cognizance ye mourn , Life 's doom to feel ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 132}, {"query": ["And for themselves with shame . \u201d", "As doth the Will Itself .", "Which might have ever kept a sealed cognition", "Necessitation sways ! A life there was", "Why wound so keenly Right that it would die ?", "Who visioned it too clearly , even while", "Or inexist .", "Would , in a thorough-sphered melodic rule ,", "With That Which holds responsibility ,", "And hence unneeded", "By coils and pivots set to foreframed codes", "Thus would the Mover pay", "Yea , yea , yea !"], "true_target": ["That quickens sense in shapes whom , thou hast said ,", "Burdens the time with mournfulness for us ,", "He dubbed the Will \u201c the gods . \u201d Truly said he ,", "In the economy of Vitality ,", "The score each puppet owes ,", "The Reaper reap what his contrivance sows !", "But out of tune the Mode and meritless", "Among these self-same frail ones \u2014 Sophocles \u2014", "\u201c Such gross injustice to their own creation", "Be cessed no pain , whose burnings would abide", "Why make Life debtor when it did not buy ?", "And governance of sweet consistency ,", "\u2014 Things mechanized"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 132}, {"query": ["That 's my Lord Chancellor Eldon . Wot he 'll say , and wot he 'll look ! Mr. Pitt will be here soon .", "Do n't ye ask awkward questions .", "They 'll embalm him , my boy , as they did all the great Egyptian admirals .", "He 's coming , he 's coming ! Here , let me lift you up , my boy .\u2014 Why , they have taken out the horses , as I am man alive !"], "true_target": ["It 's the news \u2014 no more . His spirits are up like a rocket for the moment .", "Well , well ! Nelson is the man who ought to have been banqueted to-night . But he is coming to Town in a coach different from these . !", "Yes . They say he 's to be tombed in marble , at St. Paul 's or Westminster . We shall see him if he lays in state . It will make a patriotic spectacle for a fine day .", "Well , whatever William 's faults , it is a triumph for his virtues to-night !The SCENE OPENS , revealing the interior of the Guildhall , and the brilliant assembly of City magnates , Lords , and Ministers seated there , Mr. PITT occupying a chair of honour by the Lord Mayor . His health has been proposed as that of the Saviour of England , and drunk with acclamations . ]"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 133}, {"query": ["Will they bring his poor splintered body home ?", "Ah , as I said , friend ; this boy must go home and be carefully put to bed !", "It 's a very mean practice of ye to husband yourself at such a time , and gape in dumbshow like a frog in Plaistow Marshes ."], "true_target": ["Pitt for ever !\u2014 Why , here 's a blade opening and shutting his mouth like the rest , but never a sound does he raise !", "How may ye make that out , youngster ?", "You had better have a care of this boy , friend . His brain is too precious for the common risks of Cheapside . Not but what he might as well have said Boney killed the parrot when he was about it . And as for Nelson \u2014 who 's now sailing shinier seas than ours , if they 've rubbed Her off his slate where he 's gone to ,\u2014 the French papers say that our loss in him is greater than our gain in ships ; so that logically the victory is theirs . Gad , sir , it 's almost true !", "Here 's another coming !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 133}, {"query": ["I do n't like Billy . He killed Uncle John 's parrot .", "His lady will be handy for that , wo n't she ?"], "true_target": ["How can you see a dead man , father , after so long ?", "Is it because Trafalgar is near Portugal that he loves Port wine ?", "Mr. Pitt made the war , and the war made us want sailors ; and Uncle John went for a walk down Wapping High Street to talk to the pretty ladies one evening ; and there was a press all along the river that night \u2014 a regular hot one \u2014 and Uncle John was carried on board a man-of-war to fight under Nelson ; and nobody minded Uncle John 's parrot , and it talked itself to death . So Mr. Pitt killed Uncle John 's parrot ; see it , sir ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 133}, {"query": ["No , sir ; it 's economy ; a very necessary instinct in these days of ghastly taxations to pay half the armies in Europe ! In short , in the word of the Ancients , it is scarcely compass-mentas to do otherwise ! Somebody must save something , or the country will be as bankrupt as Mr. Pitt himself is , by all account ; though he do n't look it just now ."], "true_target": ["I 've not too much breath to carry me through my day 's work , so I can n't afford to waste it in such luxuries as crying Hurrah to aristocrats . If ye was ten yards off y 'd think I was shouting as loud as any .", "Talk of Pitt being ill . He looks hearty as a buck ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 133}, {"query": ["As zenith-star of England 's firmament ,", "Is now forgotten ! Ay ; this Trafalgar", "When his hired army and his chosen general", "Quite a triumphal entry . Such is power ;", "At this adventurous time .", "And uncurse all the bogglers of her weal"], "true_target": ["Will botch up many a ragged old repute ,", "Make Nelson figure as domestic saint", "Now worshipped , now accursed ! The overthrow", "Of all Pitt 's European policy", "Surrendered them at Ulm a month ago ,", "No less than country 's saviour , Pitt exalt"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 133}, {"query": ["Till it grow thin , outworn , and cease to be .\u2014", "So is't ordained by That Which all ordains ;", "Will spread with ageing , lodge , and crystallize ,", "As I may prophesy \u2014 that ring to-night", "Or blent with happier choice of time and place ,"], "true_target": ["For words were never winged with apter grace .", "Those words of this man Pitt \u2014 his last large words ,", "In their first mintage to the feasters here ,", "To hold the imagination of this strenuous race .", "And stand embedded in the English tongue"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 133}, {"query": ["Unfortunate Villeneuve !\u2014 whom fate has marked", "These hauntings have at last nigh proved to me", "When , as Shades whisper in the chasmal night ,", "From skies above me and the air around Those callings which so long have circled me At last do whisper \u201c Now . \u201d Now it shall be !Ungrateful master ; generous foes ; Farewell !", "And both by precept and example showed", "Time serves me now for ceasing . Why not cease ?...", "Refused my coaxings for the like-timed call !", "And teacher , Nelson : blest and over blest", "An Emperor 's chide is a command to die .\u2014", "O happy lack , that I should have no child", "At each unhappy time I strove to pass ?", "And groan beneath the burden of my name !", "Like some poor dolt unworth captivity ,"], "true_target": ["That heretofore were audible to me", "And honour , in that combat of despair .", "To come into my hideous heritage ,", "To suffer for too firm a faithfulness .\u2014", "But those stern Nays ,", "Awhile stern England 's prisoner , then unloosed", "That this thing must be done . Illustrious foe", "Where lay the line of duty , patriotism ,", "\u201c Better , far better , no percipience here . \u201d \u2014", "In thy outgoing at the noon of strife", "By him accursed , forsaken by my friend ,", "Yet I did press where thickest missiles fell ,", "When glory clasped thee round ; while wayward Death"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 134}, {"query": ["Yea , It says \u201c Now . \u201d Therefore make now thy time .", "Thou dost divine the hour !"], "true_target": ["I 'll speak . His mood is ripe for such a parle .", "Have been annulled . The Will grants exit freely ;"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 134}, {"query": ["May his sad sunken soul merge into nought"], "true_target": ["Meekly and gently as a breeze at eve !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 134}, {"query": ["Where 's the Captain now ?"], "true_target": ["So they 've brought him home at last , hey ? And he 's to be solemnized with a roaring funeral ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 134}, {"query": ["But what happened was this . They were a long time coming , owing to contrary winds , and the \u201c Victory \u201d being little more than a wreck . And grog ran short , because they 'd used near all they had to peckle his body in . So \u2014 they broached the Adm'l !", "Yes , thank God .... \u2018 Tis better to lie dry than wet , if canst do it without stinking on the road gravewards . And they took care that he should n't ."], "true_target": ["Well ; the plain calendar of it is , that when he came to be unhooped , it was found that the crew had drunk him dry . What was the men to do ? Broke down by the battle , and hardly able to keep afloat , \u2018 twas a most defendable thing , and it fairly saved their lives . So he was their salvation after death as he had been in the fight . If he could have knowed it , \u2018 twould have pleased him down to the ground ! How \u2018 a would have laughed through the spigot-hole : \u201c Draw on , my hearties ! Better I shrivel that you famish . \u201d Ha-ha !", "Well , that 's as I had it from one that knows \u2014 Bob Loveday of Overcombe \u2014 one of the \u201c Victory \u201d men that 's going to walk in the funeral . However , let 's touch a livelier string . Peter Green , strike up that new ballet that they 've lately had prented here , and were hawking about town last market-day .", "Well , as they always do ,\u2014 in a cask of sperrits ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 134}, {"query": ["Down at home here biding with his own folk a bit . I zid en walking with them on the Esplanade yesterday . He looks ten years older than he did when he went . Ay \u2014 he brought the galliant hero home !"], "true_target": ["\u2018 Tis to be at Paul 's ; so they say that know . And the crew of the \u201c Victory \u201d have to walk in front , and Captain Hardy is to carry his stars and garters on a great velvet pincushion ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 134}, {"query": ["Really , now !", "It may be defendable afloat ; but it seems queer ashore ."], "true_target": ["How ?", "Now how did they bring him home so that he could lie in state afterwards to the naked eye !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 134}, {"query": ["We pulled ; and bedtime brought the storm ; but snug at home slept we .", "Sou \u2019 - west of Cadiz Bay !", "Yet all the while our gallants after fighting through the day ,"], "true_target": ["The dark ,", "The dark ,", "Were beating up and down the dark , sou \u2019 - west of Cadiz Bay .", "\u201c Pull hard , and make the Nothe , or down we go ! \u201d one says , says he ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 134}, {"query": ["As hard they strove , those worn-out men , upon that surly shore ;", "The deep ,", "The deep ,"], "true_target": ["The victors and the vanquished then the storm it tossed and tore ,", "Dead Nelson and his half-dead crew , his foes from near and far ,", "Were rolled together on the deep that night at Trafalgar !", "That night at Trafalgar !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 134}, {"query": ["Meanwhile the month moves on to counter-deeds"], "true_target": ["Vast as the vainest needs ,", "And fiercely the predestined plot proceeds ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 134}, {"query": ["But were so broken by the boisterous eve", "\u2014 Omit not from to-morrow 's home dispatch", "By our to-morrow 's feats , which now , in brief ,", "To be there reinforced by tirailleurs :", "And note positions ere the soldiers sleep .", "Namely : ascend in echelon , right to front ,", "As a rash fight whereout we came not worst ,", "His country 's hostile breath !\u2014 But come : to choke it", "Now let us up and ride the bivouacs round ,", "God , yes !\u2014 Even here Pitt 's guineas are the foes :", "For , say they march to cross and turn our right \u2014", "We learn that six-and-twenty ships of war , During the fight and after , struck their flags , And that the tigerish gale throughout the night Gave fearful finish to the English rage . By luck their Nelson 's gone , but gone withal Are twenty thousand prisoners , taken off To gnaw their finger-nails in British hulks . Of our vast squadrons of the summer-time But rags and splintered remnants now remain .\u2014 Thuswise Villeneuve , poor craven , quitted him ! And England puffed to yet more bombastry . \u2014 Well , well ; I can n't be everywhere . No matter ; A victory 's brewing here as counterpoise ! These water-rats may paddle in their salt slush , And welcome . \u2018 Tis not long they 'll have the lead . Ships can be wrecked by land !", "I everywhere to-night around me feel", "A course almost at their need \u2014 their stretching flank", "I recapitulate .\u2014 First Soult will move", "Be hushed in all the news-sheets sold in France ,", "Legrand 's division somewhere further back \u2014", "Supported by Murat 's whole cavalry .", "As from an unseen monster haunting nigh", "\u201c Our own position , massed and menacing ,"], "true_target": ["Or , if reported , let it be portrayed", "\u201c Soldiers , the hordes of Muscovy now face you ,", "Nearly whereat I place my finger here \u2014", "Of Oudinot , the corps of Bernadotte ,", "Is rich in chance for opportune attack ;", "And whose retreating forms , dismayed to flight ,", "You met and swept aside at Hollabrunn ,", "To forward the grand project of the day :", "Will offer us , from points now prearranged \u2014 -  \u201d", "Lannes to the left here , on the Olmutz road ,", "Your feet pursued along the trackways here ?", "\u2018 Tis all a duel \u2018 twixt this Pitt and me ;", "Rivaud , Drouet , and the Imperial Guard .", "That England claims to be the conqueror .", "While in reserve , here , are the grenadiers", "To mend the Austrian overthrow at Ulm !", "Direction that this blow of Trafalgar", "But how so ? Are not these the self-same bands", "And , more than Russia 's host , and Austria 's flower ,", "With Vandamme 's men , and those of Saint Hilaire :", "I 'll bid all states of Europe shut their ports To England 's arrogant bottoms , slowly starve Her bloated revenues and monstrous trade , Till all her hulls lie sodden in their docks , And her grey island eyes in vain shall seek One jack of hers upon the ocean plains !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 135}, {"query": ["Some twelve hours ere their form can actualize ?", "To openly announce your tactics thus"], "true_target": ["Shows it , your Majesty , the wariness", "That marks your usual far-eye policy ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 135}, {"query": ["Maintain the ranks ;", "Taking his risk with every ranksman here .", "So dear , so cherished all the Empire through \u2014", "Sow hot confusion in the hostile files", "And we return to find our standards joined", "As your old manner is , and in our rush", "\u201c The campaign closes with this victory ;", "Let none be thinned by impulse or excuse", "Yea , England 's hirelings , they !\u2014 a realm stiff-steeled", "Your Emperor the foremost in the shock ,", "Be every one in this conviction firm :\u2014", "Write on .", "Worthy of you , the nation , and of me ! \u201d", "\u201c NAPOLEON . \u201d", "\u201c Soldiers , your sections I myself shall lead ;", "For victory , men , must be no thing surmised ,", "But for a wink-while , that time you will eye", "Binds us to compass it !"], "true_target": ["These hirelings of a country not their own :", "In deathless hatred of our land and lives .", "Against my undue rashness . If your zeal", "England 's , I mean \u2014 the root of all the war .", "We mingle with our foes , I 'll use fit care .", "The zest such knowledge will impart to all", "So shall we prostrate these paid slaves of hers \u2014", "But ease your minds who would expostulate", "Of France 's gay and gallant infantry \u2014", "Like noontide sunshine on a dubious morn ;", "Is worth the risk of leakages .", "Of bearing back the wounded : and , in fine ,", "That \u2018 tis our sacred bond to overthrow", "Nevertheless , should issues stand at pause", "It must be sure !\u2014 The honour and the fame", "Forthwith resistless , Peace establish we ,", "By vast young armies forming now in France .", "As that which may or may not beam on us ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 135}, {"query": ["The further details sent of Trafalgar"], "true_target": ["Are not assuring ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 135}, {"query": ["Your Majesty , if one may query such ?"], "true_target": ["And how by land ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 135}, {"query": ["Must be dealt hereabout to compass such !"], "true_target": ["A few more master-strokes , your Majesty ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 135}, {"query": ["Will down and cross the Goldbach rivulet ,", "Dislodge them from the Sainton Hill , and thence", "And Kollowrath \u2014 now on the Pratzen heights \u2014", "speaks , referring to memoranda , snuffing the nearest candle , and moving it from place to place on the map as he proceeds importantly . ]", "Seize Tilnitz , Kobelnitz , and hamlets nigh ,", "Now here , our right , along the Olmutz Road", "But , were he nigh , these movements I detail", "Will rendezvous beneath the walls of Brunn .", "Advance direct to Brunn .\u2014 You heed me , sirs ?\u2014", "Turn the French right , move onward in their rear ,"], "true_target": ["Cross Schwarsa , hold the great Vienna road :\u2014", "If Bonaparte had meant to climb up there , Being one so spry and so determinate , He would have set about it ere this eve ! He has not troops to do so , sirs , I say : His utmost strength is forty thousand men .", "The cavalry will occupy the plain :", "His fires are dark ; all sounds have ceased that way", "Would knock the bottom from his enterprize .", "So , with the nightfall , centre , right , and left ,", "Save voice of owl or mongrel wintering there .", "Our centre and main strength ,\u2014 you follow me ?\u2014", "Count Langeron , Dokhtorof , with Prschebiszewsky", "Will march and oust our counterfacers there ,", "Pah ! At this moment he retires apace ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 136}, {"query": ["The impact of a force so large as ours ?", "He may be mounting up this very hour !", "Court ruin by abiding calmly here"], "true_target": ["Good , General ; very good !\u2014 if Bonaparte Will kindly stand and let you have your way . But what if he do not !\u2014 if he forestall These sound slow movements , mount the Pratzen hills When we descend , fall on OUR rear forthwith , While we go crying for HIS rear in vain ?", "Then if so weak , how can so wise a brain", "What think you , General Miloradovich ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 136}, {"query": ["Well , well . Now this being ordered , set it going . One here shall make fair copies of the notes , And send them round . Colonel van Toll I ask To translate part .\u2014 Generals , it grows full late , And half-a-dozen hours of needed sleep Will aid us more than maps . We now disperse , And luck attend us all . Good-night . Good-night .Such plans are \u2014 paper ! Only to-morrow 's light Reveals the true manoeuvre to my sight !Are these the signs of regiments out of heart , And beating backward from an enemy !The night shades involve the whole . ]"], "true_target": ["Ay , ay , Weirother ; that 's the question \u2014 eh ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 136}, {"query": ["I ? What 's the use of thinking , when to-morrow"], "true_target": ["Will tell us , with no need to think at all !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 136}, {"query": ["Before dawn , that we heard .\u2014 No hurry , Lannes !", "Toward our right here , by the swampy lakes", "That face Davout ? Thus , as I sketched , they work !", "Leave them alone ! Nor stick nor stone we 'll stir To interrupt them . Nought that we can scheme Will help us like their own stark sightlessness !\u2014 Let them get down to those white lowlands there , And so far plunge in the level that no skill , When sudden vision flashes on their fault , Can help them , though despair-stung , to regain The key to mastery held at yestereve ! Meantime move onward these divisions here Under the fog 's kind shroud ; descend the slope , And cross the stream below the Russian lines : There halt concealed , till I send down the word .\u2018 Tis good to get above that rimy cloak And into cleaner air . It chilled me through .", "Good ! Set forthwith Vandamme and Saint Hilaire to mount the slopes \u2014 -O , there you are , blind boozy Buxhovden ! Achieve your worst . Davout will hold you firm .Lannes and Murat , you have concern enough Here on the left , with Prince Bagration And all the Austro-Russian cavalry . Haste off . The victory promising to-day Will , like a thunder-clap , conclude the war !", "My God , it surely is the tramp of horse", "Their bivouac fires , that lit the top last night ,", "Are all extinct .", "Upon the plain , and thrusts its bristling beard"], "true_target": ["Downwards to Tilnitz and the Goldbach swamps", "Gone ; verily !\u2014 Ah , how much will you bid ,", ", on a grey horse , closely attended by BERTHIER , and surrounded by MARSHALS SOULT , LANNES , MURAT , and their aides-de camp , all cloaked , is discernible in the gloom riding down from the high ground before Bellowitz , on which they have bivouacked , to the village of Puntowitz on the Goldbach stream , quite near the front of the Russian position of the day before on the Pratzen crest . The Emperor and his companions come to a pause , look around and upward to the hills , and listen . ]", "An hour hence , for the coign abandoned now !", "Soult , how long hence to win the Pratzen top ?", "And jolt of cannon downward from the hill", "Across the lowlands \u2019 fleecy counterpane ,", "Peering beneath our broadest hat-brims \u2019 shade ....", "The battle 's ours .\u2014 It was , then , their rash march", "Enjoy this sun , that rests its chubby jowl"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 137}, {"query": ["And hark you , Sire ; I catch"], "true_target": ["A sound which , if I err not , means the thing", "We have hoped , and hoping , feared fate would not yield !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 137}, {"query": ["Yes ! They already move upon Tilnitz ."], "true_target": ["I see them not . The plateau seems deserted !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 137}, {"query": ["Our troops down there , still mantled by the mist ,"], "true_target": ["Some twenty minutes or less , your Majesty :", "Are half upon the way ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 137}, {"query": ["Beheld the rarest wrecked amain ,", "Heard laughters at the ruthless dooms", "Like some sublime fermenting-vat .", "Creation 's prentice artistry", "By those that scarce could boast a brain ;", "Whole nigh-perfected species slain", "For quarter , when a Europe bleeds !", "Which , working all , works but thereat", "With the least sting , or none ,", "Express in forms that now unbe"], "true_target": ["He of the Years beheld , and we ,", "Ye would not cry , as one who pleads", "Could ye have seen Its early deeds", "Quick , quivering hearts in hecatombs .", "Stand ye apostrophizing That", "Let the exploit be done", "To lift this man to yet intenser glory ,", "To those , his kind , at whose expense such pitch is won !", "Which tortured to the eternal glooms", "If it be in the future human story"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 137}, {"query": ["The Eternal Urger , pressing change on change .", "That I so long have told ? Then note anew"], "true_target": ["Nerves , sinews , trajects , eddies , ducts of It", "Again ye deprecate the World-Soul 's way", "the ordered potencies ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 137}, {"query": ["Here peoples sane , there peoples mad ,", "In some more palpitating way ;", "Though of its aim insentient ?\u2014", "In choiceless throws of good and bad ;", "Mangle its types , re-knead the clay", "Heaving throughout its vast content"], "true_target": ["Saw ravage , growth , diminish , add ,", "Tentative dreams from day to day ;", "With strenuously transmutive bent", "From out the deeps where mortals moan", "Ere ye , young Pities , had upgrown", "Against a ruling not their own ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 137}, {"query": ["Athwart this field of Austerlitz !"], "true_target": ["Us Ancients , then , it ill befits", "To quake when Slaughter 's spectre flits"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 137}, {"query": ["The moment marks the day 's catastrophe ."], "true_target": ["Pain not their young compassions by such lore ,", "But hold you mute , and read the battle yonder :"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 137}, {"query": ["Kreznowitz carried , and Sokolnitz hemmed :", "You cannot see them , be they here or no !", "The enemy 's whole strength will stound you soon !"], "true_target": ["And more than half my own made captive ! Yea ,", "Prschebiszewsky 's column is distraught and rent ,", "While they are upon us you stay idle here !", "You cannot tell the Frenchmen from ourselves ! These are the victors .\u2014 Ah \u2014 Dokhtorof \u2014 lost !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 138}, {"query": ["To join Dokhtorof 's to them . Here they come .", "I only wait Prschebiszewsky 's nearing corps"], "true_target": ["Dokhtorof tell to save him as he may ! We , Count , must gather up our shaken flesh And hurry them by the road through Austerlitz .The Emperor watches the scene with a vulpine smile ; and directs a battery near at hand to fire down upon the ice on which the Russians are crossing . A ghastly crash and splashing follows the discharge , the shining surface breaking into pieces like a mirror , which fly in all directions . Two thousand fugitives are engulfed , and their groans of despair reach the ears of the watchers like ironical huzzas . A general flight of the Russian army from wing to wing is now disclosed , involving in its current the EMPEROR ALEXANDER and the EMPEROR FRANCIS , with the reserve , who are seen towards Austerlitz endeavouring to rally their troops in vain . They are swept along by the disordered soldiery . ]", "You seem to see the enemy everywhere ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 138}, {"query": ["I 'll grant an armistice therefor . Anon", "To General Giulay in November past ,", "Here on the roofless ground do I receive you \u2014", "The cordial spirit of your Majesty .", "For him I take your word . And pray believe", "Her name , her influence , and her revenues ,", "Like his old namesake , but for meaner cause ?", "Leave Russia . Let the Emperor Alexander", "And quicks her quest for profit in our woes !", "What 's this of Alexander ? Weep , did he ,", "That rank ambitions are your own , not mine ;", "Make his own terms ; whereof the first must be", "Keep Austria to herself . To Russia bound ,", "And make all lucid to the Emperor .", "Aroused by breach of solemn covenants .", "You have all to lose by that alliance , Sire .", "I will send Savary at to-morrow 's blink", "For us , I wholly can avow as mine", "And starves and bleeds the folk of other lands .", "In interests , have in all things common cause .", "Stir us no further on transalpine rule ,", "Are no defence against the wrath of France", "Whereon I 'd gladly fling the sword aside .", "One country sows these mischiefs Europe through", "And likewise Alexander 's , we are one"], "true_target": ["When all my energies and arms were bent", "I 'd take the Isonzo River as our bounds .", "I 'll treat with him to weld a lasting peace ,", "Poor devil !\u2014 But he 'll soon get over it \u2014 Sooner than his employers oversea !\u2014 Ha !\u2014 this well make friend Pitt and England writhe , And cloud somewhat their lustrous Trafalgar .They formally embrace . BERTHIER , PRINCE JOHN , and the rest retire , and the two Emperors are left by themselves before the fire . ]", "Her rock-rimmed situation walls her off", "You pay your own costs with your provinces ,", "To wit : that hot armigerent jealousy", "Yet there were terms distinctly specified", "Which on the mainland we reciprocate ,", "My only mansion for these two months past !", "Meanwhile to you I 'll tender this good word :", "Ha , ha !", "Like a slim selfish mollusk in its shell", "On teaching England that her watery walls", "Good ! Now this war . It has been forced on me", "That Russian armies keep to the ports of his domain .", "That he retire from Austrian territory .", "Alexander 's likewise therewithal .", "Just at a crisis most inopportune ,", "By her insidious chink of luring ore \u2014", "From the wide views and fair fraternities", "Based on some simple undertakings ; chief ,", "False-featured England , who , to aggrandize", "That though I have postured as your enemy ,", "Schemes to impropriate the whole world 's trade ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 139}, {"query": ["His coal-black uniform and snowy plume", "Beneath a leafless roadside apple-tree ,", "Out here by Goding on the Holitsch way ;", "In the retreating swirl of overthrow ,", "Mourning in tears the fate of his brave array \u2014"], "true_target": ["Word goes , you Majesty , that Colonel Toll ,", "Found Alexander seated on a stone ,", "All flying southward , save the steadfast slain .", "Unmarked , his face disconsolate , his grey eyes", "One of Field-Marshal Price Kutuzof 's staff ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 139}, {"query": ["Your tenancy thereof has brought such fame", "With Powers that have no substance seizable !", "Your views as to the Russian forces here ?", "What happier issues might have left unsaid :", "Till ominous events in Italy", "That English ships be shut from Russian trade .", "Our conference ends in friendship and esteem .", "And pledge my word that my august ally", "To conquest there , and undue sovereignty .", "Immediately at all points , I agree ;", "Nor engage on my ally 's behalf", "By daily measured march to his own realm .", "I am not competent , your Majesty ,", "To estimate that country 's conscience now ,"], "true_target": ["And standing here the vanquished , let me own", "To Russia 's purposings and Russia 's risks ;", "To signify a change of purposings .", "Roundly , that I cede all !\u2014 And how may stand", "Long , long I have lost the wish to bind myself", "Accept it likewise , and withdraw his force", "I see as much , and long have seen it , Sire ;", "That it must needs be one which charms you , Sire .", "I had no zeal for violating peace", "Then , to this armistice , which shall be called", "But joyful am I that in all things else", "Revealed the gloomy truth that France aspires", "Since when mine eyes have seen no sign outheld", "Little do I count these alliances", "My promise can be made ; and that this day"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 139}, {"query": ["Aeneas and the proud Caesarian line", "To bend with deference and manners mild", "Claim yet to live ; and , those scarce less renowned ,", "Raised but by pikes above the common herd !", "So great in fame one thousand years ago \u2014"], "true_target": ["This junction that I witness here to-day !", "O strangest scene of an eventful life ,", "An Emperor \u2014 in whose majestic veins", "In talk with this adventuring campaigner ,", "The dauntless Hawks \u2019 - Hold Counts , of gallantry"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 139}, {"query": ["In royal lines , as here at Austerlitz ."], "true_target": ["Ay ! There be Satschan swamps and Pratzen heights"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 139}, {"query": ["A pertinent query , in truth !\u2014", "Yonder zodiac laugh", "To their lack of ambition ,", "But spoil not the sport by your ruth :"], "true_target": ["To all but the general good !", "When rulers begin to allude", "\u2018 Tis enough to make half", "And strong opposition"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 139}, {"query": ["Now here you have the lady we discussed : A fine example of his manner , sir ?", "Had not the fate to see him in the flesh .", "And choleric at times . Yet , at his best ,", "In one brief minute .", "I trust you are not ill , sir ?"], "true_target": ["As Falstaff , never matched , they say . But I", "I notice nothing , sir .", "To stop the honour of this visit , sir !", "Yes , Quin . A man of varied parts , though rough", "I hope no ugly European news"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 140}, {"query": ["\u2014 He was at Bath when Gainsborough settled there", "Behind the pillar in the background there ,", "I like the portrait much .\u2014 The brilliancy", "It is a fine example , sir , indeed ,\u2014", "Now leave me , please , alone . I 'll call anon . Is there a map of Europe handy here ?O God that I should live to see this day !\u201c Defeated \u2014 the Allies \u2014 quite overthrown At Austerlitz \u2014 last week . \u201d \u2014 Where 's Austerlitz ? \u2014 But what avails it where the place is now ; What corpse is curious on the longitude And situation of his cemetery !... The Austrians and the Russians overcome , That vast adventuring army is set free To bend unhindered strength against our strand .... So do my plans through all these plodding years Announce them built in vain ! His heel on Europe , monarchies in chains To France , I am as though I had never been !Call up my carriage , please you , now at once ; And tell your master I return to Bath This moment \u2014 I may want a little help In getting to the door here .", "Could I have A little brandy , sir , quick brought to me ?", "Proclaimed the sullen habit of his soul .", "These ten years ! Realms , laws , peoples , dynasties ,", "It is a gallop , growing quite distinct . And \u2014 can it be a messenger for me !", "Sovereign of landscape he ; of portraiture", "\u201c His eyes , in gloomy socket taught to roll ,", "O heavy news indeed !... Disastrous ; dire !", "He could not for a moment sink the man :", "Of Gainsborough lies in this his double sway :"], "true_target": ["Of empire-making Lust and personal Gain !", "Is that the patter of horses 's hoofs", "Roll up that map . \u2018 Twill not be needed now", "Along the road ?", "In that house in the Circus which we know .\u2014", "In fancied scenes , as in Life 's real plan ,", "Joint monarch with Sir Joshua .... Ah ?\u2014 that 's \u2014 hark !", "Horatio , Dorax , Falstaff \u2014 stile \u2018 twas Quin . \u201d", "Which seem the leaves themselves .\u2014 Ah , this is Quin .", "And those thin blue-green-grayish leafages", "With that transparency amid the shades ,", "Churchill well carves him in his \u201c Character \":\u2014", "Nature , in spite of all his skill , crept in ;", "Are churning to a pulp within the maw"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 140}, {"query": ["Sir , I will ,"], "true_target": ["And summon you my master instantly ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 140}, {"query": ["Austerlitz !"], "true_target": ["I 'll harken ! I would n't miss it for the groans on another"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 140}, {"query": ["And teach her treaty-manners \u2014 if he can !", "And , as on cobbles you , they wayfare there .", "By rimes and rains which creep into their blood ,", "Who makes the earth to tremble , shakes old thrones ,", "Thou would'st not grudge a claim to speak his mind .", "There , on the nonce , the forenamed Baden prince", "Utter defeat , ay , France 's naval death \u2014", "Augusta", "Who would not name thee with their white-washed tongues .\u2014", "If so thou wishest .", "Right patly \u2014 nursed therefor in infancy", "Tales have two sides ,", ",", "Some say as more .", "Your Emperor bade be hid ?", "This side the globe , though I can speak the tongue .", "Namely : to put the knife in England 's trade ,", "That which has hereto . England , so to say .", "I am a stranger here ,", "Received for gift the hand of fair Princess", "How laurelled progress through applauding crowds Have marked his journey home . How Strasburg town , Stuttgart , Carlsruhe , acclaimed him like the rest : How pageantry would here have welcomed him , Had not his speed outstript intelligence \u2014 Now will a glimpse of him repay thee . Hark !Well , Buonaparte has revived by land , But not by sea . On that thwart element Never will he incorporate his dream , And float as master !", "Till like seeks like . The sea is their dry land ,", "Was joined to Stephanie Beauharnais , her", "As there awhile he tarried , and was met"], "true_target": ["Samaria knew , if now thou hast not one !", "That the true measure of this Trafalgar \u2014", "Successor to the throne of Italy .", "There , too , Eugene \u2014", "Dozens thou hast had \u2014 batches more than she", "Resume thy tale", "Upbrims in thee than in some loftier ones", "Channels have I the common people lack .\u2014", "By the gay Josephine your Empress here .\u2014", "And , to complete his honouring , was hailed", "Fair Munich sparkled with festivity", "What man is this , whose might thou blazonest so \u2014", "But would it shock thy garrulousness to know", "And turns the plains to wilderness ?", "Enough . I am one whom , didst thou know my name ,", "That Austerlitz was lustrous none ignores ,", "Thou know'st not what thy frailty asks , good dame !", "Sweet lady . Vamped-up versions reach thee here .\u2014", "Who stands as daughter to the man we wait ,", "We 'll let seemings be .\u2014", "Lady , a late hour this to be afoot !", "A wandering wight , whose life has not been spent", "Right ! Lady many-spoused , more charity", "But know , these English take to liquid life"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 140}, {"query": ["Past Mother Church 's cunning to restore .", "Well , learn in small the Emperor 's chronicle , As gleaned from what my soldier-husbands say :\u2014 some five-and-forty standards of his foes Are brought to Paris , borne triumphantly In proud procession through the surging streets , Ever as brands of fame to shine aloft In dim-lit senate-halls and city aisles .", "And though five midnights have not brought a sou ,", "The seer 's gift", "Thing 's seem as stated .", "Nay , but you know best \u2014 -", "But she 's in straits . She lost her Nelson now ,", "Vast mustering four-hundred-thousand strong ,", "George drools and babbles in a darkened room ;", "Long live the Emperor !\u2014 He 's the best by land .", "They do ? Then such not I .", "Heaven prosper , then , their watery wayfarings", "Can revolution 's dregs so soil thy soul", "One quarter theirs , has vanquished by his nerve", "What shall hinder him ?", "Wilt take the situation from this hour ?", "Has never plenteously endowed me , sir ,", "May all success attend his next exploit !", "What mean you , traveller ?", "I , too , chant Jubilate like the rest .\u2014", "\u2014 Adieu . I 'll not be yours to-night . I 'd starve first !", "That I 'd best hold my tongue from praise of fame !", "Napoleon 's stepson he \u2014 -"], "true_target": ["Poor profit , then , to me from my true trade ,", "In courtesies have haughty monarchs vied", "Your air has truth i n't ; but your state is strange ! Had I a husband he should tackle thee .", "Her heaven-born Minister declines apace ;", "Already , since these victories brought to town", "Towards the Conqueror ! who , with men-at-arms", "However , one is caught by popular zeal ,", "All smooths the Emperor 's sway .", "Had not the Goddess Reason laid all such", "So many foreign jobbers in my line ,", "There 's weirdness in your air . I 'd call you ghost", "If they 'll leave us the land !\u2014", "Dost ask", "As ignorant , yet asking can define ?", "I like not your queer knowledge , creepy man .", "As in appearance you . But to plain sense", "How know you , ere this news has got abroad ?", "And given new tactics to the art of war", "Wherein hot competition is so rife", "\u2018 Tis dangerous to insinuate nowadays !", "That thou shouldst doubt the eldest son thereof ?", "The Emperor !\u2014", "Unparalleled in Europe 's history !", "A thousand pardons , sir ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 140}, {"query": ["And has fast faded since .", "Have left him in a numbing lethargy ,", "When that despairing journey to the King", "From which I fear he may not rouse to strength", "Even partly , from his limbs last Lammastide ,", "And fibre that would rather snap than shrink", "Held out no longer . Now the upshot nears .", "on one side of the bed , and TOMLINE on the other , are spoken to by the dying man . The Bishop afterwards withdraws from the bed and comes to the landing where the others are . ]", "His spell of concentration on these things ,", "Rather than Fox , why , give me civil war ! \u201d"], "true_target": ["For speech with earth again .", "At Gloucester Lodge by Wessex shore was made", "To beg such . But relief the King refused .", "And yet he might have borne it , had the weight", "\u201c Why want you Fox ? What \u2014 Grenville and his friends ? \u201d", "I grieve to call your lordship up again , But symptoms lately have disclosed themselves That mean the knell to the frail life in him . And whatsoever thing of gravity It may be needful to communicate , Let them be spoken now . Time may not serve If they be much delayed .", "He harped . \u201c You are sufficient without these \u2014", "I fear that Wellesley 's visit here by now", "Strung him to tensest strain . He quite broke down ,", "Of governmental shackles been unclasped ,", "Determined now , that long have wasted him ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 141}, {"query": ["He has inquired the quarter of the wind ,", "These several days while I have been sitting by him", "That hope still frailly breathed recovery .", "When I said \u201c East , \u201d he answered \u201c That is well !", "When tongues of rumour twanged the word across", "Ah ,\u2014", "A list of his directions has been drawn ,", "And where that moment beaked the stable-cock .", "Farquhar just answered , in a soothing tone ,", "From that dire morning in the month just past", "Ah , stands it this ?..."], "true_target": ["The name of his disease is \u2014 Austerlitz !", "Those are the breezes that will speed him home ! \u201d", "So cling his heart-strings to his country 's cause .", "At this my dear friend smiled and shook his head ,", "He asks Sir Walter if he has long to live .", "Immense the matter those poor words contain !", "There 's no news yet .\u2014", "But I reproach not friendship 's lullabies . \u201d", "And feeling somewhat more at mental ease", "From its hid nook on the Moravian plains .", "As if to say : \u201c I can translate your words ,", "His brow 's inscription has been Austerlitz"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 141}, {"query": ["And murmured of his mission to Berlin", "That any hope remain !", "Has asked for tidings of Lord Harrowby ,", "As Europe 's haggard hope ; if , sure , it be"], "true_target": ["Ah ! now he wakes . Please come and speak to him as you would wish", "I am grateful you are here again , good friend !", "He 's sleeping some light seconds ; but once more", "He wills the wardenry of his affairs To his old friend the Bishop . But his words Bespeak too much anxiety for me , And underrate his services so far That he has doubts if his high deeds deserve Such size of recognition by the State As would award slim pensions to his kin . He had been fain to write down his intents , But the quill dropped from his unmuscled hand .\u2014 Now his friend Tomline pens what he dictates And gleans the lippings of his last desires ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 141}, {"query": ["Rest he required ; and rest was not for him .", "Still does his soul stay wrestling with that theme ,"], "true_target": ["Until the drama 's done .", "And still it will , even semi-consciously ,", "But hark . He does ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 141}, {"query": ["And yapping midnight winds have leapt on the roofs ,", "And seek the silence unperturbedly .", "And raised for him an evil harlequinade", "I might retort . I only say to thee", "ITS slaves we are : ITS slaves must ever be !"], "true_target": ["It suits us ill to cavil each with each .", "Now I would leave him to pass out in peace ,", "Nay , I have spoke too often ! Time and time ,", "That tortured him with harrowing grimace ,", "Of national disasters in long train ,", "When all Earth 's light has lain on the nether side ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 141}, {"query": ["At man 's fag end , when his destruction 's sure !"], "true_target": ["Even ITS official Spirit can show ruth"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 141}, {"query": ["..........", "CAPTAIN HARDINGE .", "Sir David Baird .", "AN UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE .", "COLONEL ANDERSON .", "COLONEL GRAHAM .", "A SERGEANT OF THE FORTY-THIRD .", "CASTLEREAGH .", "TWO SOLDIERS OF THE NINTH .", "Officers .", "DESERTERS AND STRAGGLERS .", "TWO YOUNG LORDS .", "Lords Yarmouth and Keith .", "Sir Arthur Wellesley , afterwards Lord Wellington .", "Parliament , and Persons of Quality and Office .", "The Royal Dukes .", "SIR JOHN HOPE ."], "true_target": ["ANOTHER LORD .", "A CAPTAIN OF HUSSARS AND OTHERS .", "Paget , Fraser , Hill , Napier .", "SHERIDAN .", "..........", "Other Peers , Ambassadors , Ministers , ex-Ministers , Members of", "FOX .", "SIR JOHN MOORE .", "English Forces .", "AN ARMY CHAPLAIN .", "General Beresford .", "TWO ARMY SURGEONS .", "TWO SPIES .", "THE PRINCE OF WALES , afterwards PRINCE REGENT .", "Other English Generals , Colonels , Aides , Couriers , and Military", "PERCEVAL .", "MAJOR COLBORNE , principal Aide-de-Camp to MOORE ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 141}, {"query": ["ANOTHER FRENCH OFFICER .", "FOY .", "PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE .", "JUNOT .", "BERTHIER .", "French Forces .", "GUILLET DE GEVRILLIERE , A CONSPIRATOR .", "..........", "Joseph Bonaparte .", "CHAMPAGNY , FOREIGN MINISTER", "BOURDIER , SECOND PHYSICIAN to Marie Louise .", "Maskers at a Ball .", "Eugene de Beauharnais .", "Louis and Jerome Bonaparte , and other Members of Napoleon 's Family .", "MURAT .", "SOULT .", "Caulaincourt .", "DE BAUSSET , CHAMBERLAIN ."], "true_target": ["A PARISIAN CROWD .", "Napoleon 's marriage .", "Lebrun , Duroc , Prince of Neufchatel , Grand-Duke of Berg .", "..........", "DUBOIS , ACCOUCHEUR to Marie Louise .", "TWO FRENCH SUBALTERNS .", "MASSENA .", "French Princes in England .", "Louis XVIII . of France .", "Corvisart , First Physician to Marie Louis .", "TALLEYRAND .", "CAMBACERES , ARCH-CHANCELLOR .", "TWO SERVANTS AT THE TUILERIES .", "Ney , Lannes , and other French Marshals , general and regimental", "ABBE DE PRADT , CHAPEL-MASTER .", "Officers , Aides , and Couriers .", "Grand Marshal , Grand Almoners , Heralds , and other Officials at", "LOISON ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 141}, {"query": ["Another stranger presses to see you , sir ."], "true_target": ["A foreigner , sir ; though not so out-at-elbows as might be thought from the denomination . He says he 's from Gravesend , having lately left Paris , and that you sent him a passport . He comes with a police-officer ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 142}, {"query": ["Subscribed this desperate fellow when he wrote ?", "\u2018 Tis true ; \u2018 tis true .\u2014", "Beamed out as one exalted trait in him ,", "Trotter , indeed you well may stare at me !", "The man 's indifference to his own vague doom", "Prithee speak on . No statesman can desire it more than I .", "Then what may be the valued revelation", "That dignified and pensive gentleman", "Good reason still to hope that broadening views ,", "Why brought you this proposal here to me ?", "You gave you out to be !", "Whose tenour would be priceless to the state ?", "At pleasant Saint-Ann 's Hill !", "Doubtless it was a false one . Come along .", "Sir , I incline to spell you as a spy ,", "Ah , to be sure . I remember . Bring him in , and tell the officer to wait outside .Trotter , will you leave us for a few minutes ? But be within hail .", "Ugh , what a twinge ! Time signals that he draws", "That haunt sad brains which brood on despotism ,", "I look warm , eh ?\u2014 and I am windless , too ;", "There to draw up a note to Talleyrand", "But lack the tools to justly cope therewith !...", "Oh , another . What 's he like ?", "He sketched a scheme for murdering Bonaparte ,", "Maybe \u2018 twas but a hoax to pocket pay ;", "I fear that it has liked so . But we see", "Towards the twelfth stroke of my working-day !", "Was a bold bravo , waiting for his chance .", "I have sufficient reason to be so .", "By shooting from a window as he passed ,"], "true_target": ["That you can unlock in such circumstance ?", "Ah \u2014 here 's Sir Francis Vincent : he 'll go with us .", "Well , in the past", "I think , that you are a true Frenchman born ?", "How I shall love my summer holiday", "And you are stored with tidings of much pith ,", "Retailing him the facts .\u2014 What signature", "On later thoughts I feel not fully sure", "Now what does strict state-honour ask of me ?\u2014", "With Europe through another mouth than mine !", "And showed the altitude of his rash dream !\u2014", "To the French ruler and our fiercest foe !\u2014", "Politer wisdom now is helping him", "If , in my ferment , I did right in this .", "No ; hail at once the man in charge of him ,", "Assassination ?", "Or by some other wry and stealthy means", "Well , parley to the point , for I confess No new negotiation do I note That you can open up to work such cure .", "Sir , your unconscienced hardihood confounds me . And your mind 's measure of my character Insults it sorely . By your late-sent lines Of specious import , by your bland address , I have been led to prattle hopefully With a cut-throat confessed !Ere worse befall , Sir , up and get you gone most dexterously ! Conduct this man : lose never sight of himTill haled aboard some anchor-weighing craft Bound to remotest coasts from us and France .", "Either \u2014 as in my haste I understood \u2014", "How contrived you , then , to cross ?", "To saner guidance of his arrogant car .", "I fear old England soon must voice her speech", "I fear it is so !\u2014 In your lines you wrote ,", "Well , now I 'll get me on to Downing Street ,", "No less than that I bare this poppling plot", "And give the word that he is to be detained .", "And yet it can mean more ...", "And not the honest help for honest men"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 142}, {"query": ["By those your power can influence , and yourself .", "To spare me that suspicion . Never a thought", "And soon made certain . To our good allies", "Things free , things fair , of truth , of tolerance ,", "Defines not this deed as assassination ;", "A deed 's true name is as its purpose is .", "On foot , on horseback , and by sundry shifts ,", "The matter is by now well forwarded ,", "Is the extinction of its evil cause .", "Masked under Prussian colours . Embden I reached", "From which the sanct intention can be worked ,", "From Paris over Holland , secretly .", "My knowledge of your love of things humane ,", "Of courts and universal tyranny .", "A painless spell of peace .", "Upon the sill of further slaughter-scenes !", "Europe , alas ! sir , has her waiting foot", "Yet bring I good assurance , and declare", "How you may handle me concerns me little . The project will as roundly ripe itself Without as with me . Trusty souls remain , Though my far bones bleach white on austral shores !\u2014 I thank you for the audience . Long ere this I might have reft your life ! Ay , notice here \u2014They need not have done that ! Even had you risen To wrestle with , insult , strike , pinion me , It would have lain unused . In hands like mine And my allies \u2019 , the man of peace is safe , Treat as he may our corporal tenement In his misreading of a moral code .", "Than means to mitigate and even end", "Certain immunities being guaranteed", "Safely and surely how to compass this", "Without a fore-extended confidence"], "true_target": ["The lexicon of Liberty and Peace", "I have the weighty honour to disclose ,", "These welfare-wasting wars ; ay , usher in", "The Emperor of France is as I say .\u2014", "That notwithstanding what his signals show", "I care not for names !", "In a small sailer called the \u201c Toby , \u201d sir ,", "The generous hope will never be fulfilled ! Ceasing to bluff , then ceases he to be . None sees that written largelier than himself .", "Prompted belief and hope in such a man !\u2014", "A medicine for all bruised Europe 's sores !", "The sovereign remedy for an ill effect", "I did , sir .", "A house at Plassy hired as pivot-point", "Like this of yours , my plans would not have sped .", "I beg , sir ,", "Though maybe it is writ so in the tongue", "It was from Embden that I shipped for Gravesend ,", "Of hailing England , and of entering here .", "I am . It is , in brief , no more nor less", "No nation , sir , can live its natural life , Or think its thoughts in these days unassailed , No crown-capt head enjoy tranquillity . The fount of such high spring-tide of disorder , Fevered disquietude , and forceful death , Is One ,\u2014 a single man . He \u2014 need I name ?\u2014 The ruler is of France .", "Could be more groundless . Solemnly I vow", "No risk attaches ; merely to ourselves .", "Right , justice , national felicity ,", "Thanks to you , sir , for this high privilege"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 142}, {"query": ["I was in time , sir . He has been detained .", "\u201c Guillet de la Gevrilliere . \u201d Here it stands .", "I trust not , sir . Though you should rest awhile .", "And these cloaked visitors of every clime"], "true_target": ["Leaving you no respite .", "To gain an audience morning , night , and noon ,", "That market on your magnanimity", "From the unceasing labours of your post ,", "The very servants half are invalid"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 142}, {"query": ["By us perceived , unrecognized by those ,", "He was the friend of peace \u2014 did his great best", "His hand so trembles it can scarce retain", "Alas ! what prayer will save the struggling lands ,", "What mean these couriers shooting shuttlewise", "And now he 's gone ! No substitute remains .", "To Paris and to London , turn and turn ?", "To shed her balms upon humanity ;"], "true_target": ["Whose lives are ninepins to these bowling hands ?", "The quill wherewith he lets Lord Yarmouth know", "My hope for Europe 's reason-wrought repose !", "But what strange figure , pale and noiseless , comes ,", "Of England 's Minister ?", "Into the very closet and retreat", "Here , then , ends", "Reserve is no more needed !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 143}, {"query": ["I Thereon speeds down through Kent and Picardy , evenly as some southing sky-bird 's shade :"], "true_target": ["I The aforesaid tidings fro the minister , spokesman in England 's cause to states afar ,", "I The smouldering dudgeon of the Prussian king , meanwhile , upon the horizon 's rim afar"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 143}, {"query": ["Bursts into running flame , that all his signs of friendliness were met by moves for war . I Attend and hear , for hear ye faintly may , his manifesto made at Erfurt town ,", "\u201c Thus trembles peace upon this balance-point : will you that Russia be let in or no ? \u201d I Then France rolls out rough words across the strait : \u201c To treat with you confederate with the Tsar ,", "\u201c Herein are written largely ! Take our thanks : we read that this conjuncture undesigned I \u201c Unfolds felicitous means of showing you that still our eyes are set , as yours , on peace ,", "\u201c With Russia hand in hand he is yours to close the long convulsions thrilling Europe through . \u201d I Still fare the shadowy missioners across , by Dover-road and Calais Channel-track ,", "Russia be . \u201d", "\u201c To warrant such ! Enough . Our comfort is , the crime of further strife lies not with France . \u201d", "\u201c Presumes us sunk in sloughs of shamefulness from which we yet stand gloriously afar ! I \u201c The English army must be Flanders-fed , and entering Picardy with pompous prance ,"], "true_target": ["Traverse the waters borne by one of such ; and thereto Bonaparte 's responses are : I \u201c The principles of honour and of truth which ever actuate the sender 's mind", "\u201c You yet have struck a jarring counternote and tone that keys not with such promising . I \u201c In these last word , then , of this pregnant parle ; I trust I may persuade your Excellency", "\u201c That in no circumstance , on no pretence , a party to our pact can", "\u201c To which great end the Treaty of Amiens must be the ground - work of our amities . \u201d I From London then : \u201c The path to amity the King of England studies to pursue ;", "From Thames-side towers to Paris palace-gates ; from Paris leisurely to London back . I Till thus speaks France : \u201c Much grief it gives us that , being pledged to treat , one Emperor with one King ,", "\u201c We gather not from your Imperial lines a reason why our words should be reweighed . I \u201c We hold Russia not as our ally that is to be : she stands fully - plighted so ;", "That to arms only dares he now confide the safety and the honour of his crown !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 143}, {"query": ["Fortunately for the manufacture of corpses by machinery Napoleon sticks to this veto , and so wards off the awkward catastrophe of a general peace descending upon Europe . Now England ."], "true_target": ["It is as neat as an uncovered check at chess ! You may now mark Fox 's blank countenance at finding himself thus rewarded for the good turn done to Bonaparte , and at the extraordinary conduct of his chilly friend the Muscovite ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 143}, {"query": ["Now enters another character of this remarkable little piece \u2014 Lord"], "true_target": ["Lauderdale \u2014 and again the messengers fly !", "Ay ; the remainder of the episode is frankly farcical . Negotiations are again affected ; but finally you discern Lauderdale applying for passports ; and the English Parliament declares to the nation that peace with France cannot be made ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 143}, {"query": ["Of the Will , the Many-masked , my good friend Death .\u2014", "And the unfinished game of Dynasties", "Ordnance , and all the enginry of Force !", "The statesman 's feeble form you may perceive", "Now hustled into the Invisible ,"], "true_target": ["The Tipstaff he", "Left to proceed without him !", "This too-protracted verbal fencing-scene ;", "And let us turn to clanging foot and horse ,", "Draw down the curtain , then , and overscreen"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 143}, {"query": ["Rings with a roar unnatural , fitful , forced ,", "Queens have engaged in war ; but war 's loud trade", "The valour had been his , hers but the charm !"], "true_target": ["Practised by woman 's hands !", "Who is this fragile fair , in fighting trim ?", "Would fate had ruled"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 144}, {"query": ["Trusting ebbed glory in a present need .\u2014", "Which takes no count of the new trends of time ,", "And their devotion dull their vigilance ?\u2014", "And holds him to what men call governing .", "What if their strength should equal not their fire ,", "The strength but half-a-ones .", "Gives ballast to the purpose of her spouse ,", "The enterprise is that of scores of men ,"], "true_target": ["It ramifies in streams that intermit", "To foil the modern methods counterposed !", "So doth the Will objectify Itself", "She is the pride of Prussia , whose resolve", "Uncertainly , by fits , the Will doth work", "And make their movement vague , old-fashioned , slow", "In likeness of a sturdy people 's wrath ,", "Of her view", "In Brunswick 's blood , their chief , as in themselves ;"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 144}, {"query": ["Yes , by God : send and ultimatum to Paris , by God ; that 's what we 'll do , by God . The Confederation of the Rhine was the evil thought of an evil man bent on ruining us !"], "true_target": ["By God , I must to beer and \u2018 bacco , to soften my rage !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 144}, {"query": ["This France , or rather say , indeed , this Man \u2014", "That shuts us off from all indemnities ,", "In calling lord this rank adventurer ,", "To fatten other kingdoms at our cost ,", "Surely Great Frederick sweats within his tomb !", "And , still professing our safe wardenry ,", "This man , to sign a stealthy scroll with Russia", "Who 'll thrust them as a sword against ourselves .\u2014"], "true_target": ["This country double-faced and double-tongued ,", "Of this antique and homely German land", "While swearing faithful friendship with our King ,", "Hereto of one tradition , interest , hope \u2014", "Insults us grossly , and makes Europe clang", "\u2014", "Are severed from their blood-allies and kin \u2014", "With echoes of our wrongs . The little states"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 144}, {"query": ["Thus evil does not always flourish , faith .", "And it never will be !"], "true_target": ["Well , we awake , though we have slumbered long , And She is sent by Heaven to kindle us .To cry her Amazon , a blusterer , A brazen comrade of the bold dragoons Whose uniform she dons ! Her , whose each act Shows but a mettled modest woman 's zeal , Without a hazard of her dignity Or moment 's sacrifice of seemliness , To fend off ill from home !", "Throw down the gage while god is fair to us ;", "He may be foul anon !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 144}, {"query": ["Would it wholly might be so , and feel not the forthcoming smart !", "Unconscious well-nigh as the Will"], "true_target": ["It boils in a boisterous thrill", "Of its part :", "Through the mart ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 144}, {"query": ["And victory is visioned , and seemings as facts are averred .", "Is heard ,"], "true_target": ["King , Councillors , grudge circumspection", "In conclaves no voice of reflection", "A word ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 144}, {"query": ["Is aflame ,", "In its aim"], "true_target": ["At supreme desperations to blazon the national name !", "Yea , the soul of a nation distrest", "And heaving with eager unrest"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 144}, {"query": ["Receive it , then , in square , unflinchingly .\u2014", "Keep you good guard against their cavalry ,", "Remember , men , last year you captured Ulm ,"], "true_target": ["And such it may be now ; so asks our heed .", "So make no doubt that you will vanquish these !", "In past repute the formidablest known ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 145}, {"query": ["Man , your mien", "Led by , they say , Davout and Bernadotte .", "Well , wet-faced men , whence come ye ? What d'ye bring ?", "Has he , by some strange gift of foreknowing ,", "Have twinned disasters to the fatherland", "Thitherward go I ,", "Fallen ? Brunswick ! Reed in council , rock in fire ...", "Shall , ere its loud delivery be done ,", "Impacting on the enemy 's further force", "Can you add aught ?"], "true_target": ["Or this too pregnant , hoarsely-groaning day", "Declared his fate was hovering in such wise !", "God grant his star less lurid rays then ours ,", "Is that of one who knows , but will not say .", "Enter a second and then a third straggler .", "Detain him here .", "No more . We match it here . The yielding lines Still sweep us backward . Backward we must go !The Prussian retreat from Jena quickens to a rout , many thousands taken prisoners by MURAT , who pursues them to Weimar , where the inhabitants fly shrieking through the streets . The October day closes in to evening . By this time the troops retiring with the King of Prussia from the second battlefield of Auerstadt have intersected RUCHEL 'S and HOHENLOHE 'S flying battalions from Jena . The crossing streams of fugitives strike panic into each other , and the tumult increases with the thickening darkness till night renders the scene invisible , and nothing remains but a confused diminishing noise , and fitful lights here and there .", "And patch the mischief wrought upon us here !", "That means the Duke of Brunswick , I conceive ,", "Ah , this he looked for . Many a time of late", "That fifty years will fail to sepulchre !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 145}, {"query": ["And left us victors !", "Prince , I have circuited by Auerstadt ,"], "true_target": ["Has raged thereat from clammy day-dawn on ,", "Which , if report by those who saw't be true ,", "And bring ye dazzling tidings of the fight ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 145}, {"query": ["And such the turmoil that no man could speak", "Across the stream of battle as it boiled"], "true_target": ["Your Highness , I rode straight from Hassenhausen ,", "On what the issue was !", "Betwixt that village and the banks of Saale ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 145}, {"query": ["Is broke ; himself disabled . All give way ,", "The blackness of my news ,", "A grape-shot stroke that gouged out half of it ,", "His aged form being borne beyond the strife ,", "His charging grenadiers , received in the face", "Nothing that 's clear , your Highness .", "Proclaiming then and there his life fordone .", "Brimmed marshals \u2019 breasts and men 's . The King himself"], "true_target": ["Fought like the commonest . But nothing served .", "Prince William , too , is wounded . Brave Schmettau", "The gallant Moellendorf , in flushed despair ,", "Your Highness , darks my sense !... I saw this much :", "And regiments crash like trees at felling-time !", "His horse is slain ; his own doom yet unknown .", "He , too , was slaughtered . Patriotic rage", "Swore he would not survive ; and , pressing on ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 145}, {"query": ["Yes : surely he is a courier from the field !"], "true_target": ["How does she bear it ? Whither does she go ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 146}, {"query": ["If I define him rightly . Read \u2014 O read !\u2014", "At last , to post his news , wild-winged or no .", "To prove Thy goodness !... What do you make of it ?", "A straggler merely he .... But they decide ,", "Though reading draw them from their socket-holes", "Shall we not hasten down , and take from him"], "true_target": ["Peer as I will , these too quick-thronging dreads", "An adjutant of Marshal Moellendorf 's", "The doom his tongue may deal us ?", "That victory be where she is needed most", "Bring water to the eyes . Grant us , good Heaven ,", "I cannot scan the words the scroll proclaims ;", "Use your eyes now !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 146}, {"query": ["The tenour of his new .", "Ah , yes : see \u2014 see", "\u201c The battle strains us sorely ; but resolve May save us even now . Our last attack Has failed , with fearful loss . Once more we strive . \u201d", "We shall catch"], "true_target": ["As soon by watching here as hastening hence", "\u201c The Duke of Brunswick , leading on a charge , Has met his death-doom . Schmettau , too , is slain ; Prince William wounded . But we stand as yet , Engaging with the last of our reserves . \u201d", "As soon as \u2018 tis affixed .... Ah \u2014 this means much ! The people 's air and gait Too well betray disaster .\u201c Berliners , The King has lost the battle ! Bear it well . The foremost duty of a citizen Is to maintain a brave tranquillity . This is what I , the Governor , demand Of men and women now .... The King lives still . \u201dThe stagnation is ended by a cheering outside , of subdued emotional quality , mixed with sounds of grief . They again look forth . QUEEN LOUISA is leaving the city with a very small escort , and the populace seem overcome . They strain their eyes after her as she disappears . Enter fourth lady . ]", "The bulletin is straightway to be nailed !", "He was , then , from the field ...."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 146}, {"query": ["And turn a mobile mien to statuesque ,", "So schools her sense of her calamities", "To abide events \u2014 as we . Her heroism"], "true_target": ["She goes to join the King at Custrin , there", "As out of grief to carve new queenliness ,", "Save for a sliding tear ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 146}, {"query": ["Let the fair woman bear it . Poland did .", "So the Will plays at flux and reflux still ."], "true_target": ["Is built of Polish bones , has bones home-made !", "This monarchy , one-half whose pedestal"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 146}, {"query": ["And soon will glitter at the city gates", "With palpitating drums , and breathing brass ,"], "true_target": ["And rampant joyful-jingling retinue .", "Meanwhile the mighty Emperor nears apace ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 146}, {"query": ["A battle , bravery , ruin ; and no more ?", "That thus it disappears ?\u2014 a patriot-cry ,"], "true_target": ["Us ?", "The kingdom late of Prussia , can it be"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 147}, {"query": ["O why does such a man debase himself By countenancing loud scurrility Against a queen who cannot make reprise ! A power so ponderous needs no littleness \u2014 The last resort of feeble desperates !", "England comes next for wrack . They say that know !...", "Our course , alas ! is \u2014 whither ?", "Look \u2014 he has entered by the Royal doors", "Then England 's doomed !", "From sacrilege . I learn that , since the fight ,"], "true_target": ["Where even great Frederick 's tomb was bared to him .", "Sans-Souci Palace drew his curious feet ,", "Thank God the Queen 's gone !", "When he has overturned the Russian rule ,", "He comes even now", "And makes the Palace his .\u2014 Now let us go !\u2014", "In marching here by Potsdam yesterday ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 147}, {"query": ["To what sanctuary ?", "And work its own release .", "Russia ? Austria ?", "\u2014 Is this what men call conquest ? Must it close", "Such rodomontade is cheap : what matters it !", "Sting and excite a bonded last resistance ,", "Stand waiting on himself the Overking ,", "And suffer in conjecture and in deed .\u2014"], "true_target": ["Such issue none would venture to predict ,", "From earthquake shocks there is no sheltering cell !", "As historied conquests do , or be annulled", "If verily our country be dislimbed ,", "Who ruling rules all ; till desperateness", "The face of earth will lie , and vassal kings", "Yet folly \u2018 twere to nourish foreshaped fears", "Then at the mercy of his domination", "By modern reason and the urbaner sense ?\u2014"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 147}, {"query": ["He seized the sword and standards treasured there ,", "Even as they were when our arch-monarch died \u2014", "The books , the chair , the inkhorn , and the pen", "And entering where our hero 's bones are urned"], "true_target": ["Declared they should be all dispatched to Paris", "He quizzed with flippant curiosity ;", "And with a mixed effrontery and regard", "As gifts to the Hotel des Invalides .", "All objects on the Palace \u2014 cared for , kept"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 147}, {"query": ["Her he still holds the master mischief-mind ,", "Humiliation grows acuter still . He placards rhetoric to his soldiery On their distress of us and our allies , Declaring he 'll not stack away his arms Till he has choked the remaining foes of France In their own gainful glut .\u2014 Whom means he , think you ?", "Neither : England .\u2014 Yea ,"], "true_target": ["And marrer of the countries \u2019 quietude ,", "By exercising untold tyranny", "Over all the ports and seas ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 147}, {"query": ["From signing a peace with the Land of Ships .", "Evolved the fleet of the Englishry ."], "true_target": ["And freezes the Emperor 's finger-tips", "This , O this is the cramp that grips !", "But the weaving Will from eternity ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 147}, {"query": ["The wane of his armaments ill-advised ,"], "true_target": ["At Trafalgar , to a force despised ,", "Was a wound which never has cicatrized ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 147}, {"query": ["The Universal-empire plot"], "true_target": ["Demands the rule of that wave-walled spot ;", "And peace with England cometh not !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 147}, {"query": ["All natives of her isles , wherever met ,", "Our vast , effectual , and majestic strokes", "All England 's ports to suffer strict blockade ;", "Of law and national integrities", "By English arrogance in things marine ,", "To bar from commerce with the Continent", "These monstrous violations being in train", "To be detained as windfalls of the war ."], "true_target": ["And shameless sauciness to neighbour powers !", "All chattels of her make , material , mould ,", "But shall be barred from every haven here .", "To be good prize wherever pounced upon :", "All traffic with that land to cease forthwith ;", "All keels of English frame . Hence I decree :\u2014", "This for her monstrous harms to human rights ,", "In this unmatched campaign , enable me", "And never a bottom hailing from her shores"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 147}, {"query": ["Or hints it to his suite , or syllables it", "This outlines his renowned \u201c Berlin Decree . \u201d"], "true_target": ["Maybe he meditates its scheme in sleep ,", "While shaping , to his scribes ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 147}, {"query": ["And summer shocks , and winter-whitened bones ."], "true_target": ["Nor will it be for many a month of moans ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 147}, {"query": ["and ALEXANDER emerge from their seclusion , and each is beheld talking to the suite of his companion apparently in flattering compliment . An effusive parting , which signifies itself to be but temporary , is followed by their return to the river shores amid the cheers of the spectators ."], "true_target": ["and his marshals arrive at the door of his quarters and enter , and pass out of sight to other rooms than that of the foreground in which the observers are loitering . Dumb show ends ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 147}, {"query": ["Such a spirited woman will never come !", "Cutting up Europe like a plum-pudding . Par nobile fratrum !", "It is this Spanish business that will stagger England , by God ! And now to let her know it ."], "true_target": ["Dammy , go that length , did they !", "Surely this is but surmise ?", "Somebody must ride like hell to let our Cabinet know !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 147}, {"query": ["Not at all . One of the suite overheard , and I got round him . There was much more , which I did not learn . But they are going to soothe and flatter the unfortunate King and Queen by asking them to a banquet here .", "We shall see . Whom necessity compels needs must : and she has gone through an Iliad of woes !"], "true_target": ["Then they worthy pair came to poor Prussia , whom Alexander , they say , was anxious about , as he is under engagements to her . It seems that Napoleon agrees to restore to the King as many of his states as will cover Alexander 's promise , so that the Tsar may feel free to strike out in this new line with his new friend .", "Then they plunged into the old story about English selfishness , and greed , and duplicity . But the climax related to Spain , and it amounted to this : they agreed that the Bourbons of the Spanish throne should be made to abdicate , and Bonaparte 's relations set up as sovereigns instead of them .", "I have written it down in cipher , not to trust to memory , and to guard against accidents .\u2014 They also agree that France should have the Pope 's dominions , Malta , and Egypt ; that Napoleon 's brother Joseph should have Sicily as well as Naples , and that they would partition the Ottoman Empire between them ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 147}, {"query": ["Not less it was that you exposed yourself ,", "That country which enchains the trade of towns", "My God , it was touch-and-go that time , Talleyrand ! She was within an ace of getting over me . As she stepped into the carriage she said in her pretty way , \u201c O I have been cruelly deceived by you ! \u201d And when she sank down inside , not knowing I heard , she burst into sobs fit to move a statue . The Devil take me if I had n't a good mind to stop the horses , jump in , give her a good kissing , and agree to all she wanted . Ha-ha , well ; a miss is as good as a mile . Had she come sooner with those sweet , beseeching blue eyes of hers , who knows what might not have happened ! But she did n't come sooner , and I have kept in my right mind .Adhere , then , to the treaty as it stands : Change not therein a single article , But write it fair forthwith .", "Nor is the accommodation more than scant", "Nobility has shone in you alone .", "As I knew !", "Conclude a ready peace , he can be forced .", "Your reach in rarity outsoars my scope .", "The brighter wearer than the wearer it !", "Would it were one in blood as well as brain \u2014", "That falls to me for hospitality ;", "To recapitulate . Nothing can greaten you", "Between us two , henceforth , must stand no third .", "And should have been protected . But at Weimar ,", "And re-wive promptly for the country 's good .", "Still weeping , dearest lady ! Why is this ?", "For reasons which I will not dwell on now .", "Muscovy 's fall , its ruler 's murdering .", "Must shiver \u2014 fall .", "Leaving me free in dealings with the Porte ;", "Two in a bed I have slept , but never three .", "My good friend Sultan Selim from his throne ,", "Has been much pressed upon me , much , of late ,", "Ay !\u2014 through her purse , friend , as the lender there !\u2014", "And misbeliefs by dullard ministers .", "Had you but sought me , \u2018 twould have bettered you .", "Strong friendship , grown secure , bids me repeat", "I have , already !\u2014", "Ay , ay ; I will .The company move into the inner half of the room , where the tables are , and the folding-doors being shut , they seat themselves at dinner , the QUEEN taking a place between NAPOLEON and ALEXANDER . ]", "A draft , then , of our treaty being penned ,", "Now , sire , to those affairs we entered on :", "A Bourbon , minded thus , so near as Spain ,", "Madame , I love magnificent attire ;", "Alas , alas ! Too grievous , this , for one who is yet a queen !", "Staid counsellors , my brother Joseph , too ,", "The comforts I can offer are not great ,", "She 's one whom you admire ?", "And keep you snug as minnows in a glass !", "Yet , do you know , a troop of my hussars ,", "But she is wearing thready : why , her years", "But , as it is , accept .", "I trust the treaty , further pondered , sire , Has consolations ?", "With such bold reach as to monopolize ,", "We will peruse it later . If King George", "And I discern the hour as one to end", "That last October day , nigh captured you ?", "Dear Queen , do pray accept this little token As souvenir of me before you go ?", "Wherein King Carlos offered to attack me .", "Urge that I loose the Empress by divorce ,", "She 's coming with the King ."], "true_target": ["Like this alliance . Providence has flung", "Why con not annals of your own rich age ? They treasure acts well fit for pondering .", "And how at Memel do you sport with time ?", "The Queen of Prussia must ere long be here :", "Hence we , fast-fellowed by our mutual foes ,", "A rule that Time no longer lets cohere .", "To its own gain and our eternal fame !", "Seaward the British , Germany by land ,", "We have some quarter-hour to spare or more", "It 's rather late , methinks , to talk thus now .", "And \u2018 twixt ourselves alone ....", "And having compassed , for our common good ,", "That you have been much duped by your allies .", "The Turkish Empire 's due partitioning ,", "But in the present instance can but note", "Of worth as candour , madame ; not as gauge .", "Of family hopes , and sweet domestic bliss !", "If I abstain , its spoils will go to swell", "To your ally , the Tsar , I must refer you . He was it , and not I , who tempted you To push for war , when Eylau must have shown Your every profit to have lain in peace .\u2014 He can indemn ; yes , much or small ; and may .", "More in an hour than they in blundering months .", "Know you , my Fair That I \u2014 ay , I \u2014 in this deserve your pity .\u2014 Some force within me , baffling mine intent , Harries me onward , whether I will or no . My star , my star is what 's to blame \u2014 not I . It is unswervable !", "There 's peril in it , while England 's mean ambition", "However this , to-day , is premature ,", "Is dangerous stuff . He must be seen to soon !...", "And Austria will fain to do the same :", "Believe me , \u2018 tis but my regard for you Which lets me leave him that ! Far easier \u2018 twere To leave him none at all .But here they are . No ; it 's the Queen alone , with Berthier As I directed . Then the King will follow .", "Berthier escorts her . And the King , too , comes .", "Princesses even have been named for me !\u2014", "Shutting that purse , she may incite to \u2014 what ?", "Trumpet yourself as France 's firm ally ,", "Our words take not such pattern as is wont", "Prussia 's a shuffler , England a self-seeker ,", "It is for you to take what I can give . And I give this \u2014 no more .", "I lighted on some letters at Berlin ,", "To grace occasions of festivity .", "The power of this same England , our annoy ;", "By treating personally we speed affairs", "Will not , upon the terms there offered him ,", "Before their Majesties are timed for us .", "And in this view your chiefs-of-staff concur .", "The launching of a lineal progeny", "Your error grew of over-generous dreams ,", "Yours in the Baltic ; in the Black Sea , too ;", "That each bright knot and jewel less adorns", "As comrades can conjunctly rule the world", "Her fleet at any minute can encoop", "Still works to get us skewered by the ears ;", "Must be full one-and-thirty , if she 's one .", "Among the rest , the whole of Petersburg 's \u2014", "England , left nude to such joint harassment ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 148}, {"query": ["And to unbrace the bandages of state", "Good . I would speak of them . That she should show here", "Is as clear air to incense-stifled souls .", "And I beseech you , sire , that you hold out", "Abasement in so proud a woman 's heart", "Is not without a dash of painfulness .", "No , sire . She 's twenty-nine . If traits teach more It means that cruel memory gnaws at her As fair inciter to that fatal war Which broke her to the dust !... I do confessthat this sacrifice Prussia is doomed to , still disquiets me . Unhappy King ! When I recall the oaths Sworn him upon great Frederick 's sepulchre , And \u2014 and my promises to his sad Queen , It pricks me that his realm and revenues Should be stript down to the mere half they were !", "Yes .... Formerly I had \u2014 did feel that some faint fascination Vaguely adorned her form . And , to be plain , Certain reports have been calumnious , And wronged an honest woman .", "Some gentle words on her ?", "I see vast prospects opened !\u2014 yet , in truth , Ere you , sire , broached these themes , their outlines loomed Not seldom in my own imaginings ; But with less clear a vision than endows So great a captain , statesman , philosoph , As centre in yourself ; whom had I known Sooner by some few years , months , even weeks , I had been spared full many a fault of rule . \u2014 Now as to Austria . Should we call her in ?"], "true_target": ["Say not so . You speak as all were lost . Things are not thus ! Such desperation has unreason in it , And bleeds the hearts that crave to comfort you .", "After the late events , betokens much !", "The judgment of my officers I share .", "It serves well .", "What of the Queen ?", "Ah \u2014 is it to my sister you refer ?", "Some soothing hope for her ?", "It is a great alliance !", "Ha-ha ! Delightful . And , then nextly , Spain ?", "Let me , sire , urge your courtesy to bestow"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 148}, {"query": ["No ; I have cause for vials more of grief .\u2014", "And muse on usurpations long forgot ,", "Sport ? I !\u2014 I pore on musty chronicles ,", "Your speeches darn the tearings of your sword !\u2014 Between us two , as man and woman now , Is't even possible you question why ! O why did not the Greatest of the Age \u2014 Of future ages \u2014 of the ages past , This one time win a woman 's worship \u2014 yea , For all her little life !", "Defend me now , and my wan ghost anon ,", "You praise one , sire , whom now the wanton world Has learnt to cease from praising ! But such words From such a quarter are of worth no less .", "You , and myself , Prince .Yes ! myself and you .", "Too well has she been punished !", "Nay ! Never a single Frenchman did I see .", "And other historied dramas of high wrong !", "I am reminded too much of my age"], "true_target": ["The embers of great Frederick 's deeds inflamed her :", "His glories swelled her to her ruining .", "Prussia was blind in blazoning her power", "Against the Mage of Earth !...", "My duty 's done as mother , wife , and queen .\u2014", "By having had to live in it . May Heaven", "From conning it again !", "I 'll say no more \u2014 but that my heart is broken !", "Then now , alas !", "I should infer , dear Monsieur Talleyrand , Only two persons in the world regret My having come to Tilsit .", "I had no zeal to meet you , sire , alas !", "Let Magdeburg come with it , sire ! O yes !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 148}, {"query": ["I am a luckless man ; And muster strength to bear my lucklessness Without vain hope of consolations now . One thing , at least , I trust I have shown you , sire That I provoked not this calamity ! At Anspach first my feud with you began \u2014 Anspach , my Eden , violated and shamed By blushless tramplings of your legions there !"], "true_target": ["I would make up , would well make up , my mind To half my kingdom 's loss , could in such limb But Magdeburg not lie . Dear Magdeburg , Place of my heart-hold ; THAT I would retain !", "Never too late for truth and plainspeaking !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 148}, {"query": ["O heed not England now ! Still read the Queen . One grieves to see her spend her pretty spells Upon the man who has so injured her .Here are now assembled MURAT , TALLEYRAND , KOURAKIN , KALKREUTH , BERTHIER , BESSIERES , CAULAINCOURT , LABANOFF , BENNIGSEN , and others . NAPOLEON having spoken a few words here and there resumes his conversation with QUEEN LOUISA , and parenthetically offers snuff to the COUNTESS VOSS , her lady-in-waiting . TALLEYRAND , who has observed NAPOLEON 'S growing interest in the QUEEN , contrives to get near him . ]"], "true_target": ["If that be so ,", "Better for Europe lacked he such discerning !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 148}, {"query": ["Sire , is it possible that you can bend To let one woman 's fairness filch from you All the resplendent fortune that attends The grandest victory of your grand career ?"], "true_target": ["Madame , two ? Can any !\u2014 who may such sad rascals be ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 148}, {"query": ["He spoke thus at the Bridge of Lodi . Strange ,"], "true_target": ["The working of the Will .", "He 's of the few in Europe who discern"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 148}, {"query": ["Of an enisled Britannic quality ;"], "true_target": ["Some surly voice afar I heard now", "Wots any of the cause ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 148}, {"query": ["Against her cargoes , commerce , life itself ;", "By Bonaparte 's pronouncement at Berlin", "Britain is roused , in her slow , stolid style ,"], "true_target": ["And now from out her water citadel", "Blows counterblasting \u201c Orders . \u201d Rumours tell .", "Perchance I do !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 148}, {"query": ["With poor or precious freight of merchandize"], "true_target": ["\u201c From havens of fierce France and her allies ,", "Whoso adventures , England pounds as prize ! \u201d"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 148}, {"query": ["Curst Oligarch , Arch-pirate of the sea ,"], "true_target": ["Thereat Napoleon names her , furiously ,", "Who shall lack room to live while liveth he !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 148}, {"query": [", NEAR MADRID . A ROOM IN THE PALACE OF GODOY , THE \u201c PRINCE"], "true_target": ["OF PEACE \u201d"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 149}, {"query": ["Much , dear . I always play fair . But it being your blest privilege not to need my saving I was left free to practise it on those who did .Would that I were in no more danger than you !", "There will be time yet . Now I 'll take you down", "And ships in Cadiz port . But then \u2014 the Prince", "Yes , there the coach is ; and the clamourers near ,", "A week beside you , and a week away .", "I could not check her coming , since she would .", "The first thought now is how to get you back Within the Palace walls . Why would you risk To come here on a night so critical ?", "Nor with THEY hurt YOU ! Why did you not stay in the Royal Palace ? You would have been more comfortable there .", "I judge so \u2014 when I have done what 's needful here .\u2014", "I cannot quite forsake them . Do n't forget", "The same scope has been yours in former years .", "Let me put these out ere they notice them ; They think me at the Royal Palace yonder .In front of the house a guard of hussars is stationed , beyond them spreading the Plaza or Square . On the other side rises in the lamplight the white front of the Royal Palace . On the flank of the Palace is a wall enclosing gardens , bowered alleys , and orange groves , and in the wall a small door . A mixed multitude of soldiery and populace fills the space in front of the King 's Palace , and they shout and address each other vehemently . During a lull in their vociferations is heard the peaceful purl of the Tagus over a cascade in the Palace grounds . ]", "Dear Queen , I do not :", "The mob knows not the bye-door \u2014 slip across ;", "The coach is waiting and the baggage packed .", "Such is not schemed without some risk and strain .\u2014", "Thence around sideways .\u2014 All 's clear there as yet .", "Yet I do passably keep troth with you ,", "looks again from the window . The mob is some way off , the immediate front being for the moment nearly free of loiterers ; and the three muffled figures are visible , crossing without hindrance towards the door in the wall of the Palace Gardens . The instant they reach it a sentinel springs up , challenging them . ]", "I shape these sharp regrets but for your sake .", "Led by Montijo , if I see aright .", "But of me solely .... Where does your lady wait ?", "Such must be .", "I can escape . Now call them . All three cloak"], "true_target": ["They think not yet of you in threatening thus ,", "Yes , they cry \u201c Uncle Peter ! \u201d \u2014 that means him .", "Not just yet , maybe . You should have sooner fled !", "And you agreed Josefa should be mine ,", "I hold seven thousand men to cover us ,", "Hence you must go , somehow , and quickly too .", "Find her at once . Ah \u2014 here she is .\u2014 That 's well .\u2014 Go watch the Plaza", "The life-guards still insist , Love , that the King", "and the QUEEN MARIA LUISA are dallying on a sofa . THE PRINCE OF PEACE is a fine handsome man in middle life , with curled hair and a mien of easy good-nature . The QUEEN is older , but looks younger in the dim light , from the lavish use of beautifying arts . She has pronounced features , dark eyes , low brows , black hair bound by a jewelled bandeau , and brought forward in curls over her forehead and temples , long heavy ear-rings , an open bodice , and sleeves puffed at the shoulders . A cloak and other mufflers lie on a chair beside her . ]", "And , too , Thereza without jealousy !", "Shall not leave Aranjuez .", "He says he comes pacifically .... But no !", "Ah \u2014 now they are doomed ! My God , why did she come !Now for the others . Then \u2014 ah , then Heaven knows !Where is the Countess of Castillofiel ?", "And veil as when you came .", "You well know how the old thing is , and how", "And fond you with fair regularity ;\u2014", "True , my dear .\u2014", "Being so well aware who holds my love .\u2014", "So far as I may venture .", "I am compelled to let her have her mind !", "Ah , what means that ?", "Flatly declines to go . He lauds the French", "As true deliverers .", "Do n't , pretty one ! needless it is in you ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 149}, {"query": ["And in a western bower dream out our days !\u2014", "Shattered and shaken as his vigour is .\u2014", "She does not solve her soul in yours as I .", "Below . One servant with her . They are true ,", "And can be let know all . But you \u2014 but you !", "Napoleon soon draws hither with his host !", "Nay , now ! I will not have it . We are safe ;", "Let them insist .", "Not for myself I fear . No , no ; for thee !", "How little own I in thee !", "If they should hurt you , it would murder me", "But ah \u2014 your love burns not in singleness !", "Why , dear , caress Josefa Tudo still ?", "For the King 's glass can run but briefly now ,", "Yes , Love ; I know . I yield ! You cannot leave them ;", "Lingering , we 've risked too long our chance of flight !"], "true_target": ["A riot can it be ?", "The Paris Terror will repeat it here .", "Go Fernando MUST !...", "Whether we stay , or whether we depart ,", "I could not help it \u2014 nay , I WOULD not help ! Rather than starve my soul I venture all .\u2014 Our last love-night \u2014 last , maybe , of long years , Why do you chide me now ?", "How long I have been yours , how truly all", "But if you ever would bethink yourself", "Could but escape and leave the rest to fate ,", "And why those others even more than her ?...", "To soften sorrow at your absences ,", "Dearest , we must away to Andalusia ,", "Those other pleasures were my desperate shifts", "O my sweet friend , that we \u2014 our sole two selves \u2014", "By heart-bleedings and stabs intolerable !", "Thence to America when time shall serve .", "You would be faithful to me !", "Think of yourself . Can you get out behind ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 149}, {"query": ["Silence their uproar , please , Senor Count of Montijo ! It is a lady only , the Countess of Castillofiel .", "Will they not come on hither from the King 's ?"], "true_target": ["I should have joined you sooner , but I knew The Queen was fondling with you . She must needs Come hampering you this night of all the rest , As if not gorged with you at other times !", "But look , the mob is swelling ! Pouring in", "By thousands from Madrid \u2014 and all afoot ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 149}, {"query": ["The villain Godoy misrepresented us to him ! Throw out the Prince of Peace !", "Call out the King and the Prince . Long live the King ! He shall not go . Hola ! He is gone ! Let us see him ! He shall abandon Godoy !", "Then the King shall announce to us that he has dismissed him ! Let us see him . The King ; the King !", "Huzza ! Long life to the King , and death to Godoy !"], "true_target": ["Murder him ! murder him ! Death to Manuel Godoy !", "Promise , Prince , that he shall not leave us . Promise !", "Uncle Peter , it is the Favourite carrying off Prince Fernando . Stop him !", "Huzza !", "Speak up , your Majesty !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 149}, {"query": ["It shows but useless spite ! I have much to say :", "We have saved our nation from the Favourite ,", "The French Ambassador , de Beauharnais ,", "His aim 's to noose us vassals all to him !", "I know not what he means , this Bonaparte ;", "But who is going to save us from our Friend ?", "Let her pass , let her pass , friends ! It is only that pretty wench of his , Pepa Tudo , who calls herself a Countess . Our titles are put to comical uses these days . We shall catch the cock-bird presently !"], "true_target": ["The King will abdicate , and shortly too ,", "Is closing in upon our doomed Madrid !", "But what want we with her ? \u2018 Tis like as not", "As those will live to see who live not long .\u2014", "He makes pretence to gain us Portugal ,", "With thirty thousand men , half cavalry ,", "Has come , and sought the King . And next Murat ,", "Stop , friends ; stop this ! There is no sense in it \u2014"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 149}, {"query": ["Citizens ! the King my father is in the palace with the Queen . He has been much tried to-day ."], "true_target": ["He is not here , my friends .", "I do . I promise in his name . He has mistaken you , thinking you wanted his head . He knows better now ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 149}, {"query": ["\u201c As it is the wish of the people , I release Don Manuel Godoy , Prince of Peace , from the posts of Generalissimo of the Army and Grand Admiral of the Fleet , and give him leave to withdraw whither he pleases . \u201d"], "true_target": ["\u201c As it is the wish of the people \u2014 -  \u201d", "Citizens , to-morrow the decree is to be posted in Madrid ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 149}, {"query": ["My wish is nought . Do what you will with me . But he 's not here .", "It is only your unhappy wife , Manuel . She will not hurt you !", "Go , I beseech you ! You can do nothing for me , and I pray you to save yourself ! The heap of mats in the lumber-room will hide you !His wife sits down with her back against the jib-door , and fans herself . She hears the crowd trampling up the stairs , but she does not move , and in a moment people burst in . The leaders are armed with stakes , daggers , and various improvised weapons , and some guards in undress appear with halberds . ]"], "true_target": ["Puf !", "I do n't recognize why you should specially value my comfort . You have saved you real wives . How can it matter what happens to your titular one ?", "The Prince of Peace is gone . I know not wither ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 149}, {"query": ["Safe conduct for you to the Palace gates ,", "For we mean mischief here ! Yet first will grant", "But this , Senora , is no place for you ,"], "true_target": ["Or elsewhere , as you wish", "Where is he ? Murder him !Come , where is he ?", "She 's his wife ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 149}, {"query": ["With mortals for Its fingers ! We shall see", "This easeful haunt into the path of palpitating things !", "So the Will heaves through Space , and moulds the times ,", "Again men 's passions , virtues , visions , crimes ,"], "true_target": ["The purposive , unmotived , dominant Thing", "Obey resistlessly", "O clarionists of human welterings ,", "Relate how Europe 's madding movement brings", "Which sways in brooding dark their wayfaring !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 150}, {"query": ["As chattels of a Court ,", "In faith that England 's hand", "Dream dreams of England . Messengers are sent", "In secret to the assembled Parliament ,"], "true_target": ["And crown a cause which , hold they , bond and free", "Will stouten them to stand ,", "Must advocate enthusiastically .", "The Spanish people , handled in such sort ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 150}, {"query": ["It will be a blessed event if they do check the career of this infamous Corsican . I have just heard that that poor foreigner Guillet de la Gevrilliere , who proposed to Mr. Fox to assassinate him , died a miserable death a few days ago the Bicetre \u2014 probably by torture , though nobody knows . Really one almost wishes Mr. Fox had \u2014 -  . O here they are !"], "true_target": ["At last , then , England will take her place in the forefront of this mortal struggle , and in pure disinterestedness fight with all her strength for the European deliverance . God defend the right !", "I am sorry to say , sir , that the Spanish Patriots are not yet arrived . I doubt not but that they have been delayed by their ignorance of the town , and will soon be here ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 150}, {"query": ["Dash my wig , mighty much you know about it , Maria ! Why , sure , Boney thought to himself , \u201c This Spain is a pretty place ; \u2018 twill just suit me as an extra acre or two ; so here goes . \u201d", "No hurry whatever , my dear hostess . Gad , we 've enough to talk about ! I understand that the arrangement between our ministers and these noblemen will include the liberation of Spanish prisoners in this country , and the providing \u2018 em with arms , to go back and fight for their independence .", "By gad , Viscount , we were just talking of \u2018 ee . You had some adventures in getting to this country ?"], "true_target": ["And do you wish us to send an army at once ?", "We are going to vote fifty millions , I hear . We 'll whack him , and preserve your noble country for \u2018 ee , Senor Viscount . The debate thereon is to come off to-morrow . It will be the finest thing the Commons have had since Pitt 's time . Sheridan , who is open to it , says he and Canning are to be absolutely unanimous ; and , by God , like the parties in his \u201c Critic , \u201d when Government and Opposition do agree , their unanimity is wonderful ! Viscount Materosa , you and your friends must be in the Gallery . O , dammy , you must !", "And hark ye , Senor Viscount . You will then learn what a mighty fine thing a debate in the English Parliament is ! No Continental humbug there . Not but that the Court has a trouble to keep \u2018 em in their places sometimes ; and I would it had been one in the Lords instead . However , Sheridan says he has been learning his speech these two days , and has hunted his father 's dictionary through for some stunning long words .\u2014 Now , Maria, I am going home .", "You represent , practically , the Spanish people ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 150}, {"query": ["By the Assembly of Asturias ,", "And his son Prince Fernando cede the throne", "More sailing soon from other provinces .", "Declaring that the act by which King Carlos", "To whomsoever Napoleon may appoint ,", "Yes , madam , and the protection they foolishly requested from the", "Unfetters us from our allegiant oath .", "It was an opportunity he had been awaiting for years .", "And swell the pulse of the Peninsula ,", "Manuel Godoy .", "Emperor ; and their timid intent of flying secretly helped it on .", "What we most want , sir , are arms and ammunition . But we leave the English Ministry to co-operate in its own wise way , anyhow , so as to sustain us in resenting these insults from the Tyrant of the Earth ."], "true_target": ["Sir , it has indeed been a trying experience for us . But here we are , impressed by a deep sense of gratitude for the signal marks of attachment your country has shown us .", "Sir , we are already pledged to be there .", "That may promote our cause against the foe .", "Being an act of cheatery , not of choice ,", "Yes , by hiding in the garret . Then they all threw themselves upon Napoleon 's protection . In his presence the Queen swore that the King was not Fernando 's father ! Altogether they form a queer little menagerie . What will happen to them nobody knows .", "We are immediately deputed , sir ,", "We bring official writings , charging us", "Also a Proclamation , soon to sound", "It was . And our credulous prince was tempted to meet Napoleon at", "To clinch and solder Treaties with this realm", "Nextly a letter to your gracious King ;", "Bayonne . Also the poor simple King , and the infatuated Queen , and"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 150}, {"query": ["The usurpation began , I suppose , with the divisions in the Royal", "FITZHERBERT"], "true_target": ["Family ?", "All brought about by this man Godoy , Prince of Peace !", "FITZHERBERT"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 150}, {"query": ["Ah ! Ladies a little mixed , as they were at our Court ! She 's the", "England more than we are in Spain !", "Pepa Tudo to THIS Prince of Peace ?"], "true_target": ["Ya , ya . Good . I 'll be careful , my friend . You are not saints in", "Virtuous country !", "This lady is the Princess of Wales ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 150}, {"query": ["Hsh ! no , Senor . The Princess lives at large at Kensington and other places , and has parties of her own , and does n't keep house with her husband . This lady is \u2014 well , really his wife , you know , in the opinion of many ; but \u2014 -"], "true_target": ["We are not . Only you sin with naked faces , and we with masks on .", "O no \u2014 not exactly that , Senor ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 150}, {"query": ["What sort of aid shall we send , sir ?"], "true_target": ["It was understood that Ferdinand , Prince of Asturias , was to marry a French princess , and so unite the countries peacefully ?", "Then Godoy escaped from Aranjuez ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 150}, {"query": ["Till England stands enlisted for the Patriots \u2019 needs .", "The said Debate , to wit ; its close in deed ;"], "true_target": ["Till gracious zephyrs shoulder on their sails", "To where the brine of Biscay moans its tragic tales ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 150}, {"query": ["Of buckled fighting-flesh , and gale-bound , watch and wait ."], "true_target": ["And transports in the docks gulp down their freight"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 150}, {"query": ["Bear we , too , south , as we were swallow-vanned ,"], "true_target": ["And mark the game now played there by the Master-hand !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 150}, {"query": ["In the spacious scene visible the far-separated groups of transports , convoyed by battleships , float on before the wind almost imperceptibly , like preened duck-feathers across a pond . The southernmost expedition , under SIR ARTHUR WELLESLEY , soon comes to anchor within the Bay of Mondego aforesaid , and the soldiery are indefinitely discernible landing upon the beach from boats . Simultaneously the division commanded by MOORE , as yet in the Chops of the channel , is seen to be beaten back by contrary winds . It gallantly puts to sea again , and being joined by the division under ANSTRUTHER that has set out from Plymouth , labours round Ushant , and stands to the south in the track of WELLESLEY . The rearward transports do the same . A moving stratum of summer cloud beneath the point of view covers up the spectacle like an awning ."], "true_target": ["Four groups of moth-like transport ships are discovered silently skimming this wide liquid plain . The first group , to the right , is just vanishing behind Cape Mondego to enter Mondego Bay ; the second , in the midst , has come out from Plymouth Sound , and is preparing to stand down Channel ; the third is clearing St. Helen 's point for the same course ; and the fourth , much further up Channel , is obviously to follow on considerably in the rear of the two preceding . A south-east wind is blowing strong , and , according to the part of their course reached , they either sail direct with the wind on their larboard quarter , or labour forward by tacking in zigzags ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 151}, {"query": ["To coasts that glister southwardly", "What are these fleets that cross the sea"], "true_target": ["From British ports and bays", "Behind the dog-day haze ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 151}, {"query": ["Are packed in thousands fighting-men", "Holds Burrard , Hope , ill-omened Moore ,", "And colonels in command .", "Within these hulls , like sheep a-pen ,", "To bar the bold Belligerent", "They are the shipped battalions sent"], "true_target": ["Who stalks the Dancers \u2019 Land .", "Ten thousand rank and file .", "Count six-score sail , whose planks enclose", "The fleet that clears St. Helen 's shore", "Clinton and Paget ; while", "The transports that pertain to those"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 151}, {"query": ["With Acland , Anstruther , impound", "To roll the routes along .", "The third-sent ships , from Plymouth Sound ,", "In linesmen that the list enrolls ,", "While those , the fourth fleet , that we see", "The fleet that leans each aery fin", "And guns of girth , wheeled heavily", "To them add twelve thousand souls", "Souls to six thousand strong ."], "true_target": ["Far back , are lined with cavalry ,", "Bears Wellesley and his aides therein ,", "And Hill , and Crauford too ;", "The surgeons \u2014 not a few !", "With Torrens , Ferguson , and Fane ,", "And majors , captains , clerks , in train ,", "And those grim needs that appertain \u2014", "As war 's red retinue !", "Far south , where Mondego mouths in ,", "Borne onward by those sheeted poles"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 151}, {"query": ["Better quiz evils with too strained an eye", "Was glorious as a sodden rocket 's fizz !", "Or prudent , my good little Josephine ,", "To Mondego , under one Wellesley ,", "With so much in the balance .", "A man from India , and his march is south", "I have had nothing else ; and hence by brooding .", "Who , should dire duty rule their severance ,", "You know , my comrade , how I love you still", "Are not shoved off by wilful winking at .", "I have reason so to know \u2014 if I must say .", "She was a week 's adventure \u2014 not worth words ! I say \u2018 tis France .\u2014 I have held out for years Against the constant pressure brought on me To null this sterile marriage .", "By unaware Junot , and chevyed back", "To Lisbon , by Vimiero . On he 'll go", "And do the devil 's mischief ere he is met", "All through Dupont 's ill-luck ! The selfsame day", "\u201c Napoleon the Little , \u201d so he says .", "The Polish lady you have chosen to name", "For wiving with ? No thought was given to that ,", "Were there a long-notorious dislike", "A scandal ? What ?", "But years have passed since first we talked of it , And now , with loss of dear Hortense 's son Who won me as my own , it looms forth more . And selfish \u2018 tis in my good Josephine To blind her vision to the weal of France , And this great Empire 's solidarity . The grandeur of your sacrifice would gild Your life 's whole shape .", "O come , now , my adored ! Have n't I already ! Nature 's a dial whose shade no hand puts back , Trick as we may ! My friend , you are forty-three This very year in the world \u2014And in vain it is To think of waiting longer ; pitiful To dream of coaxing shy fecundity To an unlikely freak by physicking With superstitious drugs and quackeries That work you harm , not good . The fact being so , I have looked it squarely down \u2014 against my heart ! Solicitations voiced repeatedly At length have shown the soundness of their shape , And left me no denial . You , at times , My dear one , have been used to handle it . My brother Joseph , years back , frankly gave His honest view that something should be done ; And he , you well know , shows no ill tinct In his regard of you .", "Betwixt us , reason might be in your dreads"], "true_target": ["Could part with scanter scandal than could we .", "Then notice Austria . Much looks louring there ,", "There 's not a bourgeois couple in the land", "She shapes as vaguely as the Veiled \u2014", "Have been smirched badly . Twenty thousand shamed", "But all earth knows our conjugality .", "Things that verge nigh , my simple Josephine ,", "The English , next , have shipped an army down", "Than have them leap from disregarded lairs .", "There is , of course ; that worm Time ever keeps in hand for gnawing me !\u2014 The question of my dynasty \u2014 which bites Closer and closer as the years wheel on .", "These mindless games are very well , my friend ; But ours to-night marks , not improbably , The last we play together .", "\u201c Napoleon el chico \u201d \u2018 tis they call him \u2014", "Do n't cry , my cherished ;", "Since when his letters creak with querulousness .", "It is not really amiable of you ,", "To English fogs and fumes !", "And her sly new regard for England grows .", "Has proved the fault not mine .", "Little guessed I my dear would prove her rammed With such a charge of apt philosophy When tutoring me gay arts in earlier times ! She who at home coquetted through the years In which I vainly penned her wishful words To come and comfort me in Italy , Might , faith , have urged it then effectually ! But never would you stir from Paris joys ,And so , when arguments like this could move me , I heard them not ; and get them only now When their weight dully falls . But I have said \u2018 Tis not for me , but France \u2014 Good-bye an hour .I must dictate some letters . This new move Of England on Madrid may mean some trouble . Come , dwell not gloomily on this cold need Of waiving private joy for policy . We are but thistle-globes on Heaven 's high gales , And whither blown , or when , or how , or why , Can choose us not at all !... I 'll come to you anon , dear : staunch Roustan Will light me in .", "My brother Joseph 's progress to Madrid", "Not so \u2014 behind the scenes . Our arms a Baylen", "Nay , nay !", "Ha , ha ! That 's like you . Well , each day by day", "I get sour news . Each hour since we returned", "From this queer Spanish business at Bayonne ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 152}, {"query": ["My lord on tenterhooks through nights and days ;\u2014", "Often , to be denied the common hope", "I know ; I know !", "Maybe \u2018 tis true , and you shall have it so !\u2014", "Of course it 's that ! For nothing else could hang", "Full many and many a time . Ah \u2014 there is more !...", "That Nature yields them . O my husband long ,", "The household father happening as he may !", "Yes \u2014 so you wrote me , dear . They hurt not her !", "How \u2014 know you \u2014", "Of throne-succession or dynastic lines", "Will you not purge your soul to value best", "Than between furthest strangers !...", "These choking tares within your fecund brain ,\u2014", "Will oversoon be knelled !", "Were I as coarse a wife", "Napoleon 's soul in later bodiment ,", "\u201c The weather was so wild , the roads so rough ,", "You have mused on worse reports with better grace", "That my late happiness , and my late hope ,", "Or rather , not the question , but the tongues", "Sank sonless to his rest ; was greater deemed", "When , after Jena , I 'd have come to you ,", "Till dangerous ones drew near and daily sowed", "Your Lady of Victories ; and much I joyed ,", "No , no ;", "Madame Walewska ! How could you pretend", "Could hope to face the dangers and fatigues . \u201d", "Yet there 's no joy save sorrow waived awhile ."], "true_target": ["And lineage mere of flesh ? You have said yourself", "It mattered not . Great Caesar , you declared ,", "When gloriously engaged in Italy !", "But why this craze for home-made manikins", "Making me tremble if a panel crack ,", "And murdering my melodious hours with dreads", "Me you blame ! But how know you that you are not the culprit ?", "It 's Alexander 's sister , I 'm full sure !\u2014", "The second of his line be he who shows", "But all went well throughout our touring-time ?", "Napoleon 's offspring in his like must lie ;", "Which supersedes mere sequence of blood ,", "Or mouse but cheep , or silent leaf sail down ,", "Can you say it ! Why raise that ghastly nightmare on me now , When , for a moment , my poor brain had dreams Denied it all the earlier anxious day ?", "You could not speak more aridly .", "That no one of my sex and delicate nerve", "I was your fairy then : they labelled me", "My dearest one ,", "That often vary more from sire to son", "As fine for fulness in the rarer gifts", "Saw , too , no heir . It is the fate of such ,", "As I am limned in English caricature \u2014", "And what princess ?", "That keep the question stirring . Nought recked you", "Nevertheless there 's one .", "\u2014", "What may not happen ! Wait a \u2014 little longer !", "Even for the isolation . Frederick", "That high heredity from brain to brain"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 152}, {"query": ["Shut up that ! D'ye think you are a \u2018 cruity in the awkward squad still ?"], "true_target": ["Here 's something more in order , or I am much mistaken . He cranes out . ] Yes , a sergeant of the Forty-third , and what 's left of their second battalion . And , by God , not far behind I see shining helmets . \u2018 Tis a whole squadron of French dragoons !", "Now he 's one of the Eighty-first , and I 'd gladly let that poor blade know that we 've all that man can wish for here \u2014 good wine and buxom women . But if I do , we sha n't have room for ourselves \u2014 hey ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 153}, {"query": ["He may be the Eighty-firsht , or th \u2019 Eighty-second ; but what I say is , without fear of contradiction , I wish to the Lord I was back in old Bristol again . I 'd sooner have a nipperkin of our own real \u201c Bristol milk \u201d than a mash-tub full of this barbarian wine !"], "true_target": ["I do n't know what he thinks , but I know what I feel ! Would that I were at home in England again , where there 's old-fashioned tipple , and a proper God A'mighty instead of this eternal \u2018 Ooman and baby ; \u2014 ay , at home a-leaning against old Bristol Bridge , and no questions asked , and the winter sun slanting friendly over Baldwin Street as \u2018 a used to do ! \u2018 Tis my very belief , though I have lost all sure reckoning , that if I were there , and in good health , \u2018 twould be New Year 's day about now . What it is over here I do n't know . Ay , to - night we should be a-setting in the tap of the \u201c Adam and Eve \u201d \u2014 lifting up the tune of \u201c The Light o \u2019 the Moon . \u201d \u2018 Twer a romantical thing enough . \u2018 A used to go som'at like this\u2014 \u201c O I thought it had been day , And I stole from here away ; But it proved to be the light o \u2019 the moon ! \u201d"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 153}, {"query": ["What d'ye think o \u2019 that , my honey ? It fairly makes me a man again . Come , wake up ! We must be getting along somehow .Why \u2014 my little chick ? Look here , friends .If I did n't think that her poor knees felt cold !... And only an hour ago I swore to marry her !A VOICEThe Commander-in-Chief is determined to maintain discipline , and they must suffer . No more pillaging here . It is the worst case of brutality and plunder that we have had in this wretched time !"], "true_target": ["\u2018 Tis the same for us but for this heap of straw . Ah \u2014 my doxy is the only one of us who is safe and sound !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 153}, {"query": ["Mock on , Shade , if thou wilt ! But others find"], "true_target": ["Poesy ever lurk where pit-pats poor mankind !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 153}, {"query": ["Another of their dead horses here , I see .", "Him I 'll direct to come to your support In this pursuit and harassment of Moore Wherein you take my place . You 'll follow up And chase the flying English to the sea . Bear hard on them , the bayonet at their loins . With Merle 's and Mermet 's corps just gone ahead , And Delaborde 's , and Heudelet 's here at hand . While Lorge 's and Lahoussaye 's picked dragoons Will follow , and Franceschi 's cavalry . To Ney I am writing , in case of need , He will support with Marchand and Mathieu .\u2014 Your total thus of seventy thousand odd , Ten thousand horse , and cannon to five score , Should near annihilate this British force , And carve a triumph large in history .I move into Astorga ; then turn back ,And leave to you the destinies of Spain .", "The lines within these letters brook no pause", "Let there a fire be lit : Ay , here and now .", "These English , as all canting peoples are .\u2014", "\u2018 Tis not amiss . To keep the new year up they run away !Nor Pitt nor Fox displayed such blundering As glares in this campaign ! It is , indeed , Enlarging Folly to Foolhardiness To combat France by land ! But how expect Aught that can claim the name of government From Canning , Castlereagh , and Perceval , Caballers all \u2014 poor sorry politicians \u2014 To whom has fallen the luck of reaping in The harvestings of Pitt 's bold husbandry .So this is their reply ! They have done with me ! Britain declines negotiating further \u2014 Flouts France and Russia indiscriminately . \u201c Since one dethrones and keeps as prisoners The most legitimate kings \u201d \u2014 that means myself \u2014 \u201c The other suffers their unworthy treatment For sordid interests \u201d \u2014 that 's for Alexander !... And what is Georgy made to say besides ?\u2014 \u201c Pacific overtures to us are wiles Woven to unnerve the generous nations round Lately escaped the galling yoke of France , Or waiting so to do . Such , then , being seen , These tentatives must be regarded now As finally forgone ; and crimson war Be faced to its fell worst , unflinchingly . \u201d \u2014 The devil take their lecture ! What am I , That England should return such insolence ?Now as to hostile signs in Austria ....Ah ,\u2014 swords to cross with her some day in spring ! Thinking me cornered over here in Spain She speaks without disguise , the covert pact \u2018 Twixt her and England owning now quite frankly , Careless how works its knowledge upon me . She , England , Germany : well \u2014 I can front them ! That there is no sufficient force of French Between the Elbe and Rhine to prostrate her , Let new and terrible experience Soon disillude her of ! Yea ; she may arm : The opportunity she late let slip Will not subserve her now !"], "true_target": ["Now eastward . Ohe !\u2014 The Orient likewise looms full somberly .... The Turk declines pacifically to yield What I have promised Alexander . Ah !... As for Constantinople being his prize I 'll see him frozen first . His flight 's too high ! And showing that I think so makes him cool .Is Soult the Duke Dalmatia yet at hand ?", "Here 's matter enough for me , Duke , and to spare . The ominous contents are like the threats The ancient prophets dealt rebellious Judah ! Austria we soon shall have upon our hands , And England still is fierce for fighting on ,\u2014 Strange humour in a concord-loving land ! So now I must to Paris straight away \u2014 At least , to Valladolid ; so as to stand More apt for couriers than I do out here In this far western corner , and to mark The veerings of these new developments , And blow a counter-breeze .... Then , too , there 's Lannes , still sweating at the siege Of sullen Zaragoza as \u2018 twere hell . Him I must further counsel how to close His twice too tedious battery .\u2014 You , then , Soult \u2014 Ney is not yet , I gather , quite come up ?", "And prisoners ?", "In mastering their purport .", "And what 's the tale of waggons we 've picked up ?", "Ay , devil \u2014 plenty those ! Licentious ones"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 154}, {"query": ["The Duke of Damnation for our poor rear , by the look o n't !"], "true_target": ["We be shot corpses ! Ay , faith , we be ! Why did n't I stick to England , and true doxology , and leave foreign doxies and their wine alone !... Mate , can ye squeeze another shardful from the cask there , for I feel my time is come !... O that I had but the barrel of that firelock I throwed away , and that wasted powder to prime and load ! This bullet I chaw to squench my hunger would do the rest !... Yes , I could pick him off now !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 154}, {"query": ["Yes \u2014 he 'll make \u2018 em rub their poor rears before he has done with \u2018 em ! But we must overtake \u2018 em to-morrow by a cross-cut , please God !"], "true_target": ["Good Lord deliver us from all great men , and take me back again to humble life ! That 's Marshal Soult the Duke of Dalmatia !", "You lie low with your picking off , or he may pick off you ! Thank God the babies are gone . Maybe we sha n't be noticed , if we 've but the courage to do nothing , and keep hid ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 154}, {"query": ["Seven hundred English , sire ;", "Spaniards five thousand more .", "Yes , sire . We have counted eighteen hundred odd", "The close of your perusals .", "From Benavente hither , pistoled thus .", "He has arrived along the Leon road"], "true_target": ["Spared them no time for mercy to their brutes .", "And stragglers and their girls a numerous crew .", "Of magazines and firelocks , full ten load ;", "Just now , your Majesty ; and only waits", "Some we 'd to finish for them : headlong haste", "Spanish and all abandoned , some four hundred ;", "One-half their cavalry now tramps afoot ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 154}, {"query": ["Has he no heart-hints that this Austrian court ,", "Whereon his mood takes mould so masterful ,"], "true_target": ["A future wife for him ?", "Is rearing naively in its nursery-room"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 154}, {"query": ["And how should his heart know ?", "Thou dost but guess it ,"], "true_target": ["In this small , sudden , swift turn backward , he", "Suggests one turning from his apogee !", "More turning may be here than he design ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 154}, {"query": ["But some hours to the rear I reckon , still ."], "true_target": ["He 's near , sire , on the Benavente road ;"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 154}, {"query": ["I seem to vision in San Carlos \u2019 garden ,", "His name , and date , and doing , set within"], "true_target": ["A filmy outline like a monument ,", "Which yet is but the insubstantial air .", "That rises salient in the upper town ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 155}, {"query": ["Well , \u2018 twas a serious place for a man with no priming-horn , and a character to lose , so I judged it best to fall to the rear by lying down . A man can n't fight by the regulations without his priming-horn , and I am none of your slovenly anyhow fighters .", "He did n't keep YOU firm , howsomever .", "What did he say as he led us on ?"], "true_target": ["Egypt ! Hurrah !", "He 's struck by a cannon-ball , that I know ; but he 's not killed , that I pray God A'mighty .", "Nevertheless , here 's for back again , come what will . Remember", "\u201c Remember Egypt . \u201d Ay , and I do , for I was there !... Upon my salvation , here 's for back again , whether or no !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 155}, {"query": ["But here . \u201c Forty-second , remember Egypt , \u201d he said in the very eye of that French battery playing through us . And the next omen was that he was struck off his horse , and fell on his back to the ground . I remembered Egypt , and what had just happened too , so thorough well that I remembered the way over this wall !\u2014 Captain Hardinge , who was close to him , jumped off his horse , and he and one in the ranks lifted him , and are now bringing him along .", "Nor you , for that matter ."], "true_target": ["\u2018 Nation , having dropped my flit-pouch , I was the same . If you 'd had your priming-horn , and I my flints , mind ye , we should have been there now ? Then , forty-whory , that we are not is the fault o \u2019 Government for not supplying new ones from the reserve !", "\u201c Forty-second , remember Egypt ! \u201d I heard it with my own ears . Yes , that was his strict testament .", "Better he were . His shoulder is knocked to a bag of splinters . As Sir David was wownded , Sir John was anxious that the right should not give way , and went forward to keep it firm ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 155}, {"query": ["A star amid these girdling days of gloom !"], "true_target": ["This last blow undecreed , the hour had shone", "That means we are gaining ground ! Had fate but left"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 155}, {"query": ["Who tend Sir David Baird ?", "Ride for a surgeon \u2014 one of those , perhaps ,"], "true_target": ["He 'll drain to death ere anything can be done !", "His blood throbs forth so fast , that I have dark fears", "The wound is more than serious , Woodford , far ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 155}, {"query": ["Colonel Wynch , Sir John . He 's wounded , but he urges you to take it .", "Ay , Sir John \u2014", "For your much-hoped recovery ."], "true_target": ["A few yard higher up , where we can see .", "I 'll try to staunch it \u2014 since no skill 's in call .There 's not much checking it ! Then rent 's too gross . A dozen lives could pass that thoroughfare !I 'll loose the sword \u2014 it bruises you , Sir John .", "I like the sound of that . It augurs well"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 155}, {"query": ["Hope , Hope , I have so much to charge you with ,", "That 's good ! Is Paget anywhere about ?", "Well , this does not become a dying man ;", "To owe much to good luck ; nor was it then .", "A-ha ! \u2018 Tis THIS way I have wished to die !", "But weakness clams my tongue !... If I must die", "But I must leave such now .\u2014 You 'll see my friends", "Ah , doctors ,\u2014 you can scarcely mend up me .\u2014", "Are the French beaten , Colborne , or repulsed ? Alas ! you see what they have done too me !", "Say to my mother ....", "Remembrance to him !", "No . I will not . This suits .... Do n't come with me ;", "My will I have made \u2014 it is in Colborne 's charge", "By the exhaustion of all shapes of bad !...", "mostly so", "My dying will waste a long and tedious while ;", "Yes ... yes .\u2014 But it has never been my lot", "The siege goes sorely with her , which it must .", "That she was holding out heroically ."], "true_target": ["And others have been chastened more than I", "By Him who holds us in His hollowed hand !...", "Without a word with Stanhope , ask him , Hope ,", "Anything .... Surely fainter ebbs that fire ?", "I heard when at Dahagun that late day", "Of what there was between us ?...", "Is Colonel Graham well , and all my aides ?", "Who 's in that waggon ?", "I hope England \u2014 will be satisfied \u2014 I hope my native land \u2014 will do me justice !... I shall be blamed for sending Craufurd off Along the Orense road . But had I not , Bonaparte would have headed us that way ....", "As early as you can ? Tell them the whole ;", "And yet I feel so tough \u2014 I have feverish fears", "No . Let it be ! One hurt more matters not . I wish it to go off the field with me .", "To \u2014 name me to his sister . You may know", "There 's more for you to do out here as yet .", "I grieve for Zaragoza , if , as said ,", "Good fortune has been mine , but", "But not too long , I hope !", "They seem to be advancing . Yes , it is so !Ah , Hope !\u2014 I am doing badly here enough ; But they are doing rarely well out there .Do n't leave ! my speech may flag with this fierce pain , But you can talk to me .\u2014 Are the French checked ?", "With other papers .", "Hardinge , no : Nature is nonplussed there ! My shoulder 's gone , And this left side laid open to my lungs . There 's but a brief breath now for me , at most .... Could you \u2014 move me along \u2014 that I may glimpse Still how the battle 's going ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 155}, {"query": ["My dear friend , they are borne back steadily .", "By Lugo town ! We should have crushed him there ."], "true_target": ["He 's now coming up .", "O would that Soult had but accepted battle"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 155}, {"query": ["He 's at the front , Sir John .", "Yes : we must be advancing everywhere :"], "true_target": ["Colbert their General , too , they have lost , I learn .", "I do , Sir John : I am more than sad thereat ! In brief time now the surgeon will be here . The French retreat \u2014 pushed from Elvina far ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 155}, {"query": ["There is no time . Just make the bottom true .", "Level a bottom just as far 's we 've got .", "There is no time to dig much deeper now :"], "true_target": ["As in a royal vault !", "They are here , almost as quickly as ourselves .", "He 'll couch as calmly in this scrabbled hole"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 156}, {"query": ["\u201c We therefore commit his body to the ground . Earth to earth , ashes to ashes , dust to dust . \u201d"], "true_target": ["\u201c .... We give Thee hearty thanks for that it hath pleased Thee to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world .... Who also hath taught us not to be sorry , as men without hope , for them that sleep in Him .... Grant this , through Jesus Christ our Mediator and Redeemer . \u201d", "\u201c Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live , and is full of misery . He cometh up , and is cut down , like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow , and never continueth in one stay . \u201d"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 156}, {"query": ["We must abridge these duties to the dead ,", "Upon our care for their deliverance ,", "In mercy to the living , who are thrust", "And what 's left unsaid , feel ."], "true_target": ["And run much hazard till they are embarked ,", "These mutilated prayers \u2014 our hurried best !\u2014", "We must perforce make swift use of out time . Would we had closed our too sad office sooner !", "We shall do well , then , curtly to conclude", "Who will not mind be they abridged or no ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 156}, {"query": ["Yes ; from your press It quotes that they arrived at Plymouth Sound Mid dreadful weather and much suffering . It states they looked the very ghosts of men , So heavily had hunger told on them , And the fatigues and toils of the retreat . Several were landed dead , and many died As they were borne along . At Portsmouth , too , Sir David Baird , still helpless from his wound , Was carried in a cot , sheet-pale and thin , And Sir John Hope , lank as a skeleton .\u2014 Thereto is added , with authority , That a new expedition soon will fit , And start again for Spain ."], "true_target": ["I read , sir , here , the troubles you discuss Of your so gallant army under Moore . His was a spirit baffled but not quelled , And in his death there shone a stoicism That lent retreat the rays of victory .", "You 'll do it next time , sir . And so shall we !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 157}, {"query": ["Ay ; I did get in ;", "As conquerors hold there .\u2014 Does the sheet give news", "In the unprincipled dark overthrow", "As long a lease within the minds of men", "Of how the troops reached home ?", "And I pushed like the rest .", "Will tinct his story with a tender charm ,", "Enthusiasm touched the sky \u2014 she sharing it .", "That the unwonted crosses he has borne", "Hinting that his becoming an ally", "Time 's context soon will show .", "And when the Bishop called all blessings down", "I have heard as much .", "O yes : the whole Imperial family ,", "Makes him accomplice of the Corsican"], "true_target": ["But travellers roam to waste who shyly roam", "And frowning , praise . I could nigh prophesy", "In his career of sharp vicissitude", "Less Christian-like forgiveness mellows us Than Continental souls !", "And grant the memory of his strenuous feats", "She is inscribed as wife for Bonaparte .", "That moves reflection somewhat . They are young", "Of his poor trusting childish Spanish friends \u2014", "Upon the Landwehr colours there displayed ,", "Some say he was more than honest with the Tsar ;", "He could not have accepted , if or no :", "For measuring with the veteran file of France !", "Which gave the Tsar offence .", "Your arms must render its fulfilment sure .", "It was so . While men chide they will admire him ,", "Though not without hard striving , such the throng ;"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 157}, {"query": ["Resist the ardour of the Russian ranks", "Of all his veteran troops are now in Spain", "That then oppressed our eyes . There is no salve", "If war had not so patly been declared ,", "Some of the Landwehr met me ; they are hot", "The Russian Cabinet can not for long", "Maria Louisa was , they tell me , present ?", "Accumulating ruin in our land .", "In Germany are scattered far and wide .", "And this adventurer of the saucy sword ,", "Our harvest fields and fruits he trample on ,", "And long she has lingered for the sign to crush him :", "They bubble what he wills !... Yes , she 's a girl", "Was that of grounding hostile arms at all .", "Quite lately she was overheard to say", "The sadly-seen mistake this country made", "Of patriotic build , and hates the French .", "Our howitzers and firelocks of themselves", "But by his ordering . Magician-like", "By upping to the war in suddenness ,", "For such deep harrowings but to fight again ;", "Stands author of all our ills ...", "Think of what mournings in the last sad war", "He holds them in his fist , and at his squeeze", "Commendable in her , and spirited ,"], "true_target": ["After the graceless insults to the Court", "This sacrilegious slighter of our shrines ,", "From women widowed , sonless , fatherless ,", "That this year Bonaparte was starred to die .", "Would have gone off to shame us ! This forenoon", "And catching him unaware . The pink and flower", "Time never can efface the glint of tears", "\u2018 Twas his to instigate and answer for !", "For setting out , though but few months enrolled .", "Right ! And we have the opportunity ,", "The French are our hereditary foes ,", "Our first loud victory !", "In palaces , in shops , in fields , in cots ,", "Fully engaged with yours ; while those he holds", "Have been consistent as the English are .", "She had met with most convincing auguries", "The grin of a more fierce necessity", "To march with us the moment we achieve", "Our young Archduchess", "The Paris journals flaunt \u2014 not voluntarily ,", "You witnessed the High Service over there They held this morning ?", "The enfranchisement of Europe hangs thereon ,", "That signal we have given ; the time is come !", "We should have fought irreconcilably \u2014", "Realm never faced", "For horrid war , than ours at this tense time !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 157}, {"query": ["I doubt that text !", "His last conscription besomed into it", "Napoleon 's army swarms with tender youth ,", "More news afloat ?"], "true_target": ["What was Prince Schwarzenberg 's best bid , I pray ?", "Thousands of merest boys . But he contrives", "I see here that he vows and guarantees Inviolate bounds to all our territories If we but pledge to carry out forthwith A prompt disarmament . Since that 's his price Hell burn his guarantees ! Too long he has fooled us .I drink , sir , to your land 's consistency . While we and all the kindred Europe States Alternately have wooed and warred him , You have not bent to blowing hot and cold , But held you sturdily inimical !", "More news , my friends , of swiftly swelling zeal ?", "To mix them in the field with seasoned frames ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 157}, {"query": ["Is given the chief command ."], "true_target": ["Yea ; an announcement that the Archduke Charles"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 157}, {"query": ["Huzza ! Right so ! Good ! Forwards ! God be praised !", ", SECOND , ETC ., CITIZENS"], "true_target": ["Huzza ! Right so !", ", SECOND , ETC ., CITIZENS"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 157}, {"query": ["The last , most delicate dish \u2014 a tastelessness .", "For Alexander 's sister the Grand-Duchess .", "His ominous friendship with Napoleon ."], "true_target": ["And our best bid \u2014", "Ay \u2014 through his being honest \u2014 fatal sin !\u2014", "The offer of the heir of Austria 's hand", "Probing too plainly for the Emperor 's ears"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 157}, {"query": ["His regiment at his heels !"], "true_target": ["Is passing the Ringstrasse just by now ,", "The Archduke Charles"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 157}, {"query": ["More than we need in the furthest sacrifice !", "That glaze a many-windowed east facade :", "And gave the soldiers speech , enkindling them"], "true_target": ["Ere passing down the Ring , the Archduke paused", "As sunrise a confronting throng of panes", "Hot volunteers vamp in from vill and plain \u2014"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 157}, {"query": ["No , my dear one . It cannot be his guns . They told us when we started that he was only half-way from Ratisbon hither , so that he must be nearly a hundred miles off as yet ; and a large army cannot move fast .", "Perhaps not . Though the Empress-mother is a pompous old thing , as I have been told by Prince Schwarzenberg , who was negotiating there last winter . My father says it would be a dreadful misfortune for our country if they were to marry . Though if we are to be exiled I do n't see how anything of that sort can matter much .... I hope my father is safe !", "If he do get in , I am sure his triumph will not be for long . My uncle the Archduke Charles is at his heels ! I have been told many important prophecies about Bonaparte 's end , which is fast nearing , it is asserted . It is he , they say , who is referred to in the Apocalypse . He is doomed to die this year at Cologne , in an inn called \u201c The Red Crab . \u201d I do n't attach too much importance to all these predictions , but O , how glad I should be to see them come true !"], "true_target": ["Perhaps there is nothing in that report . One can hardly believe such gossip .", "It is dreadful to see her suffer so !If the roads were not so bad I should not mind . I almost wish we had stayed ; though when he arrives the cannonade will be terrible .", "Whether the rain comes in or not I must open the window . Please allow me .", "I am sure that the Empress her mother will never allow one of the house of Romanoff to marry with a bourgeois Corsican . I would n't if I were she !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 158}, {"query": ["Did not the Archdukes intercept the foe ?", "The Lord show mercy to us ! But O why", "He should never have been let come nearer than Ratisbon ! The victory at Echmuhl was fatal for us . O Echmuhl , Echmuhl ! I believe he will overtake us before we get to Buda ."], "true_target": ["Any more misfortunes ?", "Alas for poor Vienna !", "Undoubtedly . But I should n't much care . It would not be worse than this .... I feel sodden all through me , and frowzy , and broken !", "Yes \u2014 open or shut it \u2014 I do n't care . I am too ill to care for anything !O woe ! To think that I am driven away from my husband 's home in such a miserable conveyance , along such a road , and in such weather as this .There are his guns !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 158}, {"query": ["Perhaps , your Highness , they are not so particular in Russia , where they are rather new themselves , as we in Austria , with your ancient dynasty , are in such matters ."], "true_target": ["If so , your Majesty , shall we be claimed as prisoners and marched to Paris ?", "I wonder if he will get into Vienna . Will his men knock down all the houses , madam ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 158}, {"query": ["So should we all , madam . What would become of his divorce-scheme then ?"], "true_target": ["But they say , your Imperial Highness , that he certainly has decided to sacrifice the Empress Josephine , and that at the meeting last October with the Emperor Alexander at Erfurt , it was even settled that he should marry as his second wife the Grand-Duchess Anne ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 158}, {"query": ["After his sore repulse Bohemia-wards ,", "With Oudinot 's and Demont 's might of foot ;", "And the main body of the Imperial Force .", "Has seized the castle and town of Ebersberg ,", "Less distant from Vienna from before !", "Hurling brave Hiller 's army back on us ,", "That the French host , the Emperor in its midst ,", "Then Massena and all his mounted men ,", "His Highness Archduke Charles , your Majesty ,", "The enemy , ere this , has crossed the Traun ,", "And Archduke Louis , as was their intent ."], "true_target": ["Lannes , Massena , and Bessieres in its van ,", "A rumour is a-wind , your Majesty ,", "So that the streets stink strong with frizzled flesh .\u2014", "Vast heaps of dead and wounded being consumed ,", "Could not proceed with strength and speed enough", "And burnt all down , with frightful massacre ,", "So Marshall Lannes swings swiftly on Vienna ,", "Even so ! Your Majesty has fled it none too soon .", "And then Napoleon , Guards , Cuirassiers ,", "And marches on Amstetten \u2014 thirty miles", "Advancing hither along the Ratisbon road ,", "To close in junction with the Archduke John"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 158}, {"query": ["Has desperately failed .", "Most viciously upon the centre , sire ,", "The Archduke Charles bounds thither , as I shape ,", "Against an Austrian front equipt like ours !", "Well done , Bellegarde !", "Will raise an obstacle to their retreat", "And show this victory-gorged adventurer", "And sterilize our hope !", "And refuge in the fastness of the isle ;", "Who shows himself with marvellous recklessness ,", "During the night the French have shifted , sire ,", "By thwart and wheeling moves upon our left ,", "So cunningly as yours .... that horse must be", "If I mistook not , hard by Sussenbrunn ;", "Klenau and Kollowrath are pounding on !", "Yet like a phantom-fiend receives no hurt .", "\u2018 Tis good , sire ; such a swoop", "If the French read that there the danger lies .", "Hiller and Lichtenstein conjoin therein .", "It 's nothing , sire . Their charge of cavalry", "They are beginning on the left wing , sire .", "Is , after all , a plan that works out well ."], "true_target": ["That striking with a river in his rear", "Has charged and driven them back disorderly .", "The French in fierce fume broke through Aderklaa ;", "Their last reserves , that they may feed the front ,", "It does , sire ; though my glass can conjure not", "Alas , Davout 's ! I have climbed the roof-top , sire ,", "To turn the enemy 's left with our strong right", "And much revised their stations of the eve", "\u2018 Tis their , your Majesty . Now we shall see", "The assault is led by Bonaparte in person ,", "And there discerned the truth .", "Is not the safest tactic to be played", "They say Macdonald , sire .", "Sent Bonaparte as gift .", "And on our centre \u2014 projects unforeseen", "Till near accomplished .", "In person to support him !", "They pierce our centre , sire ! We are , despite ,", "Ah , Heaven !", "But Bellegarde , pricking along the plain behind ,", "Not centrally so weak as I supposed .", "The famed Euphrates \u2014 him the Persian king"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 159}, {"query": ["Turn your glass ,", "By the whole strength of France upon our right ,", "Who knows to-morrow may not see regained", "Which deals the foulest damage done us yet .", "By the aides hovering round ....", "Yes : I have seen the signs for some good while . But he retreats with blows , and orderly .", "Who would have reckoned o n't \u2014 our men so firm !", "They ARE effecting lodgment , after all .", "Where we are weakest ! It surpasses me To understand why was our centre thinned To pillar up our right already strong , Where nought is doing , while our left assault Stands ill-supported ?Yes , it is so . See , The enemy strikes Rossenberg in flank , Compelling him to fall behind the Russbach !Penned useless here my nerves annoy my sight ! Inform me what you note .\u2014 I should opine The Wagram height behind impregnable ?", "Hand-galloping towards his centre-left", "Will wring us down to sleep in stall or stye ,", "That the right attack of ours spells victory ,", "See , the white horse and horseman pause beside", "And Austria 's grand salvation !...", "A coach for some strange reason rolling there ....", "But how goes it with us in sum ? pray say !", "Yes , their reserve \u2014", "Where 's the Archduke John ? Why comes he not ? One man of his here now Were worth a host anon . And yet he tarries !Our centre-right , it seems , round Neusiedel , Is being repulsed ! May the kind Heaven forbid That Hesse Homberg should be yielding there !", "A part of it !", "They are almost circumscribed : if fully so", "Will there be soon of those in that advance !", "Does your eye reach him ?\u2014 That white horse , alone", "The battle 's ours ! What 's that behind them , eh ?", "What we have lost to-day ?", "What guns are those that groan from Wagram height ?", "By reckless riskings of his life and limb ,", "I his attack that way ?", "You see their metal gleaming as they come .", "There seems to be a grim , concerted lunge", "Alas for his devotion ! Let us go .", "Now that they 've gained", "We are burning them to bones by our hot fire .", "We 'll go with a good grace , unfeignedly !", "Then is the land delivered . God be praised !There is a curious feature I discern To have come upon the battle . On our right We gain ground rapidly ; towards the left We lose it ; and the unjudged consequence Is that the armies ; whole commingling mass Moves like a monstrous wheel . I like it not !", "Meagrest remains", "Whilst I have idled here !... May brighter times", "The turn has passed . We are worsted , but not overwhelmed !... The French advance is laboured , and but slow . \u2014 This might have been another-coloured day If but the Archduke John had joined up promptly ; Yet still he lags !", "Attend the cause of Europe far in Spain ,"], "true_target": ["And British blood flow not , as ours , in vain !", "And what has he well done ?", "Such weight of sadness as we shoulder now", "Well , well ? What changes figure now ?", "I only pray that Bonaparte refrain", "And fall with heavy impact on the French", "And hold their ground , having the Emperor near !", "Their foot press on ,", "Since the sharp strife last night , has mended , too ,", "In swiftest marches all the force he holds ,", "Ha ! Now the Archduke Charles has seen the intent , And taken steps against it . Sussenbrunn Must be the threatened thing .What an advance !\u2014 Straight hitherward . Our centre girdles them .\u2014 Surely they 'll not persist ? Who heads that charge ?", "That white-horsed rider \u2014 yes !\u2014 is Bonaparte ,", "Well , it is neck or nothing for them now !", "To strengthen it against the brave Bellegarde .", "The right there , why is not the attack begun ?", "Those moving masses toward the right I deem", "Has turned the steelyard of our strength to-day", "If we must go", "However , with a battery in front", "But I am advised", "The French take heart", "Ay \u2014 coming NOW ! Why could he not be COME !We can see nothing of that side from here .", "From nigh their rear ?", "In front of those that move so rapidly .", "If even that be found !... Think ! Bonaparte ,", "Dragoons and cuirassiers \u2014 charge in support .", "By oral message that the Archduke Charles ,", "And closely scan Napoleon and his aides", "His earlier dispositions , and has sped", "Sent to support Prince John of Lichtenstein", "Strong orders to the Archduke John , to bring", "New war-wiles have been worded ; we shall spell", "From spying danger there till all too late !", "Centre , and left wing simultaneously !", "I hear from thence appalling cannonades .", "It is so !", "Their purport soon enough !", "To stand to our battalions steadfastly ,", "The forces of Klenau and Kollowrath ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 159}, {"query": ["The Archduke Charles is pierced in the shoulder , sire ;", "The wound 's not serious .\u2014 On our right we win ,"], "true_target": ["He strove too far in beating back the French", "And deem the battle ours .", "At Aderklaa , and was nearly ta'en ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 159}, {"query": ["Choking the track , with cries of \u201c All is lost ! \u201d", "Their bridges to the rear we have nearly grasped ,", "Your Majesty ,"], "true_target": ["We have borne them back through Aspern village-street", "And Essling is recovered . What counts more ,", "And panic-struck they crowd the few left free ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 159}, {"query": ["Whom nothing can withstand ! Two corps he threw", "We have been battered off the eastern side", "Of Wagram plateau .", "Till lodged atop . They would have been hurled back \u2014 -"], "true_target": ["While he himself assailed the place in front .", "Across the Russbach up to Neusiedel ,", "Of the divisions one pressed on and on ,", "Our left wing , sire , recedes before Davout ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 159}, {"query": ["Bleed more or less profusely !", "The Archduke John , Discerning our main musters in retreat , Abandons an advance that throws on him The enemy 's whole brunt if he bear on .", "Nordmann has fallen , and Veczay : Hesse Homberg ,"], "true_target": ["And the French right is on the Wagram crest ;", "Warteachben , Muger \u2014 almost all our best \u2014", "Sire , Neusiedel has just been wrenched from us ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 159}, {"query": ["The Archduke Charles retreats , your majesty ;"], "true_target": ["And the issue wears a dirty look just now ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 159}, {"query": ["Talavera tongues it as ten o \u2019 the night-time : Now come Ruffin 's slaughterers surging upward , Backed by bold Vilatte 's ! From the vale Lapisse , too , Darkly outswells there ! Down the vague veiled incline the English fling them , Bended bayonets prodding opponents backward : So the first fierce charge of the ardent Frenchmen England repels there ! Having fallen back into the darkness the French presently reascend in yet larger masses . The high square knapsack which every English foot-soldier carries , and his shako , and its tuft , outline themselves against the dim light as the ranks stand awaiting the shock ."], "true_target": ["Pushing spread they !\u2014 shout as they reach the summit !\u2014 Strength and stir new-primed in their plump battalions : Puffs of barbed flame blown on the lines opposing Higher and higher . There those hold them mute , though at speaking distance \u2014 Mute , while clicking flints , and the crash of volleys Whelm the weighted gloom with immense distraction Pending their fire . Fronting heads , helms , brows can each ranksman read there , Epaulettes , hot cheeks , and the shining eyeball ,Pressing them nigher ! The French again fall back in disorder into the hollow , and LAPISSE draws off on the right . As the sinking sound of the muskets tells what has happened the English raise a shout ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 160}, {"query": ["All , till the ending !", "There at dawn to stake in the dynasts \u2019 death-game", "Temper unbending ,", "Closes with the roar of receding gun-fire ."], "true_target": ["Worn-out lines lie down where they late stood staunchly \u2014", "Harness loosened then , and their day-long strenuous", "Cloaks around them rolled \u2014 by the bivouac embers :", "Thus the dim nocturnal embroil of conflict"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 160}, {"query": ["The morning breaks . There is another murderous attempt to dislodge the English from the hill , the assault being pressed with a determination that excites the admiration of the English themselves . The French are seen descending into the valley , crossing it , and climbing it on the English side under the fire of HILL 'S whole division , all to no purpose . In their retreat they leave behind them on the slopes nearly two thousand lying . The day advances to noon , and the air trembles in the intense heat . The combat flags , and is suspended ."], "true_target": ["The drums roll , and the men of the two nations part from their comradeship at the Alberche brook , the dark masses of the French army assembling anew . SIR ARTHUR WELLESLEY has seated himself on a mound that commands a full view of the contested hill , and remains there motionless a long time . When the French form for battle he is seen to have come to a conclusion . He mounts , gives his orders , and the aides ride off . The French advance steadily through the sultry atmosphere , the skirmishers in front , and the columns after , moving , yet seemingly motionless . Their eighty cannon peal out and their shots mow every space in the line of them . Up the great valley and the terraces of the hill whose fame is at that moment being woven , comes VILLATE , boring his way with foot and horse , and RUFFIN 'S men following behind . According to the order given , the Twenty-third Light Dragoons and the German Hussars advance at a chosen moment against the head of these columns . On the way they disappear ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 161}, {"query": ["What do I see but thirsty , throbbing bands", "What more could plead the wryness of the time", "Than such unstudied piteous pantomimes !", "They get to grasping hands across the rill ,", "Those who live"], "true_target": ["That parts their enmities , and drinking there !", "Even now advance ! I 'll see no more . Relate .", "Why this bedevilment ? What can have chanced ?", "Sealing their sameness as earth 's sojourners .\u2014", "From these inimic hosts defiling down", "In homely need towards the little stream"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 161}, {"query": ["It so befalls that as their chargers near", "A treacherous chasm uptrips them : zealous men", "Yes , those pant on . Then further Frenchmen cross , And Polish Lancers , and Westphalian Horse , Who ring around these luckless Islanders , And sweep them down like reeds by the river-bank In scouring floods ; till scarce a man remains . Meanwhile on the British right SEBASTIANI 'S corps has precipitated itself in column against GENERAL CAMPBELL 'S division , the division of LAPISSE against the centre , and at the same time the hill on the English left is again assaulted . The English and their allies are pressed sorely here , the bellowing battery tearing lanes through their masses ."], "true_target": ["The French reserves of foot and horse now on , Smiting the Islanders in breast and brain Till their mid-lines are shattered .... Now there ticks The moment of the crisis ; now the next , Which brings the turning stroke .", "And docile horses roll to dismal death", "And horrid mutilation .", "The inimical wall of flesh with its iron frise ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 161}, {"query": ["What shall I say to fit their feeling here ? Damn me , that other speech has stumped me quite !", "The heads and chief contents of the dispatch", "The place \u2014 called Talavera de la Reyna", "If heat be evidence of loyalty , This room affords it truly without question ; If heat be not , then its accompaniment Most surely \u2018 tis to-night . The news I bring , Good ladies , friends , and gentlemen , perchance You have divined already ? That our arms \u2014 Engaged to thwart Napoleon 's tyranny Over the jaunty , jocund land of Spain Even to the highest apex of our strength \u2014 Are rayed with victory !Lengthy was the strife And fierce , and hot ; and sore the suffering ; But proudly we endured it ; and shall hear , No doubt , of its far consequence Ere many days . I 'll read the details sent .Meanwhile our interest is , if possible , As keenly waked elsewhere . Into the Scheldt Some forty thousand bayonets and swords , And twoscore ships o \u2019 the line , with frigates , sloops , And gunboats sixty more , make headway now , Bleaching the waters with their bellying sails ; Or maybe they already anchor there , And that level ooze of Walcheren shore Ring with the voices of that landing host In every twang of British dialect , Clamorous to loosen fettered Europe 's chain !A NOBLE LORDPrinny 's outpouring tastes suspiciously like your brew , Sheridan . I 'll be damned if it is his own concoction . How d'ye sell it a gallon ?", "Such is the substance of the news received , Which , after Wagram , strikes us genially As sudden sunrise through befogged night shades !", "over the French in Spain .", "Wears not the crest and blazonry of fame !"], "true_target": ["In this achievement we , alas ! have lost Too many ! Yet suck blanks must ever be .\u2014 Mackenzie , Langworth , Beckett of the Guards , Have fallen of ours ; while of the enemy Generals Lapisse and Morlot are laid low .\u2014 Drink to their memories !Other news , my friends , Received to-day is of like hopeful kind . The Great War-Expedition to the ScheldtWhich lately sailed , has found a favouring wind , And by this hour has touched its destined shores . The enterprise will soon be hot aglow , The invaders making first the Cadsand coast , And then descending on Walcheren Isle . But items of the next step are withheld Till later days , from obvious policy .In worthy emulation of us here The county holds to-night a birthday ball , Which flames with all the fashion of the town . I have been asked to patronize their revel , And sup with them , and likewise you , my guests . We have good reason , with such news to bear ! Thither we haste and join our loyal friends , And stir them with this live intelligence Of our staunch regiments on the Spanish plains .With them we 'll now knit hands and beat the ground , And bring in dawn as we whirl round and round ! There are some fair ones in their set to-night , And such we need here in our bachelor-plight .", "I have the joy , my lords and gentlemen ,", "From General Wellesley through Lord Castlereagh", "\u2014 long unknown ,", "If what ?", "Of a vast victory", "I read you as succinctly as I can .", "To rouse you with the just imported tidings"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 162}, {"query": ["If heat be evidence of loy \u2014 -", "I do n't deal that way nowadays . I give the recipe , and charge a duty on the gauging . It is more artistic , and saves trouble .", "If heat be evidence of loyalty ,"], "true_target": ["Et caetera \u2014 something quaint like that might please \u2018 em .", "By God , that 's good , sir ! You are a poet born , while the rest of us are but made , and bad at that .", "\u201c Now foreign foemen die and fly , Dammy , we 'll drink little England dry ! \u201d"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 162}, {"query": ["His Royal Highness comes , though somewhat late ,", "Who soon may shine our country 's gracious king ."], "true_target": ["But never too late for welcome !", "That we may do fit homage to the Prince", "Dancers , stand ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 162}, {"query": ["A world so ill-contrived !", "Would I had not broke nescience , to inspect"], "true_target": ["To usward , even from the forenamed isle ?...", "So they pass on . Let be !\u2014 But what is this \u2014", "A moan ?\u2014 all frailly floating from the east"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 162}, {"query": ["Such as it is \u2014 the scene its coasts enfold ."], "true_target": ["But since thou hast", "We 'll hasten to the isle ; and thou'lt behold \u2014"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 162}, {"query": ["What storm is this of souls dissolved in sighs ,"], "true_target": ["And what the dingy doom it signifies ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 163}, {"query": ["Why must ye echo as mechanic mimes", "Or the frail tune upon this withering sedge", "\u2014 Men pass to dark corruption , at the best ,", "These mortal minion 's bootless cadences ,", "Of yonder ship-masts by the unweeting wind ,", "As is the mewling music on the strings"], "true_target": ["The night fog enwraps the isle and the dying English army .", "The Immanent Shaper builds Its beings so", "Whether ye sigh their sighs with them or no !", "Ere I can count five score : these why not now ?\u2014", "Played on the stops of their anatomy", "That holds its papery blades against the gale ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 163}, {"query": ["Why thus and thus Napoleon ? Can it be That Wagram with its glories , shocks , and shames , Still leaves athirst the palate of thy pride ?", "From stress of state affairs , which hold him grave"], "true_target": ["Through revels that might win the King of Spleen", "To toe a measure ! I would speak with him .", "Napoleon even now embraces not"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 164}, {"query": ["Asking him for his sister \u2014 yes or no .", "Were you in the Archduchess Marie 's place", "Last week Champagny wrote to Alexander", "For such withdrawal .\u2014 Madame , now , again ,", "Disports him at Vienna ?", "The trustless , timorous lease of human life Warns me to hedge in my diplomacy . The sooner , then , the safer ! Ay , this eve , This very night , will I take steps to rid My morrows of the weird contingencies That vision round and make one hollow-eyed .... The unexpected , lurid death of Lannes \u2014 Rigid as iron , reaped down like a straw \u2014 Tiptoed Assassination haunting round In unthought thoroughfares , the near success Of Staps the madman , argue to forbid The riskful blood of my previsioned line And potence for dynastic empery To linger vialled in my veins alone . Perhaps within this very house and hour , Under an innocent mask of Love or Hope , Some enemy queues my ways to coffin me .... When at the first clash of the late campaign , A bold belief in Austria 's star prevailed , There pulsed quick pants of expectation round Among the cowering kings , that too well told What would have fared had I been overthrown ! So ; I must send down shoots to future time Who 'll plant my standard and my story there ; And a way opens .\u2014 Better I had not Bespoke a wife from Alexander 's house . Not there now lies my look . But done is done !God send you find amid this motley crew Frivolities enough , friend Berthier \u2014 eh ? My thoughts have worn oppressive shades despite such ! What scandals of me do they bandy here ? These close disguises render women bold \u2014 Their shames being of the light , not of the thing \u2014 And your sagacity has garnered much , I make no doubt , of ill and good report , That marked our absence from the capital ?", "Yet was the exploit well featured in design ,", "I have a wish to put a case to you ,", "Without the Church 's due authority ?", "If your Archduchess , Marie Louise the fair ,", "Wherein a woman 's judgment , such as yours ,", "If things had not gone seriously for us .", "My union with the present Empress \u2014 formed", "There have been such approachings ; more , worse luck .", "Would you accept my hand \u2014 and heart therewith ?", "Ha-ha ! That 's frank . And devilish cruel too ! \u2014 Well , write to your husband . Ask him what he thinks , And let me know .", "Time meanwhile trotting , that I have ample ground", "Large in idea , and imaginative ;", "Who marred its working , else it had been hard", "Is marriage \u2014 mine .", "I 'll send Eugene to him , as you suggest .", "May be of signal service .", "To place an idiot at the helm of it ,"], "true_target": ["Whose gait proclaims her Madame Metternich ,", "That every coxcomb plays successfully .", "One that I fain would speak with .", "So capable of view . Their fate contrived", "\u2014 So here you are still , though your loving lord", "I had not deemed the blinkered English folk", "This worse luck lies there :", "Children are needful to my dynasty ,", "I sped that Prayer !\u2014", "And if one woman cannot mould them for me ,", "And throw the other over . Faith , the Tsar", "Has shown such backwardness in answering me ,", "The devil , madame , take your piercing eyes !", "Will your Archduchess marry me of no ?", "Well , madame , now I 'll put it to you thus :", "It 's hard I cannot prosper in a game", "You glean that I have decided to dissolve", "Would straight accept my hand , I 'd offer it ,", "Meanwhile prepare him . Make your stand-point this :", "Why , then , another must .", "Now , here , to-night .", "Do you , then , broach it through him , madame , pray ;", "\u2014 But see , a lady saunters hitherward"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 164}, {"query": ["Methinks , your Majesty , the enormous tale", "Of English deeds by Talavera town ,", "Of your campaign , like Aaron 's serpent-rod ,"], "true_target": ["And all its crazy , crass futilities .", "Some speak , \u2018 tis true , in counterpoise thereto ,", "Has swallowed up the smaller of its kind .", "Though blurred by their exploit at Walcheren ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 164}, {"query": ["I recognized you , sire ; as who would not", "Of a fantastic and unheard of dream .", "To our shop in Vienna .", "To humour you , on this recognizance ,", "Should be your Empress-wife . Nought else I know .", "Vaguely . And that light tentatives have winged", "If severance from the Empress Josephine", "Or I had not left home .", "To moot that one of their Grand Duchesses", "To coolness ere your messenger arrives .", "I write this midnight , that amaze may pitch", "I should refuse you \u2014 most assuredly !", "In brief time Prince Eugene will wait on you ,", "Ay , so ! Now , guess you anything ?", "That you leave not the business in my hands ,", "Through whom to broach this matter to his Court .", "And that the would-be customer turns toe", "Through him to-morrow ; so safeguarding me", "The bearer of such deep-delved charactery ?", "Your sudden questions quite confound my sense ! It is impossible to answer them ."], "true_target": ["Paris , true ,", "From foolish seeming , as the babbler forth", "In a flash", "Still holds me ; though in quiet , save to-night ,", "Well ? The case \u2014", "There goes the Ambassador , Prince Schwarzenberg ,", "I will , informally ,", "Be fixed unalterably ?", "I break it to you thus , at his request .", "This theme and that ; his empress and \u2014 his next .", "What \u201c worse luck \u201d lies in that , your Majesty ,", "Betwixt your Majesty and Russia 's court ,", "The Emperor has just left me . We have tapped", "And make the formal offer in his name .", "But clothe your project in official guise", "That it will work , and is as good as wrought !\u2014", "Successor to my spouse . He 's now the groove", "It is beyond me , sire !", "Indeed , sire , why should I ?", "And proper conduit of diplomacy", "When I have been expressly prayed come hither ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 164}, {"query": ["Meanwhile you make good Metternich aware ?", "And comprehensible but as the dream", "If I err not , whatever else betide !", "Of Delaborde , of which I have lately heard .", "Which I can but receive ad referendum ,", "Well , it will thrust a thorn in Russia 's side ,", "And shall initially make clear as much ,", "No more than that the stock of Romanoff", "Which graced his bearing toward our officer"], "true_target": ["Disclosing not a glimpse of my own mind !", "It will not work !\u2014 What think you , madame , o n't ?", "Of her ?", "His wish for peace with England , his affront", "Marvellous ;", "Amid the tumults of the late campaign ,", "This radiant revelation flicks a gleam", "At Alexander 's tedious-timed reply ...", "Will not supply the spruce commodity .", "On many circling things !\u2014 the courtesies"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 164}, {"query": ["Then how can you so gird against me now ?", "Of such-like pretty tenour \u2014 yes , you have !", "Gossip was right \u2014 though I would not believe .", "She may not have a child , friend , after all .", "O my dear husband \u2014 do not make me \u2014 do n't ! If you but cared for me \u2014 the hundredth part Of how \u2014 I care for you , you could not be So cruel as to lay this torture on me . It hurts me so !\u2014 it cuts me like a sword . Do n't make me , dear ! Do n't , will you ! O , O , O !", "It cannot be my Love will serve me so !", "In which new gauderies you 'll forget sad me !", "Her silly , soulless eyes and horrid hair ;", "Had been laid dead and still .", "I hardly \u2014 can \u2014 bear this !\u2014 It is \u2014 too much For a poor weak and broken woman 's strength ! But \u2014 but I yield !\u2014 I am so helpless now : I give up all \u2014 ay , kill me if you will , I wo n't cry out !", "That formerly were mine . I kicked at that ;", "So far advanced \u2014 so far ! Fixed ?\u2014 for the fifteenth ? O I do implore you , My very dear one , by our old , old love , By my devotion , do n't cast me off Now , after these long years !", "Than carrying elsewhere the dalliances", "Into your bed , will well take care of that !", "As your Dame Fortune , too , and endless things", "The flower of all the world 's virginity", "It is none else than the Grand-Duchess Anne :", "It is the \u2014 last humiliating blow !\u2014", "I cannot \u2014 O , I will not !", "How can I \u2014 when no freewill 's left in me ?"], "true_target": ["Some other Fair , then . You whose name can nod", "What \u2014 I have to sign", "I never even have THOUGHT you jot of harm !", "It means divorce !\u2014 a thing more terrible", "But nothing have I done save good to you :\u2014", "To any infidelities of act", "I see my doom , my friend , upon your face !", "She 's young ; but no great beauty !\u2014 Yes , I see", "Very well . Let it be . I must submit !", "You had not pricked upon it much of late ,", "O no , no , my dear husband ; no , in truth ,", "May I be yours in name !", "But are you REALLY going to part from me ?", "Many the happy junctures when you have said", "And so I hoped and hoped the ugly spectre", "But now agree , as I for long have done ,", "My putting away upon the fifteenth next ?", "I stood as guardian-angel over you ,", "Ah \u2014 so \u2014 the princess chosen !... I surmise", "Since the fond day we wedded into one"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 165}, {"query": ["That showed itself in time a sanity ,", "On simple grounds of sapient sovereignty .", "Which is no personal caprice of mine ,", "I reckon on your courage and calm sense", "Which hardened in its turn to a resolve", "Now , on our process after the divorce .", "How is your mother now ?", "To other things than our domestic petting :", "You are a willing party \u2014 do you hear ?", "Upon my soul you are childish , Josephine :", "Concentrating all your force to forward them .", "And \u2018 tis the Empire dictates this divorce .", "And get it through before the year has flown .", "The young Archduchess is much less a child", "Will be incapable of motherhood", "That her good mother childed seventeen times ,", "No \u2014 not I .", "The question of the Russian Duchess Anne", "As if you shaped them of your own free will .", "Than is the other , who , Caulaincourt says ,", "And this much likewise you must promise me ,", "Why have they dallied with my tentatives", "So I have made up my mind \u2014 committed me", "Ay \u2014 both of us .", "That its own charm transfixed it to a notion ,", "The Emperor 's consent must needs be won ;", "And bring me word what impress you may make .", "As firm as any built by mortal mind .\u2014", "Was quite inept for further toying with .", "And I have plunged it .", "Ha-ha ! It never rains unless it pours : Now I can have the other readily . The proverb hits me aptly : \u201c Well they do Who doff the old love ere they don the new ! \u201dYes , Caulaincourt now writes he has every hope Of quick success in settling the alliance ! The Tsar is willing \u2014 even anxious for it , His sister 's youth the single obstacle . The Empress-mother , hitherto against me , Ambition-fired , verges on suave consent , Likewise the whole Imperial family . What irony is all this to me now ! Time lately was when I had leapt thereat .", "And one thing further still ,", "You 'll help me in my marriage overtures", "My mind must bend", "It will be hard if she can not produce", "Your mother is too rash and reasonless \u2014", "To act in the formalities thereof", "Heavens , how you jade me !"], "true_target": ["For six months yet or more \u2014 a grave delay .", "But policy most painful \u2014 forced on me", "Must I repeat that I do n't cast you off ;", "To win the Duchess \u2014 Austrian Marie she ,\u2014", "The years rush on , and I grow nothing younger .", "My sense of my own dignity forbids", "My watching the slow clocks of Muscovy !", "We live and love , but call ourselves divided .", "Write you to Caulaincourt accordingly .", "Explain it to her once and once again ,", "To Austria and the Hapsburgs \u2014 good or ill !", "A woman of your years to pout it so !\u2014", "By the necessities of this country 's charge .", "Go to her ; see if she be saner now ;", "Champagny , I have something clear to say", "Wailing and fainting over statesmanship", "Except that there 's the house of Saxony", "But I foresee no difficulty there .", "Well , so it was . But such a pretty dream", "You hope she wo n't , I know !\u2014 But do n't forget Madame Walewska did , and had she shown Such cleverness as yours , poor little fool , Her withered husband might have been displaced , And her boy made my heir .\u2014 Well , let that be . The severing parchments will be signed by us Upon the fifteenth , prompt .", "\u2014 And Austria , too , affords a safer hope .", "By general story ; and considering , too ,", "We merely formally arrange divorce \u2014", "The Empire orbs above our happiness ,", "To breast with me the law 's formalities ,", "I say it 's not the Tsar 's Grand-Duchess Anne .", "You see me bored by Cambaceres \u2019 ball .", "I tell you , dear , The thing 's decreed , and even the princess chosen .", "But you SHALL ! And from your past experience you may know That what I say I mean !", "I mean but mere divorcement , as I said ,", "Bausset !Bausset , come in and shut the door . Assist me here . The Empress has fallen ill. Do n't call for help . We two can carry her By the small private staircase to her rooms . Here \u2014 I will take her feet .", "The young Archduchess is a bright blond thing", "The modest one or two that I require .", "But , Hortense , dear , it is not to be so ! You must stay with me , as I said before . Your mother , too , must keep her royal state , Since no repudiation stains this need . Equal magnificence will orb her round In aftertime as now . A palace here , A palace in the country , wealth to match , A rank in order next my future wife 's , And conference with me as my truest friend . Now we will seek her \u2014 Eugene , you , and I \u2014 And make the project clear .", "It was the best , most practicable plunge ,", "If Austria fail .\u2014 then , very well , Champagny ,", "Ah , dear Hortense ,", "In pompous silence since the Erfurt day ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 165}, {"query": ["And she must be strong .", "She that contains in her own corporation the necessary particular ."], "true_target": ["So , poor old girl , she 's wailed her Missere Mei , as Mother Church says . I knew she was to get the sack ever since he came back .", "She must be young .", "And she must be fruitful as the vine ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 165}, {"query": ["Good again . She must be strong . The doctors will see to that .", "And what may they be ?"], "true_target": ["Well , there will be a little civil huzzaing , a little crowing and cackling among the Bonapartes at the downfall of the Beauharnais family at last , mark me there will ! They 've had their little hour , as the poets say , and now \u2018 twill be somebody else 's turn . O it is droll ! Well , Father Time is a great philosopher , if you take him right . Who is to be the new woman ?", "Good . She must . The country must see to that .", "Ay , by God . She must be fruitful as the vine . That , Heaven help him , he must see to himself , like the meanest multiplying man in Paris ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 165}, {"query": ["You might , of course , sire , give th \u2019 Archduchess up ,", "While this does so no longer .", "For Austria ; and no more is to be said !"], "true_target": ["Austria say you , sire ? I reckoned that but a scurrying dream !", "Your Majesty appears to have trimmed your sail", "I will , your Majesty .", "Seeing she looms uncertainly as yet ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 165}, {"query": ["The courier , sire , from Petersburg is here ,"], "true_target": ["And brings these letters for your Majesty ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 165}, {"query": ["As for her children , we shall be but glad", "Calm ; quite calm , sire .", "As in days earlier she ascended it \u2014", "It was your hand that crowned her ; let it be", "With chastened dignity to circumstance ,", "The tenderest mother children ever knew ,", "From grandeurs that have brought no happiness !"], "true_target": ["To follow and withdraw ourselves with her ,", "And will descend , at notice , from your throne \u2014", "Likewise your hand that takes her crown away .", "I pledge me you need have no further fret", "That now , as always , she submits herself", "From her entreating tears . She bids me say", "In questionless obedience to your will ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 165}, {"query": ["Affection is my duty , heart my guide .\u2014", "There seems no bar . Speaking as father solely ,", "The thing that fronts us brooking brief delay .\u2014", "You mean , if I ,", "If that be so , on the domestic side", "Without constraint or prompting I shall leave", "Before my obligations to my people", "That leave their shade on many a backward year !\u2014", "Or not to close with him , is now the thing .", "I see secured to her the proudest fate", "Agreed . As monarch I perceive therein", "Must stand her wish . Go , find her , Metternich ,", "Between Napoleon and the Russian Court \u2014", "Thus far you satisfy me .... So , to close ,", "A quittance of distractions such as those", "Take her the tidings . She is free with you ,"], "true_target": ["That private bliss would not be wanting her !", "I have been expecting you some minutes here ,", "That woman can daydream . And I could hope", "The big decision in my daughter 's hands .", "My daughter 's views thereon do not surprise me . She is too staunch to pit a private whim Against the fortunes of a commonwealth . During your speech with her I have taken thought To shape decision sagely . An assent Would yield the Empire many years of peace , And leave me scope to heal those still green sores Which linger from our late unhappy moils . Therefore , my daughter not being disinclined , I know no basis for a negative . Send , then , a courier prompt to Paris : say The offer made for the Archduchess \u2019 hand I do accept \u2014 with this defined reserve , That no condition , treaty , bond , attach To such alliance save the tie itself . There are some sacrifices whose grave rites No bargain must contaminate . This is one \u2014 This personal gift of a beloved child !", "And will speak out .", "Begun there with the selfsame motiving .", "You 'd answer straight . What would that answer be ?", "Well , what say you by now on this strange offer ?", "A happy doorway for my purposings .", "And it would aid us had we clearly keyed", "She 's here at hand , I see :", "I 'll call her in . Then tell me what 's her mind .", "The cryptologues of which the world has heard", "It seems to guarantee the Hapsburg crown", "There is , forsooth , a suddenness about it ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 166}, {"query": ["I will acquaint your sire the Emperor", "With these your views . He waits them anxiously .", "In the important reckoning of means", "A formal offer of his heart and hand ,", "The good Archduchess luminously holds", "On this grave verdict of your destiny ,", "Finds him unfit to jog his chieftain 's choice ,", "I 'll speak straight out . The Emperor of the French", "At the assaults of winter , want , and foes .", "Whatever your Imperial Highness feels", "His honours , dignities , imperial throne ,", "The policy of peace that I have upheld ,", "The current drags , direct its face up-stream ?", "Times will arise when even the faithfullest squire", "Must appertain the privilege to pronounce", "My views remain the same , your Majesty :", "In England , after warring thirty years", "Let not , then , such be ours .", "And bandaged veins for our late crimsoned realm .", "To break vast news that will make good his call .", "And wreck of that conjunction in the aims", "Vagueness and doubt have ruined Russia 's chance ;", "Is easy-natured in domestic life ,", "On whom responsibility must lastly rest .", "For his great end , a strong monarchic line .", "From far \u2014 though of such distance-dwarfing might", "Right nobly phrased , Archduchess ; wisely too .", "To fire the fancy of a young princess .", "I was about to seek your Majesty .", "For sharper , then , the quashing of such views ,", "Of zest for springing \u2014 aimless in their shape .", "In such a case give answer \u2014 yes or no .", "Which track stern duty bids you tread herein .", "The Empire . Best for it is best for her .", "A hope well seated , sire . The Emperor ,", "Not of himself , but of your own desire .", "Well-that 's a point of view .", "Has sent to-day to make , through Schwarzenberg ,", "Home , title , future sphere , he bids you think"], "true_target": ["Like enmities have led to intermarriage .", "Sure , he did ,", "I would not , sire , one second ponder it .", "He 's scarcely old , Dear lady . True , deeds densely crowd in him ; Turn months to years calendaring his span ; Yet by Time 's common clockwork he 's but young .", "The Red and White Rose wedded .", "Points to this step as heralding sweet balm", "Both while in Paris and of late time here ,", "As my long time in Paris amply proved .", "Of France and Russia , marked so much of late", "That far may read as near eventually .", "Your Majesty commands the issue quite :", "What she must do she will ; nought else at all .", "Such things have been ! In Spain and Portugal", "Words . But words !", "As jeopardizing quiet neighbours \u2019 thrones .", "I 'll see to it this hour , your Majesty , And cant the words in keeping with your wish . To himself as he goes . ] Decently done !... He slipped out \u201c sacrifice , \u201d And scarce could hide his heartache for his girl . Well ached it !\u2014 But when these things have to be It is as well to breast them stoically .", "By time and true good humour .", "It was an obvious first crude cast-about", "And such times are pre-eminently , sire ,", "They are gone , I ween , the way of tender flesh", "But , dear Archduchess , with your kindly leave", "Born like the bubbles of a spring that come", "In state affairs , sire , as in private life ,", "Have been , and will be , admirably designed", "His wish is yours .", "So much for form 's sake ! Can the river-flower", "To you , whom he admires above all those", "Those wherein thought alone is not enough", "My much beloved Archduchess , and revered ,", "The more advanced the more it profits us ;", "Things ? Nothing inexpungeable , I deem ,", "Imperious and determined in his rule ,", "That in this weighty question you regard", "The father of his people can alone", "To serve the head as guide . As Emperor ,", "The world can show elsewhere .", "Moreover , the accessories of his glory", "As father , both , to you , to you in sole", "Your gracious Highness ; and he has left me here"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 166}, {"query": ["But , Chancellor , think what things I have said to him ! Can women marry where they have taunted so ?", "It seems indecent , mean , to wed a man", "Whom one has held such fierce opinions of !", "And answered that I hoped he 'd lose his head", "Tell me , now , What does my father wish ?", "Snugly defended from the north-east wind ,", "Thrilling out how the French were smitten sore", "So wicked , too !", "Have lately disappeared . I sought a trace", "Please pardon my so brusquely bursting in .", "That haunt out there beneath the pediment ,", "Let me go first . It much confuses me", "Then do . I 'll listen . News from near or far ?"], "true_target": ["When the first voicings of the late war came ,", "My wish is what my duty bids me wish . Where a wide Empire 's welfare is in poise , That welfare must be pondered , not my will . I ask of you , then , Chancellor Metternich , Straightway to beg the Emperor my father That he fulfil his duty to the realm , And quite subordinate thereto all thought Of how it personally impinge on me .", "My husband \u2014 he ? What , an old man like him !", "To think \u2014 But I would fain let thinking be !", "I saw you not .\u2014 Those five poor little birds", "As well as lose the battle !", "And Bonaparte retreating , I clapped hands", "It is too melancholy thinking , that ! Do n't say it .\u2014 But I saw the Emperor here ? Surely he beckoned me ?", "Of scattered feathers , which I dread to find !", "O I have !", "I have said I wished him dead ! At that strained hour", "Horrible things . Why \u2014 ay , a hundred times \u2014", "O how , dear Chancellor , you startled me !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 166}, {"query": ["So I have reason for a passing dread !"], "true_target": ["I own hereto . When France and Austria wed", "My echoes are men 's groans , my dews are red ;"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 166}, {"query": ["I learn from a private letter that it was carried out in the Emperor 's Cabinet at the Tuileries \u2014 just off the throne-room , where they all assembled in the evening ,\u2014 Boney and the wife of his bosom, the Kings and Queens of Holland , Whestphalia , and Naples , the Princess Pauline , and one or two more ; the officials present being Cambaceres the Chancellor , and Count Regnaud . Quite a small party . It was over in minutes \u2014 short and sweet , like a donkey 's gallop ."], "true_target": ["They say he was a bit upset , too , at sight of her tears But I dare vow that was put on . Fancy Boney caring a curse what a woman feels . She had learnt her speech by heart , but that did not help her : Regnaud had to finish it for her , the ditch that overturned her being where she was made to say that she no longer preserved any hope of having children , and that she was pleased to show her attachment by enabling him to obtain them by another woman . She was led off fainting . A turning of the tables , considering how madly jealous she used to make him by her flirtations !", "Serenely , I believe , while the Emperor was making his speech renouncing her ; but when it came to her turn to say she renounced him she began sobbing mightily , and was so completely choked up that she could n't get out a word ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 167}, {"query": ["I wish I had gone down . But the wind soon blew the other way .", "Ninety-six against us .", "How did Castlereagh stomach that ?", "How is the debate going ? Still braying the Government in a mortar ?", "The fact is that , as Whitbread said to me to-day , the materials for condemnation are so prodigious that we can scarce marshal them into argument . We are just able to pour \u2018 em out one upon t'other .", "Anything but sweet for her . How did she stand it ?"], "true_target": ["Anybody could have said it , come to that .", "Boney safe on that side , what may not befall !", "Shake heads seems most natural in the case . O House of Hapsburg , how hast thou fallen !", "Gad , I did n't expect the figure would have been quite so high !", "Poor old dame ! I pity her , by God ; though she had a rattling good spell while it lasted .", "Well , the war must go on . And that being the general conviction this censure and that censure are only so many blank cartridges ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 167}, {"query": ["The Lord look down ! Our late respected crony of Austria ! Why , in this very night 's debate they have been talking about the laudable principles we have been acting upon in affording assistance to the Emperor Francis in his struggle against the violence and ambition of France !", "He replied then . Donning his air of injured innocence he proved the honesty of his intentions \u2014 no doubt truly enough . But when he came to Walcheren nothing could be done . The case was hopeless , and he knew it , and foundered . However , at the division , when he saw what a majority was going out on his side he was as frisky as a child . Canning 's speech was grave , with bits of shiny ornament stuck on \u2014 like the brass nails on a coffin , Sheridan says .", "Then he made another point . After enumerating our frightful failures \u2014 Spain , Walcheren , and the rest \u2014 he said : \u201c But Ministers have not failed in everything . No ; in one thing they have been strikingly successful . They have been successful in their attack upon Copenhagen \u2014 because it was directed against an ally ! \u201d Mighty fine , was n't it ?", "They are . Though one thing every body admits : young Peel has made a wonderful first speech in seconding the address . There has been nothing like it since Pitt . He spoke rousingly of Austria 's misfortunes \u2014 went on about Spain , of course , showing that we must still go on supporting her , winding up with a brilliant peroration about \u2014 what were the words \u2014 \u201c the fiery eyes of the British soldier ! \u201d \u2014 Oh , well : it was all learnt before-hand , of course .", "Then Gower rapped out his amendment . That was good , too , by God ."], "true_target": ["Blank ? Damn me , were they ! Gower 's was a palpable hit when he said that Parliament had placed unheard-of resources in the hands of the Ministers last year , to make this year 's results to the country worse than if they had been afforded no resources at all . Every single enterprise of theirs had been a beggarly failure .", "The one conviction is that the war in the Peninsula is to go on , and as we are all agreed upon that , what the hell does it matter what their majority was ?", "A revolution , because Ministers are not impeached and hanged ?", "We had better make it up with him , and shake hands all round .", "Yes , because it is so true . However , when he began to lay on with such rhetoric as \u201c the treasures of the nation lavished in wasteful thoughtlessness , \u201d \u2014 \u201c thousands of our troops sacrificed wantonly in pestilential swamps of Walcheren , \u201d and gave the details we know so well , Ministers wriggled a good one , though \u2018 twas no news to \u2018 em . Castlereagh kept on starting forward as if he were going to jump up and interrupt , taking the strictures entirely as a personal affront .", "Ward said , with the blandest air in the world : \u201c Censure ? Do his Majesty 's Ministers expect censure ? Not a bit . They are going about asking in tremulous tones if anybody has heard when their impeachment is going to begin . \u201d"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 167}, {"query": ["Who 's speaking now ?"], "true_target": ["Haw \u2014 haw \u2014 haw !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 167}, {"query": ["O no-that 's ancient history . I 'd forgot it ."], "true_target": ["Have ye heard the latest ?", "That 's in contemplation , when we 've got their confessions . But what I meant was from over the water \u2014 it is a deuced sight more serious to us than a debate and division that are only like the Liturgy on a Sunday \u2014 known beforehand to all the congregation . Why , Bonaparte is going to marry Austria forthwith \u2014 the Emperor 's daughter Maria Louisa ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 167}, {"query": ["How we have dished the Soissons folk , with their pavilions , and purple and gold hangings for bride and bridegroom to meet in , and stately ceremonial to match , and their thousands looking on ! Here we are where there 's nobody . Ha , ha !", "No , my dearest spouse , but we are together !Drive through Soissons \u2014 pass the pavilion of reception without stopping , and do n't halt till we reach Compiegne .", "Well , as the time got nearer I could n't stand the idea of dawdling about there ."], "true_target": ["Heavens , I know no more than you ! Trust to the moment and see what happens .Hark \u2014 here she comes ! Good little girl ; up to time !", "One gets more chilly in a wet March than in a dry , however cold , the devil if he do n't ! What time do you make it now ? That clock does n't go .", "So let \u2018 em . I 'll make it up with them somehow .\u2014 She can n't be far off now , if we have timed her rightly ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 168}, {"query": ["The Soissons people will be in a deuce of a taking at being made such fools of !", "I do n't quite see how you are going to manage when she does come . Do we go before her toward Soissons when you have greeted her here , or follow in her rear ? Or what do we do ?"], "true_target": ["But why should they be dished , sire ? The pavilions and ceremonies were by your own orders .", "Yes , it does ; and it is right . If clocks were to go as fast as your wishes just now it would be awkward for the rest of the world ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 168}, {"query": ["You are so much \u2014 better looking than your portraits \u2014 that I hardly knew you ! I expected you at Soissons . We are not at Soissons yet ?"], "true_target": ["Ah , Heaven ! Two highwaymen are upon us !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 168}, {"query": ["Nay , Showman Years ! With holy reverent air"], "true_target": ["We hymn the nuptials of the Imperial pair ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 168}, {"query": ["Simple child ,", "Yourself and Francis \u2014 simultaneously ,", "And that blind Austria will rue the hour", "How so , my son ? Catharine was plighted , and it could not be .", "And hence leaves little for his folk at home .", "I marvel why you mourn a frustrate tie", "Much sentiment upon the foreign fair ,", "That is a tactic suit , with love to match !", "Marrying Napoleon is a midnight leap", "For any Court in Europe , credit me ,", "Ay ; your regrets are sentimental ever .", "There is , no less , in his evasion o n't ,", "And slanderous sayings for a baseless hope ,", "Upon the coming years , what murderous bolt", "Do n't listen to us longer , dearest Anne .", "A backward answer is our country 's card \u2014", "Thus are you coolly shelved !", "He set his minions parleying with the twain \u2014", "And loud laconic brow-beating herein !", "Veraciously peeps out . I would be sworn", "Is no regret to me ! But an affront", "Sane Nature would have cried indecency", "On what dark planet he may land himself", "To be his bride and bulwark \u2014 not our own .", "The special style and mode of Muscovy .", "In his career through space , no sage can say .", "Napoleon and your brother loved her both .", "Are cured of stiffness by its potency ."], "true_target": ["I am a Romanoff by marriage merely ,", "He means , my child , that he as usual spends", "There should be , then .", "So one of Austrian blood his pomp selects", "\u2014 You will uphold my judging by and by ,", "Hurl at the rocking Constitutions round ,", "Wherein she plucks for him her fairest flower !", "His will be none who feels but for himself .", "But whatsoever grief be Alexander 's ,", "We have grown great upon it , my dear son ,", "Her indignation at his former slights", "With one whose wiles could wring a woman so !", "If ever such there were ! What he may carve", "But I do feel a rare belittlement", "As yet he has never seen her , or but barely .", "At such a troth .", "How Anne ?\u2014 so young a girl !", "May Austria win much joy of the alliance !", "Wherein the bourgeois quality of him", "More than the hazard ; the necessity .", "The necks of those who rate themselves our peers", "Here comes dear Anne Speak not of it before her .", "Bitterly mourned she her civilities", "That as a suitor we are quit of him ,", "And wrought no tittle for her country 's gain .", "Else no betrothal could have speeded so !", "That he 'll be writ no son-in-law of mine", "And may such practice rule our centuries through !", "When time unlocked the truth , that she had choked"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 168}, {"query": ["That he engrafts his lineage not on us .\u2014", "She was a lovely woman even then !...", "To let Napoleon have no chance that way .", "What then ? It has been otherwise ordained .", "Strangely , the present English Prince of Wales", "Is shattered by the facts : since none can doubt", "Had all been left to me , some time ere now", "Let death into her heart . The Tilsit days", "They might have varied Europe 's history .", "Taught me to know her well , and honour her .", "But , honestly , Napoleon none the less", "Marriage with France was near my heart \u2014 I own it \u2014", "Has been my friend , and I regret the dream", "High-souled Louisa ;\u2014 when shall I forget Those Tilsit gatherings in the long-sunned June ! Napoleon 's gallantries deceived her quite , Who fondly felt her pleas for Magdeburg Had won him to its cause ; the while , alas ! His cynic sense but posed in cruel play !", "Accorded his impatient overtures", "But the one test he had no temper for", "Time would have tinkered that ,", "And drove my long ally to Austria 's arms ,", "Was the apparent slight of unresponse"], "true_target": ["By our suspensive poise of policy .", "Your policy was counted an affront ,", "Rather you swiftly pledged and married her ,", "Well \u2014 possibly !... And maybe all is best", "Ah !\u2014 such I dreaded from the earlier hints . Poor soul \u2014 her heart was slain some time ago .", "I mean , Anne , that her country 's overthrow", "No , mother , no ! I am the Tsar \u2014 not you ,", "And he was well-disposed to wait awhile ;", "Me , mother dear ?", "But Anne remained .", "There 's no offence to me .", "And I am only piqued in moderateness .", "He would have wedded Kate .", "I marvel also , when I think of it !", "Despite the hazard of offence to one ?", "With what result to us must yet be seen !", "You , faith , if I may say it dutifully !", "The principle in this case , anyhow ,", "And fleeting fancy of a closer tie !", "Was wished to husband her . Had wishes won ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 168}, {"query": ["Napoleon , I have heard , admired her once ;", "Spirited Queen Louisa , once so fair ,", "What do you mean by that , my brother dear ?", "O mother , how can you mistake him so !"], "true_target": ["He worships her who is to be his wife ,", "Alas ! the news is that poor Prussia 's queen ,", "How he must grieve that soon she 'll be no more !", "Is slowly dying , mother ! Did you know ?", "The fair Archduchess Marie ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 168}, {"query": ["All day have they been waiting for their galanty-show , and now the hour of performance is on the strike . It may be seasonable to muse on the sixteenth Louis and the bride 's great-aunt , as the nearing procession is , I see , appositely crossing the track of the tumbril which was the last coach of that respected lady .... It is now passing over the site of the scaffold on which she lost her head . ... Now it will soon be here ."], "true_target": ["This is sound artistry of the Immanent Will : it relieves the monotony of so much good-humour ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 169}, {"query": ["With faces speaking sense of an adventure", "To pluck her by the arm !", "Whose are those forms that pair in pompous train", "Napoleon looks content \u2014 nay , shines with joy ."], "true_target": ["Which may close well , or not so ?", "Of the yet earlier Austrian , here , too , queen ,", "I seem to see the thin and headless ghost", "Behind the hand-in-hand half-wedded ones ,", "Walking beside the bride , with frail attempts"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 169}, {"query": ["In those who now enjoy them , will become", "New , many , to Imperial dignities ;"], "true_target": ["The birthright of their sons in aftertime .", "Which , won by character and quality"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 169}, {"query": ["Ephemeral at the best all honours be ,", "Even of her Austrian blood . No : what thou seest", "So random-fashioned , swift , perturbable !", "Nay , think not so .", "On this mud-moulded ball ! Through sixteen years", "Yet see it pass , as by a conjuror 's wand .", "Senseless of hustlings in her former house ,", "Lost to all count of crowns and bridalry \u2014"], "true_target": ["Springs of the quavering fancy , stirred to dreams", "We are the only phantoms now abroad", "No trump unseals earth 's sepulchre 's to-day :", "These even more ephemeral than their kind ,", "It fits thee not to augur , quick-eared Shade .", "She has decayed in a back-garden yonder ,", "By yon tart phantom 's phrase .", "Dust all the showance time retains of her ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 169}, {"query": ["Where are the Cardinals ? And why not here ?", "Well , be it so . But they shall flinch for it !", "Because they WILL not come . The factious fools !", "Now I 'll be bright as ever \u2014 you must , too ."], "true_target": ["O , it is nought", "Those devils of Italian Cardinals !\u2014", "Tell me no nonsense ! Half absent themselves", "To trouble you : merely , my cherished one ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 169}, {"query": ["I know not why , I love not this day 's doings half so well As our quaint meeting-time at Compiegne . A clammy air creeps round me , as from vaults Peopled with looming spectres , chilling me And angering you withal !"], "true_target": ["I 'll try .The ceremony of the religious marriage now begins . The choir intones a hymn , the EMPEROR and EMPRESS go to the altar , remove their gloves , and make their vows . ]"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 169}, {"query": ["They scarce can close up every southward gap", "Thrusts he his burly , bossed disfigurements", "I 'll look now at it , while the weather aids . If it may serve our end when all 's prepared So good . If not , some other to the west .The wind continues to prevail as the spot is left desolate , the darkness increases , rain descends more heavily , and the scene is blotted out . ]", "Or even prevent it !", "A good road runs along their front , it seems ,", "And crack good bones in waste . By human power", "We may heap corpses vainly hereabout ,", "Which offers us advantage .... What a night !", "May he enjoy their sureness . He deserves to .", "How long have these prim ponderosities"], "true_target": ["So far to north as this ? I had pictured me", "But that we turn them somewhere , I assume ?", "Between the Tagus and the Atlantic Sea .", "I had no inkling of such barriers here .", "With this behind his back ! Well , it is hard", "Something stands here to peril our advance ,", "The lay much nearer Lisbon . Little strange", "Plain \u2018 tis , no less ,", "This passes mounting ! What say you 's behind ?", "Lord Wellington rode placid at Busaco", "Been rearing up their foreheads to the moon ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 170}, {"query": ["These are the English lines \u2014", "Which customed skill may force .", "Their outer horns and tusks \u2014 whereof I spoke ,"], "true_target": ["Constructed by Lord Wellington of late", "I hold they can , and do ; although , no doubt ,", "By searching we shall spy some raggedness", "To keep his foothold firm in Portugal ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 170}, {"query": ["They are Lord Wellington 's select device ,", "And , like him , heavy , slow , laborious , sure ."], "true_target": ["Some months in all . I know not quite how long .", "But more matured . Behind its back a third .", "Another line exactly like the first ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 170}, {"query": ["And find amid the vale an open route", "That , well manoeuvred , may be practicable ."], "true_target": ["Favoured therein by this disordered night ,", "Which tongues its language to the disguise of ours ;", "We have ridden along as far as Calandrix ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 170}, {"query": ["O well \u2014 no matter :", "And what news brings the morning from without ?", "You might have drawn the line at the Messiah .", "Praise Heaven for that !", "From all his olden prowess ? Why , again ,", "Show the aplomb and phlegm that you would show", "As we were not expecting it so soon I begged they would sit up no longer here .... She ought to get along ; she has help enough With that half-dozen of them at hand within \u2014 Skilled Madame Blaise the nurse , and two besides , Madame de Montesquiou and Madame Ballant \u2014 -", "Be even with us there !", "Your furthest skill can work but what it may .", "A shop-wife 's couch , say , in the Rue Saint Denis ;", "I know of none but this the Empress now", "Did such a bed receive your ministry .", "Now that I have a son !", "Must not be sullied by so mean a thing :", "I 'll not grieve overmuch about the child ....", "Trumps to the world from the adjoining room .", "How now , Dubois ?", "Strange that just now there flashes on my soul That little one I loved in Warsaw days , Marie Walewska , and my boy by her !\u2014 She was shown faithless by a foul intrigue Till fate sealed up her opportunity .... But what 's one woman 's fortune more or less Beside the schemes of kings !\u2014 Ah , there 's the new !", "Never shall She go through this strain again", "Then save the mother , pray ! Think but of her ;", "Aid shall be rendered . Much as we may suffer ,", "Did he give battle at Busaco lately ,"], "true_target": ["My thanks ; though , gentlemen , upon my soul", "Do n't lose you head , Dubois , at this tight time :", "Of Massena ?", "As though we meant to let this Wellington", "What has come in from Spain and Portugal ?", "And he does nothing . Really it might seem", "England must suffer more , and I am content .", "It shall not be ! Our burst of natal joy", "Why should I linger on these haps of war", "We have achieved a healthy heir , good dames , And in the feat the Empress was most brave , Although she suffered much \u2014 so much , indeed , That I would sooner father no more sons Than have so fair a fruit-tree undergo Another wrenching of such magnitude .", "He took some coaxing , but he 's here at last .\u2014", "opens the door and speaks into the bed-chamber . ]", "Ever retreating ! Why declines he so", "Why has he dallied by the Tagus bank", "To lay down a dynastic line for me .", "And shunned the obvious course ? I gave him Ney ,", "Fancy that you are merely standing by", "Good god !", "It is her privilege , and my command .\u2014", "When Lisbon could be marched on without strain ?", "But I excuse you .\u2014 Yes , the boy has come ;", "Soult , and Junot , and eighty thousand men ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 171}, {"query": ["Which life is to be saved ? The Empress , sire , Lies in great jeopardy . I have not known In my long years of many-featured practice An instance in a thousand fall out so ."], "true_target": ["Past is the question , sire , of which to save ! The child is dead ; the while her Majesty Is getting through it well ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 171}, {"query": ["Sire , both are saved ."], "true_target": ["If you will pardon me , your Majesty , I must implore you not to interfere ! I 'll not be scapegoat for the consequence If , sire , you do ! Better for her sake far Would you withdraw . The sight of your concern But agitates and weakens her endurance . I will inform you all , and call you back If things should worsen here ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 171}, {"query": ["The honoured mother of your Majesty ,", "And sister too , should both have left ere now ,", "Whose solace would have bridged these anxious hours ."], "true_target": ["I ask you , sire ,", "To harass yourself less with this event ,", "Which may amend anon : I much regret"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 171}, {"query": ["It is as I expected . A healthy young woman of her build had every chance of doing well , despite the doctors ."], "true_target": ["He only says that now . In cold blood it would be far otherwise . That 's how men are ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 171}, {"query": ["Doctor , the child 's alive !"], "true_target": ["A vigorous boy , your Imperial Majesty . The brandy and hot napkins brought him to ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 171}, {"query": ["We bring to your Imperial Majesty ,", "Unstinted gratulations and goodwill"], "true_target": ["Upon the horizon of history !", "With which your people welcome this live star", "While still resounds the superflux of joy"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 171}, {"query": ["In secret here , six of the largest close .", "That cloaked the future of our chronicle !", "In magnitude therewith to more effect", "Nothing in Europe , sire , that can compare", "The widening glory of your high exploits", "Than with an eagle some frail finch or wren .", "Like a grim ghost ahead . Next week , they say"], "true_target": ["Whose coming at so apt an hour endues", "Subjects our merchant-houses to such strain", "The advent of this New Messiah , sire ,", "To wit : the ban on English trade prevailing ,", "That many of the best see bankruptcy", "All blessings at their goodliest will grace", "Of fairer prospects than the former one ,", "With permanence , and flings the dimness far"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 171}, {"query": ["At Torres Vedras hamper Massena ,", "And quite preclude advance .", "His mighty forts", "Which travel countries quick as earthquake thrills ,"], "true_target": ["No mortal knowing how .", "Before Lord Wellington . Dispatches soon", "Must reach your Majesty , explaining all .", "Yea . He retreats for prudence \u2019 sake , it seems ,", "Vaguely-voiced rumours , sire , but nothing more ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 171}, {"query": ["A hot ado goes forward here to-day ,", "Speak more materially , and less in dream .", "\u2014 Look narrowly , and what you witness say ."], "true_target": ["With weird unrest along the firmament", "From signs and tokens blent", "If I may read the Immanent Intent", "Of causal coils in passionate display ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 172}, {"query": ["Wrecked are the ancient bridge , the green spring plot , the blooming fruit-tree , the fair flower-knot !", "He calls the sight Despite itself !\u2014 parries yon lancer 's thrust , And with his own sword renders dust to dust ! The ghastly climax of the strife is reached ; the combatants are seen to be firing grape and canister at speaking distance , and discharging musketry in each other 's faces when so close that their complexions may be recognized . Hot corpses , their mouths blackened by cartridge-biting , and surrounded by cast-away knapsacks , firelocks , hats , stocks , flint-boxes , and priming horns , together with red and blue rags of clothing , gaiters , epaulettes , limbs and viscera accumulate on the slopes , increasing from twos and threes to half-dozens , and from half-dozens to heaps , which steam with their own warmth as the spring rain falls gently upon them . The critical instant has come , and the English break . But a comparatively fresh division , with fusileers , is brought into the turmoil by HARDINGE and COLE , and these make one last strain to save the day , and their names and lives . The fusileers mount the incline , and issuing from the smoke and mist startle the enemy by their arrival on a spot deemed won .", "And seeming drops of gore . On earth below", "I see red smears upon the sickly dawn ,", "Are men \u2014 unnatural and mechanic-drawn \u2014", "Like one who , having done his deeds , will die ?", "That tears across the mist"], "true_target": ["Whose is that towering form", "For dynasts \u2019 ends that few even understand !", "Outstretched , and grimy face , and bloodshot eye ,", "Wheeling them to and fro", "Mixt nationalities in row and row ,", "It works as you , uncanny Phantom , wist !...", "To where the shocks are sorest ?\u2014 his with arm", "In moves dissociate from their souls \u2019 demand ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 172}, {"query": ["Around the hamlet and the church thereby :", "They bear upon the vill . But the gruff guns", "For England here to-day .", "He is one Beresford , who heads the fight", "Yet the true mischief to the English might", "Where cannon , foot , and brisk dragoons you see ,", "More Frenchmen press , and roaring antiphons", "Of cannonry contuse the roofs and walls and trees ."], "true_target": ["Till , from the wood , the ponderous columns wind ,", "Is meant to fall not there . Look to the right ,", "Waiting to breast the hill-brow bloodily .", "Punch spectral vistas through the maze of these !...", "I 'll do it .... The stir of strife grows well defined", "And read the shaping scheme by yon hill-side ,", "Guided by Godinot , with Werle nigh .", "With Werle and Latour-Maubourg to guide ,", "Of Dickson 's Portuguese"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 172}, {"query": ["They strove to live , they stretch to die .", "When , faltering headlong down , they spin", "Their blackened teeth set firm and hard .", "Like leaves . But those pay well who win Albuera ."], "true_target": ["Pale Colonels , Captains , ranksmen lie ,", "Facing the earth or facing sky ;\u2014", "They gain the ground there , yard by yard ,", "Till faintness follows closing-in ,", "Their brows and hair and lashes charred ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 172}, {"query": ["Friends , foemen , mingle ; heap and heap .\u2014", "The close-lined , three-edged prongs of steel .", "And face , as men who scorn to feel ,", "Where harmless worms caress and creep ."], "true_target": ["Hide their hacked bones , Earth !\u2014 deep , deep , deep ,", "To hold the mount , or pass elsewhere ,", "Their mad assailants rave and reel ,", "Out of six thousand souls that sware", "But eighteen hundred muster there ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 172}, {"query": ["Better than waking is to sleep ! Albuera !", "What man can grieve ? what woman weep ?"], "true_target": ["Hide their hacked bones , Earth !\u2014 deep , deep , deep ,", "Where harmless worms caress and creep .\u2014", "The night comes on , and darkness covers the battle-field ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 172}, {"query": ["To quicklier please my son !\u2014 And yet he says", "\u2014 This battle that you speak of ?\u2014 Spain , of course ?", "What ! Are they come ? What will they do to me ? How dare they ! I am Elector of Hanover !O , they are going to bleed me \u2014 yes , to bleed me !My friends , do n't bleed me \u2014 pray do n't ! It makes me so weak to take my blood . And the leeches do , too , when you put so many . You will not be so unkind , I am sure !", "And put me , once your king , in needless pain ?", "Ah \u2014 Albuera ! And many fall \u2014 eh ? Yes ?", "So much of me you surely know , my friends ,", "How long have I been confined here ?", "O will you do it , sir , against my will ,", "All those I lost at Walchere .\u2014 A crime", "And men 's tongues roll sincerely !", "As to let trumpets play !", "Ere I was throneless , withered to a shade ,", "I do assure you truly , my good friends ,", "And what is it now ?", "In darkness lingering out my lonely days ,", "I am most truly sorry , gentlemen , If I have used language that would seem to show Discourtesy to you for your good help In this unhappy malady of mine ! My nerves unstring , my friend ; my flesh grows weak : \u201c The good that I do I leave undone , The evil which I would not , that I do ! \u201d Shame , shame on me !", "That suck my blood like vampires ! Ay , ay , ay !\u2014", "When will the speech of the world accord with truth ,", "That I have done no harm ! In sunnier years", "Lay there !... I stood on Chatham 's being sent :", "She has been dead and I so short a time !...", "That I have won a battle ! O God , curse , damn !"], "true_target": ["Beset with terror of these myrmidons", "No aims left to me but to quicken death", "When I was hale , and ruled the English land \u2014", "A king should bear him kingly ; I of all ,", "Her little hands are hardly cold as yet ;", "How I could bring them to a better way .", "He says I have won a battle ? But I thought", "What , what ? So long ? Ah , yes . I must bear it . This is the fourth great black gulf in my poor life , is it not ? The fourth .", "A victory ? I ? Pray where ?", "I was a poor afflicted captive here ,", "I ever did my utmost to promote", "It wears on me , till I am unfit to live !", "O fearful price for victory ! Add thereto", "Ah , June , I remember !... The June flowers are not for me . I shall never see them ; nor will she . So fond of them as she was . ... Even if I were living I would never go where there are flowers any more ! No : I would go to the bleak , barren places that she never would walk in , and never knew , so that nothing might remind me of her , and make my heart ache more than I can bear !... Why , the beginning of June ?\u2014 that 's when they are coming to examine me !", "Ah \u2014 what does that band play for here to-day ?", "Deprived of my divine authority \u2014", "The welfare of my people , body and soul !", "Right many a morn and night I have prayed and mused", "You will strait-jacket me ? O no , no !", "But they can show such cruel indecency", "And will not hurt me in my weakness here !", "In my lifetime I did not look after her enough \u2014 enough \u2014 enough ! And now she is lost to me , and I shall never see her more . Had I but known , had I but thought of it ! Gentlemen , when did I lose the Princess Amelia ?", "One of so long a line . O shame on me !..."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 173}, {"query": ["Since November , sir ; for your health 's sake entirely , as your Majesty knows .", "The late Princess , as gently as a child", "A little bird found starved ."], "true_target": ["Dr. Reynolds ought not have reminded him of their visit . It only disquiets him and makes him less fit to see them .", "Now , sir , it is the beginning of June .", "The second of last November , your Majesty .", "Sir Henry , no . He has quite often named"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 173}, {"query": ["Curse that town band . It will have to be stopped .", "None . He is done for this time !", "It is extraordinary what a vast aversion he has to bleeding \u2014 that most salutary remedy , fearlessly practised . He submits to leeches as yet but I wo n't say that he will for long without being strait - jacketed .", "He is already better . The paroxysm has nearly passed . Your opinion will be far more favourable before you leave .", "I must increase the opium to-night , and lower him by a double set of leeches since he wo n't stand the lancet quietly ."], "true_target": ["And some from the Shades , too , of the fair , sex .\u2014 Well , here comes", "Heberden . He has pacified his Majesty nicely . Now we can get away .", "Do n't let him get on that Walcheren business . There will be another outbreak . Heberden , please ye talk to him . He fancies you most .", "Leeches are not effective , really . Dr. Home , when I mentioned it to him yesterday , said he would bleed him till he fainted if he had charge of him !", "Now he will be as low as before he was in the other extreme .", "Well , my inside begins to cry cupboard . I had breakfast early . We have enough particulars now to face the Queen 's Council with , I should say , Sir Henry ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 173}, {"query": ["Had built this mistimed fabric of the Spheres", "To some Great Heart , who haply may", "Of heavy travail in a suffering soul ,", "Unmaliced , unimpassioned , nescient Will !", "Might drive Compassion past her patiency", "Charm mortal miseries away !", "Mocked with the forms and feints of royalty", "To some Great Heart , to take away"], "true_target": ["While scarified by briery Circumstance ,", "This evil day , this evil day !", "Mock on , mock on ! Yet I 'll go pray", "To watch the throbbings of its captive lives ,", "To hold that some mean , monstrous ironist", ", and not thy said", "The tears that lie about this plightful scene", "Something within me aches to pray"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 173}, {"query": ["Mild one , be not touched with human fate ."], "true_target": ["Such is the Drama : such the Mortal state :", "No sigh of thine can null the Plan Predestinate !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 173}, {"query": ["Who stood and bearded Death by the hour that day !", "Yes , sir ; you have achieved a victory", "Upon this glorious victory you have won .", "A total of three generals , colonels five ,", "Thereon to let the Privy Council know ,", "And Herbert of the Third , Lieutenant Fox ,", "Who went out , but returned not . Heavily tithed", "With Majors-General Cole and Stewart wounded ,", "One was congratulation most sincere", "To celebrate it , and to honour you .", "Were the attenuate battalions there", "A subject that would surely solace him .", "Add ensigns and lieutenants sixscore odd ,", "Here 's Dr. Heberden , whom I am sure you like ,", "When he is in a more domineering mood he likes such allusions to his rank as king .... If he could resume his walks on the terrace he might improve slightly . But it is too soon yet . We must consider what we shall report to the Council . There is little hope of his being much better . What do you think , Willis ?", "But to inquire and gather how you are ,", "And this is Dr. Baillie . We arrive", "They guess not , sir ,"], "true_target": ["How he will take things now . I thought Albuera", "There 's Major-General Houghton , Captain Bourke ,", "These paroxysms \u2014 have they been bad this week ?", "Five majors , fifty captains ; and to these", "Many hot hearts , sir , cold , I grieve to say .", "That you can hear them , or their chords would cease .", "Indeed so , sir :", "This is distressing . One can never tell", "Yes .\u2014 I want to get back to town as soon as possible to-day . Mrs Siddons has a party at her house at Westbourne to-night , and all the world is going to be there .", "And Quartermaster-General Wallace too :", "The news is just in port ; the band booms out", "Hard by Albuera \u2014 far in harried Spain \u2014", "We have come to do your Majesty no harm .", "Their boisterous music fetches back to me", "And Captains Erck and Montague , and more .", "And give assurances for you people 's good .", "Well , we must soften it down a little , so as not to upset the Queen too much , poor woman , and distract the Council unnecessarily . Eldon will go pumping up bucketfuls , and the Archbishops are so easily shocked that a certain conventional reserve is almost forced upon us .", "That , of our errands to your Majesty ,", "Of dash unmatched and feats unparalleled !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 173}, {"query": ["That turns in some far sphere unlit", "Or ultra-stellar night-webs knit ?", "The Wheel which drives the Infinite ?", "Ha-ha ! That 's good . Thou'lt pray to It :\u2014"], "true_target": ["Yea , where abides the heart of it ?", "Is it where sky-fires flame and flit ,", "Or solar craters spew and spit ,", "But where do Its compassions sit ?", "What is Its shape ? Man 's counterfeit ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 173}, {"query": ["The same thing is going on all over England , no doubt , on account of this victory ."], "true_target": ["I 'll tell him some of the brilliant feats of the battle ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 173}, {"query": ["I 'll show you why ."], "true_target": ["The portent is an ill one , Emperor ; An ancient Roman would retire thereat !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 174}, {"query": ["Auxiliaries from Tiflis backing me .", "Will fall a wreck .... Vast , it is true , must bulk", "That I shall next bombard the British rule .", "To attain the Ganges is simplicity \u2014", "The lifetime-long alliance Russia swore", "As that of \u201c the now-ruling dynast \u201d ;", "She cries her destiny must be outwrought ,", "The evil seed-bearing that Russian wiles", "She offers us the choice of sword or shame ;", "But only Ferdinand 's !\u2014 I 'll get to Moscow ,", "Of English merchant-mastership in Ind", "Have nourished upon Europe 's choked affairs", "And she intractable and unashamed .", "I am good for another five !", "Let us bear war into her great gaunt land ,", "These fifty years !", "Whose voice was that , jarring upon my thought", "And spread our glory there as otherwhere ,", "Russia is forced on by fatality :", "An Eastern scheme so planned ; but I could work it ....", "We are no more the men of Austerlitz ,", "So insolently ?"], "true_target": ["has come from the tent in which he has passed the night to the high ground in front , where he stands watching through his glass the committal of his army to the enterprise . DAVOUT , NEY , MURAT , OUDINOT , Generals HAXEL and EBLE , NARBONNE , and others surround him . It is a day of drowsing heat , and the Emperor draws a deep breath as he shifts his weight from one puffed calf to the other . The light cavalry , the foot , the artillery having passed , the heavy horse now crosses , their glitter outshining the ripples on the stream . A messenger enters . NAPOLEON reads papers that are brought , and frowns . ]", "And send thence my rejoinder . France shall wage", "Another fifty years of wasting war", "The English heads decline to recognize", "At Tilsit , for the English realm 's undoing ,", "Before a Bourbon shall remount the throne", "But this long journey now just set a-trip", "Then let us forthwith stride the Niemen flood ,", "Is my choice way to India ; and \u2018 tis there", "We have made that choice unhesitatingly !", "Man has , worse fortune , but scant years for war ;", "Is violate beyond refurbishment ,", "Soldiers , wild war is on the board again ;", "Then , whoso spake , such portents I defy !", "Once ripped by a French sword , the scaffolding", "Meaning at our expense . Does she then dream", "That which has worked will work !\u2014 Since Lodi Bridge The force I then felt move me moves me on Whether I will or no ; and oftentimes Against my better mind .... Why am I here ? \u2014 By laws imposed on me inexorably ! History makes use of me to weave her web To her long while aforetime-figured mesh And contemplated charactery : no more . Well , war 's my trade ; and whencesoever springs This one in hand , they 'll label it with my name !Malbrough s'en vahYpppHeNthYpppHeNen guerre , Mironton , mironton , mirontaine ; Malbrough s'en vahYpppHeNthYpppHeNen guerre , Ne sait quand reviendra !", "With Moscow taken , Russia prone and crushed ,", "The government of Joseph , King of Spain ,", "So that a stable peace shall stultify", "With nothing left of our old featfulness ?", "Of restless Spain !..."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 174}, {"query": ["I see returning in a chattering flock", "Something is tongued afar ."], "true_target": ["Why doth he go ?\u2014", "Invincibly equipped .", "Bleached skeletons , instead of this array"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 174}, {"query": ["So , since the hunger for embranglement", "And haled us recklessly to horrid war ,", "Against Napoleon 's .\u2014 Ranksmen ! officers !", "And , counting on our call to the most High ,", "I am with you . Heaven frowns on the aggressor .", "Have forthwith set our puissance face to face"], "true_target": ["The hostile hatchings of Napoleon 's brain", "Against our Empire , long have harassed us ,", "That gnaws this man , has left us optionless ,", "You fend your lives , your land , your liberty .", "We have promptly mustered our well-hardened hosts ,", "And mangled all our mild amenities ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 174}, {"query": ["Est mort et enterre !", "It is kind of his Imperial Majesty to give me a lead ."], "true_target": ["Monsieur d'Malbrough est mort ,", "Mironton , mironton , mirontaine ;", "Monsieur d'Malbrough est mort ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 174}, {"query": ["Consequent which , you must retreat . By Lord Wellington 's strict regulations , women of loose character are to be excluded from the lines for moral reasons , namely , that they are often employed by the enemy as spies .", "Well \u2014 have ye earned enough to pay for knowing ? Government wage is poor pickings for watching here in the rain . How much can ye stand ?", "Advance and give the countersign ."], "true_target": ["\u201c Wives ! \u201d Oh , not to-day ! I have heard such titles of courtesy afore ; but they never shake me . \u201c W \u201d begins other female words than \u201c wives ! \u201d \u2014 You 'll have trouble , good dames , to get into Salamanca to-night . You 'll be challenged all the way down , and shot without clergy if you can n't give the countersign .", "Very well , my dear . I was always tender-hearted . Come along .The pass to-night is \u201c Melchester Steeple . \u201d That will take you into the town when the weather clears . You wo n't have to cross the ford . You can get temporary shelter in the shed there .", "Where there 's war there 's women , and where there 's women there 's trouble !Who goes there ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 175}, {"query": ["DAlBIAC", "DALBIAC", "PRESCOTT", "DALBIACThe French are luckier than you are , men . You 'll have a wet advance across this ford , but they have a dry retreat by the bridge at Alba .", "Have you heard , sergeant , if there 's to be a battle to-morrow ?", "DALBIAC A peasant told us , if we understood rightly , that he saw the Spanish withdraw , and the enemy place a garrison there themselves .", "DALBIAC Yes , sergeant . I am over here with him , as you have heard , no doubt , and lodging in Salamanca . We lost our way , and got caught in the storm , and want shelter awhile .", "PRESCOTT", "DALBIAC We must reveal who we are , I fearFriends !"], "true_target": ["I do n't mind that so much as that I have brought the children from", "Oh , but we can n't !", "Then surely you 'll tell us what it is , good kind man !", "Our news would have passed us in . We have wasted six pesetas .", "DALBIAC If it is necessary I will say who we are .\u2014 I am Mrs. Dalbiac , wife of the Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fourth Light Dragoons , and this lady is the wife of Captain Prescott of the Seventh Fusileers . We went out to Christoval to look for our husbands , but found the army had moved .", "PRESCOTT Dear good soldier , we are English ladies benighted , having mistaken our way back to Salamanca , and we want shelter from the storm .", "DALBIAC", "Half-a-dozen pesetas .", "Ireland . This coming battle frightens me !", "PRESCOTT"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 175}, {"query": ["Certainly , ma'am . I 'll give you an escort back as soon as the division has crossed and the weather clears ."], "true_target": ["Yes , ma'am . Everything shows it .", "You 've done us a good turn , it is true , darlin \u2019 . Not that Lord Wellington will believe it when he gets the news .... Why , if my eyes do n't deceive me , ma'am , that 's Colonel Dalbiac 's lady !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 175}, {"query": ["She 'll find her consort stiff among the slain !"], "true_target": ["Ere Salamanca clang to-morrow 's close", "This is her prescient pang of widowhood ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 175}, {"query": ["Thinking we mean to attack on him ,"], "true_target": ["The French make movements of grave consequence \u2014 Extending to the left in mass , my lord .", "He schemes to swoop on our retreating-line ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 176}, {"query": ["I have just perceived as much ; but not the cause .Marmont 's good genius is deserting him !By God , Fitzroy , if we sha n't do it now !Mon cher Alava , Marmont est perdu !"], "true_target": ["Ay ; and to cloak it by this cannonade . With that in eye he has bundled leftwardly Thomiere 's division ; mindless that thereby His wing and centre 's mutual maintenance Has gone , and left a yawning vacancy . So be it . Good . His laxness is our luck !Light breezes blow toward the French , and they get in their faces the dust-clouds and smoke from the masses of English in motion , and a powerful sun in their eyes ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 176}, {"query": [",", "Wellington mounts and seeks out Pakenham ,", "And while thus crushed , Dragoon-Guards and Dragoons ,", "Who pushes to the arena from the right ,", "Shape for the charge from column into rank ;", "Against the English Fourth and Fifth hard by ;", "Shut up by Pakenham like bellows-folds", "And their scathed files are double-scathed anon .", "For whose recall his voice has rung in vain .", "To spirit on his troops emerging thence ,", "Under Le Marchant 's hands", "Are launched upon them by Sir Stapleton ,"], "true_target": ["And prop the lone division Thomiere ,", "And , spurting to the left of Marmont 's line ,", "Appearing to behold the full-mapped mind", "Where see him fall , sore smitten .\u2014 Bonnet rides", "Shakes Thomiere with lunges leonine .", "Aide after aide towards the forest 's rim ,", "Cotton falls wounded . Pakenham 's bayoneteers", "And dons the burden of the chief command ,", "Marking dismayed the Thomiere column there", "Marmont hies hotly to the imperilled place ,", "When the manoeuvre 's meaning hits his sense ,", "And Thomiere finds death thereat point-blank !", "Of his opponent , Marmont arrows forth"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 176}, {"query": ["Though such features lie afar", "From events Peninsular ,", "These , amid their dust and thunder ,"], "true_target": ["Form with those , as scarce asunder ,", "Parts of one compacted whole .", "A bullet crying along the cloven air Gouges Le Marchant 's groin and rankles there ; In Death 's white sleep he soon joins Thomiere , And all he has fought for , quits !The fight grows fiercer . COLE and LEITH now fall wounded ; then BERESFORD , who directs the Portuguese , is struck down and borne away . On the French side fall BONNET who succeeded MARMONT in command , MANNE , CLAUSEL , and FEREY , the last hit mortally . Their disordered main body retreats into the forest and disappears ; and just as darkness sets in , the English stand alone on the crest , the distant plain being lighted only by musket-flashes from the vanquishing enemy . In the close foreground vague figures on horseback are audible in the gloom ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 176}, {"query": ["The women-folk would keep them to the rear :", "Arise from such exploits .\u2014 And was it she", "By God , though , they 've just saved themselves thereby", "Their only scantling of escape lies there ;", "Just as the French retired ?", "Speed the pursuit , then , towards the Huerta ford ;", "Well , what 's done can n't be undone ....", "Impossible . The guns of Carlos rake it", "Within a sickle 's curve !", "I thought they looked as they 'd be scurrying soon !", "Did she though : did she !"], "true_target": ["Well , I 'm damned sorry for her . Though I wish", "Much awkwardness attends their pottering round !", "Why that must be Susanna , whom I know \u2014", "Blast him , he 's disobeyed his orders , then ! How happened this ? How long has it been known ?", "Sheer from the castle walls .", "Not but great irregularities", "And we shall have them like a swathe of grass", "I noticed wandering to and fro below here ,", "From capture to a man !", "A Wessex woman , blithe , and somewhat fair ....", "The river coops them semicircle-wise ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 176}, {"query": ["Maucune strikes out for Alba-Castle bridge ."], "true_target": ["Foy bears into the wood in middling trim ;"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 176}, {"query": ["Some ladies some few hours have rumoured it ,", "Too late , my lord . They are crossing by the aforesaid bridge at Alba .", "Tidings have sped"], "true_target": ["Just now therefrom , to this undreamed effect :", "The French command the Alba bridge themselves !", "But unbelieved .", "That Carlos has withdrawn the garrison :"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 176}, {"query": ["We 've not struck ill ,", "That Colonel Dalbiac 's wife rode in the charge"], "true_target": ["Behind her spouse to-day ?", "Despite this slip , my lord .... And have you heard"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 176}, {"query": ["That was the wife of Prescott of the Seventh ,", "As these young women will !\u2014 Just about sunset", "Hoping beneath the heel of hopelessness ,"], "true_target": ["She found him lying dead and bloody there ,", "And in the dusk we bore them both away .", "Ah no , my lord ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 176}, {"query": ["Over hill and over hollow ,", "Marmont 's aide , then , like a swallow"], "true_target": ["Past the plains of Teute and Pole !", "Let us follow , follow , follow ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 176}, {"query": ["And well-nigh slain , is the best tale I bring !"], "true_target": ["Whose rheumy throat distracts the quiet so ?", "Marmont repulsed on Salamanca field ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 177}, {"query": ["One baleful moment damnified the fruit", "We should have been delivered this disaster ,", "Why gave he battle without biddance , pray ,", "The English succours there had sidled off ,", "Of insubordination , root of woes !...", "Adieu . You 'd best go now and take some rest .", "For foulest mortal stroke at fall of day .", "From the supreme commander ? Here 's the crime", "Would not have struck me but for his good prompting !...", "That has befallen in Spain !", "He forced a conflict , to cull laurel crowns", "They would have bent from Salamanca back ,", "Of six weeks \u2019 wise strategics , whose result", "I 'll see how I can treat this Russian horde", "The time well chosen , and the battle won ,", "From the four corners of the universe ...."], "true_target": ["Marmont too plainly is no match for him ....", "Before King Joseph should arrive to share them !", "Offering no battle , to our profiting !", "Had let the English and the Spanish be ,", "And their annoy in the Peninsula", "Had loomed so certain ! \u201d \u2014", "I 'll mend his faults upon the Arapeile .", "Thus he goes on : \u201c To have preserved command", "Which English gold has brought together here", "If Marmont \u2014 so I gather from these lines \u2014", "As to their wisdom ! To define them thus", "Some day , to face this Wellington myself !", "No matter : On Moskowa 's banks to-morrow", "Whose bruit will harm us more than aught besides", "Embarrassed us no more . Behoves it me ,", "I would with joy have changed this early wound", "Well , we 've but his word"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 177}, {"query": ["Its courage , its devotion to your cause ,", "Cover a myriad of the Marshal 's sins ."], "true_target": ["I fear so , sire .", "The army 's ardour for your Majesty ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 177}, {"query": ["Has not been told of it ."], "true_target": ["In the outer tent . As yet his Majesty", "Yes , General \u2018 Tis laid behind a screen"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 177}, {"query": ["Bring out a chair for me to poise it on .They all shall see it . Yes , my soldier-sons Must gaze upon this son of mine own house In art 's presentment ! It will cheer their hearts . That 's a good light \u2014 just so .Let them walk past , So that they see him all . The Old Guard first .", "Ay ! Not content to stand on their own strength ,", "What think you of to-morrow ?", "That men can be so grossly logicless ,", "So I foresee .The two multitudes lie down to sleep , and all is quiet but for the sputtering of the green wood fires , which , now that the human tongues are still , seem to hold a conversation of their own . ]", "Rippling the Russian host ?"], "true_target": ["What slow , weird ambulation do I mark ,", "I am no theologian , but I laugh", "Is in its essence pagan , and opposed", "To the whole gist of Christianity !", "When war , defensive or aggressive either ,", "Better they 'd wake up old Kutuzof .\u2014 Rapp ,", "They try to hire the enginry of Heaven ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 177}, {"query": ["Of all their clergy , vestmented , who bear", "An image , said to work strange miracles ."], "true_target": ["A progress , sire ,", "\u2018 Tis to fanaticize their courage , sire ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 177}, {"query": ["But , sire , a bloody one !"], "true_target": ["Victory ;"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 177}, {"query": ["To run them through and end their agony ;", "To all its vain uncouthness !", "But mark that roar \u2014", "Blaspheming God and man . Those shady shapes", "He thinks imposed upon him .... What says he ?", "Are horses , maimed in myriads , tearing round"], "true_target": ["Wakes even the drowsed half-drunken Dictator", "So he fulfils the inhuman antickings", "The ugly horror grossly regnant here", "A mash of men 's crazed cries entreating mates", "Clanking discordant jingles as they tear !", "In maddening pangs , the harnessings they wear", "Boys calling on their mothers , veterans"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 178}, {"query": ["Murat cries That on this much-anticipated day Napoleon 's genius flags inoperative . The firing from the top of the redoubt has ceased . The French have got inside . The Russians retreat upon their rear , and fortify themselves on the heights there . PONIATOWSKI furiously attacks them . But the French are worn out , and fall back to their station before the battle . So the combat dies resultlessly away . The sun sets , and the opposed and exhausted hosts sink to lethargic repose . NAPOLEON enters his tent in the midst of his lieutenants , and night descends .", "Throb as at Austerlitz !"], "true_target": ["Strange : even within that tent no notes of joy", "He says it is the sun of Austerlitz ! The Russians , so far from being driven out of their redoubts , issue from them towards the French . But they have to retreat , BAGRATION and his Chief of Staff being wounded . NAPOLEON sips his grog hopefully , and orders a still stronger attack on the great redoubt in the centre . It is carried out . The redoubt becomes the scene of a huge massacre . In other parts of the field also the action almost ceases to be a battle , and takes the form of wholesale butchery by the thousand , now advantaging one side , now the other ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 178}, {"query": ["A Will that wills above the will of each ,", "It is enough . Let now the scene be closed . The night thickens .", "Thus do the mindless minions of the spell"], "true_target": ["That permeates as one stuff the weltering whole .", "A fabric of excitement , web of rage ,", "Yet but the will of all conjunctively ;", "In mechanized enchantment sway and show"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 178}, {"query": ["Make my airs foul and fulsome unto me !"], "true_target": ["The fumes of nitre and the reek of gore"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 178}, {"query": ["And goading those by their own thoughts o'erhYpppHeNgoaded ;", "In rhythmal rote , and groan the great events", "Whose emissaries knock at every door", "The hour is pregnant with ?"], "true_target": ["Mid this mad current of close-filed confusion ;", "Geared as a general , keen-eyed as a kite ,", "Whose is the form seen ramping restlessly ,", "High-ordering , smartening progress in the slow ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 179}, {"query": ["The city governor , whose name will ring"], "true_target": ["Rostopchin he ,", "Far down the forward years uncannily !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 179}, {"query": ["\u201c This , then is how Muscovy fights ! \u201d cries he .", "And finds them closed against him . Battered these ,", "But for some grinning wretches gaoled there .", "They say no governor attends with keys", "The streets are solitudes , the houses sealed ,", "The rumbling of their own artillery wheels ,", "Enchantment seems to sway from quay to keep ,", "And lock commotion in a century 's sleep ."], "true_target": ["To offer his submission gracefully .", "And their own soldiers \u2019 measured tramp along .", "He shrugs his shoulders soon , contemptuously ;", "His arts are strange , and strangely do they move him :\u2014 To store the stews with stuffs inflammable , To bid that pumps be wrecked , captives enlarged And primed with brands for burning , are the intents His warnings to the citizens outshade ! When the bulk of the populace has passed out eastwardly the Russian army retreating from Borodino also passes through the city into the country beyond without a halt . They mostly move in solemn silence , though many soldiers rush from their ranks and load themselves with spoil . When they are got together again and have marched out , there goes by on his horse a strange scarred old man with a foxy look , a swollen neck and head and a hunched figure . He is KUTUZOF , surrounded by his lieutenants . Away in the distance by other streets and bridges with other divisions pass in like manner GENERALS BENNIGSEN , BARCLAY DE TOLLY , DOKHTOROF , the mortally wounded BAGRATION in a carriage , and other generals , all in melancholy procession one way , like autumnal birds of passage . Then the rear-guard passes under MILORADOVITCH . Next comes a procession of another kind . A long string of carts with wounded men is seen , which trails out of the city behind the army . Their clothing is soiled with dried blood , and the bandages that enwrap them are caked with it . The greater part of this migrant multitude takes the high road to Vladimir .", "The fort reverberates vacant as the streets", "\u201c Moscow deserted ? What a monstrous thing ! \u201d \u2014", "And stagnant silence reigns , save where intrudes", "Meanwhile Murat has reached the Kremlin gates ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 179}, {"query": ["Ha ! There she is at last . And it was time .Yes : it was time .... NOW what says Alexander !"], "true_target": ["Ay \u2014 no doubt .... Prithee march briskly on , to check disorder ,Hold word with the authorities forthwith ,Tell them that they may swiftly swage their fears , Safe in the mercy I by rule extend To vanquished ones . I wait the city keys , And will receive the Governor 's submission With courtesy due . Eugene will guard the gate To Petersburg there leftward . You , Davout , The gate to Smolensk in the centre here Which we shall enter by ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 179}, {"query": ["What scores of bulbous church-tops gild the sky !"], "true_target": ["Souls must be rotten in this region , sire ,", "To need so much repairing !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 179}, {"query": ["And turns the enemy 's right . On our right , Hill", "Is left the generals all .", "There are outshaping three supreme attacks ,", "The Chief himself , with us here in the centre ,", "Over the ridge there , and the Mendoza bridge", "But much and wide discretionary power", "So the slow day will not have slipped in vain ."], "true_target": ["Will lead on by the bridges Tres-Puentes", "To compass which he crosses the Zadorra ,", "As I decipher . Graham 's on the left ,", "And we have reconnoitred largely , too ;", "This grateful rest of four-and-twenty hours", "Is priceless for our jaded soldiery ;", "A little further up .\u2014 That 's roughly it ;", "Will start at once to storm the Puebla crests ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 180}, {"query": ["I had ; and have still . \u2018 Twas made up when we left by our bandmaster that used to conduct in front of Gloucester Lodge at the King 's Mess every afternoon .", "I was . And though I ought not to say it , as father and mother are living there still , \u2018 tis a dull place at times . Now Budmouth-Regis was exactly to my taste when we were there with the Court that summer , and the King and Queen a-wambling about among us like the most everyday old man and woman you ever see . Yes , there was plenty going on , and only a pretty step from home . Altogether we had a fine time !"], "true_target": ["I wonder , I wonder how Stourcastle is looking this summer night , and all the old folks there !", "I did . And a pretty girl \u2018 a was . But nothing came o n't . A month afore we struck camp she married a tallow-chandler 's dipper of Little Nicholas Lane . I was a good deal upset about it at the time . But one gets over things !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 180}, {"query": ["\u2018 Twas a low taste in the hussy , come to that .\u2014 Howsomever , I agree about Budmouth . I never had pleasanter times than when we lay there . You had a song on it , Sergeant , in them days , if I do n't mistake ?"], "true_target": ["You was born there , I think I 've heard ye say , Sergeant ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 180}, {"query": ["Should forget the countersign , O ,", "As we tore CLINK ! CLINK ! back to camp above the town .", "On whom flashed those eyes divine , O ,"], "true_target": ["By the pleasant pranks they played us ,", "They distracted and delayed us", "And what marvel , then , if troopers , even of regiments of renown ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 180}, {"query": ["And no more behold the features", "Do they miss us much , I wonder ,", "Of the fair fantastic creatures ,"], "true_target": ["And we roam from where the faces smile to where the faces frown ?", "Now that war has swept us sunder ,", "And no more CLINK ! CLINK ! past the parlours of the town ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 180}, {"query": ["Falter fond attempts to greet them ?", "Shall we once again there meet them ?", "With a sideways glance upon us ,"], "true_target": ["Will the gay sling-jacket", "While our spurs CLINK ! CLINK ! up the Esplanade and down ?", "Will they archly quiz and con us", "glow again beside the muslin gown ?\u2014"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 180}, {"query": ["Wringing out piteous shrieks and calls", "Alight the too far-ranging balls ,", "Men , women , and their children fly ,"], "true_target": ["From the pale mob , in monotones loud and long .", "Direct their death-bolts , on this billowy throng", "And when the English over-high"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 181}, {"query": ["By Graham 's measure overmastering might .\u2014", "Pass rightwise from the cockpit out of sight .", "To leftward of the distant din"], "true_target": ["Reille meantime has been driven in", "Henceforward , masses of the foe", "Withdraw , and , firing as they go ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 181}, {"query": ["Upon the English knapsacked line ,", "As silence wraps the rear of all ,", "As bends the hot pursuit across the plain ;", "And tardily behind them goes"], "true_target": ["Whose glistering bayonets incline", "Too many a mournful load of those", "Found wound-weak ; while with stealthy crawl ,", "Cloaked creatures of the starlight strip the slain .", "The sunset slants an ochreous shine"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 181}, {"query": ["Let \u2018 em . They 've striven long and gallantly . \u2014 What documents do I see lying there ?", "We 've neither list nor leisure for their charms .", "We must examine it . It may have use .What women bring they there ?"], "true_target": ["Well , pack them off", "To-morrow to Pamplona , as you can ;", "By God , I never saw so many wh \u2014 -s", "In all my life before !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 182}, {"query": ["The mistresses of more \u2014 in male attire .", "The wives of many young French officers ,", "She so disguised is of a Spanish house ,\u2014"], "true_target": ["One of the general 's loves .", "Mixed sorts , my lord .", "Yon elegant hussar is one , to wit ;"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 182}, {"query": ["There 's neither parson nor clerk here . But that do n't matter \u2014 hey ?", "We must be married , my dear ."], "true_target": ["A sensible \u2018 ooman , whatever it is she says ; that I can see by her pretty face . Come along then , my dear . There 'll be no bones broke , and we 'll take our lot with Christian resignation .", "And if we 've got to unmarry at cockcrow , why , so be it \u2014 hey ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 182}, {"query": ["Anything , sir , if you 'll spare my life !"], "true_target": ["Anything , sir , if you 'll spare my life !", "Anything , sir , if you 'll spare my life !"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 182}, {"query": ["By thy delight in others \u2019 pain ,", "And the meteor on the grave ,", "And a Spirit of the air", "Art not a madness and a mockery ,", "Nor to slumber , nor to die ,", "But nothing more . Approach me as ye are ,", "Hath the word been passed \u2014 now wither !", "Oh God ! if it be thus , and thou", "From thy own heart I then did wring", "Shall forbid thee to rejoice ;", "As a thing that , though unseen ,", "When the falling stars are shooting ,", "and I see", "To thy wish , but as a fear ;", "Which doth devote thee to this trial ;", "There are thoughts thou canst not banish ;", "Hath made you mine . Slaves , scoff not at my will !", "I yet might be most happy . I will clasp thee , 190", "By thy unfathomed gulfs of guile ,", "Oblivion \u2014 self-oblivion !", "Answer , or I will teach you what I am .", "The black blood in its blackest spring ;", "Though thou seest me not pass by ,", "Will Death bestow it on me ?", "By the cold breast and serpent smile ,", "And the silent leaves are still", "And the glow-worm in the grass ,", "And the power which thou dost feel 220", "And a magic voice and verse", "And the day shall have a sun , 230", "Though thy death shall still seem near", "And shall not yield to yours , though cooped in clay !", "Thou art wrapt as with a shroud ,", "Thou hast turned around thy head ,", "In the wind there is a voice", "Of that which is within me ; read it there \u2014", "O'er thy heart and brain together 260", "The lamp must be replenished , but even then It will not burn so long as I must watch : My slumbers \u2014 if I slumber \u2014 are not sleep , But a continuance , of enduring thought , Which then I can resist not : in my heart There is a vigil , and these eyes but close To look within ; and yet I live , and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men . But Grief should be the Instructor of the wise ; Sorrow is Knowledge : they who know the most 10 Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth , The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life . Philosophy and science , and the springsOf Wonder , and the wisdom of the World , I have essayed , and in my mind there is A power to make these subject to itself \u2014 But they avail not : I have done men good , And I have met with good even among men \u2014 But this availed not : I have had my foes , And none have baffled , many fallen before me \u2014 20 But this availed not :\u2014 Good \u2014 or evil \u2014 life \u2014 Powers , passions \u2014 all I see in other beings , Have been to me as rain unto the sands , Since that all-nameless hour . I have no dread , And feel the curse to have no natural fear , Nor fluttering throb , that beats with hopes or wishes , Or lurking love of something on the earth . Now to my task .\u2014 Mysterious Agency ! Ye Spirits of the unbounded Universe !Whom I have sought in darkness and in light \u2014 30 Ye , who do compass earth about , and dwell In subtler essence \u2014 ye , to whom the tops Of mountains inaccessible are haunts ,And Earth 's and Ocean 's caves familiar things \u2014 I call upon ye by the written charmWhich gives me power upon you \u2014 Rise ! Appear !\u2014 by this sign , Which makes you tremble \u2014 by the claims of him Who is undying ,\u2014 Rise ! Appear !\u2014\u2014 Appear ! 40The thought which is within me and around me , I do compel ye to my will .\u2014 Appear !First Spirit . Mortal ! to thy bidding bowed , 50 From my mansion in the cloud , Which the breath of Twilight builds , And the Summer 's sunset gilds With the azure and vermilion , Which is mixed for my pavilion ;Though thy quest may be forbidden , On a star-beam I have ridden , To thine adjuration bowed : Mortal \u2014 be thy wish avowed ! Voice of the Second Spirit . Mont Blanc is the Monarch of mountains ; 60 They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks , in a robe of clouds , With a Diadem of snow . Around his waist are forests braced , The Avalanche in his hand ; But ere it fall , that thundering ball Must pause for my command . The Glacier 's cold and restless mass Moves onward day by day ; But I am he who bids it pass , 70 Or with its ice delay .I am the Spirit of the place , Could make the mountain bow And quiver to his caverned base \u2014 And what with me would'st Thou ? Voice of the Third Spirit . In the blue depth of the waters , Where the wave hath no strife , Where the Wind is a stranger , And the Sea-snake hath life , Where the Mermaid is decking 80 Her green hair with shells , Like the storm on the surface Came the sound of thy spells ; O'er my calm Hall of Coral The deep Echo rolled \u2014 To the Spirit of Ocean Thy wishes unfold ! FOURTH SPIRIT . Where the slumbering Earthquake Lies pillowed on fire , And the lakes of bitumen 90 Rise boilingly higher ; Where the roots of the Andes Strike deep in the earth , As their summits to heaven Shoot soaringly forth ; I have quitted my birthplace , Thy bidding to bide \u2014 Thy spell hath subdued me , Thy will be my guide ! FIFTH SPIRIT . I am the Rider of the wind , 100 The Stirrer of the storm ; The hurricane I left behind Is yet with lightning warm ; To speed to thee , o'er shore and sea I swept upon the blast : The fleet I met sailed well \u2014 and yet \u2018 Twill sink ere night be past . SIXTH SPIRIT . My dwelling is the shadow of the Night , Why doth thy magic torture me with light ? SEVENTH SPIRIT . The Star which rules thy destiny no 110 Was ruled , ere earth began , by me : It was a World as fresh and fair As e'er revolved round Sun in air ; Its course was free and regular , Space bosomed not a lovelier star . The Hour arrived \u2014 and it became A wandering mass of shapeless flame , A pathless Comet , and a curse , The menace of the Universe ; Still rolling on with innate force , 120 Without a sphere , without a course , A bright deformity on high , The monster of the upper sky ! And Thou ! beneath its influence born \u2014 Thou worm ! whom I obey and scorn \u2014 Forced by a PowerFor this brief moment to descend , Where these weak Spirits round thee bend And parley with a thing like thee \u2014 130 What would'st thou , Child of Clay ! with me ?The SEVEN SPIRITS . Earth \u2014 ocean \u2014 air \u2014 night \u2014 mountains \u2014 winds \u2014 thy Star , Are at thy beck and bidding , Child of Clay ! Before thee at thy quest their Spirits are \u2014 What would'st thou with us , Son of mortals \u2014 say ?", "Though thy slumber may be deep ,", "When the Moon is on the wave ,", "Pervading , and far darting as your own ,", "All the quiet of her sky ;", "No , none : yet stay \u2014 one moment , ere we part ,", "Which passed for human thine own heart ;", "Which gave all these their chiefest harm ;", "Lo ! the spell now works around thee ,", "Shall my soul be upon thine , 200", "The lightning of my being , is as bright ,", "And by thy brotherhood of Cain ,", "Thou shalt feel me with thine eye", "Can ye not wring from out the hidden realms"], "true_target": ["For there it coiled as in a brake ;", "Thou art gathered in a cloud ;", "And we again will be \u2014\u2014", "Yet thy Spirit shall not sleep ;", "In the shadow of the hill ,", "The Mind \u2014 the Spirit \u2014 the Promethean spark ,", "And to thee shall Night deny", "By the perfection of thine art", "Thyself to be thy proper Hell !", "With a power and with a sign .", "Ye know it \u2014 and I cannot utter it .", "Why say ye so ? 160", "Ye cannot , or ye will not , aid me .", "Ye mock me \u2014 but the Power which brought ye here", "I would behold ye face to face . I hear", "Or one \u2014 or all \u2014 in your accustomed forms . 180", "By a Power to thee unknown ,", "Hath baptized thee with a curse ;", "The steady aspect of a clear large Star ;", "From thy own lip I drew the charm", "Must be near thee , and hath been ;", "From thy false tears I did distil", "And for ever shalt thou dwell 210", "And the answered owls are hooting ,", "By that most seeming virtuous eye ,", "Shall be in thy destiny ;", "I found the strongest was thine own .", "As Music on the waters ;", "Accurs\u00e9d ! what have I to do with days ? They are too long already .\u2014 Hence \u2014 begone ! 170", "Hath begirt thee with a snare ;", "Thou shalt marvel I am not", "I then have called ye from your realms in vain ;", "In proving every poison known , 240", "Which shall make thee wish it done .", "Your voices , sweet and melancholy sounds ,", "Forgetfulness \u2014\u2014", "And on thy head I pour the vial", "Shall be what thou must conceal .", "And the wisp on the morass ;", "And the clankless chain hath bound thee ;", "Thou canst never be alone ;", "An essence which hath strength to kill ;", "From thy own smile I snatched the snake ,", "And when in that secret dread", "I have no choice ; there is no form on earth Hideous or beautiful to me . Let him , Who is most powerful of ye , take such aspect As unto him may seem most fitting \u2014 Come ! Seventh SpiritBehold !", "Ye offer so profusely \u2014 what I ask ?", "As thy shadow on the spot ,", "In the spirit of this spell .", "I call upon thee ! and compel", "There are shades which will not vanish ,", "By thy shut soul 's hypocrisy ;", "250"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 183}, {"query": ["We answer \u2014 as we answered ; our reply", "These shall be thine .", "O'er earth \u2014 the whole , or portion \u2014 or a sign", "We are immortal , and do not forget ;", "Mortals call death hath nought to do with us .", "Which shall control the elements , whereof", "But \u2014 thou may'st die .", "We have no forms , beyond the elements", "Is even in thine own words .", "Which we can make not worthless in thine eyes ?", "It is not in our essence , in our skill ;", "But choose a form \u2014 in that we will appear .", "What we possess we offer ; it is thine :"], "true_target": ["If , as thou say'st , thine essence be as ours ,", "We are the dominators ,\u2014 each and all ,", "Is , as the future , present . Art thou answered ?", "We have replied in telling thee , the thing", "Kingdom , and sway , and strength , and length of days \u2014", "We are eternal ; and to us the past 150", "Of which we are the mind and principle :", "We can but give thee that which we possess :", "Bethink ere thou dismiss us ; ask again ;", "Yet pause : being here , our will would do thee service ;", "Ask of us subjects , sovereignty , the power 140", "Say \u2014", "Bethink thee , is there then no other gift"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 183}, {"query": ["Like foam from the roused ocean of deep Hell ,", "Heaped with the damned like pebbles .\u2014 I am giddy .", "The spirits I have raised abandon me ,", "Thus , in its old age , did Mount Rosenberg \u2014", "Rise curling fast beneath me , white and sulphury ,", "Art a delight \u2014 thou shin'st not on my heart .", "I feel the impulse \u2014 yet I do not plunge ; 20", "And trust not to each other . Hark ! the note ,", "A bodiless enjoyment", "Spinning around me \u2014\u2014 I grow blind \u2014\u2014 What art thou ?", "My soul would drink those echoes . Oh , that I were", "Their fountains find another channel \u2014 thus ,", "The viewless spirit of a lovely sound ,", "Why are ye beautiful ? I cannot love ye .", "The remedy I recked of tortured me", "If it be life to wear within myself", "A living voice , a breathing harmony ,", "The future , till the past be gulfed in darkness ,", "Damming the rivers with a sudden dash ,", "To justify my deeds unto myself \u2014", "In dizziness of distance ; when a leap ,", "I stand , and on the torrent 's brink beneath", "To be thus \u2014 Grey-haired with anguish , like these blasted pines , Wrecks of a single winter , barkless , branchless ,A blighted trunk upon a curs\u00e9d root , Which but supplies a feeling to Decay \u2014 And to be thus , eternally but thus , 70 Having been otherwise ! Now furrowed o'er With wrinkles , ploughed by moments , not by years And hours , all tortured into ages \u2014 hours Which I outlive !\u2014 Ye toppling crags of ice ! Ye Avalanches , whom a breath draws down In mountainous o'erwhelming , come and crush me ! I hear ye momently above , beneath , Crash with a frequent conflict ;but ye pass , And only fall on things that still would live ; On the young flourishing forest , or the hut 80 And hamlet of the harmless villager .", "I am most sick at heart \u2014 nay , grasp me not \u2014", "And thou fresh-breaking Day , and you , ye Mountains ,", "And men are \u2014 what they name not to themselves ,", "Which crushed the waters into mist , and made", "And you , ye crags , upon whose extreme edge", "Thou winged and cloud-cleaving minister , 30", "Leaving a gap in the clouds , and with the shock", "To rest for ever \u2014 wherefore do I pause ?", "To sink or soar , with our mixed essence make"], "true_target": ["Contending with low wants and lofty will ,", "The spells which I have studied baffle me ,", "This barrenness of Spirit , and to be", "The breath of degradation and of pride ,", "A conflict of its elements , and breathe", "And thou , the bright Eye of the Universe , 10", "I see the peril \u2014 yet do not recede ;", "And makes it my fatality to live ,\u2014", "I am all feebleness \u2014 the mountains whirl", "\u2014 born and dying", "There is a power upon me which withholds ,", "The ripe green valleys with Destruction 's splinters ;", "Why stood I not beneath it ?", "I lean no more on superhuman aid ;", "Whose every wave breaks on a living shore ,", "Such would have been for me a fitting tomb ; My bones had then been quiet in their depth ; They had not then been strewn upon the rocks For the wind 's pastime \u2014 as thus \u2014 thus they shall be \u2014 In this one plunge .\u2014 Farewell , ye opening Heavens ! Look not upon me thus reproachfully \u2014 You were not meant for me \u2014 Earth ! take these atoms !", "Mountains have fallen ,", "And my brain reels \u2014 and yet my foot is firm :", "It hath no power upon the past , and for", "With the blest tone which made me !", "My own Soul 's sepulchre , for I have ceased", "My breast upon its rocky bosom 's bed", "How glorious in its action and itself !", "Behold the tall pines dwindled as to shrubs", "Half dust , half deity , alike unfit 40", "Rocking their Alpine brethren ; filling up", "Till our Mortality predominates ,", "The mists boil up around the glaciers ; clouds", "But we , who name ourselves its sovereigns , we ,", "A stir , a motion , even a breath , would bring", "The last infirmity of evil . Aye ,", "It is not of my search .\u2014 My Mother Earth !", "That openest over all , and unto all"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 184}, {"query": ["Proud as a free-born peasant 's , at this distance :", "Is goodly , his mien manly , and his air", "Repay my break-neck travail .\u2014 What is here ?", "Save our best hunters , may attain : his garb", "Have baffled me ; my gains to-day will scarce"], "true_target": ["Who seems not of my trade , and yet hath reached 60", "This way the Chamois leapt : her nimble feet", "A height which none even of our mountaineers ,", "Even so", "I will approach him nearer ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 184}, {"query": ["Of Him who made you , stand not on that brink !", "A sudden step will startle him , and he", "Hun . Hold , madman !\u2014 though aweary of thy life , 110", "The clouds grow thicker \u2014\u2014 there \u2014 now lean on me \u2014", "Place your foot here \u2014 here , take this staff , and cling", "And hold fast by my girdle \u2014 softly \u2014 well \u2014 120", "Seems tottering already .", "Away with me \u2014\u2014 I will not quit my hold .", "Hun . The mists begin to rise from up the valley ;", "Hun . I must approach him cautiously ; if near , 90", "Hun . Friend ! have a care , 100"], "true_target": ["Stain not our pure vales with thy guilty blood :", "The Chalet will be gained within an hour :", "And something like a pathway , which the torrent", "Your next step may be fatal !\u2014 for the love", "Come on , we 'll quickly find a surer footing ,", "A moment to that shrub \u2014 now give me your hand ,", "ACT II .", "Hath washed since winter .\u2014 Come ,' tis bravely done \u2014", "Hun . I 'll answer that anon .\u2014 Away with me \u2014\u2014", "You should have been a hunter .\u2014 Follow me .", "I 'll warn him to descend , or he may chance", "To lose at once his way and life together ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 184}, {"query": ["I would not be of thine for the free fame", "The aid of holy men , and heavenly patience \u2014\u2014", "This cautious feeling for another 's pain , 80", "Hun . What is it", "Hun . Heaven give thee rest !", "Hun . Well , Sir , pardon me the question ,", "I know from childhood \u2014 which of these is thine ?", "When thou art better , I will be thy guide \u2014", "Hath scarce been set ; I am thine elder far . 50", "And Penitence restore thee to thyself ;", "One of the many chiefs , whose castled crags", "Hun . What dost thou mean ? thy senses wander from thee .", "Hun . Why on thy brow the seal of middle age", "To bask by the huge hearths of those old halls ,", "My prayers shall be for thee .", "Hun . Thanks to Heaven !", "\u2018 T has thawed my veins among our glaciers , now", "It must be borne , and these wild starts are useless .", "Of William Tell ; but whatsoe'er thine ill , 40", "\u2018 Tis of an ancient vintage ; many a day", "Thy mind and body are alike unfit"], "true_target": ["Hun . This is convulsion , and no healthful life .", "That thou dost see , or think thou look'st upon ?", "Hun . Thy garb and gait bespeak thee of high lineage \u2014", "Look o'er the lower valleys \u2014 which of these", "And be of better cheer . Come , taste my wine ;", "Let it do thus for thine \u2014 Come , pledge me fairly ! 20", "Upon his enemies ?", "Hun . No \u2014 no \u2014 yet pause \u2014 thou must not yet go forth ;", "Hun . And with this \u2014", "Hun . Alas ! he 's mad \u2014 but yet I must not leave him .", "Canst thou be black with evil ?\u2014 say not so .", "Hun . And would'st thou then exchange thy lot for mine ?", "Which makes thee people vacancy , whate'er", "Can one of gentle thoughts have wreaked revenge", "My way of life leads me but rarely down", "May call thee lord ? I only know their portals ; 10", "Which step from out our mountains to their doors ,", "But whither ?", "Thy dread and sufferance be , there 's comfort yet \u2014", "Carousing with the vassals ; but the paths ,", "To trust each other , for some hours , at least ;", "Hun . Man of strange words , and some half-maddening sin ,"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 185}, {"query": ["No matter .", "Patience \u2014 and patience ! Hence \u2014 that word was made", "When we were in our youth , and had one heart ,", "But my embrace was fatal .", "However wretchedly , \u2018 tis still to bear \u2014", "Where thou art not \u2014 and I shall never be . 30", "Oh ! no , no , no !", "An enemy , save in my just defence \u2014", "Thy humble virtues , hospitable home ,", "My lot with living being : I can bear \u2014", "But nothing rests , save carcasses and wrecks ,", "Preach it to mortals of a dust like thine ,\u2014", "With cross and garland over its green turf , 70", "Many long years , but they are nothing now", "For brutes of burthen , not for birds of prey !", "Away , away ! there 's blood upon the brim ! Will it then never \u2014 never sink in the earth ?", "I need them not ,", "And this was shed : but still it rises up ,", "Rocks , and the salt-surf weeds of bitterness .", "My injuries came down on those who loved me \u2014", "And thy grandchildren 's love for epitaph !", "Endless , and all alike , as sands on the shore ,", "No , friend ! I would not wrong thee , nor exchange", "I say \u2018 tis blood \u2014 my blood ! the pure warm stream", "I would I were \u2014 for then the things I see 60", "It doth ; but actions are our epochs : mine", "With the fierce thirst of death \u2014 and still unslaked !", "But perish in their slumber .", "Think'st thou existence doth depend on time ?"], "true_target": ["Which ran in the veins of my fathers , and in ours", "By danger dignified , yet guiltless ; hopes", "To those which I must number : ages \u2014 ages \u2014", "I tell thee , man ! I have lived many years ,", "Have made my days and nights imperishable ,", "It imports not : I do know", "I am not of thine order .", "Myself , and thee \u2014 a peasant of the Alps \u2014", "In life what others could not brook to dream ,", "Colouring the clouds , that shut me out from Heaven ,", "And once again I charge thee , follow not !", "Thy days of health , and nights of sleep ; thy toils ,", "Thy self-respect , grafted on innocent thoughts ;", "And spirit patient , pious , proud , and free ;", "No words \u2014 it is thy due .\u2014 Follow me not \u2014", "On those whom I best loved : I never quelled", "Innumerable atoms ; and one desert ,", "\u2018 Tis time \u2014 farewell !\u2014 Here 's gold , and thanks for thee \u2014", "But can endure thy pity . I depart \u2014 90", "Would be but a distempered dream .", "My route full well , and need no further guidance .", "Barren and cold , on which the wild waves break ,", "Do I not bear it ?\u2014 Look on me \u2014 I live .", "I know my path \u2014 the mountain peril 's past :", "Space and eternity \u2014 and consciousness ,", "Of cheerful old age and a quiet grave ,", "And loved each other as we should not love ,", "It matters not \u2014 my Soul was scorched already !", "This do I see \u2014 and then I look within \u2014"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 185}, {"query": ["Enough ! I may retire then \u2014 say !", "And deeds of good and ill , extreme in both ,", "Hast thou no gentler answer ?\u2014 Yet bethink thee ,", "To recreant mortality \u2014\u2014 Away !", "It may be 150", "Is this all ? 160", "The gifts of our great knowledge , and shrink'st back", "Proceed .", "A being of the race thou dost despise \u2014", "And for this \u2014", "The rulers of the invisible ?", "The order , which thine own would rise above ,", "Son of Earth !", "What could be the quest"], "true_target": ["I know thee , and the Powers which give thee power !", "My bidding , it may help thee to thy wishes .", "Wilt swear obedience to my will , and do", "Fatal and fated in thy sufferings .", "I know thee for a man of many thoughts ,", "That is not in my province ; but if thou", "I have expected this \u2014 what would'st thou with me ?", "I know not that ; let thy lips utter it .", "Spare not thyself \u2014 proceed .", "That I can aid thee .", "With thy hand ?", "Which is not in the power of the most powerful ,", "And pause ere thou rejectest .", "Mingling with us and ours ,\u2014 thou dost forego"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 186}, {"query": ["But softened all , and tempered into beauty :", "Mine eyes familiar with Eternity , 90", "Back by a single hair , which would not break .", "She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings ,", "If I had such , they seemed not such to me \u2014", "Then I passed \u2014", "Yet there was One \u2014\u2014", "She was like me in lineaments \u2014 her eyes \u2014", "Such as , before me , did the Magi , and", "Take refuge in her mysteries , and pierce 40", "Of this most bright intelligence , until \u2014\u2014", "To the abodes of those who govern her \u2014", "My pang shall find a voice . From my youth upwards 50", "Of those who served me \u2014 Never !", "And spirits that do compass air and earth ,", "To look upon thy beauty \u2014 nothing further .", "But \u2014 to my task . I have not named to thee 100", "Eros and Anteros ,", "A boon ;\u2014", "In my lone wanderings , to the caves of Death , 80", "Made me a stranger ; though I wore the form ,", "Boasting these idle attributes , because", "Well , though it torture me , \u2018 tis but the same ;", "I held but slight communion ; but instead ,", "Daughter of Air ! I tell thee , since that hour \u2014", "I search no further .", "Of an all-pitiless Demon held me back ,", "We are the fools of Time and Terror : Days Steal on us , and steal from us ; yet we live , Loathing our life , and dreading still to die . In all the days of this detested yoke \u2014 This vital weight upon the struggling heart , Which sinks with sorrow , or beats quick with pain , Or joy that ends in agony or faintness \u2014 170 In all the days of past and future \u2014 for In life there is no present \u2014 we can number How few \u2014 how less than few \u2014 wherein the soul Forbears to pant for death , and yet draws back As from a stream in winter , though the chillBe but a moment 's . I have one resource Still in my science \u2014 I can call the dead , And ask them what it is we dread to be : The sternest answer can but be the Grave , And that is nothing : if they answer not \u2014 180 The buried Prophet answered to the Hag Of Endor ; and the Spartan Monarch drew From the Byzantine maid 's unsleeping spirit An answer and his destiny \u2014 he slew That which he loved , unknowing what he slew , And died unpardoned \u2014 though he called in aid The Phyxian Jove , and in Phigalia roused The Arcadian Evocators to compel The indignant shadow to depose her wrath , Or fix her term of vengeance \u2014 she replied 190 In words of dubious import , but fulfilled .If I had never lived , that which I love Had still been living ; had I never loved , That which I love would still be beautiful , Happy and giving happiness . What is she ? What is she now ?\u2014 a sufferer for my sins \u2014 A thing I dare not think upon \u2014 or nothing . Within few hours I shall not call in vain \u2014 Yet in this hour I dread the thing I dare : Until this hour I never shrunk to gaze 200 On spirit , good or evil \u2014 now I tremble , And feel a strange cold thaw upon my heart . But I can act even what I most abhor , And champion human fears .\u2014 The night approaches .", "And was all clay again . And then I dived ,", "Into the gulf of my unfathomed thought .", "Searching its cause in its effect ; and drew", "From them what they could not bestow , and now", "These were my pastimes , and to be alone ;", "For madness as a blessing \u2014 \u2018 tis denied me .", "My joys \u2014 my griefs \u2014 my passions \u2014 and my powers ,", "Father or mother , mistress , friend , or being ,", "Was there but One who \u2014 but of her anon .", "I have affronted Death \u2014 but in the war", "My Spirit walked not with the souls of men ,", "Do so \u2014 in any shape \u2014 in any hour \u2014", "Space , and the peopled Infinite , I made", "He who from out their fountain-dwellings raised", "Her hair \u2014 her features \u2014 all , to the very tone", "For if the beings , of whom I was one ,\u2014", "The nights of years in sciences untaught ,", "But peopled with the Furies ;\u2014 I have gnashed", "Nor midst the Creatures of Clay that girded me", "I plunged amidst Mankind \u2014 Forgetfulness", "To follow through the night the moving moon ,", "I saw \u2014 and could not stanch it .", "My long pursued and superhuman art ,", "It gazed on mine , and withered . I have shed", "Hating to be so ,\u2014 crossed me in my path ,", "I said with men , and with the thoughts of men , 60", "In Fantasy , Imagination , all 140", "The face of the earth hath maddened me , and I", "But why should I repeat it ? \u2018 twere in vain .", "The difficult air of the iced mountain 's top ,", "My joy was in the wilderness ,\u2014 to breathe"], "true_target": ["Flit o'er the herbless granite ; or to plunge", "I will not swear \u2014 Obey ! and whom ? the Spirits", "Nor looked upon the earth with human eyes ;", "Or to look , list'ning , on the scattered leaves ,", "But , like an ebbing wave , it dashed me back", "The thirst of their ambition was not mine ,", "Whose presence I command , and be the slave", "Alone , but with them gentler powers than mine ,", "The affluence of my soul \u2014 which one day was", "On the swift whirl of the new-breaking wave", "But they can nothing aid me . I have sought", "I have said it .", "Pity , and smiles , and tears \u2014 which I had not ;", "With whom I wore the chain of human ties ;", "Where the birds dare not build \u2014 nor insect 's wing", "Must wake the dead , or lay me low with them .", "Or watch my watchings \u2014 Come and sit by me !", "Blood , but not hers \u2014 and yet her blood was shed ; 120", "My solitude is solitude no more , 130", "But words are breath \u2014 look on me in my sleep ,", "Save in the old-time ; and with time and toil ,", "Her faults were mine \u2014 her virtues were her own \u2014", "70", "The dazzling lightnings till my eyes grew dim ;", "Even of her voice , they said were like to mine ;", "And fatal things passed harmless ; the cold hand", "And live \u2014 and live for ever .", "The aim of their existence was not mine ;", "My teeth in darkness till returning morn ,", "Into the torrent , and to roll along", "To do this thy power", "Humility \u2014 and that I never had .", "at Gadara ,", "I loved her , and destroyed her !", "While Autumn winds were at their evening song .", "In these my early strength exulted ; or", "I felt myself degraded back to them ,", "And tenderness \u2014 but that I had for her ;", "The stars and their development ; or catch", "And that I have to learn \u2014 my Sciences ,", "I had no sympathy with breathing flesh ,", "A Croesus in creation \u2014 I plunged deep ,", "Then cursed myself till sunset ;\u2014 I have prayed", "As I do thee ;\u2014 and with my knowledge grew", "The quest of hidden knowledge , and a mind 110", "From withered bones , and skulls , and heaped up dust", "Of elements the waters shrunk from me ,", "Oh ! I but thus prolonged my words ,", "As in itself hath power upon the air ,", "I sought in all , save where \u2018 tis to be found \u2014", "And terrible ordeal , and such penance", "With any torture \u2014 so it be the last .", "Conclusions most forbidden .", "To comprehend the Universe : nor these", "Of river-stream , or Ocean , in their flow .", "As I approach the core of my heart 's grief \u2014", "The thirst of knowledge , and the power and joy", "Not with my hand , but heart , which broke her heart ;", "Retire !", "Is mortal here : I dwell in my despair \u2014"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 186}, {"query": ["Welcome !\u2014 Where 's Nemesis ?"], "true_target": ["My Sisters and thyself are slow to-night .", "Say , where hast thou been ? 60"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 187}, {"query": ["At some great work ;"], "true_target": ["But what I know not , for my hands were full ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 187}, {"query": ["We have outstayed the hour \u2014 mount we our clouds !", "To weigh kings in the balance \u2014 and to speak 70", "Avenging men upon their enemies ,", "Goading the wise to madness ; from the dull", "And making them repent their own revenge ;"], "true_target": ["Of Freedom , the forbidden fruit .\u2014 Away !", "And mortals dared to ponder for themselves ,", "I was detained repairing shattered thrones \u2014", "Marrying fools , restoring dynasties \u2014", "Shaping out oracles to rule the world", "Afresh \u2014 for they were waxing out of date ,"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 187}, {"query": ["His bidding , nor did I neglect my duty !", "That knowledge is not happiness , and science", "Have pierced his heart ; and in their consequence", "Yet pardon those who pity . He is mine \u2014", "Glory to Arimanes ! on the earth", "Hence ! Avaunt !\u2014 he 's mine . 50", "And presence here denote : his sufferings", "Which is another kind of ignorance .", "This is not all \u2014 the passions , attributes", "No other Spirit in this region hath", "Have been of an immortal nature \u2014 like", "His power increaseth \u2014 both my sisters did", "Nor breath from the worm upwards is exempt ,"], "true_target": ["Have been beyond the dwellers of the earth ,", "As far as is compatible with clay ,", "Let him answer that .", "And thine it may be ; be it so , or not \u2014 70", "As clay hath seldom borne ; his aspirations", "Our own ; his knowledge , and his powers and will ,", "Made him a thing \u2014 which \u2014 I who pity not ,", "But an exchange of ignorance for that", "And they have only taught him what we know \u2014 60", "Of Earth and Heaven , from which no power , nor being ,", "Is of no common order , as his port", "Prince of the Powers invisible ! This man", "A soul like his \u2014 or power upon his soul .", "Which clogs the ethereal essence , have been such"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 188}, {"query": ["The necks of men , bow down before his throne !"], "true_target": ["Glory to Arimanes ! we who bow 20"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 188}, {"query": ["His nod !"], "true_target": ["Glory to Arimanes ! we await"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 188}, {"query": ["Of our great Sovereign , or his worshippers ?", "What doth he here then ?", "She 's gone , and will not be recalled :", "Uncharnel ?", "Sovereign of Sovereigns ! we are thine ,", "She is not of our order , but belongs", "Great Arimanes , doth thy will avouch 80", "Our power , increasing thine , demands our care ,", "And all that liveth , more or less , is ours ,", "Silent still !", "The wishes of this mortal ?"], "true_target": ["To the other powers . Mortal ! thy quest is vain ,", "Then for a time farewell .", "And most things wholly so ; still to increase", "And we are vigilant . Thy late commands", "What would'st thou ?", "Her words will be fulfilled . Return to the earth .", "Have been fulfilled to the utmost .", "And we are baffled also .", "My power extends no further . Prince of Air ! It rests with thee alone \u2014 command her voice .", "Whom wouldst thou", "Hast thou further question"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 188}, {"query": ["Bow down and worship !", "A mortal !\u2014 Thou most rash and fatal wretch ,"], "true_target": ["He is convulsed \u2014 This is to be a mortal ,", "What is here ?", "And seek the things beyond mortality ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 188}, {"query": ["I do know the man \u2014 30"], "true_target": ["A Magian of great power , and fearful skill !"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 188}, {"query": ["Bow down and worship , slave !\u2014 What , know'st thou not", "Child of the Earth ! or dread the worst ."], "true_target": ["Thine and our Sovereign ?\u2014 Tremble , and obey !", "All the Spirits . Prostrate thyself , and thy condemn\u00e9d clay ,"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 188}, {"query": ["Bid him bow down to that which is above him ,", "Yet one word more \u2014 am I forgiven ?", "Which answered me \u2014 many things answered me \u2014", "\u2018 Tis taught already ;\u2014 many a night on the earth ,", "Look on me ! the grave hath not changed thee more", "I reck not what \u2014 but let me hear thee once \u2014", "Redeem from the worm .", "Of such , to answer unto what I seek .", "Than I am changed for thee . Thou lovedst me 120", "One of the bless\u00e9d \u2014 and that I shall die ;", "I have so much endured \u2014 so much endure \u2014", "Ye know what I have known ; and without power", "Astarte ! my belov\u00e9d ! speak to me :", "I cannot speak to her \u2014 but bid her speak \u2014", "The deadliest sin to love as we have loved .", "Powers deeper still beyond \u2014 I come in quest", "Shadow ! or Spirit !", "The whole or a part", "Hear me , hear me \u2014", "Of the mould of thy clay ,", "One word for mercy ! Say thou lovest me .", "For hitherto all hateful things conspire", "And strewed my head with ashes ; I have known", "Spirits and men \u2014 but thou wert silent all . 140", "Yet speak to me ! I have outwatched the stars ,", "And yet ye see I kneel not .", "And we will kneel together .", "And I would hear yet once before I perish", "Re-appear to the day !", "I feel but what thou art , and what I am ;", "To bind me in existence \u2014 in a life", "And never found thy likeness \u2014 Speak to me !", "Who made him not for worship \u2014 let him kneel ,", "The fulness of humiliation \u2014 for 40", "Look on the fiends around \u2014 they feel for me :", "And the aspect thou worest", "Appear !\u2014 Appear !\u2014 Appear !", "I now depart a debtor . Fare ye well !", "To look upon the same \u2014 Astarte !\u2014 No ,", "Speak to me ! I have wandered o'er the earth ,", "I live but in the sound \u2014 it is thy voice ! 150", "Acquainted with thy vainly echoed name ,", "The heart and the form ,", "NEMESIS .", "She is silent ,", "But a strange hectic \u2014 like the unnatural red 100", "We meet then ! Where ? On the earth ?\u2014"], "true_target": ["NEMESIS .", "Speak to me ! though it be in wrath ;\u2014 but say \u2014", "I know it ;", "Bear what thou borest ,", "It is the same ! Oh , God ! that I should dread", "And in that silence I am more than answered . 110", "I fear them not , and feel for thee alone .", "Too much , as I loved thee : we were not made", "For I have called on thee in the still night ,", "Which still doth inherit", "I could not be amongst ye : but there are", "Thou canst not reply to me . Call up the dead \u2014 my question is for them .", "Startled the slumbering birds from the hushed boughs ,", "Which returned to the earth , 90", "Forgive me or condemn me .", "On the bare ground , have I bowed down my face ,", "None .", "The voice which was my music \u2014 Speak to me !", "Phantom of Astarte . Manfred !", "The overruling Infinite \u2014 the Maker", "Or those who have called thee !", "Of the form of thy birth ,", "This once \u2014 once more !", "Astarte .", "Say that thou loath'st me not \u2014 that I do bear", "Which makes me shrink from Immortality \u2014", "Say on , say on \u2014", "And gazed o'er heaven in vain in search of thee .", "I know not what I ask , nor what I seek :", "Even as thou wilt : and for the grace accorded", "ACT III .", "To my own desolation .", "I sunk before my vain despair , and knelt", "Whatever thou art ,", "Say , shall we meet again ?", "And woke the mountain wolves , and made the caves", "A future like the past . I cannot rest . 130", "Speak to him who hath spoken .", "Can this be death ? there 's bloom upon her cheek ;", "The grave which enthralled thee ,", "Which Autumn plants upon the perished leaf .", "This punishment for both \u2014 that thou wilt be", "But now I see it is no living hue ,", "Who sent thee there requires thee here !", "To torture thus each other \u2014 though it were", "One without a tomb \u2014 call up", "By the Power which hath broken"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 188}, {"query": ["The terror of his Glory ?\u2014 Crouch ! I say .", "Dost thou dare"], "true_target": ["Refuse to Arimanes on his throne", "What the whole earth accords , beholding not"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 188}, {"query": ["Yea ."], "true_target": ["Spirit \u2014 obey this sceptre !"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 188}, {"query": ["Manfred !", "Farewell !"], "true_target": ["Manfred ! To-morrow ends thine earthly ills . Farewell !", "Farewell !"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 188}, {"query": ["160", "Yet , see , he mastereth himself , and makes"], "true_target": ["Had he been one of us , he would have made", "His torture tributary to his will .", "An awful Spirit ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 188}, {"query": ["To make my own the mind of other men ,", "Thine order , and revere thine years ; I deem", "Of penitence , nor outward look , nor fast ,", "But all in all sufficient to itself", "Thanks , holy father ! welcome to these walls ;", "The barren sands which bear no shrubs to blast , 130", "And noble aspirations in my youth ,", "Who dwell within them .", "From out the unbounded spirit the quick sense", "Some worn with toil , some of mere weariness ,\u2014", "He deals on his own soul .", "Upon itself ; there is no future pang", "Without the violence of warlike death ;", "Thou mayst retire .", "Lies low but mighty still .\u2014 But this is past ,", "But being met is deadly ,\u2014 such hath been", "Taking all shapes , and bearing many names .", "Some perishing of pleasure \u2014 some of study \u2014", "A mighty thing amongst the mean \u2014 and such 120", "It is well :", "The gushing throat with his officious robe ;", "A herd , though to be leader \u2014 and of wolves ,", "For this last is a malady which slays", "Against your ordinances ? prove and punish !", "Even in the foaming strength of its abyss ,", "Would make a hell of Heaven \u2014 can exorcise", "And revels o'er their wild and arid waves ,", "Are all things so disposed of in the tower", "And watch all time , and pry into all place ,", "was near his last ,", "The course of my existence ; but there came", "One were enough ; then wonder not that I", "The red-hot breath of the most lone Simoom ,", "Old man ! there is no power in holy men ,", "Far more than me , in shunning at this time", "Which having leapt from its more dazzling height , 110", "Thy presence honours them , and blesseth those", "Or having been , that I am still on earth .", "To be my mediator \u2014 Have I sinned", "When Rome 's sixth Emperor", "Herman , retire .\u2014 What would my reverend guest ?", "I knew not whither \u2014 it might be to fall ;", "With show of loyal pity , would have stanched", "Of mortals on the earth , who do become", "I answer with the Roman \u2014", "Say ,", "Old man ! I do respect", "I hear thee . This is my reply \u2014 whate'er"], "true_target": ["What is the hour ?", "And be a living Lie , who would become", "Can deal that justice on the self \u2014 condemned", "And what are they who do avouch these things ?", "All further colloquy \u2014 and so \u2014 farewell .", "140", "But find a desolation . Like the Wind ,", "Aye \u2014 father ! I have had those early visions ,", "Have I partaken ; and of all these things , 150", "Take it .", "Things in my path which are no more .", "\u201c It is too late \u2014 is this fidelity ? \u201d", "Thy purpose pious , but it is in vain :", "And some of withered , or of broken hearts ;", "I may have been , or am , doth rest between", "Think me not churlish ; I would spare thyself ,", "Nor agony \u2014 nor , greater than all these ,", "The dying Roman thrust him back , and said \u2014", "More than are numbered in the lists of Fate ,", "Must serve who fain would sway ; and soothe , and sue ,", "But fall , even as the mountain-cataract ,", "I could not tame my nature down ; for he", "Nor charm in prayer , nor purifying form", "Some of disease \u2014 and some insanity \u2014", "Am what I am , but that I ever was ,", "As I directed ?", "Some empire still in his expiring glance \u2014", "Old in their youth , and die ere middle age ,", "The lion is alone , and so am I .", "The innate tortures of that deep Despair , 70", "\u201c It is too late ! \u201d", "My thoughts mistook themselves .", "The enlightener of nations ; and to rise", "Proceed ,\u2014 I listen .", "Which is Remorse without the fear of Hell ,", "Look on me ! there is an order", "Which dwells but in the desert , and sweeps o'er", "Look upon me ! for even of all these things", "Of its own sins \u2014 wrongs \u2014 sufferance \u2014 and revenge", "Heaven and myself \u2014 I shall not choose a mortal", "And yet not cruel ; for I would not make ,", "And seeketh not , so that it is not sought ,", "The victim of a self-inflicted wound ,", "To shun the torments of a public death", "From senates once his slaves , a certain soldier ,", "90", "Because my nature was averse from life ;", "There is a calm upon me \u2014 Inexplicable stillness ! which till now Did not belong to what I knew of life . If that I did not know Philosophy To be of all our vanities the motliest , 10 The merest word that ever fooled the ear From out the schoolman 's jargon , I should deem The golden secret , the sought \u201c Kalon , \u201d found ,And seated in my soul . It will not last , But it is well to have known it , though but once : It hath enlarged my thoughts with a new sense , And I within my tablets would note down That there is such a feeling . Who is there ? Re-enter HERMAN .", "The mass are ; I disdained to mingle with"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 189}, {"query": ["All , my Lord , are ready :", "To greet your presence .", "It wants but one till sunset ,"], "true_target": ["And promises a lovely twilight .", "Here is the key and casket .", "My Lord , the Abbot of St. Maurice craves"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 189}, {"query": ["That with the dwellers of the dark abodes ,", "Transmit it unimpaired !", "His servant echoes back the awful word .", "Which all who seek may win , whatever be", "Hath all the energy which would have made", "Yet , hear me still \u2014", "This should have been a noble creature : he 160", "Is as an Anchorite 's \u2014 were it but holy .", "My son ! I did not speak of punishment ,", "But if these things be sooth , there still is time", "But I would fain confer with thee alone .", "Which are forbidden to the search of man ;", "And yet he must not \u2014 I will try once more ,", "Would it were so , Count !\u2014", "Had they been wisely mingled ; as it is ,", "A goodly frame of glorious elements ,", "Have given me power to smooth the path from sin", "Yet shape themselves some fantasy on earth ,", "So saith the Lord , and with all humbleness", "And the commencement of atonement is", "For penitence and pity : reconcile thee 50", "It is an awful chaos \u2014 Light and Darkness \u2014", "For such are worth redemption ; and my duty", "I come to save , and not destroy :", "May also be my herald . Rumours strange ,", "From me and from my calling ; yet so young ,", "For this will pass away , and be succeeded", "All this is well ;", "And why not live and act with other men ?", "And good intent must plead my privilege ;", "I would not pry into thy secret soul ;", "Thy fellows in creation , thou dost rarely 40", "Their earthly errors , so they be atoned :", "Mixed , and contending without end or order ,\u2014", "And all our church can teach thee shall be taught ;", "Is to dare all things for a righteous end . 170"], "true_target": ["To which frail twig they cling , like drowning men .", "The sense of its necessity . Say on \u2014", "Thou communest . I know that with mankind ,", "And all we can absolve thee shall be pardoned .", "\u2018 Tis said thou holdest converse with the things", "And what of this ?", "Which walk the valley of the Shade of Death ,", "Our near , though not acquainted neighbourhood ,", "All dormant or destructive . He will perish \u2014", "With most unquiet eyes . Thy life 's in peril !", "The many evil and unheavenly spirits", "Peace be with Count Manfred ! 20", "I still would \u2014\u2014", "Our institutions and our strong belief 60", "Exchange thy thoughts , and that thy solitude", "With calm assurafice to that blessed place ,", "And wherefore so ?", "The choice of such remains \u2014 and for the last ,", "Even thy own vassals \u2014 who do look on thee", "And of unholy nature , are abroad , 30", "By an auspicious hope , which shall look up 80", "To reconcile thyself with thy own soul ,", "I leave to Heaven ,\u2014 \u201c Vengeance is mine alone ! \u201d", "Alas !", "I \u2018 gin to fear that thou art past all aid", "My pious brethren \u2014 the scar\u00e9d peasantry \u2014", "For centuries : may he who bears it now", "Thus , without prelude :\u2014 Age and zeal \u2014 my office \u2014", "But penitence and pardon ;\u2014 with thyself", "And busy with thy name \u2014 a noble name", "And thy own soul with Heaven . Hast thou no hope ? 100", "I 'll follow him \u2014 but cautiously , though surely .", "With the true church , and through the church to Heaven .", "It never can be so ,", "\u2018 Tis strange \u2014 even those who do despair above ,", "To higher hope and better thoughts ; the first", "And mind and dust \u2014 and passions and pure thoughts"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 189}, {"query": ["My lord , you bade me wait on you at sunset :"], "true_target": ["He sinks behind the mountain ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 190}, {"query": ["Who chose thee for his shadow ! Thou chief Star !", "And representative of the Unknown \u2014", "I follow .", "Of early nature , and the vigorous race", "Themselves in orisons ! Thou material God !", "And hearts of all who walk within thy rays !", "Endurable and temperest the hues", "Of undiseased mankind , the giant sons", "Which gladdened , on their mountain tops , the hearts", "The mystery of thy making was revealed ! 10", "Of the Chaldean shepherds , till they poured", "I will look on him .", "And those who dwell in them ! for near or far ,", "Of a more fatal nature . He is gone \u2014"], "true_target": ["Of love and wonder was for thee , then take", "Of the embrace of Angels , with a sex", "Doth he so ?", "Centre of many stars ! which mak'st our earth", "Sire of the seasons ! Monarch of the climes , 20", "Even as our outward aspects ;\u2014 thou dost rise ,", "Our inborn spirits have a tint of thee", "To whom the gifts of life and warmth have been", "And shine , and set in glory . Fare thee well !", "More beautiful than they , which did draw down", "The erring Spirits who can ne'er return .\u2014", "I ne'er shall see thee more . As my first glance", "Thou earliest minister of the Almighty ,", "My latest look : thou wilt not beam on one", "Most glorious Orb ! that wert a worship , ere"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 190}, {"query": ["Or its contents , it were impossible", "So have we all been oft-times ; but from it ,", "The fee of what I have to come these three years ,", "He hath pursued long vigils in this tower ,", "I 've heard thee darkly speak of an event", "Which happened hereabouts , by this same tower .", "How many years is't ?", "Beshrew the hour ,", "His studies tend to . To be sure , there is", "To draw conclusions absolute , of aught", "Thou hast seen him once his eve already .", "We dare not ."], "true_target": ["One chamber where none enter : I would give", "Yonder in the tower .", "As if they had forgotten them .", "And couldst say much ; thou hast dwelt within the castle \u2014", "\u2018 Tis strange enough ! night after night , for years ,", "Relate me some to while away our watch :", "Without a witness . I have been within it ,\u2014", "But those were jocund times ! I would that such", "Ah ! Manuel ! thou art elderly and wise ,", "To pore upon its mysteries .", "There be more sons in like predicament ! But wherein do they differ ?", "Would visit the old walls again ; they look", "Come , be friendly ; 30"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 191}, {"query": ["And I will tell you further .", "From men and their delights .", "So like that it might be the same ; the wind", "The sole companion of his wanderings", "Reverend father , stop \u2014", "Of features or of form , but mind and habits ;", "He is most private , and must not be thus 50", "Count Sigismund was proud , but gay and free ,\u2014", "As he , indeed , by blood was bound to do ,", "\u2018 Twas twilight , as it may be now , and such", "How occupied , we knew not , but with him", "That was a night indeed ! I do remember", "I served his father , whom he nought resembles .", "Count Manfred was , as now , within his tower ,\u2014", "A gloomy vigil , but a festal time ,", "Content thyself with what thou know'st already .", "Must change their chieftain first . Oh ! I have seen", "Another evening :\u2014 yon red cloud , which rests", "Intruded on ."], "true_target": ["That lived , the only thing he seemed to love ,\u2014", "I speak not", "Some strange things in them , Herman .", "so rested then ,\u2014", "A warrior and a reveller ; he dwelt not 20", "I pray you pause .", "And watchings \u2014 her , whom of all earthly things", "Hush ! who comes here ?", "But step this way ,", "Began to glitter with the climbing moon ; 40", "Ere Count Manfred 's birth ,", "\u2018 Tis impossible ;", "Was faint and gusty , and the mountain snows", "Merrier than day ; he did not walk the rocks", "On Eigher 's pinnacle ,", "With books and solitude , nor made the night", "\u2018 Twere dangerous ; 10", "These walls", "And forests like a wolf , nor turn aside", "The Lady Astarte , his \u2014\u2014"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 191}, {"query": ["Herman ! I command thee ,", "I must speak with him .", "Then it seems I must be herald", "Knock , and apprize the Count of my approach .", "Upon myself I take"], "true_target": ["Of my own purpose .", "Why so ?", "But I must see him .", "The forfeit of my fault , if fault there be \u2014", "Where is your master ?"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 191}, {"query": ["The accents rattle : Give thy prayers to Heaven \u2014", "What doth he here ?", "Avaunt !\u2014", "Pray \u2014 albeit but in thought ,\u2014 but die not thus .", "Eternal \u2014", "Alas ! how pale thou art \u2014 thy lips are white \u2014", "It may be there are", "Hast thou to do ? I tremble for thy sake :", "There is the stake on earth \u2014 and beyond earth", "Ye have no power where Piety hath power ,", "What art thou , unknown being ? answer !\u2014 speak ! 80", "Could I touch that , with words or prayers , I should", "Ah ! he unveils his aspect : on his brow", "But yet let not my humble zeal offend", "But is not yet all lost .", "He 's gone \u2014 his soul hath ta'en its earthless flight ; Whither ? I dread to think \u2014 but he is gone .FOOTNOTES :{ 86 }\u201c Alas ! I have explored Philosophy , and Law , and Medicine , And over deep Divinity have pored , Studying with ardent and laborious zeal . \u201d Anster 's Faust , 1883 , p . 88 . ]{ 86 } Eternal Agency ! Ye spirits of the immortal Universe !\u2014Of inaccessible mountains are the haunts .\u2014{ 87 }Which is fit for my pavilion .\u2014Or makes its ice delay .\u2014{ 89 }{ 90 } The Mind which is my Spirit \u2014 the high Soul .\u2014Answer \u2014 or I will teach ye .\u2014{ 91 }N. B .\u2014 Here follows the \u201c Incantation , \u201d which being already transcribed andpublished I do not transcribe again at present , because you can insert it in MS. here \u2014 as it belongs to this place : with its conclusion the 1st Scene closes .{ 92 }{ 93 } I do adjure thee to this spell .\u2014{ 94 } \u1f66 \u03b4\u1fd6\u03bf\u03c2 \u03b1\u1f30\u03b8\u1f74\u03c1 , \u03ba. \u03c4. \u03bb .di ~ os ai ) th\u00ea \\ r , k. t. l . ] \u00c6schylus , Prometheus Vinctus , lines 88-91 . ]{ 95 }]The music of the Cows \u2019 bellsin the pastures ,, and the Shepherds \u2019 shouting to us from crag to crag , and playing on their reeds where the steeps appeared almost inaccessible , with the surrounding scenery , realized all that I have ever heard or imagined of a pastoral existence :\u2014 much more so than Greece or Asia Minor , for there we are a little too much of the sabre and musquet order ; and if there is a Crook in one hand , you are sure to see a gun in the other :\u2014 but this was pure and unmixed \u2014 solitary , savage , and patriarchal .... As we went , they played the \u2018 Ranz des Vaches \u2019 and other airs , by way of farewell . I have lately repeopled my mind with Nature \u201d]{ 96 } \u201c Like an unbodied joy , whose race is just begun . \u201d To a Skylark , by P. B. Shelley , stanza iii . line 5 . ]]{ 97 }]Like foam from the round ocean of old Hell .\u2014not of so precipitous a nature ; but on arriving at the summit , we looked down the other side upon a boiling sea of cloud , dashing against the crags on which we stoodIn passing the masses of snow , I made a snowball and pelted Hobhouse with it \u201d], and slipped down into the valley below , overwhelming the villages of Goldau , Busingen , and Rothen , and part of Lowertz . More than four hundred and fifty human beings perished , and whole herds of cattle were swept away . Five minutes sufficed to complete the work of destruction . The inhabitants were first roused by a loud and grating sound like thunder ... and beheld the valleys shrouded in a cloud of dust ; when it had cleared away they found the face of nature changed . \u201d \u2014 Handbook of Switzerland , Part 1. pp 58 , 59 . ]{ 99 }the allusions to an incestuous passion between Manfred and Astarte . Shelley , in a letter to Mrs. Gisborne , November 16 , 1819 , commenting on Calderon 's Los Cabellos de Absalon , discusses the question from an ethical as well as critical point of view : \u201c The incest scene between Amon and Tamar is perfectly tremendous . Well may Calderon say , in the person of the former \u2014 Si sangre sin fuego hiere Qua fara sangre con fuego . \u2019 Incest is , like many other incorrect things , a very poetical circumstance . It may be the defiance of everything for the sake of another which clothes itself in the glory of the highest heroism , or it may be that cynical rage which , confounding the good and the bad in existing opinions , breaks through them for the purpose of rioting in selfishness and antipathy . \u201d \u2014 Works of P. B. Shelley , 1880 , iv . 142 . ]{ 100 } \u2014\u2014 and some insaner sin .\u2014{ 102 } This iris is formed by the rays of the sun over the lower part of the Alpine torrents ; it is exactly like a rainbow come down to pay a visit , and so close that you may walk into it : this effect lasts till noon .again ; the Sun upon it forming a rainbow of the lower part of all colours , but principally purple and gold ; the bow moving as you move ; I never saw anything like this ; it is only in the Sunshine \u201d]; Glaciers ; torrents ; one of these torrents nine hundred feet in height of visible descent ... heard an Avalanche fall , like thunder ; saw Glacier \u2014 enormous . Storm came on , thunder , lightning , hail ; all in perfection , and beautiful .... The torrent is in shape curving over the rock , like the tail of a white horse streaming in the wind , such as it might be conceived would be that of the \u2018 pale horse \u2019 on which Death is mounted in the Apocalypse . It is neither mist nor water , but a something between both ; it 's immense height ... gives it a wave , a curve , a spreading here , a condensation there , wonderful and indescribable \u201d]{ 103 } Wherein seems glassed \u2014\u2014.\u2014{ 104 }\u201c The moving moon went up the sky . \u201d The Ancient Mariner , Part IV . line 263 . Compare , too \u2014 \u201c The climbing moon . \u201d", "To penance , and with gift of all thy lands", "But yet one prayer \u2014 Alas ! how fares it with thee ? 150", "Would shield himself , and battle for his sins ,", "What dost thou mean ?", "Then , hear and tremble ! For the headstrong wretch", "Never \u2014 till I have battled with this fiend :\u2014 70", "May light upon your head \u2014 could I say heart \u2014 50", "And give thee till to-morrow to repent . 10", "By its abruptness \u2014 all it hath of ill", "My good Lord !"], "true_target": ["And I do charge ye in the name \u2014", "Avaunt thee , evil One !\u2014 help , ho ! without there !", "Then if thou dost not all devote thyself", "And thy breast heaves \u2014 and in thy gasping throat", "Avaunt ! ye evil ones !\u2014 Avaunt ! I say ,\u2014", "To the Monastery \u2014\u2014", "Thou dost not mean to menace me ?", "Like an infernal god , from out the earth ;", "I see a dusk and awful figure rise ,", "Glares forth the immortality of Hell \u2014", "Recoils on me ; its good in the effect", "Nothing .", "That which should shake me ,\u2014 but I fear it not :", "Recall a noble spirit which hath wandered ,", "Who in the mail of innate hardihood", "Alas ! lost Mortal ! what with guests like these", "And I reply \u2014", "I crave a second grace for this approach ;", "Thyself and me \u2014 but I do fear him not .", "Expect no mercy ; I have warned thee .", "Things that would shake thee \u2014 but I keep them back ,", "Why doth he gaze on thee , and thou on him ?", "His face wrapt in a mantle , and his form", "Cold \u2014 cold \u2014 even to the heart \u2014", "Robed as with angry clouds : he stands between", "I fear thee not \u2014 hence \u2014 hence \u2014", "The thunder-scars are graven ; from his eye"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 192}, {"query": ["Old man ! \u2018 tis not so difficult to die .", "Things of an essence greater far than thine ,", "And greater criminals ?\u2014 Back to thy hell !", "No , this will serve for the present . Take him up .", "Thou false fiend , thou liest !", "Look there , I say ,", "Retire , or \u2018 twill be dangerous \u2014 Away !", "And gave ye no supremacy : I stand", "Heaves as it were beneath me . Fare thee well \u2014", "But harm him not ; and , when the morrow breaks ,", "Becomes thy lips so much more than this menace ,", "He ne'er again will be so near to Heaven .", "Must crimes be punished but by other crimes ,", "I have not been thy dupe , nor am thy prey \u2014", "What I have done is done ; I bear within", "Thou hast no cause \u2014 he shall not harm thee \u2014 but", "Pronounce \u2014 what is thy mission ?", "Spurn back , and scorn ye !\u2014", "And steadfastly ;\u2014 now tell me what thou seest ? 60", "No colour from the fleeting things without ,", "Thou didst not tempt me , and thou couldst not tempt me ;", "I do not combat against Death , but thee", "\u2018 Tis over \u2014 my dull eyes can fix thee not ;", "But by superior science \u2014 penance , daring ,", "Thou hast no power upon me , that I feel ;", "And striven with thy masters . Get thee hence !", "To breathe my scorn upon ye \u2014 earthly strength", "Is its own origin of ill and end \u2014", "Charity , most reverend father ,", "His sight may shock thine old limbs into palsy .", "And would preserve thee .", "I simply tell thee peril is at hand ,", "I say to thee \u2014 Retire !", "But was my own destroyer , and will be", "The hand of Death is on me \u2014 but not yours !", "Give me thy hand .", "To wrestle , though with spirits ; what ye take", "Not I !", "I am prepared for all things , but deny", "What would'st thou with me ?"], "true_target": ["I have commanded", "Set him down safe in his cell \u2014 away with him ! 40", "And its own place and time :", "That I would call thee back to it : but say ,", "But all things swim around me , and the earth", "Was purchased by no compact with thy crew ,", "Why \u2014 aye \u2014 what doth he here ? I did not send for him ,\u2014 he is unbidden .", "When stripped of this mortality , derives", "Saw men and spirits walking side by side ,", "Nor will I hence , while I have earthly breath", "And length of watching , strength of mind , and skill", "Away ! I 'll die as I have lived \u2014 alone . 90", "In knowledge of our Fathers \u2014 when the earth", "Thou know'st me not ;", "Look there ! What dost thou see ?", "What are they to such as thee ?", "My own hereafter .\u2014 Back , ye baffled fiends ! 140", "I knew , and know my hour is come , but not", "From now till sunrise ; let him gaze , and know", "Is ebbing from me , yet I do defy ye ; 100", "its innate sense ,", "To render up my soul to such as thee :", "The Mind which is immortal makes itself", "Shall be ta'en limb by limb .", "My days are numbered , and my deeds recorded :", "Thou never shalt possess me , that I know :", "A torture which could nothing gain from thine :", "And thy surrounding angels ; my past power", "Stop \u2014 There is a gift for thee within this casket . The DEMON ASHTAROTH appears , singing as follows :\u2014 The raven sits On the Raven-stone ,And his black wing flits O'er the milk \u2014 white bone ; 20 To and fro , as the night \u2014 winds blow , The carcass of the assassin swings ; And there alone , on the Raven-stone , The raven flaps his dusky wings . The fetters creak \u2014 and his ebon beak Croaks to the close of the hollow sound ; And this is the tune , by the light of the Moon , To which the Witches dance their round \u2014 Merrily \u2014 merrily \u2014 cheerily \u2014 cheerily \u2014 Merrily \u2014 merrily \u2014 speeds the ball : 30 The dead in their shrouds , and the Demons in clouds , Flock to the Witches \u2019 Carnival .", "To its extremest peak \u2014 watch with him there", "My life is in its last hour ,\u2014 that I know , 110", "I do defy ye ,\u2014 though I feel my soul", "Upon my strength \u2014 I do defy \u2014 deny \u2014 120", "Requital for its good or evil thoughts ,\u2014 130", "Why would this fool break in on me , and force 50 My art to pranks fantastical ?\u2014 no matter , It was not of my seeking . My heart sickens , And weighs a fixed foreboding on my soul . But it is calm \u2014 calm as a sullen sea After the hurricane ; the winds are still , But the cold waves swell high and heavily , And there is danger in them . Such a rest Is no repose . My life hath been a combat , And every thought a wound , till I am scarred In the immortal part of me .\u2014 What now ? ] 60\u201c Raven-stone, a translation of the German word for the gibbet , which in Germany and Switzerland is permanent , and made of stone . \u201dA prodigal son \u2014 and a pregnant nun , nun , And a widow re-wedded within the year \u2014 And a calf at grass \u2014 and a priest at mass . Are things which every day appear .\u2014{ 122 }{ 124 }/ not loss of life , but \\ To shun < > public death \u2014\\ the torments of a /", "I understand thee ,\u2014 well !", "The Power which summons me . Who sent thee here ?", "Convey this man to the Shreckhorn \u2014 to its peak \u2014", "Born from the knowledge of its own desert .", "Nor would redeem a moment of that hour ;", "But is absorbed in sufferance or in joy ,"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 192}, {"query": ["Old man !", "The genius of this mortal .\u2014 Come ! ' tis time .", "Waste not thy holy words on idle uses ,", "Come !", "Which made thee wretched ?", "But thy many crimes", "We know ourselves , our mission , and thine order ;", "Is this the Magian who would so pervade", "Then I must summon up my brethren .\u2014 Rise !"], "true_target": ["Art thus in love with life ? the very life", "Almost our equal ? Can it be that thou", "Reluctant mortal !", "The world invisible , and make himself", "Once more \u2014 I summon him \u2014 Away ! Away !", "Have made thee \u2014", "Thou'lt know anon \u2014 Come ! come !", "It were in vain : this man is forfeited .", "Mortal ! thine hour is come \u2014 Away ! I say ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 192}, {"query": ["Convent and all , to bear him company ?", "And we shall fly the lighter .", "Come , Friar ! now an exorcism or two ,", "And a widow re-wedded within the year ;", "ASHTAROTH disappears with the ABBOT , singing as follows :\u2014"], "true_target": ["Are things which every day appear .", "A prodigal son , and a maid undone ,", "And a worldly monk , and a pregnant nun ,", "Had I not better bring his brethren too ,", "MANFRED alone ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 192}, {"query": ["His cheek is black \u2014 but there is a faint beat Still lingering about the heart . Some water .", "His few remaining years unaided .", "Not so \u2014 even now methought he moved ; 20 But it is dark \u2014 so bear him gently out \u2014 Softly \u2014 how cold he is ! take care of his temples In winding down the staircase . Re-enter MANUEL and HERMAN , bearing MANFRED in their arms .", "I hear a word", "\u2018 Twill soon be over .", "What dreadful sound is that ?", "What , none of ye ?\u2014 ye recreants ! shiver then 10"], "true_target": ["His eyes are fixed and lifeless .\u2014 He is gone .\u2014", "Or two \u2014 but indistinctly \u2014 what is next ?", "Come \u2014 who follows ?", "What 's to be done ? let 's bear him to the castle .", "The tower 's on fire . Oh , heavens and earth ! what sound ,", "Without . I will not see old Manuel risk", "Look \u2014 look \u2014 the tower \u2014"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 192}, {"query": ["He changes rapidly .", "Old man ! \u2018 tis not so difficult to die .", "He disapproves \u2014 and \u2018 twere of no avail \u2014", "Manfred", "To shake my gray hairs over the last chief", "For the leech to the city \u2014 quick ! some water there !", "Hie to the castle , some of ye , and bring", "What aid you can . Saddle the barb , and speed", "Alone \u2014 we know not how \u2014 unshrived \u2014 untended \u2014"], "true_target": ["He seems to strive to speak \u2014 come \u2014 cheerly , Count !", "With strange accompaniments and fearful signs \u2014 40", "Of the house of Sigismund .\u2014 And such a death !", "He moves his lips \u2014 canst hear him ! I am old , 30", "Oh ! what a death is this ! that I should live", "Help , help , there !\u2014 to the rescue of the Count ,\u2014 The Count 's in danger ,\u2014 what ho ! there ! approach !", "Close them .\u2014 My old hand quivers .\u2014 He departs \u2014 Whither ? I dread to think \u2014 but he is gone ! End of Act Third , and of the poem . \u201d ]{ 131 } Sirrah ! I command thee .\u2014description is the very thing itself ; but what cannot he do on such a subject , when his pen is like the wand of Moses , whose touch can produce waters even from the barren rock ? \u201d \u2014 Matthews 's Diary of an Invalid , 1820 , pp . 158 , 159 .]{ 132 }{ 133 } \" ... but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched . \u201d Paradise Lost , i . 600 . ]Summons \u2014\u2014. -{ 135 }Paradise Lost , i . 254 , 255 . ]{ 136 }, this line was left out at Gifford 's suggestionByron was indignant , and wrote to Murray , August 12 , 1817, \u201c You have destroyed the whole effect and moral of the poem , by omitting the last line of Manfred 's speaking . \u201d ]Manfred 's soliloquy , act 1. sc . 1 , line 1 seq . ;\u201c The Incantation . \u201d act i. sc . 1 , lines 192-261 ;Manfred 's soliloquy , act ii , sc . 2 lines 164-204 ;the duologue between Manfred and Astarte , act ii . sc . 4 , lines 116-155 ;a couplet , \u201c For the night hath been to me , \u201d etc ., act iii . sc . 4 , lines 3 , 4 ;\u2014 see Professor A. Brandl 's Goethe-Jahrbuch . 1899 , and Goethe 's Werke , 1874 , iii . 201 , as quoted in Appendix II ., Letters , 1901. v . 503-514 . ] THE LAMENT OF TASSO . INTRODUCTION TO THE LAMENT OF TASSO .", "And cannot catch faint sounds .", "I shudder at the sight \u2014 but must not leave him ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 192}, {"query": ["Hark !\u2014", "Which shot forth such a blaze is also gone :"], "true_target": ["No \u2014 all is silent \u2014 not a breath \u2014 the flame", "What may this mean ? Let 's enter !"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 192}, {"query": ["I do not see precisely to what end .", "Manuel", "I then will stay behind ; but , for my part ,", "Not but , if one , or two , or more , will join ,"], "true_target": ["Vassal . Cease your vain prating \u2014 come .", "\u2018 Tis all in vain \u2014", "Faith , not I ,\u2014", "He 's dead ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 192}, {"query": ["of the translation of Canto I. was despatched to England , February 28 , 1820 . It is evidentthat Murray looked coldly on Byron 's \u201c masterpiece \u201d from the first . It was certain that any new work by the author of Don Juan would be subjected to the severest and most hostile scrutiny , and it was doubtful if a translation of part of an obscure and difficult poem , vaguely supposed to be coarse and irreligious , would meet with even a tolerable measure of success . At any rate , in spite of many inquiries and much vaunting of its excellence, the MS. remained for more than two years in Murray 's hands , and it was not until other arrangements came into force that the translation of the First Canto of the Morgante Maggiore appeared in the fourth and last number of The Liberal , which was issuedJuly 30 , 1823 . For critical estimates of Luigi Pulci and the Morgante Maggiore , see an article, by Ugo Foscolo , entitled \u201c Narrative and Romantic Poems of the Italians ; \u201d Preface to the Orlando Innamorato of Boiardo , by A. Panizzi , 1830 , i . 190-302 ; Poems Original and Translated , by J. H. Merivale , 1838 , ii . 1-43 ; Stories of the Italian Poets , by J. H. Leigh Hunt , 1846 , i . 283-314 ; Renaissance in Italy , by J . A. Symonds , 1881 , iv . 431 , 456 , and for translations of the Morgante Maggiore , vide ibid ., Appendix V. pp . 543-560 ; and Italian Literature , by R. Garnett , C. B ., LL. D ., 1898 , pp . 128-131 . ADVERTISEMENT . The Morgante Maggiore , of the first canto of which this translation is offered , divides with the Orlando Innamorato the honour of having formed and suggested the style and story of Ariosto .The great defects of Boiardo were his treating too seriously the narratives of chivalry , and his harsh style . Ariosto , in his continuation , by a judicious mixture of the gaiety of Pulci , has avoided the one ; and Berni , in his reformation of Boiardo 's poem , has corrected the other . Pulci may be considered as the precursor and model of Berni altogether , as he has partly been to Ariosto , however inferior to both his copyists . He is no less the founder of a new style of poetry very lately sprung up in England . I allude to that of the ingenious Whistlecraft . The serious poems on Roncesvalles in the same language , and more particularly the excellent one of Mr. Merivale , are to be traced to the same source .It has never yet been decided entirely whether Pulci 's intention was or was not to deride the religion which is one of his favourite topics . It appears to me , that such an intention would have been no less hazardous to the poet than to the priest , particularly in that age and country ; and the permission to publish the poem , and its reception among the classics of Italy , prove that it neither was nor is so interpreted . That he intended to ridicule the monastic life , and suffered his imagination to play with the simple dulness of his converted giant , seems evident enough ; but surely it were as unjust to accuse him of irreligion on this account , as to denounce Fielding for his Parson Adams , Barnabas ,Thwackum , Supple , and the Ordinary in Jonathan Wild ,\u2014 or Scott , for the exquisite use of his Covenanters in the \u201c Tales of my Landlord . \u201d In the following translation I have used the liberty of the original with the proper names , as Pulci uses Gan , Ganellon , or Ganellone ; Carlo , Carlomagno , or Carlornano ; Rondel , or Rondello , etc ., as it suits his convenience ; so has the translator . In other respects the version is faithful to the best of the translator 's ability in combining his interpretation of the one language with the not very easy task of reducing it to the same versification in the other . The reader , on comparing it with the original , is requested to remember that the antiquated language of Pulci , however pure , is not easy to the generality of Italians themselves , from its great mixture of Tuscan proverbs ; and he may therefore be more indulgent to the present attempt . How far the translator has succeeded , and whether or no he shall continue the work , are questions which the public will decide . He was induced to make the experiment partly by his love for , and partial intercourse with , the Italian language , of which it is so easy to acquire a slight knowledge , and with which it is so nearly impossible for a foreigner to become accurately conversant . The Italian language is like a capricious beauty , who accords her smiles to all , her favours to few , and sometimes least to those who have courted her longest . The translator wished also to present in an English dress a part at least of a poem never yet rendered into a northern language ; at the same time that it has been the original of some of the most celebrated productions on this side of the Alps , as well of those recent experiments in poetry in England which have been already mentioned . THE MORGANTE MAGGIORE .CANTO THE FIRST . I . In the beginning was the Word next God ; God was the Word , the Word no less was He : This was in the beginning , to my mode Of thinking , and without Him nought could be : Therefore , just Lord ! from out thy high abode , Benign and pious , bid an angel flee , One only , to be my companion , who Shall help my famous , worthy , old song through . II . And thou , oh Virgin ! daughter , mother , bride , Of the same Lord , who gave to you each key Of Heaven , and Hell , and every thing beside , The day thy Gabriel said \u201c All hail ! \u201d to thee , Since to thy servants Pity 's ne'er denied , With flowing rhymes , a pleasant style and free , Be to my verses then benignly kind , And to the end illuminate my mind . III . \u2018 Twas in the season when sad PhilomelWeeps with her sister , who remembers and Deplores the ancient woes which both befel , And makes the nymphs enamoured , to the hand Of Pha\u00ebton , by Phoebus loved so well , His carWas given , and on the horizon 's verge just now Appeared , so that Tithonus scratched his brow : IV . When I prepared my bark first to obey , As it should still obey , the helm , my mind , And carry prose or rhyme , and this my lay Of Charles the Emperor , whom you will find By several pens already praised ; but they Who to diffuse his glory were inclined , For all that I can see in prose or verse , Have understood Charles badly , and wrote worse . V . Leonardo Aretino said already ,That if , like Pepin , Charles had had a writer Of genius quick , and diligently steady , No hero would in history look brighter ; He in the cabinet being always ready , And in the field a most victorious fighter , Who for the church and Christian faith had wrought , Certes , far more than yet is said or thought . VI . You still may see at Saint Liberatore ,The abbey , no great way from Manopell , Erected in the Abruzzi to his glory , Because of the great battle in which fell A pagan king , according to the story , And felon people whom Charles sent to Hell : And there are bones so many , and so many , Near them Giusaffa 'swould seem few , if any . VII . But the world , blind and ignorant , do n't prize His virtues as I wish to see them : thou , Florence , by his great bounty do n't arise ,And hast , and may have , if thou wilt allow , All proper customs and true courtesies : Whate'er thou hast acquired from then till now , With knightly courage , treasure , or the lance , Is sprung from out the noble blood of France . VIII . Twelve Paladins had Charles in court , of whom The wisest and most famous was Orlando ; Him traitor Ganconducted to the tomb In Roncesvalles , as the villain planned too , While the horn rang so loud , and knelled the doom Of their sad rout , though he did all knight can do : And Dante in his comedy has given To him a happy seat with Charles in Heaven .IX . \u2018 Twas Christmas-day ; in Paris all his court Charles held ; the Chief , I say , Orlando was , The Dane ; Astolfo there too did resort , Also Ansuigi , the gay time to pass In festival and in triumphal sport , The much-renowned St. Dennis being the cause ; Angiolin of Bayonne , and Oliver , And gentle Belinghieri too came there : X . Avolio , and Arino , and Othone Of Normandy , and Richard Paladin , Wise Hamo , and the ancient Salamone , Walter of Lion 's Mount , and Baldovin , Who was the son of the sad Ganellone , Were there , exciting too much gladness in The son of Pepin :\u2014 when his knights came hither , He groaned with joy to see them altogether . XI . But watchful Fortune , lurking , takes good heed Ever some bar \u2018 gainst our intents to bring . While Charles reposed him thus , in word and deed , Orlando ruled court , Charles , and every thing ; Curst Gan , with envy bursting , had such need To vent his spite , that thus with Charles the king One day he openly began to say , \u201c Orlando must we always then obey ? XII . \u201c A thousand times I 've been about to say , Orlando too presumptuously goes on ; Here are we , counts , kings , dukes , to own thy sway , Hamo , and Otho , Ogier , Solomon , Each have to honour thee and to obey ; But he has too much credit near the throne , Which we wo n't suffer , but are quite decided By such a boy to be no longer guided . XIII . \u201c And even at Aspramont thou didst begin To let him know he was a gallant knight , And by the fount did much the day to win ; But I know who that day had won the fight If it had not for good Gherardo been ; The victory was Almonte 's else ; his sight He kept upon the standard \u2014 and the laurels , In fact and fairness , are his earning , Charles ! XIV . \u201c If thou rememberest being in Gascony , When there advanced the nations out of Spain The Christian cause had suffered shamefully , Had not his valour driven them back again . Best speak the truth when there 's a reason why : Know then , oh Emperor ! that all complain : As for myself , I shall repass the mounts O'er which I crossed with two and sixty counts . XV . \u201c \u2018 Tis fit thy grandeur should dispense relief , So that each here may have his proper part , For the whole court is more or less in grief : Perhaps thou deem'st this lad a Mars in heart ? \u201d Orlando one day heard this speech in brief , As by himself it chanced he sate apart : Displeased he was with Gan because he said it , But much more still that Charles should give him credit . XVI . And with the sword he would have murdered Gan , But Oliver thrust in between the pair , And from his hand extracted Durlindan , And thus at length they separated were . Orlando angry too with Carloman , Wanted but little to have slain him there ; Then forth alone from Paris went the Chief , And burst and maddened with disdain and grief . XVII . From Ermellina , consort of the Dane , He took Cortana , and then took Rondell , And on towards Brara pricked him o'er the plain ; And when she saw him coming , Aldabelle Stretched forth her arms to clasp her lord again : Orlando , in whose brain all was not well , As \u201c Welcome , my Orlando , home , \u201d she said , Raised up his sword to smite her on the head . XVIII . Like him a Fury counsels , his revenge On Gan in that rash act he seemed to take , Which Aldabella thought extremely strange ; But soon Orlando found himself awake ; And his spouse took his bridle on this change , And he dismounted from his horse , and spake Of every thing which passed without demur , And then reposed himself some days with her . XIX . Then full of wrath departed from the place , As far as pagan countries roamed astray , And while he rode , yet still at every pace The traitor Gan remembered by the way ; And wandering on in error a long space , An abbey which in a lone desert lay , \u2018 Midst glens obscure , and distant lands , he found , Which formed the Christian 's and the Pagan 's bound . XX . The Abbot was called Clermont , and by blood Descended from Angrante : under cover Of a great mountain 's brow the abbey stood , But certain savage giants looked him over ; One Passamont was foremost of the brood , And Alabaster and Morgante hover Second and third , with certain slings , and throw In daily jeopardy the place below . XXI . The monks could pass the convent gate no more , Nor leave their cells for water or for wood ; Orlando knocked , but none would ope , before Unto the Prior it at length seemed good ; Entered , he said that he was taught to adore Him who was born of Mary 's holiest blood , And was baptized a Christian ; and then showed How to the abbey he had found his road . XXII . Said the Abbot , \u201c You are welcome ; what is mine We give you freely , since that you believe With us in Mary Mother 's Son divine ; And that you may not , Cavalier , conceive The cause of our delay to let you in To be rusticity , you shall receive The reason why our gate was barred to you : Thus those who in suspicion live must do . XXIII . \u201c When hither to inhabit first we came These mountains , albeit that they are obscure , As you perceive , yet without fear or blame They seemed to promise an asylum sure : From savage brutes alone , too fierce to tame , \u2018 Twas fit our quiet dwelling to secure ; But now , if here we 'd stay , we needs must guard Against domestic beasts with watch and ward . XXIV . \u201c These make us stand , in fact , upon the watch ; For late there have appeared three giants rough , What nation or what kingdom bore the batch I know not , but they are all of savage stuff ; When Force and Malice with some genius match , You know , they can do all \u2014 we are not enough : And these so much our orisons derange , I know not what to do , till matters change . XXV . \u201c Our ancient fathers , living the desert in , For just and holy works were duly fed ; Think not they lived on locusts sole , \u2018 tis certain That manna was rained down from heaven instead ; But here \u2018 tis fit we keep on the alert in Our bounds , or taste the stones showered down for bread , From off yon mountain daily raining faster , And flung by Passamont and Alabaster . XXVI . \u201c The third , Morgante , \u2018 s savagest by far ; he Plucks up pines , beeches , poplar-trees , and oaks , And flings them , our community to bury ; And all that I can do but more provokes . \u201d While thus they parley in the cemetery , A stone from one of their gigantic strokes , Which nearly crushed Rondell , came tumbling over , So that he took a long leap under cover . XXVII . \u201c For God-sake , Cavalier , come in with speed ; The manna 's falling now , \u201d the Abbot cried . \u201c This fellow does not wish my horse should feed , Dear Abbot , \u201d Roland unto him replied , \u201c Of restiveness he 'd cure him had he need ; That stone seems with good will and aim applied . \u201d The holy father said , \u201c I do n't deceive ; They 'll one day fling the mountain , I believe . \u201d XXVIII . Orlando bade them take care of Rondello , And also made a breakfast of his own ; \u201c Abbot , \u201d he said , \u201c I want to find that fellow Who flung at my good horse yon corner-stone . \u201d Said the abbot , \u201c Let not my advice seem shallow ; As to a brother dear I speak alone ; I would dissuade you , Baron , from this strife , As knowing sure that you will lose your life . XXIX . \u201c That Passamont has in his hand three darts \u2014 Such slings , clubs , ballast-stones , that yield you must : You know that giants have much stouter hearts Than us , with reason , in proportion just : If go you will , guard well against their arts , For these are very barbarous and robust . \u201d Orlando answered , \u201d This I 'll see , be sure , And walk the wild on foot to be secure . \u201d XXX . The Abbot signed the great cross on his front , \u201c Then go you with God 's benison and mine . \u201d Orlando , after he had scaled the mount , As the Abbot had directed , kept the line Right to the usual haunt of Passamont ; Who , seeing him alone in this design , Surveyed him fore and aft with eyes observant , Then asked him , \u201c If he wished to stay as servant ? \u201d XXXI . And promised him an office of great ease . But , said Orlando , \u201c Saracen insane ! I come to kill you , if it shall so please God , not to serve as footboy in your train ; You with his monks so oft have broke the peace \u2014 Vile dog ! \u2018 tis past his patience to sustain . \u201d The Giant ran to fetch his arms , quite furious , When he received an answer so injurious . XXXII . And being returned to where Orlando stood , Who had not moved him from the spot , and swinging The cord , he hurled a stone with strength so rude , As showed a sample of his skill in slinging ; It rolled on Count Orlando 's helmet good And head , and set both head and helmet ringing , So that he swooned with pain as if he died , But more than dead , he seemed so stupified . XXXIII . Then Passamont , who thought him slain outright , Said , \u201c I will go , and while he lies along , Disarm me : why such craven did I fight ? \u201d But Christ his servants ne'er abandons long , Especially Orlando , such a knight , As to desert would almost be a wrong . While the giant goes to put off his defences , Orlando has recalled his force and senses : XXXIV . And loud he shouted , \u201c Giant , where dost go ? Thou thought'st me doubtless for the bier outlaid ; To the right about \u2014 without wings thou'rt too slow To fly my vengeance \u2014 currish renegade ! \u2018 Twas but by treachery thou laid'st me low . \u201d The giant his astonishment betrayed , And turned about , and stopped his journey on , And then he stooped to pick up a great stone . XXXV . Orlando had Cortana bare in hand ; To split the head in twain was what he schemed : Cortana clave the skull like a true brand , And pagan Passamont died unredeemed ; Yet harsh and haughty , as he lay he banned , And most devoutly Macon still blasphemed; But while his crude , rude blasphemies he heard , Orlando thanked the Father and the Word ,\u2014 XXXVI . Saying , \u201c What grace to me thou'st this day given ! And I to thee , O Lord ! am ever bound ; I know my life was saved by thee from Heaven , Since by the Giant I was fairly downed . All things by thee are measured just and even ; Our power without thine aid would nought be found : I pray thee take heed of me , till I can At least return once more to Carloman . \u201d XXXVII . And having said thus much , he went his way ; And Alabaster he found out below , Doing the very best that in him lay To root from out a bank a rock or two . Orlando , when he reached him , loud \u2018 gan say , \u201c How think'st thou , glutton , such a stone to throw ? \u201d When Alabaster heard his deep voice ring , He suddenly betook him to his sling , XXXVIII . And hurled a fragment of a size so large That if it had in fact fulfilled its mission , And Roland not availed him of his targe , There would have been no need of a physicianOrlando set himself in turn to charge , And in his bulky bosom made incision With all his sword . The lout fell ; but o'erthrown , he However by no means forgot Macone . XXXIX . Morgante had a palace in his mode , Composed of branches , logs of wood , and earth , And stretched himself at ease in this abode , And shut himself at night within his berth . Orlando knocked , and knocked again , to goad The giant from his sleep ; and he came forth , The door to open , like a crazy thing , For a rough dream had shook him slumbering . XL . He thought that a fierce serpent had attacked him , And Mahomet he called ; but Mahomet Is nothing worth , and , not an instant backed him ; But praying blessed Jesu , he was set At liberty from all the fears which racked him ; And to the gate he came with great regret \u2014 \u201c Who knocks here ? \u201d grumbling all the while , said he . \u201c That , \u201d said Orlando , \u201c you will quickly see : XLI . \u201c I come to preach to you , as to your brothers ,\u2014 Sent by the miserable monks \u2014 repentance ; For Providence divine , in you and others , Condemns the evil done , my new acquaintance ! \u2018 Tis writ on high \u2014 your wrong must pay another 's : From Heaven itself is issued out this sentence . Know then , that colder now than a pilaster I left your Passamont and Alabaster . \u201d XLII . Morgante said , \u201c Oh gentle Cavalier ! Now by thy God say me no villany ; The favour of your name I fain would hear , And if a Christian , speak for courtesy . \u201d Replied Orlando , \u201c So much to your ear I by my faith disclose contentedly ; Christ I adore , who is the genuine Lord , And , if you please , by you may be adored . \u201d XLIII . The Saracen rejoined in humble tone , \u201c I have had an extraordinary vision ; A savage serpent fell on me alone , And Macon would not pity my condition ; Hence to thy God , who for ye did atone Upon the cross , preferred I my petition ; His timely succour set me safe and free , And I a Christian am disposed to be . \u201d XLIV . Orlando answered , \u201c Baron just and pious , If this good wish your heart can really move To the true God , who will not then deny us Eternal honour , you will go above , And , if you please , as friends we will ally us , And I will love you with a perfect love . Your idols are vain liars , full of fraud : The only true God is the Christian 's God . XLV . \u201c The Lord descended to the virgin breast Of Mary Mother , sinless and divine ; If you acknowledge the Redeemer blest , Without whom neither sun nor star can shine , Abjure bad Macon 's false and felon test , Your renegado god , and worship mine , Baptize yourself with zeal , since you repent . \u201d To which Morgante answered , \u201c I 'm content . \u201d XLVI . And then Orlando to embrace him flew , And made much of his convert , as he cried , \u201c To the abbey I will gladly marshal you . \u201d To whom Morgante , \u201c Let us go , \u201d replied : \u201c I to the friars have for peace to sue . \u201d Which thing Orlando heard with inward pride , Saying , \u201c My brother , so devout and good , Ask the Abbot pardon , as I wish you would : XLVII . \u201c Since God has granted your illumination , Accepting you in mercy for his own , Humility should be your first oblation . \u201d Morgante said , \u201c For goodness \u2019 sake , make known ,\u2014 Since that your God is to be mine \u2014 your station , And let your name in verity be shown ; Then will I everything at your command do . \u201d On which the other said , he was Orlando . XLVIII . \u201c Then , \u201d quoth the Giant , \u201c blessed be Jesu A thousand times with gratitude and praise ! Oft , perfect Baron ! have I heard of you Through all the different periods of my days : And , as I said , to be your vassal too I wish , for your great gallantry always . \u201d Thus reasoning , they continued much to say , And onwards to the abbey went their way . XLIX . And by the way about the giants dead Orlando with Morgante reasoned : \u201c Be , For their decease , I pray you , comforted , And , since it is God 's pleasure , pardon me ; A thousand wrongs unto the monks they bred ; And our true Scripture soundeth openly , Good is rewarded , and chastised the ill , Which the Lord never faileth to fulfil : L . \u201c Because His love of justice unto all Is such , He wills His judgment should devour All who have sin , however great or small ; But good He well remembers to restore . Nor without justice holy could we call Him , whom I now require you to adore . All men must make His will their wishes sway , And quickly and spontaneously obey . LI . \u201c And here our doctors are of one accord , Coming on this point to the same conclusion ,\u2014 That in their thoughts , who praise in Heaven the Lord , If Pity e'er was guilty of intrusion For their unfortunate relations stored In Hell below , and damned in great confusion , Their happiness would be reduced to nought ,\u2014 And thus unjust the Almighty 's self be thought . LII . \u201c But they in Christ have firmest hope , and all Which seems to Him , to them too must appear Well done ; nor could it otherwise befall ; He never can in any purpose err . If sire or mother suffer endless thrall , They do n't disturb themselves for him or her : What pleases God to them must joy inspire ;\u2014 Such is the observance of the eternal choir . \u201d LIII . \u201c A word unto the wise , \u201d Morgante said , \u201c Is wont to be enough , and you shall see How much I grieve about my brethren dead ; And if the will of God seem good to me , Just , as you tell me , \u2018 tis in Heaven obeyed \u2014 Ashes to ashes ,\u2014 merry let us be ! I will cut off the hands from both their trunks , And carry them unto the holy monks . LIV . \u201c So that all persons may be sure and certain That they are dead , and have no further fear To wander solitary this desert in , And that they may perceive my spirit clear By the Lord 's grace , who hath withdrawn the curtain Of darkness , making His bright realm appear . \u201d He cut his brethren 's hands off at these words , And left them to the savage beasts and birds . LV . Then to the abbey they went on together , Where waited them the Abbot in great doubt . The monks , who knew not yet the fact , ran thither To their superior , all in breathless rout , Saying with tremor , \u201c Please to tell us whether You wish to have this person in or out ? \u201d The Abbot , looking through upon the Giant , Too greatly feared , at first , to be compliant . LVI . Orlando seeing him thus agitated , Said quickly , \u201c Abbot , be thou of good cheer ; He Christ believes , as Christian must be rated , And hath renounced his Macon false ; \u201d which here Morgante with the hands corroborated , A proof of both the giants \u2019 fate quite clear : Thence , with due thanks , the Abbot God adored , Saying , \u201c Thou hast contented me , O Lord ! \u201d LVII . He gazed ; Morgante 's height he calculated , And more than once contemplated his size ; And then he said , \u201c O Giant celebrated ! Know , that no more my wonder will arise , How you could tear and fling the trees you late did , When I behold your form with my own eyes . You now a true and perfect friend will show Yourself to Christ , as once you were a foe . LVIII . \u201c And one of our apostles , Saul once named , Long persecuted sore the faith of Christ , Till , one day , by the Spirit being inflamed , \u2018 Why dost thou persecute me thus ? \u2019 said Christ ; And then from his offence he was reclaimed , And went for ever after preaching Christ , And of the faith became a trump , whose sounding O'er the whole earth is echoing and rebounding . LIX . \u201c So , my Morgante , you may do likewise : He who repents \u2014 thus writes the Evangelist \u2014 Occasions more rejoicing in the skies Than ninety-nine of the celestial list . You may be sure , should each desire arise With just zeal for the Lord , that you 'll exist Among the happy saints for evermore ; But you were lost and damned to Hell before ! \u201d LX . And thus great honour to Morgante paid The Abbot : many days they did repose . One day , as with Orlando they both strayed , And sauntered here and there , where'er they chose , The Abbot showed a chamber , where arrayed Much armour was , and hung up certain bows ; And one of these Morgante for a whim Girt on , though useless , he believed , to him . LXI . There being a want of water in the place , Orlando , like a worthy brother , said , \u201c Morgante , I could wish you in this case To go for water . \u201d \u201c You shall be obeyed In all commands , \u201d was the reply , \u201c straight ways . \u201d Upon his shoulder a great tub he laid , And went out on his way unto a fountain , Where he was wont to drink , below the mountain . LXII . Arrived there , a prodigious noise he hears , Which suddenly along the forest spread ; Whereat from out his quiver he prepares An arrow for his bow , and lifts his head ; And lo ! a monstrous herd of swine appears , And onward rushes with tempestuous tread , And to the fountain 's brink precisely pours ; So that the Giant 's joined by all the boars . LXIII . Morgante at a venture shot an arrow , Which pierced a pig precisely in the ear , And passed unto the other side quite through ; So that the boar , defunct , lay tripped up near . Another , to revenge his fellow farrow , Against the Giant rushed in fierce career , And reached the passage with so swift a foot , Morgante was not now in time to shoot . LXIV . Perceiving that the pig was on him close , He gave him such a punch upon the head, As floored him so that he no more arose , Smashing the very bone ; and he fell dead Next to the other . Having seen such blows , The other pigs along the valley fled ; Morgante on his neck the bucket took , Full from the spring , which neither swerved nor shook . LXV . The tub was on one shoulder , and there were The hogs on t'other , and he brushed apace On to the abbey , though by no means near , Nor spilt one drop of water in his race . Orlando , seeing him so soon appear With the dead boars , and with that brimful vase , Marvelled to see his strength so very great ; So did the Abbot , and set wide the gate . LXVI . The monks , who saw the water fresh and good, Rejoiced , but much more to perceive the pork ; All animals are glad at sight of food : They lay their breviaries to sleep , and work With greedy pleasure , and in such a mood , That the flesh needs no salt beneath their fork . Of rankness and of rot there is no fear , For all the fasts are now left in arrear . LXVII . As though they wished to burst at once , they ate ; And gorged so that , as if the bones had been In water , sorely grieved the dog and cat , Perceiving that they all were picked too clean . The Abbot , who to all did honour great , A few days after this convivial scene , Gave to Morgante a fine horse , well trained , Which he long time had for himself maintained . LXVIII . The horse Morgante to a meadow led , To gallop , and to put him to the proof , Thinking that he a back of iron had , Or to skim eggs unbroke was light enough ; But the horse , sinking with the pain , fell dead , And burst , while cold on earth lay head and hoof . Morgante said , \u201c Get up , thou sulky cur ! \u201d And still continued pricking with the spur . LXIX . But finally he thought fit to dismount , And said , \u201c I am as light as any feather , And he has burst ;\u2014 to this what say you , Count ? \u201d Orlando answered , \u201c Like a ship 's mast rather You seem to me , and with the truck for front : Let him go ! Fortune wills that we together Should march , but you on foot Morgante still . \u201d To which the Giant answered , \u201d So I will . LXX . \u201c When there shall be occasion , you will see How I approve my courage in the fight . \u201d Orlando said , \u201c I really think you 'll be , If it should prove God 's will , a goodly knight ; Nor will you napping there discover me . But never mind your horse , though out of sight \u2018 Twere best to carry him into some wood , If but the means or way I understood . \u201d LXXI . The Giant said , \u201c Then carry him I will , Since that to carry me he was so slack \u2014 To render , as the gods do , good for ill ; But lend a hand to place him on my back . \u201d Orlando answered , \u201c If my counsel still May weigh , Morgante , do not undertake To lift or carry this dead courser , who , As you have done to him , will do to you . LXXII . \u201c Take care he do n't revenge himself , though dead , As Nessus did of old beyond all cure . I do n't know if the fact you 've heard or read ; But he will make you burst , you may be sure . \u201d \u201c But help him on my back , \u201d Morgante said , \u201c And you shall see what weight I can endure . In place , my gentle Roland , of this palfrey , With all the bells , I 'd carry yonder belfry . \u201d LXXIII . The Abbot said , \u201c The steeple may do well , But for the bells , you 've broken them , I wot . \u201d Morgante answered , \u201c Let them pay in Hell The penalty who lie dead in yon grot ; \u201d And hoisting up the horse from where he fell , He said , \u201c Now look if I the gout have got , Orlando , in the legs ,\u2014 or if I have force ; \u201d \u2014 And then he made two gambols with the horse . LXXIV . Morgante was like any mountain framed ; So if he did this \u2018 tis no prodigy ; But secretly himself Orlando blamed , Because he was one of his family ; And fearing that he might be hurt or maimed , Once more he bade him lay his burden by : \u201c Put down , nor bear him further the desert in . \u201d Morgante said , \u201c I 'll carry him for certain . \u201d LXXV . He did ; and stowed him in some nook away , And to the abbey then returned with speed . Orlando said , \u201c Why longer do we stay ? Morgante , here is nought to do indeed . \u201d The Abbot by the hand he took one day , And said , with great respect , he had agreed To leave his reverence ; but for this decision He wished to have his pardon and permission . LXXVI . The honours they continued to receive Perhaps exceeded what his merits claimed : He said , \u201c I mean , and quickly , to retrieve The lost days of time past , which may be blamed ; Some days ago I should have asked your leave , Kind father , but I really was ashamed , And know not how to show my sentiment , So much I see you with our stay content . LXXVII . \u201c But in my heart I bear through every clime The Abbot , abbey , and this solitude \u2014 So much I love you in so short a time ; For me , from Heaven reward you with all good The God so true , the eternal Lord sublime ! Whose kingdom at the last hath open stood . Meantime we stand expectant of your blessing . And recommend us to your prayers with pressing . \u201d LXXVIII . Now when the Abbot Count Orlando heard , His heart grew soft with inner tenderness , Such fervour in his bosom bred each word ; And , \u201c Cavalier , \u201d he said , \u201c if I have less Courteous and kind to your great worth appeared , Than fits me for such gentle blood to express , I know I have done too little in this case ; But blame our ignorance , and this poor place . LXXIX . \u201c We can indeed but honour you with masses , And sermons , thanksgivings , and pater-nosters , Hot suppers , dinners; But such a love for you my heart embraces , For thousand virtues which your bosom fosters , That wheresoe'er you go I too shall be , And , on the other part , you rest with me . LXXX . \u201c This may involve a seeming contradiction ; But you I know are sage , and feel , and taste , And understand my speech with full conviction . For your just pious deeds may you be graced With the Lord 's great reward and benediction , By whom you were directed to this waste : To His high mercy is our freedom due , For which we render thanks to Him and you . LXXXI . \u201c You saved at once our life and soul : such fear The Giants caused us , that the way was lost By which we could pursue a fit career In search of Jesus and the saintly Host ; And your departure breeds such sorrow here , That comfortless we all are to our cost ; But months and years you would not stay in sloth , Nor are you formed to wear our sober cloth , LXXXII . \u201c But to bear arms , and wield the lance ; indeed , With these as much is done as with this cowl ; In proof of which the Scripture you may read , This Giant up to Heaven may bear his soul By your compassion : now in peace proceed . Your state and name I seek not to unroll ; But , if I 'm asked , this answer shall be given , That here an angel was sent down from Heaven . LXXXIII . \u201c If you want armour or aught else , go in , Look o'er the wardrobe , and take what you choose , And cover with it o'er this Giant 's skin . \u201d Orlando answered , \u201c If there should lie loose Some armour , ere our journey we begin , Which might be turned to my companion 's use , The gift would be acceptable to me . \u201d The Abbot said to him , \u201c Come in and see . \u201d LXXXIV . And in a certain closet , where the wall Was covered with old armour like a crust , The Abbot said to them , \u201c I give you all . \u201d Morgante rummaged piecemeal from the dust The whole , which , save one cuirass, was too small , And that too had the mail inlaid with rust . They wondered how it fitted him exactly , Which ne'er had suited others so compactly . LXXXV . \u2018 Twas an immeasurable Giant 's , who By the great Milo of Agrante fell Before the abbey many years ago . The story on the wall was figured well ; In the last moment of the abbey 's foe , Who long had waged a war implacable : Precisely as the war occurred they drew him , And there was Milo as he overthrew him . LXXXVI . Seeing this history , Count Orlando said In his own heart , \u201c O God who in the sky Know'st all things ! how was Milo hither led ? Who caused the Giant in this place to die ? \u201d And certain letters , weeping , then he read , So that he could not keep his visage dry ,\u2014 As I will tell in the ensuing story : From evil keep you the high King of Glory !\u201c Com \u2019 egli ebbe un Ormanno e \u2018 l suo Turpino . \u201d The allusion to \u201c Ormanno , \u201d who has been identified with a mythical chronicler , \u201c Urmano from Paris \u201d, and the appeal to the authority of Leonardo Aretino , must not be taken au pied de la lettre . At the same time , the opinion attributed to Leonardo is in accordance with contemporary sentiment and phraseology . Compare \u201c Horum res gestas si qui auctores digni celebrassent , quam magn\u00e6 , quam admirabiles , quam veteribus illis similes viderentur . \u201d \u2014 B. Accolti AretiniDialogus de Pr\u00e6stanti\u00e2 Virorum sui \u00c6vi . P. Villani , Liber de Florenti\u00e6 Famosis Civibus , 1847 , p. 112 . From information kindly supplied by Professor V. Rossi , of the University of Pavia . ] FOOTNOTES :{ 283 }published his Orlando Innamorato in 1486 ; Lodovico Ariostopublished the Orlando Furioso in 1516 . A first edition of Cantos I. - XXV . of Luigi Pulci 'sIl Morgante Maggiore was printed surreptitiously by Luca Veneziano in 1481 . Francesco Berni , who recast the Orlando Innamorato , was born circ . 1490 , and died in 1536 . ], the father of Charles Merivale , the historian, and of Herman , Under-Secretary for India , published his Orlando in Roncesvalles in 1814 . ]{ 284 }{ 285 }, and afterwards , no doubt , with the Hunts , that his translation of the Morgante Maggiore should be \u201c put by the original , stanza for stanza , and verse for verse . \u201d In the present issue a few stanzas are inserted for purposes of comparison , but it has not been thought necessary to reprint the whole of the Canto . \u201c IL MORGANTE MAGGIORE . ARGOMENTO . \u201c Vivendo Carlo Magno Imperadore Co \u2019 Paladini in festa e in allegria , Orlando contra Gano traditore S'adira , e parte verso Pagania : Giunge a un deserto , e del bestial furore Di tre giganti salva una badia , Che due n'uccide , e con Morgante elegge , Di buon sozio e d'amico usar la legge . \u201d CANTO PRIMO . I . \u201c In principio era il Verbo appresso a Dio ; Ed era Iddio il Verbo , e \u2018 l Verbo lui : Quest \u2019 era nel principio , al parer mio ; E nulla si pu\u00f2 far sanza costui : Per\u00f2 , giusto Signor benigno e pio , Mandami solo un de gli angeli tui , Che m'accompagni , e rechimi a memoria Una famosa antica e degna storia . II . \u201c E tu , Vergine , figlia , e madre , e sposa , Di quel Signor , che ti dette le chiave Del cielo e dell \u2019 abisso , e d \u2019 ogni cosa , Quel di che Gabriel tuo ti disse Ave ! Perch\u00e8 tu se \u2019 de \u2019 tuo \u2019 servi pietosa , Con dolce rime , e stil grato e soave , Ajuta i versi miei benignamente , E'nsino al fine allumina la mente . III . \u201c Era nel tempo , quando Filomena Colla sorella si lamenta e plora , Che si ricorda di sua antica pena , E pe \u2019 boschetti le ninfe innamora , E Febo il carro temperato mena , Che \u2018 l suo Fetonte l'ammaestra ancora ; Ed appariva appunto all \u2019 orizzonte , Tal che Titon si graffiava la fronte : IV . \u201c Quand'io varai la mia barchetta , prima Per ubbidir chi sempre ubbidir debbe La mente , e faticarsi in prosa e in rima , E del mio Carlo Imperador m'increbbe ; Che so quanti la penna ha posto in cima , Che tutti la sua gloria prevarrebbe : E stata quella istoria , a quel ch'i \u2019 veggio , Di Carlo male intesa , e scritta peggio . \u201d ]{ 287 }) , which is saidto have been issued \u201c under the correction of the author , line 2 of this stanza runs thus : \u201c comegliebbe u armano el suo turpino ; \u201d and , apparently , it was not till 1518that Pipino was substituted for Turpino . Leonardo Bruni , surnamed Aretino, in his Istoria Fiorentina, commemorates the imperial magnificence of Carlo Magno , and speaks of his benefactions to the Church , but does not \u2014 in that work , at any rate \u2014 mention his biographers . It is possible that if Pulci or Bruni had read Eginhard , they thought that his chronicle was derogatory to Charlemagne .]{ 288 }, see Monumenti Storici ed . Artistici degli Abruzzi , by V. Bindi , Naples , 1889 , Part I ., pp . 655 , sq . The abbey is in a ruinous condition , but on the walls of \u201c un ampio porticato , \u201d there is still to be seen a fresco of Charlemagne , holding in his hands the deed of gift of the Abbey lands . ]; and , hence , a favourite burial-ground of Jews and Moslems . ]{ 289 }Del Paradiso , Canto XVIII . lines 43-45 . ]{ 296 } \u201c O Macon ! break in twain the steel\u00e9d lance . \u201d Fairfax 's Tasso , Gerusalemme Liberata , book ix . stanza xxx . line i . ]\u201c And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more . \u201d Bret Harte 's Poems , The Society upon the Stanislaus , line 26 . ]{ 303 } \u201c Gli dette in su la testa un gran punzone . \u201d It is strange that Pulci should have literally anticipated the technical terms of my old friend and master , Jackson , and the art which he has carried to its highest pitch . \u201c A punch on the head \u201d or \u201c a punch in the head \u201d \u2014 \u201c un punzone in su la testa , \u201d \u2014 is the exact and frequent phrase of our best pugilists , who little dream that they are talking the purest Tuscan .{ 304 }{ 308 }Sbergo or usbergo , as Moore points out, \u201c is obviously the same as hauberk , habergeon , etc ., all from the German halsberg , or covering for the neck . \u201d An old dictionary which Byron might have consulted , Vocabolario Italiano-Latino , Venice , 1794 , gives thorax , lorica , as the Latin equivalent of \u201c Usbergo = armadura del busto , corazza . \u201dof Alberti di Villanuova , Letters , 1900 , iv . 417 , note 2 . )] FRANCESCA OF RIMINI . INTRODUCTION TO FRANCESCA OF RIMINI .", "of the Prophecy of Dante , together with the Preface , was forwarded to Murray , March 14 , 1820 ; but in spite of some impatience on the part of the author, and , after the lapse of some months , a pretty broad hintthat \u201c the time for the Dante would be good now ... as Italy is on the eve of great things , \u201d publication was deferred till the following year . Marino Faliero , Doge of Venice , and the Prophecy of Dante were published in the same volume , April 21 , 1821 . The Prophecy of Dante was briefly but favourably noticed by Jeffrey in his review of Marino Faliero\u201c It is a very grand , fervid , turbulent , and somewhat mystical composition , full of the highest sentiment and the highest poetry ; ... but disfigured by many faults of precipitation , and overclouded with many obscurities . Its great fault with common readers will be that it is not sufficiently intelligible .... It is , however , beyond all question , a work of a man of great genius . \u201d Other notices of Marino Faliero and the Prophecy of Dante appeared in Blackwood 's Edinburgh Magazine , April , 1821 , vol . 9 , pp . 93-103 ; in the Monthly Review , May , 1821 , Enlarged Series , vol . 95 , pp . 41-50 ; and in the Eclectic Review , June 21 , New Series , vol . xv . pp . 518-527 . DEDICATION . Lady ! if for the cold and cloudy clime Where I was born , but where I would not die , Of the great Poet-Sire of Italy I dare to buildthe imitative rhyme , Harsh Runiccopy of the South 's sublime , Thou art the cause ; and howsoever I Fall short of his immortal harmony , Thy gentle heart will pardon me the crime . Thou , in the pride of Beauty and of Youth , Spakest ; and for thee to speak and be obeyed Are one ; but only in the sunny South Such sounds are uttered , and such charms displayed , So sweet a language from so fair a mouth \u2014Ah ! to what effort would it not persuade ? Ravenna , June 21 , 1819 . PREFACE In the course of a visit to the city of Ravenna in the summer of 1819 , it was suggested to the author that having composed something on the subject of Tasso 's confinement , he should do the same on Dante 's exile ,\u2014 the tomb of the poet forming one of the principal objectsof interest in that city , both to the native and to the stranger . \u201c On this hint I spake , \u201d and the result has been the following four cantos , in terza rima , now offered to the reader . If they are understood and approved , it is my purpose to continue the poem in various other cantos to its natural conclusion in the present age . The reader is requested to suppose that Dante addresses him in the interval between the conclusion of the Divina Commedia and his death , and shortly before the latter event , foretelling the fortunes of Italy in general in the ensuing centuries . In adopting this plan I have had in my mind the Cassandra of Lycophron ,and the Prophecy of Nereus by Horace , as well as the Prophecies of Holy Writ . The measure adopted is the terza rima of Dante , which I am not aware to have seen hitherto tried in our language , except it may be by Mr. Hayley ,of whose translation I never saw but one extract , quoted in the notes to Caliph Vathek ; so that \u2014 if I do not err \u2014 this poem may be considered as a metrical experiment . The cantos are short , and about the same length of those of the poet , whose name I have borrowed and most likely taken in vain . Amongst the inconveniences of authors in the present day , it is difficult for any who have a name , good or bad , to escape translation . I have had the fortune to see the fourth canto of Childe Haroldtranslated into Italian versi sciolti ,\u2014 that is , a poem written in the Spenserean stanza into blank verse , without regard to the natural divisions of the stanza or the sense . If the present poem , being on a national topic , should chance to undergo the same fate , I would request the Italian reader to remember that when I have failed in the imitation of his great \u201c Padre Alighier , \u201dI have failed in imitating that which all study and few understand , since to this very day it is not yet settled what was the meaning of the allegoryin the first canto of the Inferno , unless Count Marchetti 's ingenious and probable conjecture may be considered as having decided the question . He may also pardon my failure the more , as I am not quite sure that he would be pleased with my success , since the Italians , with a pardonable nationality , are particularly jealous of all that is left them as a nation \u2014 their literature ; and in the present bitterness of the classic and romantic war , are but ill disposed to permit a foreigner even to approve or imitate them , without finding some fault with his ultramontane presumption . I can easily enter into all this , knowing what would be thought in England of an Italian imitator of Milton , or if a translation of Monti , Pindemonte , or Arici ,should be held up to the rising generation as a model for their future poetical essays . But I perceive that I am deviating into an address to the Italian reader , where my business is with the English one ; and be they few or many , I must take my leave of both . THE PROPHECY OF DANTE . CANTO THE FIRST . Once more in Man 's frail world ! which I had left So long that \u2018 twas forgotten ; and I feel The weight of clay again ,\u2014 too soon bereft Of the Immortal Vision which could heal My earthly sorrows , and to God 's own skies Lift me from that deep Gulf without repeal , Where late my ears rung with the damned cries Of Souls in hopeless bale ; and from that place Of lesser torment , whence men may arise Pure from the fire to join the Angelic race ; 10 Midst whom my own bright Beatric\u0113blessed My spirit with her light ; and to the base Of the Eternal Triad ! first , last , best ,Mysterious , three , sole , infinite , great God ! Soul universal ! led the mortal guest , Unblasted by the Glory , though he trod From star to star to reach the almighty throne .Oh Beatrice ! whose sweet limbs the sod So long hath pressed , and the cold marble stone , Thou sole pure Seraph of my earliest love , 20 Love so ineffable , and so alone , That nought on earth could more my bosom move , And meeting thee in Heaven was but to meet That without which my Soul , like the arkless dove , Had wandered still in search of , nor her feet Relieved her wing till found ; without thy light My Paradise had still been incomplete .Since my tenth sun gave summer to my sight Thou wert my Life , the Essence of my thought , Loved ere I knew the name of Love ,and bright 30 Still in these dim old eyes , now overwrought With the World 's war , and years , and banishment , And tears for thee , by other woes untaught ; For mine is not a nature to be bent By tyrannous faction , and the brawling crowd , And though the long , long conflict hath been spent In vain ,\u2014 and never more , save when the cloud Which overhangs the Apennine my mind 's eye Pierces to fancy Florence , once so proud Of me , can I return , though but to die , 40 Unto my native soil ,\u2014 they have not yet Quenched the old exile 's spirit , stern and high . But the Sun , though not overcast , must set And the night cometh ; I am old in days , And deeds , and contemplation , and have met Destruction face to face in all his ways . The World hath left me , what it found me , pure , And if I have not gathered yet its praise , I sought it not by any baser lure ; Man wrongs , and Time avenges , and my name 50 May form a monument not all obscure , Though such was not my Ambition 's end or aim , To add to the vain-glorious list of those Who dabble in the pettiness of fame , And make men 's fickle breath the wind that blows Their sail , and deem it glory to be classed With conquerors , and Virtue 's other foes , In bloody chronicles of ages past . I would have had my Florence great and free ;Oh Florence ! Florence !unto me thou wast 60 Like that Jerusalem which the Almighty He Wept over , \u201c but thou wouldst not ; \u201d as the bird Gathers its young , I would have gathered thee Beneath a parent pinion , hadst thou heard My voice ; but as the adder , deaf and fierce , Against the breast that cherished thee was stirred Thy venom , and my state thou didst amerce , And doom this body forfeit to the fire .Alas ! how bitter is his country 's curse To him who for that country would expire , 70 But did not merit to expire by her , And loves her , loves her even in her ire . The day may come when she will cease to err , The day may come she would be proud to have The dust she dooms to scatter , and transferOf him , whom she denied a home , the grave . But this shall not be granted ; let my dust Lie where it falls ; nor shall the soil which gave Me breath , but in her sudden fury thrust Me forth to breathe elsewhere , so reassume 80 My indignant bones , because her angry gust Forsooth is over , and repealed her doom ; No ,\u2014 she denied me what was mine \u2014 my roof , And shall not have what is not hers \u2014 my tomb . Too long her arm\u00e9d wrath hath kept aloof The breast which would have bled for her , the heart That beat , the mind that was temptation proof , The man who fought , toiled , travelled , and each part Of a true citizen fulfilled , and saw For his reward the Guelf 's ascendant art 90 Pass his destruction even into a law . These things are not made for forgetfulness , Florence shall be forgotten first ; too raw The wound , too deep the wrong , and the distress Of such endurance too prolonged to make My pardon greater , her injustice less , Though late repented ; yet \u2014 yet for her sake I feel some fonder yearnings , and for thine , My own Beatric\u0113 , I would hardly take Vengeance upon the land which once was mine , 100 And still is hallowed by thy dust 's return , Which would protect the murderess like a shrine , And save ten thousand foes by thy sole urn . Though , like old Marius from Minturn\u00e6 's marsh And Carthage ruins , my lone breast may burn At times with evil feelings hot and harsh ,And sometimes the last pangs of a vile foe Writhe in a dream before me , and o'erarch My brow with hopes of triumph ,\u2014 let them go ! Such are the last infirmities of those 110 Who long have suffered more than mortal woe , And yet being mortal still , have no repose But on the pillow of Revenge \u2014 Revenge , Who sleeps to dream of blood , and waking glows With the oft-baffled , slakeless thirst of change , When we shall mount again , and they that trod Be trampled on , while Death and At\u00e9 range O'er humbled heads and severed necks \u2014\u2014 Great God ! Take these thoughts from me \u2014 to thy hands I yield My many wrongs , and thine Almighty rod 120 Will fall on those who smote me ,\u2014 be my Shield ! As thou hast been in peril , and in pain , In turbulent cities , and the tented field \u2014 In toil , and many troubles borne in vain For Florence ,\u2014 I appeal from her to Thee ! Thee , whom I late saw in thy loftiest reign , Even in that glorious Vision , which to see And live was never granted until now , And yet thou hast permitted this to me . Alas ! with what a weight upon my brow 130 The sense of earth and earthly things come back , Corrosive passions , feelings dull and low , The heart 's quick throb upon the mental rack , Long day , and dreary night ; the retrospect Of half a century bloody and black , And the frail few years I may yet expect Hoary and hopeless , but less hard to bear , For I have been too long and deeply wrecked On the lone rock of desolate Despair , To lift my eyes more to the passing sail 140 Which shuns that reef so horrible and bare ; Nor raise my voice \u2014 for who would heed my wail ? I am not of this people , nor this age , And yet my harpings will unfold a tale Which shall preserve these times when not a page Of their perturb\u00e9d annals could attract An eye to gaze upon their civil rage ,Did not my verse embalm full many an act Worthless as they who wrought it : \u2018 tis the doom Of spirits of my order to be racked 150 In life , to wear their hearts out , and consume Their days in endless strife , and die alone ; Then future thousands crowd around their tomb , And pilgrims come from climes where they have known The name of him \u2014 who now is but a name , And wasting homage o'er the sullen stone , Spread his \u2014 by him unheard , unheeded \u2014 fame ; And mine at least hath cost me dear : to die Is nothing ; but to wither thus \u2014 to tame My mind down from its own infinity \u2014 160 To live in narrow ways with little men , A common sight to every common eye , A wanderer , while even wolves can find a den , Ripped from all kindred , from all home , all things That make communion sweet , and soften pain \u2014 To feel me in the solitude of kings Without the power that makes them bear a crown \u2014 To envy every dove his nest and wings Which waft him where the Apennine looks down On Arno , till he perches , it may be , 170 Within my all inexorable town , Where yet my boys are , and that fatal She ,Their mother , the cold partner who hath brought Destruction for a dowry \u2014 this to see And feel , and know without repair , hath taught A bitter lesson ; but it leaves me free : I have not vilely found , nor basely sought , They made an Exile \u2014 not a Slave of me . CANTO THE SECOND . The Spirit of the fervent days of Old , When words were things that came to pass , and Thought Flashed o'er the future , bidding men behold Their children 's children 's doom already brought Forth from the abyss of Time which is to be , The Chaos of events , where lie half-wrought Shapes that must undergo mortality ; What the great Seers of Israel wore within , That Spirit was on them , and is on me , And if , Cassandra-like , amidst the din 10 Of conflict none will hear , or hearing heed This voice from out the Wilderness , the sin Be theirs , and my own feelings be my meed , The only guerdon I have ever known . Hast thou not bled ? and hast thou still to bleed , Italia ? Ah ! to me such things , foreshown With dim sepulchral light , bid me forget In thine irreparable wrongs my own ; We can have but one Country , and even yet Thou'rt mine \u2014 my bones shall be within thy breast , 20 My Soul within thy language , which once set With our old Roman sway in the wide West ; But I will make another tongue arise As lofty and more sweet , in which expressed The hero 's ardour , or the lover 's sighs , Shall find alike such sounds for every theme That every word , as brilliant as thy skies , Shall realise a Poet 's proudest dream , And make thee Europe 's Nightingale of Song ;So that all present speech to thine shall seem 30 The note of meaner birds , and every tongue Confess its barbarism when compared with thine .This shalt thou owe to him thou didst so wrong , Thy Tuscan bard , the banished Ghibelline . Woe ! woe ! the veil of coming centuries Is rent ,\u2014 a thousand years which yet supine Lie like the ocean waves ere winds arise , Heaving in dark and sullen undulation , Float from Eternity into these eyes ; The storms yet sleep , the clouds still keep their station , 40 The unborn Earthquake yet is in the womb , The bloody Chaos yet expects Creation , But all things are disposing for thy doom ; The Elements await but for the Word , \u201c Let there be darkness ! \u201d and thou grow'st a tomb ! Yes ! thou , so beautiful , shalt feel the sword ,Thou , Italy ! so fair that Paradise , Revived in thee , blooms forth to man restored : Ah ! must the sons of Adam lose it twice ? Thou , Italy ! whose ever golden fields , 50 Ploughed by the sunbeams solely , would suffice For the world 's granary ; thou , whose sky Heaven gildsWith brighter stars , and robes with deeper blue ; Thou , in whose pleasant places Summer builds Her palace , in whose cradle Empire grew , And formed the Eternal City 's ornaments From spoils of Kings whom freemen overthrew ; Birthplace of heroes , sanctuary of Saints , Where earthly first , then heavenly glory madeHer home ; thou , all which fondest Fancy paints , 60 And finds her prior vision but portrayed In feeble colours , when the eye \u2014 from the Alp Of horrid snow , and rock , and shaggy shade Of desert-loving pine , whose emerald scalp Nods to the storm \u2014 dilates and dotes o'er thee , And wistfully implores , as \u2018 twere , for help To see thy sunny fields , my Italy , Nearer and nearer yet , and dearer still The more approached , and dearest were they free , Thou \u2014 Thou must wither to each tyrant 's will : 70 The Goth hath been ,\u2014 the German , Frank , and HunAre yet to come ,\u2014 and on the imperial hill Ruin , already proud of the deeds done By the old barbarians , there awaits the new , Throned on the Palatine , while lost and won Rome at her feet lies bleeding ; and the hue Of human sacrifice and Roman slaughter Troubles the clotted air , of late so blue , And deepens into red the saffron water Of Tiber , thick with dead ; the helpless priest , 80 And still more helpless nor less holy daughter , Vowed to their God , have shrieking fled , and ceased Their ministry : the nations take their prey , Iberian , Almain , Lombard , and the beast And bird , wolf , vulture , more humane than they Are ; these but gorge the flesh , and lap the gore Of the departed , and then go their way ; But those , the human savages , explore All paths of torture , and insatiate yet , With Ugolino hunger prowl for more . 90 Nine moons shall rise o'er scenes like this and set ;The chiefless army of the dead , which late Beneath the traitor Prince 's banner met , Hath left its leader 's ashes at the gate ; Had but the royal Rebel lived , perchance Thou hadst been spared , but his involved thy fate . Oh ! Rome , the Spoiler or the spoil of France , From Brennus to the Bourbon , never , never Shall foreign standard to thy walls advance , But Tiber shall become a mournful river . 100 Oh ! when the strangers pass the Alps and Po , Crush them , ye Rocks ! Floods whelm them , and for ever ! Why sleep the idle Avalanches so , To topple on the lonely pilgrim 's head ? Why doth Eridanus but overflow The peasant 's harvest from his turbid bed ? Were not each barbarous horde a nobler prey ? Over Cambyses \u2019 hostthe desert spread Her sandy ocean , and the Sea-waves \u2019 sway Rolled over Pharaoh and his thousands ,\u2014 why ,110 Mountains and waters , do ye not as they ? And you , ye Men ! Romans , who dare not die , Sons of the conquerors who overthrew Those who overthrew proud Xerxes , where yet lie The dead whose tomb Oblivion never knew , Are the Alps weaker than Thermopyl\u00e6 ? Their passes more alluring to the view Of an invader ? is it they , or ye , That to each host the mountain-gate unbar , And leave the march in peace , the passage free ? 120 Why , Nature 's self detains the Victor 's car , And makes your land impregnable , if earth Could be so ; but alone she will not war , Yet aids the warrior worthy of his birth In a soil where the mothers bring forth men : Not so with those whose souls are little worth ; For them no fortress can avail ,\u2014 the den Of the poor reptile which preserves its sting Is more secure than walls of adamant , when The hearts of those within are quivering . 130 Are ye not brave ? Yes , yet the Ausonian soil Hath hearts , and hands , and arms , and hosts to bring Against Oppression ; but how vain the toil , While still Division sows the seeds of woe And weakness , till the Stranger reaps the spoil .Oh ! my own beauteous land ! so long laid low , So long the grave of thy own children 's hopes , When there is but required a single blow To break the chain , yet \u2014 yet the Avenger stops , And Doubt and Discord step \u2018 twixt thine and thee , 140 And join their strength to that which with thee copes ; What is there wanting then to set thee free , And show thy beauty in its fullest light ? To make the Alps impassable ; and we , Her Sons , may do this with one deed \u2014 Unite . CANTO THE THIRD . From out the mass of never-dying ill ,The Plague , the Prince , the Stranger , and the Sword , Vials of wrath but emptied to refill And flow again , I cannot all record That crowds on my prophetic eye : the Earth And Ocean written o'er would not afford Space for the annal , yet it shall go forth ; Yes , all , though not by human pen , is graven , There where the farthest suns and stars have birth , Spread like a banner at the gate of Heaven , 10 The bloody scroll of our millennial wrongs Waves , and the echo of our groans is driven Athwart the sound of archangelic songs , And Italy , the martyred nation 's gore , Will not in vain arise to where belongsOmnipotence and Mercy evermore : Like to a harpstring stricken by the wind , The sound of her lament shall , rising o'er The Seraph voices , touch the Almighty Mind . Meantime I , humblest of thy sons , and of 20 Earth 's dust by immortality refined To Sense and Suffering , though the vain may scoff , And tyrants threat , and meeker victims bow Before the storm because its breath is rough , To thee , my Country ! whom before , as now , I loved and love , devote the mournful lyre And melancholy gift high Powers allow To read the future : and if now my fire Is not as once it shone o'er thee , forgive ! I but foretell thy fortunes \u2014 then expire ; 30 Think not that I would look on them and live . A Spirit forces me to see and speak , And for my guerdon grants not to survive ; My Heart shall be poured over thee and break : Yet for a moment , ere I must resume Thy sable web of Sorrow , let me take Over the gleams that flash athwart thy gloom A softer glimpse ; some stars shine through thy night , And many meteors , and above thy tomb Leans sculptured Beauty , which Death cannot blight : 40 And from thine ashes boundless Spirits rise To give thee honour , and the earth delight ; Thy soil shall still be pregnant with the wise , The gay , the learned , the generous , and the brave , Native to thee as Summer to thy skies , Conquerors on foreign shores , and the far wave ,Discoverers of new worlds , which take their name ;For thee alone they have no arm to save , And all thy recompense is in their fame , A noble one to them , but not to thee \u2014 50 Shall they be glorious , and thou still the same ? Oh ! more than these illustrious far shall be The Being \u2014 and even yet he may be born \u2014 The mortal Saviour who shall set thee free , And see thy diadem , so changed and worn By fresh barbarians , on thy brow replaced ; And the sweet Sun replenishing thy morn , Thy moral morn , too long with clouds defaced , And noxious vapours from Avernus risen , Such as all they must breathe who are debased 60 By Servitude , and have the mind in prison .Yet through this centuried eclipse of woeSome voices shall be heard , and Earth shall listen ; Poets shall follow in the path I show , And make it broader : the same brilliant sky Which cheers the birds to song shall bid them glow ,And raise their notes as natural and high ; Tuneful shall be their numbers ; they shall sing Many of Love , and some of Liberty , But few shall soar upon that Eagle 's wing , 70 And look in the Sun 's face , with Eagle 's gaze , All free and fearless as the feathered King , But fly more near the earth ; how many a phrase Sublime shall lavished be on some small prince In all the prodigality of Praise ! And language , eloquently false , evinceThe harlotry of Genius , which , like Beauty ,Too oft forgets its own self-reverence , And looks on prostitution as a duty .He who once enters in a Tyrant 's hall80 As guest is slave \u2014 his thoughts become a booty , And the first day which sees the chain enthral A captive , sees his half of Manhood gone\u2014 The Soul 's emasculation saddens all His spirit ; thus the Bard too near the throne Quails from his inspiration , bound to please ,\u2014 How servile is the task to please alone ! To smooth the verse to suit his Sovereign 's ease And royal leisure , nor too much prolong Aught save his eulogy , and find , and seize , 90 Or force , or forge fit argument of Song ! Thus trammelled , thus condemned to Flattery 's trebles , He toils through all , still trembling to be wrong : For fear some noble thoughts , like heavenly rebels , Should rise up in high treason to his brain , He sings , as the Athenian spoke , with pebbles In 's mouth , lest Truth should stammer through his strain . But out of the long file of sonneteers There shall be some who will not sing in vain , And he , their Prince , shall rank among my peers ,And Love shall be his torment ; but his grief Shall make an immortality of tears , And Italy shall hail him as the Chief Of Poet-lovers , and his higher song Of Freedom wreathe him with as green a leaf . But in a farther age shall rise along The banks of Po two greater still than he ; The World which smiled on him shall do them wrong Till they are ashes , and repose with me . The first will make an epoch with his lyre , 110 And fill the earth with feats of Chivalry :His Fancy like a rainbow , and his Fire , Like that of Heaven , immortal , and his Thought Borne onward with a wing that cannot tire ; Pleasure shall , like a butterfly new caught , Flutter her lovely pinions o'er his theme , And Art itself seem into Nature wrought By the transparency of his bright dream .\u2014 The second , of a tenderer , sadder mood , Shall pour his soul out o'er Jerusalem ; 120 He , too , shall sing of Arms , and Christian blood Shed where Christ bled for man ; and his high harp Shall , by the willow over Jordan 's flood , Revive a song of Sion , and the sharp Conflict , and final triumph of the brave And pious , and the strife of Hell to warp Their hearts from their great purpose , until wave The red-cross banners where the first red Cross Was crimsoned from His veins who died to save ,Shall be his sacred argument ; the loss 130 Of years , of favour , freedom , even of fame Contested for a time , while the smooth gloss Of Courts would slide o'er his forgotten name And call Captivity a kindness \u2014 meant To shield him from insanity or shame \u2014 Such shall be his meek guerdon ! who was sent To be Christ 's Laureate \u2014 they reward him well ! Florence dooms me but death or banishment , Ferrara him a pittance and a cell ,Harder to bear and less deserved , for I 140 Had stung the factions which I strove to quell ; But this meek man who with a lover 's eye Will look on Earth and Heaven , and who will deign To embalm with his celestial flattery , As poor a thing as e'er was spawned to reign ,What will he do to merit such a doom ? Perhaps he 'll love ,\u2014 and is not Love in vain Torture enough without a living tomb ? Yet it will be so \u2014 he and his compeer , The Bard of Chivalry , will both consume150 In penury and pain too many a year , And , dying in despondency , bequeath To the kind World , which scarce will yield a tear , A heritage enriching all who breathe With the wealth of a genuine Poet 's soul , And to their country a redoubled wreath , Unmatched by time ; not Hellas can unroll Through her Olympiads two such names , though oneOf hers be mighty ;\u2014 and is this the whole Of such men 's destiny beneath the Sun ?160 Must all the finer thoughts , the thrilling sense , The electric blood with which their arteries run ,Their body 's self turned soul with the intense Feeling of that which is , and fancy of That which should be , to such a recompense Conduct ? shall their bright plumage on the rough Storm be still scattered ? Yes , and it must be ; For , formed of far too penetrable stuff , These birds of Paradisebut long to flee Back to their native mansion , soon they find 170 Earth 's mist with their pure pinions not agree , And die or are degraded ; for the mind Succumbs to long infection , and despair , And vulture Passions flying close behind , Await the moment to assail and tear ;And when , at length , the wing\u00e9d wanderers stoop , Then is the Prey-birds \u2019 triumph , then they share The spoil , o'erpowered at length by one fell swoop . Yet some have been untouched who learned to bear , Some whom no Power could ever force to droop , 180 Who could resist themselves even , hardest care ! And task most hopeless ; but some such have been , And if my name amongst the number were , That Destiny austere , and yet serene , Were prouder than more dazzling fame unblessed ; The Alp 's snow summit nearer heaven is seen Than the Volcano 's fierce eruptive crest , Whose splendour from the black abyss is flung , While the scorched mountain , from whose burning breast A temporary torturing flame is wrung , 190 Shines for a night of terror , then repels Its fire back to the Hell from whence it sprung , The Hell which in its entrails ever dwells . CANTO THE FOURTH . Many are Poets who have never penned Their inspiration , and perchance the best : They felt , and loved , and died , but would not lend Their thoughts to meaner beings ; they compressed The God within them , and rejoined the stars Unlaurelled upon earth , but far more blessed Than those who are degraded by the jars Of Passion , and their frailties linked to fame , Conquerors of high renown , but full of scars . Many are Poets but without the name ; 10 For what is Poesy but to create From overfeeling Good or Ill ; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate , And be the new Prometheus of new men ,Bestowing fire from Heaven , and then , too late , Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain , And vultures to the heart of the bestower , Who , having lavished his high gift in vain , Lies to his lone rock by the sea-shore ? So be it : we can bear .\u2014 But thus all they 20 Whose Intellect is an o'ermastering Power Which still recoils from its encumbering clay Or lightens it to spirit , whatsoe'er The form which their creations may essay , Are bards ; the kindled Marble 's bust may wear More poesy upon its speaking brow Than aught less than the Homeric page may bear ; One noble stroke with a whole life may glow , Or deify the canvass till it shine With beauty so surpassing all below , 30 That they who kneel to Idols so divine Break no commandment , for high Heaven is there Transfused , transfigurated :and the line Of Poesy , which peoples but the air With Thought and Beings of our thought reflected , Can do no more : then let the artist share The palm , he shares the peril , and dejected Faints o'er the labour unapproved \u2014 Alas ! Despair and Genius are too oft connected . Within the ages which before me pass 40 Art shall resume and equal even the sway Which with Apelles and old Phidias She held in Hellas \u2019 unforgotten day . Ye shall be taught by Ruin to revive The Grecian forms at least from their decay , And Roman souls at last again shall live In Roman works wrought by Italian hands , And temples , loftier than the old temples , give New wonders to the World ; and while still stands The austere Pantheon , into heaven shall soar 50 A Dome ,its image , while the base expands Into a fane surpassing all before , Such as all flesh shall flock to kneel in : ne'er Such sight hath been unfolded by a door As this , to which all nations shall repair , And lay their sins at this huge gate of Heaven . And the bold Architectunto whose care The daring charge to raise it shall be given , Whom all Arts shall acknowledge as their Lord , Whether into the marble chaos driven 60 His chisel bid the Hebrew ,at whose word Israel left Egypt , stop the waves in stone ,Or hues of Hell be by his pencil poured Over the damned before the Judgement-throne ,Such as I saw them , such as all shall see , Or fanes be built of grandeur yet unknown \u2014 The Stream of his great thoughts shall spring from meThe Ghibelline , who traversed the three realms Which form the Empire of Eternity . Amidst the clash of swords , and clang of helms , 70 The age which I anticipate , no less Shall be the Age of Beauty , and while whelms Calamity the nations with distress , The Genius of my Country shall arise , A Cedar towering o'er the Wilderness , Lovely in all its branches to all eyes , Fragrant as fair , and recognised afar , Wafting its native incense through the skies . Sovereigns shall pause amidst their sport of war , Weaned for an hour from blood , to turn and gaze 80 On canvass or on stone ; and they who mar All beauty upon earth , compelled to praise , Shall feel the power of that which they destroy ; And Art 's mistaken gratitude shall raise To tyrants , who but take her for a toy , Emblems and monuments , and prostitute Her charms to Pontiffs proud ,who but employ The man of Genius as the meanest brute To bear a burthen , and to serve a need , To sell his labours , and his soul to boot . 90 Who toils for nations may be poor indeed , But free ; who sweats for Monarchs is no more Than the gilt Chamberlain , who , clothed and feed , Stands sleek and slavish , bowing at his door . Oh , Power that rulest and inspirest ! how Is it that they on earth , whose earthly powerIs likest thine in heaven in outward show , Least like to thee in attributes divine , Tread on the universal necks that bow , And then assure us that their rights are thine ? 100 And how is it that they , the Sons of Fame , Whose inspiration seems to them to shine From high , they whom the nations oftest name , Must pass their days in penury or pain , Or step to grandeur through the paths of shame , And wear a deeper brand and gaudier chain ? Or if their Destiny be born aloof From lowliness , or tempted thence in vain , In their own souls sustain a harder proof , The inner war of Passions deep and fierce ? 110 Florence ! when thy harsh sentence razed my roof , I loved thee ; but the vengeance of my verse , The hate of injuries which every year Makes greater , and accumulates my curse , Shall live , outliving all thou holdest dear \u2014 Thy pride , thy wealth , thy freedom , and even that , The most infernal of all evils here , The sway of petty tyrants in a state ; For such sway is not limited to Kings , And Demagogues yield to them but in date , 120 As swept off sooner ; in all deadly things , Which make men hate themselves , and one another , In discord , cowardice , cruelty , all that springs From Death the Sin-born 's incest with his mother ,In rank oppression in its rudest shape , The faction Chief is but the Sultan 's brother , And the worst Despot 's far less human ape . Florence ! when this lone spirit , which so long Yearned , as the captive toiling at escape , To fly back to thee in despite of wrong , 130 An exile , saddest of all prisoners ,Who has the whole world for a dungeon strong , Seas , mountains , and the horizon 'sverge for bars ,Which shut him from the sole small spot of earth Where \u2014 whatsoe'er his fate \u2014 he still were hers , His Country 's , and might die where he had birth \u2014 Florence ! when this lone Spirit shall return To kindred Spirits , thou wilt feel my worth , And seek to honour with an empty urnThe ashes thou shalt ne'er obtain \u2014 Alas ! 140 \u201c What have I done to thee , my People ? \u201dStern Are all thy dealings , but in this they pass The limits of Man 's common malice , for All that a citizen could be I was \u2014 Raised by thy will , all thine in peace or war \u2014 And for this thou hast warred with me .\u2014 \u2018 Tis done : I may not overleap the eternal barBuilt up between us , and will die alone , Beholding with the dark eye of a Seer The evil days to gifted souls foreshown , 150 Foretelling them to those who will not hear ; As in the old time , till the hour be come When Truth shall strike their eyes through many a tear , And make them own the Prophet in his tomb . Ravenna , 1819 . FOOTNOTES :{ 241 } \u201c He knew Himself to sing , and build the lofty rhime . \u201d Milton , Lycidas , line 11 . ]{ 243 } \u201c I pass each day where Dante 's bones are laid : A little cupola more neat than solemn , Protects his dust . \u201d Don Juan , Canto IV . stanza civ . lines 1-3 . ], is \u201c an iambic monologue of 1474 verses , in which Cassandra is made to prophesy the fall of Troy ... with numerous other historical events , ... ending withAlexandra the Great . \u201d Byron had probably read a translation of the Cassandra by Philip Yorke , Viscount Royston, which was issued at Cambridge in 1806 . The Alexandra forms part of the Bibliotheca TeubnerianaFor the prophecy of Nereus , vide Hor ., Odes , lib . i. c . xv . ]{ 244 }, Hayleyprints a translation of the three first cantos of the Inferno , which , he says, was written \u201c a few years ago to oblige a particular friend . \u201d \u201c Of all Hayley 's compositions , \u201d writes Southey, \u201c these specimens are the best ... in thus following his original Hayley was led into a sobriety and manliness of diction which ... approached ... to the manner of a better age . \u201d In a note on the Hall of Eblis , S. Henley quotes with approbation Hayley 's translation of lines 1-9 of this Third Canto of the Inferno . Vathek ... by W. Beckford , 1868 , p . 188 . ], 1819 , 8\u00ba . Leoni also translated the Lament of Tasso]\u201c O gran padre Alighier , se dal ciel miri . \u201d Opere Scelle , di Vittorio Alfieri , 1818 , iii . 487 . ], were no doubt suggested by Jer . v. 6 : \u201c Idcirco percussit eos leo de silva , lupus ad vesperam vastavit eos , pardus vigilans super civitates corum . \u201d Symbolically they have been from the earliest times understood as denoting \u2014 the panther , lust ; the lion , pride ; the wolf , avarice ; the sins affecting youth , maturity , and old age . Later commentators have suggested that there may be an underlying political symbolism as well , and that the three beasts may stand for Florence with her \u201c Black \u201d and \u201c White \u201d parties , the power of France , and the Guelf party as typically representative of these vicesCount Giovanni Marchetti degli Angelini, in his Discorso ... della prima e principale Allegoria del Poema di Dante , contributed to an edition of La Divina Commedia , published at Bologna , 1819-21 , i . 17-44 , and reissued in La Biografia di Dante ... 1822 , v. 397 , sq ., etc ., argues in favour of a double symbolism ., he met Byron at Bologna in 1819 , and made his acquaintance . )]{ 245 }, see letter to Murray , October 15 , 1816; and for Ippolito Pindemonte, see letter to Murray , June 4 , 1817 ,In his Essay on the Present Literature of Italy , Hobhouse supplies critical notices of Pindemonte and Monti , Historical Illustrations , 1818 , pp . 413-449 . Cesare Arici , lawyer and poet , was born at Brescia , July 2 , 1782 . His worksinclude his didactic poems , La coltivazione degli Ulivi, Il Corallo , 1810 , La Pastorizia, 1814 , and a translation of the works of Virgil . He died in 1836 .]{ 247 } The reader is requested to adopt the Italian pronunciation of Beatrice , sounding all the syllables .\u201c Within the deep and luminous subsistence Of the High Light appeared to me three circles , Of threefold colour and of one dimension , And by the second seemed the first reflected As Iris is by Iris , and the third Seemed fire that equally from both is breathed .... O Light Eterne , sole in thyself that dwellest . \u201d Paradiso , xxxiii . 115-120 , 124]{ 248 } Star over star \u2014\u2014.\u2014\u201c Ch\u00e9 sol per le belle opre Che sono in cielo , il sole e l'altre stelle , Dentro da lor si crede il Paradiso : Cos\u00ec se guardi fiso Pensar ben dei , che ogni terren piacere .Canzone , in which Dante describes the person of Beatrice , Strophe third .Impresso in Milano per Augustino da Vimercato ... MCCCCCXVIII ...) . See , too , Il Canzoniere di Dante ... Fraticelli , Firenze , 1873 , pp . 236-240]\u201c In reference to the meaning of the name , \u2018 she who confers blessing , \u2019 we learn from Boccaccio that this first meeting took place at a May Feast , given in the year 1274 , by Folco Portinari , father of Beatrice ... to which feast Dante accompanied his father , Alighiero Alighieri . \u201d \u2014 Note by D. G. Rossetti , ibid ., p . 30 . ]{ 249 } \u201c L'Esilio che m \u2019 \u00e8 dato onor mi tegno Cader tra \u2019 buoni \u00e8 pur di lode degno . \u201d Sonnet of Dantein which he represents Right , Generosity , and Temperance as banished from among men , and seeking refuge from Love , who inhabits his bosom .\u201c On the stone Called Dante 's ,\u2014 a plain flat stone scarce discerned From others in the pavement ,\u2014 whereupon He used to bring his quiet chair out , turned To Brunelleschi 's Church , and pour alone The lava of his spirit when it burned : It is not cold to-day . O passionate Poor Dante , who , a banished Florentine , Didst sit austere at banquets of the great And muse upon this far-off stone of thine , And think how oft some passer used to wait A moment , in the golden day 's decline , With \u2018 Good night , dearest Dante ! \u2019 Well , good night ! \u201d Casa Guidi Windows , by E. B. Browning , Poetical Works , 1866 , iii . 259 . ]{ 250 } \u201c Ut si quis predictorum ullo tempore in fortiam dicti communis pervenerit , talis perveniens igne comburatur , sic quod moriatur . \u201d Second sentence of Florence against Dante , and the fourteen accused with him . The Latin is worthy of the sentence .that he and his associates in exile should be burned , if they fell into the hands of their enemies , was first discovered in 1772 by the Conte Ludovico Savioli . Dante had been previously , January 27 , fined eight thousand lire , and condemned to two years \u2019 banishment . ]The ashes she would scatter \u2014\u2014.\u2014{ 251 }, when Sulla marched to Rome at the head of his army , and Marius was compelled to take flight , he \u201c stripped himself , plunged into the bog, amidst thick water and mud .... They hauled him out naked and covered with dirt , and carried him to Minturn\u00e6 . \u201d Afterwards , when he sailed for Carthage , he had no sooner landed than he was ordered by the governorto quit Africa . On his once more gaining the ascendancy and re-entering Rome, he justified the massacre of Sulla 's adherents in a blood-thirsty oration . Past ignominy and present triumph seem to have turned his head\u2014 Plut ., \u201c Marius , \u201d apud Langhorne , 1838 , p. 304 ; Livii Epit ., lxxx . 28 . ]{ 252 }\u2014\u2014 their civic rage .\u2014{ 253 } This lady , whose name was Gemma , sprung from one of the most powerful Guelph families , named Donati . Corso Donati was the principal adversary of the Ghibellines . She is \u2014 described as being \u201c Admodum morosa , ut de Xantippe Socratis philosophi conjuge scriptum esse legimus , \u201d according to Giannozzo Manetti . But Lionardo Aretino is scandalised with Boccace , in his life of Dante , for saying that literary men should not marry . \u201c Qui il Boccaccio non ha pazienza , e dice , le mogli esser contrarie agli studj ; e non si ricorda che Socrate , il pi\u00f9 nobile filosofo che mai fusse , ebbe moglie e figliuoli e ufici nella Repubblica nella sua Citt\u00e0 ; e Aristotile che , etc ., etc ., ebbe due moglie in varj tempi , ed ebbe figliuoli , e ricchezze assai .\u2014 E Marco Tullio \u2014 e Catone \u2014 e Varrone \u2014 e Seneca \u2014 ebbero moglie , \u201d etc ., etc .It is odd that honest Lionardo 's examples , with the exception of Seneca , and , for anything I know , of Aristotle , are not the most felicitous . Tully 's Terentia , and Socrates \u2019 Xantippe , by no means contributed to their husbands \u2019 happiness , whatever they might do to their philosophy \u2014 Cato gave away his wife \u2014 of Varro 's we know nothing \u2014 and of Seneca 's , only that she was disposed to die with him , but recovered and lived several years afterwards . But says Leonardo , \u201c L'uomo \u00e8 animale civile , secondo piace a tutti i filosofi . \u201d And thence concludes that the greatest proof of the animal 's civism is \u201c la prima congiunzione , dalla quale multiplicata nasce la Citt\u00e0 . \u201d, but there are difficulties in the way of accepting this theory . There is , however , not the slightest reason for believing that the words which he put into the mouth of Jacopo Rusticucci , \u201c La fiera moglie pi\u00f9 ch'altro , mi nuoce \u201d, were winged with any personal reminiscence or animosity . But with Byron) , as with Boccaccio , \u201c the wish was father to the thought , \u201d and both were glad to quote Dante as a victim to matrimony . Seven children were born to Dante and Gemma . Of these \u201c his son Pietro , who wrote a commentary on the Divina Commedia , settled as judge in Verona . His daughter Beatrice lived as a nun in Ravenna \u201d]{ 256 }\u2014\u2014 when matched with thine .\u2014From the world 's harvest \u2014\u2014.\u2014{ 257 } Where earthly Glory first then Heavenly made .\u2014Where Glory first , and then Religion made .\u2014\u201c The Goth , the Christian \u2014 Time \u2014 War \u2014 Flood , and Fire , Have dealt upon the seven-hilled City 's pride . \u201d Childe Harold , Canto IV . stanza lxxx . lines 1 , 2 , Poetical Works , 1899 , ii . 390 , note 2 . ]{ 258 } See \u201c Sacco di Roma , \u201d generally attributed to Guicciardini] . There is another written by a Jacopo Buonaparte .The \u201c traitor Prince \u201d was Charles IV ., Conn\u00e9table de Bourbon , Comte de Montpensier , born 1490 , who was killed at the capture of Rome , May 6 , 1527 . \u201c His death , far from restraining the ardour of the assailants, increased it ; and with the loss of about 1000 men , they entered and sacked the city .... The disorders committed by the soldiers were dreadful , and the booty they made incredible . They added insults to cruelty , and scoffs to rapaciousness . Upon the news of Bourbon 's death , His Holiness , imagining that his troops , no longer animated by his implacable spirit , might listen to an accommodation , demanded a parley ; but ... neglected all means for defence .... Cardinals and bishops were ignominiously exposed upon asses with their legs and hands bound ; and wealthy citizens ... suspected of having secreted their effects ... were tortured ... to oblige them to make discoveries , ... the booty ... is said to have amounted to about two millions and a half of ducats . \u201d \u2014 Mod . Univ . History , xxxvi . 512 . ]{ 259 }\u2014\u2014 and his phalanx \u2014 why .\u2014he writes to Murray , \u201c I have , besides , another reason for desiring you to be speedy , which is , that there is that brewing in Italy which will speedily cut off all security of communication .... I shall , if permitted by the natives , remain to see what will come of it , ... for I shall think it by far the most interesting spectacle and moment in existence , to see the Italians send the Barbarians of all nations back to their own dens . I have lived long enough among them to feel more for them as a nation than for any other people in existence : but they want Union, and they want principle ; and I doubt their success . \u201d \u2014 Letters , 1901 , v. 8 , note 1 . ]{ 261 } \u2014\u2014 of long-enduring ill .\u2014\u2014\u2014 the martyred country 's gore Will not in vain arise to whom belongs .\u2014{ 262 } Alexander of Parma , Spinola , Pescara , Eugene of Savoy , Montecuccoli ., recovered the Southern Netherlands for Spain , 1578-79 , made Henry IV . raise the siege of Paris , 1590 , etc . Ambrogio , Marchese di Spinola, a Maltese by birth , entered the Spanish service 1602 , took Ostend 1604 , invested Bergen-op-Zoom , etc . Ferdinando Francesco dagli Avalos , Marquis of Pescara, took Milan November 19 , 1521 , fought at Lodi , etc ., was wounded at the battle of Padua , February 24 , 1525 . He was the husband of Vittoria Colonna , and when he was in captivity at Ravenna wrote some verses in her honour . Fran\u00e7ois Eugene, Prince of Savoy-Carignan , defeated the French at Turin , 1706 , andat Malplaquet , 1709 ; the Turks at Peterwardein , 1716 , etc . Raimondo Montecuccoli , a Modenese, defeated the Turks at St. Gothard in 1664 , and in 1675-6 commanded on the Rhine , and out-generalled Turenne and the Prince de Cond\u00e9 ]Columbus , Americus Vespusius , Sebastian Cabot ., a Genoese , discovered mainland of America , 1498 ; Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine , explored coasts of America , 1497-1504 ; Sebastian Cabot, son of Giovanni Cabotto or Gavotto , a Venetian , discovered coasts of Labrador , etc ., June , 1497 . ]{ 263 } \u201c Ah ! servile Italy , griefs hostelry ! A ship without a pilot in great tempest ! \u201d Purgatorio , vi . 76 , 77 . ]Yet through this many-yeared eclipse of Woe . \u2014Yet through this murky interreign of Woe .\u2014Which choirs the birds to song \u2014 -  .\u2014And Pearls flung down to regal Swine evince .\u2014The whoredom of high Genius \u2014\u2014.\u2014{ 264 }notes and deprecates the servile manner in which Metastasio went on his knees before Maria Theresa in the Imperial gardens of Schoenbrunnen . ]And prides itself in prostituted duty .\u2014A verse from the Greek tragedians , with which Pompey took leave of Corneliaon entering the boat in which he was slain . \u1f4d\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03c2 \u03b3\u1f70\u03c1 \u1f61\u03c2 \u03c4\u1f7b\u03c1\u03b1\u03bd\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd \u1f10\u03bc\u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03b5\u1f7b\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9 ,mporeu / etai ,] \u039a\u03b5\u1f77\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5 \u1f10\u03c3\u03c4\u1f76 \u03b4\u03bf\u1fe6\u03bb\u03bf\u03c2 , \u03ba\u1f02\u03bd \u1f10\u03bb\u03b5\u1f7b\u03b8\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 \u03bc\u1fc3 .sti \\ dou ~ los , ka )\\ n e ) leu / theros m\u00ea |. ]"], "true_target": ["of the Lament of Tasso is dated April 20 , 1817 . It was despatched from Florence April 23 , and reached England May 12Proofs reached Byron June 7 , and the poem was published July 17 , 1817 . \u201c It was , \u201d he writes, \u201c written in consequence of my having been lately in Ferrara . \u201d Again , writing from Rome, he asks if the MS. has arrived , and adds , \u201c I look upon it as a \u2018 These be good rhymes , \u2019 as Pope 's papa said to him when he was a boy \u201dTwo months later he reverted to the theme of Tasso 's ill-treatment at the hands of Duke Alphonso , in the memorable stanzas xxxv. - xxxix . of the Fourth Canto of Childe HaroldNotices of the Lament of Tasso appeared in the Gentleman 's Magazine , August , 1817 , vol . 87 , pp . 150 , 151 ; in The Scot 's Magazine , August , 1817 , N. S ., vol . i. pp . 48 , 49 ; and a eulogistic but uncritical review in Blackwood 's Edinburgh Magazine , November , 1817 , vol . ii . pp . 142-144 . ADVERTISEMENT At Ferrara , in the Library , are preserved the original MSS . of Tasso 's Gierusalemmeand of Guarini 's Pastor Fido , with letters of Tasso , one from Titian to Ariosto , and the inkstand and chair , the tomb and the house , of the latter . But , as misfortune has a greater interest for posterity , and little or none for the cotemporary , the cell where Tasso was confined in the hospital of St. Anna attracts a more fixed attention than the residence or the monument of Ariosto \u2014 at least it had this effect on me . There are two inscriptions , one on the outer gate , the second over the cell itself , inviting , unnecessarily , the wonder and the indignation of the spectator . Ferrara is much decayed and depopulated : the castle still exists entire ; and I saw the court where Parisina and Hugo were beheaded , according to the annal of Gibbon .THE LAMENT OF TASSO .I . Long years !\u2014 It tries the thrilling frame to bear And eagle-spirit of a Child of Song \u2014 Long years of outrage \u2014 calumny \u2014 and wrong ; Imputed madness , prisoned solitude ,And the Mind 's canker in its savage mood , When the impatient thirst of light and air Parches the heart ; and the abhorred grate , Marring the sunbeams with its hideous shade , Works through the throbbing eyeball to the brain , With a hot sense of heaviness and pain ; 10 And bare , at once , Captivity displayed Stands scoffing through the never-opened gate , Which nothing through its bars admits , save day , And tasteless food , which I have eat alone Till its unsocial bitterness is gone ; And I can banquet like a beast of prey , Sullen and lonely , couching in the cave Which is my lair , and \u2014 it may be \u2014 my grave . All this hath somewhat worn me , and may wear , But must be borne . I stoop not to despair ; 20 For I have battled with mine agony , And made me wings wherewith to overfly The narrow circus of my dungeon wall , And freed the Holy Sepulchre from thrall ; And revelled among men and things divine , And poured my spirit over Palestine ,In honour of the sacred war for Him , The God who was on earth and is in Heaven , For He has strengthened me in heart and limb . That through this sufferance I might be forgiven , 30 I have employed my penance to record How Salem 's shrine was won , and how adored . II . But this is o'er \u2014 my pleasant task is done :\u2014My long-sustaining Friend of many years ! If I do blot thy final page with tears ,Know , that my sorrows have wrung from me none . But Thou , my young creation ! my Soul 's child ! Which ever playing round me came and smiled , And wooed me from myself with thy sweet sight , Thou too art gone \u2014 and so is my delight : 40 And therefore do I weep and inly bleed With this last bruise upon a broken reed . Thou too art ended \u2014 what is left me now ? For I have anguish yet to bear \u2014 and how ? I know not that \u2014 but in the innate force Of my own spirit shall be found resource . I have not sunk , for I had no remorse , Nor cause for such : they called me mad \u2014 and why ? Oh Leonora ! wilt not thou reply ?I was indeed delirious in my heart 50 To lift my love so lofty as thou art ; But still my frenzy was not of the mind : I knew my fault , and feel my punishment Not less because I suffer it unbent . That thou wert beautiful , and I not blind , Hath been the sin which shuts me from mankind ; But let them go , or torture as they will , My heart can multiply thine image still ; Successful Love may sate itself away ; The wretched are the faithful ; \u2018 t is their fate 60 To have all feeling , save the one , decay , And every passion into one dilate , As rapid rivers into Ocean pour ; But ours is fathomless , and hath no shore . III . Above me , hark ! the long and maniac cry Of minds and bodies in captivity . And hark ! the lash and the increasing howl , And the half-inarticulate blasphemy ! There be some here with worse than frenzy foul , Some who do still goad on the o'erhYpppHeNlaboured mind , 70 And dim the little light that 's left behind With needless torture , as their tyrant Will Is wound up to the lust of doing ill :With these and with their victims am I classed , \u2018 Mid sounds and sights like these long years have passed ; \u2018 Mid sights and sounds like these my life may close : So let it be \u2014 for then I shall repose . IV . I have been patient , let me be so yet ; I had forgotten half I would forget , But it revives \u2014 Oh ! would it were my lot 80 To be forgetful as I am forgot !\u2014 Feel I not wroth with those who bade me dwell In this vast Lazar-house of many woes ? Where laughter is not mirth , nor thought the mind , Nor words a language , nor ev'n men mankind ; Where cries reply to curses , shrieks to blows , And each is tortured in his separate hell \u2014 For we are crowded in our solitudes \u2014 Many , but each divided by the wall , Which echoes Madness in her babbling moods ; 90 While all can hear , none heed his neighbour 's call \u2014 None ! save that One , the veriest wretch of all , Who was not made to be the mate of these , Nor bound between Distraction and Disease . Feel I not wroth with those who placed me here ? Who have debased me in the minds of men , Debarring me the usage of my own , Blighting my life in best of its career , Branding my thoughts as things to shun and fear ? Would I not pay them back these pangs again , 100 And teach them inward Sorrow 's stifled groan ? The struggle to be calm , and cold distress , Which undermines our Stoical success ? No !\u2014 still too proud to be vindictive \u2014 I Have pardoned Princes \u2019 insults , and would die . Yes , Sister of my Sovereign ! for thy sake I weed all bitterness from out my breast , It hath no business where thou art a guest : Thy brother hates \u2014 but I can not detest ; Thou pitiest not \u2014 but I can not forsake . 110 V . Look on a love which knows not to despair , But all unquenched is still my better part , Dwelling deep in my shut and silent heart , As dwells the gathered lightning in its cloud , Encompassed with its dark and rolling shroud , Till struck ,\u2014 forth flies the all-ethereal dart ! And thus at the collision of thy name The vivid thought still flashes through my frame , And for a moment all things as they were Flit by me ;\u2014 they are gone \u2014 I am the same . 120 And yet my love without ambition grew ; I knew thy state \u2014 my station \u2014 and I knew A Princess was no love-mate for a bard ;I told it not \u2014 I breathed it not\u2014 it was Sufficient to itself , its own reward ; And if my eyes revealed it , they , alas ! Were punished by the silentness of thine , And yet I did not venture to repine . Thou wert to me a crystal-girded shrine , Worshipped at holy distance , and around 130 Hallowed and meekly kissed the saintly ground ; Not for thou wert a Princess , but that Love Had robed thee with a glory , and arrayed Thy lineaments in beauty that dismayed \u2014 Oh ! not dismayed \u2014 but awed , like One above ! And in that sweet severitythere was A something which all softness did surpass \u2014 I know not how \u2014 thy Genius mastered mine \u2014 My Star stood still before thee :\u2014 if it were Presumptuous thus to love without design , 140 That sad fatality hath cost me dear ; But thou art dearest still , and I should be Fit for this cell , which wrongs me \u2014 but for thee . The very love which locked me to my chain Hath lightened half its weight ; and for the rest , Though heavy , lent me vigour to sustain , And look to thee with undivided breast , And foil the ingenuity of Pain . VI . It is no marvel \u2014 from my very birth My soul was drunk with Love ,\u2014 which did pervade 150 And mingle with whate'er I saw on earth : Of objects all inanimate I made Idols , and out of wild and lonely flowers , And rocks , whereby they grew , a Paradise , Where I did lay me down within the shade Of waving trees , and dreamed uncounted hours , Though I was chid for wandering ; and the Wise Shook their white ag\u00e9d heads o'er me , and said Of such materials wretched men were made , And such a truant boy would end in woe , 160 And that the only lesson was a blow ;\u2014 And then they smote me , and I did not weep , But cursed them in my heart , and to my haunt Returned and wept alone , and dreamed again The visions which arise without a sleep . And with my years my soul began to pant With feelings of strange tumult and soft pain ; And the whole heart exhaled into One Want , But undefined and wandering , till the day I found the thing I sought \u2014 and that was thee ; 170 And then I lost my being , all to be Absorbed in thine ;\u2014 the world was past away ;\u2014 Thou didst annihilate the earth to me ! VII . I loved all Solitude \u2014 but little thought To spend I know not what of life , remote From all communion with existence , save The maniac and his tyrant ;\u2014 had I been Their fellow , many years ere this had seen My mind like theirs corrupted to its grave .But who hath seen me writhe , or heard me rave ? 180 Perchance in such a cell we suffer more Than the wrecked sailor on his desert shore ; The world is all before him \u2014 mine is here , Scarce twice the space they must accord my bier . What though he perish , he may lift his eye , And with a dying glance upbraid the sky ; I will not raise my own in such reproof , Although \u2018 tis clouded by my dungeon roof . VIII . Yet do I feel at times my mind decline ,But with a sense of its decay : I see 190 Unwonted lights along my prison shine , And a strange Demon ,who is vexing me With pilfering pranks and petty pains , below The feeling of the healthful and the free ; But much to One , who long hath suffered so , Sickness of heart , and narrowness of place , And all that may be borne , or can debase . I thought mine enemies had been but Man , But Spirits may be leagued with them \u2014 all Earth Abandons \u2014 Heaven forgets me ;\u2014 in the dearth 200 Of such defence the Powers of Evil can \u2014 It may be \u2014 tempt me further ,\u2014 and prevail Against the outworn creature they assail . Why in this furnace is my spirit proved , Like steel in tempering fire ? because I loved ? Because I loved what not to love , and see , Was more or less than mortal , and than me . IX . I once was quick in feeling \u2014 that is o'er ;\u2014 My scars are callous , or I should have dashed My brain against these bars , as the sun flashed 210 In mockery through them ;\u2014 -  If I bear and bore The much I have recounted , and the more Which hath no words ,\u2014 \u2018 t is that I would not die And sanction with self-slaughter the dull lie Which snared me here , and with the brand of shame Stamp Madness deep into my memory , And woo Compassion to a blighted name , Sealing the sentence which my foes proclaim . No \u2014 it shall be immortal !\u2014 and I make A future temple of my present cell , 220 Which nations yet shall visit for my sake .While thou , Ferrara ! when no longer dwell The ducal chiefs within thee , shall fall down , And crumbling piecemeal view thy hearthless halls , A Poet 's wreath shall be thine only crown ,\u2014 A Poet 's dungeon thy most far renown , While strangers wonder o'er thy unpeopled walls ! And thou , Leonora !\u2014 thou \u2014 who wert ashamed That such as I could love \u2014 who blushed to hear To less than monarchs that thou couldst be dear , 230 Go ! tell thy brother , that my heart , untamed By grief \u2014 years \u2014 weariness \u2014 and it may be A taint of that he would impute to me \u2014 From long infection of a den like this , Where the mind rots congenial with the abyss ,\u2014 Adores thee still ;\u2014 and add \u2014 that when the towers And battlements which guard his joyous hours Of banquet , dance , and revel , are forgot , Or left untended in a dull repose , This \u2014 this \u2014 shall be a consecrated spot ! 240 But Thou \u2014 when all that Birth and Beauty throws Of magic round thee is extinct \u2014 shalt have One half the laurel which o'ershades my grave .No power in death can tear our names apart , As none in life could rend thee from my heart .Yes , Leonora ! it shall be our fate To be entwinedfor ever \u2014 but too late !FOOTNOTES :{ 141 }{ 143 }to the Earl of Guilford , dated August 3 , 1817 , form part of the same volume . ], Tasso exclaims , \u201c Ah , wretched me ! I had designed to write , besides two epic poems of most noble argument , four tragedies , of which I had formed the plan . I had schemed , too , many works in prose , on subjects the most lofty , and most useful to human life ; I had designed to unite philosophy with eloquence , in such a manner that there might remain of me an eternal memory in the world . Alas ! I had expected to close my life with glory and renown ; but now , oppressed by the burden of so many calamities , I have lost every prospect of reputation and of honour . The fear of perpetual imprisonment increases my melancholy ; the indignities which I suffer augment it ; and the squalor of my beard , my hair , and habit , the sordidness and filth , exceedingly annoy me . Sure am I , that , if she who so little has corresponded to my attachment \u2014 if she saw me in such a state , and in such affliction \u2014 she would have some compassion on me . \u201d \u2014 Lettere di Torouato Tasso , 1853 , ii . 60 . ]{ 144 } \u201c The second of a tenderer sadder mood , Shall pour his soul out o'er Jerusalem . \u201d Prophecy of Dante , Canto IV . lines 136 , 137 . ]A mutilated first edition was published in 1580 by \u201c Orazio alias Celio de \u2019 Malespini , avventuriere intrigante \u201d]{ 145 }Black prints the canzone in full ; Solertigives selections . ]{ 146 } Tasso , in a letter to Angelo Grillo , dated June 16 , 1584, complains that Mosti did not interfere to prevent him being molested by the other inmates , disturbed in his studies , and treated disrespectfully by the governor 's subordinates . In the letter to his sister Cornelia , from which Hobhouse quotes , the allusion is not to Mosti , but , according to Solerti , to the Cardinal Luigi d'Este . ElsewhereTasso describes Agostino Mosti as a rigorous and zealous Churchman , but far too cultivated and courteous a gentleman to have exercised any severity towards him proprio motu , or otherwise than in obedience to orders . ]{ 147 }Compare \u2014 \u201c I speak not , I trace not , I breathe not thy name . \u201d{ 148 } \u201c E certo il primo d\u00ec che'l bel sereno Delia tua fronte agli occhi miei s'offerse E vidi armato spaziarvi Amore , Se non che riverenza allor converse , E Meraviglia in fredda selce il seno , Ivi per\u00eda con doppia morte il core ; Ma parte degli strali , e dell \u2019 ardore Sentii pur anco entro \u2018 l gelato marmo . \u201d ]{ 149 }complains that his father chased him \u201c not with spurs only , but with darts and lances , to turn over old texts , \u201d etc . ; but Tasso was a studious and dutiful boy , and , though he finally deserted the law for poetry , and \u201c crossed \u201d his father 's wishes and intentions , he took his own course reluctantly , and without any breach of decorum . But , perhaps , the following translations from the Rinaldo , which Black supplies in his footnotes, suggested this picture of a \u201c poetic child \u201d at variance with the authorities :\u2014 \u201c Now hasting thence a verdant mead he found , Where flowers of fragrant smell adorned the ground ; Sweet was the scene , and here from human eyes Apart he sits , and thus he speaks mid sighs . \u201d", "of \u201c a literal translation , word for word, of the episode of Francesca of Rimini \u201d, was sent to Murray from Ravenna , March 20 , 1820, a week after Byron had forwarded the MS. of the Prophecy of Dante . Presumably the translation had been made in the interval by way of illustrating and justifying the unfamiliar metre of the \u201c Dante Imitation . \u201d In the letter which accompanied the translation he writes , \u201c Enclosed you will find , line for line , in third rhymeof which your British Blackguard reader as yet understands nothing , Fanny of Rimini . You know that she was born here , and married , and slain , from Cary , Boyd , and such people already . I have done it into cramp English , line for line , and rhyme for rhyme , to try the possibility . You had best append it to the poems already sent by last three posts . \u201d In the matter of the \u201c British Blackguard , \u201d that is , the general reader , Byron spoke by the card . Hayley 's excellent translation of the three first cantos of the Inferno, which must have been known to a previous generation , was forgotten , and with earlier experiments in terza rima , by Chaucer and the sixteenth and seventeenth century poets , neither Byron nor the British public had any familiar or definite acquaintance . But of late some interest had been awakened or revived in Dante and the Divina Commedia . Cary 's translation \u2014 begun in 1796 , but not published as a whole till 1814 \u2014 had met with a sudden and remarkable success . \u201c The work , which had been published four years , but had remained in utter obscurity , was at once eagerly sought after . About a thousand copies of the first edition , that remained on hand , were immediately disposed of ; in less than three months a new edition was called for . \u201d Moreover , the Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews were loud in its praisesByron seems to have thought that a fragment of the Inferno , \u201c versed like the original , \u201d would challenge comparison with Cary 's rendering in blank verse , and would lend an additional interest to the \u201c Pulci Translations , and the Dante Imitation . \u201d D\u00ees aliter visum , and Byron 's translation of the episode of Francesca of Rimini , remained unpublished till it appeared in the pages of The Letters and Journals of Lord Byron , 1830 , ii . 309-311 .Russell , see Literary Souvenir , 1830 , pp . 285-287 . ) FRANCESCA DA RIMINI . FRANCESCA OF RIMINIFROM THE INFERNO OF DANTE . CANTO THE FIFTH . \u201c The Land where I was bornsits by the Seas Upon that shore to which the Po descends , With all his followers , in search of peace . Love , which the gentle heart soon apprehends , Seized him for the fair person which was ta'en From me, and me even yet the mode offends . Love , who to none beloved to love again Remits , seized me with wish to please , so strong, That , as thou see'st , yet , yet it doth remain . Love to one death conducted us along , 10 But Cainawaits for him our life who ended : \u201d These were the accents uttered by her tongue .\u2014 Since I first listened to these Souls offended , I bowed my visage , and so kept it till \u2014 \u2018 What think'st thou ? \u2019 said the bard; when I unbended , And recommenced : \u2018 Alas ! unto such ill How many sweet thoughts , what strong ecstacies , Led these their evil fortune to fulfill ! \u2019 And then I turned unto their side my eyes , And said , \u2018 Francesca , thy sad destinies 20 Have made me sorrow till the tears arise . But tell me , in the Season of sweet sighs , By what and how thy Love to Passion rose , So as his dim desires to recognize ? \u2019 Then she to me : \u2018 The greatest of all woes Is to remind us of our happy daysIn misery , and that thy teacher knows . But if to learn our Passion 's first root preys Upon thy spirit with such Sympathy , I will do even as he who weeps and says .30 We read one day for pastime , seated nigh , Of Lancilot , how Love enchained him too . We were alone , quite unsuspiciously . But oft our eyes met , and our Cheeks in hue All o'er discoloured by that reading were ; But one point only wholly us o'erthrew ;When we read the long-sighed-for smile of her ,To be thus kissed by such devoted lover ,He , who from me can be divided ne'er , Kissed my mouth , trembling in the act all over : 40 Accurs\u00e9d was the book and he who wrote !That day no further leaf we did uncover . \u2019 While thus one Spirit told us of their lot , The other wept , so that with Pity 's thralls I swooned , as if by Death I had been smote ,And fell down even as a dead body falls . \u201dMarch 20 , 1820 . FRANCESCA DA RIMINI . DANTE , L'INFERNO . CANTO QUINTO . \u2018 Siede la terra dove nata fui Sulla marina , dove il Po discende Per aver pace co \u2019 seguaci sui . Amor , che al cor gentil ratto s'apprende , Prese costui della bella persona Che mi fu tolta , e il modo ancor m \u2019 offende . Amor , che a nullo amato amar perdona , Mi prese del costui piacer si forte , Che , come vedi , ancor non mi abbandona . Amor condusse noi ad una morte : 10 Caino attende chi vita ci spense . \u2019 Queste parole da lor ci fur porte . Da che io intesi quelle anime offense Chinai \u2018 l viso , e tanto il tenni basso , Finch\u00e8 il Poeta mi disse : \u2018 Che pense ? \u2019 Quando risposi , cominciai : \u2018 O lasso ! Quanti dolci pensier , quanto disio Men\u00f2 costoro al doloroso passo ! \u2019 Poi mi rivolsi a loro , e parla \u2019 io , E cominciai : \u2018 Francesca , i tuoi martiri 20 A lagrimar mi fanno tristo e pio . Ma dimmi : al tempo de \u2019 dolci sospiri A che e come concedette Amore , Che conoscesti i dubbiosi desiri ? \u2019 Ed ella a me : \u2018 Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria ; e ci\u00f2 sa il tuo dottore . Ma se a conoscer la prima radice Del nostro amor tu hai cotanto affetto Far\u00f2 come colui che piange e dice . 30 Noi leggevamo un giorno per diletto Di Lancelotto , come Amor lo strinse : Soli eravamo , e senza alcun sospetto . Per pi\u00f9 fiate gli occhi ci sospinse Quella lettura , e scolorocci il viso : Ma solo un punto fu quel che ci vinse . Quando leggemmo il disiato riso Esser baciato da cotanto amante , Questi , che mai da me non fia diviso , La bocca mi baci\u00f2 tutto tremante : 40 Galeotto fu il libro , e chi lo scrisse \u2014 Quel giorno pi\u00f9 non vi leggemmo avante Mentre che l'uno spirto questo disse , L'altro piangeva s\u00ec che di pietade Io venni meno cos com \u2019 io morisse ; E caddi , come corpo morto cade . FOOTNOTES :{ 317 }, places Francesca and her lover Paolo among the lustful in the second circle of Hell . Francesca , daughter of Guido Vecchio da Polenta , Lord of Ravenna , marriedGianciotto , second son of Malatesta da Verrucchio , Lord of Rimini . According to Boccaccio, Gianciotto was \u201c hideously deformed in countenance and figure , \u201d and determined to woo and marry Francesca by proxy . He accordingly \u201c sent , as his representative , his younger brother Paolo , the handsomest and most accomplished man in all Italy . Francesca saw Paolo arrive , and imagined she beheld her future husband . That mistake was the commencement of her passion . \u201d A day came when the lovers were surprised together , and Gianciotto slew both his brother and his wife . ]\u201c Il suffit de jeter les yeux sur une carte pour reconnaitre l'exactitude topographique de cette derni\u00e8re expression . En effet , dans toute la partie sup\u00e9rieure de son cours , le Po re\u00e7oit une foule d'affluents qui convergent vers son lit ; ce sont le T\u00e9sin , l'Adda , l'Olio , le Mincio , la Trebbia , la Bormida , le Taro .... \u201d \u2014 La Gr\u00e8ce , Rome , et Dante, par M. J. J. Amp\u00e8re , 1850 , pp . 311-313 . ]Seized him for the fair person , which in its Bloom was ta'en from me , yet the mode offends . or , Seized him for the fair form , of which in its Bloom I was reft , and yet the mode offends . Love , which to none beloved to love remits , / with mutual wish to please \\ Seized me < with wish of pleasing him > so strong , \\ with the desire to please / That , as thou see'st , not yet that passion quits , etc . You will find these readings vary from the MS . I sent you . They are closer , but rougher : take which is liked best ; or , if you like , print them as variations . They are all close to the text . \u201d \u2014 Works of Lord Byron , 1832 , xii . 5 , note 2 . ]{ 319 }{ 319 } Is to recall to mind our happy days . In misery , and this thy teacher knows .\u2014, relying on a passage in the Convito, assume that the \u201c teacher \u201dis the author of the sentence , but later authorities point out that \u201c mio dottore \u201d can only apply to Virgil, who then and there in the world of shades was suffering the bitter experience of having \u201c known better days . \u201d Compare \u2014 \u201c For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kinde of infortune is this , A man to have ben in prosperitee , And it remembren whan it pass\u00e9d is . \u201d Troilus and Criseyde , Bk . III . stanza ccxxxiii . lines 1-4 . \u201c E perch\u00e9 rimembrare il ben perduto Fa pi\u00f9 meschino lo stato presente . \u201d Fortiguerra 's Ricciardetto , Canto XI . stanza lxxxiii . Compare , too \u2014 \u201c A sorrow 's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things . \u201d Tennyson 's Locksley Hall . ]I will relate as he who weeps and says .\u2014{ 321 } \u2014\u2014 wholly overthrew .\u2014When we read the desired-for smile of her .\u2014 by such a fervent lover .\u2014\u201c Writer and book were Gallehault to our will \u201dThe book which the lovers were reading is entitled L'Illustre et Famosa Historia di Lancilotto del Lago . The \u201c one point \u201d of the original runs thus : \u201c Et la reina ... lo piglia per il mento , et lo bacia davanti a Gallehault , assai lungamente . \u201d \u2014 Venice , 1558 , Lib . Prim . cap . lxvi . vol . i. p. 229 . The Gallehault of the Lancilotto , the shameless \u201c purveyor , \u201d must not be confounded with the stainless Galahad of the Morte d'Arthur . \u2019 ], enough to account for the peculiar emotion caused by her sanguinary doom . ]Alternative Versions Transcribed by Mrs. Shelley . March 20 , 1820 . line 4 : Love , which too soon the soft heart apprehends , Seized him for the fair form , the which was there Torn from me , and even yet the mode offends . line 8 : Remits , seized him for me with joy so strong \u2014 line 12 : These were the words then uttered \u2014 Since I had first perceived these souls offended , I bowed my visage and so kept it till \u2014 \u201c What think'st thou ? \u201d said the bard , whom IAnd then commenced \u2014 \u201c Alas unto such ill \u2014 line 18 : Led these ? \u201c and then I turned me to them still And spoke , \u201c Francesca , thy sad destinies Have made me sad and tender even to tears , But tell me , in the season of sweet sighs , By what and how Love overcame your fears , So ye might recognize his dim desires ? \u201d Then she to me , \u201c No greater grief appears Than , when the time of happiness expires , To recollect , and this your teacher knows . But if to find the first root of our \u2014 Thou seek'st with such a sympathy in woes , I will do even as he who weeps and speaks . We read one day for pleasure , sitting close , Of Launcelot , where forth his passion breaks . We were alone and we suspected nought , But oft our eyes exchanged , and changed our cheeks . When we read the desiring smile of her Who to be kissed by such true lover sought , He who from me can be divided ne'er All tremulously kissed my trembling mouth . Accursed the book and he who wrote it were \u2014 That day no further did we read in sooth . \u201d While the one spirit in this manner spoke The other wept , so that , for very ruth , I felt as if my trembling heart had broke , To see the misery which both enthralls : So that I swooned as dying with the stroke ,\u2014 And fell down even as a dead body falls . Another version of the same . line 21 : Have made me sad even until the tears arise \u2014 line 27 : In wretchedness , and that your teacher knows . line 31 : We read one day for pleasure \u2014 Of Launcelot , how passion shook his frame . We were alone all unsuspiciously . But oft our eyes met and our cheeks the same , Pale and discoloured by that reading were ; But one part only wholly overcame ; When we read the desiring smile of her Who sought the kiss of such devoted lover ; He who from me can be divided ne'er Kissed my mouth , trembling to that kiss all over ! Accurs\u00e9d was that book and he who wrote \u2014 That day we did no further page uncover . \u201d While thus \u2014 etc . line 45 : I swooned to death with sympathetic thought \u2014line 33 : We were alone , and we suspected nought . But oft our meeting eyes made pale our cheeks , Urged by that reading for our ruin wrought ; But one point only wholly overcame : When we read the desiring smile which sought By such true lover to be kissed \u2014 the same Who from my side can be divided ne'er Kissed my mouth , trembling o'er all his frame ! Accurst the book , etc ., etc .line 33 : We were alone and \u2014 etc . But one point only \u2018 twas our ruin wrought . When we read the desiring smile of her Who to be kissed of such true lover sought ; He who for me , etc ., etc . MARINO FALIERO , DOGE OF VENICE ; AN HISTORICAL TRAGEDY , IN FIVE ACTS . \u201c Dux inquieti turbidus Adria . \u201d Horace ,A revival was attempted at Drury Lane , May 20 , 21 , 1842 , when Macready appeared as \u201c The Doge , \u201d and Helen Faucit as \u201c Angiolina \u201dAn adaptation of Byron 's play , by W. Bayle Bernard , was produced at Drury Lane , November 2 , 1867 . It was played till December 17 , 1867 . Phelps took the part of \u201c The Doge , \u201d and Mrs. Hermann of \u201c Angiolina . \u201d In Germany an adaptation by Arthur Fitger was performed nineteen times by the \u201c Meiningers , \u201d circ . 1887] INTRODUCTION TO MARINO FALIERO . Byron had no sooner finished the first draft of Manfred than he beganto lay the foundation of another tragedy . Venice was new to him , and , on visiting the Doge 's Palace , the veiled space intended for the portrait of Marin Falier , and the \u201c Giants \u2019 Staircase , \u201d where , as he believed , \u201c he was once crowned and afterwards decapitated , \u201d had laid hold of his imagination , while the legend of the Congiura , \u201c an old man jealous and conspiring against the state of which he was ... Chief , \u201d promised a subject which the \u201c devil himself \u201d might have dramatized con amore . But other interests and ideas claimed his attention , and for more than three years the project slept . At length he slips into the postscript of a letter to Murray , dated , \u201c Ravenna , April 9 , 1820 \u201d, an intimation that he had begun \u201c a tragedy on the subject of Marino Faliero , the Doge of Venice . \u201d The \u201c Imitation of Dante , the Translation of Pulci , the Danticles , \u201d etc ., were worked off , and , in prospecting for a new vein , a fresh lode of literary ore , he passed , by a natural transition , from Italian literature to Italian history , from the romantic and humorous epopee of Pulci and Berni , to the pseudo-classic drama of Alfieri and Monti . Jealousy , as \u201c Monk \u201d Lewis had advised him, was an \u201c exhausted passion \u201d in the drama , and to lay the scene in Venice was to provoke comparison with Shakespeare and Otway ; but the man himself , the fiery Doge , passionate but not jealous , a noble turned democrat pro hac vice , an old man \u201c greatly \u201d finding \u201c quarrel in a straw , \u201d afforded a theme historically time-honoured , and yet unappropriated by tragic art . There was , too , a living interest in the story . For history was repeating itself , and \u201c politics were savage and uncertain . \u201d \u201c Mischief was afoot , \u201d and the tradition of a conspiracy which failed might find an historic parallel in a conspiracy which would succeed . There was \u201c that brewing in Italy \u201d which might , perhaps , inspire \u201c a people to redress itself , \u201d \u201c and with a cry of , \u2018 Up with the Republic ! \u2019 \u2018 Down with the Nobility ! \u2019 send the Barbarians of all nations back to their own dens ! \u201dIn taking the field as a dramatist , Byron sought to win distinction for himself \u2014 in the first place by historical accuracy , and , secondly , by artistic regularity \u2014 by a stricter attention to the dramatic \u201c unities . \u201d \u201c History is closely followed , \u201d he tells Murray , in a letter dated July 17 , 1820 ; and , again , in the Preface, which is an expansion of the letter , he gives a list of the authorities which he had consulted , and claims to have \u201c transferred into our language an historical fact worthy of commemoration . \u201d More than once in his letters to Murray he reverts to this profession of accuracy , and encloses some additional note , in which he points out and rectifies an occasional deviation from the historical record . In this respect , at any rate , he could contend on more than equal terms \u201c with established writers , \u201d that is , with Shakespeare and Otway , and could present to his countrymen an exacter and , so , more lifelike picture of the Venetian Republic . It is plain , too , that he was bitten with the love of study for its own sake , with a premature passion for erudition , and that he sought and found relief from physical and intellectual excitement in the intricacies of research . If his history is at fault , it was not from any lack of diligence on his part , but because the materials at his disposal or within his cognizance were inaccurate and misleading . He makes no mention of the huge collection of Venetian archives which had recently been deposited in the Convent of the Frari , or of Doria 's transcript of Sanudo 's Diaries , bequeathed in 1816 to the Library of St. Mark ; but he quotes as his authorities the Vit\u00e6 Ducum Venetorum , of Marin Sanudo, the Storia , etc ., of Andrea Navagero, and the Principj di Storia , etc ., of Vettor Sandi , which belongs to the latter half of the eighteenth century . Byron 's chroniclers were ancient , but not ancient enough ; and , though they \u201c handed down the story \u201d, they depart in numerous particulars from the facts recorded in contemporary documents . Unquestionably the legend , as it appears in Sanudo 's perplexing and uncritical narrative, is more dramatic than the \u201c low beginnings \u201d of the myth , which may be traced to the annalists of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ; but , like other legends , it is insusceptible of proof . Byron 's Doge is almost , if not quite , as unhistorical as his Bonivard or his Mazeppa .At the close of the Preface , by way of an afterthought , Byron announces his determination to escape \u201c the reproach of the English theatrical compositions \u201d \u201c by preserving a nearer approach to unity , \u201d by substituting the regularity of French and Italian models for the barbarities of the Elizabethan dramatists and their successors . Goetheis said to have \u201c laughed to think that Byron , who , in practical life , could never adapt himself , and never even asked about a law , finally subjected himself to the stupidest of laws \u2014 that of the three unities . \u201d It was , perhaps , in part with this object in view , to make his readers smile , to provoke their astonishment , that he affected a severity foreign to his genius and at variance with his record . It was an agreeable thought that he could so easily pass from one extreme to another , from Manfred to Marino Faliero , and , at the same time , indulge \u201c in a little sally of gratuitous sauciness \u201dat the expense of his own countrymen . But there were other influences at work . He had been powerfully impressed by the energy and directness of Alfieri 's work , and he was eager to emulate the gravity and simplicity , if not the terseness and conciseness , of his style and language . The drama was a new world to conquer , and so far as \u201c his own literature \u201d was concerned it appeared that success might be attainable by \u201c a severer approach to the rules \u201d\u2014 that by taking Alfieri as his model he might step into the first rank of English dramatists . Goethe thought that Byron failed \u201c to understand the purpose \u201d of the \u201c three unities , \u201d that he regarded the law as an end in itself , and did not perceive that if a play was comprehensible the unities might be neglected and disregarded . It is possible that his \u201c blind obedience to the law \u201d may have been dictated by the fervour of a convert ; but it is equally possible that he looked beyond the law or its fulfilment to an ulterior object , the discomfiture of the romantic school , with its contempt for regularity , its passionate appeal from art to nature . If he was minded to raise a \u201c Grecian temple of the purest architecture \u201d, it was not without some thought and hope of shaming , by force of contrast , the \u201c mosque , \u201d the \u201c grotesque edifice \u201d of barbarian contemporaries and rivals . Byron was \u201c ever a fighter , \u201d and his claim to regularity , to a closer preservation of the \u201c unities , \u201d was of the nature of a challenge . Marino Faliero was dedicated to \u201c Baron Goethe , \u201d but the letter which should have contained the dedication was delayed in transit . Goethe never saw the dedication till it was placed in his hands by John Murray the Third , in 1831 , but he read the play , and after Byron 's death bore testimony to its peculiar characteristics and essential worth . \u201c Lord Byron , notwithstanding his predominant personality , has sometimes had the power of renouncing himself altogether , as may be seen in some of his dramatic pieces , particularly in his Marino Faliero . In this piece one quite forgets that Lord Byron , or even an Englishman , wrote it . We live entirely in Venice , and entirely in the time in which the action takes place . The personages speak quite from themselves and their own condition , without having any of the subjective feelings , thoughts , and opinions of the poet \u201dByron spent three months over the composition of Marino Faliero . The tragedy was completed July 17, and the copyinga month laterThe final draft of \u201c all the acts corrected \u201d was despatched to England some days before October 6 , 1820 . Early in January , 1821, an announcement reached Byron that his play was to be brought out at Drury Lane Theatre , by Elliston . Against this he protested by every means in his power , and finally , on Wednesday , April 25 , four days after the publication of the first edition, an injunction was obtained from Lord Chancellor Eldon , prohibiting a performance announced for that evening . Elliston pursued the Chancellor to the steps of his own house , and at the last moment persuaded him to allow the play to be acted on that night only . Legal proceeedings were taken , but , in the end , the injunction was withdrawn , with the consent of Byron 's solicitors , and the play was represented again on April 30 , and on five nights in the following May . As Byron had foreseen , Marino Faliero was coldly received by the playgoing public , and proved a loss to the \u201c speculating buffoons , \u201d who had not realized that it was \u201c unfit for their Fair or their booth \u201dByron was the first to perceive that the story of Marino Faliero was a drama \u201c ready to hand ; \u201d but he has had many followers , if not imitators or rivals . \u201c Marino Faliero , trag\u00e9die en cinq actes , \u201d by Casimir Jean Fran\u00e7ois Delavigne , was played for the first time at the Theatre of Porte Saint Martin , May 31 , 1829 . In Germany tragedies based on the same theme have been published by Otto Ludwig , Leipzig , 1874 ; Martin Grief , Vienna , 1879 ; Murad Effendi, 1881 , and othersMarino Faliero , a Tragedy , by A. C. Swinburne , was published in 1885 . Marino Faliero was reviewed by Jeffrey , in the Edinburgh Review , July 21 , 1821 , vol . 35 , pp . 271-285 ; by Heber , in the Quarterly Review , July , 1822 , vol . xxvii . pp . 476-492 ; and by John Wilson , in Blackwood 's Edinburgh Magazine , April , 1821 , vol . 9 , pp . 93-103 . For other notices , vide ante, p. 240 . PREFACE . The conspiracy of the Doge Marino Faliero is one of the most remarkable events in the annals of the most singular government , city , and people of modern history . It occurred in the year 1355 . Every thing about Venice is , or was , extraordinary \u2014 her aspect is like a dream , and her history is like a romance . The story of this Doge is to be found in all her Chronicles , and particularly detailed in the \u201c Lives of the Doges , \u201d by Marin Sanuto , which is given in the Appendix . It is simply and clearly related , and is perhaps more dramatic in itself than any scenes which can be founded upon the subject . Marino Faliero appears to have been a man of talents and of courage . I find him commander-in-chief of the land forces at the siege of Zara ,where he beat the King of Hungary and his army of eighty thousand men , killing eight thousand men , and keeping the besieged at the same time in check ; an exploit to which I know none similar in history , except that of C\u00e6sar at Alesia ,and of Prince Eugene at Belgrade . He was afterwards commander of the fleet in the same war . He took Capo d'Istria . He was ambassador at Genoa and Rome ,\u2014 at which last he received the news of his election to the dukedom ; his absence being a proof that he sought it by no intrigue , since he was apprised of his predecessor 's death and his own succession at the same moment . But he appears to have been of an ungovernable temper . A story is told by Sanuto , of his having , many years before , when podesta and captain at Treviso , boxed the ears of the bishop , who was somewhat tardy in bringing the Host .For this , honest Sanuto \u201c saddles him with a judgment , \u201d as Thwackum did Square ;but he does not tell us whether he was punished or rebuked by the Senate for this outrage at the time of its commission . He seems , indeed , to have been afterwards at peace with the church , for we find him ambassador at Rome , and invested with the fief of Val di Marino , in the march of Treviso , and with the title of count , by Lorenzo , Count-bishop of Ceneda . For these facts my authorities are Sanuto , Vettor Sandi ,Andrea Navagero ,and the account of the siege of Zara , first published by the indefatigable Abate Morelli , in his Monumenti Veneziani di varia Letteratura , printed in 1796 ,all of which I have looked over in the original language . The moderns , Dar\u00f9 , Sismondi , and Laugier , nearly agree with the ancient chroniclers . Sismondi attributes the conspiracy to his jealousy ; but I find this nowhere asserted by the national historians . Vettor Sandi , indeed , says that \u201c Altri scrissero che .... dalla gelosa suspizion di esso Doge siasi fattostaccar con violenza , \u201d etc ., etc . ; but this appears to have been by no means the general opinion , nor is it alluded to by Sanuto , or by Navagero ; and Sandi himself adds , a moment after , that \u201c per altre Veneziane memorie traspiri , che non il solo desiderio di vendetta lo dispose alla congiura ma anche la innata abituale ambizion sua , per cui aneleva a farsi principe independente . \u201d The first motive appears to have been excited by the gross affront of the words written by Michel Steno on the ducal chair , and by the light and inadequate sentence of the Forty on the offender , who was one of their \u201c tre Capi . \u201dThe attentions of Steno himself appear to have been directed towards one of her damsels , and not to the \u201c Dogaressa \u201dherself , against whose fame not the slightest insinuation appears , while she is praised for her beauty , and remarked for her youth . Neither do I find it assertedthat the Doge was actuated by jealousy of his wife ; but rather by respect for her , and for his own honour , warranted by his past services and present dignity . I know not that the historical facts are alluded to in English , unless by Dr. Moore in his View of ItalyHis account is false and flippant , full of stale jests about old men and young wives , and wondering at so great an effect from so slight a cause . How so acute and severe an observer of mankind as the author of Zeluco could wonder at this is inconceivable . He knew that a basin of water spilt on Mrs. Masham 's gown deprived the Duke of Marlborough of his command , and led to the inglorious peace of Utrecht \u2014 that Louis XIV . was plunged into the most desolating wars , because his minister was nettled at his finding fault with a window , and wished to give him another occupation \u2014 that Helen lost Troy \u2014 that Lucretia expelled the Tarquins from Rome \u2014 and that Cava brought the Moors to Spain \u2014 that an insulted husband led the Gauls to Clusium , and thence to Rome \u2014 that a single verse of Frederick II .of Prussia on the Abb\u00e9 de Bernis , and a jest on Madame de Pompadour , led to the battle of Rosbach \u2014 that the elopement of Dearbhorgilwith Mac Murchad conducted the English to the slavery of Ireland that a personal pique between Maria Antoinette and the Duke of Orleans precipitated the first expulsion of the Bourbons \u2014 and , not to multiply instances of the teterrima causa , that Commodus , Domitian , and Caligula fell victims not to their public tyranny , but to private vengeance \u2014 and that an order to make Cromwell disembark from the ship in which he would have sailed to America destroyed both King and Commonwealth . After these instances , on the least reflection it is indeed extraordinary in Dr. Moore to seem surprised that a man used to command , who had served and swayed in the most important offices , should fiercely resent , in a fierce age , an unpunished affront , the grossest that can be offered to a man , be he prince or peasant . The age of Faliero is little to the purpose , unless to favour it \u2014 \u201c The young man 's wrath is likestraw on fire , But like red hot steel is the old man 's ire . \u201d\u201c Young men soon give and soon forget affronts , Old age is slow at both . \u201d Laugier 's reflections are more philosophical :\u2014 \u201c Tale f\u00f9 il fine ignominioso di un \u2019 uomo , che la sua nascit\u00e0 , la sua et\u00e0 , il suo carattere dovevano tener lontano dalle passioni produttrici di grandi delitti . I suoi talenti per lungo tempo esercitati ne \u2019 maggiori impieghi , la sua capacit\u00e0 sperimentata ne \u2019 governi e nelle ambasciate , gli avevano acquistato la stima e la fiducia de \u2019 cittadini , ed avevano uniti i suffragj per collocarlo alla testa della repubblica . Innalzato ad un grado che terminava gloriosamente la sua vita , il risentimento di un \u2019 ingiuria leggiera insinu\u00f2 nel suo cuore tal veleno che bast\u00f2 a corrompere le antiche sue qualit\u00e0 , e a condurlo al termine dei scellerati ; serio esempio , che prova non esservi et\u00e0 , in cui la prudenza umana sia sicura , e che nell \u2019 uomo restano sempre passioni capaci a disonorarlo , quando non invigili sopra se stesso . \u201dWhere did Dr. Moore find that Marino Faliero begged his life ? I have searched the chroniclers , and find nothing of the kind : it is true that he avowed all . He was conducted to the place of torture , but there is no mention made of any application for mercy on his part ; and the very circumstance of their having taken him to the rack seems to argue any thing but his having shown a want of firmness , which would doubtless have been also mentioned by those minute historians , who by no means favour him : such , indeed , would be contrary to his character as a soldier , to the age in which he lived , and at which he died , as it is to the truth of history . I know no justification , at any distance of time , for calumniating an historical character : surely truth belongs to the dead , and to the unfortunate : and they who have died upon a scaffold have generally had faults enough of their own , without attributing to them that which the very incurring of the perils which conducted them to their violent death renders , of all others , the most improbable . The black veil which is painted over the place of Marino Faliero amongst the Doges , and the Giants \u2019 Staircase, where he was crowned , and discrowned , and decapitated , struck forcibly upon my imagination ; as did his fiery character and strange story . I went , in 1819 , in search of his tomb more than once to the church San Giovanni e San Paolo ; and , as I was standing before the monument of another family , a priest came up to me and said , \u201c I can show you finer monuments than that . \u201d I told him that I was in search of that of the Faliero family , and particularly of the Doge Marino 's . \u201c Oh , \u201d said he , \u201c I will show it you ; \u201d and , conducting me to the outside , pointed out a sarcophagus in the wall with an illegible inscriptionHe said that it had been in a convent adjoining , but was removed after the French came , and placed in its present situation ; that he had seen the tomb opened at its removal ; there were still some bones remaining , but no positive vestige of the decapitation . The equestrian statueof which I have made mention in the third act as before that church is not , however , of a Faliero , but of some other now obsolete warrior , although of a later date . There were two other Doges of this family prior to Marino ; Ordelafo , who fell in battle at Zara , in 1117, and Vital Faliero , who reigned in 1082 . The family , originally from Fano , was of the most illustrious in blood and wealth in the city of once the most wealthy and still the most ancient families in Europe . The length I have gone into on this subject will show the interest I have taken in it . Whether I have succeeded or not in the tragedy , I have at least transferred into our language an historical fact worthy of commemoration . It is now four years that I have meditated this work ; and before I had sufficiently examined the records , I was rather disposed to have made it turn on a jealousy in Faliero . But , perceiving no foundation for this in historical truth , and aware that jealousy is an exhausted passion in the drama , I have given it a more historical form . I was , besides , well advised by the late Matthew Lewison that point , in talking with him of my intention at Venice in 1817 . \u201c If you make him jealous , \u201d said he , \u201c recollect that you have to contend with established writers , to say nothing of Shakespeare , and an exhausted subject :\u2014 stick to the old fiery Doge 's natural character , which will bear you out , if properly drawn ; and make your plot as regular as you can . \u201d Sir William Drummondgave me nearly the same counsel . How far I have followed these instructions , or whether they have availed me , is not for me to decide . I have had no view to the stage ; in its present state it is , perhaps , not a very exalted object of ambition ; besides , I have been too much behind the scenes to have thought it so at any time .And I cannot conceive any man of irritable feelingputting himself at the mercies of an audience . The sneering reader , and the loud critic , and the tart review , are scattered and distant calamities ; but the trampling of an intelligent or of an ignorant audience on a production which , be it good or bad , has been a mental labour to the writer , is a palpable and immediate grievance , heightened by a man 's doubt of their competency to judge , and his certainty of his own imprudence in electing them his judges . Were I capable of writing a play which could be deemed stage-worthy , success would give me no pleasure , and failure great pain . It is for this reason that , even during the time of being one of the committee of one of the theatres , I never made the attempt , and never willBut I wish that others would , for surely there is dramatic power somewhere , where Joanna Baillie , and Milman , and John Wilson exist . The City of the Plagueand the Fall of Jerusalemare full of the best \u201c mat\u00e9riel \u201d for tragedy that has been seen since Horace Walpole , except passages of Ethwaldand De MontfortIt is the fashion to underrate Horace Walpole ; firstly , because he was a nobleman , and secondly , because he was a gentleman ; but , to say nothing of the composition of his incomparable letters , and of the Castle of Otranto, he is the \u201c Ultimus Romanorum , \u201d the author of the Mysterious Mother, a tragedy of the highest order , and not a puling love-play . He is the father of the first romance and of the last tragedy in our language , and surely worthy of a higher place than any living writer , be he who he may .In speaking of the drama of Marino Faliero , I forgot to mention that the desire of preserving , though still too remote , a nearer approach to unity than the irregularity , which is the reproach of the English theatrical compositions , permits , has induced me to represent the conspiracy as already formed , and the Doge acceding to it ; whereas , in fact , it was of his own preparation and that of Israel Bertuccio . The other characters, incidents , and almost the time , which was wonderfully short for such a design in real life , are strictly historical , except that all the consultations took place in the palace . Had I followed this , the unity would have been better preserved ; but I wished to produce the Doge in the full assembly of the conspirators , instead of monotonously placing him always in dialogue with the same individuals . For the real facts , I refer to the Appendix .DRAMATIS PERSON\u00c6 . MEN . Marino Faliero , Doge of Venice . Bertuccio Faliero , Nephew of the Doge . Lioni , a Patrician and Senator . Benintende , Chief of the Council of Ten . Michel Steno , One of the three Capi of the Forty . Israel Bertuccio , Chief of the Arsenal , } Philip Calendaro , } Conspirators . Dagolino , } Bertram , } Signor of the Night , \u201c Signore di Notte , \u201d one of the Officers belonging to the Republic . First Citizen . Second Citizen . Third Citizen . Vincenzo , } Pietro , } Officers belonging to the Ducal Palace . Battista , } Secretary of the Council of Ten . Guards , Conspirators , Citizens , The Council of Ten , the Giunta , etc ., etc . WOMEN . Angiolina , Wife to the Doge . Marianna , her Friend . Female Attendants , etc . Scene Venice \u2014 in the year 1355 . MARINO FALIERO , DOGE OF VENICE .ACT I ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 192}, {"query": ["stanza xviii . \u201c Thus have I sung in youth 's aspiring days Rinaldo 's pleasing plains and martial praise : While other studies slowly I pursued Ere twice revolved nine annual suns I viewed ; Ungrateful studies , whence oppressed I groaned , A burden to myself and to the world unknown . But this first-fruit of new awakened powers ! Dear offspring of a few short studious hours ! Thou infant volume child of fancy born Where Brenta 's waves the sunny meads adorn . \u201d"], "true_target": ["stanzas i. - vi . ]{ 156 }{ 159 }\u2014 \u201c But the Carnival 's coming , Oh Thomas Moore , Masking and humming , Fifing and drumming , Guitarring and strumming , Oh Thomas Moore . \u201d ]{ 160 }, was noted throughout the eighteenth century for the sale of second-hand clothes . Compare \u2014 \u201c Thames Street gives cheeses , Covent Garden fruits , Moorfields old books , and Monmouth Street old suits . \u201d Gay 's Trivia , ii . 547 , 548 . Rag Fair or Rosemary Lane , now Royal Mint Street , was the Monmouth Street of the City . Compare \u2014 \u201c Where wave the tattered ensigns of Rag Fair . \u201d Pope 's Dunciad , i . 29 , var . The Arcade , or \u201c Piazza , \u201d so called , which was built by Inigo Jones in 1652 , ran along the whole of the north and east sides of the Piazza or Square of Covent Garden . The Arcade on the north side is still described as the \u201c Piazzas . \u201d \u2014 London Past and Present , by H. B. Wheatley , 1891 , i . 461 , ii . 554 , iii . 145 . ]{ 162 }in Bologna . \u201d \u2014 Letter to William Bankes , February 26 , 1820 , Letters , 1900 , iv . 411 . ], surpassing all my anticipations of the power of painting or human expression : it is the poetry of portrait , and the portrait of poetry . There was also one of some learned lady , centuries old , whose name I forget , but whose features must always be remembered . I never saw greater beauty , or sweetness , or wisdom :\u2014 it is the kind of face to go mad for , because it cannot walk out of its frame .... What struck me most in the general collection was the extreme resemblance of the style of the female faces in the mass of pictures , so many centuries or generations old , to those you see and meet every day amongst the existing Italians . The Queen of Cyprus and Giorgione 's wife , particularly the latter , are Venetians as it were of yesterday ; the same eyes and expression , and , to my mind , there is none finer , \u201d \u2014 Letter to Murray , April 14 , 1817 , Letters , 1900 , iv . 105 . The picture which caught Byron 's fancy was the so-called Famiglia di Giorgione , which was removed from the Manfrini Palace in 1856 , and is now in the Palazzo Giovanelli . It represents \u201c an almost nude woman , probably a gipsy , seated with a child in her lap , and a standing warrior gazing upon her , a storm breaking over the landscape . \u201d \u2014 Handbook of Painting , by Austen H. Layard , 1891 , part ii . p . 553 . ]{ 163 }was never married . He died of the plague , A. D . 1511 . ]{ 164 } \u201c Qu\u00e6 septem dici , sex tanien esse solent . \u201d \u2014 Ovid .,His play , Belisarius , was first performed November 24 , 1734 ; Le Bourru Bienfaisant , November 4 , 1771 . La Bottega del Caff\u00e9 , La Locandiera , etc ., still hold the stage . His M\u00e9moires were published in 1787 . ]In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks They dare not show their husbands ; their best conscience Is not to leave't undone , but keep't unknown . \u201d Othello , act iii . sc . 3 , lines 206-208 . ]{ 165 } \u201c An English lady asked of an Italian , What were the actual and official duties Of the strange thing , some women set a value on , Which hovers oft about some married beauties , Called \u2018 Cavalier Servente , \u2019 a Pygmalion Whose statues warmBeneath his art . The dame , pressed to disclose them , Said \u2014 \u2018 Lady , I beseech you to suppose them . \u2019 \u201d Don Juan , Canto IX . stanza li . A critic , in the Monthly Review, took Byron to task for omitting the e in Cavaliere . In a letter to Murray , April 17 , 1818 , he shows that he is right , and takes his revenge on the editorGriffiths , and his \u201c scribbler Mr. Hodgson . \u201d \u2014 Letters , 1900 , iv . 226 . ], \u2018 sono ogni giorno frequentati da i mercatanti Fiorentini , Genovesi , Milanesi , Spagnuoli , Turchi , e d'altre nationi diverse del mondo , i quali vi concorrono in tanta copia , che questa piazza \u00e8 annoverata fra le prime dell \u2019 universo . \u2019 It was there that the Christian held discourse with the Jew ; and Shylock refers to it when he says \u2014 \u201c \u2018 Signer Antonio , many a time and oft , In the Rialto you have rated me . \u2019 \u2018 Andiamo a Rialto , \u2019 \u2014 \u2019 L'ora di Rialto , \u2019 were on every tongue ; and continue so to the present day , as we learn from the Comedies of Goldoni , and particularly from his Mercanti . \u201d \u2014 Note to the Brides of Venice , Poems , by Samuel Rogers , 1852 , ii . 88 , 89 . See , too , Childe Harold , Canto IV . stanza iv . line 6 , Poetical Works , 1899 , ii . 331 . ]{ 166 }, cap . xxxviii .Ugo Foscolo , in his article in the Quarterly Review , April , 1819 , vol . xxi . pp . 486-556 , quotes these lines in illustration of a stanza from Forteguerri 's Ricciardetto , iv . 2 \u2014 Quando si giugne ad una certa et\u00e0 , Ch'io non voglio descrivervi qual \u00e8 , \u201d etc . ]{ 167 }Beppo is the \u201c Joe \u201d of the Italian Joseph .{ 168 }who limits herself to her husband and one lover ; those who have two , three , or more , are a little wild ; but it is only those who are indiscriminately diffuse , and form a low connection ... who are considered as over-stepping the modesty of marriage .... There is no convincing a woman here , that she is in the smallest degree deviating from the rule of right , or the fitness of things , in having an Amoroso . \u201d \u2014 Letter to Murray , January 2 , 1817 , Letters , 1900 , iv . 40 , 41 . ]{ 169 } A Count of wealth inferior to his quality , Which somewhat limited his liberality .\u2014, others called his performance \u2018 seccatura \u2019, and all Milan was in controversy about him . \u201d \u2014 Letter to Moore , November 6 , 1816 , Letters , 1899 , iii . 384 . ]{ 170 }CatinatHis biographer speaks of presenting \u201c le h\u00e9ros en d\u00e9shabill\u00e9 . \u201d]{ 171 }Pasqualino , cited by Diez , says it is derived from the French chiche beau .\u2014 N . Eng . Dict ., art . \u201c Cicisbeo . \u201d ]Cortejo is pronounced Corteho , with an aspirate , according to the Arabesque guttural . It means what there is as yet no precise name for in England , though the practice is as common as in any tramontane country whatever .{ 172 }]{ 173 } \" ... the Tuscan 's siren tongue ? That music in itself , whose sounds are song , The poetry of speech ? \u201d Childe Harold , Canto IV . stanza lviii . lines 4-6 , Poetical Works , 1899 , ii . 374 , note i . ]Sattin , eh ? Query , I can n't spell it .\u2014From the tall peasant with her ruddy bronze .\u2014Like her own clime , all sun , and bloom , and skies .\u2014{ 174 }, and it is a fact that a girl named Margarita , supposed to be his mistress , is mentioned in his will . But the \u201c causes of his death , \u201d April 6 , 1520 , were a delicate constitution , overwork , and a malarial fever , caught during his researches among the ruins of ancient Rome \u201d]\u201c In this belov\u00e9d marble view , Above the works and thoughts of man , What Nature could but would not do , And Beauty and Canova can . \u201d ]\"Printer 's Devil . \u201d ]\u201c Be England what she will , With all her faults , she is my Country still . \u201d ]"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 192}, {"query": ["He be judged justly ; but \u2018 tis not for us", "Is not the messenger returned ?", "To anticipate the sentence of the Forty .", "With all the apparel of the state \u2014 petitions ,", "Too long \u2014 at least so thinks the Doge .", "And he will start up from his chair , then pause ,", "\u2018 Twere enough", "He hears the jarring of a distant door ,", "For the last hour he has not turned a leaf .", "And seat himself again , and fix his gaze"], "true_target": ["10", "He sits as rapt in duty ; but whene'er", "With struggling patience .", "Young , galliard , gay , and haughty .", "Upon some edict ; but I have observed", "Aye , if a poor man : Steno 's a patrician , 20", "Despatches , judgments , acts , reprieves , reports ,\u2014", "Placed at the Ducal table , covered o'er", "Or aught that intimates a coming step ,", "Or murmur of a voice , his quick eye wanders ,"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 193}, {"query": ["Not yet ;", "He will not be judged hardly ?", "is deep in council ,", "Foul scorn in Steno to offend so grossly .", "\u2018 Tis said he is much moved ,\u2014 and doubtless \u2018 twas", "And here it comes .\u2014 What news , Vincenzo ?"], "true_target": ["These moments of suspense ?", "How bears he", "I have sent frequently , as you commanded ,", "And long debate on Steno 's accusation .", "But still the Signory", "Then you think"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 193}, {"query": ["I saw the President in act to seal", "The parchment which will bear the Forty 's judgment"], "true_target": ["Decided ; but as yet his doom 's unknown :", "Unto the Doge , and hasten to inform him .", "\u2018 Tis"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 193}, {"query": ["F. His peers will scarce protect him ; such an act", "But though I understand your grief , and enter", "Whose place it is to do no wrong , is poorer", "The grossest insult , most contemptuous crime", "Of having graven on the ducal throne", "By this most rank \u2014 I will not say \u2014 acquittal ;", "Of commonwealths , and sovereign of himself ! 240", "Your office , and its dignity and duty .", "Of their decision ?", "And so did all men .", "F. My princely Uncle ! you are too much moved ;\u2014", "Which a shrewd gleaner and quick eye would catch at ;", "I sought no vengeance but redress by law \u2014", "Ere I depart ,", "F. \u2018 Tis even so .", "Of a rank , rash patrician \u2014 and found wanting !", "I never meant this miscreant should escape ,", "The very subjects who had made me Sovereign ,", "F. True ; but there still is something given to guess ,", "Did you expect as his fit punishment ?", "Or any provocation : if we are wronged ,", "Even from this hour ; the meanest artisan", "We 'll take it ; but may do all this in calmness \u2014", "The means , and calm yourself .", "May win it from another kinder heart ;", "Doge", "F. Obey them ! Who have forgot their duty to the Sovereign ?", "F. But still it was a lie \u2014 you knew it false ,", "We will find other means to make all even .", "In close arrest . \u201d", "And wise , and just , and cautious \u2014 this I grant \u2014", "The honour of our house must ever be .", "Cheer up , be calm ; this transport is uncalled for \u2014", "The Duke of Venice \u2014\u2014", "F. It cannot be but they will do you justice .", "May spit upon us :\u2014 where is our redress ? 110", "All prudence in your fury at these years ,", "He shall not live till sunset \u2014 leave to me", "But he , who is denied his right by those", "\u201c That Michel Steno be detained a month", "Left without fitting punishment : but still", "Guilty on the last night of Carnival 60", "F .", "\u201c Decreed", "F. \u2018 Tis the first time that honour has been doubted ,", "Who begs his bread , if \u2018 tis refused by one ,", "I wondered to perceive you so forget", "As doth become your near and faithful kinsman ,", "The blood and sweat of almost eighty years ,", "The Forty are but men \u2014 most worthy men , 30", "Adieu , my worthy nephew .\u2014 Hollow bauble !", "The mode and means ; if you had calmly heard me ,", "F. Your wishes are my law : and yet I fain", "And were the last , from any other sceptic .", "The rights of place and choice , of birth and service ,", "Of the offence , and leaving it unpunished ? 210", "Will be as could be wished .", "Were weighed i \u2019 the balance , \u2018 gainst the foulest stain ,", "F. Are you aware , from aught you have perceived ,", "F. If you forget", "Till you can change it \u2014 haply , for a crown !", "That Michel Steno , by his own confession ,", "As Sovereign , I appealed unto my subjects ,", "Doge", "Would read the sentence ere it was pronounced .", "O'ersweep all bounds , and foam itself to air ."], "true_target": ["In Venice \u2019 Duke to say so .", "And now I take my leave , imploring you", "In part of your disdain , it doth appal me", "F. Why , that 's my uncle !", "For it is worse , being full acknowledgment", "F. Forgive me , my good Lord ; I will obey \u2014", "And this is to be borne !", "Remember that of man , and curb this passion .", "In all things to rely upon my duty ,", "In case your fresh appeal should be rejected ,", "And that am I \u2014 and thou \u2014 and all our house ,", "You see what it has done ;", "F. I say not that :\u2014", "And not less loyal citizen and subject .", "F .", "The following words \u2014 \u201d", "Would prove to you how near unto my heart", "At least in some , the juniors of the number \u2014", "F. \u2018 Tis not well", "Deep Vengeance is the daughter of deep Silence . 140", "It is a word \u2014 nay , worse \u2014 a worthless by-word : 100", "The guardian of my youth , and its instructor \u2014", "We will ask justice ; if it be denied ,", "The most despised , wronged , outraged , helpless wretch ,", "Why do you tremble thus ?\u2014 nay , doubt not , all", "That we more surely might devise together", "F. Not twelve hours longer , had you left to me", "And gave me thus a double right to be so .", "F .", "The leader , and the statesman , and the chief", "F. Nay ,", "F. And what redress 190", "I love our house , I honour you , its Chief ,", "I asked no remedy but from the law \u2014", "F. My Lord , \u2018 tis finished .", "The guilty : but with all this , in their aspects \u2014", "F. Do not doubt it ,", "I have yet scarce a third part of your years ,", "I pray you to resume what you have spurned ,", "Will point the finger , and the haughty noble", "A whisper , or a murmur , or an air", "Would bring contempt on all authority .", "F. True \u2014 but in those days \u2014\u2014 170", "F. Patience , my dear Uncle :", "Although the cause \u2014", "I called no judges but those named by law \u2014", "Honours and years , these scars , these hoary hairs ,", "I grant it was a gross offence , and grossly", "F. The law , my Prince \u2014", "Let me seek some assistance .", "In council , without one dissenting voice ,", "F. What mean you ? is not the offence redoubled", "His taking off .", "This fury doth exceed the provocation ,", "Than the rejected beggar \u2014 he 's a slave \u2014", "Doge", "F. For the sake", "More or less solemn spread o'er the tribunal .", "And secret as the grave to which they doom", "The travel \u2014 toil \u2014 the perils \u2014 the fatigues \u2014 120", "But wished you to suppress such gusts of passion ,", "There is no such thing \u2014", "A searching eye , an eye like yours , Vincenzo ,", "F. I cannot but agree with you The sentence is too slight for the offence ; It is not honourable in the Forty To affix so slight a penalty to that Which was a foul affront to you , and even To them , as being your subjects ; but \u2018 tis not 80 Yet without remedy : you can appeal To them once more , or to the Avogadori , Who , seeing that true justice is withheld , Will now take up the cause they once declined , And do you right upon the bold delinquent . Think you not thus , good Uncle ? why do you stand So fixed ? You heed me not :\u2014 I pray you , hear me ! DogeOh ! that the Saracen were in St. Mark 's ! Thus would I do him homage .", "How now \u2014 what tidings ?", "To see your anger , like our Adrian waves ,", "Of Heaven and all its saints , my Lord \u2014"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 194}, {"query": ["Keeping due time with every hammer 's clink ,", "At these late years , decline what was the highest", "Why , yes ;\u2014 boy , you perceive it then at last ;", "Who , as he sung the merry stave , exulted", "When these are tainted by the accursing breath", "Their good and my own honour were my guerdon .", "And on the honour of \u2014 Oh God ! my wife ,", "Which made me look like them \u2014 a courteous wittol ,", "And now you know his punishment ; and then 400", "He was not a shamed dotard like the Doge .", "No love in woman 's heart but lust of youth", "Whispered the tale , and smiled upon the lie", "Its part with all its empire in this ermine .", "Be silent then , and live on , to be beaten", "Why so is he who smote you .", "They ne'er had been , than drag me on to be", "I am ashamed of my own anger now ;", "The last may then be doubled , and the former", "The Forty hath decreed a month 's arrest \u2014", "Quickening his holy march ; yet , ne'ertheless ,", "To sue for justice , being in the course", "But , notwithstanding , harm not thou a hair 220", "You have heard the offence ,", "The nephew of a Doge ? and of that blood 130", "Will not be with us ; they have hated me", "Say \u2014 his name and lineage ?", "So that nor they nor I were further slaves 420", "Let it be black among your dreams ; and when", "Said , \u201c C\u00e6sar 's wife must not even be suspected , \u201d", "Of whom ?", "And suffering what thou hast done \u2014 fear'st thou death ?", "Or making chorus to the creaking oar ,", "So will it stand to me ;\u2014 but speak not , stir not ,\u2014", "Some sacrifices asked a single victim , 230", "Would have required no words to comprehend ?", "The die is cast . Where is the place of meeting ?", "Visit the villain 's infamy on her ,", "did ,", "And leave the palace ?", "Hast thou no feeling save the external sense 150", "To try him by his peers , his own tribunal .", "Of Venice and her people , not the Senate ;", "Steno is condemned", "Forget it not :\u2014 When you lie down to rest ,", "The nearest , dearest part of all men 's honour ,", "If that the people shared that sovereignty ,", "Of all in seeming , but of all most base 450", "I had lived too long , and willingly would sleep", "A gondola ,", "Might move compassion , like a beggar 's rags ;", "Say on .", "They are wond'rous dutiful , and ever humble .", "Would'st thou repeat them ?", "Toil , charge , or duty for the state , I did not ,", "the same ,", "The Sun and you , as an ill-omened cloud", "And never having hitherto refused", "This creeping , coward , rank , acquitted felon ,", "Hold , nephew : this", "Insulted on his very throne , and made", "Once more ; but not for any knot of men ,", "By those for whom thou hast bled .", "How say you ?\u2014 finished ! Do I dream ?\u2014 \u2018 tis false \u2014 70", "That Michel Steno \u201d \u2014 Nephew , thine arm !", "But craved my country 's justice on his head ,", "But something you would do \u2014", ";", "Of torture from the touch ? hast thou no soul \u2014", "They have defrauded me of both my rights", "Refused the diadem of all the C\u00e6sars ,", "Who passed the sentence upon Michel Steno ;", "That a Venetian Prince must bear ? old Dandolo", "Oh , that the Genoese were in the port !", "This Cap is not the Monarch 's crown ; these robes", "I sought it not , the flattering fetters met me", "Doge", "Through almost sixty years , and still for Venice ,", "But I must know your plan , your names , and numbers ;", "Let me consider \u2014 of efficient troops", "Stay , I must think of this .\u2014", "Yes \u2014 of a happy people .", "Hath made me Doge to be insulted : but", "\u201c \u2018 Tis decreed in council", "Ask of the bleeding pelican why she", "Fear not ; you shall have time and place of proof :", "For what then do they pause ?", "What would you do to be revenged on this man ?", "Since that rash hour , when , maddened with the drone ,", "But thou say'st well \u2014 we must be humble now .", "When I can neither right myself nor thee .", "Were nothing at this hour ; in th \u2019 olden time", "And patron of her house , as if there were 180", "Near to the church where sleep my sires ;", "Admit him , he may be on public service .", "The whole must be extinguished ;\u2014 better that", "Of Steno 's head \u2014 he shall not wear it long .", "A scion of the house of Faliero ?", "Oh , that the Huns whom I o'erthrew at Zara", "Rising at distance o'er the blue Lagoon ,", "Venice \u2019 Duke !", "Left a base slur to pass from mouth to mouth 160", "When Genoa conquered : they have further cause , 300", "for this faithless state .", "At Sapienza", "What is it that a Roman would not suffer ,", "They made me so ;", "The misty letters vanish from my eyes ;", "Was I not injured as a husband ? scorned", "Sit newly on me , and you were appointed", "What would you have me answer ?", "For justice , or as Sovereign who commands it ,", "How ! did you say the patron of a galley ?", "You have deeply ventured ;", "Next moment with my sires ; and , wanting this ,", "And murmur deeply \u2014 any hope of change", "The justice due unto the humblest being", "Then wherefore came you here ?", "I cannot even obtain it \u2014 \u2018 twas denied", "Are you much hurt ?", "A mockery to the men who should obey me ?", "Aye ,", "How ! are we comrades ?\u2014 the State 's ducal robes", "Give them breath . Mine have no further outrage to endure .", "And wore the ducal cap I trample on \u2014", "But would you know why I have done all this ? 440", "Death ! Was I not the Sovereign of the state \u2014", "Could I free Venice , and avenge my wrongs ,", "You overrate my power , which is a pageant .", "Doth he live ?", "There are three thousand posted at \u2014\u2014", "Matured and strengthened .", "Retire , and wait without .", "This patron may be sounded ; I will try him .", "Thus far I 'll answer you \u2014 your secret 's safe .", "Had stabbed him on the instant .", "So that I recognised you not . Who placed you ?", "To a month 's confinement .", "Who hath a name whose honour 's all to him ,", "Who hath a home whose hearth is dear to him \u2014", "Hath ripped her bosom ? Had the bird a voice ,", "All things , I must be speedy : at my hour", "Say on .", "And now retire \u2014\u2014"], "true_target": ["Leave the chamber ,", "with one oar only , will", "You ask redress of me ! Go to the Forty ,", "But bring me to the knowledge of your chiefs .", "Was not offence like his a complication", "I have no further wrath against this man .", "Aye \u2014 think upon the cause \u2014", "Nephew , the high Roman", "Returning from my Roman embassy ,", "Nay , more , a beggar 's are his own , and these", "Since they are nothing in the state , and in", "For that he had been long her father 's friend", "No , nephew , he must live ;", "There 's blood upon thy face \u2014 how came it there ?", "That is \u2014 I mean \u2014 a servant of the state :", "Who hath a wife whose faith is sweet to him ,", "\u2018 Tis past .", "The morn returns , so let it stand between", "Have traversed land and sea in constant duty ,", "I have fought and bled ; commanded , aye , and conquered ; 430", "The troops have long arrears of pay , oft promised ,", "As a good jest to jolly artisans ;", "Stamped the same brand upon a peasant 's stool , 200", "Give me the paper \u2014", "Patient \u2014 aye \u2014 proud , it may be , of dishonour .", "How many are ye ?", "The moon ?", "I lived and toiled a soldier and a servant", "In what we have to do and to endure :", "No pride \u2014 no passion \u2014 no deep sense of honour ?", "310", "At least , just now \u2014 a life so vile as his", "Had been already where \u2014 how soon , I care not \u2014 320", "And beardless faces ;\u2014 I did not for this", "Who sent up my appeal unto the Forty", "Because she took an old man for her lord ,", "Proceed .", "With but my nephew .", "How , sir ! do you menace ? 500", "It is \u2014 it is ;\u2014 I did not visit on", "Which hath already given three dukes to Venice ?", "They have cause , since Sapienza 's", "Or that he were alive ere I be ashes !", "Is it not so ?", "Upon a summer-day of festival :", "We must obey the Forty .", "My fathers \u2019 and my birthplace , whose dear spires ,", "As man ? reviled , degraded , as a Prince ?", "I know the people to be discontented :", "Yes \u2014", "What if I were to trust myself amongst you ,", "They may be won , at least their Chief at Rome ,", "Take thou this paper :", "Whether as fellow citizen who sues", "Aye , doubtless they have echoed o'er the arsenal ,", "\u2014", "Great expiations had a hecatomb .", "Leave all to me ; we shall have much to do , 250", "Have breathed a pestilence upon us all .", "Have you long time served ?", "The Doge of Venice , and I cannot give it ;", "By some well-timed concessions ; but , above", "His blood had gilt the threshold ; for the carle", "Appeal again ! art thou my brother 's son ?", "In the vile tune of every galley-slave ,", "If such your power and purpose , why come here", "When ? where ?", "Sentence is passed , you say ?", "Know you not Venice ? Know you not the Forty ? But we shall see anon .", "Speak out ; fear nothing : being stung at heart ,", "Away ! 90", "To do yourself due right ?", "They 'll do as much by Barbaro , no doubt .", "Alas ! my friend , you seek it of the twain 330", "Of Calumny and Scorn .", "At the midnight hour , then ,", "I pray you , pardon me .", "Will draw them forward : they shall pay themselves", "The poisonous heads of whose envenomed body", "Of loose mechanics , with all coarse foul comments ,", "Stop , sir \u2014 Stir not \u2014", "Harp on the deep dishonour of our house ,", "As it might chance to be our country 's \u2018 vantage ;", "Of Venice , first of cities ?\u2014 To the sentence .", "You come to me for justice \u2014 unto me !", "Twin-named from the apostles John and Paul ;", "Had he instead of on the Doge 's throne", "Of least respect and interest in Venice .", "You speak in riddles .", "Bear witness for me thou , my injured subject ,", "And villainous jests , and blasphemies obscene ;", "I 'm unwell \u2014", "You know the full offence of this born villain ,", "I smote the tardy Bishop at Treviso ,", "Of insult and of treason ?\u2014 and he lives !", "But all must do so who would greatly win :", "What was the cause ? or the pretext ?", "Better that sixty of my fourscore years", "Wretch ! darest thou name my son ? He died in arms", "Chief of the arsenal ere I came from Rome ;", "Aye , such as the Avogadori", "While sneering nobles , in more polished guise ,", "You must address the Council .", "Because \u2018 tis now degraded .", "I cannot fix them .", "\u2018 Tis fit I were alone .", "Of twilight little light of life remains .", "I tell thee \u2014 must I tell thee \u2014 what thy father", "And put her from him .", "But lent to the poor puppet , who must play", "To me most solemnly an hour ago !", "Dishonoured in its Chief \u2014 that Chief the Prince", "Would'st thou repeat them \u2014 thou , a Faliero ,", "Have made and marred peace oft in embassies ,", "Who threw his sting into a poisonous libel ,", "What was that ?", "I can see no one , not even a patrician \u2014", "Let him refer his business to the Council . 290", "At what hour arises", "She 'd tell thee \u2018 twas for all her little ones .", "That he may do me right .", "Oh ! that he were alive , and I in ashes !", "Nor sect , nor faction , did I bleed or sweat !", "With plunder :\u2014 but the priests \u2014 I doubt the priesthood", "Were ranged around the palace !", "To serve the nobles \u2019 most patrician pleasure .", "I should not need the dubious aid of strangers . 560", "Would have sufficed but yesterday ; at present", "To this o'ergrown aristocratic Hydra ,", "It was reward enough for me to view", "Who now is Duke in Venice ? let me see him ,", "The innocent creature thus most vilely slandered", "Unless with all intrusted , 540", "The thing these arch-oppressors fain would make me .", "In evil hour was I so born ; my birth", "Be there .", "Vincenzo .\u2014", "adverse day ,", "The city worse than nothing \u2014 mere machines ,", "And you shall have a part .\u2014 But now retire ,", "From me fear nothing ; out with it !", "Lurk in the narrow channel which glides by .", "But be not thou too rash , as I have been .", "It is redoubled , but not now by him :"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 194}, {"query": ["The secret custom of the courts in Venice .", "Your Highness , the same patron whom I spake of", "The President was sealing it , when I", "Doge", "And had no leisure to take note of that", "It comes , for the perusal of his Highness .", "My station near the accused too , Michel Steno , 40", "Not only to the Chief of the Republic ,", "Made me \u2014", "Craves audience of your Highness .", "Which passed among the judges , even in seeming ;", "In forwarding the intimation due 20", "And how looked he ? deliver that .", "My Lord , I will deliver your reply ;", "In the mean time the Forty doth salute", "I am charged to tell his Highness that the court"], "true_target": ["Is here to crave your patience .", "The sentence will be sent up to the Doge ;", "Has passed its resolution , and that , soon 10", "The master of a galley , I believe .", "His acceptation of their duty .", "It is , your Highness :", "As the due forms of judgment are gone through ,", "The Prince of the Republic , and entreat", "There is one without", "May it please", "Was called in , that no moment might be lost", "My Lord , I came away upon the moment ,", "No , my Lord ; you know", "Calm , but not overcast , he stood resigned", "To the decree , whate'er it were ;\u2014 but lo !", "But the complainant , both in one united .", "It cannot much import \u2014 he 's a plebeian ,"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 194}, {"query": ["His Highness to peruse and to approve", "Chief magistrate of Venice , and requests", "The high tribunal of the Forty sends", "Patrician , and arraigned upon the charge 50"], "true_target": ["The sentence passed on Michel Steno , born", "Health and respect to the Doge Faliero ,", "Contained , together with its penalty ,", "Within the rescript which I now present ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 194}, {"query": ["Who claims protection from authority ,", "Now you know all ; and that I speak the truth ,", "Ber . I am the chief of the arsenal ,", "From their hard earnings , has inflamed them further :", "Ber . Because the man ,", "And fight beneath the Chief who beat the Huns there ,", "With the plebeian blood , and treasure wrung", "Ber . Not thou ,", "To stain the ducal throne with those foul words ,", "And freedom to the rest , or leave it black", "Ber . And yet they made thee Duke .", "Who have made me thus unworthy of a name", "Ber . No , I will speak", "In your great purpose . Prince , I take my leave .", "My petty wrong , for what is a mere blow ,", "Upon our project .", "Which undermine your palace , nor in those", "And less distrusted . But , besides all this ,", "Would echo o'er the Stygian wave which flows 510", "Ber . I now have placed", "I say no more .", "Are discontented for their long arrears ;", "Ber . Wouldst thou be sovereign lord of Venice ?", "And hearts , and hopes , and faith , and patient courage .", "From the patricians ? And the hopeless war", "Sometime my general , now the Doge Faliero .\u2014", ": 370", "Had I sate down too humbly with this blow ,", "However vile , to such a thing as I am ?\u2014", "\u2018 Tis said the worm will .", "But loud complaint , however angrily", "Ber . What ! the same who dared", "Showing his confidence and his submission", "Than I .", "employed 350", "To all the growing calumnies of Time ,", "And will not my great sires leap from the vault ,", "They are not numerous , nor yet too few", "I had another reason .", "Because my general is Doge , and will not", "I little thought his bounty would conduct me", "They might wring blood from me , but treachery never .", "Alas ! I must not think of them , but those", "Whose brethren , parents , children , wives , or sisters ,", "Ber . He is called so ;", "A band of brethren , valiant hearts and true ;", "Perhaps I pass the sentence of my death !", "To that authority , can hardly be", "Requite tenfold both good and evil : \u2018 twas", "Full of reproof , because our artisans", "See his old soldier trampled on . Had any , 380", "To execute the state 's decree : I dared", "You are the sole ally we covet now .", "Within thy power , but in the firm belief", "Those who would live to think o n't , and avenge me .", "Even now \u2014 but , I forget that speaking thus ,", "Feel with their friends ; for who is he amongst them", "Ber . Not long \u2014", "At every hazard ; and if Venice \u2019 Doge", "To punish and avenge \u2014 I will not say", "You shall receive our homage , and pronounce", "Were hazardous .", "Where lie two Doges who preceded me ,", "At peril of my life \u2014 if you disdain not", "Ber . Not one of all those strangers whom thou doubtest ,", "And pluck me down amongst them ? Would they could !", "Had reached me . I had served you , honoured you ,", "Ber . \u2018 Tis mine , and not the first I 've shed for Venice ,", "Ber . Know then , that there are met and sworn in secret", "To keep the faith that we will pledge to you .", "Ber . Ah ! dared I speak my feelings !", "At midnight , by the church Saints John and Paul ,", "Ber . Is't possible ? a month 's imprisonment ! No more for Steno ?", "Ber . You shall do both , if you possess the will ;", "The native mariners , and civic troops ,", "Where'er your Highness pleases to direct me ,", "The Pozzi", "Back to its antique lustre in our annals ,", "And sorrow too ; for he will lose far more 480", "Ber . So long as to remember Zara 's siege , 360", "And I would pass the fearful \u201c Bridge of Sighs , \u201d", "Ber . We 're enough already ;", "By the true touchstone of desert \u2014 Success .", "oppression , or pollution ,", "And felt that you were dangerously insulted ,", "For I should rest in honour with the honoured .", "Ber . Redress .", "By sweet revenge on all that 's base in Venice ,", "Ber . You must come alone .", "Ber . In the full hope your Highness will not falter", "With common ruffians leagued to ruin states !", "As patron of a galley : my new office", "Have not partook", "Ber . No ; I affirm . I have betrayed myself ;", "Save Faliero , filled the ducal throne ,"], "true_target": ["Ber . At midnight I will be alone and masked", "Will generate one vengeance : should it be so ,", "Where sleep my noble fathers , I repair \u2014 580", "Grieved over that of Venice , and have right", "The foreign soldiers in the Senate 's pay", "This morning comes the noble Barbaro", "So that thou keep'st a father 's faith with them .", "To wait your coming , and conduct you where", "Nay , more , a noble one \u2014 at least , in Venice :", "Ber . That which I dare not name , and yet will do .", "The prison and the palace walls : there are", "My life , my honour , all my earthly hopes", "Dishonourably .", "A moody brow and muttered threats had made me", "It shapes its phrase , is little to be feared ,", "Between the murderers and the murdered , washing", "Be our Chief now \u2014 our Sovereign hereafter .", "Was given as the reward of certain scars", "And having rescued her from foreign foes ,", "Ber . Then , in a word , it rests but on your word", "This blood had been washed out in other blood .", "To lend a patient ear .", "Joyous that mine must be the last that e'er", "Permit not to protect himself :\u2014 if not \u2014", "Trust him who leaves his life in trust with you .", "On Roman marbles ; but I will redeem it 590", "Two of the principals : a greater number", "Had left some frivolous order of his house ,", "Ber . I 'll not answer that", "Ber . Some rumours that the Doge was greatly moved", "But there 's no torture in the mystic wells", "To do so ; having served her in all climes ,", "Ber . I come for justice ,", "Nor I alone , are injured and abused , 460", "Ber . \u2018 Twere in vain ;", "Contemned and trampled on ; but the whole people", "Ber . How says your Highness ?", "But the base insult done your state and person . 410", "Would do the same from those within her walls .", "To his successor as a helpless plaintiff ;", "Who wait but for a signal \u2014 will you give it ?", "But the first shed by a Venetian hand :", "and the Piombi were in vain ;", "To what ? to hold a council in the dark", "Behold my blood ! the first time it e'er flowed", "That injuries like ours , sprung from one cause ,", "But for the hope I had and have , that you ,", "A marked man to the Forty 's inquisition ;", "Ber . That shall be done upon your formal pledge", "For their great purpose ; they have arms , and means , 490", "At least , in such a cause .", "Should turn delator , be the shame on him ,", "Ber . Of God and of the Doge .", "Ber . And is this all ?", "By the reference of the Avogadori", "Ber . Late , but the atmosphere is thick and dusky , 570", "Ber . Yet , thou wast born , and still hast lived , patrician .", "Ber . This night I 'll bring to your apartment 550", "But try the C\u00e6sar , or the Catiline ,", "Ber . Barbaro .", "Till I am answered .", "Men who have proved all fortunes , and have long", "My Prince , yourself a soldier , will redress", "For he who injured me is one of them .", "Ber . Irreparably in my self-esteem .", "A noble smote me .", "Ber . The late Doge ; keeping still my old command", "But since he hath forgotten that I am one ,", "Groan with the strong conception of their wrongs :", "But will regard thee with a filial feeling ,", "Being of an order of such spirits , as", "Noble and brave as aught of consular", "Ber . Which shall soon be read", "Against the Genoese , which is still maintained 470", "My peril be the proof .", "Ber . An hour to strike . DogeSaint Mark 's shall strike that hour !", "My wish to prove and urge you to redress .", "To force a single name from me of others .", "Ber . I would have you", "Ber . Wouldst thou be King ?", "But roughly used by the Genoese last year .", "Of Michel Steno 's sentence to the Forty 530", "Ber . I am a man , my Lord .", "Which never spare the fame of him who fails ,", "To justify the men \u2014 he raised his hand ;\u2014", "Ber . Not were he your son !", "Not less appalling cells , the \u201c leaden roofs , \u201d", "That have cried shame to every ear in Venice ? 390", "Suspected of combining to destroy it . 520", "Him , whom the laws of discipline and Venice 340", "\u2018 Tis a sirocco .", "And many thousands more not less oppressed ,", "And treats me like a brute , the brute may turn \u2014", "At present in repairing certain galleys", "Ber . I will not fail .", "Doge"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 194}, {"query": ["I cannot bear to leave you thus .", "And let such strong emotions stamp your brow ,", "To lighten or divide it . Since the day", "My father 's last injunction gave you .", "The state ; then live to save her still . A day , 470", "Why , what is virtue if it needs a victim ?", "This passion will give way , and you will be", "and his bold brow 20", "Of such a thing as Steno ?", "I would not be a judge in my own cause ,", "Be honoured still by me : but may your days", "With faith to him with whom I was affianced .", "When overstrained , and this I fear in him . 110", "Reproof to them , and sole revenge for you .", "And will you ?", "What is't you feel so deeply , then , even now ?", "If they require it to be blazoned forth ;", "The vile are only vain ; the great are proud . 210", "\u2018 Twas a gross insult ; but I heed it not", "And I would soothe you back to what you were .", "So quick and restless that it would consume", "Heaven will alike forgive you and your foes .", "Be better you should quit me ; he seems rapt", "You , who have stood all storms and never sunk ,", "Yet tempered by redeeming nobleness", "The hour you speak of come , it will be seen so .", "Unfixed your quiet , you are greatly changed ,", "I know not that , but he has been detected .", "In hostile states , nor perils , thus to shake you ,\u2014", "It were indeed no more , if human breath 60", "He is so .", "Not their decrepitude : and he of late", "Upon it , and can look down steadily", "But feel not less the love and gratitude 80", "Let me be", "Bears but the scars of mind , the thoughts of years ,", "My Lord , I looked but to my father 's wishes ,", "You were absorbed in thought , and he who now", "Alas ! why will you thus consider it ?", "Aye , calmer , my good Lord .\u2014 Ah , why", "You 're ever kind to me .", "A heart so ill 180", "The best and purest feelings of our nature", "Needs no answer .", "You know I never sought , would never seek", "To single out what we should love in others ,", "Why speak you thus ?", "For doing all its duties , and replying", "The dying Roman said , \u201c \u2018 twas but a name : \u201d", "Upon his coward calumny .", "And to subdue all tendency to lend", "To all save me : I tremble when I think", "This man , I hear , is bold and popular , 140", "From which on his return the Dukedom met him .", "An hour of rest will give you to your toils", "That you will take some little pause of rest :", "Or aught save their past choice .", "And trust , and honour me ; and all men know", "As they would look out for an ornament", "Love , and I loved my father , who first taught me", "You would not have him die for this offence ?", "As not betraying their full import , yet", "But fain would be \u2014\u2014", "Upon his early , tried , and trusted friend ,", "Of eighty men , and has great influence", "To baser passions . He bestowed my hand", "Mortals the nearest to the angelic nature :", "And the deep passions fiercely fostered by", "Along the depth beneath , and ne'er feel dizzy .", "At least , whate'er may urge , let me implore", "Were Genoa 's galleys riding in the port , 200", "But never difficult .", "Something has stung your pride , not patriotism .", "An aspect of Eternity : his thoughts ,", "Be many yet \u2014 and happier than the present ! 450", "That it had been relief to have awaked you ,", "Why should you doubt it ? has it ever failed ? 290", "As you have risen , with an unaltered brow :", "When foolish Steno 's ribaldry detected 220", "The minds of the inquisitors than they", "And seeing , feeling thus this truth in others ,", "Yet this existed long before , and never", "And not the quality they prize : the first", "Due to my father , who bestowed my hand", "Which it has made upon Faliero 's soul ,", "Which would have made me happier ; nor your offer", "Ah no !\u2014 As I have ever shared your kindness", "Of a patrician guilty of a falsehood :", "And have ever had .", "That Israel Bertuccio has secured him ,", "The uses of patricians , and a life", "Another day like that would be the best", "In all things else , let me not be shut out", "Except to see you oftener and calmer .", "Which long use and a talent like to yours", "I have nothing to desire , or to request ,", "Be well that he were won : I needs must hope", "Now in the Arsenal , who holds command", "Disquiet your great thoughts with restless hate", "Shed his young blood for his absurd lampoon ,", "A duty to a certain sign , a vice", "His feelings , passions , good or evil , all", "Have ruffled mine , he will , for all acquittance ,", "Which I have never for one moment ceased", "He did so , or it had not been bestowed .", "The proud , the fiery , the austere \u2014 austere", "Nor do I know what sense of punishment 50", "To win a word from you ; but feeling now", "Do you still keep apart , and walk alone ,", "To keep your mind from stagnating . \u2018 Tis not", "But he has been condemned into captivity .", "On his resentments or his griefs . Unlike", "But if his insults sink no deeper in", "To the most fierce of fatal passions , and", "From his first fight to his last embassy ,", "In thought .\u2014 How pensively he takes his way !", "Of aught in Venice , and forego all claim", "And would seem honest as they must seem fair .", "I did so ; I would do so"], "true_target": ["And of all sins most easily besets", "I am too well avenged , for you still love me ,", "I married .", "I love all noble qualities which merit", "This but proves it is the name", "A joyous hour , or dreamless slumber more .", "You have done well .\u2014 I thank you for that trust ,", "Would he were come ! for I alone have power", "Nor yet enfeebled even his mortal frame , 10", "To honour you the more for .", "Or if it must depend upon men 's words ?", "But for the effect , the deadly deep impression", "What was the Doge 's answer ?", "Your feelings now are of a different kind ;", "And then he has been rash from his youth upwards ,", "From the quick sense of honour , which becomes", "And every shadow on the walls frowned shame", "It may", "To what it may conduct .", "My Lord ! 150", "Ambitious hopes ne'er crossed my dreams ; and should", "I answered your first question when I said", "It may be so . I knew not of such thoughts .", "Grovelling by stealth in the moon 's glimmering light ,", "Has lavished all its chief employs upon him ,", "At length the thoughts which shook your slumbers thus . 490", "His own still conscience smote him for the act ,", "The Count Val di Marino , now our Doge .", "His loss of honour .", "Remember what you were .", "And yet they were my father 's ; with his name ,", "With fitter thoughts and freshened strength .", "Is it not enough ?", "Do not speak thus wildly \u2014", "I would not interrupt him in his duty", "He has been much disquieted of late ;", "If my young heart held any preference", "but wherefore yield you 400", "And never fainted by the way , and stand", "There you saved", "To bear you from the Senate .", "Ne'er from that moment could this breast have known", "From your distress : were it of public import ,", "In the first burst of passion , pour away", "That you are just , and I am true : what more", "To other spirits of his order , who ,", "You are not to be wrought on , but would fall ,", "I should have sought none though a peasant 's bride ,", "Disclose too much ?", "Were civil fury raging in Saint Mark 's ,", "There is a certain Philip Calendaro", "Less hardy clay \u2014 Time has but little power", "There seems to be enough in the conviction 230", "And climbed up to the pinnacle of power", "His faults are those that dwell in the high bosoms", "Besides on all the spirits of his comrades :", "Had I not hoped that Nature would o'erpower", "Which seems to be more nourished by a soul", "And theirs .", "Your sleep for many nights has been so turbid ,", "Sudden and daring , and yet secret ; \u2018 twould", "May reach the soul of ribalds such as Steno ;", "To make my dowry equal to the rank", "Be left to his own shamelessness or shame .", "Would he were returned !", "Upon Faliero : he had known him noble ,", "Has parted from you might have words of weight", "Upon his troubled spirit .", "Could make or mar it .", "More than the mere discharge of public duties , 190", "And not till then ?", "Of soldier , citizen , and friend ; in all", "The world will think with worldlings ; but my heart 90", "Your grief is private , it belongs to me", "Brave , generous ; rich in all the qualities 100", "Could I require , or you command ?", "Hallowed by his last words , and to my heart", "Such have I found him as my father said .", "To ponder upon what they now might choose ,", "I feel no wrath , but some surprise : I knew not", "Serene , and what you should be \u2014 what you were .", "All other punishment were light unto", "Forgive me ; there is something at your heart", "In such sort , that the wariest of republics", "At ease .", "Of men who have commanded ; too much pride ,", "Doge", "The sole inheritance he left .", "That wedded bosoms could permit themselves", "Their wrath or sorrow , all things wear in him", "And those who have not kept it , seek its seeming 70", "For the rash scorner 's falsehood in itself ,", "Of which they feel the want , but not because", "Heaven bids us to forgive our enemies . 260", "My Lord , in life , and after life , you shall", "Have nothing of old age ;", "Has still been in my duties , which are many ,", "With me , my Lord ?", "Till in these late days did I see you thus .", "Spent in the storms of state and war ; and also", "Has been more agitated than his wont .", "In pondering o'er your late disquietudes .", "An instant \u2014 yet an instant your companion !", "In face of earth and Heaven ; for I have never", "Have found it a hard task to hold their honour ,", "Repented for my sake ; sometimes for yours ,", "To what does this conduct ?", "I have not forgotten", "They think it so ; they live in others \u2019 thoughts ,", "And Time , which has not tamed his fiery spirit ,", "The nobleness with which you bade me speak", "Enter the DOGE and PIETRO .", "Oh ! had this false and flippant libeller 240", "Have rendered light , nay , a necessity ,", "Suspect me !", "Why Steno dared not : when he scrawled his lie , 40", "I thought the Duke had held command in Venice .", "No .", "Yes \u2014 the same sin that overthrew the angels ,"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 195}, {"query": ["What ! is the sentence passed ? is he condemned ?", "The Doge can not suspect you ?", "Yet this strange disproportion in your years ,", "Such as abound in Venice , would be loud", "Is doomed to expiate his rash insult with", "To female virtue , and to noble blood .", "And , let me add , disparity of tempers ,", "Such chastisement as will enforce respect 30", "Might make the world doubt whether such an union", "Beauty like yours ? or , since , have you ne'er seen 120", "One , who , if your fair hand were still to give ,", "That far too often makes them deem they would 130", "Now choose more wisely , could they cancel it .", "He should be punished grievously .", "\u2018 Tis their past choice", "Here comes the Doge \u2014 shall I retire ?", "And the second ?", "And do you love him ?", "That moment summoned to a conference ;", "Assuredly", "Stainless and faithful , would feel all the wrong", "Might now pretend to Loredano 's daughter ?", "Could make you wisely , permanently happy .", "And deem you this enough for such foul scorn ?"], "true_target": ["Ne'er beat for any of the noble youth ,", "And all-inexorable in their cry", "I pray you pardon , if I have offended .", "And the last gondola may now be seen", "That he was", "The glittering waters .", "It is true ,", "\u2018 Twere fit", "His Highness has of late been greatly moved", "You want none ;", "But previous to this marriage , had your heart", "Yet full many a dame ,", "Gliding into the throng of barks which stud", "Some sacrifice is due to slandered virtue .", "By the affront of Steno , and with cause :", "For justice .", "Not long ago the Senators embarking ;", "You have strange thoughts for a patrician dame .", "Of such a slander ; and less rigid ladies ,", "But the offender doubtless even now", "Wife to a Prince , the Chief of the Republic .", "Such as in years had been more meet to match", "And with that hand did he bestow your heart ?", "But \u2018 tis by this time ended . I perceived"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 195}, {"query": ["For breaking in upon your meditation ;", "The Senator Bertuccio , your kinsman ,"], "true_target": ["My Lord , pray pardon me", "To fix an hour when he may speak with you .", "Charged me to follow and enquire your pleasure"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 195}, {"query": ["And not less truly in a faithful heart .", "To what I was !\u2014 have you heard Steno 's sentence ?", "Thus speak I ? Venice has forgot that day \u2014", "I do believe you ; and I know you true :", "To compensate for many a dull hour , wasted 170", "Stands like the Sun , and all which rolls around", "So long approaching me ?\u2014 I saw you not .", "And he who taints kills more than he who sheds it .", "Even these years warrant , for there is that stirring", "Of worldly pleasure rankle in the heart ,", "Say not the laws of nations blood for treason ? 250", "As e'er they were by pestilence or war ,\u2014", "At once insulted in her Lord and laws .", "It were in vain !", "And malcontents within \u2014 \u2018 tis this which makes me", "Of honesty in such infected blood ,", "How fares it with you ? have you been abroad ?", "It was not to repay me , long repaid", "You had been won , but thought the change your choice ;", "To youth in woman , and old age in man ?", "In such , nor outward ornaments of nature , 370", "And , less than honour , for a little gold ?", "Were I still in my five and twentieth spring ;", "For wrath eternal ?", "The rest must be with you .", "Too feeling not to know herself a wretch .", "What matters my forgiveness ? an old man 's ,", "But had a different husband , any husband", "The once fall'n woman must for ever fall ;", "Within \u2014 above \u2014 around , that in this city", "And I shall slumber well \u2014 but where ?\u2014 no matter .", "You mistake me .", "I must not , if I could ; for never was", "Those summer shadows rising from the past", "Or has your music made you solitary ?", "And woman 's innocence , man 's honour , pass", "Into a by-word ; and the doubly felon 430", "Light thoughts are lurking , or the vanities", "Shame without sin , for thou art faultless . Hadst thou", "Such estimation in your eyes as these", "Drinks life , and light , and glory from her aspect .", "Of womanhood , more skilful to select", "More pensive and less tranquil than my wont .", "Is't nothing to have brought into contempt", "A lonely and undowered maid . I did not", "Upon the motive , and my conduct proved", "Think with him , but would not oppose the thought", "You had all freedom \u2014 all respect \u2014 all trust", "Be thou at least kind to my memory .", "I cannot \u2014", "\u2018 Tis nothing , child .\u2014 But in the state", "For better fortunes than to share in mine ,", "To your own faith and honour , for my own .", "Before by his great loyalty in friendship ;", "To suffer this , and yet be unavenged ! 280", "Had it been so , he should \u2014 but let that pass .", "Pride ! Angiolina ? Alas ! none is left me .", "Making them ransack to the very last", "And could not be so now , did such exist .", "Shall soothe me to my moment of long rest .", "I caused to be conducted forth , and taught", "Let us begone , my child \u2014 the time is pressing .", "For such as him a dungeon were acquittal ;", "Or have you held a levee of your friends ?", "Of fitting splendour , or of honest pleasure ,", "\u2018 Tis well ,", "Save the regards due to the blood and sweat ,", "I trusted to the blood of Loredano", "Where Death sits robed in his all-sweeping shadow .", "Will make the cemeteries populous", "From me and mine ; and , born of those who made", "I had but little more to ask , or hope ,", "Disclose too much !\u2014 of what ? What is there to disclose ?", "Innate and precept-strengthened , \u2018 tis the rock 380", "That which scarce one more favoured citizen", "There 's much for me to do \u2014 and the hour hastens .", "Even in the midst of our great festival ,", "Is't nothing to have filled these veins with poison", "But let us change the argument .\u2014 My child ! 270", "Freedom from me to choose , and urged in answer", "But I would still , whatever others think ,", "Our wedlock was not of this sort ; you had", "O'er the few days or hours which yet await", "To your belief in Heaven \u2014 to your mild virtues \u2014", "An incarnation of the poet 's God", "For Vice must have variety , while Virtue", "Wealthier and wiser , in the ripest bloom", "Regard the injunctions you will find within", "As a true feeling for your welfare , and", "Favours the gondolier 's light skimming oar ;", "Vice cannot fix , and Virtue cannot change .", "Who govern this precarious commonwealth ;", "Speak , and \u2018 tis done .", "This scroll", "Yes , Angiolina . Do not marvel ; I", "Now suffering from the Genoese without ,", "In honourable safety from the perils ,", "A miscreant 's angry breath may blast it all \u2014", "It is not Steno who could move me thus ;", "\u2018 Tis we who owe all service to the Senate .", "Adieu , my Angiolina .", "My dearest child , forgive me \u2014 why delay", "My pardon more than my resentment , both", "Within a palace . But I 've done with him ; 440", "Would not suffice to bind where virtue is not ;", "The day is overcast , but the calm wave", "Or buy in selfish marriage some young victim ,", "And not a doting homage ; friendship , faith ,\u2014", "Sweet Angiolina ! I must to my cabinet ; 480", "The Senate 's duty ! you mistake ;", "They did me right , while yours was all to praise :", "He shall .\u2014 But let that pass .\u2014 We will be jocund . 160", "Or sensual throbs convulse it , well I know", "And he is pure , for now his crime is theirs .", "Would I had died at Zara !", "Worthy to be our first of native dames .", "At sunset .\u2014 Stay a moment \u2014 let me see \u2014", "Which made me covetous of girlish beauty ,", "And his brief term of mock-arrest will pass", "A Prince before his people ? to have failed", "I will be what I should be , or be nothing ;", "An old man for some summers , against all", "From the Senate ?", "How to demean himself in ducal chambers ;", "But one such day occurs within an age ;", "Have your respect both now and in my grave .", "\u2018 Twere hopeless for humanity to dream", "And then the daughter of my earliest friend , 330", "The brave , the chivalrous , how little deemed", "I have thought o n't till \u2014 but let me lead you back 410", "Doth Heaven forgive her own ? Is there not Hell", "Thus ,", "Being weak and worthless ? I have lived too long ;"], "true_target": ["And this shall spread itself in general poison ;", "Not now :\u2014 being still alive , I 'd have him live", "When I am nothing , let that which I was", "Enough for Fortune to have granted once ,", "But never more \u2014 oh ! never , never more ,", "You knew it choosing me , and chose ; I trusted", "Of faith connubial : where it is not \u2014 where", "The demi-deity , Alcides , in 390", "Would choose more fitly in respect of years , 340", "\u2014\u2014 Fear not ; they are for your advantage :", "But such respect , and mildly paid regard", "May win in many states and years . But why", "Say in the second hour of night .", "And pure as theirs ; but this has been denied me .", "Thy father , wedding thee unto his friend ,", "Calmer ?", "Nor the false edge of ag\u00e9d appetite ,", "Which soothed his death-bed .", "Worn out , scorned , spurned , abused ; what matters then", "Pure in your veins ; I trusted to the soul", "On foreign shores , in all things you appeared", "Even on the throne of his authority .", "And the soul 's labour through which I had toiled", "Amen ! May Heaven forgive them !", "The blighting venom of his sweltering heart ,", "In the respect accorded by Mankind", "Joy 's recollection is no longer joy ,", "Say \u2014 is there aught that you would will within", "They have but their vile lives \u2014 and these are spared .", "I had the pride of honour , of your honour ,", "Which bind the good more firmly : when , oppressed", "The dregs of pleasure for their vanished joys ;", "Long as he can ; he has ceased to merit death ;", "Social or lonely , that would glad your heart ,", "Who stains a Lady 's and a Prince 's honour", "His majesty of superhuman Manhood ,", "Yet a few days and dream-perturb\u00e9d nights ,", "Come then ,", "In all his marble-chiselled beauty , or", "Where is Honour ,", "To virtue in your sex , and dignity", "With his last malady , he willed our union ,", "Do not the laws of man say blood for honour ,\u2014", "A free compliance with all honest wishes ,\u2014", "To what I urged ; all these things being noted ,", "The little sway now left the Duke ? or aught", "Be still sometimes a name on thy sweet lips , 510", "While Sorrow 's memory is a sorrow still .", "Down to my fathers with a name serene", "Such men have no honour ;", "I think so . For the difference in our years", "The violated majesty of Venice ,", "So young , so beautiful , so good , so pure ,", "A wretch like this may leave upon the wall", "Your father was my friend ; unequal Fortune", "Might claim , I hoped for .", "And may be better ; but whate'er betide ,", "Deep at my heart \u2014 But let us change the theme .", "And be absolved by his upright compeers .", "On an old man oft moved with many cares ?", "The blighted old age of Faliero , shall", "Sweet Quiet shed her sunset ! Never more", "To make my country honoured . As her servant \u2014", "Not shown , but shadowing o'er such little failings", "It is consistency which forms and proves it :", "Although \u2018 twere wed to him it covets most :", "Infected with that leprosy of lust", "God gave you \u2014 to the truths your father taught you \u2014", "Not to my qualities , nor would have faith", "Secured , by the short penance of enduring", "Which , in this scorpion nest of vice , assail 300", "My injured wife , the child of Loredano ,", "Which taints the hoariest years of vicious men ,", "Then why should I remember it ?\u2014 Farewell ,", "In ours ?\u2014 But let them look to it who have saved him .", "Which would not have thee mourn it , but remember .", "Have urged against her right ; my best friend 's child", "By blackening publicly his Sovereign 's consort ,", "My life cannot be long ; and fain would have you", "That makes such deadly to the sense of man ?", "Of a not ill-spent nor inglorious life ,", "Princes at home , and swept Kings from their thrones", "Your father 's choice .", "His worthy daughter , free to choose again .", "The guilty saved hath damned his hundred judges ,", "Enough !\u2014 yes , for a drunken galley slave ,", "Who , stung by stripes , may murmur at his master ;", "Rashly , but win you from them ere you knew 360", "In Venice save the Doge , this blight , this brand ,", "Her servant , though her chief \u2014 I would have gone", "A pride not in your beauty , but your conduct ;", "A kindness to your virtues , watchfulness", "For their once healthful current ? is it nothing", "My gentle child \u2014 forgive me : thou wert made 500", "To have stained your name and mine \u2014 the noblest names ?", "When I am gone \u2014 it may be sooner than", "Lasting , but often fatal , it had been", "You know what daily cares oppress all those", "No lure for me , in my most passionate days ,", "My life is little less than one , and \u2018 tis", "But not for a deliberate , false , cool villain ,", "As Youth is apt in , so as not to check", "Yes , when they are in Heaven !", "A shadow in thy fancy , of a thing", "Does not the law of Heaven say blood for blood ?", "Come hither , child ! I would a word with you .", "This blasphemy had never fallen upon thee .", "Requite himself for his most just expulsion", "Read them hereafter at the fitting hour .", "Inheriting a Prince 's name and riches ,", "Have let this prey upon me till I feel", "A month 's arrest .", "A trust in you ; a patriarchal love ,", "I swayed such passions ; nor was this my age", "I wedded you ; the world then did me justice", "That he was linking thee to shame !\u2014 Alas !", "Mellowing the last hours as the night approaches , 460", "By passing these probationary years ,", "And a young bride : for in my fieriest youth", "Now darkling in their close toward the deep vale", "To thus much \u2014 that 420", "For Love \u2014 romantic Love \u2014 which in my youth", "Such reason to be watchful : yet a few \u2014", "A villain , whom for his unbridled bearing ,", "I knew my days could not disturb you long ;", "His object was to place your orphan beauty", "I knew my heart would never treat you harshly :", "Made him my debtor for some courtesies", "\u2018 Twas not a foolish dotard 's vile caprice , 310", "I knew to be illusion , and ne'er saw 350", "That law 's chicane or envious kinsmen might", "Too helpless to refuse a state that 's honest , 320", "It is no matter why ;", "Is it the pain of blows , or shame of blows ,"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 195}, {"query": ["You have more patience than I care to boast .", "I must have slain him , or expired myself", "How sped you , Israel , in your late complaint ?", "Let us but deal upon them , and I care not", "Than either in resolve .", "As far as I have seen , we are enough 140", "In the vain effort to repress my wrath . 20", "It may be so :", "Your own command as leader ?", "Inflicted on our brethren or ourselves , 50", "Each hour is pregnant with a thousand perils .", "He is an orphan , friendless save in us :", "The Doge \u2014 what answer gave he ?", "Had I been present when you bore this insult ,", "As with a spell .", "To own a thousand despots in his place .", "For my own part , I seek no other Chief ;", "Helping to swell our tyrants \u2019 bloated strength .", "Our fathers did not fly from Attila", "Commenced to-morrow ; but , till \u2018 tis begun ,", "With what ? a mulct or an arrest ?", "For the result , which must be Death or Freedom !", "Worthy Bertuccio , I have known you ever", "All who were deemed trust-worthy : there are some", "I apprehend less treachery than weakness ;", "To think of justice from such hands .", "I cannot judge of this until I know him : 160", "And hesitating councils : day on day", "and old Soranzo 's , both of whom", "Into my veins ; I am sick of these protracted", "I 'm weary to the heart of finding neither .", "Is he one of our order ?", "Appear less forward in the cause than we are .", "They have no opportunity to pause ,", "masters !", "A stranger ! doth he know the secret ?", "But needs must on with those who will surround them .", "Trusty and brave , with head and heart to plan", "We will not fail .", "On a rash confidence in one we know not ?", "All save two , in which there are"], "true_target": ["A Tartar lord , than these swoln silkworms", "What the rest will decide , I know not , but", "Twenty-five wanting to make up the number .", "The Doge is a mere puppet , who can scarce", "These brave words have breathed new life", "What ! and resign", "Crawled on , and added but another link", "I 've noted most ; and caused the other chiefs", "Into these isles , where palaces have sprung", "Why not now ?", "In all our undertakings . Now farewell ,", "And have you dared to peril your friends \u2019 lives", "To use like caution in their companies .", "And what part would you have him take with us ?", "To our long fetters , and some fresher wrong", "Yet as he has no mistress , and no wife", "Now you rave , or must intend revenge ,", "To work upon his milkiness of spirit , 80", "On banks redeemed from the rude ocean 's ooze ,", "But if we fail \u2014\u2014", "To make the enterprise secure , if \u2018 tis", "110", "When in the heat and hurry of the hour", "A woman or a child had made him less", "Obtain right for himself . Why speak to him ?", "Until the hour of midnight sees us meet .", "You saw", "But wherefore not address you to the Council ?", "As sceptre : these unmanly creeping things", "Is't possible ! will he be punished ?", "Such as I counselled you , with your own hand .", "What I have still been prompt to execute .", "Till it be time to strike , and then supply them ;", "Whom it were well to keep in ignorance", "Command our swords , and rule us with a word", "Bertram 's", "I am with YOU , as I have ever been , 200", "Better bow down before the Hun , and call", "I told you so before , and that \u2018 twas idle", "The first at least was man , and used his sword", "He may go through the ordeal ; it is well"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 196}, {"query": ["And change a life of hope for one of exile ;", "Had I been silent , not a Sbirro", "And feel for what their duty bids them do .", "Stake our deep interest on my single thoughts ,", "Ber . No matter ; we can do without . Whose are they ? 60", "Who would become a throne , or overthrow one \u2014", "You say that all things are in readiness ; 120", "But still their Spirit walks abroad . Though years", "That all be punctual at our place of meeting ,", "Who will remain among the troops to wait", "As new artificers for their equipment ,", "We must behold no object save our country ,", "We will not strike for private wrongs alone :", "Perhaps in a few hours : we have long waited", "In Grecian story like to that which wrings", "Ber . That there was", "Than in more loud avengers . Do not doubt them .", "Ber . Thank Heaven you were not \u2014 all had else been marred :", "Had kept me in his eye , as meditating", "To sixty ?", "Lent a fair colour to the introduction", "Ber . Even so . 180", "And only look on Death as beautiful , 90", "Ber . They never fail who die", "To act in trust as your commander , till", "Oft in concentred spirits not less daring", "For a fit time \u2014 that hour is on the dial ,", "Be strung to city gates and castle walls \u2014", "Ber . You have said well . Have you remarked all such ?", "And armed , excepting those of the Sixteen ,", "That I would hesitate from selfishness ,", "Ber . Aye , in spirit ,", "Ber . Yes .", "I have a stranger to present to them . 150", "The signal .", "They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts", "And shares their sufferings . Take him all in all ,", "Some skill , and your own choice , had marked me out", "No punishment for such as Barbaro .", "Let us be the first", "Upon the tenderest points , there is no Fury 170", "Make our assurance doubly sure , according", "If Brutus had not lived ? He died in giving", "Will better have supplied my care : these orders", "Or fresh recruits obtained in haste to man", "Turns servile . He and his high friend were styled", "Rome liberty , but left a deathless lesson \u2014", "The great redress we meditate for Venice ,", "But are unworthy a Tyrannicide .", "In recent council to redouble now", "Expectant of the signal we will fix on .", "Which overpower all others , and conduct 100", "Which multiplies itself throughout all time ,", "His vitals with her burning hands , till he", "Of true Venetians , sprung from Roman sires .", "In a great cause : the block may soak their gore :", "Within the arsenal , and hold all ready ,", "To-day I have not been the usual round ,", "And Marco Giuda , who will keep their watch", "Except Soranzo , Nicoletto Blondo ,", "It lulled suspicion , showing confidence .", "Beyond may breed us double danger . See", "Ber . Be patient but till midnight . Get your musters ,", "As \u2018 tis , our cause looks prosperous still .", "Shed shamefully , shall have the whole of his", "And draw down Freedom on her evermore .", "Rather than yield to one above me in 190", "That if once stirred and baffled , as he has been"], "true_target": ["Away ! and let us meet at the fixed hour .", "Ber . Your fiery nature makes you deem all those", "Such are for selfish passions and rash men ,", "Leaving one scorpion crushed , and thousands stinging", "When wicked men wax mighty , and a state", "A soul more full of honour .", "Know your friend better ; but you all shall judge .", "No tyrant , though bred up to tyranny ;", "We must forget all feelings save the one ,", "Grows capable of all things for revenge ;", "So that the sacrifice ascend to Heaven ,", "but", "It may be , of to-morrow 's sun : delay 40", "\u201c The last of Romans ! \u201d", "The hoped-for fleet .\u2014 Are all supplied with arms ? 130", "Although a child of Greatness ; he is one", "Ber . I have risked no man 's life except my own \u2014", "One who has done great deeds , and seen great changes ;", "My object is to make your cause end well ,", "Ber . Why , well .", "The world at last to Freedom . What were we ,", "And bid our friends prepare their companies :", "Ber . Yes .", "For those who are called to the high destinies", "Is chainless . Have you all the musters ready ?", "We have need of such , and such have need of us .", "We must resign all passions save our purpose ,", "And , covetous of brief authority ,", "Yet for all this , so full of certain passions ,", "No , Calendaro ; these same drops of blood ,", "Ber . The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes ,", "Valiant in war , and sage in council ; noble", "Ber . At least ,", "Who are not restless cold ; but there exists", "Of that be certain : he is one who may", "Ber . It shall be broken soon .", "And are the sixteen companies completed", "And add too , that his mind is liberal ,", "Set all in readiness to strike the blow ,", "And why thou knowest ; but thy vigilance", "Ber . Yes ; and for one sole draught of hate , forego", "Is in our power : he comes alone with me ,", "Ber . Such ties are not", "Ber . We will be free in Life or Death ! the grave", "And cannot \u2018 scape us ; but he will not swerve .", "Ber . With death !", "Ber . You shall know that hereafter .", "Which purify corrupted commonwealths ;", "A name which is a virtue , and a Soul", "In nature , although haughty ; quick , yet wary :", "Ber . Let the Sixteen meet at the wonted hour ,", "Elapse , and others share as dark a doom ,", "All leading qualities ? No , Calendaro ,", "Ber . Let all the rest be there ;", "I have known Bertram long ; there doth not breathe", "He sees and feels the people are oppressed ,", "Be vigilant , and all will yet go well .", "Some worthier should appear : if I have found such", "And not to push myself to power . Experience ,", "Ber . It may be , that of Chief .", "Our efforts to repair the galleys , have", "For their requital \u2014\u2014 But not only his ;", "Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs", "His aid ; and if reluctant , he no less", "A silent , solitary , deep revenge . 30", "Of many of our cause into the arsenal ,", "As you yourselves shall own more worthy , think you", "My friends , my family , my countrymen ! 10"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 196}, {"query": ["Turn sick at sight of blood , although a villain 's .", "Weep like an infant o'er the misery 70", "And in a recent quarrel I beheld him"], "true_target": ["There is a hesitating softness , fatal", "To enterprise like ours : I 've seen that man", "I do not doubt the elder ; but in Bertram", "Of others , heedless of his own , though greater ;"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 196}, {"query": ["Ber . Say rather , \u2018 tis her Freedom 's rising peal 120", "Ber . Who goes there ?", "Such confident alacrity . Your doubts", "Since our last meeting , then , are all dispelled ?", "Ber . \u2018 Tis not the moment to consider thus ,", "Ber . My Lord , these are mere fantasies ; there are", "Else I could answer .\u2014 Let us to the meeting ,", "Ber . Let us away \u2014 hark \u2014 the Hour strikes .", "To have pondered this before ,\u2014 ere you embarked", "In our great enterprise .\u2014 Do you repent ?", "Of the dull moon ."], "true_target": ["Ber . \u2018 Tis he . Welcome , my Lord ,\u2014 you are before the time .", "Ber . We observed ! Let me discover \u2014 and this steel \u2014\u2014 -", "Ber . Strange words , my Lord , and most unmerited ;", "Ber . It had been as well", "No eyes in marble .", "Bestriding a proud steed , in the dim light", "Ber . Have with you .\u2014 I am proud and pleased to see", "I am no spy , and neither are we traitors .", "Ber . Only a tall warrior 's statue", "Or we may be observed in lingering here .", "Of Triumph . This way \u2014 we are near the place ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 197}, {"query": ["The annals of hereafter ; but if not ,", "Yet doubt me not ; it is this very feeling ,", "Six hours ago , and now thy brother rebel . 80", "On \u2014 on \u2014", "And take men 's lives by stealth , without some pause :", "To have you dragged to prison , I became", "I cannot quench a glorious life at once ,", "By these fell tyrants to adopt is such ,", "That is the word ; I cannot shape my tongue", "And , if there be a spell to stir the dead ,", "When I first listened to your treason .\u2014 Start not !", "Deem'st thou the souls of such a race as mine", "Still we are traitors , honest Israel ;\u2014 thou", "No \u2014 but I feel , and shall do to the last .", "If it so please you , do as much by me .", "Which is your best security . There 's not", "If we should fail , employing bloody means", "But there are in Death .", "We are observed , and have been .", "Strew flowers o'er her deliverers \u2019 ashes , then", "Here are no human witnesses : look there \u2014", "Attempt succeeds , and Venice , rendered free", "That Warrior was the sire", "Your guiltiest accomplice : now you may ,", "Of life upon this cast : the die was thrown", "And flourishing , when we are in our graves ,", "The consequence will sanctify the deed ,", "I am ready to proceed to your assembly . 50", "And secret plot , although to a good end ,"], "true_target": ["What see you ?", "And makes her children with their little hands", "Which I must do to pay them back for theirs .", "It is our knell , or that of Venice .\u2014 On .", "So wronged as I , so fall'n , so loudly called", "Such things that acts and sees , unseen , though felt ;", "Can rest , when he , their last descendant Chief , 100", "Not so \u2014 but I have set my little left", "To syllable black deeds into smooth names ,", "\u2018 Tis in such deeds as we are now upon .", "I heard you tempt your Sovereign , and forbore 60", "And we shall be like the two Bruti in", "With stung plebeians ?", "Put up ;", "Think you that he looks down on us or no ?", "Nor dwindle to the thing I now must be ,", "To talk of us .\u2014 But to the point .\u2014 If this", "Stands plotting on the brink of their pure graves", "I tell thee , man , there is a spirit in", "A friend to Venice .", "Conducts her generations to our tombs , 70", "No less than he who was thy Sovereign", "Though I be wrought on to commit them . When", "And knowing what has wrung me to be thus , 110", "To his redress : the very means I am forced", "Of my sire 's fathers , and that statue was 90", "A roused mechanic in your busy plot", "That I abhor them doubly for the deeds", "We \u2014 We !\u2014 no matter \u2014 you have earned the right", "Decreed to him by the twice rescued city :\u2014"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 197}, {"query": ["There is no need", "That thou wouldst add a brother to our cause ,", "Of trusting to their faith ; who , save ourselves", "They eat , and drink , and live , and breed together ,", "Our companies are ready , sixty each , 240", "Be interrupted by a private brawl .", "But once drawn up , and their new swords well fleshed", "Bertram ! I have an eye upon thee .", "And vigilant , expectant of some blow ;", "They cannot co-exist with Venice \u2019 freedom !", "Revel , and lie , oppress , and kill in concert ,\u2014", "But kill .", "I have disposed all for a sudden blow ;", "Such is our trust in all thine actions . Now", "In brotherhood , as I have made it known", "Faith ! he hath shamed us , and deservedly , 110", "Which consecrates our undertaking more ,", "Would that the hour were come ! we will not scotch ,", "Let him unfold himself .", "The number wanting in your company ?", "Have you not been able to complete", "Will set them such , that they for very shame 20", "I owe him such deep gratitude , that fain", "Each at their different place of rendezvous ,", "The example of their chiefs , and I for one", "The last night of mere words : I 'd fain be doing !", "E'en when thou wilt . Is it not so , my friends ?", "Farewell , then ,\u2014 until dawn !", "Whom wouldst thou spare ?", "Look to it well", "It is time to name him .", "Engaged in secret to the Signory ,", "Fully of our intent ? they think themselves", "Doge , when I greet you next , my homage to you", "It is thy softness , not thy want of faith ,", "Aye , speak ;", "Shall be the head of Steno on this sword !", "Thou wouldst not now be there to talk of trust :", "And safety will not pause till all have perished .", "Approved by thee , and thus approved by all ,", "So let them die as one !", "Aye , and the first among us , as thou hast been"], "true_target": ["Are all here ?", "Hence , brethren , to our posts , and may this be", "And now to action !", "Our comrades are even now prepared to greet him", "Their blow upon the others , when they see", "They will not hesitate to follow up", "Yet , as the immediate cause of the alliance", "Hold ! hold ! Who moves a step against them dies . Hold ! hear Bertuccio \u2014 What ! are you appalled to see A lone , unguarded , weaponless old man Amongst you ?\u2014 Israel , speak ! what means this mystery ?", "In the rank hearts of the more odious Senators ,", "And all now under arms by Israel 's order ;", "We are all listening in wonder .", "When once our enterprise is o'er , which must not", "To punish some more dissolute young nobles", "To turn your swords against him and his guest ?", "In the last energy of venomous life ,", "You are welcome ,", "When shall it be then ?", "Yes , such pity", "Where 's Bertram ?", "Not I ; for if I did so ,", "And our more chosen comrades , is aware 10", "Who have defied the law in their excesses ;", "Of one long chain ; one mass , one breath , one body ;", "Which makes thee to be doubted .", "I see it now \u2014 but on , my noble Lord .", "One in the jaw of the swoln serpent , as", "Of Venice \u2014 be our General and Chief .", "Of pitying some particular fang which made", "Of saving one of these : they form but links", "As when the viper hath been cut to pieces ,", "Was this your trust in your true Chief Bertuccio ,", "The mercy they have shown , I show .", "Let each repair for action to his post !", "With all my soul and sword , I yield assent ;", "Long live Faliero !\u2014 Venice shall be free !", "Saint Mark 's great bell at dawn shall find me wakeful !", "The separate fragments quivering in the sun ,", "Deserve and have . Why , I should think as soon 30", "Sheathe them , and hear him .", "All who encounter me and mine \u2014 be sure ,", "I would repay him as he merits ; may I ?", "And now , my Lord , the signal ?"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 198}, {"query": ["All stains in Freedom 's fountain !", "Bertram , we must be firm !", "He would be dangerous as the whole ; it is not", "Their number , be it tens or thousands , but", "It is the cause , and not our will , which asks", "For we suspect thee not , and take good heart .", "Welcome , Israel .", "The spirit of this Aristocracy 40", "A single shoot of the old tree in life ,"], "true_target": ["Such actions from our hands : we 'll wash away 80", "To gloomy verdure and to bitter fruit .", "Which must be rooted out ; and if there were", "On duty , and our leader Israel ,", "All with you ; except the three", "Who is expected momently .", "\u2018 Twould fasten in the soil , and spring again", "Should one survive ,", "Calm thee , Bertram ,"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 198}, {"query": ["To me a thing of triumph , nor the death", "I 'll clear them on your person !", "I own my natural weakness ; I have not", "A kind man , I am apt to think , as some", "Roused like yourselves to overthrow oppression ;", "Some dawn of mercy to a portion of", "As far among the foe as any he", "I am no brawler ; but can bear myself 60", "Of massacre , which else pollutes it wholly ,", "Once more , sir , with your pardon , I", "How say you ? all !", "Yet learned to think of indiscriminate murder", "Who hear me , who and what I am ; a man", "Of blood which spouts through hoary scalps is not", "So soon ? 230", "Here !", "If there were some of these who could be saved", "Distrusts me ?", "That they were worthy faith .", "And for our honour , to take off some stain", "Before Bertuccio added to our cause", "I had marked out some : but I have not dared", "To trust them with the secret , till assured"], "true_target": ["You should know 50", "Put to the proof ; or , if you should have doubts ,", "Of man surprised a glory . Well \u2014 too well", "I had been glad ; and see no cause in this", "I have no power to spare . I only questioned ,", "Who", "Might mark them out for pity .", "From out this sweeping fate , for our own sakes", "Thinking that even amongst these wicked men", "Without some sense of shuddering ; and the sight", "There might be some , whose age and qualities", "Whose acts have raised up such avengers ; but", "And therefore safer , and as such admits", "For sneer , nor for suspicion !", "Who hears me ; else why have I been selected", "Our victims \u2014 must all perish in this slaughter ?", "This great ally who renders it more sure ,", "Would now repeat the question which I asked 270", "You , Calendaro , can pronounce , who have seen me", "To be of your chief comrades ? but no less", "I spare ?", "Of you have found me ; and if brave or no ,", "I know that we must do such things on those 70"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 198}, {"query": ["Most welcome .\u2014 Brave Bertuccio , thou art late \u2014", "All ! all !", "Who is this stranger ?", "Down with them both ! our traitorous captain , and", "Is this a time to talk of pity ? when"], "true_target": ["We will not fail \u2014 Away ! My Lord , farewell ! 430", "Have they e'er shown , or felt , or feigned it ?", "The tyrant he hath sold us to .", "To arms !\u2014 we are betrayed \u2014 it is the Doge ! 90", "Long live Faliero !"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 198}, {"query": ["On yoke , and slavery and death may whet ,", "And droop their heads ; believe me , they are such", "Depend their own , their fortunes , and their hopes .", "Ber . My Lord , we would have perished here together ,", "Than see the man I venerate subside", "Their public vices , and most foul oppression ,", "Ber . And there ?\u2014", "Ber . Stranger , step forth !", "To further their design was ne'er abused .", "Dost thou not see , that if we single out", "Ber . With all my soul !", "A single emanation from one body ,", "They gave me to adopt all fitting means", "Ber . Disperse then to your posts : be firm and vigilant ; 390", "A moment to accompany the Doge", "Ber . You know their private virtues", "Incapable of treachery ; and the power", "Ungrateful suicides ! for on our lives", "To our late place of tryst , to see no spies", "Remember what these men have dealt to thee ,", "You have seen blood in battle , shed it , both 480", "To the palace to prepare all for the blow .", "And that this sacrifice will be succeeded", "Injustice to thy comrades and thy cause !", "Ber . You have been deeply wronged , and now shall be", "They are ashamed of that mad moment 's impulse ,", "If all of these even should be set apart :", "Have crushed dictators , as the popular steel", "Much that we let their children live ; I doubt", "Ber . Who ?", "Ber . My Lord , you are much moved : it is not now", "A moment back , and you were all impatience !", "Keep a firm rein upon these bursts of passion ; 530", "Than the late mercy of the state to Steno .", "Ber . Doge ! Doge ! this vacillation is unworthy", "To take his choice \u2014 as brother , or as victim . 120", "Forego even now , or fail in our intent ,", "To this unshackled city : a true tyrant", "Nobly avenged before another night .", "As I described them .\u2014 Speak to them .", "Thus shame yourself and me . By Heavens ! I 'd rather", "Ber .", "The hunter may reserve some single cub 290", "Let him decide if any should be saved .", "C\u00e6sars have fallen , and even patrician hands", "Now thou'rt indeed a Sovereign , and wilt make", "One who deserves to be repealed , pronounce .", "From out the guilty ? all their acts are one \u2014", "Not glut , the never-gorged Leviathan !", "I understand it not : why should you change ?", "Together knit for our oppression ! \u2018 Tis", "Would have depopulated empires , nor", "By me into this Council had been led", "From a few drops from veins of hoary vampires ,"], "true_target": ["To chains , but laid aside to carry weapons", "Call back your nerves to your own purpose , nor", "And know my words for truth .", "Ber . Let them advance and strike at their own bosoms ,", "Had these rash men proceeded ; but , behold ,", "They might and must have known a heart like mine", "For ever , and for ever , they conspire 440", "Ber . Re-man your breast ; I feel no such remorse , 500", "You acted , and you act , on your free will .", "A name immortal greater than the greatest :", "And greater the reward ; why stand you rapt ?", "Ber . Comrades ! did I well ? Is not this man a host in such a cause ?", "From out the tiger 's litter , but who e'er", "Ber . Away , then , to your posts ! I but remain", "Now , my Lord , to our enterprise ;\u2014 \u2018 tis great ,", "Have made them deadly ; if there be amongst them 300", "Have felt the strange compunction which hath wrung you", "Ber . Bertram ,", "His separate charge : the Doge will now return", "They might be certain that who e'er was brought", "By ages of prosperity and freedom", "To where my allotted band is under arms .", "Against the people , to abuse their hands", "You are safe ,", "This day and night shall be the last of peril !", "Some for escape , they live but to avenge", "To join my band ; let each be prompt to marshal", "Or risked a life to liberate his subjects ?", "We part to meet in Freedom and in Glory !", "Ber . We have them in the toil \u2014 it cannot fail !", "What Prince has plotted for his people 's freedom ?", "Has reached patricians : but , until this hour ,", "Who but give back what they have drained from millions ?", "I will abide by Doge Faliero 's counsel :", "Your own and that of others ; can you shrink then", "Free citizens have struck at Kings ere now ;", "Watch for the signal , and then march . I go", "Nay , more , almost triumphant \u2014 listen then ,", "That such things must be dwelt upon .", "From high resolves into such shallow weakness !", "Ber . I disdain to speak .", "Ber . You passed their sentence , and it is a just one .", "Far better than we can , to whom alone", "This false compassion is a folly , and 280", "Unless to perish by their fangs ? however ,", "Against the fellow nations , so that yoke", "To punish a few traitors to the people .", "Have been upon the scout , and thence I hasten", "Trust me , such were a pity more misplaced", "The fallen ? and how distinguish now the innocent", "Think on the wrongs we bear , the rights we claim .", "A child ; if you are not in second childhood ,", "Ber . Success go with you !", "Would seek to save the spotted sire or dam ,"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 198}, {"query": ["From the hour they made me Doge , the Doge they made me \u2014", "Else I should stab thee on the spot , to save", "Let your march be directed , every sixty 250", "And now more dubious of the Prince they have made one ?", "A moment \u2014 I recede not : mark with me", "You never broke their bread , nor shared their salt ;", "Our private wrongs have sprung from public vices ,", "Struck without special order of the Doge", "Of Doge , but of a man who has been great", "And making firm the whole with grace and beauty ,", "To gather the retainers of our house .", "Has reached me through my pity for the people ;", "I should not now be here : Oh , noble Courage !", "In many lands and cities ; they can tell you", "Shout ye , \u201c Saint Mark !\u2014 the foe is on our waters ! \u201d", "Which now belong to history , soothe the days 330", "He who among you hath been most insulted , 140", "Where the Dead Sea hath quenched two Cities \u2019 ashes .", "And I would rather fall by freemen 's hands", "The rebel 's oracle , the people 's tribune \u2014", "Of bitterness \u2014 until this last loud insult ,", "A slave insults me \u2014 I require his punishment", "Lurks in the present institutes of Venice :", ",", "Not rash equality but equal rights , 170", "Who sate in judgement to heap scorn on scorn .", "They could not love me \u2014 such was not the law ;", "Against this solitary hoary head !", "A breath to sigh for them , a tongue to speak", "Have risked it . I have merged all private wrath", "Them choose me for their Prince , and then farewell !", "You would but punish Steno , I the Senate .", "In this \u2014 I cannot call it commonwealth ,", "Fostered the wretch who stung me . What I suffer", "You grew not up with them , nor laughed , nor wept ,", "The elders of the Council : I remember", "Nor aught can turn me from my destiny ;", "If not , strike home ,\u2014 my life is compromised ,", "Flit round them whispering of the days gone by ,", "And must be set in motion instantly .", "Not only unredressed , but sanctioned ; then , 370", "They thwarted me \u2014 \u2018 twas the state 's policy ;", "Sate grinning Ribaldry , and sneering Scorn .", "Which I must do doth make me tremble thus .", "Some cause to doubt the freedom of the choice .", "By the foul Aristocracy : he could not \u2014", "I had only one fount of quiet left ,", "\u2014 and must I do this deed ?", "Why I am here , he who hath been most wronged ,", "To me , then , these men have no private life ,", "As we went forth to take our prey around", "Fought by my side , and Marc Cornaro shared", "Nor held a revel in their company ;", "Infringement of the general symmetry .", "Brooding with him in mutual hate and fear ;", "dizened out", "We made alliances of blood and marriage ;", "Decide yourselves .", "Of many wrongs , even ye are ignorant", "I blame you not \u2014 you act in your vocation ;", "Farewell all social memory ! all thoughts", "No ; let him be reserved unto the last , 400", "\u2018 Twill be but to be taken faint and single ,", "Bear with me ! Step by step , and blow on blow ,", "Their own desire , not my ambition , made", "You never had their wine-cup at your lips : 460", "Or rather they to me : no friends , no kindness ,", "A thing of robes and trinkets ,", "A popular scourge , a ready sentence-signer , 190", "Of deeds that else were silent , save on marble \u2014\u2014 340", "Peril on peril , and the more so now", "In operating this great change , I claim", "But all the sins of the old Spartan state", "And that they poisoned ! My pure household gods", "We revelled or we sorrowed side by side ;", "And never meet , but each beholds the mirror", "Before , even in their oath of false allegiance !", "They came not near me \u2014 such approach gave umbrage ; 350", "He dared not in more honourable days", "So that I was a foe to my own friends ;", "Ne'er smiled to see them smile , nor claimed their smile", "\u2018 Tis mine to sound the knell , and strike the blow ,", "My heart \u2014 my hope \u2014 my soul \u2014 upon this cast !", "The Greeks of yore made drunk their slaves to form", "Would that I could save them and Venice also !", "Condensing in a fair free commonwealth", "The mighty hearts you spoke of ? look upon them !", "Of the patricians dubious of their slaves ,", "My Genoese embassy : I saved the life", "And of the Genoese Fleet , by the first dawn", "You know my recent story , all men know it ,", "Of Veniero \u2014 shall I save it twice ?", "The Council , and \u201c the Ten ? \u201d the spies , the eyes", "Oim\u00e9 Oim\u00e9 !", "And can I see them dabbled o'er with blood ?", "Outraged and trodden on , until he doubt", "When the majority are put to rest .", "The edicts of a power which is not mine ,", "Will one day learn : meantime I do devote ,", "This is no time for eulogies , nor place", "They smote you , and oppressed you , and despised you ;", "A stickler for the Senate and \u201c the Forty , \u201d", "You would but lop the hand , and I the head ;", "All nature from my heart . Hence to our task !", "And seeming not all dead , as long as two", "Within whose court will be drawn out in arms", "For I will do this ! Doubt not \u2014 fear not ; I", "You feel not \u2014 you go to this butcher-work", "And shake down senates , mad with wrath and dread", "And crush their blossoms into barrenness :", "The roar of waters in the cry of blood !", "Whate'er the issue , my last days of life \u2014", "Be broad upon the Adriatic there", "If some few should be tardy or absent , them ,", "If he be worm or no , may answer for me ,", "In the absorbing , sweeping , whole revenge , 420", "Aye , so it seems , and so it is to you ;", "So soon ?\u2014 so late \u2014 each hour accumulates", "By different routes", "When you hear", "But still I quiver to behold what I", "Chief !\u2014 General !\u2014 I was General at Zara ,", "And left me a lone blighted thorny stalk , 310", "They baffled me \u2014 \u2018 twas a patrician 's duty ;", "Inquisitors for friends , and Hell for life ! 360", "Ah ! no ; it is the certainty of all", "But spare me the recital \u2014 it is here ,", "And I come here to strengthen even the strong ,", "Except her slaughtered Senate : ere the Sun", "In dark suspicious conflict with the Doge ,", "When all our locks were like the raven 's wing ,", "I from that hour have seen but Senators", "And judge of it far differently from those", "You see me here , 130", "Must be , and think what I have been ! Bear with me .", "Let them be dealt upon .", "Which shall unpeople many palaces ,", "We served and fought ; we smiled and wept in concert ;", "My own friends by blood and courtesy , 450", "To overthrow this Monster of a state ,", "Nor kingdom , which hath neither prince nor people ,", "And hew the highest genealogic trees", "But I , outgoing thee and all thy fellows 510", "The eldest born of Fear , which makes you brave", "For exultation . Am I one of you ?", "They could not right me \u2014 that would give suspicion ;", "Must I abhor and do . Away ! away !", "Will be your most unmerciful accomplice !", "Discerned before the port ; form round the palace ,", "You are a patriot , a plebeian Gracchus \u2014", "Than any your rash weapons can inflict ,", "And never have been \u2014 read it in our annals ;", "And both regardless ; when the Hour arrives , 490", "Aye , there it is \u2014 you feel not , nor do I ,", "Aside the dignities which I have borne ,"], "true_target": ["You can , I care not .\u2014 Israel , are these men", "Before he was degraded to a Doge ,", "That many know , and they who know not yet", "Begirt with spies for guards , with robes for power ,", "The gloomy vices of this government .", "As Senators for arbitrary acts", "We grew in years and honours fairly ,\u2014 till", "Why I was there you know , or think you know ;", "Nor claim to ties they have cut off from others ;", "In common ! and sweet bonds which link old friendships ,", "a council-fawner ,", "My present power such as it is , not that 200", "Till they became my subjects ; then fell from me", "Without distinction , as it fell of yore ,", "Their friend and made a Sovereign , as boys make", "At sunrise .", "The feelings which they crushed for me , long , long", "Asking of his own heart what brought him here ?", "What fatal poison to the springs of Life ,", "Israel has stated to me your whole plan \u2014", "Defenceless man ; and yesterday you saw me", "So that I was a slave to my own subjects ;", "When the survivors of long years and actions ,", "They wronged me , for such was to right the state ;", "Till nobler game is quarried : his offence", "So that no part could be removed without", "Robed in official purple , dealing out", "And calmly wash those hands incarnadine ;", "Or nothing , and who has left his throne to be so . 210", "Here at my heart the outrage \u2014 but my words ,", "And many deeds and days \u2014 the Senators ?", "Feeling and thinking for my fellow men .", "But there is Hell within me and around ,", "A thousand lives \u2014 and killing , do no murder ;", "Without its virtues \u2014 temperance and valour .", "Which must be exorcised with blood ,\u2014 and then", "I tell you , you must strike , and suddenly ,", "This will I \u2014 must I \u2014 have I sworn to do ,", "And like the Demon who believes and trembles 520", "All the patricians flocking to the Council , 260", "Down to the earth , strewed with their bleeding fruit ,", "This mockery of a Government , this spectre ,", "Which yet remain by treasuring each other ,", "The offence grows his , and let him answer it .", "The sanction of \u201c the Ten , \u201d", "Your patience", "And sees a hundred beings , now in earth ,", "Nor my own feelings \u2014 both compel me back ;", "As if these high-born men were steers for shambles :", "They dreading he should snatch the tyranny 380", "With woman 's weapons ; but I need not urge you .", "And thus , I cast all further feelings from me \u2014", "Such as I am , I offer me to you", "Of whom I am the lowest , most enslaved ;", "With pomp for freedom , gaolers for a council ,", "Although dressed out to head a pageant , as", "\u2014 my breath \u2014", "Man , thou hast struck upon the chord which jars 540", "All these men were my friends ; I loved them , they", "Nor yours , but of our masters \u2014 the patricians .", "But ours are Sybarites , while we are Helots , 160", "Of the brave , joyous , reckless , glorious band ,", "I will divide with you ; think not I waver :", "To which you only and the night are conscious ,", "To lead a band of \u2014 patriots : when I lay", "Presiding in the hall of ducal state ,", "Prince in Venice :", "Which , in its solitude , can shelter nothing ;", "At sight of one patrician ! Butcher me !", "Ask me not \u2014 tempt me not with such a question \u2014", "Of half a century on his brother 's brow ,", "Nor wore them in your heart of hearts , as I have :", "Full to the Hydra 's heart \u2014 its heads will follow .", "No privacy of life \u2014 all were cut off :", "Apparent Sovereign of our hundred isles ,", "And which am I to be ? your actions leave", "Was a mere ebullition of the vice ,", "And still has individual means and mind ;", "The Lords of Laced\u00e6mon were true soldiers ,", "Since I have mingled with you ;\u2014 know you not", "March on Saint Mark 's !", "These hairs of mine are grey , and so are theirs ,", "A sceptic of all measures which had not", "The isles wrung from the false Mahometan ; 470", "Haply had I been what the Senate sought ,", "From his proud master 's hands ; if he refuse it , 410", "All these men , or their fathers , were my friends", "To be one of you \u2014 if you trust in me ;", "\u2018 Tis not to put on others , but to be", "And is it then decided ! must they die ?", "I am resolved \u2014 come on .", "Dolfino 's father was my friend , and Lando", "I can appeal to my past government", "Shall be a voice of weeping , which shall drown", "And yet I act no more on my free will ,", "My nephew and the clients of our house ,", "Farewell the past ! I died to all that had been ,", "You would but smite the scholar , I the master ;", "Entering a separate avenue , and still", "Will then be gathered in unto the harvest ,", "Get thee unto thy fellows , I will hie me", "Which once were one and many , still retain", "Amenable , I look on them \u2014 as such", "As delegate of tyrants : such I am not ,", "A Prince who fain would be a Citizen", "Till this last running over of the cup", "When all is over , you 'll be free and merry ,", "Ye , though you know and feel our mutual mass", "I had borne all \u2014 it hurt me , but I bore it \u2014", "A tool \u2014 a fool \u2014 a puppet ,\u2014 they had ne'er", "Even in that very hour and vow , they abjured", "The general corruption generated", "\u201c My own free will and act , \u201d and yet you err ,", "I cannot pause on individual hate ,", "So they have me : but you ne'er spake with them ;", "Upon the way let your cry be of War", "Which , like the sheeted fire from Heaven , must blast", "Doubt not , St. Mark 's great bell shall wake all Venice ,", "In social interchange for yours , nor trusted", "And urge them on to deeds , and not to war", "And Chief in Rhodes and Cyprus ,", "Already spent in unavailing plaints ,", "We will renew the times of Truth and Justice ,", "The great bell of Saint Mark 's , which may not be", "Than live another day to act the tyrant 180", "As faithless leaves drop from the o'erblown flower ,", "From out their grasp , and he abhorring tyrants .", "Requited honourably my regards ; 320", "Would only show my feebleness the more , 150", "Were shivered on my hearth , and o'er their shrine", "To human ties , and all that 's good and dear ,", "To sit in state as for a Sovereign 's picture ;", "So , as they let me wither , let them perish !", "Playthings , to do their pleasure \u2014 and be broken !", "Proportioned like the columns to the temple ,", "A pastime for their children . You are met", "But let these last and lingering thoughts have way ,", "Mate to my fellows \u2014 but now to the point :", "Nor turn aside to strike at such a prey ,", "See the bold chiefs , who would reform a state", "I cannot stoop \u2014 that is , I am not fit 220", "Strike !\u2014 If I dreaded death , a death more fearful 100", "If I were an oppressor , or a man", "As one of you hath said , an old , unarmed ,", "And we will reap them with the sword for sickle .", "Shall see and feel \u2014 oh God ! oh God ! \u2018 tis true ,", "And to your chiefs ; accept me or reject me ,\u2014", "Many and martial ; while the bell tolls on ,", "I stake my fame", "\u2018 Tis bold , but feasible if I assist it ,", "Giving and taking strength reciprocal ,", "Each stab to them will seem my suicide .", "In this surpassing massacre , shall be ,", "Against him in the thought of our great purpose .", "And thou dost well to answer that it was"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 198}, {"query": ["Rose o'er the City 's murmur in the night ,", "Are all the sights and sounds which here pervade", "And not before ?", "Bertram , I 'll reason with thee as we go", "Dashing against the outward Lido 's bulwark :", "Which should prevent thy friend , the only son", "Thy bearing , and this strange and hurried mode", "I would not hold my breath on such a tenure", "A rack .", "Upon the verge of ruin ; speak once out ,", "I thank thee , Night ! for thou hast chased away", "How would it look to see upon a spear", "Although I know not that I have a foe", "Be found among the absent .", "Phosphoric of the oar , or rapid twinkle", "From boyhood , ever ready to assist thee", "A knell was sounding as distinct and clear ,", "Are things in Venice deadlier than the laws .", "To let in love through music , makes his heart", "A lucid lake to his eluded thirst ,", "Who lurk in narrow places , and walk out", "Than torches glared back by a gaudy glass ; 70", "To waste thee .", "60", "A damp like Death rose o'er my brow ; I strove", "Some dusky shadow checkering the Rialto ;", "Wherefore not ?\u2014 160", "A cup too much , a scuffle , and a stab ?", "I could not dissipate : and with the blessing", "Even with the Lady of my Love , oppressed me ,", "Ere thy request was heard , but that the hour ,", "As thou and those who have set thee to thy task-work .", "Of the far lights of skimming gondolas ,", "The sparkling eyes , and flashing ornaments ,", "Muffled to whisper curses to the night ;", "It is in vain \u2014 this moment I go forth .", "Nobility itself I guarantee thee ,", "What is it thou and thine are bound to do ,", "Their houses noble men are struck at ; still ,", "It reached its zenith , and will woo my pillow", "Mere things of every day ; so that thou hast not", "Should deem thee dangerous , and keep the house", "And through my spirit chilled my blood , until", "And desperate libertines who brawl in taverns ;", "Like a sick girl ?", "For thoughts more tranquil , or forgetfulness .", "Fie , Bertram ! that was not a craft for thee !", "What hath come to thee ? in thy hollow eye", "What , ho !\u2014 Antonio \u2014 Pedro \u2014 to the door !", "Than those more massy and mysterious giants", "And turbulent mutterers of stifled treason ,", "So that I left the festival before", "Sorrow and Shame and Conscience seem at war", "He who has shed patrician blood \u2014\u2014", "What means this menace ?", "Which makes me call thee back ; we must not part thus :", "Of architecture , those Titanian fabrics ,", "Of those tall piles and sea-girt palaces ,", "If so \u2014 withdraw and fly \u2014 and own it not ;", "Was it not thus thou said'st , my gentle Bertram ?", "Aye , is it even so ? Excuse me , Bertram ;", "The cause of which I know not : at the hour 190", "That he is not unheard ; while her young hand ,", "And relatives , in the first burst of vengeance ,", "Is he a stranger ?", "And yet there is slight peril : \u2018 tis not in", "Like altars ranged along the broad canal ,", "It seems the voice of Bertram \u2014 Go , Antonio . 130", "Glorious to save than slay , and slay i \u2019 the dark too \u2014", "And man the gondola with four oars \u2014 quick \u2014", "Who are my foes ? or if there be such , why", "To laugh the thought away , but \u2018 twould not be ; 10", "Though low and far , as e'er the Adrian wave", "Take it \u2014 I am unarmed ,\u2014 and then away !", "With honest mates , and bear a cheerful aspect .", "And cautious opening of the casement , showing 90", "The many-twinkling feet so small and sylphlike ,", "And bracelets ; swanlike bosoms , and the necklace ,", "They fail , you know \u201c the Ten \u201d and their tribunal ,", "More mysteries , and awful ones ! But now ,", "Speak \u2014 pause not \u2014 all rewards , all pledges for", "Thou herdest not with such : \u2018 tis true , of late", "Of thy denunciation , I go forth , 290", "No other record . All is gentle : nought", "So changed from what I knew it , there glares forth", "And hueless cheek , and thine unquiet motions ,", "We should bequeath to our posterity", "He hath no harm ; bring me my sword and cloak , 330", "In all fair objects of advancement , which", "The head of him whose heart was open to thee !", "Borne by thy hand before the shuddering people ?", "The gladiator . If my life 's thine object ,", "Say , rather thy friend 's saviour and the State 's !\u2014", "Next to the Doge .", "Thou hast known me", "But thou must not be lost so ; thou wert good", "Softened with the first breathings of the spring ;", "On Arab sands the false mirage , which offers", "This is not thy old language , nor own thoughts ;", "Some wretch has made thee drunk with disaffection :", "Beseem one of thy station ; I would promise", "And I be murdered !\u2014 say ,", "Stay \u2014 there is more in this than my own safety", "To lead a temperate life , and break thy bread", "But what ? You have not", "50", "I am . Nor is there aught which shall impede me !", "Nought , save sleep ,", "Whate'er the peril or the penalty", "Which swam before my giddy eyes , that drank"], "true_target": ["Antonio , take my mask and cloak , and light", "See that none pass \u2014 arrest this man !\u2014\u2014", "Hath some mysterious import \u2014 but say on \u2014", "Of boatmen answering back with verse for verse ; 100", "But then thou must withdraw , for angry friends", "In Venice , \u2018 twill be wise to use some caution .", "The eye like what it circled ; the thin robes ,", "Again , what does this mean ?", "And thou art safe and glorious : for \u2018 tis more", "Unless thou dost detail the cause , and show", "I would not slay \u2014 but then I must not save thee !", "Of him who was a friend unto thy father , 250", "Enter ANTONIO and other armed Domestics , who seize BERTRAM .", "Look to the prisoner .", "Take care", "The tinklings of some vigilant guitars", "So delicately white , it trembles in", "\u2018 Tis a strange hour , and a suspicious bearing ! 120", "Of the fair forms which terminate so well \u2014", "Reared up from out the waters , scarce less strangely", "Which point in Egypt 's plains to times that have", "Sure as all gentle means can make ; and if 340", "Of suing , gives me to suspect this visit 140", "I was not born to shrink from idle threats ,", "I am indeed already lost in wonder ;", "As Vice and Villany would put thee to :", "And kind , and art not fit for such base acts", "As the capricious mercy of such things", "And yet \u2014 I know not why \u2014 it cheered me not ;", "Stirs rudely ; but , congenial with the night ,", "Suggesting the more secret symmetry", "Some of thy fellows , who may wait without .\u2014", "Art thou leagued with them ?\u2014 thou ! or , if so leagued ,", "Confess \u2014 confide in me \u2014 thou know'st my nature .", "Of council , be it soon or late , I shall not", "Which , in the lightest movement of the dance ,", "Its false and true enchantments \u2014 Art and Nature ,", "Surely thou ravest ! what have I to dread ?", "From such exalted hecatombs \u2014 who are they", "The ocean-born and earth-commanding City \u2014", "I will to rest , right weary of this revel ,", "Floating like light clouds \u2018 twixt our gaze and heaven ;", "An India in itself , yet dazzling not", "Lioni", "Fair as the moonlight of which it seems part ,", "The white arms and the raven hair , the braids", "To the Magnifico 's , sage Gradenigo .", "I am not worthy to be singled out", "The gayest we have held for many moons ,", "Though eye to eye , and hand in hand united", "Can lie the honour in a league of murder ?", "Fraught with the Orient spoil of many marbles ,", "And such may be my doom ; for here I swear ,", "Assuredly :", "The sight of beauty as the parched pilgrim 's", "What mean you ?\u2014 but we 'll know anon .", "And who are traitors save unto the State ?", "Some villains have been tampering with thee , Bertram ;", "That are in danger , and that make the danger ?", "The music , and the banquet , and the wine ,", "So that thou art sincere and penitent .", "And the great Element , which is to space", "The consequence of all which led thee here !", "Disbanded soldiers , discontented ruffians ,", "Such as ourselves received it , or augmented ;", "The State accords her worthiest servants ; nay , 330", "Are gone . Around me are the stars and waters \u2014", "I say , what is it thou must do , that I", "Of sleepless lovers to a wakeful mistress ,", "So that our good-will is a heritage", "Is he not Chief of the State ?", "The lamp within my chamber .", "Bertram , \u2018 tis thou who hast forgotten them .", "And that St. Mark 's has dungeons , and the dungeons", "Whose porphyry pillars , and whose costly fronts ,", "Admit him , and retire ; but call up quickly", "Thou didst not ; but from out thy wolfish eye ,", "Those horrid bodements which , amidst the throng ,", "Or thou , or I , or both , it may be , are 280", "Serenely smoothing o'er the lofty walls", "The high Moon sails upon her beauteous way ,", "I have lost sight of thee , but thou wert wont 230", "Bertram , I have known thee long .", "How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm !", "Is almost wronging such a night as this ,\u2014\u2014", "Who can this man be ?\u2014", "Why , what hast thou to say against the Senate ?", "All the delusion of the dizzy scene ,", "What Ocean is to Earth , spreads its blue depths ,", "Whatever walks is gliding like a spirit .", "Thrill like his lyre-strings at the sight ; the dash", "Where", "Now will I to my couch , although to rest 110", "What has occurred , some rash and sudden broil ?\u2014", "Through all the music ringing in my ears", "The act of opening the forbidden lattice ,", "Of thy benign and quiet influence ,", "Firstly to \u201c the Ten ; \u201d", "There came a heaviness across my heart ,", "Thy safety and thy welfare ; wealth such as", "Which will not be commanded . Let me hope it ,", "Worlds mirrored in the Ocean , goodlier sight", "I know that there are angry spirits", "Some glimmering palace roof , or tapering spire ,", "Why comest thou to tell me at this hour ,", "And the responsive voices of the choir", "Seem each a trophy of some mighty deed 80", "The garlands , the rose odours , and the flowers ,", "Spilt noble blood , I guarantee thy safety ;", "Raised a rash hand against one of our order ? 150"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 199}, {"query": ["My Lord , and all prepared .", "My Lord , a man without , on urgent business ,", "His voice and gestures seem familiar to me ;", "To trust , save to yourself ; most earnestly", "I craved his name , but this he seemed reluctant"], "true_target": ["The bark is ready ,", "Implores to be admitted .", "Command you no refreshment ?", "His face is muffled in his cloak , but both", "He sues to be permitted to approach you .", "Yes , my Lord : 20"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 199}, {"query": ["Whate'er be stirring ; though the roar of crowds \u2014", "And is about to take , instead of sand ,", "From childhood , Signor ,", "I have thought again : it must not be \u2014 I love thee \u2014", "I come", "Bear me a prisoner ?", "But do as I implore thee ;\u2014 stir not forth ,", "When struggling with the tides of Circumstance ,", "And thou art lost !\u2014 thou ! my sole benefactor ,", "Thou knowest it \u2014 that I stand here is the proof ,", "A boon , my noble patron ; you have granted Many to your poor client , Bertram ; add This one , and make him happy .", "Of rolling drum , shrill trump , and hollow bell ,", "The assassin thou miscall'st me :\u2014 once , once more", "In honest hearts when words must stand for law ;", "I could have wound my soul up to all things", "Have not been towering , \u2018 twas no fault of him", "Which bear away the weaker : noble blood", "Nay , more , the Life of lives , the liberty", "By thee , I now must do it by my country !", "Venice , and all that she inherits , are", "Perhaps at sunrise \u2014", "Go not thou forth to-morrow !", "Until the Tocsin 's silent , nor even then", "A league is still a compact , and more binding 300", "As noble , nay , even nobler than thine own .", "The groans of men \u2014 the clash of arms \u2014 the sound", "Nothing .", "Would that thy fellow Senators were like thee !", "Where wouldst thou", "Re-enter ANTONIO .", "Divided like a house against itself ,", "The very air in Venice , and makes men", "Remain within \u2014 trust to thy household gods ,", "To emulate them , and to leave behind", "Art sure ?", "The only being who was constant to me", "This menial hence ; I would be private with you .", "Not least though last ; but having done my duty", "Our sports , our smiles , our tears , were mingled oft ;", "You think to doom to me .", "Has proved to me , the poor plebeian Bertram . 220", "Still you forsook me not ; and if my fortunes", "Say not so ! Once more , art thou determined to go forth ?", "In jeopardy a thousand heads , and some 270", "By all the good deeds thou hast done to me ,", "Then , Heaven have mercy on thy soul !\u2014 Farewell !", "Nay , question me no further :", "The dust from sepulchres to fill his hour-glass !\u2014", "Of reckless infancy , when rank forgets , 200", "Sooner than harm a hair of thine , I place", "I would have saved you : when to Manhood 's growth 210", "Madden as in the last hours of the plague", "To save patrician blood , and not to shed it !", "Sooner than spill thy blood , I peril mine ;", "My Lord , I thank you ; but \u2014\u2014", "Till I return !"], "true_target": ["Was left unto the labours of the humble ,", "By all thou hast of blessed in hope or memory \u2014", "Thou holdest dear on earth or Heaven \u2014 by all", "And thereunto I must be speedy , for", "As suits your station , the more humble Bertram", "Let me save thee \u2014 but spare my honour !", "Each minute lost may lose a life ; since Time", "Has changed his slow scythe for the two-edged sword ,", "Ne'er mantled in a nobler heart than thine", "I cannot answer this . Wilt thou go forth despite of this true warning ?", "I must be gone .\u2014\u2014", "And to my word for safety , if thou dost , 180", "Farewell \u2014 we meet no more in life !\u2014 farewell !", "And so will perish ere to-morrow 's twilight !", "Good I would now repay with greater good ,", "As I now counsel \u2014 but if not , thou art lost !", "Or , rather , is not yet taught to remember", "I do adjure thee , pass not o'er thy threshold !", "Peal in one wide alarum l \u2014 Go not forth ,", "Save this . Thou must not die ! and think how dear", "And in my mind , there is no traitor like", "Which sweeps the soul deliriously from life ! 240", "The cry of women , and the shrieks of babes \u2014", "By all thou hast to fear here or hereafter \u2014", "Do not seek its meaning ,", "Who talks of murder ? what said I of murder ? Tis false ! I did not utter such a word . 260", "Within the breast which trusted to his truth .", "Of future generations , not to be 310", "Oh , what a villain I become for thee !", "Apply it then before the dawn", "Then perish Venice rather than my friend !", "On the accurs\u00e9d tyranny which rides", "My father was your father 's client , I", "I have no time to lose , nor thou ,\u2014 dismiss", "Now hastening into heaven .\u2014 One more such word ,", "I will disclose \u2014 ensnare \u2014 betray \u2014 destroy \u2014", "He whose domestic treason plants the poniard", "His son 's scarce less than foster-brother ; years", "Thy life is , when I risk so many lives ,", "Descendants worthy both of them and thee \u2014", "Lioni . And who will strike the steel to mine ?", "Through every change . Yet , make me not a traitor !", "Rather Shame and Sorrow light", "We sprung , and you , devoted to the state ,", "My good Lord Lioni ,", "Saw us together \u2014 happy , heart-full hours !", "Not I ;", "Again , I tell thee , ask not ; but by all 170", "The Souls of thy great fathers , and thy hope", "Oh God ! the difference \u2018 twixt those hours and this !", "Is there no way to save thee ? minutes fly ,", "Its cold prerogative , we played together ;", "Nor now , nor ever ; whatsoe'er betide ,", "And you shall perish piecemeal , by the death", "You have been my protector : in the days", "To the Doge ?", "Who ofttimes rescued and supported me ,"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 199}, {"query": ["Than thou and thy base myrmidons ,\u2014 live on ,", "I had o'ermastered the weak false remorse", "Yet send so many heralds on before me ?\u2014", "Distinguishing for love or hate his foes ;", "With Genoese , Saracen , and Hunnish gore ,", "for this ?", "That moment , a mere voice , a straw , a shadow ,", "To-day might find \u2018 mongst them a traitor to us ,", "Will urge the rest on like to wolves ; the sight", "They made the sun shine through the host of Huns", "Nor bow the knee before a civic Senate ;", "Leagues of this nature , and to keep compact", "Now thou must wear an unmixed crimson ; no", "Barbaric blood can reconcile us now", "If there be small resistance , you will find", "That slowly walk'st the waters ! march \u2014 march on \u2014", "It is not now a lease of sixty seconds .", "Let us go worthy of our sires and selves .", "\u2018 Tis well .\u2014 Will the morn never put to rest", "And you will find a harder task to quell", "Must be struck suddenly or never . When", "Speed , for the day grows broader ; send me soon", "You dare to disobey me , then ?", "That we must work by crime to punish crime ?", "As well had there been time to have got together ,", "They here ! - all 's lost-yet will I make an effort .", "Of our retainers \u2014 but it is too late .", "And , secondly , because of all these men ,", "Doge", "And such examples will find heirs , though distant .", "For if they should do battle ,' twill be here ,", "Doge Dandolo survived to ninety summers", "The wavering of the weak , in case of conflict ;", "The first toll from St. Mark 's , march on the palace", "These Citizens all Lions , like their Standard ;", "And where are they , and why assembled ? no", "Are a few drops of human blood ? \u2018 tis false ,", "A greater struggle to me , than when nations", "Timoleon immortal ,", "Then it is time to strike upon the bell . Are the men posted ?", "Such blows", "Be sure you post yourself at the great Gate :", "They are not used to start at those vain names ,", "The sea looks greyer through the lattice .", "But let it be in silence , as behoves thee ,", "But they were not aware that there are things", "I , at whose name the million 's caps were flung", "And fame , and length of days \u2014 to see this day ?", "From my own fief , Val di Marino , more", "When a few years would make the sword superfluous ? 170", "The Genoese are come \u2014 ho ! to the rescue !", "A chief in armour is their Suzerain ,", "The die is thrown ; but for a warlike service ,", "The toils and dangers of a life of war . 90", "Renew its freedom \u2014 but oh ! by what means ? 160", "Our trial ! will they keep their mockery up Even to the last ? but let them deal upon us , As we had dealt on them , but with less pomp . \u2018 Tis but a game of mutual homicides , Who have cast lots for the first death , and they 290 Have won with false dice .\u2014 Who hath been our Judas ? 1st Sig . I am not warranted to answer that .", "I might not yield again to such emotions ;", "Into the air , and cries from tens of thousands", "I would not trust \u201c the Ten \u201d except to us \u2014", "But a brief passage \u2014 I would go alone , 280", "They never shall return .", "As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel ;", "Oft do a public right with private wrong ,", "The glory hath departed from our house .", "Though Circumstance may keep it in abeyance ,", "Suspends the motion of his mighty wings ,", "While that of Venice flowed too , but victorious :", "And till that warrant has my signature", "I charge thee , give me way , or marshal me", "When you rejoin our troops , and then sound \u2014 sound 130", "And justify their deeds unto themselves .\u2014", "When sallow burghers slunk back to their tents ,", "Venice , and pauses ere he pours the vial ,", "Which never knells but for a princely death ,", "Would do the bidding of their lord without", "Shall be succeeded by a bright millennium .", "Within the palace , that the strife will thicken :", "Then here must be my station , as becomes", "They must on for their own sakes ; one stroke struck ,", "I must not ponder this .", "Alike to them Marcello or Cornaro ,", "These city slaves have all their private bias ,", "Away then !", "But who can make their own minds all in all ,", "Methinks the day breaks \u2014 is it not so ? look ,", "Of blood , and they who use thee will reward thee .", "Well ,", "And not an impulse of mere anger ; though", "Which they have made so populous .\u2014 Oh World !", "I , who was named Preserver of the City ? 150", "Or for a state in peril , pealing forth", "Which yearned about my heart , too fondly yielding", "The storm-bell from St. Mark 's !", "But if there 's much to do , you 'll wish , with me ,", "on thine", "And the mere instinct of the first-born Cain ,", "That no stroke errs . And you , ye blue sea waves !", "These are the men for such an enterprise ;", "Peace , thou thing !", "As yesterday a thousand to the Senate ;", "I would go forth , but that my post is here ,", "Now the destroying Angel hovers o'er", "I am settled and bound up , and being so ,", "Aye , send thy miserable ruffians forth ;", "Preside there , and that duty 's mine :", "Done in the field , commend me to my peasants :", "Thine eyes are clear with youth ;\u2014 the air puts on", "Of a few bloated despots needed more", "Since , though thy prisoner , I am thy Prince .", "Thou Day !", "Thy Prince , of treason ?\u2014 Who are they that dare", "The laws sleep , Justice wakes , and injured souls", "I would not smite i \u2019 the dark , but rather see 140"], "true_target": ["The rank polluted current from the veins", "And not a thing in robes .", "This gives us to Eternity \u2014 We 'll meet it", "The rest , the rabble of patricians , may 120", "Over my mood , when its first burst was spent .", "And on each footstep moves a life . \u2018 Tis done .", "Come hither , my Bertuccio \u2014 one embrace ;", "And do what our frail clay , thus clogged , hath failed in !", "Even as the eagle overlooks his prey ,", "See that they strike without delay , and with", "Until \u2018 tis time to give them to the tombs", "But once in , with their hilts hot in their hands ,", "it hath been", "As men whose triumph is not in success ,", "A messenger to tell me how all goes", "To be the centre of re-union to", "As were the dead who lay around me : this", "Glut the more careless swords of those leagued with us .", "Which may induce them to o'erdo or spare", "Such Council can be lawful , till the Prince", "They cannot quench the memory of those", "Saint Mark and Liberty ! \u201d \u2014 Now \u2014 now to action !", "I know not well the courage or the faith :", "I have seen you dyed ere now , and deeply too ,", "To vanquish empires , and refuse their crown ;", "Me ! 200", "Thousands were sure to perish \u2014 Yes , to spill", "Of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more , 60", "And for a moment , poised in middle air ,", "Bertram , the Bergamask ! With what vile toolsWe operate to slay or save ! This creature , Black with a double treason , now will earn Rewards and honours , and be stamped in story With the geese in the Capitol , which gabbled Till Rome awoke , and had an annual triumph , 300 While Manlius , who hurled down the Gauls , was castFrom the Tarpeian . 1st Sig . He aspired to treason , And sought to rule the State .", "It was ever thus", "Resolve to cleanse this Commonwealth with fire ,", "to be free .", "Yet", "The hour of action I have stood as calm", "A Gradenigo or a Foscari ;", "A band of iron rustics at our backs . 40", "Fool ! the high eagle flies at nobler game", "And slay as if Death had but this one gate ,", "True ; but when once the signal has been given ,", "Thou hast done a worthy deed , and earned the price", "Which ever lurks somewhere in human hearts ,", "The blood of tyrants is not human ; they ,", "To the subduing power which I preserved 100", "He saved the State , And sought but to reform what he revived \u2014 But this is idle \u2014 Come , sirs , do your work . 1st Sig . Noble Bertuccio , we must now remove you Into an inner chamber .", "Are all the people of our house in muster ?", "Equal to every fortune . Droop not ,' tis", "And I , upon the verge of th \u2019 unknown realm ,", "As doth the pilot of an Admiral Galley :", "To the Council chamber .", "Beheld their fate merged in the approaching fight ,", "So thou provok'st not peril by resistance ,", "Save Israel and Philip Calendaro , 50", "As thou said'st even now \u2014 then do thine office ,", "The noble end must justify them . What", "Like to incarnate Molochs , feed on ours ,", "Tremendous bodements ; let it do its office ,", "That thus you dare assume a lawless function ?", "The master-mover .\u2014 Hark ! he comes \u2014 he comes ,", "And cowered to hear their own victorious trumpet .", "Wretch ! if thou wouldst have thy vile life , implore it ;", "But thou wert sent to watch , and not to prate ,", "That moment would have changed the face of ages ;", "In the first glimmerings of a purpose , when", "It had been", "And have I lived to fourscore years", "How goes the night ?", "What tidings ? Is he marching ? hath he sped ?", "Their prejudice against or for this noble ,", "But now I have put down all idle passion ,", "And be this peal its awfullest and last", "He is gone ,", "And learn", "A moment to the feelings of old days ,", "With all our House 's strength ; here I will meet you ;", "Rose up , imploring Heaven to send me blessings ,", "Unto that horrible incarnadine ,", "A morning freshness , and , at least to me , 110", "Serfs of my county of Val di Marino ,", "Who would have hurled them from their guilty thrones ,", "Are capable of turning them aside .\u2014", "Where mercy may be madness ; the fierce peasants , 20", "80", "Remember that the cry is still \u201c Saint Mark !", "To steel me to a purpose such as made", "Than urge them when they have commenced , but till", "Rebellious . Hast thou weighed well thy life 's worth ,", "Yes , and our spirits , which shall yet go forth , 310", "Yet if they send us , as \u2018 tis like , together ,", "It is in vain to war with Fortune ;", "The very effort which it cost me to", "Then swoops with his unerring beak .", "Oh Men ! what are ye , and our best designs ,", "The oft discordant elements which form 190", "Passion had too much room to sway ; but in", "Which make revenge a virtue by reflection ,", "I will resign a crown , and make the State", "than to face", "The Sixteen and their companies will move", "But this day , black within the calendar ,", "But friend or foe will roll in civic slaughter .", "Where I was leader of a phalanx , where", "These stars which twinkle yet o'er all the heavens ?", "It is illegal , and , as now applied ,", "And trembled at the thought of this dread duty ;", "And look the growing tempest in the face ,", "I was most fain to strike ; and , firstly , that", "In separate columns at the self-same moment :", "Cloak their own treason under such an order ?", "Sound till the strong tower rock !\u2014 What ! silent still ?", "Now leaves my mind more steady . I have wept ,", "With me ; the hour of agitation came", "They knew who made me what I am , and trusted", "My nephew , brave Bertuccio 's messenger .\u2014"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 200}, {"query": ["The vassals of that district are too rude", "F. I shall not shame you , Uncle . 1st Sig . Lords , our orders Are to keep guard on both in separate chambers , Until the Council call ye to your trial .", "Thus thinking , I must marvel you resolve", "Subdue the furies which so wrung you ere", "To strike the blow so suddenly .", "But they have orders not to strike , until", "A sudden swelling of our retinue", "In freedom and true sovereignty , or never !", "They have command from you through me in person . 70", "You were decided .", "Even now deposing to the secret Giunta .", "F. By this time they are ;", "But they perhaps will let our ashes mingle .", "I come for your last orders .", "F. They are arrayed , and eager for the signal ,", "F. Uncle !", "F. Methinks , my Lord ,' tis better as it is :"], "true_target": ["F. We are enough ;", "The morn is dappling in the sky .", "If we shall meet again in life I know not ,", "F. Almost upon the dawn .", "Against the Senate I will answer .", "F. Who would have deemed it ?\u2014 Ah ! one moment sooner !", "Within our palace precincts at San Polo :", "And quick in quarrel to have long maintained", "A service , till our foes are dealt upon .", "Had waked suspicion ; and , though fierce and trusty , 10", "And for the dispositions of our clients 30", "F. Farewell then , noble Uncle ! we will meet", "The secret discipline we need for such", "F. I 'll answer for thee \u2014 \u2018 tis a certain Bertram ,", "F. Farewell , Uncle !", "F. True ,", "F. It gladdens me to see your former wisdom"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 200}, {"query": ["Or slaves and Senate \u2014", "And learn thou to be captive . It hath ceased ,", "I did not mean to fail in the respect Due to your rank : in this I shall obey you . 260 DogeThere now is nothing left me save to die ; And yet how near success ! I would have fallen , And proudly , in the hour of triumph , but To miss it thus !\u2014\u2014 Enter other SIGNORS OF THE NIGHT , with BERTUCCIO FALIERO prisoner . 2nd Sig . We took him in the act Of issuing from the tower , where , at his order , As delegated from the Doge , the signal Had thus begun to sound . 1st Sig . Are all the passes Which lead up to the palace well secured ? 2nd Sig . They are \u2014 besides , it matters not ; the Chiefs Are all in chains , and some even now on trial \u2014 270 Their followers are dispersed , and many taken .", "Doge", "And not as judge to hear or to decide . 220", "Unless that fearful bell be silenced soon .", "Who wield your mercenary staves in fear ,", "Doge", "Our fate is trembling in the balance , and", "Anselmo , with thy company proceed", "I must gain time . So that the storm-bell sound ,", "My warrant is the will of those who rule it .", "The State , and needs must serve it faithfully ;", "As rebel slave of a revolted Council !", "Have I not done my duty ?", "But sitting in the convent of Saint Saviour 's . 210", "Doge", "It is your knell .\u2014 Swell on , thou lusty peal !"], "true_target": ["Hark , Signor of the Night ! and you , ye hirelings ,", "Doge , I arrest thee of high treason !", "\u2018 Tis not my office to reply , but act \u2014", "All 's silent , and all 's lost !", "I serve", "Stand to your arms , and guard the door \u2014 all 's lost 230", "Now , Doge , denounce me 250", "Woe to the vanquished ! be they Prince and people ,", "Or met some unforeseen and hideous obstacle ,", "Confusion !", "Straight to the tower ; the rest remain with me .", "The officer hath missed his path or purpose ,", "Now , knaves , what ransom for your lives ?", "Duke ! it may not be :", "I am placed here as guard upon thy person ,", "So let it be ! They die then in their duty , as will I . 240", "All may be well yet . Kinsman , speed \u2014 speed \u2014 speed !\u2014", "Nor are they in the wonted Hall of Council ,", "Behold my order from the assembled Ten ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 200}, {"query": ["A patient hearing with the due respect", "Gone to their place , and now", "And lest they should essay 100", "His fury , like an angry boy 's , to master", "Now we remit thee to thy preparation :", "The priest is robed , the scimitar is bare ,", "Of grateful masses for Heaven 's grace in snatching", "All Feeling , Wisdom , Faith and Fear , on such", "The Prince . Thy vile accomplices have died", "His punishment is safety to the State .", "Guards ! let their mouths be gagged", "Upon the spot where it was first assumed ,", "Until this trial \u2014 the decree is Death \u2014", "And they are ready to attend the Doge .", "Confront a traitor . What have you to say", "In your defence ?", "The Saracen and the schismatic Greek ,", "Which fits your ancestry , your rank , and virtues :", "Of that dread gulf which none repass , the truth", "Assuredly .", "The sentence against parricide was left", "of Venice ? 200", "That head , which could not wear a crown more noble", "And you , too , Philip Calendaro , what", "In peril of his own life ; but the Council", "In number many ; but 170", "Lady ! the natural distraction of", "We would request the Princess to withdraw ;", "The nature of your crime \u2014 our law \u2014 and peril 90", "A provocation as a young man 's petulance ?", "Count of Val di Marino , Senator ,", "To brave your judges to postpone the sentence ?", "Thy thoughts at such a moment makes the question", "By those who feel a proud compassion for thee ,", "United to thee as thy subjects , and", "Are now by thousands swarming at the gates ,", "Yes , Doge , thou hast lived and thou shalt die", "Let them be justified : and leave exposed", "To Europe ; the last Roman refuge from", "Without doubt , he will be brought up to trial .", "As sons \u2018 gainst sires , and princes \u2018 gainst their realms ?", "The sentence of the Law :\u2014 a grievous task", "Their fathers \u2019 judgment , which I now pronounce .", "So let them die the death .", "It is approaching . You decline to plead , then ?", "Than Empires can confer , in quiet honour ,", "And there , the Ducal Crown being first resumed", "Nor , as thou see'st , doth he deny it now .", "When shall they be brought up ?", "Of the red columns , where , on festal Thursday ,", "Having confessed , there is no hope for you .", "And Heaven have mercy on their souls !", "Your chief accomplices", "Abatement of your punishment , the Giunta", "You are brief , sir .", "Thou hast forgot thy dignity in deigning 560", "To those who hear , and those who speak . Alas !", "You do confess then , and admit the justice", "Were deep offence . But question even the Doge ,", "The earth as being the Christian bulwark \u2018 gainst", "And honours on his head , could thus allow", "Of time or penalty \u2014 \u2018 tis a decree . 360", "Thou will'st a state unto thy widowed Princess , 540", "You know the Doge ?", "But there are thousands in pursuit of them ,", "Unhappy men ! prepare for instant death .", "Have been disposed of . Some have fled to Chiozza ;", "But these are closed : the Ten , the Avogadori ,", "Lady , it cannot be .", "If ye have that to say which would obtain", "Convict by many witnesses and proofs ,", "Our fathers had not fixed the punishment", "But to pronounce on these obdurate men", "And all which Circumstance can add to aid them ;", "Become a precedent \u2018 gainst such haught traitors ,", "The proofs and process are complete ; the time", "Of office should be stigmatised through all", "Upon the greatest traitor upon record", "O'erwhelming Attila ; the Ocean 's Queen ;", "Upon a public day of thanksgiving", "Postpones his trial for the present . If", "Except two thousand ducats \u2014 these dispose of .", "This full admission", "No .", "In pure forgetfulness ; they could not render", "One of the Giunta . And the rest ,", "You have nought to do , except confess and die .", "That Nature could be filed to such a crime", "He will stand here in peril of his life .", "A priest is waiting in the antechamber ;", "Of execution . Lead them hence !", "Not in this case with justice .", "When thou art noted in our calendars 490", "Whatever be its purport , to accord", "For this our most miraculous deliverance ,", "Painful to them , and useless all to you .", "Alone can profit you on earth or Heaven \u2014", "And crime require a quick procedure : shall 140", "Before we can proceed upon that duty ,", "They can convert it to a two-edged sword !", "As would with treason mount to tyranny ;", "It is coming .", "Alone will be beholders of thy doom ,", "What then ?", "Unto the state , to justify compliance", "But it must plot to overthrow your peers ,", "May change your tone .", "And by thine own confession , of the guilt", "Guiltless as thy own bosom .", "Be brought before the Council .", "To be left vacant , with a death-black veil", "In their great bosoms ; who would have foreseen", "Say , who were your accomplices ?", "\u2018 Twill move her too much to be witness to it .", "Not even contented with a sceptre , till", "But you turn pale \u2014 ho ! there , look to the Lady !", "Ne'er reared their sanguinary shadows to", "\u2018 Tis time that we proceed to pass our sentence", "Alas !", "These", "Avowal of your treason : on the verge 30", "Merit forgiveness ; else a doubt like this", "They are ;", "Have risked and forfeited their worthless lives \u2014", "Think not to speak unto the people ; they 550", "So your confession be detailed and full , 80", "Was not the place of Doge sufficient for ye ?"], "true_target": ["Thou shalt be led hence to the Giants \u2019 Staircase ,", "And goods , and jewels , and all kind of treasure ,", "Is this your sole reply to the Tribunal ?", "Have you to say why you should not be doomed ?", "To stir up the distracted multitude \u2014", "Thy name is razed from out her records , save", "A further application of yon engine", "Fear not , for we will do her justice .", "Though the request be strange , to grant it , and", "Of Treachery and Treason , yet unheard of", "And some time General of the Fleet and Army ,", "Answering to Heaven for what they did on earth .", "Michel Steno Is here in virtue of his office , as One of the Forty ; \u201c the Ten \u201d having craved A Giunta of patricians from the Senate To aid our judgment in a trial arduous And novel as the present : he was set Free from the penalty pronounced upon him , Because the Doge , who should protect the law , Seeking to abrogate all law , can claim 230 No punishment of others by the statutes Which he himself denies and violates !", "Doge", "Yet we would hear from your own lips complete", "Even to the highest , listen to the sentence .", "Say , then , what was your motive ?", "Our lives and country from thy wickedness .", "Flung over these dim words engraved beneath ,\u2014", "Say , Conscript Fathers ,", "He hath already owned to his own guilt ,", "Thy head shall be struck off ; and Heaven have mercy 520", "Decapitated for his crimes . \u201d", "When you must doff the Ducal Bonnet from", "The dog 's death , and the wolf 's ; but them shall fall", "The place wherein as Doge thou shouldst be painted", "Where thou and all our Princes are invested ;", "Let it be brief , and we ourselves will be 570", "Of our Tribunal ?", "Provoked by thy wild wrath , and regal fierceness .", "None will escape to utter in strange lands", "That penal , which had neither name nor thought 190", "As such for ever , on the self-same spot .", "His libellous tale of treasons \u2018 gainst the Senate . 150", "The throne of such a City , these lost men", "even in the act", "To the full view of the assembled people !", "Their wavering relics , in the place of judgment ,", "Their fellowship in treason with the Doge !", "The first now stands before you in the court ,", "And mourn even the inevitable death", "Of such a crime , as on the old Roman tables", "Your crimes", "And the great Enemy of man , as subject", "A City 's glory \u2014 we have laid already", "In any annals , the Doge Faliero !", "Thy guides unto the place where first we were", "To plot with petty traitors ; not so we ,", "Must be immediate .\u2014 Make thy peace with God :", "And Philip Calendaro , have admitted", "You do not then in aught arraign our equity ? 270", "To this most foul and complicated treason", "On great emergencies ,", "Upon thy soul !", "Must be considered , till the hour shall come", "Spare us , and spare thyself the repetition Of our most awful , but inexorable Duty to Heaven and man !", "One of the Giunta . She may have revelations of importance", "Your pleasure , Lady ?", "Bertram of Bergamo ,\u2014 would you question him ?", "A Sovereign ; till the moment which precedes", "As Doge , clad in the ducal robes and Cap ,", "The State now stands in , leave not an hour 's respite .", "Lady ! this just Tribunal has resolved , 320", "Time must reply to that ; our sons will judge", "Thy Senate ; and must now be parted from thee", "That ducal crown and head shall be united .", "Against a just and paramount tribunal", "Are fully proved by your accomplices ,", "With thine illustrious predecessors , is", "As well as in the islands , that we hope", "The torture to elicit the whole truth .", "Against a just and free state , known to all 10", "shall she be admitted ?", "And can it be , that the great Doge of Venice ,", "With earthquakes , pestilence , and foreign foes ,", "That it should fall to me ! and that my days", "Thy goods are confiscate unto the State ,", "He now be called in to receive the award ?", "When all the Chiefs", "Who in the very punishment acknowledge", "It is .", "And if he can deny the proofs , believe him", "With her request .", "Your sin hath made us make a law which will", "With three parts of a century of years 240", "The Doge stands to behold the chase of bulls ,", "Marino Faliero , Doge of Venice ,", "Perhaps you think by this blunt brevity", "Proud Genoa 's prouder rival ! \u2018 Tis to sap", "Guards ! form the Doge 's escort to his chamber .", "A City which has opened India 's wealth", "Avogadori , order that the Doge", "\u201c This place is of Marino Faliero ,", "Noble Venetian , many times and oft", "Which have appeared against you ; and more ample", "Before you in your chamber at full length ,", "The law must be remodelled or amended :", "The savage Hun , and not less barbarous Frank ;", "What 's nobler than the signory", "You have held conference with him ?", "The years of coming time , as bearing record", "As falls the lion by the hunters , girt", "The Giunta , and the chief men of the Forty ,", "But , for your friends , such interviews would be", "Within an hour thou must be in His presence .", "There now rests , after such conviction of", "His doom must be fulfilled without remission", "What", "Lie under the state 's ban \u2014 their Chief , thy nephew ,", "And two others , Israel Bertuccio ,", "Will hear you ; if you have aught to confess ,", "Who made you what you are , and quench in blood", "Now that these criminals have been disposed of ,", "Intrusted by the state with high employments , 480", "By the Avogadori , all the proofs 160", "Is this the general will ? 310", "The separation of that head and trunk ,", "Their manifold and manifest offences ,", "Place a chair instantly .", "Doge \u2014 for such still you are , and by the law", "What do you mean ?", "And such precaution ta'en on terra firma ,", "Guards ! lead them forth , and upon the balcony", "Spares us the harsh necessity of ordering", "Now is your time ,\u2014 perhaps it may avail ye .", "Your object ?", "Think of your own : 180", "And both await without .\u2014 But , above all ,"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 201}, {"query": ["Ber . Ask of the suffering people ,", "Our very silence \u2014 let them live in fear !", "To their atrocities , than could a volume 120", "Address our own above !\u2014 Lead on ; we are ready .", "Ber . So my life grows : I", "Ber . Signors , farewell ! we shall not all again", "Was bred a soldier , not a senator .", "Ber . I die and pardon thee !", "But this ye dare not do ; for if we die there \u2014", "I pray you pass to judgment .", "Alike by accusation or defence ;", "Ber . Freedom !", "To Heaven against them , and more testify", "Ber . Justice !", "And you have left us little life to spend", "While you but hazarded the lives of others , 60", "Without the slightest show of favour from them ;", "Leave them unto their thoughts , and let us now", "So shall our blood more readily arise", "You would appal your slaves to further slavery !", "Ber . Do you be brief as I am , and believe me ,", "Groans are not words , nor agony assent , 50", "Or place us there again ; we have still some blood left ,", "And for the rest , all Venice knows her Doge ,"], "true_target": ["Upon your engines , gorged with pangs already \u2014", "Ber . The Senate .", "Spoken or written of our dying words !", "Ber . Even let them have their way , brave Calendaro !", "Nor affirmation Truth , if Nature 's sense", "Your racks have done that for us . Let us die .", "Even wearier of your questions than your tortures :", "Whom your patrician crimes have driven to crime .", "They tremble at our voices \u2014 nay , they dread", "I shall prefer that mercy to your pardon . 40", "Meet in one place .", "To present office ; we exposed our lives ,", "Ber . I am weary \u2014", "In the field , when you were pleading here your way", "What matter a few syllables ? let 's die", "Ber . We stand to hear , and not to speak .", "Ber . I served with him at Zara", "Ber . Go , ask your racks what they have wrung from us ,", "Ye lose the public spectacle , with which", "Ber . We are prepared ; 20", "Should overcome the soul into a lie ,", "Ber . Peace , Calendaro ! What brooks it now to ponder upon this ?", "And some slight sense of pain in these wrenched limbs :", "For a short respite \u2014 must we bear or die ?", "Through his great actions , and the Senate 's insults ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 201}, {"query": ["Then look well to thy proud self , President !", "That in the last few moments , the same idle", "Nor leave a last word with our confessor ?", "Upon their open thoughts ; but still I deemed", "It had not now been thus ; and yon pale villain ,", "And on this testimony would he perish ?", "And now have few left worth the utterance . 70", "Stand good in law ?", "The culprit be whom I accuse of treason ?", "It will not change my words , or , if it did \u2014", "Most true , it will do so ;", "What ! must we", "Would not now be denied to us ; but since \u2014\u2014", "There is no more to be drawn from these men .", "I knew that we were gagged in life ; at least"], "true_target": ["A former application did so ; but", "For by the Eternity which yawns before me ,", "If I be stretched there for the second time .", "Freedom of speech accorded to the dying ,", "I die and scorn thee !", "I never was a man of many words ,", "Not even say farewell to some fond friend ,", "Whoe'er", "The coward Bertram , would \u2014\u2014", "I swear that thou , and only thou , shall be", "All those who had not heart to risk their lives 110", "One of the Giunta . Lord President ,' twere best proceed to judgment ;", "The traitor I denounce upon that rack ,", "Israel , hadst thou but hearkened unto me", "Will my avowal on yon rack"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 201}, {"query": ["Aye , aye ."], "true_target": ["Amen !"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 201}, {"query": ["Alas ! I fain you died in peace with me : 130", "Retrieve my own forgiveness \u2014 frown not thus !"], "true_target": ["Say , you forgive me , though I never can", "I did not seek this task ; \u2018 twas forced upon me :"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 201}, {"query": ["Which your foul , outward , juggling show of justice", "I am already ; and my blood will rise", "Than in the mockery of castigation ,", "Noble Venetians ! stir me not with questions .", "I am resigned to the worst ; but in me still", "What glory to the chaste Venetian dames !", "And dying men 's are things which long outlive , 290", "And my superiority in action ,", "But such blasphemers \u2018 gainst all Honour , as", "Yet left the Duke : all this I bore , and would", "There were no other way for Truth to o'erleap them ,", "The jealous vigilance which always led you", "Fortune is female : from my youth her favours", "I cannot plead to my inferiors , nor", "You \u2014 you , who sit there , traitors as ye are !", "Let me die calmly ; you may grant me this ;", "Or at the least learn whence the crimes arose ? 510", "Let him be told the cause \u2014 it is your history .", "Have something of the blood of brighter days ,", "Near to Treviso , which I hold by investment", "But let it be so :\u2014 it will be in vain .", "I have lived too long not to know how to die !", "I sought to free the groaning nations !", "The torture ! you have put me there already , 300", "And hides , or seems to hide , these lineaments ,", "Will judge , when Venice is no more , or free ;", "I would have stood alone amidst your tombs :", "You drew me from my honourable toils", "And the quick Cassius of the arsenal ?\u2014", "And where are they ?", "My journey to the capital , curtailed", "Shall draw more gazers than the thousand portraits", "Of wretches , from whose monstrous villanies", "Thy suing to these men were but the bleating", "To mock and mar your Sovereign 's best intents ,", "I 'll pardon thee thy lie , and thy escape ,", "And being lost , take what I would have taken !", "You singled me out like a victim to", "Your delegated slaves \u2014 the people 's tyrants !", "Stand crowned , but bound and helpless , at the altar", "I would have freed both , and have failed in both :", "And mutilated the few privileges", "Till then , the truth is in abeyance . Pause not ;", "500", "Are all my lands confiscated ?", "Rival to that of Greece and Syracuse", "Between my consort and my kinsmen .", "I ask of you , but silence for myself ,", "I sought not , wished not , dreamed not the election , 210", "And who be they ?", "I confess to have failed ;", "If ye would fain survive me : take this counsel ,", "And my own violent death , and thy vile life .", "And mine to Gelon and to Thrasybulus :", "Have borne , until my very hearth was stained", "The secret were too mighty for your souls :", "To portion them", "A danger which would double that you escape .", "Is present infamy and death \u2014 the future", "Which would admit the wife , in the full hope", "Were not withheld , the fault was mine to hope", "Her former smiles again at this late hour .", "Fit judge in such tribunal !\u2014\u2014", "I would have shown no mercy , and I seek none ;", "To Heaven before the souls of those who shed it .", "\u201c His crimes ! \u201d", "Since my defence must be your condemnation ?", "Show me the law !", "By the pollution of your ribaldry , 220", "In fief perpetual to myself and heirs ,", "Which glitter round it in their pictured trappings \u2014"], "true_target": ["Daily since I was Doge ; but if you will", "So that the contemplator might approve ,", "Now , villain Steno ! if this woman fail ,", "Add the corporeal rack , you may : these limbs", "A spark creates the flame \u2014 \u2018 tis the last drop", "Then let it sleep in mine , unless you court", "I can endure it .\u2014 And the time ?", "Ah ! the plebeian Brutus , is he gone ?", "How did they meet their doom ?", "\u2018 Tis true , these sullen walls should yield no echo :", "The DUCHESS enters .", "What you would hear from me of Good or Evil ;", "The signory of Venice ! You betrayed me \u2014", "Judges and Executioners !\u2014 Proceed", "Now you may flock round mine , and trample on it ,", "Upon your power .", "The price of such success would have been glory ,", "When the beholder knows a Doge conspired ,", "Failing , I know the penalty of failure", "And oftentimes avenge them ; bury mine ,", "The veil which blackens o'er this blighted name ,", "\u201c Decapitated for his crimes ! \u201d \u2014 What crimes ?", "And sentence from the Court !", "I deny nothing \u2014 defend nothing \u2014 nothing", "Which reached me first at Rome , and I obeyed ;", "As you have done upon my heart while living .", "When they were freed , and flourished ages after ,", "Will yield with age to crushing iron ; but", "Yet could not bear in silence to your graves", "And though too oft ye make me live in wrath ,", "\u2018 Twas purity compared with your protection .", "Which makes the cup run o'er , and mine was full", "His punishment ! I rather see him there ,", "You are at once offenders and accusers ,", "My life was staked upon a mighty hazard , 260", "Further interrogation , which boots nothing ,", "That 's harsh .\u2014 I would have fain reserved the lands 530", "You who condemn me , you who fear and slay me ,", "Already : you oppressed the Prince and people ;", "A life eternal , granted at the hands", "But walls have ears \u2014 nay , more , they have tongues ; and if 280", "The Doge !", "Vengeance , and victory , and such a name 250", "Sit here , do well to act in their vocation .", "From Laurence the Count-bishop of Ceneda ,", "of", "To make it famous ; for true words are things ,", "From my equality with you in birth ,", "You had , even in the interregnum", "But found on my arrival , that , besides", "And am not over-patient . Pray you , spare me", "And he , the ribald , whom I see amongst you \u2014", "Where you alone could minister . I knew not ,", "Where he now sits , to glut him with my death ,", "Of seamen to the surge : I would not take", "As would have made Venetian history", "Except to turn a trial to debate .", "Such my defence would be , had I full scope", "What shall I say to ye ,", "In distant lands \u2014 on flood , in field , in cities \u2014", "Come ! The hour may be a hard one , but \u2018 twill end . Have I aught else to undergo save Death ?", "I shall but answer that which will offend you ,", "Decreed as sentence ! Base as was his crime ,", "Oh , admirable laws of Venice !", "Were it not better to record the facts ,", "Is this the Giunta 's sentence ?", "There 's that within my heart shall strain your engines .", "And please your enemies \u2014 a host already ;", "Can recognise your legal power to try me .", "Of the lamb to the butcher , or the cry", "That she might testify against the husband ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 201}, {"query": ["Requests admission to the Giunta 's presence ."], "true_target": ["Noble Venetians ! Duchess Faliero"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 201}, {"query": ["I am devoted unto God alone ,", "Upon the earth would live were all judged justly ?", "Signor ! complete that which you deem your duty .", "And see be sooth , have reached me , and I come", "One day of baffled crime must not efface", "More terrible than Death , here and hereafter ;", "Ne'er weighed in mind with Loredano 's daughter , 410", "Let the poor wretch , like to the courtesan", "We leave him to himself , that lowest depth", "Yet speak ; I cannot \u2014 340", "Be multiplied in mine , but would not have", "A moment 's faintness \u2014", "To know the worst , even at the worst ; forgive", "Spirits more sensitive , on which such things", "Doge", "Near sixteen lustres crowned with brave acts .", "I speak to thee in answer to yon Signor .", "In soul , more than the living things of tombs .", "Though my heart burst , it shall be silent .\u2014 Speak !", "I \u2019 the heel o'erthrew the bravest of the brave ;", "Sage Benintende , now chief Judge of Venice ,", "And no resentment : things like him must sting , 460", "Of human baseness . Pardon is for men ,", "And take my refuge in the cloister .", "He was a subject , and hath served the State ;", "But let him not insult the last hours of", "My honour to a thousand lives , could such", "He is your Sovereign , and hath ruled the State .", "I share not in your spoil ! From henceforth , know", "Nor would we aught with him , nor now , nor ever :", "When the proud name on which they pinnacled", "His life , while Earth yet bore his cruelties ;", "I cannot \u2014 no \u2014 even now believe these things .", "I know it will , and yet I must endure it , 470", "Alas ! Signor ,", "Unto the rock : but as there are \u2014 alas !", "With eyes averted , and with gloomy brows \u2014", "Hath decimated Venice , put in peril", "Of Virtue , looking not to what is called", "Discrowned a Prince , cut off his crownless head ,", "Inform the ribald Steno , that his words", "A Senate which hath stood eight hundred years ,", "\u2018 Twas the worm 's nature ; and some men are worms", "There to pronounce the death of your deliverer ,", "A virgin 's wrong made Spain a Moorish province ;", "May have the crawler crushed , but feels no anger :", "The mighty in the field , the sage in Council ,", "A wife 's Dishonour unkinged Rome for ever ;", "And higher beings suffer ; \u2018 tis the charter", "Of Life . The man who dies by the adder 's fang", "I have that within which shall o'ermaster all .", "My Lord , my Sovereign , my poor father 's friend , 350", "Men whose vice is to start at Vice 's scoffing ,", "He hath been guilty , but there may be mercy .", "Which nothing human can impugn \u2014 the sense", "Their hopes is breathed on , jealous as the eagle 430", "With beings of a higher order . Insects", "And who , though proof against all blandishments"], "true_target": ["If there are so", "A wife 's Dishonour was the bane of Troy ;", "For \u2018 tis a part of mine \u2014 I will not quit ,", "Have made the lion mad ere now ; a shaft", "Oh God ! this is the silence of the grave !", "Is it so ?", "Within these walls , thou art not of the number :", "An obscene gesture cost Caligula", "A single life of others lost for that", "And Steno 's lie , couched in two worthless lines ,", "Nothing of good can come from such a source ,", "To me the scorner 's words were as the wind 420", "A good name for reward , but to itself .", "While he is on his feet .", "One of the Council . No , Lady , there are others who would die", "Nay , fear not either shriek , or sigh , or tear ;", "And was he guilty ?", "If it so please him \u2014 \u2018 twere a pride fit for him !", "The abruptness of my entrance and my bearing .", "And not for reptiles \u2014 we have none for Steno ,", "Of pleasure , and all pangs of Pain , are feeble", "To save or to destroy ; and you , who sit", "Unsay the words of this man !\u2014 thou art silent !", "Is it \u2014 I cannot speak \u2014 I cannot shape", "An injured husband brought the Gauls to Clusium ,", "Is there no hope ?", "By the intrusion of his very prayers ;", "He was your General , and hath saved the State ;", "For such as he is : would that others had", "Had now been groaning at a Moslem oar ,", "Despised him as I pity ! I prefer", "Rather than breathe in slavery !", "The question \u2014 but you answer it ere spoken ,", "Him , who , whate'er he now is , was a Hero ,", "In presence of my Prince and of my husband ,", "Further than to create a moment 's pity", "\u2018 Tis past ; I pray you pardon me ,\u2014 I sit not", "Which Grief and Shame will soon cut down to days !", "The truly brave are generous to the fallen !\u2014", "Light as the Whirlwind on the waters ; souls", "Aye , but he must not die ! Spare his few years ,", "And thence to Rome , which perished for a time ; 440", "Except by force , my husband 's side \u2014 Proceed !", "Signors ,", "Behold , and feel , and suffer , be a lesson", "Then die , Faliero ! since it must be so ; 380 But with the spirit of my father 's friend . Thou hast been guilty of a great offence , Half cancelled by the harshness of these men . I would have sued to them , have prayed to them . Have begged as famished mendicants for bread , Have wept as they will cry unto their God For mercy , and be answered as they answer ,\u2014 Had it been fitting for thy name or mine , And if the cruelty in their cold eyes Had not announced the heartless wrath within . 390 Then , as a Prince , address thee to thy doom !", "To wretches how they tamper in their spleen", "To whom Dishonour 's shadow is a substance", "And forged new fetters for a groaning people !", "Is he condemned ?", "Or digging in the Hunnish mines in fetters !", "Strange rumours , but most true , if all I hear 330", "Of her high aiery ;", "He who is only just is cruel ; who", "let what we now", "Who fired Persepolis , be proud of this , 450", "One of the Council . He is a traitor , and betrayed the State .", "And , but for him , there now had been no State 370"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 201}, {"query": ["Could cancel the inexorable past !", "I crave , not pardon , but compassion from you ,", "A word with thee , and with this noble lady ,", "But since that cannot be , as Christians let us"], "true_target": ["And give , however weak , my prayers for both .", "Whom I have grievously offended . Would 400", "Say farewell , and in peace : with full contrition", "Sorrow , or shame , or penance on my part ,", "Doge ,"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 201}, {"query": ["And yet I find a comfort in", "The marvel is , it came not until now \u2014", "Its criminals , instead of touching at", "For the last time \u2014 the days which I denounce", "Conveyed the Host aroused my rash young anger ,", "One look !\u2014 how cold her hand !\u2014 as cold as mine", "Still falling \u2014 I have done with Time .", "Guard", "No , not enough to extract an epitaph", "And I will leave the few last grains of sand ,", "Seeing my evil feelings are at rest . 100", "And I repented ; but \u2018 twas not for me", "I have uprooted all my former life ,", "He turned to me , and said , \u201c The Hour will come", "Aye , palpable as I see thy sweet face 90", "And hoary hairs of Shame , and both of Death ,", "And take my last thanks \u2014 I am ready now . 120", "When she shakes off this temporary death ,", "In memory , and yet they live in annals :", "A hissing and a scoff unto the nations ,", "Which ushered Israel out of Egypt , till", "A fond but fatal husband \u2014 love my memory \u2014", "With unimpaired but not a clamorous grief", "Into Eternity , and I behold \u2014", "But thou canst judge of me more kindly now ,", "Of festival , the sluggish Bishop who 20", "Between the Pillars of Saint Mark 's , where \u2018 tis", "Unwonted density went on before", "And they who are indwellers .", "On my return from Rome , a mist of such", "Passion shall tear thee when all passions cease", "The Riva della Paglia , as the wont is ,\u2014", "I could not change , and would not fear .\u2014 Nay more ,", "The Bucentaur , like the columnar cloud", "That I remembered them amid the maze", "Even o'er the grave , I have nothing left , not even", "Which yet remain of the accorded hour ,", "In other men , or mellow into virtues ;", "That a sure Hour will come , when their sons \u2019 sons ,", "Shall crown to leave thee headless ; honours shall", "I know to be as worthless as the dust , 70", "But not such death as fits an ag\u00e9d man . \" 40", "I would not ask so much for me still living ,", "The custom of the state to put to death 60", "Were all incapable \u2014 they could not be", "Of the town of Treviso , on a day", "But one pang more , the pang of parting from thee ,", "I own the words went to my heart , so much", "Which shaped out for itself some great reverse ;", "But prove to thee the heralds of Destruction ,", "Glory , and Wealth , and Power , and Fame , and Name ,", "The pure , the good , the gentle , which will oft 110", "His tremulous hands in pious wrath towards Heaven .", "The thought , that these things are the work of Fate ;"], "true_target": ["Still keep \u2014\u2014 Thou turn'st so pale !\u2014 Alas ! she faints ,", "Until he reeled beneath his holy burthen ;", "Then farewell , Angiolina !\u2014 one embrace \u2014", "That on my day of landing here as Doge ,", "By strange delay , and arrogant reply", "A little love , or friendship , or esteem ,", "So that all Venice shuddered at the omen .", "Since every lifeless moment spares a pang .", "Or cling to any creed of destiny ,", "From ostentatious kinsmen ; in one hour", "Which shook me in a supernatural dream ;", "And Majesty which decks all other heads ,", "And as he rose from earth again , he raised", "Unto all time against these wave-girt walls ,", "And Signory as Podesta and Captain", "Rather than deem these mortals , most of whom", "The Wisdom shall be shaken from thy soul ,", "And weak as worthless , more than instruments", "To pull in resolution :", "I cannot leave her thus , and yet \u2018 tis better ,", "Of Life , as if they formed a spectral voice ,", "Thou can'st not have forgot , what all remember ,", "Shall be ere she recovers .\u2014 Gently tend her ,", "To my reproof : I raised my hand and smote him ,", "When I was in my youth , and served the Senate", "And yet it was foretold me .", "For I would rather yield to Gods than men ,", "what must be 50", "I shall be with the Eternal .\u2014 Call her women \u2014", "I stand within Eternity , and see", "A Carthage , and a Tyre , an Ocean Babel .", "The Ten are in attendance on your Highness .", "Which generally leave some flowers to bloom", "Forgive the old man who hath been to thee", "To linger out the miserable minutes ;", "And this proud city , and these azure waters , 80", "Of an o'erhYpppHeNruling Power ; they in themselves", "Besides , of all the fruit of these long years ,", "And all which makes them eminent and bright ,", "She has no breath , no pulse !\u2014 Guards ! lend your aid \u2014", "When he thou hast o'erthrown shall overthrow thee :", "And outlived everything , except thy heart ,", "Now , that the priest is gone , \u2018 twere useless all", "And in thy best maturity of Mind", "I am at peace : the peace of certainty", "The Glory shall depart from out thy house , 30", "Doge of Venice ,", "Thence pointing to the Host , which had fallen from him ,", "Shall be a desolation and a curse ,", "Not so : there was that in my spirit ever", "Long years ago \u2014 so long , they are a doubt", "The pilot was misled , and disembarked us", "Vistors of him who oft had conquered for them .", "A madness of the heart shall seize upon thee ;", "Thus saying , he passed on .\u2014 That Hour is come ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 202}, {"query": ["Of a more healing nature , and in peace", "And I have been the cause , the unconscious cause ;", "Didst promise at his death , thou hast sealed thine own . 10", "Employ the minutes left in aspirations", "Ah ! little boots it now to recollect", "Sweeps o'er thee to the last ; thou dost deceive", "And with this warning couldst thou not have striven", "Even with these wretches take thy flight to Heaven ."], "true_target": ["Which thou , compliant with my father 's wish ,", "Alas !", "Speak not thus now : the surge of Passion still", "To avert the fatal moment , and atone ,", "Thyself , and canst not injure them \u2014 be calmer .", "By penitence , for that which thou hadst done ?", "How foretold you ?", "Such things .", "And for this funeral marriage , this black union ,"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 202}, {"query": ["In lieu of Capital , with slaves for senates ,", "With some large gondolier or foreign soldier ,", "Ye winds ! which fluttered o'er as if you loved it ,", "Defy all codes to image or to name them ;", "And sold , and be an appanage to those", "Thou den of drunkards with the blood of Princes !", "Youth without Honour , Age without respect ,", "Against the people ; but to set them free ,", "Unto a bastard Attila ,", "A province for an Empire , petty town", "As in the monstrous grasp of their conception", "On her and hers for ever !\u2014\u2014 Yes , the hours", "Entailed on thy less virtuous daughters , grown", "Round a barbarian Vice of Kings \u2019 Vice-gerent ,", "Of which I grow a portion , not to man .", "Then , in the last gasp of thine agony ,", "All thine inheritance shall be her shame", "A wider proverb for worse prostitution ;\u2014", "Meanness and Weakness , and a sense of woe", "But shows a thousand crowned conspirators", "\u2018 Tis well to be so , though but for a moment ,", "Shall yield , and bloodlessly and basely yield ,", "One of the Ten . Thou tremblest , Faliero !", "The Hun in thy high places , and the Greek", "Than I received the fatal ornament .", "And filled my swelling sails as they were wafted", "Then when the Hebrew 's in thy palaces ,", "Reek up to Heaven ! Ye skies , which will receive it !", "So now the Doge is nothing , and at last", "Of this proud City , and I leave my curse", "In narrow streets , and in their shameful need", "Then , when of Cyprus , now thy subject kingdom , 80", "Shall pour in sacrifice .\u2014 She shall be bought", "To many a triumph ! Thou , my native earth ,", "Gehenna of the waters ! thou Sea-Sodom !", "Despised by cowards for greater cowardice ,", "As these old veins , oft drained in shielding her ,", "Then , when the few who still retain a wreck", "And show these eyes , before they close , the doom", "I am not innocent \u2014 but are these guiltless ? 40", "When thy patricians beg their bitter bread", "Which drank this willing blood from many a wound !", "When these and more are heavy on thee , when 90", "Who kindlest and who quenchest suns !\u2014 Attest !", "I hasten , let my voice be as a Spirit", "Float up from the abyss of Time to be ,", "Depraving Nature 's frailty to an art ;\u2014", "Shall bear about their bastardy in triumph", "But in its stead , coarse lusts of habitude ,"], "true_target": ["Unheard of ! aye , there 's not a history", "One Sovereign only died , and one is dying .", "Are silently engendering of the day ,", "My consort to their justice ; for methinks", "Make their nobility a plea for pity ;", "Ye stones , in which my gore will not sink , but", "Who shall despise her !", "Ye Elements ! in which to be resolved", "without", "Even in the Palace where they swayed as Sovereigns ,", "\u2014 She shall stoop to be", "Even from the gloss of Love to smooth it o'er ,", "Upon you ! Ye blue waves ! which bore my banner . 30", "Prurient yet passionless , cold studied lewdness ,", "My death , and such a death , might settle all", "\u2018 Tis with age , then .", "Even in the Palace where they slew their Sovereign ,", "Proud of some name they have disgraced , or sprung", "That shining mockery , the ducal bauble ,", "Shedding so much blood in her last defence , 50", "Thus I devote thee to the Infernal Gods ! 100", "Amidst thy many murders , think of mine !", "\u2018 Gainst which thou wilt not strive , and dar'st not murmur ,", "I am again Marino Faliero :", "Agis and Faliero !", "Here was I crowned , and here , bear witness , Heaven !", "With how much more contentment I resign", "When all the ills of conquered states shall cling thee ,", "I perish , but not unavenged ; far ages", "Thy sons are in the lowest scale of being ,", "May I speak ?", "Walks o'er thy mart , and smiles on it for his ; 60", "Thee and thy serpent seed !", "And scorned even by the vicious for such vices", "To the third spurious generation ;\u2014 when", "When she , who built \u2018 gainst Attila a bulwark ,", "The King of Sparta , and the Doge of Venice \u2014", "Thou Sun ! which shinest on these things , and Thou !", "Vice without splendour , Sin without relief", "Which I have bled for ! and thou , foreign earth ,", "Smiles without mirth , and pastimes without Pleasure ,", "From an adulteress boastful of her guilt 70", "Of their great fathers \u2019 heritage shall fawn", "I speak to Time and to Eternity ,", "Slaves turned o'er to the vanquished by the victors ,", "Beggars for nobles , panders for a people !", "Between the State and me .", "I would commend my nephew to their mercy ,", "Have made thee last and worst of peopled deserts ,"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 203}, {"query": ["Hast thou more", "But recollect the people are without ,", "Thou may'st ;", "Even notwithstanding thine unheard-of crime .", "Beyond the compass of the human voice ."], "true_target": ["To utter or to do ?", "They shall be cared for ;", "Faliero ! hast thou aught further to commend ,", "And who were they who fell in such a cause ? 20", "Compatible with justice , to the Senate ? 10"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 203}, {"query": ["Robed in their gowns of state , ranged round the Doge ."], "true_target": ["I have gained the Gate , and can discern the Ten ,"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 204}, {"query": ["Is thus prohibited unto the people ,", "I cannot reach thee with mine utmost effort ."], "true_target": ["How is it ? let us hear at least , since sight", "Hush ! we perhaps may catch the sound .", "Except the occupiers of those bars ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 204}, {"query": ["One has approached the Doge , and now they strip", "Now \u2014 now \u2014 he kneels \u2014 and now they form a circle", "I cannot hear him .\u2014 How his hoary hair", "He raises his keen eyes to Heaven ; I see", "I saw the sword fall \u2014 Lo ! what have we here ? Enter on the Balcony of the Palace which fronts St. Mark 's Place a CHIEF OF THE TEN ,with a bloody sword . He waves it thrice before the People , and exclaims , \u201c Justice hath dealt upon the mighty Traitor ! \u201d\u201c The gory head rolls down the Giants \u2019 Steps ! \u201dFOOTNOTES :{ 331 }], which resulted in the defeat of the Gauls and the surrender of Vercingetorix , see De Bella Gallico , vii . 68-90 . Belgrade fell to Prince Eugene , August 18 , 1717 . ]{ 332 }he was one day so eager that he unfortunately bit his tongue ... this accident gave Thwackum , who was present , and who held all such doctrines to be heathenish and atheistical , an opportunity to clap a judgment on his back . \u201d \u2014 The History of Tom Jones , a Foundling , Bk . V. chap . ii . 1768 , i . 234 . See , too , Letter to Murray , November 23 , 1822 , Letters , 1901 , vi . 142 ; Life , p . 570 . ]{ 333 }{ 334 }{ 335 }{ 336 }does not occupy the site of the older staircase . ], stands the Scuola di San Marco . Attached to the lower hall of the Scuola is the Chapel of Santa Maria della Pace , in which the sarcophagus containing the bones of Marino Faliero was discovered in 1815 . ]{ 337 }It is like being at the whole process of a woman 's toilet \u2014 it disenchants .\u2014Any man of common independence .\u2014{ 338 } While I was in the sub-committee of Drury Lane Theatre , I can vouch for my colleagues , and I hope for myself , that we did our best to bring back the legitimate drama . I tried what I could to get De Montford revived , but in vain , and equally in vain in favour of Sotheby 's Ivan , which was thought an acting play ; and I endeavoured also to wake Mr. Coleridge to write us a tragedyThose who are not in the secret will hardly believe that the School for Scandal is the play which has brought the least money , averaging the number of times it has been acted since its production ; so Manager Dibdin assured me . Of what has occurred since Maturin 's Bertram I am not aware; so that I may be traducing , through ignorance , some excellent new writers ; if so , I beg their pardon . I have been absent from England nearly five years , and , till last year , I never read an English newspaper since my departure , and am now only aware of theatrical matters through the medium of the Parisian Gazette of Galignani , and only for the last twelve months . Let me , then , deprecate all offence to tragic or comic writers , to whom I wish well , and of whom I know nothing . The long complaints of the actual state of the drama arise , however , from no fault of the performers . I can conceive nothing better than Kemble , Cooke , and Kean , in their very different manners , or than Elliston in Gentleman 's comedy , and in some parts of tragedy . Miss O'NeillI never saw , having made and kept a determination to see nothing which should divide or disturb my recollection of Siddons . Siddons and Kemble were the ideal of tragic action ; I never saw anything at all resembling them , even in person ; for this reason , we shall never see again Coriolanus or Macbeth . When Kean is blamed for want of dignity , we should remember that it is a grace , not an art , and not to be attained by study . In all , not super-natural parts , he is perfect ; even his very defects belong , or seem to belong , to the parts themselves , and appear truer to nature . But of Kemble we may say , with reference to his acting , what the Cardinal de Retz said of the Marquis of Montrose , \u201c that he was the only man he ever saw who reminded him of the heroes of Plutarch . \u201d, and passages from Byron 's Detached Thoughtsibid ., pp . 230 , 233-238 . ], Letters , 1899 , iii . 233 , and letter to Murray , October 12 , 1817 , Letters , 1900 , iv . 171 . )], afterwards Lady Becher , made her d\u00e9but in 1814 , and retired from the stage in 1819 . Sarah Siddonsmade her final appearance on the stage June 9 , 1818 , and her brother John Philip Kembleappeared for the last time in Coriolanus , June 23 , 1817 . Of the other actors mentioned in this note , George Frederick Cookehad long been dead ; Edmund Keanhad just returned from a successful tour in the United States ; and Robert William Ellistonhad , not long before, become lessee of Drury Lane Theatre . ]{ 339 }He would , too , be deeply and genuinely moved by such verse as this \u2014 \u201c Consult a holy man ! inquire of him ! \u2014 Good father , wherefore ? what should I inquire ? Must I be taught of him that guilt is woe ? That innocence alone is happiness \u2014 That martyrdom itself shall leave the villain The villain that it found him ? Must I learn That minutes stamped with crime are past recall ? That joys are momentary ; and remorse Eternal ?... Nor could one risen from the dead proclaim This truth in deeper sounds to my conviction ; We want no preacher to distinguish vice From virtue . At our birth the God revealed All conscience needs to know . No codicil To duty 's rubric here and there was placed In some Saint 's casual custody . \u201d", "Streams on the wind like foam upon the wave !", "Swells up like muttered thunder ; would we could"], "true_target": ["But gather a sole sentence !", "\u2018 Tis vain .", "\u2018 Twas but a murmur \u2014 Curse upon the distance !", "Round him , and all is hidden \u2014 but I see", "His words are inarticulate , but the voice", "Them glitter , and his lips move \u2014 Hush ! hush !\u2014 no , 10", "The lifted sword in air \u2014\u2014 Ah ! hark ! it falls ! 20", "The ducal bonnet from his head \u2014 and now"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 204}, {"query": ["Wisely they did to keep their portals barred .", "Ere we were summoned here \u2014 we would have brought"], "true_target": ["Weapons , and forced them !", "Would we had known the work they were preparing"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 204}, {"query": ["But either that or nothing must I be :", "Proclaims to thine , and mine is sealed .", "I think so .", "Of thy far father-land . Nay , weep not \u2014 calm thee .", "that e'er divided", "A sort of semi-glorious human monster .", "Because he loved a Lydian queen : thou seest 330", "Thou speakest of them .", "The realms he wasted , and the hearts he broke .", "Why , what makes thee the mouth-piece of the people ?", "I am a monarch .", "To one wide desert chase of brutes , who were ,", "Whom thou suspectest ?\u2014 Let them be arrested .", "What must we dread ?", "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 ?", "No ;", "What dost dread ? 280", "Of Salemenes , to approve his zeal ,", "Have gorged themselves up to equality ,", "I can at least command myself , who listen", "Thou hast my signet :\u2014 since they are tumultuous ,", "Each calumny they can to sink their sovereigns .", "Whose then is the crime ,", "For the victorious mischiefs he had done .", "And death , where they are neither Gods nor men .", "To worship your new God", "The summer-dwelling on its beauteous border ,", "Few questions , and I 'm not of curious nature .", "Till they shall wish it turned into a distaff .", "Shame me ! By Baal , the cities , though well built ,", "The follies of my species , and", "Who should rebel ? or why ? what cause ? pretext ?", "Business to-morrow .", "Because I have not shed their blood , nor led them", "The weight of human misery less , and glide", "Lest it should clash with thine ; for thou art still", "Why , those few lines contain the history", "If the Euphrates be forbid us , and", "The ungrateful and ungracious slaves ! they murmur", "Given or received ; we have enough within us ,", "The moments from me ?", "Intoxicating glare , when the buffoons 440", "Which , it may be , are menaced ;\u2014 yet I blench not .", "Thou think'st that I have wronged the Queen : is't not so ?", "By the god Baal ! The man would make me tyrant .", "The young , makes Weariness forget his toil , 190", "And none but tearless triumphs . Let us on .", "An empire than thy presence .", "I do not dare to breathe my own desire ,", "I interfered not with their civic lives ,", "These are their sepulchres , and this his trophy . \u201d", "Not know the word !", "Yet ! what YET ?", "Dost thou say so , Myrrha ?", "A sword of such a temper , and a bow ,", "Ungroaning to the tomb : I take no license", "Come , Myrrha , let us go on to the Euphrates :", "Who founded our great realm , knows more than I \u2014", "Respect , the tutelage of Assyria 's heirs ,", "If I must make a prison of our palace ,", "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", "At least we 'll wear our fetters jocundly ;", "Have fled to Bactria , leaving to the ravens ,", "The peaceful only : if they rouse me , better", "Not blush !", "But nothing \u2018 gainst the truth of that brief record .", "She but subdued them .", "Or whiten with their bones the banks of Ganges ;", "Not an hour", "Thou hast no more eyes than heart to make her crimson", "Which said thou wouldst not leave me .", "Accompany our guests , or charm away", "Slew fifty thousand of his enemies . 260", "The Ionian Myrrha we would crave her presence . 420", "There was a certain Bacchus , was there not ?", "Of whom our captives often sing , related", "I would not give the smile of one fair girl", "And javelin , which might furnish Nimrod forth :", "Yet speak it ;", "They dared not . They were kept to toil and combat ;", "Be brief .", "Nor crown me with a single rose the less ;", "Suspect !\u2014 that 's a spy 's office . Oh ! we lose", "Tis most true . And how returned ?", "And , like my ancestor Semiramis , 180", "I know not what \u2014 a labyrinth of things \u2014", "Perhaps . I have the goodliest armour , and", "Save me , my beauty ! Thou art very fair ,", "It will .", "Away !", "We deem our happiness : let me remove", "My present purpose : since thou wilt not pledge me ,", "To be indulgent to my own .", "\u2018 Tis for some small addition to the temple .", "And loved her as most husbands love their wives .", "Even in the chase . Hast ever seen them , brother ? 320", "In peril .", "To revel and to rail ; it irks me not .", "The same of their chief hero , Hercules ,", "For me , if I can make my subjects feel", "And what I seek of thee is love \u2014 not safety .", "I have proved a thousand \u2014 A thousand , and a thousand .", "Thou wilt \u2018 gainst me , my mode of life or rule ,", "Can see a smile , unless in some broad banquet 's", "No , it must not be .", "Assume to win them ?", "Then I will say for them \u2014", "And do their worst : I shall not blench for them ; 310", "Boy , retire .", "Those Gods were merely men ; look to their issue \u2014", "And who will do so now ?", "And wolves , and men \u2014 the fiercer of the three ,", "Here we are still unmenaced . Ho ! within there ! 640", "My Lord !\u2014 my Life ! why answerest thou so coldly ?", "And the pavilion , decked for our return ,", "They lie .\u2014 Unhappily , I am unfit", "I marvel at thee . What is thy motive , Myrrha , thus to urge me ?", "Cannot the thing be done without ? Who are they", "That he shed blood by oceans ; and no God ,", "Or thus \u2014 \u201c Sardanapalus on this spot", "I have , by Baal ! done all I could to soothe them :", "But this they know not , or they will not know .", "Too prompt to sacrifice thy thoughts for others .", "Who knew no brighter gems than summer wreaths ,", "The railing drunkards ! why , what would they have ? Have they not peace and plenty ?", "The thing which you condemn , a disposition", "From which he first expressed the soul , and gave", "No .", "For ever something between us and what", "Patience , Prince , and hear me .", "Well , then , how wouldst thou save me , as thou saidst ?", "And if I did , \u2018 twere better than a trophy ,", "That we must forthwith meet : I had rather lose", "Requires , I sanction and support thee . Ne'er 370", "But thou looked'st it :", "Am I then ?", "The hour invites , the galley is prepared ,", "That 's false ! but let them say so : the old Greeks ,", "A race of Kings who knew no predecessors .", "And what", "Name it .", "The homage and the appanage of sovereignty .", "That is to say , thou thinkest him a hero ,", "The Shepherd Kings of patriarchal times , 560", "So my dogs \u2019 are ;", "Was man who more desired to rule in peace", "I love to learn .", "Talk not of such to me ! the worms are Gods ;", "Were all Assyria raging round the walls", "In one day built Anchialus and Tarsus .", "Sole in Assyria , or with them elsewhere .", "Which will not see it . What ! in tears , my Myrrha ?", "A little heavy , but yet not unwieldy .", "Glory ! what 's that ?", "That I should prize their noisy praise , or dread", "Shall blaze with beauty and with light , until", "Passing my own as suited me .", "And show himself more necessary to us . 600", "So let me fall like the plucked rose !\u2014 far better", "Oh ! if it must be so , and these rash slaves", "Forbear the banquet ! Not for all the plotters", "I speak of woman 's love .", "Crowned with fresh flowers like \u2014\u2014", "He was a God , that is , a Grecian god ,", "Brother !", "To immortality \u2014 the immortal grape", "Than either the brief life or the wide realm ,", "I pray thee say not so : my chiefest joy 20", "That ever shook a kingdom ! Let them come ,", "There 's Tarsus and Anchialus , both built", "But when they falter from the lips I love ,", "In good or evil to surprise mankind .", "Thou dost forget thee : make me not remember", "In dust", "But", "To speak it worse ; and let them thank themselves .", "Fate made me what I am \u2014 may make me nothing \u2014", "When we take those from others , we nor know", "Do more ?", "These are mere fantasies :", "In one day \u2014 what could that blood-loving beldame ,", "I sway them \u2014", "Nor sweated them to build up Pyramids ,", "Drive from our presence with his savage jeers ,", "With Baal , Nimrod , and Semiramis ,", "Where sunset tints the snow with rosy shadows ,", "Left she behind in India to the vultures ?", "There comes", "This language , which makes life itself a lie ,", "The populace of all the nations seize", "Here 's that which deified him \u2014 let it now", "Continue what thou pleasest .", "What have I done to thee , or to the people ,", "If she or thou supposedst I could link me", "Thy gentle spirit , go ; but recollect", "An idol foreign to Assyria 's worship , 150"], "true_target": ["Why , child , I loathe all war , and warriors ;", "To be aught save a monarch ; else for me", "Oh , thou wouldst have me doubtless set up edicts \u2014", "The very chorus of the tragic song", "It seems unto the stars which are above us", "Their noisome clamour ?", "Thought them worth purchase and conveyance , are 170", "At least they banqueted upon your Gods , 270", "Fall down and worship , or get up and toil . \u201d", "What we have taken , nor the thing we give .", "A maze of muttered threats and mysteries :", "When this , the present , palls . Well , then I pledge thee", "Nor decimated them with savage laws , 230", "And never changed their chains but for their armour :", "Eat , drink , and love ; the rest 's not worth a fillip . \u201d", "I let them pass their days as best might suit them ,", "Itself an opposite star ; and we will sit", "The fatal penalties imposed on life :", "The Hall of Nimrod for the evening revel ;", "Thou prat'st of , where Semiramis was vanquished .", "And vainer fears . Within there !\u2014 ye slaves , deck", "Thine , my Myrrha !", "And made thee weep and blush ?", "Recruit his phalanx \u2014 spill your blood at bidding \u2014", "And then reproach her with thine own cold blindness ,", "Like to the dying day on Caucasus ,", "But of the midnight festival .", "Pledge me to the Greek God !", "The lips which have been pressed to mine , a chill", "As thou hast often proved \u2014 speak out , what moves thee ?", "For ever thus , addressed with awe . I ne'er", "But the false satraps , who provide no better ?", "Of all things human : hear \u2014 \u201c Sardanapalus ,", "Deserve that I should curse them with their wishes ,", "Already captive ? can I not even breathe", "Who answers ? How now , brother ?", "In mutinous myriads , I would still go forth .", "The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch , 350", "For all the popular breath", "Will I not ?", "What mean'st thou !\u2014 \u2018 tis thy secret ; thou desirest", "Thy own sweet will shall be the only barrier", "And do not I ? I love thee far \u2014 far more", "And share a cottage on the Caucasus", "And in his godship I will honour him \u2014", "Thou whom he spurned so harshly , and now dared", "I leave such things to conquerors ; enough", "The landmarks of the seas of gore he shed ,", "In fit adornment for the evening banquet ,", "Comes o'er my heart , a cold sense of the falsehood", "Longer than he can love . How my soul hates", "I made no wars , I added no new imposts ,", "Ingratitude ?", "Well , Pania !", "Take the fit steps ; and , since necessity", "I shall be King , as heretofore .", "Her myriads of fond subjects . Is this Glory ?", "That 's true , and , wer't my kingdom , must be granted . Well , for thy sake , I yield me . Pania , hence ! Thou hear'st me .", "Aye , from dark plots and snares 470", "Who conquered this same golden realm of Ind", "Being bought without a tear . But that is not", "I understand thee \u2014 thou wouldst have me go", "And died for lack of farther nutriment .", "To dry into the desert 's dust by myriads ,", "Myrrha !", "Lost !\u2014 why , who is the aspiring chief who dared", "Ye knew nor me \u2014 nor monarchs \u2014 nor mankind .", "By mild reciprocal alleviation ,", "What ! am I then cooped ?", "And how many", "Take thou the signet .", "Which I deny to them . We all are men .", "340", "Beyond my easy nature .", "Which ever rises betwixt thee and me .", "Of this vile herd , grown insolent with feeding ,", "But he is honest . Come , we 'll think no more o n't \u2014", "And better , as more faithful :\u2014 but , proceed ;", "To gladden that of man , as some atonement", "Thou knowest I have done so ever ;", "\u2018 Gainst me !! What would the slaves ?", "And I have never sought but for the last .", "Bring me the golden goblet thick with gems , Which bears the name of Nimrod 's chalice . Hence , 160 Fill full , and bear it quickly .", "Which the Chaldeans read \u2014 the restless slaves", "I am the lawful King , descended from", "Worse than the rabble 's shout , or splitting trumpet :", "I 've heard thy sister talk of nothing else .", "Some twenty garments , than with twenty guards", "I feel a thousand mortal things about me ,", "And say'st thou so ?", "I have heard thee talk of as the favourite pastime", "I know there doth , but not its name :", "Thus than be withered .", "What is it ?", "I live in peace and pleasure : what can man 530", "Nor lose one joyous hour .\u2014 I fear them not .", "What they have found me , they belie ; that which", "Not to add to each other 's natural burthen", "Like a Chaldean peasant to his mate ,", "My martial grandam , chaste Semiramis ,", "Humanise thee ; my surly , chiding brother ,", "I 've heard my Greek girls speak of such \u2014 they say", "Of mortal misery , but rather lessen ,", "But Salemenes hath declared my throne", "And ancient conqueror . Some wine , I say .", "Are not more goodly than the verse ! Say what", "The barrier which that hesitating accent", "Then let me live in ignominy ever .", "Of this my station , which represses feeling", "They yet may find me \u2014 shall defy their wish", "The heads \u2014 how many ?", "I married her as monarchs wed \u2014 for state ,", "My Lord \u2014 my King \u2014 Sire \u2014 Sovereign ; thus it is \u2014", "That is , I suffered them \u2014 from slaves and nobles ;", "Wish that I could lay down the dull tiara ,", "Flattering dust with eternity .", "They cannot answer ; when the priests speak for them ,", "Myrrha , I can hear all these things , these names ,", "A mortal still in name as in his grave ;", "Let them be tempered , yet not roughly , till", "Is to contribute to thine every wish .", "From Medes \u2014 and discontented troops and nations .", "The breath of heaven ? Tell prince Salemenes ,", "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 !", "Or I have quaffed me down to their abasement .", "They had conjured up stern Nimrod from his ashes ,", "\u201c Obey the king \u2014 contribute to his treasure \u2014", "But would no more , by their own choice , be human .", "That 's a hard question \u2014 But I answer , Yes .", "To love and to be merciful , to pardon", "But nothing godlike ,\u2014 unless it may be", "Lord \u2014 King \u2014 Sire \u2014 Monarch \u2014 nay , time was I prized them ;", "Not so :\u2014 of all his conquests a few columns .", "Thou know'st the man \u2014 it is his usual custom .", "And now I think o n't , \u2018 tis long since I 've used them ,", "In those for whom I have felt most , and makes me 450", "Do more , except destroy them ?", "Forth as a conqueror . By all the stars", "At least , I will enjoy it .", "Ten thousand precious moments in vain words ,", "She has all power and splendour of her station , 210", "Away !", "To-morrow thou wilt smile at these vain fancies .", "Because he turned a fruit to an enchantment ,", "What 's that ?", "To language such as this : yet urge me not 60", "I know each glance of those Ionic eyes ,", "Say on .", "Not much as man . What , ho ! my cupbearer !", "Necessity enforce it . I hate all pain ,", "Which cheers the sad , revives the old , inspires", "And lead them forth to glory .", "Or why or how he hath divined it , Belus ,", "And him as a true man , who did his utmost", "A name from nothing . What are the rank tongues", "\u201c The Mighty Hunter ! \u201d I will turn these realms", "The king , and son of Anacyndaraxes , 250", "That thou shouldst rail , or they rise up against me ?", "It is the curse of kings to be so answered .", "That she had better woven within her palace", "I will not live degraded .", "Nor rise the sooner ; nor forbear the goblet ;", "From whom ?", "Which may be his , and might be mine , if I", "Will not be ruled with less , I 'll use the sword", "\u2018 Midst joy and gentleness , and mirth and love ;", "Or for my trophies I have founded cities :", "Rule thy own hours , thou rulest mine \u2014 say , wouldst thou", "And dost thou feel this ?\u2014 Why ?", "Since it must be so , and this churl has checked", "But here \u2014 here in this goblet is his title", "Come , I 'm indulgent , as thou knowest , patient ,", "And why not her brother ?", "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 ?", "Curs\u00e9d be he who caused those tears to flow !", "The meanest Mede might be the king instead .", "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 .", "Or Babylonian walls .", "Never was word yet rung so in my ears \u2014 90", "Had it not been for this , he would have been", "Why let it come then unexpectedly ,", "And that is \u2014\u2014", "Hear , Myrrha ; Salemenes has declared \u2014 460", "Now they have peace and pastime , and the license", "There is no peril :\u2014 \u2018 tis a sullen scheme", "Yet oft", "Slave , tell", "And Fear her danger ; opens a new world", "With thee \u2014 and wear no crowns but those of flowers .", "No , like sovereigns ,", "My eloquent Ionian ! thou speak'st music :", "Then wherefore dost thou turn so pale ?", "I will trust no man with unlimited lives .", "And if I do not dread it , why shouldst thou ?", "Feel ! who feels not 380", "What ?\u2014 and dost thou fear ?"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 205}, {"query": ["There doth .", "And in my heart a feeling like a God 's ,", "Look to the annals of thine Empire 's founders .", "And thou ?", "Frown not upon me : you have smiled", "And love , and mirth , was never King of Glory .", "And without love where dwells security ?", "Thus much from thee , but some impending danger .", "About my fathers or their land .", "Yield to the few still faithful a few hours ,", "Boon which I ever asked Assyria 's king .", "To ward off worse oppression , their own passions .", "Your first tears quenched by her , and your last sighs", "Forgets himself \u2014 will they remember him ?", "Too often on me not to make those frowns", "Even for the sake of all that ever stirred", "Which they may augur .\u2014 King , I am your subject !", "And that is better than the power to smile .", "Sire ! your brother \u2014\u2014", "And wilt thou not now tarry for a day ,\u2014", "I love .", "The substance of sweet peace ; and , for a king ,", "The King 's choice is mine .", "Then thou wouldst know what thou canst never know .", "Great King ,", "Hadst thou felt", "The very first", "Yet not oppressed \u2014 at least they must not think so ,", "Of human life must spring from woman 's breast , 510", "Thyself alone , but these vast realms , from all", "The satraps uncontrolled , the Gods unworshipped ,", "My Lord \u2014", "Oh , Monarch , listen .\u2014", "He did well .", "Would that we could !", "Back to my duty . But thou spakest of peril", "For he who loves another loves himself ,", "In my native land a God ,", "Could urge the Prince thy kinsman to require", "Because thou dost not fear , I fear for thee . 620", "Exalted ; yet I own \u2018 tis only mortal ; 430", "A King of feasts , and flowers , and wine , and revel ,", "Till all , save evil , slumbered through the realm !", "More frequently , and he did well to call me", "Of watching the last hour of him who led them .", "Spurned his sage cautions ?", "Aye \u2014 or death to-night .", "To think of aught save festivals . Thou hast not", "If the worst come , I shall be where none weep ,", "Preserve thine own .", "That is , it would be happy ; but \u2014\u2014", "I should do both", "Peril to thee \u2014\u2014", "And , therefore , when I love a stranger , more", "\u2018 Tis the first 610", "That means thou lovest nor thyself nor me ;", "Thy safety ; and the certainty that nought", "Loved you , I know not by what fatal weakness ,", "Master , I am your slave ! Man , I have loved you !\u2014", "For my sake !", "Or , if they think so , deem it necessary , 540"], "true_target": ["Will overflow in words unconsciously ;", "I speak of civic popular love , self-love ,", "Still I have loved you . If that love were strong", "The rage of the worst war \u2014 the war of brethren .", "Within these palace walls in silken dalliance , 580", "Then thou wilt not yield ,", "And for thy sons \u2019 inheritance ?", "A trifling revel .", "Where ?", "Then yield for mine ;", "Degraded by that passion than by chains !", "A slave , and hating fetters \u2014 an Ionian , 500", "I would remain : I have no happiness", "The true value of a heart ;", "And all things in the anarchy of sloth ,", "\u2018 Tis sometimes better to be feared than loved .", "A monarch into action , to forego", "For them , for thee , for thy past fathers \u2019 race ,", "Thus always , none would ever dare degrade thee . 630", "I weep not .\u2014 But I pray thee , do not speak 520", "And now art neither .", "To try so much ? When he who is their ruler", "Not one ! the time may come thou may'st .", "I think the present is the wonted hour", "Even for that other 's sake . This is too rash :", "Dost thou suspect none ?", "Ask of the Gods thy fathers .", "For the sake of thy realm !", "Bitterer to bear than any punishment", "\u2018 Tis time", "Victims .", "Enough to overcome all former nature ,", "There needs too oft the show of war to keep", "By teaching thee to save thyself , and not", "My Lord !\u2014", "Save in beholding thine ; yet \u2014", "Kingdoms and lives are not to be so lost .", "Of council ; it were better I retire . 30", "Thou didst not say so .", "At least , a woman 's .", "How many a day and moon thou hast reclined", "Your first small words are taught you from her lips ,", "But when another speaks of Greeks , it wounds me .", "For what I feel is humble , and yet happy \u2014", "My sovereign ,", "Which means that men are kept in awe and law ,", "Leaving thy subjects \u2019 eyes ungratified ,", "True \u2014 true : constant thought", "Alas ! my Lord , with common men", "Although a Greek , and born a foe to monarchs \u2014", "A day which may redeem thee ? Wilt thou not", "Too often breathed out in a woman 's hearing ,", "Shall it not claim the privilege to save you ?", "And never shown thee to thy people 's longing ;", "Fear !\u2014 I 'm a Greek , and how should I fear death ? A slave , and wherefore should I dread my freedom ? 480", "I pray , and thou , too , Prince , permit my absence .", "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 .", "Who is he should dread 490", "By all that 's good and glorious take this counsel .", "Hearts ?", "When men have shrunk from the ignoble care"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 205}, {"query": ["For a king to put up before his subjects !", "The doom of Nineveh is sealed .\u2014 Woe \u2014 woe", "Thou wilt lose both \u2014 and both for ever !", "Of the first", "Also , another thing thou knowest not .", "As king the kingdoms thou didst leave as hero ,", "Faith to the King , a faith he may need shortly ,", "Is this moment", "Alas !", "Not vanquished . With but twenty guards , she made 130", "Corrupt no less than they oppress , and sap", "Nor would she deign to accept divided passion", "Will send my answer through thy babbling troop", "More than is glorious : of the last , far less", "Must I stay to number 290", "Of Ganges .", "And somewhat in the Monarch who ne'er looks", "The false and fond examples of thy lusts", "A worthy moral , and a wise inscription ,", "This , thy presumed descendant , ne'er beheld", "With words , but deeds . Keep thou awake that energy", "You have said they are men ;", "Whose delegated cruelty surpasses", "Thou art guarded by thy foes : in a few hours", "They say thy Sceptre 's turned to that already .", "Which has environed thee with snares ; but yet", "Till summer heats wear down . O glorious Baal !", "Short of the duties of a king ; and therefore", "To quell the machinations , and I lay", "Of sensual sloth \u2014 produce ten thousand tyrants , 70", "Brought Persia \u2014 Media \u2014 Bactria \u2014 to the realm", "Won with thy blood , and toil , and time , and peril !", "A hundred kings , although she failed in India ,", "In their eyes a nothing ; but", "A foreign foe invade , or civil broil", "When even thine own 's in peril ? Let me go ;", "He did , and thence was deemed a Deity .", "As such their hearts are something .", "Thy Sires have been revered as Gods \u2014", "Thou stopp'st 360", "Wouldst thou not take their lives who seek for thine ?", "It may be ere long", "Reluctant love even from Assyria 's lord ! 220", "Who built up this vast empire , and wert made", "That easy \u2014 far too easy \u2014 idle nature ,", "Though \u2018 twere against myself .", "The first thy subjects have no heart to conquer ; 80", "With foreign strumpets and Ionian slaves .", "They did not speak thus of thy fathers .", "A God , or at the least shinest like a God", "I have one more request .", "Complaint , and Salemenes \u2019 sister seeks not", "It may be ,", "Or multiplied extortions for a minion . 120", "The worst acts of one energetic master ,", "Thy yet unslept-off revels ?", "However harsh and hard in his own bearing .", "Even from the winds , if thou couldst listen", "That he is deemed a God for what he did .", "Then thou at last canst feel ?", "The Queen is silent .", "Better by me awakened than rebellion .", "And thine and mine ; and in another day", "Good her retreat to Bactria .", "Yet these are trophies", "The negligence , the apathy , the evils", "Why , like a man \u2014 a hero ; baffled , but", "Of paramours , and thence fly o'er the palace ,", "Curse not thyself \u2014 millions do that already . 50", "And lavished treasures , and contemn\u00e9d virtues .", "I would but have recalled thee from thy dream ; 200", "Of blood and chains ? The despotism of vice ,", "They say thou art unfit to be a monarch .", "Unto the echoes of the Nation 's voice .", "Semiramis \u2014 a woman only \u2014 led", "Which he who long neglects not long will govern .", "Semiramis , the glorious parent of"], "true_target": ["I pray thee , change the theme : my blood disdains", "The last they rather would assist than vanquish .", "A fitting one for the resumption of", "Trust me .", "Distract within , both will alike prove fatal :", "As powerful in thy realm . Farewell !", "Virtue .", "Would thou couldst !", "Our annals say not .", "The tempest may break out which overwhelms thee ,", "There is resource : empower me with thy signet", "And thou may'st yet be glorious in thy reign ,", "In the same moment all thy pageant power", "Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that", "Of what thou hast done to me , I speak not .", "Re-enter Cupbearer , with wine .", "Which shames both them and thee to coming ages .", "There is one Mede , at least , who seeks to be so .", "The heads of thy chief foes before thy feet .", "I would thou wouldst not ask me ; the next moment 300", "A natural love unto my infant nephews ;", "In the pavilion over the Euphrates .", "In heritage , are loud in wrath against thee . 100", "So thou art .", "Give me thy signet \u2014 trust me with the rest .", "Beyond his palace walls , or if he stirs 110", "But thou wouldst arm thee , wouldst thou not , if needful ?", "And your most faithful vassal , royal Lord .", "To change the irksome theme , then , hear of vice .", "And is herself the cause of bitterer tears .", "The Ionian slave says well : let her retire .", "For all thy realms", "For they are many , whom thy father left", "Than the King recks of .", "Wilt thou resume a revel at this hour ?", "A king .", "These our Assyrians to the solar shores", "The Queen 's brother ,", "Forgiveness of the Queen , my sister wrongs ;", "To the unrivalled city !", "Through the long centuries of thy renown ,", "Thy peril .", "Which she once swayed \u2014 and thou mightst sway .", "Than songs , and lutes , and feasts , and concubines ,", "That they will need her sword more than your sceptre .", "And those who should sustain it ; so that whether", "In mine a man who might be something still .", "In more than words ; respect for Nimrod 's line ;", "To thee an unknown word .", "For what ? to furnish imposts for a revel ,", "More worthy of a people and their prince", "What means the King ?", "\u2018 Tis beyond", "Is this a time for such fantastic trifling ?\u2014", "Beyond them , \u2018 tis but to some mountain palace ,", "Which I would urge thee . O that I could rouse thee !", "Think ! Thou hast wronged her !", "That thou this night forbear the banquet", "Ambitious treachery ,", "All warlike spirits have not the same fate . 140", "Which sleeps at times , but is not dead within thee ,", "How darest thou name me and not blush ?", "I own thy merit in those founded cities ,", "\u2018 Tis most true ; 240", "Let them flow on ; she weeps for more than one ,", "If need be , wilt thou wear them ?", "Wherefore not ?", "What is shall be the past of Belus \u2019 race .", "The weakness and the wickedness of luxury ,", "I will not pause to answer", "I would not so blaspheme our country 's creed .", "I have heard of such a man ; and thou perceiv'st", "I only echo thee the voice of empires ,", "His Consort 's brother , minion of Ionia ! 40", "Thus , then : all the nations ,", "Built for a whim , recorded with a verse", "Even to the city , and so baffle all .\u2014"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 205}, {"query": ["May the King live for ever !", "Round thee and thine .", "And obey .", "Reiterate his prayer unto the King ,", "That for this day , at least , he will not quit", "Of his presumption .", "For that", "His daring , and perhaps obtain the pardon", "I must obey , and yet \u2014\u2014"], "true_target": ["I am charged by Salemenes to", "From the deep urgency with which the Prince", "Of all thy faithful subjects , who will rally", "The palace : when the General returns , 570", "Must dare to add my feeble voice to that", "Despatched me to your sacred presence , I", "\u2018 Tis true ! 590", "He will adduce such reasons as will warrant", "Which now has spoken ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 205}, {"query": ["\u2018 Twill be full soon , and may be closed for ever !", "Why , what should change me ?", "If not , \u2018 twill punish his hypocrisy .", "The impression of his former instances :", "Hark ! 280", "More soundly .", "And make him null .", "When the Doge declared that he", "Your Highness may remember them ; they both", "As long as he can drag them : \u2018 tis his throne", "The brothers sickened shortly :\u2014 he is Sovereign .", "My sires by violent and mysterious maladies . 280", "My dabbling in vile drugs .", "To him who took a city : and they gave", "For life .", "Met the great Duke at daybreak with a jest ,", "Yes ,", "And I \u2014\u2014", "\u2018 Tis not the first time", "All that 's essential \u2014 leave the rest to me .", "They wished to spare your feelings ,", "In early life its foe , but in his manhood ,", "How far ?", "I have marked that \u2014 the wretch !", "They are , in all maternal things .", "Neither are of my office , noble Lady !", "Without owning", "About by every breath , shook", "Had we known this when 260", "When they are", "Have made it law \u2014 who shall oppose that law ?", "The better reason", "There is none , I tell you , 40", "And the old ducal dotard , who combined", "For his inauguration .", "Should never deem himself a sovereign till", "May practise , she doth well to recommend it .", "Were fearfully against him , although narrowed", "I 'll take their voices on it ne'ertheless ,", "Lady !", "I believed that swoon", "Destroyed by him , or through him , the account", "Even ag\u00e9d men , be , or appear to be ,", "Announce \u201c the Ten 's \u201d decree .", "Where ?", "To work in secret , proofs and process are", "Than calling it at moments back to this .", "True \u2014", "gave a crown", "They owe me still my father 's and my uncle 's .", "You must .", "More seldom still .", "It begins to work , then .", "By the Doge Foscari , with citizens", "His son , and the whole race of Foscaris .", "\u2018 Tis decreed , 260", "Take mine .", "Be partner in my policy .", "His sons expire by natural deaths , and I", "The thing 's decreed . The Giunta", "James Foscari return to banishment ,", "Rejoin our colleagues in the council , and", ",", "It shows", "I said \u2014 for life .", "I fear not .", "Of Carmagnuola , eight months ere he died ;", "The torch , there !", "\u201c There often has been question about you . \u201d", "Subject !", "You may know him better .", "You talk but idly .", "Lady ! words", "His dignity is looked to , his estate", "We 'll elect another ,", "by a sigh , 330", "Between the Duke and me on the State 's service .", "I kiss the hands of the illustrious Lady ,", "The virtue which this noble lady most", "With his guilt unavowed , he 'll be lamented . 350", "When I came here . The galley floats within", "Which leads me here .", "It is written thus .", "His state descend to his children , as it must ,", "What ! Do you regret a traitor ?", "He has seen his son 's half broken , and , except", "Feels he , think you ?", "From its sad visions of the other world ,", "Say rather", "Of the first , as shall make the second needless .", "And men of eighty", "Right ! 350", "Uttered within these walls I bear no further 320", "The delegates appointed to convey", "Breaks in on our deliberations ?", "The worthy voices which o'erhYpppHeNruled my own .", "I have visited these places .", "I bear that of \u201c the Ten . \u201d", "Our powers are such .", "Cared for \u2014 what would he more ?", "He cried out twice .", "Its saviour first , then victim .", "His fourscore years and five may linger on", "Decides to-day must not give way before", "Pause in her full career , because a woman", "In their accelerated graves , nor will 330", "Their office : they 'll be here soon after us .", "Alone is aimed at .", "You best know if I should be so .", "\u201c That he in truth had passed a night of vigil ,", "The act was passing , it might have suspended", "The hour approaches , and the wind is fair .", "Let him call up into life", "When Princes set themselves", "Age has no heart to break .", "And so the Council must break up , and Justice", "You have consented to", "Died suddenly .", "And had he not recovered ?", "That they have mortal foes .", "The victims are not equal ; he has seen", "As I said , suddenly .", "If he die unattainted ?", "You forget , you cannot .", "He receives them", "Where go you , sirrah ?", "What laws ?\u2014 \u201c The Ten \u201d are laws ; and if they were not ,", "How nobler ?", "And present", "The present Duke is Paschal Malipiero .", "To have the courtesy to abdicate .", "The Grave knows best : they died ,", "To-morrow for a natural accident .", "The ducal palace , marshal me to vengeance .", "In Venice had to dread a Doge 's frown ,", "The whole isle .", "Which only tends to show how stubborn guilt is ,", "A crown to him who saved a citizen", "It was not named .", "The Council 's resolution .", "Till Foscari fills his . Each night I see them", "Their thoughts , their objects , have been sounded , do not", "They sleep not", "Wouldst thou have", "That is , by open means .", "Your answer , Francis Foscari !", "If they were from his heart , he may be thankful :", "The time narrows , Signor . 410", "With all their house , till theirs or mine are nothing .", "We shall see .", "The death of Peter Loredano , both", "\u201c The Ten \u201d in council .", "Even so : when he ,", "True \u2014 true \u2014", "And so he seemed not long", "Because his son is dead ?", "What should they be who make", "Doge ! have you aught in answer ?", "To private havoc , such as between him 320", "An atom of their ancestors from earth .", "Learnt but in eighty years . Brave Carmagnuola", "The Romans", "Eight months of such hypocrisy as is", "Is dead ; so is young Foscari and his brethren \u2014", "Yet \u2018 twas important .", "Swerved .", "A year 's imprisonment"], "true_target": ["See , the Duke comes !", "Most sure .", "The Question , or continuance of the trial ,", "I did so .", "You may .", "So far from strange , that never was there death", "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 .", "That he has paid me !Chief of the Ten . What debt did he owe you ? 370", "And sail in the same galley which conveyed him . 270", "To await their coming here , and join them in", "In battle : the rewards are equal . Now ,", "He is safe , I tell you ;", "What ?", "As rocks .", "His crime ?", "The feelings", "I never yet knew that a noble 's life", "He muttered many times between his teeth ,", "And the chief judge , the Doge ?", "I remember mine .\u2014 Farewell !", "I am sent hither to your husband , to", "My mission here is to the Doge .", "I have prepared such arguments as will not 50", "I never smiled on them .", "So that the thing be done . You may , for aught", "My father and my uncle are no more .", "He was the safeguard of the city .", "We sought the Doge .", "His last .", "We have the implicit order of the Giunta", "Think you not so ?", "WHERE is the prisoner ?", "I have \u2014 and had a father . 270", "Denounced of retribution from all time ;", "His sons \u2014 and he had four \u2014 are dead , without", "Its passage , but impedes it not \u2014 once passed .", "Shall be the last of the old Doge 's reign ,", "The presence of your husband 's Judges .", "You know well 200", "Doubtless .", "to beg him", "What 's here ?", "I will be legislator in this business .", "Sorrow preys upon", "Still .", "The hour 's past \u2014 fixed yesterday", "And all will prosper .", "You , with your wonted scruples , teach us pause ,", "Who dares say so ?", "With deadly cozenage , eight long months beforehand \u2014", "Sires of a hundred sons , but cannot kindle", "\u2018 Twas not tried .", "And the old Doge , who knew him doomed , smiled on him 300", "Your sentence , then ?", "In my mind half so natural as theirs .", "Retire , But leave the torch .", "Kind to relieve him from the cares of State .", "The Admiral , his brother , say as much .", "Time to admonish them again .", "With or without the presence of the Doge .", "My sire and uncle \u2014 I consent . Men may ,", "Bid to his Dukedom .", "Not I , now", "We must be speedy : let us call together", "I have .", "Stalk frowning round my couch , and , pointing towards", "As they are offered .", "Till balanced .", "The busy have no time for tears .", "Demanding whether he should augur him", "decided his destruction ,", "\u2018 Tis their choice", "But inarticulately .", "He answered quickly , and must so be answered ;", "Well ?", "And see whose most may sway them , yours or mine .", "\u2018 Tis moderate \u2014 not even life for life , the rule", "That they have power to act at their discretion ,", "Liberation .", "From ours should be a witness , lest false tongues", "And should be all mine \u2014", "True , in my father 's time ; I have heard him and", "Urge his recall .", "Its solitude , and nothing more diverts it", "Because we have waited long enough , and he", "Which he would leave us .", "And my dead father .", "Come , they are met by this time ; let us join them ,", "Her sex 's privilege .", "The offspring of a noble house .", "Should whisper that a harsh majority 130", "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 ?", "Saint Mark 's great bell is soon about to toll", "No .", "And melted by a tear \u2014 a precious judge", "The public benefit ; and what the State", "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 .", "In his own portion of the palace , with", "No doubt : yet most men like to live their days out .", "Go to , you 're a child ,", "We have decided .", "Well , sir !", "I used no poison , bribed no subtle master", "As the first of his son 's last banishment , 20", "Of this \u201c the Ten \u201d said nothing .", "As much of ceremony as you will ,", "We have higher business for our own . This day", "I care , depute the Council on their knees ,", "ACT V .", "Than to the threshold , saving such as pass", "Fail to move them , and to remove him : since", "If she so wills it .", "\u2018 Twas so", "Of the tribunal .", "Why so ?", "One who wars not with women .", "After the very night in which \u201c the Ten \u201d 290", "\u2018 Twas his own wish that all should be done promptly . 120", "No less than age .", "His last .", "You do well 270", "By all the laws", "\u2018 Tis not for me to anticipate the pleasure", "He said himself that nought", "Thanks to you , sir ,", "A last ! as , soon , he shall", "Of the destructive art of healing , to", "Ago to Carmagnuola .", "They are the State 's .", "Infirm of feeling as of purpose , blown", "For the resumption of his trial .\u2014 Let us", "\u201c The good day or good night ? \u201d his Doge-ship answered ,", "You see the number is complete . Follow me .", "You talk unwarily . \u2018 Twere best they hear not", "If we should measure forth the cities taken", "Let the fair dame preserve", "Shorten the path to the eternal cure .", "In Canea \u2014 afterwards the freedom of", "Dreaded to have its acts beheld by others .", "To grant it the third time .", "Of private passion may not interrupt", "That , without further repetition of", "and \u201c the Ten \u201d", "Could give him trouble farther .", "A bow-shot of the \u201c Riva di Schiavoni . \u201d 400", "Being", "Alike made difficult ; but I have such", "And bow me to the Duke .", "And be thou fixed in purpose for this once .", "Orphans ?", "Extinct , you may say this .\u2014 Let 's in to council . 20", "\u2018 Twas true ; the question was the death resolved", "As you please \u2014", "If he dies innocent , that is to say ,", "As how ?", "Lived longer than enough . Hence ! in to council !", "How !\u2014 my Giunta !", "This from you .", "Forthwith \u2014 when this long leave is taken . \u2018 Tis", "Yes . 40", "To nurse them wisely . Foscari \u2014 you know", "And that is vengeance .", "Let her go on ; it irks not me .", "In which \u201d", "A start of feeling in his dungeon , never", "For Venice ! and a worthy statesman to", "\u2018 Twas fit that some one of such different thoughts"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 206}, {"query": ["I am a judge ; but must confess that part", "As to allow his voice in such high matter", "This edict .", "That were too much : believe me , \u2018 twas not meet The trial should go further at this moment .", "\u201c Doge Foscari , my debtor for the deaths", "But Grief is lonely , and the breaking in 250", "But he avowed the letter to the Duke", "Methought ,", "That remains for proof . 150", "The penalty of saving cities . He", "Was Carmagnuola", "It must be done with all the deference", "What art thou writing , With such an earnest brow , upon thy tablets ?", "In stern serenity ; these moved you not ? 360", "And art thou sure", "Ere you sleep with your fathers .", "So desolate , that the most clamorous grief", "To extermination .", "We will not interrupt", "The work is half your own .", "A feud . But when all is accomplished , when", "Due to his years , his station , and his deeds . 30", "Lady , we knew not of this sad event ,", "Chief of the Ten . We are agreed , then ?", "And you and yours triumphant , shall you sleep ?", "\u2018 Tis thus", "But yesterday , I hear , on his return", "Than \u2018 mongst remoter nations . Is it true", "Be troubled now .", "Of our stern duty , which prescribes the Question ,", "This stroke", "My brethren , will we not ?", "You stood more near him .", "All , except Lor ., answer , Yes .", "Sit down , my Lord ! You tremble .", "Bidding farewell .", "And did not this shake your suspicion ?", "A very Ovid in the art of hating ;", "But wrung from pangs , and followed by no prayers . 340", "Your friend ?", "Where is the Doge ?", "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 .", "To balance such a foe , if such there be ,", "An escort fitting past and present rank .", "His sons all dead , his family depressed ,", "I 'll not consent .", "Upon the least renewal .", "But if this deposition should take place", "More spectral or fantastical than Hate ;", "Let us return , then .", "The old man is deposed , his name degraded ,", "But passed here merely on our path from council .", "\u2018 Tis hard upon his years .", "I would support you .", "And have you confidence in such a project ?", "Of Milan , and his sufferings half atone for", "First at the board in this unhappy process", "And princely brow of his old father , which", "With phantoms , as this madness of the heart .", "\u2018 Tis vain to murmur ; the majority 320", "Then deem not the laws too harsh", "He reigned : then let his funeral rites be princely .", "The Question .", "But will the laws uphold us ?", "Chief of the Ten . We will not note them down .", "The Doge unto his private palace . Say !", "Chief of the Ten . Is the Duke aware", "And will they press their answer on the Doge ?", "Your Giunta 's duties .", "Will move all Venice in his favour .", "Inter his son before we press upon him", "The body of his son .", "50", "Such weakness .", "He was o'erwrought by the Question yesterday ,", "They speak your language , watch your nod , approve", "All openness .", "Or hate of the ambitious Foscari , 10", "But he has twice already", "The old man fainted .", "Pursue hereditary hate too far .", "I owe , by way of foil to the more zealous ,", "Here come our colleagues .", "No ,", "It shall not be 230", "Ah ! that seems", "Reposing from", "But let him", "My sire and uncle ? \u201d", "Their 340", "At your own peril ?", "Vault has been often opened of late years .", "Complete yet ; two are wanting ere we can", "You have a son .", "He shed", "We will accompany , with due respect , 270", "And therefore", "Let us return . \u2018 Tis time enough to-morrow .", "What if he will not ?", "I have read their epitaph , which says they died", "By our united influence in the Council ,", "Will nothing move you ?", "Could I but be certain", "Thy father sits amongst thy judges .", "Like a frail vessel . I respect your griefs .", "Against it at this moment .", "When he was failing .", "Enter the Deputation as before .", "You shall not depart without", "You , Loredano ,", "Of Marco and Pietro Loredano ,", "My best to save his honours , and opposed", "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 !", "Of humbling me for my vain opposition .", "Heed not her rash words ;", "But you will move by law ?", "\u2018 Twill break his heart .", "What , wouldst thou slay his memory ?", "The misery to die a subject where", "And bids us sit and see its sharp infliction ,", "With more than Roman fortitude , is ever", "Just now , though Venice tottered o'er the deep", "I do beseech you , lean upon us !"], "true_target": ["The bell !", "From louder tongues than mine ; they have gone beyond", "A few brief minutes for his tortured limbs ;", "And have I not oft heard thee name", ", to you", "In his countenance , I grant you , never ;", "We will remit him till the rites are over .", "Makes me wish \u2014", "Your plans , and do your work . Are they not yours ?", "You would deprive this old man of all business ?", "But you , I know , are marble to retain", "Even their exorbitance of power : and when", "He has not had", "Unasked ?", "Proceed .", "Against his last and only son .", "Why would the general vote compel me hither ?", "And will you leave it unerased ?", "Nay , let him profit by", "At such inhuman artifice of pain", "Chief of the Ten . Heaven 's peace be with him !", "And may die under it if now repeated .", "Whom we now act against not only saved 310", "Oh ! they 'll hear as much one day", "No \u2014 he ,", "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 ?", "But did the Doge make you so ?", "Forbear ;", "This proposition to the last , though vainly .", "When embarks the son ?", "Behold ! your work 's completed ! Chief of the Ten . Is there then No aid ? Call in assistance !", "Her circumstances must excuse her bearing .", "Fancy 's distemperature ! There is no passion", "And were the first to call out for assistance", "But discarded Princes 60", "But the poor wretch has suffered beyond Nature 's", "As the state 's safety \u2014", "And those two shrieks were not in supplication ,", "As I do always .", "The attainted", "This is no prelude to such persecution", "And the repressed convulsion of the high", "They are such in this", "Of the sire as has fallen upon the son ,", "Upon it barbarous .", "Yet pause \u2014 the number of our colleagues is not", "This happens in the most contemned and abject", "No \u2014 not now .", "To relapse", "To my surprise too , you were touched with mercy ,", "What solid proofs ?", "States , stung humanity will rise to check it .", "Not even its opposite , Love , so peoples air", "He dealt in such ?", "And the deep agony of his pale wife ,", "That 's an error , and you 'll find it", "That which changes me .", "Chief of the Ten . If it be so ,", "He shows it not .", "Chief of the Ten . St. Mark 's , which tolls for the election", "For pity ; not a word nor groan escaped him ,", "As was forced on him ; but he did not cry", "And yet he seems", "And not less , I must needs think , for the sake", "Did not the Doge deny this strongly ?", "Our state as render retribution easier", "Broke forth in a slight shuddering , though rarely ,", "Die in his robes :", "To the ducal chambers , as he passed the threshold 30", "Most stoical endurance .", "That 's not the cause ; you saw the prisoner 's state .", "Are you then thus fixed ?", "He could not have lived long ; but I have done", "War with them too ?", "I would they could !", "But be human ! 160", "ACT II .", "He means", "In my mind , too deep .", "Why press his abdication now ?", "And foreign traitor ?", "Solicited permission to retire ,", "That you would sometimes feel ,", "That I heard not :", "By poison .", "I yield not to you in love of justice ,", "You are ingenious , Loredano , in", "Retrench not from their moments .", "That you have written in your books of commerce ,", "Of Malipiero .", "A parent 's sorrows .", "Or in some clammy drops , soon wiped away", "Even with the crown of Glory in his eye ,", "And why not wait these few years ?", "Perhaps without committing any .", "I pray you sit .", "He sinks !\u2014 support him !\u2014 quick \u2014 a chair \u2014 support him !", "This last calamity ?", "In council were against you .", "Your modes of vengeance , nay , poetical ,", "He must not", "I protest", "These are words ;", "No tears .", "This undesired association in 140", "A Saint had done so ,", "And yet unburied .", "How bears the Doge", "Our own , but added others to her sway .", "The Duke is with his son .", "But I have seen him sometimes in a calm", "And how ?", "We seek his presence ?", "Still so inexorable ?", "Yours !", "Are seldom long of life .", "His and his father 's death your nearest wish ?", "A wretched one .", "And twice it was refused .", "Father and son , and all their noxious race ;", "Which yield so much indulgence to a sire ,", "Humanity !", "Had nought to envy him within . Where is he ? 10"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 206}, {"query": ["What more may be imposed !\u2014 I dread to think o n't .", "Who rule behold us .", "Signor , you hear the order .", "Let him rest . Signor , take time .", "And the rack will be spared you .", "Back to your cheek : Heaven send you strength to bear", "There , sir , \u2018 tis", "I see the colour comes", "And the third time will slay you ."], "true_target": ["Open .\u2014 How feel you ?", "130", "And can you so much love the soil which hates you ? 140", "And your limbs ?", "Be a man now : there never was more need", "I 'll stand the hazard .", "Confess ,", "Of manhood 's strength .", "And might be the last , did they"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 206}, {"query": ["With any penalty annexed they please ,", "Returning with my grasp full of such tokens", "Last night in yon enormous spider 's net ,", "The Mind is much , but is not all . The Mind", "And a strange firefly , which was quickly caught", "Fos . And wherefore not ? All then shall speak of me :", "The water !", "Dead , but still bear me to a native grave ,", "Who govern , and the unknown and the unnumbered", "With a far-dashing stroke , and , drawing deep", "Cast me out from amongst them , as an offering", "Fos . No \u2014", "This lady , of a house noble as yours .", "As well as home and heritage ?", "Chastened and visited , I needs must think", "From my own land , like the old patriarchs , seeking", "Which you bestowed upon me as my sire .", "And neither do I fear .", "Suspicion from \u201c the Ten , \u201d and upon mine", "Accumulated ills .", "And I shall be alone : no men ; no books \u2014", "Such presence hither .", "And unbelievers , like a stranded wreck ,", "Who yesterday presided o'er my pangs \u2014", "But let me still return .", "And the grey twilight of such glimmerings as", "Where I may mingle with the sands which skirt", "From fishers \u2019 hands , upon the desolate strand ,", "Those lying likenesses of lying men .", "But keep off from me till \u2018 tis issued . As", "Fos . Where ?", "Let them be all to you which he was once ,", "Even on these dull damp walls , and \u2014\u2014", "Yet \u2014 yet \u2014 I pray you to obtain for me 100", "Fos . Then my last hope 's gone .", "Its merry hum of nations pierces here ,", "Who dares accuse my Country ?", "While the fair populace of crowding beauties , 100", "Fos . What then ?", "Which only can be read , as writ , by wretches .", "The Hall not far from hence , which bears on high 120", "Let me approach , I pray you , for a breath", "To lash up from the deep the Adrian waves ,", "From the rough deep , with such identity", "Venice without beholding him or you ,", "Fos . Ah ! if it were so ! 110", "70", "Thy fond fidelity for a time deprives", "Fos . O , ye Elements ! Where are your storms ?", "My memory with much save sorrow : but", "Fos . My father ! DogeJacopo ! my son \u2014 my son ! 340", "What can avail such words ?", "My eyes swim strangely \u2014 where 's the door ?", "Or those who soon must be so .\u2014 What of him ?", "160", "Will stream along those moted rays of light", "Will burst all cerement , even a living grave 's !", "The third time they have tortured me :\u2014 then lend me", "Which kissed it like a wine-cup , rising o'er", "Fos . \u2018 Tis the joy", "The wave all roughened ; with a swimmer 's stroke", "His own and his belov\u00e9d 's name . Alas !", "Fos . I thank thee , friend , I 'm feeble ;", "Which men bequeath as portraits , and they were", "Another region , with their flocks and herds ;", "I pray thee touch me not \u2014 that is , just now ;", "Fos . Bade thee stretch me on their horrid engine .", "Fos . Ah ! you never yet", "Saw day go down upon your native spires", "Flinging the billows back from my drenched hair ,", "Ye love not with more holy love than I ,", "The wind may change .", "Familiarity with what was darkness ;", "It must be borne . Father , your blessing .", "I am past hunger : but my lips are parched \u2014 30", "Must youth support itself on age , and I", "Ne'er blows in all its blustering freedom ?", "Fos . That thought would scarcely aid me to endure it .", "Must I consume my own , which never beat 10", "Fos . At once \u2014 by better means , as briefer .", "This is the first .", "Fos . And I to be attended . Once more , father ,", "In my native air that buoyed my spirits up", "And the poor captive 's tale is graven on", "Once \u2014 twice before : both times they exiled me .", "Fos . That 's sudden . Shall I not behold my father ?", "You call this weakness ! It is strength ,", "The waves as they arose , and prouder still 110", "He knows this , or he had not sought to change them ,", "One lacerated like the heart which then 150", "A point of time , as beacon to my heart ,", "Made my heart sick .", "The gondola along in childish race ,", "Fos .I thank you : I am better .", "Which calls up green and native fields to view", "Fos . Nothing . I cannot charge", "Look to my children \u2014 to your last child 's children :", "Of them and theirs , awoke and found them not .", "I loved you ever \u2014 never more than now . 360", "Put up to patron saint such prayers for prosperous", "Fos . And I", "Fos . Let us address us then , since so it must be ,", "A music most impressive , but too transient :", ", for the gift of life ,", "Was kinder to mine eyes than the full Sun ,", "Fos . This is mere insanity .", "Of seeing thee again so soon , and so", "Fos .", "To leave abodes like this : but when I feel", "Upon my soul \u2014 the mark is set upon me .", "Will take me as a mother to her arms .", "Which never echoed but to Sorrow 's sounds ,", "I did not deem this poor place could have drawn 250", "The hot gales of the horrid Cyclades ,", "And after dreaming a disturb\u00e9d vision", "And pleasant breezes , as I call upon you ,", "And yet for this I have returned to Venice ,", "Fos . I had not", "Your hands !", "Which they term annals , history , what you will ,", "Glide through the crevices made by the winds", "Exchange of chains for heavier chains I owe him .", "Of Death , the imprecation of Despair !", "Fos . Blame him not .", "Raced for our pleasure , in the pride of strength ;", "He could not now act otherwise . A show", "Fos . Let me hope not .", "From his snow canopy of cliffs and clouds , 180", "Fos . Have I not borne ?", "Prepare my children to behold their father .", "The dates of their despair , the brief words of", "Fos . I cannot wish them all they have inflicted .", "Have borne this \u2014 though I know not .", "Fos . My best Marina !\u2014 and our children ?", "But thou mayst stand reproved .", "Fos . And thine !\u2014 but I am blinded by the torch .", "Fos . But still I must", "To appease the waves . The billow which destroys me", "The land I love , and never shall see more !", "A new home and fresh state : perhaps I could", "Indeed , our last of meetings ?", "And laughing from my lip the audacious brine ,", "Fos . That were difficult .", "Than me ; but \u2018 tis not all , for there are things", "Their hands upheld each other by the way ,", "Thy very winds feel native to my veins ,", "Fos . I confessed", "Fos . I doubt not . Father \u2014 wife \u2014 190", "Hath nerved me to endure the risk of death ,", "which bears", "A broken corse upon the barren Lido ,", "Fos .", "And cool them into calmness ! How unlike", "Fos . No doubt ! but \u2018 tis", "Fos . Well I know how wretched !", "Your hand !", "The foam which broke around me , and pursued 120", "Peopled with dusty atoms , which afford", "And holding on its course ; but there , afar ,", "Like a ship on the Ocean tossed by storms , 130", "For Venice but with such a yearning as", "Or like our fathers , driven by Attila", "Refused me ,\u2014 so these walls have been my study ,", "Have heard thee name my name \u2014 our name !", "I would have given some tears to my late country", "Fos . Ah ! they relent , then \u2014 I had ceased to hope it :", "Fos . Nothing at first ; but use and time had taught me 60", "Fos . But we are not summoned yet ;", "Fos . That of leaving", "Fos . I rarely , sir , have murmured .", "Is't true my wife accompanies me ?", "With the like answer \u2014 doubt and dreadful surmise \u2014", "So I be buried in my birth-place : better", "Of feet on which the iron clanked the groan", "Their numbers and success ; but who can number 170", "Thou askest .\u2014 What of me ? may soon be asked ,", "Fos . No \u2014 nothing .", "Upon my former exile .", "But none like mine , so near their father 's palace ;", "But then my heart is sometimes high , and hope 100", "Fos . Ah , father ! though I must and will depart ,", "Or after their departure ; of that malady", "In wantonness of spirit , plunging down", "The exiles you speak of went forth by nations ,", "Of air , yon window which o'erlooks the waters .", "Fos . Is this , sir , your whole mission ?", "But that they never granted \u2014 nor will grant ,", "Her beautiful towers in the receding distance ,", "And dies .", "My way to shells and sea-weed , all unseen", "Fos . Curse it not . If I am silent ,", "And never be to you what I am now .", "I shall depart , then , without meeting them ?", "I look upon thy hands my curdling limbs", "Fos . I pray you , calm you :", "Fos . Till when ?", "Fos . Aye , I am used to such a summons ; \u2018 tis", "The mirth of her Piazza \u2014 even now", "Away !\u2014 I 'll walk alone .", "No light , save yon faint gleam which shows me walls"], "true_target": ["Fos . Now , I 'm ready \u2014", "High in the air on her return to greet", "But proudly still bestriding", "How looks my father ?", "Of the survivors \u2019 toil in their new lands ,", "A dungeon , what they will , so it be here .", "From fertile Italy , to barren islets ,", "That every step I take , even from this cell ,", "Fos . True ,", "Appalled , turn their despairing eyes on me ,", "Or with a cry which rather shamed my judges", "May all the winds of Heaven howl down the Gulf , 140", "The hearts which broke in silence at that parting ,", "Fos . You !\u2014 you are he 150", "Will be more merciful than man , and bear me", "To our departure . Who comes here ?", "Were never piled on high save o'er the dead ,", "Fos .", "Fos . Aye , there it is ; \u2018 tis like a mother 's curse", "Live long to be a mother to those children", "For thou art pale too , my Marina !", "Fos . They might behold their parent any where .", "the high waves ,", "In that accurs\u00e9d isle of slaves and captives ,", "Fos . Both the same to me : the after", "Her callow brood . What letters are these which", "His dungeon barrier , like the lover 's record", "Freedom as is the first imprisonment .", "Fos . Alas ! I little thought so lingeringly", "Holds like an epitaph their history ; 20", "Fos . Most welcome , noble Signor .", "With all their blank , or dismal stains , than is", "More faithful pictures of Venetian story ,", "My very soul seemed mouldering in my bosom ,", "Save those of Venice ; but a moment ere", "Bounding o'er yon blue tide , as I have skimmed", "The long-suspended breath , again I spurned", "Fos . Like a boy \u2014 Oh Venice !", "Cloven with arm still lustier , breast more daring ,", "Fos . My name : look , \u2018 tis there \u2014 recorded next", "I know if mind may bear us up , or no ,", "Fos . Let them do so ,", "Seem to hint shrewdly of them . Such stern walls", "Of the sad mountaineer , when far away", "To the poor exile 's fevered eye , that he", "Fos . That 's kind :\u2014 I meet some pity , but no mercy ;", "Fos . Forgive \u2014\u2014", "Is one away from Venice , I look back", "A grief too great for many . This stone page", "The galley 's sails are not unfurled :\u2014 who knows ?", "Our only day ; for , save the gaoler 's torch ,", "Judged and destroyed in silence ,\u2014 all things wear 170", "Fos . And liberty ?", "That I once more return unto my home ,", "The time will come they will renew that order ,", "Fos . My poor mother , for my birth , 160", "Hundreds of Doges , and their deeds and dates .", "Fos . I will do my endeavour .", "Their tents were pitched together \u2014 I 'm alone . 190", "Unless thou tell'st my tale .", "Which might have been forbidden now , as \u2018 twas", "While every furrow of the vessel 's track", "Because we have brief time for preparation ,", "That I was wicked . If it be so , may", "I could support the torture , there was something", "So calmly with its gold and crimson glory ,", "I say ,\u2014 the parent of all honest feeling .", "Ye tutelar saints of my own city ! which", "A like hereafter !", "Reflected upon this , but acquiesce .", "\u2018 Twas time .", "Fittest for such a chronicle as this ,", "The marble down , had worn away the hate", "My gay competitors , noble as I ,", "Quiver with the anticipated wrenching , 160", "It sinks in solitude : my soul is social .", "Fos . How ! would'st thou share a dungeon ?", "Fos . And must I leave them \u2014 all ?", "Fos . I pray you set it down ;", "and", "And , though events be hidden , just men 's groans 80", "And blighted like to mine , which I will add ,", "Howe'er remote the period . Let there be", "For I have such , and shown it before men ;", "Collects such pasture for the longing sorrow", "But onward \u2014 I have borne it \u2014 I can bear it .\u2014", "Which howled about my Candiote dungeon ,", "And , masqued as a young gondolier , amidst", "I asked for even those outlines of their kind ,", "I ne'er saw aught here like a ray . Alas !", "Fos . How know you that here , where the genial wind", "Look back . I pray you think of me .", "The tyranny of silence is not lasting ,", "Fos . Not long .", "And me for having lived , and you yourself", "But I reproach not .", "He who loves not his Country , can love nothing .", "Had I been cast out like the Jews from Zion ,", "Fos . Again , Marina !", "Thine Adrian sea-breeze , how it fans my face !", "He judges .", "That melody ,", "If dungeon dates say true .", "With dazzling smiles , and wishes audible ,", "Which persecutes me : but my native earth", "The self-same aspect , to my very sire !", "When gorgeously o'ergilding any towers", "My beautiful , my own ,", "As showed that I had searched the deep : exulting ,", "Even to the goal !\u2014 How many a time have I", "Fos . And I feel , besides , that mine", "which out of tones and tunes", "Triple , and tenfold torture ! But you are right ,", "And piecemeal I shall perish , if remanded .", "Fos . Never yet did mariner", "No \u2014 not for thee , too good , too kind ! May'st thou", "Nothing can sympathise with Foscari ,", "Back to my heart , and left my cheeks like thine ,", "Fos . These walls are silent of men 's ends ; they only", "What I have undergone here keep me from", "I ask no more than a Venetian grave ,", "The dove has for her distant nest , when wheeling", "I may breathe many years .", "Fos . And his son 's . I 'm faint ;", "Repeat \u2014 not long .", "Fos . They will not banish me again ?\u2014 No \u2014 no ,", "Fos . Father ! I pray you to precede me , and", "Fos . The soil !\u2014 Oh no , it is the seed of the soil", "Reproaches , which boot nothing . Is it \u2014 is it ,", "Can scarcely be restrained from treading them ?", "Fos . Had I gone forth", "Myself , with those about me , to create", "More woful \u2014 such as this small dungeon , where", "Fos . Return to Candia ?", "Fos . Well !", "As the Phenicians did on Jonah , then", "And many thoughts ; but afterwards addressed", "My only Venice \u2014 this is breath ! Thy breeze ,", "Will be .\u2014 But wherefore breaks it not ? why live I ?", "Fos . The light ! Is it the light ?\u2014 I am faint .", "Till the sea dash me back on my own shore", ", without a groan , 90", "Thine arm .", "Were far away from Venice , never saw", "And only friend ! What happiness !", "By those above , till they waxed fearful ; then", "The loftier they uplifted me ; and oft ,", "Fos . What voice is that ?\u2014 \u2018 Tis Barbarigo 's ! Ah ! Our House 's foe , and one of my few judges . 80", "Seemed ploughing deep into your heart ; you never 210", "Of men 's hearts ; but I knew them not , and here", "Fos . That has a noble sound ; but \u2018 tis a sound ,", "Will never be so white . Embrace me , father !", "And tear the vessel , till the mariners ,", "I sometimes murmur for a moment ; but", "Fos . Father , let not these", "The name of him who here preceded me ,\u2014", "Plebeian as patrician , cheered us on", "I do not doubt my memory , but my life ;", "Our parting hours be lost in listening to", "Not even a Foscari .\u2014 Sir , I attend you .", "Even here , into these chambers of the unknown", "Fos . So does the earth , and sky , the blue of Ocean ,", "My doom is common ; many are in dungeons ,", "I have been so beyond the common lot", "Thou earnest hither I was busy writing .", "My true wife ,", "Would have but drawn upon his ag\u00e9d head", "My track like a sea-bird .\u2014 I was a boy then .", "And the cold drops strain through my brow , as if \u2014\u2014", "Fos . Aye \u2014 we but hear", "Fos . No \u2014 you mistake ; \u2018 tis yours that shakes , my father . Farewell !", "And waving kerchiefs , and applauding hands ,", "Upon the bark of some tall tree ,", "Who ought to be the prop of yours ?", "Of such support ! But for myself alone ,", "Fos . Double ,", "Fos . I know it \u2014 look !", "Let them wring on ; I am strong yet .", "Without expectancy , has sent the blood", "Fos . And canst thou leave them ?", "Be ashes here than aught that lives elsewhere .", "And waken Auster , sovereign of the Tempest ! 130", "The brightness of our city , and her domes ,", "Of feeling or compassion on his part", "And torture positive , far worse than death", "Fos . Not one ?", "What ! would they even deny me my Sire 's sepulchre ,", "Fos . My father still ! How long it is since I", "I could endure my dungeon , for \u2018 twas Venice ;", "That he feeds on the sweet , but poisonous thought ,", "Which , of its thousand wrecks , hath ne'er received", "Fos . Limbs ! how often have they borne me", "Into their green and glassy gulfs , and making", "May I not see them also ?", "I recognise some names familiar to me ,", "Fos . Alas !", "Fos . They may repent .", "The sigh of long imprisonment , the step", "And you perceive your presence doth disquiet", "With some faint hope , \u2018 tis true , that Time , which wears"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 206}, {"query": ["A leech . The prisoner has fainted .", "Inform the Signory , and learn their pleasure .", "Apartment , mutter forth the words \u2014 \u201c My son ! \u201d", "He 's gone !", "We must remove the body .", "A melancholy one \u2014 to call the attendance", "For the late Foscari 's interment .", "With desperate firmness .", "Scarce audibly . I must proceed .", "Is rising \u2014 we are ready to attend you .", "Let me support you \u2014 paler \u2014 ho ! some aid there !", "But I perceive his lips move now and then ;", "Of \u2014\u2014", "You turn pale \u2014", "To forward the preparatory rites", "Perhaps , in the air ."], "true_target": ["May I pass on ?", "The sentence was not of my signing , but", "I dared not disobey the Council when", "And once or twice I heard him , from the adjoining", "Some water !", "He will be better ,", "Take mine , sir ; \u2018 tis my duty to", "Be nearest to your person .", "In presence of another he says little ,", "With his wonted aspect .", "As you please , Signor ;", "By the ducal order", "Bring in the prisoner !", "I must", "They \u2014\u2014", "Signor ! the boat is at the shore \u2014 the wind"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 206}, {"query": ["And worse suspense .", "Whose duty \u2018 tis to do so .", "High-born dame !bethink thee Where thou now art .", "As we hope , Signor ,", "They 260", "\u2018 Twere better to retire .", "Both honoured by the choice or chance which leads us 80", "Chosen delegates , a school of wisdom , to", "I understand thee , but I must not answer .", "Is but to expose yourself to harsh repulse ,", "But here come two of \u201c the Ten ; \u201d let us retire .", "\u201c The Ten \u201d", "Why , no ; not if I can avoid it .", "Alas ! this", "That is enough .", "Whom have we here ? the wife of Foscari ?", "Be calm !", "Not so ;", "Decemvir , it is surely for the Senate 's", "Be thus admitted , though as novices ,", "All 's silent now .", "In Venice \u201c but \"' s a traitor .", "From us , the premier nobles of the state , 180", "Confirms his crimes , but he avows them not .", "Lady ,", "How now , friend , what seek you ? 250", "Then why not clear him ?", "Being worth our lives", "If we divulge them , doubtless they are worth 90", "I leave it ; though born noble , my ambition", "The accusation of the bribes was proved .", "one day hope to be", "\u2018 Twas a cry of \u2014", "\u2018 Tis mere desperation : she", "Is limited : I 'd rather be an unit", "Circumstance", "To mingle with a body so august .", "I am the son of Marco Memmo .", "In earnest councils \u2014 we will not be least so .", "Command us .", "Of yon terrific chamber are as hidden", "You will know why anon , 70", "The apparent crimes of the accused disclose \u2014 310", "The earliest are most welcome", "They can .", "Justice is judge in Venice ."], "true_target": ["If you obey : and , if not , you no less", "You ! Remember , lady !", "Why", "To such", "Thus hesitate ? \u201c The Ten \u201d have called in aid", "Something , at least to you or me .", "Or would permit assistance to this sufferer .", "Thought that \u201c the Ten \u201d had even this touch of pity ,", "The Duke 's palace .", "But me no \u201c buts \u201d unless you would pass o'er", "Than shine a lonely , though a gilded cipher .\u2014", "Thy husband yet may be absolved .", "I hardly 280", "By previous proclamation . We are summoned \u2014", "Will know why you should have obeyed .", "I marvel they condemn him not at once .", "There must be more in this strange process than", "What ! Again ?", "Be latest in obeying \u201c the Ten 's \u201d summons .", "Most noble lady ,", "It will only serve", "I trust not .", "Alone can answer ; they are rarely wont", "And I another ; and it seems to me", "More to exasperate his judges .", "Signor ,", "And that is much ; the secrets", "Patricians of the Senate \u2014 you are one ,", "He 's gone \u2014 we are too late :\u2014 think you \u201c the Ten \u201d", "We gain a step in knowledge , and I look", "Of their deliberation five and twenty", "The voice was \u2014", "Let us not", "Except \u201c the Ten , \u201d and their familiars .", "Will sit for any length of time to-day ?", "To let their thoughts anticipate their purpose", "As from the people .", "It is impossible .", "Of an united and Imperial \u201c Ten , \u201d", "Will not be admitted o'er the threshold .", "The Bridge which few repass .", "And all may honestly ,", "But as a culprit .", "But with length of time", "Ingress is given to none within those chambers", "To view the mysteries .", "Forward to be one day of the decemvirs ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 206}, {"query": ["I sought not", "Your hand , too , shakes , my Lord : allow me , thus \u2014", "By you and by \u201c the Ten \u201d gives peace to Venice .", "Or Doge ?", "That it would fall into the Senate 's hands ,", "Was slain by Erizzo for private vengeance .", "Not clearly , and the charge of homicide", "A summons to \u201c the Ten ! \u201d why so ?", "Unfathomed mysteries .", "\u2018 Tis most true ,", "Addressed to Milan 's duke , in the full knowledge", "Now , or postpone it till to-morrow ?", "Even if she be so , cannot save her husband .", "Attained by noble aspirants .", "My good Lord , forgive me .", "The wretch too happy to escape to Death", "They would accord some time for your repose .", "Persisting in his first avowal ; but", "And that was all he sought ,\u2014 so he avouches . 300", ", I pray thee do so .", "Consuming but not killing .", "Which should be made manifest .", "They say the prisoner is most obdurate ,", "My heart bleeds for you .", "Near ruined buildings \u2014 never have been proved ,", "But , see , the officer returns .", "And , feeling for thy husband 's wrongs , wouldst thou", "And merits all our country 's gratitude .", "\u2018 Tis the first station of the state , and may 190", "I would know why .", "That", "You have forgot ; it is not signed .", "Of the state 's real acts as of the grave 's", "And", "Not to feel deeply for your son .", "Thus the act confirmed 10", "No doubt , are worth it .", "Resource against the tyranny of pain ?", "They ought to answer ; for it is well known", "And thus he should be re-conveyed to Venice .", "I shall fulfil my office ."], "true_target": ["And for your \u2014\u2014", "Because all earth , except his native land , 290", "I am silent .", "What , my Lord ?", "To oppose them , but \u2014\u2014", "None , save the Letter , which , he says , was written", "That Almoro Donato , as I said ,", "To him is one wide prison , and each breath", "So far \u2014 let 's in .", "Poor lady !", "Nor wholly disbelieved : men know as little", "Most true . I say no more .", "Chief of \u201c the Ten . \u201d", "Pity ! Is't pity to recall to feeling", "I have too many duties towards you", "The state had need of some repose .", "\u2018 Tis almost", "For them , but not for us ;", "Let us view them : they ,", "A place within the sanctuary ; but being", "With the Turk , or the powers of Italy ;", "Thirty-four years of nearly ceaseless warfare", "Have him bear more than mortal pain in silence ?", "All are not met , but I am of your thought", "Chosen , however reluctantly so chosen ,", "Has been annulled by the death-bed confession", "Be lawfully desired , and lawfully", "Yes , but to his country ;", "Which \u2014 like the tales of spectres , that are rife", "More I know not .", "Save the wonted rumours ,", "It must have way , my Lord :", "Because he fears not death ; and banish him ,", "Of foreign air he draws seems a slow poison ,", "I mean not", "That 's not their policy : they 'd have him live ,", "Of Nicolas Erizzo , who slew the late", "Is it your pleasure to sign the report", "Hark !", "And all your house , for past and present kindness , 30", "By the compassionate trance , poor Nature 's last"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 206}, {"query": ["So far with a weak woman as deny me", "Here , or in the ducal chamber \u2014", "Until that high tribunal reassembled", "You were the last to bear it .", "The Country is the traitress , which thrusts forth", "And his son 's prison !\u2014 True , I have not forgot it ;", "We say the \u201c generous steed \u201d to express the purity 290", "Cannot comply with your request . His relics 350", "Perhaps you fain would be alone ?", "To whom your midnight carryings off and drownings ,", "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 ?", "Your dungeons next the palace roofs , or under", "Or had ; they are there within , or were at least", "He is none !", "Most readily .", "And thus far I am also the State 's debtor ,", "More loving , or more loyal , never beat", "Country and home . I loved him \u2014 how I loved him !", "Yes \u2014 with many a pang !", "Sending its pestilence through every crevice ,", "\u2018 Tis ye who are all traitors , Tyrant !\u2014 ye !", "I trust , Heaven 's will be done too !", "consigned to powers which may", "And not so hopelessly . This love of thine", "Depart . Ah ! now you look as looked my husband !", "No \u2014 no , he is not dead ;", "I have informed him , not so gently , 260", "Females with portions , brides and bribes for nobles !", "And I \u2014\u2014", "Another land , and who so blest and blessing", "To scatter o'er his kind as he thinks fit ;", "Oppressed but not disgraced , crushed , overwhelmed , 160", "Shall be exposed with wonted pomp , and followed", "Till he himself shall brood in it alone .", "Despair defies even despotism : there is", "To those who know to honour them .", "Though", "I have some sons , sir ,", "Doge", "Do as they have done by yours , and you yourself \u2014", "Have known and proved your worst , in the infernal", "In wickedness ;\u2014 my husband 's lost !", "Who shall oppose me ?", "To exile ?", "I wished to speak to you of him .", "Upon their knees , perhaps have mourned above them \u2014", "Pass on .", "He does not , there are those will sentence both .", "The ruin of their children ?", "That 's false ! A truer , nobler , trustier heart ,", "If you come for our thanks , take them , and hence !", "It could not save , but will support you ever .", "No , ye only make them ,", "Doge , look there !", "Ah ! I thought it would be so .", "With him . Then what have I to fear from you ,", "Be ignorant of each other , yet I will", "Strange to thy heart \u2014 how came it on thy lips ?", "That I would rather look upon his corse", "Held in the bondage of ten bald-heads ; and", "Oh , God !\u2014 My Foscari , how fare you ?", "Of cold looks upon manifold griefs ! You came", "And wish you this with me beside you ?", "In their accurs\u00e9d bosoms .", "And he but live , for him the very worst 320", "With less he surely might be saved .", "And if", "But let it only be their heritage ,", "And your son ,\u2014 how long will he live ?", "How have you sped ? We are wretched , Signor , as", "Their sting is honester .", "Your tributaries , your dumb citizens ,", "Though last , not least , thy silence ! Couldst thou say", "The interview of husband and of wife ,", "Speak not of that ; you are a man of office ,", "Even by your murderous laws . Leave his remains 200", "Not wisely , yet not wildly .", "A princely noble ; and what then am I ?", "And those of \u2014\u2014", "In the State 's service , I have still my dowry ,", "On earth .", "And live nor girt by spies , nor liable", "Pretend still to this office ?", "Slaves , exiles \u2014 what you will ; or if they are", "I speak of thee !", "As such I recommend it , as I would 350", "If it were so ,", "Alas ! and this", "Even if I were of fearful nature , which", "Live on , so the good die not , till the hour", "Will he condemn him ?", "I command !\u2014 Alas ! my life 200", "They shall not balk my entrance .", "Our purposes so readily .", "You shall be so no more \u2014 I will go with thee .", "Came you here to insult us , or remain", "Resemble that you exercise on earth .", "And this is Patriotism ?", "And yet they wrung me till I could have shrieked ,", "Which , as compared with what you have undergone", "I trust I am not ?", "His name shall be her foulest , worst reproach ,", "To teach you not to shrink now from a lot ,", "I thought the dead had been beyond even you ,", "A cell so far below the water 's level ,", "More than in years ; and mine , which is as old", "His tempter 's .", "That 's false !", "Chief of the Ten . Lady , we revoke not", "I do , Signor .", "And we must wait o n't . Ah ! a voice of wail !", "Aye ,", "Chamber of state , her gratitude allots you .", "Which he has peopled often , but ne'er fitly", "Created by degrees an ocean Rome ;", "The hangman shrinks from , as all men from him !", "I thought I could have borne it , when I saw him", "To Foscari from his father ?", "To one whose foot was on an adder 's path .", "I would that they beheld their father in", "And can I not go with him ?", "The mind should make its own !", "The water 's level ;", "I know that none who enter there return", "the coasts", "Foscari ; now let us go , and leave this felon ,", "Which shall be consecrated to his rites ,", "Bowed down by such oppression ; yes , I thought", "What hast thou done ?", "As died their father . Oh ! what best of blessings 210", "Juggle no more with that poor remnant , which ,", "My God ! My God !", "An hour since , face to face , as judge and culprit :", "There 's death in that damp , clammy grasp .", "I have seen him pass through such an ordeal as", "I have endured as much in giving life", "May they thrive with him", "They are his weapons , not his armour , for", "But did not ; for my hope was to bring forth", "Ere he depart ? It may be the last time .", "That shall be tried .", "However you \u2014 and you \u2014 and most of all , 380", "And Foscari ? I do not think of such things ,", "Away ! Let me support him \u2014 my best love ! Oh , God ! How faintly beats this heart \u2014 this pulse !", "In the earth ?", "Who have loved , or talked at least of Love \u2014 have given", "Share that \u2014 all things except new separation ;", "To trample on all human feelings , all", "Wretch ! \u2018 tis no virtue , but the policy", "He said not which . I would that you could bear", "With all its jealousy , will hardly war 430", "No less than Master ; I have probed his soul", "To me my husband and my children were", "Knew sunbeam , and the sallow sullen glare", "A Paradise ; its first inhabitants", "A place which would not mingle fear with love ,", "Ties which bind man to man , to emulate", "This means that you are more a Doge than father .", "May be pure patriotism . I am a woman :", "To edicts of inquisitors of state .", "Of him thou canst not , or thou wilt not save ,", "And why not say as soon the \u201c generous man ? \u201d", "Until they are useless ; but weep on ! he never", "And , if there were no other nearer , bitterer", "Our bridal bed is now his bier , 110", "Men and Angels ! 240", "And everywhere .", "Last council on thy doom .", "The indulgence of your colleagues ; but he knew it .", "By thunder blasted :", "Demurred : a messenger was sent back to", "Are you content ? 330", "There now would be no Venice . But let it", "So loving , so beloved ; the native of", "Again ! still , Marina .", "To let him know", "As I had been without it . Couldst thou see here ?", "Where I now am !\u2014 It was", "Cannot assist his father .", "Yes , light us on , as to a funeral pyre ,", "And masked nobility , your sbirri , and", "Will reach it always . See how he shrinks from me !", "By some strange destiny , to him proved deadly . 80", "The dungeon gloom is deep enough without you ,", "Or were , at least in seeming , human , could", "I thought they had been mine .", "Your torturing instruments , have made ye seem 310", "Aye , they are fatherless , I thank you .", "Chief of the Ten . Know you , Lady ,", "On earth to bear .", "Caution !", "Before the Tartar into these salt isles ,", "So I be left with him .", "Lo ! there is the blood beginning 240", "Which you have made a Prince 's son \u2014 my husband ;", "Of his high blood . Thus much I 've learnt , although", "I will divide this with you . Let us think", "A moment , as the Eternal Fire , ere long ,", "And no permission had been given in writing ,", "May breathe it without prejudice .", "And by my uncles ; we must sail ere night . 220", "Their sire was a mere hunted outlaw . Well , 370", "Wherefore not ?", "The dungeon walls must still divide us .", "The groans of slaves in chains , and men in dungeons ,", "I will be with thee .", "In short , to trample on the fallen \u2014 an office 330", "And the apparel of the grave .", "Will you not now resent it ?\u2014 Oh , for vengeance !", "Thus leave me .", "But they have crushed .", "A shrine . Get thee back to thy place of torment !", "Let them flow on : he wept not on the rack", "Floating on the free waves \u2014 away \u2014 away \u2014", "As yours , is better in its product , nay \u2014", "And sneering lip the pang , but he partakes it . 310", "Chief of the Ten . We", "I had obtained permission from \u201c the Ten \u201d", "Nor in thine eyes , nor in thine acts ,\u2014 where then 140", "And now , when he can neither know these honours ,", "Within a human breast . I would not change", "That word again ?", ",", "You banished from his palace and tore down", "A Prince 's and his subject 's .", ",", "Change their hearts , or your lot : the galley 's oars", "Of the familiar 's torch , which seems akin", "I have heard of murderers , who have interred", "The last , were all men 's merits well rewarded .", "The sole fit habitant of such a cell ,", "My husband 's father 's palace .", "The old martyrs would have shrunk from : he is gone ,", "Of those who fain must deal perforce with vice :", "And shall be more so when I see us both", "Which cloud whate'er we gaze on , even thine eyes \u2014", "Signers , your pardon : this is mockery . 320", "Their antique energy of mind , all that", "But would not gratify yon wretch so far .", "Has been one long entreaty , and a vain one .", "Yes ; worse he could not .", "Are judges who give way to anger ? they", "No , not thine eyes \u2014 they sparkle \u2014 how they sparkle !", "Though his possessions have been all consumed", "To be Venetian .", "So is the Doge ; he has a son at stake", "You 'd fling yourselves before him , and implore", "In Heaven . I pray you , Signer Senator ,", "And these vile damps , too , and yon thick green wave", "Here 's my arm !", "My Lord , if I intrude \u2014", "I come to tell thee the result of their", "Let me seek out my husband : the sage \u201c Ten , \u201d", "The fate of myriads more .", "Farewell ! at least to this detested dungeon ,", "They should , I will fly with him .", "For what he suffers , not for what he did .", "Nor would accept them if he could , you , Signors ,", "If race be aught , it is in qualities", "To man thyself , I trust , with time , to master", "Your spies , your galley and your other slaves ,", "Those maxims for your mass of scared mechanics , 300", "Though they sweep both the Doge and son from life ;", "Their hands in sacred vows \u2014 have danced their babes 120", "As my poor Foscari ? Nothing was wanting", "Were wretched exiles .", "That is ,", "What pangs are those they have spared you ?", "Wish you more funerals ?", "Of so much splendour in hypocrisy", "The Country and the People whom he loved ,", "And the sweet freedom of the earth and air ,", "For that thought now . Would I were in his grave !", "A moment since , while yet it had a soul ,", "Doge", "Thank God ! At least they will not drag him more", "And I , who would have given my blood for him , 100", "With death , and chains , and exile in his hand ,", "Who do so are assassins . Give me way .", "Blush to find ancestors , who would have blushed", "From his high place , with such relentless coldness ;", "Your merchants , your Dalmatian and Greek slaves ,", "Upon your genealogic tree 's most green 300", "Are you , then ,", ",", "Hold thy peace , old man ! I am no daughter now \u2014 thou hast no son . Oh , Foscari !", "He is ,", "Keep such for them : I fear ye not . I know ye ;", "Men , who have been of women born and suckled \u2014", "With a last look upon our misery ?", "That you", "Of our departure from this much-loved city ,", "There must be life yet in that heart \u2014 he could not", "Return to Candia .", "Dost thou see this ?", "No hand of ours would stretch itself to meet it .", "My husband ! let us on : this but prolongs", "To back his suit . Dishonoured !\u2014 he dishonoured !", "I have pierced him to the core of his cold heart .", "How dost thou ? How are those worn limbs ? Alas !", "And not his honour .", "We will , and for the sake of those who are ,", "Mothers , and wives , and sons , and sires , and subjects ,", "So formed for gentle privacy of life ,", "That were too human , also . But it was not", "I do \u2014 I do \u2014 and so should you , methinks \u2014", "Aye , weep on !", "Let us proceed . Doge , lead the way .", "From him or such as he is .", "But if 220", "But they are senators .", "Will one day thank you better .", "Hope not ?", "But he , who , had he been enough protected , 90", "And \u2014\u2014", "I have sons , who shall be men .", "That he is known .", "Must purchase by renewal of the rack", "Of the Duke 's son , the innocent Duke 's son ,", "Of leaves and most mature of fruits , and there", "To use for the decrees of \u2014\u2014"], "true_target": ["Incarnate Lucifer ! \u2018 tis holy ground .", "Doge", "I know it ,", "Aye , he may veil beneath a marble brow", "The beings of another and worse world !", "Oh , the tyrants ! In such an hour too !", "And that 's a mystery .", "Who totters back in chains to tortures , and", "And here ?", "You think ; but that you are not , nor would be ,", "I know not , reck not \u2014", "Who obtained that justice ?", "Alas ! I have shed some \u2014 always thanks to you !", "For your oppressors .", "Pity my husband , or I cast it from me ;", "He might have lived ,", "Touch it not , Foscari ; \u2018 twill sting you . Signor ,", "Accurs\u00e9d be the city where the laws", "Not his : no . 230", "You know it well ,", "What !", "Of this wide realm , of which thy sire is Prince .", "Unto their home by the new Doge , not clad", "Yes ; all things which conduce to other men 's", "And nothing more ? Will you not see him", "Learn you to sway your feelings , when exacted 200", "And I will find an hour to wipe away", "My husband !", "Remembrances , would thank the illustrious Memmo", "Accept the tardy penitence of demons .", "Venetian", "Were no more than the feelings long extinguished", "My children ! true \u2014 they live , and I must live", "I say he 's innocent ! And were he not so ,", "That is true ,", "To bring them up to serve the State , and die", "To teach you to be less a child . From this", "Is none but guilt so ?", "Oh !", "So I thought !", "A moment 's access to his dungeon .", "In fatal moments ?", "Sirs , I am ready .", "He shriek ! No ; that should be his father 's part ,", "Alive , or dead , for Prince or Paladin", "Touch it not , dungeon miscreants ! your base office", "In human breasts . Alas ! Will nothing calm you ?", "No \u2014 no \u2014 no more of that : even they relent", "Endeavour \u2014\u2014 Oh , my husband !", "and this", "What", "Doubtless , as your nice feelings would prescribe ,", "My best belov\u00e9d !", "Is far the worst of treasons . Dost thou deem", "As Doge , but simply as a senator .", "These are things we cannot judge", "110", "Were barrenness in Venice ! Would my mother", "None rebels except subjects ? The Prince who", "Might have repaid protection in this moment ,", "And full of reptiles , not less loathsome , though", "To freeze their young blood in its natural current .", "For such a son \u2014 thou cold inveterate hater !", "As they have entered \u2014 many never ; but", "Those tears , or add my own . I could weep now , 420", "There .", "Stand off ! be sure , that if a grasp of yours", "Chief of the Ten . Best retain it for your children .", "And not their present fee . Their senses , though", "As worthiest \u2014 you , sir , noble Loredano !", "Process of my poor husband ! Treat me as", "To shame him , and they cannot shame him now .", "Heroes , and would not welcome them with tears .", "Nothing more easy . He partakes it now \u2014", "Ends with his life , and goes not beyond murder ,", "Of destinies : each day secures him more", "The rack , the grave , all \u2014 any thing with thee , 40", "To Syria , Egypt , to the Ottoman \u2014 380", "To be sued to in vain \u2014 to mark our tears ,", "And scanty hairs , and shaking hands , and heads", "With Loredano mourning like an heir .", "I know the former better than yourselves ;", "But oppresses 280", "Will not be suffered to proceed with us .", "And you , Signor ?", "Your exile as he bears it .", "By duties paramount ; and \u2018 tis our first", "That these are demons : could it be else that", "Any where , where we might respire unfettered ,", "They feel not , but no less are shivered . Come ,", "Will quickly clear the harbour .", "Thy life is safe .", "Have nought to give but tears ! But could I compass", "That in my heart would make its way through hosts", "Imperfect happiness or high ambition ,", "All ! the consummate fiends ! A thousandfold", "Come , Foscari , take the hand the altar gave you ;", "The gloom of this eternal cell , which never", "Here !", "Unjust , and \u2014\u2014", "To make a pageant over what you trampled . 330", "Cabal , and put men 's lives out , as if Life", "I would not cavil about climes or regions .", "The retribution of his wrongs !\u2014 Well , well !", "No \u2014 not here .", "True \u2014 none dare answer here save on the rack , Or question save those \u2014\u2014", "Which I prepared to pass with Foscari ,", "Alive to love , are yet awake to terror ;", "A brigand than the robber-chief .", "The Prince of whom he was the elder born ,", "\u2018 Tis 50", "Our children will be cared for by the Doge ,", "Her best and bravest from her . Tyranny", "But think so , to my mind the happiest doom ,", "I was thrust back , with the assurance that 60", "Pity thy son ! Thou pity !\u2014 \u2018 tis a word", "Small dungeon is all that belongs to thee", "Men : howsoever let him have my thanks", "As palsied as their hearts are hard , they counsel ,", "And what of him ? 70", "And after that , what are a woman 's words ? 130", "As spy upon us , or as hostage for us ?", "\u2018 Tis their duty", "Chief of the Ten . Do you", "I 've heard of widows \u2019 tears \u2014", "Inhibited ?", "Had been so !", "Nobler !", "Look not so stern \u2014 but get you back , and pore", "What , no one ?\u2014 I am wrong , there still are two ;", "To good , depress thee thus ?", "Imprisonment and actual torture ?", "Groaned under the stern Oligarchs .", "To love ; but \u2014 no \u2014 no \u2014 no \u2014 it must have been", "What ?", "See you not , he comes here to glut his hate", "Leave him to me ; you would have done so for", "Of late , is mercy .", "Ah ! the Devil come to insult the dead ! Avaunt !", "No more .", "And if it do , it will not 120", "They live , they 'll make you soldiers , senators ,", "Would stifle Nature 's !", "Obey her , then : \u2018 tis she that puts thee forth .", "He 's busy , look , About the business you provided for him . Are ye content ?", "The gloomy guardian of that passage first", "This is the Doge 's palace ; I am wife", "No more than woman 's tears , that they should shake you .", "From that atrocity .", "Would raise us from the gulf wherein we are plunged , 430", "A fearful pang , which wrung a groan from him .", "To me it seems the worst barbarity .", "Abhorrent policy ,", "In story or in fable , with a world", "Come with me !", "Of such . Well , sirs , your will be done ! as one day ,", "Remained of Rome for their inheritance ,", "Indeed , thus to be pitied ?", "And yet you see how , from their banishment 150", "And your son .", "Is our own blood and kin to shrink from us", "The presence that should silence my free thoughts ?", "Might strike them : this is not their atmosphere ,", "Then , father , 280 Surely you can obtain or grant me thus much :", "I have ventured , father , on", "Shall weep more \u2014 never , never more .", "Of Nature 's summons ; but \u201c the Ten 's \u201d is quicker ,", "Were he a peasant :\u2014 well , then , you 're a Prince ,", "To tears save drops of dotage , with long white", "Must I then retire ?", "And with them power and will are one", "Should I behold this sympathy ? or shall ?", "And wedded", "In pain , in peril , or in death \u2014 who are ,", "With levelled spears ; and think you a few jailors", "Your plots could make , and vengeance could desire us ,", "\u2018 Tis revoked .", "Behold the State 's care for its sons and mothers !", "Austere ? Atrocious ! The old human fiends ,", "To whom ye speak , and perils of such speech ?", "And now defies them .", "Believe it . Should he shrink , I cannot cease", "And him to whose good offices you owe", "I fear , by the prevention of the state 's", "We all must bear our tortures . I have not", "I 've heard of heirs in sables \u2014 you have left none", "To the deceased , so you would act the part 360", "So I could see thee with a quiet aspect ,", "I know his fate may one day be their heritage ,", "What is this to the things thou hast borne in silence \u2014", "You talk wildly , and 300", "Such useless passion . Until now thou wert", "Ye treated him :\u2014 you did so , in so dealing", "Their victims ; but ne'er heard , until this hour ,", "It was the lot of millions , and must be", "A martyr 's ashes now lie there , which make it 220", "The Stoic of the State ?", "For the only boon I would have asked or taken", "From those Venetians who have skirred", "In all things painful . If they 're sick , they will", "your mysterious meetings ,", "They will relieve his heart \u2014 that too kind heart \u2014", "Is Passion , and not Patriotism ; for me ,", "His dregs of life , which you have kindly shortened :", "Keep", "It may be so ; and who hath made us mad ?", "O'er those they slew .", "Of hours .", "\u2018 Tis not upon thy brow ,", "Grief is fantastical , and loves the dead ,", "You have seen your son 's blood flow , and your flesh shook not ;", "Off ! I will tend him .", "I will not deem it : he hath nerved himself ,", "Unto his happiness and mine save not", "No , \u2018 twas too human . May I share his exile ?", "They tortured from him . This", "Has been anticipated : it is known .", "And if they do , Heaven will not", "But for the poor children", "A princely funeral will be your reproach ,", "Did they make it for", "Be left to me to tend them ; should they die , 390", "Rather say ,", "His voice ! it seemed so : I will not", "Nor would be", "And shall an evil , which so often leads", "I thought you had no tears \u2014 you hoarded them", "Why do I ask ? Thy paleness \u2014\u2014", "It galls you :\u2014 well , you are his equal , as 290", "Left barren the great house of Foscari , 240", "As more generous !", "The body bleeds in presence of the assassin .", "From tyrannous injustice , and enough", "This crowd of palaces and prisons is not", "\u201c The Ten . \u201d \u2014 When we had reached \u201c the Bridge of Sighs , \u201d", "Not his \u2014 not his \u2014 he 'll die in silence .", "You feel it then at last \u2014 you !\u2014 Where is now", "And", "And feel it nothing .", "Variety of torturing ! Yet I 'll pass .", "Fear not : that 's reserved 170", "To me to bury and to mourn ; but if", "Accumulated ! 230", "To attend my husband for a limited number", "So much !\u2014 no more .", "ACT IV .", "The fiends who will one day requite them in", "No , no ; not my husband 's \u2014", "I care not for his frowns ! We can but die ,", "Your privacy .", "The holiest tie beneath the Heavens !\u2014 Oh God !", "It is my last of duties , and may prove 340", "To one as noble . What , or whose , then , is", "\u201c The Ten ; \u201d \u2014 but as the Court no longer sate ,", "For pointing out the pleasures of the place . 210", "And hoard our groans \u2014 to gaze upon the wreck", "And unknown dooms , and sudden executions ,", "They have fed well , slept soft , and knew not that", "They 'll torture him again ; and he and I", "Of Egypt and her neighbour Araby :", "How ?", "Had better now be seated , nor as yet", "Ah , he is dying !", "Neglects or violates his trust is more 390", "Come , come , old man !", "They ,", "Well ,", "You came here to enjoy a heartless triumph", "Did you but love your Country like this victim", "For an ungrateful and tyrannic soil", "A sufferer , but not a loud one : why", "And how feel you ?", "Now , at this moment , and I have a husband ,", "Purpose , with idle and superfluous pomp ,", "Pleasure ! what a word", "As far as touches torturing the living .", "Then leave them .", "To flow through the dead lips of Foscari \u2014", "The dungeon vapours its bituminous smoke ,", "I tell thee , Doge , \u2018 tis Venice is dishonoured ;", "In part your past imprisonment .", "You will .", "And what shall I say", "His grace for your enormous guilt .", "We 'll part", "Oh , no doubt !", "Which floats above the place where we now stand \u2014", "Shall put me from my path ? Give me , then , way ; 270", "That tenderness", "The blood of myriads reeking up to Heaven ,", "Let him partake it !", "Than his prolonged captivity :\u2014 I am punished", "And they shall hear this !", "Be it to the earth 's end , from this abhorred ,", "But \u2014 I can leave them , children as they are ,", "A dreary comfort in my desolation .", "Not Foscari 's .", "Submits to all things rather than to exile , 170", "The latter \u2014 like yourselves ; and can face both .", "Not he alone , but all who dwell here , could", "My exiled , persecuted , mangled husband ,", "A few brief words of truth shame the Devil 's servants", "Desire , were to escape from such a land .", "You , who abet them ?", "Aught in its favour , who would praise like thee ?", "In leaving it : but mine were joyful pangs :", "Our sorrow .", "But the tomb last of all , for there we shall", "To darkness more than light , by lending to", "Your \u201c Bridge of Sighs , \u201d your strangling chamber , and", "Till it meets ! and when it meets ,", "To those who will succeed them , as they can", "With one foot in the grave , with dim eyes , strange", "And I must live !", "I have sued to accompany thee hence , 140", "Too much", "It is too much to have survived the first .", "Before that horrible tribunal . Would he", "I am ; but oh , thou eternal God ! Canst thou continue so , with such a world ?", "May the worm which never dieth feed upon them !", "Perhaps all 's over ; but"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 206}, {"query": ["Cloak their soul 's hoarded triumph , as a fit one", "The sacrifice of my own blood and quiet ,", "Safety , and all save honour , the decrees ,", "My child ! this is a phantasy of grief .", "Was prejudicial to the State , the Chief", "In blood , in mind , in means ; and that they know", "As you ; but I curse not . Adieu , good Signers !", "As old as I am , and I 'm very old ,", ", all that history has bequeathed", "Chief of the Ten . Reduce us not", "Say on .", "I cannot break my oath .", "Your ducal robes must be put off ; but for 170", "Merely the signature . Give me the pen \u2014", "Already mentioned in our former congress .", "The policy , irrevocably tending", "And I to answer . Chief of the Ten . What ?", "I have obeyed your summons . Chief of the Ten . We come once more to urge our past request .", "And lusts , and appetites , and vanities ,", "Which you have worn so long and venerably :", "Himself so far ungrateful , as to place", "They", "Striven all they dare to weigh me down : be sure ,", "Of the Republic never would have shown 180", "If it so please them : I am the State 's servant .", "Cabal in commonwealth , nor secret means", "Who are all earth , and I , who am called upon", "No !", "It means , I am more citizen than either .", "The sound ! I heard it once , but once before ,", "\u2018 Tis said that our Venetian crystal has", "No .\u2014 Have you done ?", "By the private staircase , which conducts you towards", "Soon may be a Prince no longer .", "As sign of our esteem .", "Not eight hours , Signor ,", "You may be admitted .", "The Israelite and his Philistine foes . 220", "The father \u2014\u2014", "Return to those who sent us ?", "Of the Republic , and the o'erwhelming cares 20", "That words have ceased to shake me .", "To wax more weak with age . I did not see", "I have no repose , that is , none which shall cause 40", "For what ?", "To one great end , must be maintained in vigour .", "The laws .", "Not even eight minutes \u2014 there 's the ducal ring , 190", "Alone , come all the world around me , I", "Our Fame is in men 's breath , our lives upon", "True ; but in freedom , 210", "Cold to your years and services , they add", "And that is five and thirty years ago ;", "At so much price as to require your absence ,", "Chief of the Ten . We grieve for such an answer ; but it cannot", "To move betimes . Methinks I see amongst you", "20", "Ah !", "The exile of the disinterr\u00e9d ashes", "Concerns your husband , and if not \u2014\u2014 Well , Signor ,", "Of practice against life by steel or drug .", "I have not complained , sir .", "Will now descend the stairs by which I mounted 240", "And if they did so , better 210", "Definitive and absolute !", "And call Marina ,", "\u2018 Tis the fittest time ;", "I cannot weep \u2014 I would I could ; but if", "Go and obey our Country 's will :", "Something from", "This ducal cap the Diadem of earth , 80", "What ! have they met again , and met without", "That you would have me thought , you long ere now", "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 .", "Better for him he never had been born ;", "The health , the pride , and welfare of the State .", "Aloof , save fear of famine ! All is low ,", "Shall ever use that base word , with which men", "This ducal ring with which I wed the waves", "When I received it .", "I do", "You behold", "No . I", "I shall not need so many seconds .", "That you would fix an hour for their reunion .", "Had he but borne a little , little longer", "Pomp is for Princes \u2014 I am none !\u2014 That 's false ,", "The Doge will choose his own ambassador ,", "Bid her enter . Poor", "Then it is false , or you are true .", "Stop !", "You have heard me .Chief of the Ten . With all due reverence we retire .", "You know not what you say .", "Instead of your compliance .", "But not pushed hence by fellow-citizens .", "Observ'st , obey'st such laws as make old Draco 's", "Apprising me ?", "For all that yet is past , as many years", "Chief of the Ten . Speak !", "His own high dignity before his Country ;", "The loss of an hour 's time unto the State .", "Your father was my friend .\u2014 But sons and fathers !\u2014", "In glory", "With a selected giunta from the Senate", "Your years , so long devoted to your Country ,", "It does their wisdom honour ,", "Else you dare not deal thus by them or me .", "As it , alas ! has been , to ostracism ,", "Your sires were mine , and you are heir in all things . 220", "Has left , or is about to leave , me single .", "Command my time , when not commanded by", "Of the State 's palace , at the least retire", "Signors , if it please you ,", "Applying poisons there as antidotes .", "The bell tolls on !\u2014 let 's hence \u2014 my brain 's on fire !", "Renew this instance . I have sworn to die", "The last !\u2014 my boy !\u2014 the last time I shall see", "This insult at the least was spared him .", "Twice I demanded it , but was refused :", "To impede the act , I must no less obey", "I forgive this , for", "Say , when they will \u2014 now , even at this moment ,", "You well know", "The universal heritage , to battle", "You ever were my dearest offspring , when", "And gifted spirits , who have studied long", "Return with it to them who sent you .", "I understand you ;", "Not for the laws alone , for those you have strained 250", "The people ,\u2014 There 's no people , you well know it ,", "Exile , or chains , or whatsoever worse", "What ?", "Has risen to what she is \u2014 a state to rival", "Was theirs ; but I was openly their foe : 230", "That 's new \u2014 when spared they either ? I thank them , notwithstanding .", "Providence", "Chief of the Ten . With this , then , must we", "As far as I have borne it , what it was 150", "They have no further power upon those ashes :", "Is no more in the balance weighed with that", "An individual , be he richest of", "Then say", "Our days on seasons ; our whole being on", "But ye have no right to reproach my length", "\u2014 So , we are slaves ,", "Avail you aught .", "Methinks we must have sinned in some old world ,", "According to my honour and my conscience \u2014", "And the original ordinance , that man", "My time is hers .", "That can ne'er be . And whither would you fly ?", "We should remember Fortune can take nought", "No ; my seat here has been a throne till now . Marina ! let us go .", "As their son e'er can be , and I no less", "As Sovereign \u2014 I go out as citizen", "Obey . I had in charge , too , from the Council ,", "It lies upon this heart , far lightlier , though", "I never thought to be divorced except", "Were I disposed to brawl ; but , as I said ,", "Your fathers were mine enemies , as bitter", "Of Rome and Carthage in their best times , when", "Did I hear rightly ? Chief of the Ten . Need I say again ?", "Those black and bloody leaves , his heart and brain ,", "That I have added to her diadem", "Daughter , know you", "In deeds , and days , and sway , and , let me add ,", "They work by different means to the same end ,", "What , ho ! my servants there !", "\u2018 Tis some years since I learned this , long before", "And when we think we lead , we are most led ,", "Chief of the Ten . I have spoken . Twenty four", "Earth and Heaven !", "Such pure antipathy to poisons as", "Chief of the Ten . Your answer , Duke !", "Would it were so !", "To which I am tending : when", "Thus much they cannot well deny .", "She might decree .", "An idle legend .", "A Sovereign should die standing . My poor boy !", "Am , or at least was , more than a mere duke ,", "No Prince \u2014 200", "Now you are last ; but did the State demand", "My wish to abdicate , it was refused me : 40", "In full exertion of the functions , which", "Chief of the Ten . Why", "Nor should do so", "Proceed , my daughter !", "Am now and evermore . But we will bear it .", "I have none from you , my child .", "Now ;", "He !\u2014 but admit him .", "The proof is \u2014 your existence .", "You have no cause , being what I am ; but were I", "I !\u2014\u2014 \u2018 Tis true", "Daughter !", "Such rank as is permitted , or the meanest , 410", "You hear , she speaks wildly .", "Nor palliate , as parent or as Duke :", "Not signed ? Ah , I perceive my eyes begin", "On the flood , in the field , or , if it must be ,", "Only repeat \u2014 I am ready .", "Elsewhere .", "Nor crushed as yet \u2014 I live .", "Pitied ! None", "Child \u2014 child \u2014\u2014", "I must bear these reproaches , though they wrong me . Couldst thou but read \u2014\u2014", "But yet subdued the World : in such a state", "But I have other duties than a father 's ;", "True ,", ",", "Charge me with such a breach of faith .", "We find in others , Nature made our own ;", "Save what she gave \u2014 the rest was nakedness ,", "I overlooked it yesterday : it wants", "So far take on myself , as order that", "I found her Queen of Ocean , and I leave her", "I could enforce for my authority ,", "Upon our will ; the will itself no less", "Now , you will know me better .", "He 's free .", "Eternal .", "And not alone refused , but ye exacted", "And even to move but slowly must begin", "I take yours , Loredano , from the hand", "But come ; my son and I will go together \u2014 250", "Have served you , so have I , and I and they", "What mean you ?", "The gems of Brescia and Ravenna ; Crema", "Now he is mine \u2014 my broken-hearted boy !", "Each white hair on this head were a young life ,", "In such a curse as mine , provoked by such", "And to prove that they are not ungrateful , nor", "Not useless to that Country , I would fain", "Have judged it fitting , with all reverence ,", "Without our act or choice as birth , so that", "Alone !", "For him .", "And turn him into traitor ?", "That falls from those who rule in Venice .", "Chief of the Ten . My Lord , if you indeed", "There are the princes of the Prince !", "I spoke not to you , but to Loredano . He understands me .", "And false , and hollow \u2014 clay from first to last ,", "And now , sir , to your business .", "Son Jacopo ,", "In what a presence you pronounce these things ?", "Farewell ! Is there aught else ?", "Foul rumours were abroad ; I have also read", "And gentle preludes to strong acts .\u2014 Go on !", "Will now retire .", "Stay ! four and twenty hours", "\u2018 Tis dubious .", "And here my staff : thus propped will I go forth . Chief of the Ten . It must not be \u2014 the people will perceive it .", "There five and thirty years ago was I", "Chief of the Ten . Hear you then the last decree ,", "I 'll", "What should I think of mortals ?", "\u2018 Tis long since she enjoyed it : may it be", "Who dreaded to elect me , and have since", "You had so .", "What you decree \u2014 decree .", "As would have made you nothing . But in all things", "Mar No ; thou", "Heaven took from me ,", "So die than live on lingeringly in pain .", "To the alternative of a decree ,", "A corse \u2014 a corse , it might be , fighting for them \u2014", "Having deliberated on the state", "If I could have foreseen that my old age", "\u2018 Tis the knell of my poor boy ! My heart aches bitterly .", "He must return .", "Which \u2014\u2014 but I pity thee , my poor Marina !", "Under such laws , Venice 400", "He to his grave , and I to pray for mine .", "My country faithfully \u2014 victoriously \u2014 370", "May shame you ; but they dare not groan nor curse you , 260", "At my too long worn diadem and ring .", "And did not they ?", "To poison . \u2018 Tis perhaps as true as most", "An appanage of twenty hundred golden 30", "Such power I do believe there might exist", "And he is in his shroud !", "A duty , paramount to every duty .", "From your imperial oath as Sovereign ;"], "true_target": ["Are evil , you may say them ; nothing further", "That Council when you were a young patrician .", "Of twenty-five of the best born patricians ,", "That they can comfort me .", "Live to hear this !\u2014 the first Doge who e'er heard 230", "Broad eminence I was invested Duke .", "Chief of the Ten . \u201c The Ten , \u201d", "Perhaps so ;", "You , by your garb , Chief of the Forty !", "You shall be so ;", "Not without feeling , but I would have given them", "Doge", "And that is \u2014 but they have not conquered yet . 90", "And how then shall we judge each other ,", "Ye will reverberate this peal ; and I", "But the decree being rendered , I obey .", "May the next Duke be better than the present !", "To the State 's service , to fulfil her wishes ,", "Well I recognise", "Get thee ready , we must mourn", "But learn a magic which recoils upon", "I never worked by plot in Council , nor", "Instead of that \u2014\u2014", "When he was born : those drops were ominous . 180", "Something which is not us !", "To the point ! I know of old the forms of office ,", "I cannot", "Marina ! art thou willing ?", "All these vain ceremonies are base insults ,", "She was and is : my reign has doubled realms ;", "Hath ruined all by that detected letter :", "For my own part , I credit neither ; \u2018 tis", "The Doge ; it may be also from a parent .", "As I have years , I would have given them all ,", "I feel too much thou hast not .", "Without a name , is alike nothing , when", "The resignation of the ducal ring ,", "You know not \u2014\u2014", "By the assembled \u201c Ten , \u201d and hardly now", "Marina !", "I must look on him once more .", "Stir \u2014 in my train , at least . I entered here", "I am , but only to these gates .\u2014 Ah !", "There is a populace , perhaps , whose looks", "Indeed all you have said . I better bore", "But nothing will advance ; no , not a moment . 60", "Can touch me more than him thou look'st on there ;", "What , wouldst thou have a renegade for husband ,", "I was publicly", "Accept the homage of respect ?", "While her sea-sway has not shrunk .", "Was this", "Take it . Alas ! how thine own trembles ! 180", "All your own private fortune .", "Within an hour I 'll hear you .", "All things are so to mortals ; who can read them", "Their epitaph , attributing their deaths", "Chief of the Ten . You speak in passion ,", "They were more numerous , nor can be less so 110", "I have said it .", "I cannot comfort thee .", "And Bergamo no less are hers ; her realm", "We are going ; do you fear that we shall bear", "Hours are accorded you to give an answer .", "And this is Hell : the best is , that it is not", "Bear hence the body .", "Lady of Lombardy ; it is a comfort", "Let them meet when they will , I shall be found", "What command ?", "His Candiote exile , I had hopes \u2014 he has quenched them \u2014 100", "Time may restore his memory \u2014 I would hope so .", "Accept it as \u2018 tis given \u2014 proceed .", "My son , you are feeble ; take this hand .", "With as we may , and least in humblest stations ,", "Inscriptions upon tombs , and yet no less", "ACT III .", "Less than their breath ; our durance upon days", "And still towards Death , a thing which comes as much", "That he obey", "Have consecrated my last moments to her .", "This prattle", "Now to solicit from your wisdom", "Perhaps it is not requisite , if this 190", "Would", "Of yours , although the law does not , nor will .", "Answer that ;", "If they be good , say on ; you need not fear", "I feel athirst \u2014 will no one bring me here 290 A cup of water ? Bar . I \u2014\u2014", "An hour ago I should have felt it .", "Be firm , my son !", "I found the law ; I did not make it . Were I", "Perhaps so .", "Installed , and traversed these same halls , from which", "My unhappy children !", "Depends upon a straw than on a storm ; 360", "Such sound for his successor : happier he ,", "Your grief distracts you .", "Chief of the Ten . Yet go not forth so quickly .", "I have observed with veneration , like", "A fable .", "Than Jacopo 's disgrace .", "For me , Signor ?", "somewhat beyond what", "My boy ! Couldst thou but know \u2014\u2014", "I can submit to all things ,", "Your services , the State allots the appanage", "So rashly ? \u2018 twill give scandal .", "Farewell , sirs !", "And", "That answer only shows you know not Venice .", "Woman , this clamorous grief of thine , I tell thee ,", "Were past the sense of fear . Hate on ; I care not .", "The deaths of the two sons", "Would change , for the sake of my house , the charter", "At Foscari , aim no less at his father ;", "Three days are left you to remove from hence ,", "Not till I pass the threshold of these doors .", "I shrank not from him :", "Chief of the Ten . You are no longer Doge ; you are released", "I have borne so much ,", "I am ready to lay down my life for her ,", "Most fit for such an hour as this .", "A talisman to still them \u2014 I 'd give all", "My Country called me here to exercise ,", "Envy the dead .", "Of things you know not : but the treaty 's signed ;", "Loaded with marble , than the thoughts which press it", "Must sweat for his poor pittance , keeps all passions 350", "The adept who pursues it : all the sins", "A high crime , which I neither can deny", "Was not of mine , but more excuses you ,", "For us to look beyond .", "Signers , you may depart : what would you more ?", "No doubt :", "But this life having been so many years", "The pillars of stone Dagon 's temple on", "That last clause ,", "Is that so strange ,", "When I twice before reiterated", "An oath from me that I would never more", "My attainted predecessor , stern Faliero \u2014", "Birth , wealth , health , beauty , are her accidents ,", "Chief of the Ten . Will not the Duke", "Under the penalty to see confiscated", "Else \u2014\u2014", "Where Hunger swallows all in one low want ,", "A word of mine had set such spirits to work", "Ducats , to make retirement not less splendid", "Chief of the Ten . We", "Known Loredano .", "More than my wont : it is a foible which", "\u2018 Tis done , I thank you .", "By land has grown by thus much in my reign ,", "Chief of the Ten . What ! thus in public ?", "In your commission ?", "Your fathers were my foes , and I have heard", "And no less to their courtesy .\u2014 Proceed .", "A dotage which may justify this deed", "He was", "I have observed the strictest reverence ;", "A face I know not .\u2014 Senator ! your name ,", "Who bears it ?", "And when we cry out against Fate , \u2018 twere well", "Better for me .\u2014 I have seen our house dishonoured .", "To sovereignty \u2014 the Giants \u2019 Stairs , on whose", "Are bent upon this rash abandonment", "The landing-place of the canal .", "The greatest as the meanest \u2014 nothing rests", "No more \u2014 no more of that .", "Of your Lord renders them still more austere .", "I trust ,", "I dare them to the proof , the chart of what", "If \u2018 twas so , I can", "Since aggravated errors on the part", "The state would not dispense me from those duties ;", "To the point \u2014", "Your husband ? 50", "But for my dignity \u2014 I hold it of", "He was my pride , my \u2014\u2014 but \u2018 tis useless now \u2014", "And their desponding shades came flitting round", "I am what you behold .", "The malice of my foes will drive me down them .", "Had thousands of such citizens , and shall ,", "Could tell a tale ; but I invoke them not", "The palace with us ? Its old walls , ten times", "Not so : they shall await you in my chamber .", "The State .", "It could avail thee ! but no less thou hast it .", "Alas ! how should you ? she knows not herself ,", "\u2018 tis not", "I thank you . If the tidings which you bring", "They must then be fulfilled .", "My only answer .", "By the same portals , but as citizen .", "I will endeavour .", "I am not given to tears , but wept for joy", "My last of children ! Tell him I will come .", "I trust , have still such , Venice were no city .", "Is manifest , then you shall all be answered .", "Have chosen well their envoy .", "You bore this goblet , and it is not broken .", "A subject , still I might find parts and portions", "Against his Country , had he a thousand lives", "Of your three goodly brothers , now in earth ,", "Without these jealous spies upon the great .", "Of days , since every hour has been the Country 's .", "Daughter , it is superfluous ; I have long", "Left by our fathers .", "The form has been omitted in the haste", "In all her mystery . Hear me \u2014 they who aim", "Boy ! no tears .", "Will be accorded to a third request ,", "That you repeat the word emphatically ?", "Inform the Signory from me , the Doge ,", "You need not school me , Signor ; I sate in", "Alas !", "I became Doge , or dreamed of such advancement .", "The Prince 's urn no less than potter 's vessel .", "If we had not for many centuries", "And happier than his father . The rash boy ,", "You shall not", "The people swayed by Senates .", "My services have called me up those steps ,", "To me all hours are like . Let them approach .", "He speaks truth .", "Is he \u2014\u2014", "Which , at this moment , doubly must oppress", "You have heard it .", "As long ere she resume her arms !", "I see the man \u2014 what mean'st thou ?", "That I had dipped the pen without effect .", "They have taken my son from me , and now aim", "By whom ?", "I am proud to say , would not enrich the treasury .", "Elected , and so will I be deposed .", "The sire 's destruction would not save the son ;", "Inasmuch as it shows , that I approach", "Has he not been condemned ?", "Off with your arms !\u2014 That bell !", "The whole Republic : when the general will", "Or a Prince 's son .", "That is not a Venetian thought , my daughter .", "And , in reward , the gratitude of Venice", "The deference due even to the lightest word", "Had I as many sons 420", "Prolongs my days to prove and chasten me ; 50", "My daughter !", "With which the court adjourned ; and till it meets ,", "Which only ulcerate the heart the more ,", "Before or since that period , had I held you", "Chief of the Ten . If you would have the three days named extended ,", "That loathsome volume \u2014 man , and pored upon", "I am old , sir ,", "These white hairs !", "You behold me :", "It is your province .", "As I have laid down dearer things than life :", "A code of mercy by comparison .", "To judge my son ? I have administered", "Your children live , Marina .", "Save with their hearts and eyes .", "No \u2014 I merely", "This prayer of yours was twice denied before", "With womanish impatience to return ,", "I do .", "Let them resume the gewgaws !", "Fit for amendment ; but as Prince , I never", "Sen . I", "Than should become a Sovereign 's retreat .", "Will alter nothing which I have to say .", "Even then I was not young .", "Save he who made ? or , if they can , the few", "But I , good Signor , 240", "Give it way : 70", "A priest 's for the High Altar , even unto", "We ?", "All our advantages are those of Fortune ; 340", "We willingly will lengthen them to eight ,", "Or state in person what is meet ; and for", "To mingle with my name ; that name shall be ,", "You have reason . I have spoken much", "To fall upon you ! else they would , as erst", "While he lived , he was theirs , as fits a subject \u2014", "To burst , if aught of venom touches it .", "Where I should be , and what I have been ever ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 206}, {"query": ["But add , that if another hour would better", "His rank and his devotion to the duties", "My Lord ,", "Chief of the Ten . If it be so , at least his obsequies 310", "To the chamber where the body lies .", "A message from", "Of the realm , while his age permitted him", "He shall be informed .", "Noble Loredano .", "The noble dame Marina craves an audience .", "\u2018 Tis all over ."], "true_target": ["\u201c The Ten . \u201d", "With the illustrious lady his son 's widow .", "Requests an audience .", "To do himself and them full justice . Brethren ,", "Say , shall it not be so ?", "Shall be such as befits his name and nation ,", "My Lord , the deputation is in waiting ;", "The illustrious lady Foscari", "Accord with your will , they will make it theirs .", "Prince !", "This instant retired hence ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 206}, {"query": ["I am commanded to inform you that", "That your illustrious lady be admitted .", "There ."], "true_target": ["I bring you food .", "I know not .\u2014 It is also in my orders", "Your further trial is postponed ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 206}, {"query": ["Nor aught to thank for ?", "Dost thou not live ?", "Each to his task of toil \u2014 not heavy , though", "Who out of darkness on the deep didst make", "And we must gather it again . Oh God ! why didst thou plant the tree of knowledge ?", "Wherefore so ?", "Her fruits with little labour .", "Needful : the earth is young , and yields us kindly", "Jehovah ! with returning light \u2014 All Hail !"], "true_target": ["But thou my eldest born ? art silent still ?", "So will God , I trust .", "We have , most fervently .", "Our orisons completed , let us hence ,", "God , the Eternal ! Infinite ! All-wise !\u2014", "Light on the waters with a word \u2014 All Hail !", "Son Cain ! my first-born \u2014 wherefore art thou silent ?", "Oh ! my son ,", "Blaspheme not : these are Serpent 's words .", "To pray ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 206}, {"query": ["Morning from night , till then divided never \u2014", "Part of thy work the firmament \u2014 All Hail !", "Which even in Paradise destroyed his parents .", "The fruit of our forbidden tree begins 30", "My boy ! thou speakest as I spoke in sin ,", "My misery in thine . I have repented .", "God ! who didst name the day , and separate", "Who didst divide the wave from wave , and call", "Alas !"], "true_target": ["To fall .", "Behold thy father cheerful and resigned \u2014", "Cain \u2014 my son \u2014 50", "Thou now hadst been contented .\u2014 Oh , my son !", "Let me not see my offspring fall into", "And do as he doth .", "The snares beyond the walls of Paradise ,", "Before thy birth : let me not see renewed 40", "Content thee with what is . Had we been so ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 206}, {"query": ["The peace of God", "My father could not keep his place in Eden ?", "And he is good . \u201d How know I that ? Because", "Or shadow , madest beings to enjoy them ,", "Ere the night closes o'er the inhibited walls", "Before the gates round which I linger oft ,", "In Twilight 's hour , to catch a glimpse of those", "The fairest in the centre ? They have but", "Be on your spirit , brother !", "And night , and worlds which these illuminate ,", "I judge but by the fruits \u2014 and they are bitter \u2014", "Beauteous , and yet not all as beautiful", "One answer to all questions , \u201c \u2018 Twas his will ,", "He is all-powerful , must all-good , too , follow ?", "Why wilt thou wear this gloom upon thy brow ,", "If not , why place him near it , where it grew", "I sought not to be born ; nor love the state", "The Cherubim-defended battlements ? 90", "Yet \u2014 he seems mightier far than them , nor less", "Why should I quail from him who now approaches ?", "Of spiritual essence : why do I quake ?", "The Eternal anger ?", "Which I must feed on for a fault not mine .", "Yet of a sterner and a sadder aspect"], "true_target": ["And the immortal trees which overtop", "He cometh .", "Whom I see daily wave their fiery swords", "Which can avail thee nothing , save to rouse", "Cain", "Amen !", "God ! who didst call the elements into", "And this is", "To which that birth has brought me . Why did he", "Yield to the Serpent and the woman ? or 70", "Life ?\u2014 Toil ! and wherefore should I toil ?\u2014 because", "And is it", "As he hath been , and might be : sorrow seems", "The tree was planted , and why not for him ?", "Yielding \u2014 why suffer ? What was there in this ?", "Whom have we here ?\u2014 A shape like to the angels 80", "Gardens which are my just inheritance ,", "And love both them and thee \u2014 All Hail ! All Hail !", "So ? and can aught grieve save Humanity ?", "Half of his immortality .", "What had I done in this ?\u2014 I was unborn :", "Earth , ocean , air and fire \u2014 and with the day 10", "If I shrink not from these , the fire-armed angels ,", "Why should I fear him more than other spirits ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 206}, {"query": ["And me ?", "In sooth , return within an hour ?", "To me my solitude seems sin ; unless", "And leave us ?", "Streak the deep purple , and unnumbered stars", "To be belov\u00e9d , more than all , save thee \u2014", "No \u2014", "O Cain ! This spirit curseth us .", "Of rest ?\u2014 he is welcome .", "And brighter , yet less beautiful and powerful", "Have less without thee . Thou hast laboured not", "What is the sin which is not 380", "Sin in itself ? Can circumstance make sin", "By me ?", "So they were when the fair Serpent", "Adores the Invisible only .", "And thus becomes so in diffusing joy . 480", "Who didst create these best and beauteous beings ,", "Dissatisfied and curious thoughts \u2014 as thou", "Oh , my mother ! thou", "Omnipotence 390", "Where dwellest thou ?", "Of \u2014\u2014", "Thy youth in Paradise , in innocent", "Spoke with our mother first .", "Out of their love ? have they not drawn their milk", "It seems an awful shadow \u2014 if I may 470", "Are you of Heaven ?", "in the same hour", "Wilt thou frown even on me ?", "Bear with what we have borne , and love me \u2014 I", "They fill my eyes with tears , and so dost thou .", "Born of the same sole womb ,", "I cannot answer this immortal thing", "My belov\u00e9d Cain", "And heedless , harmless wantonness of bliss .", "We were not born then \u2014 and if we had been ,", "Remorse of that which was \u2014 and hope of that 360", "So did the Serpent , and it lied .", "It is our hour of rest and joy \u2014 and we", "Out of this bosom ? was not he , their father , 370", "Are ripe , and glowing as the light which ripens :", "Aye \u2014 but not bless\u00e9d .", "And yet I fly not from him : in his eye", "Are girt about by demons , who assume", "Like them .", "Hast plucked a fruit more fatal to thine offspring", "The Seraphs love most \u2014 Cherubim know most", "Its beauty .", "With me ? did we not love each other ? and", "We have seen many : will he share our hour", "Thou seem'st unhappy : do not make us so ,", "Which , as I know it not , I dread not , though", "Forth with this spirit ; he is not of ours .", "Saith that he has beheld the God himself", "Nearer and nearer :\u2014 Cain \u2014 Cain \u2014 save me from him !", "Will he ,", "I look upon him with a pleasing fear ,", "Come away .", "All light , they look upon us ; but thou seem'st 510", "But all we know of it has gathered", "But he is welcome , as they were : they deigned", "What all ?", "Judge from what I have heard .", "Cain", "And I will weep for thee .", "If not , I will", "I do . Is that a sin , too ?", "Art thou that steppest between heart and heart ?", "In multiplying our being multiply", "Who could be happy and alone , or good ?"], "true_target": ["He is not God \u2014 nor God 's : I have beheld", "Our father", "Or virtue ?\u2014 if it doth , we are the slaves", "Save in my father , who is God 's own image ;", "Shall they not love and bring forth things that love", "Like an ethereal night", "The words of God , and tempt us with our own", "Which stands before me ; I cannot abhor him ;", "Evil on ill ; expulsion from our home ,", "I have heard it said , 420", "Oh , Cain ! choose Love .", "Wert worked on by the snake , in thy most flushed", "Who made him and our mother .", "Yes \u2014 in his works .", "Wert happy \u2014\u2014", "This morn ; but I have done thy task : the fruits", "I am not wretched , Cain , and if thou", "What else can joy be , but the spreading joy ?", "Spangle the wonderful mysterious vault", "With things that look as if they would be suns ;", "Aye \u2014 to our eternal sorrow .", "Or in his angels , who are like to thee \u2014", "Nor would be happy ; but with those around us", "Fiend ! tempt me not with beauty ; thou art fairer", "Than was the Serpent , and as false .", "\u2014", "Oh , my God !", "I think I could be so , despite of Death ,", "Must be all goodness .", "Are there , then , others ?", "Let me love thee and them :\u2014 All Hail ! All Hail !", "Which cometh not . Cain ! walk not with this Spirit .", "How can that be ?", "Them ?\u2014 And as I love thee , my Cain ! go not", "The angels and the mortals to make happy ,", "Wilt thou ?", "Things which will love each other as we love", "Alone I could not ,", "I see an angel ; 340", "How know'st thou ?", "Whither ?", "He is not so ; he hath", "Should we not love them \u2014 and our children , Cain ?", "And happy intercourse with happy spirits :", "Love thee .", "It is a beautiful star ; I love it for", "But we , thy children , ignorant of Eden , 400", "And this should be a Cherub \u2014 since he loves not .", "Will he return ?", "When I think how soon I shall see my brother ,", "Our father", "In seeming : as the silent sunny noon ,", "Who", "Than to thyself ; thou at the least hast passed", "Beats quick ; he awes me , and yet draws me near ,", "Alas ! no ! and you \u2014", "Not dazzling , and yet drawing us to them ,", "My brother , I have come for thee ;", "God ! the Eternal parent of all things !", "And dread , and toil , and sweat , and heaviness ;", "Return to seek you here .", "Let me go with thee .", "There is a fastening attraction which 410", "His brother , and our children , and our parents .", "What ! Must not my daughter love her brother Enoch ?", "To be our guests \u2014 will he ?", ", where long white clouds", "So beautiful , unnumbered , and endearing ,", "Fixes my fluttering eyes on his ; my heart", "Alone ! Oh , my God !", "Our parents ?", "The Cherubs and the Seraphs ; he looks not"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 206}, {"query": ["Wilt thou not , my brother ?", "Oh , God ! who loving , making , blessing all ,"], "true_target": ["And drive my father forth from Paradise , 20", "Yet didst permit the Serpent to creep in ,", "Keep us from further evil :\u2014 Hail ! All Hail !"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 206}, {"query": ["Belov\u00e9d Adah !", "What dreads my Adah ? This is no ill spirit .", "Despise myself , yet cannot overcome \u2014", "Thoughts which arise within me , as if they", "Not to snatch first that fruit :\u2014 but ere he plucked", "Enormous liquid plains , and some begirt", "Be it proved .", "My father", "Born on the same day , of the same womb ; and", ", 30", "Must one day see perforce .", "How should I be so ? Look on me !", "It was the Tree of Life : knowledge is good ,", "Can I return ?", "Interchecked with an instant of brief pleasure ,", "But lead them and ourselves through many years", "Show me .", "And sin \u2014 and , not content with their own sorrow ,", "They were , as I have heard from those who heard them ,", "Through an a\u00ebrial universe of endless", "Seest thou not ?", "And see thou show'st me things beyond my power , 80", "How ! You know my thoughts ?", "I will have nought to do with happiness ,", "Rather than see her weep , I would , methinks ,", "Alas ! I scarcely now know what it is ,", "I 'll follow you anon .", "And what is that ?", "They may be ! Let me die , as atoms die ,", "Aye ! and serpents too ?", "Born with me \u2014 but I love nought else .", "In the vast desolate night in search of him ;", "Reconcile what I saw with what I heard .", "Guarded by fiery-sworded Cherubim ,", "Know nought of Death , save as a dreadful thing", "Let me but", "That I would join with him in sacrifice :\u2014", "Our native and forbidden Paradise ,", "And then I turned my weary eyes from off", "That !\u2014 yonder !", "I am :\u2014 and thou , with all thy might , what art thou ?", "Spirit , I have said it . AdahCain ! my brother ! Cain ! ACT II .", "Your works , or accidents , or whatsoe'er", "Have I not said it ?\u2014 need I say it ? Could not thy mighty knowledge teach thee that ?", "The knowledge , he was ignorant of Death .", "My father and my mother talk to me 170", "His Seraphs sing ; and so my father saith .", "Ye multiplying masses of increased 100", "At least they ought to have known all things that are", "Is your course measured for ye ? Or do ye", "Which shut them out \u2014 and me : I feel the weight", "But I must retire", "Can it be ?", "Is this blue wilderness of interminable", "Spirit ! I 60", "And the immortal star in its great course ,", "That were no evil : would I ne'er had been", "And all that in them is . So I have heard", "Are ye happy ?", "I never 310", "Clay \u2014 Spirit \u2014 what thou wilt \u2014 I can survey .", "It be as thou hast said", "I cannot see it .", "I 'm glad of that : I would not have them die \u2014", "By ages !\u2014 and I must be sire of such things ! 450", "His equal ?", "Which looks like that which lit our earthly night ?", "Thoughts unspeakable", "\u2018 Tis a fearful light !", "Of knowledge \u2014 and the mystery of Death", "Bear all \u2014 and worship aught .", "Have ye not prayed ?", "No more ?", "And you , too , sisters , tarry not behind ; 60", "But not to live \u2014 or wherefore plucked he not", "Weeps when he 's named ; and Abel lifts his eyes", "But live to die ; and , living , see no thing 110", "Of serpents , and of fruits and trees : I see", "Why , what are things ?", "Why should I bow to thee ?", "And some till now grew larger as we approached ,", "To inherit agonies accumulated", "And ye ?", "And what art thou who dwellest", "Spirit , who art thou ?", "I feel , it is a dreadful thing ; but what ,", ",", "Appear to join the innumerable stars", "How ?", "And speaks not .", "I will .", "And being so , canst thou", "Can I do so without impiety ?", "Than the birds \u2019 matins ; and my Adah \u2014 my", "And all the unnumbered and innumerable", "And thou !", "Gathers a halo round it , like the light", "I must away with him .", "Leave them , and walk with dust ?", "Own and belov\u00e9d \u2014 she , too , understands not", "If I may judge , till now . But , Spirit ! if", "Although my brother Abel oft implores", "Aye .", "I knew not that , yet thought it , since I heard", "Yet it seems horrible . I have looked out 270", "Lead on .", "Forget \u2014\u2014 but it can never be forgotten 440", "But the thing had a demon ?", "The firstlings of the flock to him who bids", "Who ?", "Hath not fulfilled its promise :\u2014 if they sinned ,", ",", "As yet have bowed unto my father 's God .", "All we love in our children and each other ,", "We were approaching , which , begirt with light ,", "I dare behold ? As yet , thou hast shown nought", "The offering is more his than mine \u2014 and Adah \u2014\u2014", "But Abel 's earnest prayer has wrought upon me ;", "Him will I follow .", "In the dim twilight , brighter than yon world", "Spirit ! let me expire , or see them nearer .", "The mind which overwhelms me : never till", "The Other", "I seek it not ; but as I know there are", "The Life-tree ?", "Multitudes , millions , myriads , which may be ,", "Beyond all power of my born faculties ,", "Which bears them .", "But shall I know it ?", "Inevitable . Could I wrestle with him ?", "For thee , my Adah , I choose not \u2014 It was", "But thou canst not", "Why not ?", "To offer up", "The gates of what they call their Paradise", "The archangels .", "My little Enoch ! and his lisping sister !", "And when I saw gigantic shadows in", "Precede me , brother \u2014 I will follow shortly .", "Sprinkle the dusky groves and the green banks", "Written upon his forehead . But at least", "By the far-flashing of the Cherubs \u2019 swords ,", "Let what is mortal of me perish , that", "Of sin and pain \u2014 or few , but still of sorrow ,", "To cull some first-fruits .", "A hideous heritage I owe to them", "Who sowed the seed of evil and mankind", "And loudly : I", "Nor ever shall \u2014 the mysteries of Death . 140", "The earth ! where is my earth ? Let me look on it ,", "Nature and immortality \u2014 and yet", "And multiplying murder .", "What ill ?", "Were I quiet earth , 290", "The things I see .", "who offers up", "I live ,", "Huge dusky masses ; but unlike the worlds", "Now met I aught to sympathise with me . 190", "Such , and that my sire 's sin makes him and me ,", "The angels we have seen .", "Could master all things \u2014 but I thought alone", "My sister Zillah sings an earlier hymn", "Who ?", "What need of snakes and fruits to teach us that ?", "Begot me \u2014 thee \u2014 and all the few that are ,", "Deadly error !", "Must both be guided .", "Who can but suffer many years , and die \u2014", "And sighs a prayer ; and Adah looks on me ,", "How should I ? As we move", "No less ! and why", "Let me , or happy or unhappy , learn", "Is yon our earth ?", "And they who guard them ?", "Which are around us ; and , as we move on ,", "Would they had snatched both 210", "Oh God ! Oh Gods ! or whatsoe'er ye are ! 110", "Here let me die : for to give birth to those"], "true_target": ["What immortal part ?", "And do not thirst to know , and bear a mind", "And some emitting sparks , and some displaying", "Which knew such things .", "A loathsome , and yet all invincible", "To know .", "But the lights fade from me fast ,", "Intoxicated with eternity", "I watched for what I thought his coming ; for", "Which made her thirst for knowledge at the risk", "What \u2018 twas which shook us all \u2014 but nothing came .", "I may be in the rest as angels are .", "No less than life \u2014 a heritage not happy ,", "Says he is something dreadful , and my mother", "Why should I speak ?", "The fruits , or neither !", "Seemed full of life even when their atmosphere", "Thou hast said , I must be 90", "Around a world where I seem nothing , with", "With luminous belts , and floating moons , which took ,", "This has not been revealed : the Tree of Life", "Wilt thou teach me all ?", "And my conceptions .", "Unworthy what I see , though my dust is ;", "Where is it ? I see nothing save a mass", "To Death \u2014 the unknown ! Methinks the Tree of Knowledge", "To Heaven , and Zillah casts hers to the earth ,", "The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden ?", "That they are beautiful in their own sphere ,", "The things I have not seen ,", "And Edens in them ?", "Sweep on in your unbounded revelry", "And so I live . Would I had never lived !", "He shut him forth from Paradise , with death", "Seem'st sorrowful ?", "Both them who sinned and sinned not , as an ill \u2014", "But he is not like", "And wilt thou tell me so ?", "A God .", "But it grows dark , and dark \u2014 the stars are gone !", "Of most innumerable lights .", "Fades to a dreary twilight \u2014 yet I see 180", "I dare not gaze on further .", "In play , till he ran roaring from my gripe .", "Been seen .", "Which are so beautiful : shall they , too , die ?", "To such , I would behold , at once , what I", "She is my sister , 330", "Name it .", "Which shone the roundest of the stars , when I", "But didst thou tempt my parents ? Lucifer . I ? Poor clay \u2014 what should I tempt them for , or how ?", "?", "And wherefore plucked ye not the tree of life ? Ye might have then defied him .", "With fear rose longing in my heart to know", "To anticipate my immortality .", "And knowledge ! My thoughts are not in this hour", "\u2018 Tis well \u2014 I rather would consort with spirits .", "Of which I have heard my parents speak , as of", "Of Death : although I know not what it is \u2014", "Must I not die ?", "Enormous vapours roll", "Spake not of this unto my father , when", "How beautiful ye are ! how beautiful", "\u2018 Tis darkness !", "They are so lovely . What is Death ? I fear ,", "This misery was mine . My father is", "Of daily toil , and constant thought : I look", "He has not yet 250", "But I will bend to neither .", "Oh God ! or Demon ! or whate'er thou art ,", "The earth yield nothing to us without sweat ;", "Ah ! didst thou tempt my mother ?", "460", "Like sunbeams onward , it grows small and smaller ,", "Are ye happy ?", "Yes \u2014", "Unequal , of deep valleys and vast mountains ;", "Abel , I 'm sick at heart ; but it will pass ;", "And as it waxes little , and then less ,", "She wrung from me , with tears , this promise ; and", "Thou art not the Lord my father worships .", "And men ? 170", "No .", "Up to the lights above us , in the azure , 280", "I thought it was a being : who could do", "Where dost thou lead me ?", "How know I what", "Tamed down ; my mother has forgot the mind 180", "And still-increasing lights ! what are ye ? what", "Your gentleness must not be harshly met :", "Which humbles me and mine .", "In visions through my thought : I never could", "Methinks is merely propagating Death , 70", "How the lights recede ! Where fly we ?", "The snake spoke truth ; it was the Tree of Knowledge ;", "Is this our Paradise ? Where are its walls ,", "In the same hour ! They plucked the tree of science", "And that the night , which makes both beautiful ,", "And all that we inherit , liable", "And Life is good ; and how can both be evil ?", "Could I but deem them happy , I would half", "He is a God .", "They say the Serpent was a spirit .", "Was plucked too soon ; and all the fruit is Death !", "So haughtily in spirit , and canst range", "The little shining fire-fly in its flight , 130", "Did they love us when they snatched from the Tree", "Through thrice a thousand generations ! never", "And must torture be immortal ?", "No , Adah ! no ;", "What do they know ?\u2014 that they are miserable .", "That which hath driven us all from Paradise ?", "I know not what thou art : I see thy power ,", "But there are spirits loftier still \u2014", "Such evil things to beings save a being ?", "I should be proud of thought", ", or know ye in your might", "Oh ! how we cleave the blue ! The stars fade from us !", "I wrestled with the lion , when a boy , 260", "Be taught the mystery of my being .", "Of an eternal curse ; my brother is", "Why , I have seen the fire-flies and fire-worms", "Beheld them from the skirts of Paradise :", "Although inferior still to my desires", "For I was made of it .", "Was withheld from us by my father 's folly ,", "\u2018 Tis better I should be so .", "Let him say on ;", "Yon small blue circle , swinging in far ether", "And unimaginable ether ! and", "With Abel on an altar .", "While that of Knowledge , by my mother 's haste ,", "Of this almighty Death , who is , it seems ,", "He speaks like 350", "Do so .", "In thunder .", "The clouds still open wide", "This until lately \u2014 but since it must be ,", "Increase their myriads .", "And Heaven 's ,", "Immortal in despite of me . I knew not", "I fain would be alone a little while .", "The very blue of the empurpled night", "Speak aught of Knowledge which I would not know ,", "With an inferior circlet purpler it still", "Like them , the features of fair earth :\u2014 instead ,", "Expansion \u2014 at which my soul aches to think \u2014", "And wore the look of worlds .", "Methinks they both , as we recede from them , 40", "Aught else but dust !", "Thou speak'st to me of things which long have swum", "The rapturous moment and the placid hour ,", "How so ?", "Instinct of life , which I abhor , as I", "And yet I fear it \u2014 fear I know not what !", "Apart \u2014 what 's this ?", "The umbrage of the walls of Eden , chequered", "A watching shepherd boy ,", "I tread on air , and sink not \u2014 yet I fear", "Shall men love the remembrance of the man", "All here seems dark and dreadful .", "And what is that ? 320", "Thy beauty and thy love \u2014 my love and joy ,", "I cannot compass : \u2018 tis denounced against us ,", "To sink .", "And wider , and make widening circles round us !", "Ah ! Thou look'st almost a god ; and \u2014\u2014", "Oh thou beautiful", "No sun \u2014 no moon \u2014 no lights innumerable \u2014", "Have heard you .", "Air , where ye roll along , as I have seen", "Be thou happy , then , alone \u2014", "To till the earth \u2014 for I had promised \u2014\u2014", "I have nought to ask .", "Ah !", "Crowd in my breast to burning , when I hear", "Of light gave way , and showed them taking shapes", "What ! is it not then new ?", "To make death hateful , save an innate clinging ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 206}, {"query": ["I am angelic : wouldst thou be as I am ?", "Said'st thou not", "In number than the dust of thy dull earth ,", "Their earliest fault in fable , and attribute", "The Conqueror has left thee . Follow me .", "Behold !", "Can crowd eternity into an hour ,", "And if he did betray you , \u2018 twas with Truth ;", "Of dust , and feel for it , and with you .", "His everlasting face , and tell him that", "Or hath destroyed in few ?", "By all .", "Ne'er the less ,", "Of past \u2014 and present , and of future worlds .", "Thou canst not", "For such companionship , I would not now", "What thou dar'st not deny ,\u2014 the history", "Believe \u2014 and sink not ! doubt \u2014 and perish ! thus", "It seem in those who will replace ye in", "To the world of phantoms , which", "Thou art my worshipper ; not worshipping", "Mortal !", "And therefore do I ask of thee , if thou", "Sate nearest it ?", "His own low failing . The snake was the snake \u2014", "Prefer an independency of torture", "Of what is visible ; and yon bright star", ", of which I am the Prince .", "Thy Sire 's maker \u2014 and the Earth 's .", "And if there should be", "It is omnipotent , and not from love ,", "Dost thou not recognise", "The other may be still .", "Are few inhabitants .", "But good .", "And power of Knowledge ?", "It may be .", "Shalt soon return to earth , and all its dust :", "His Seraphs say : but it is worth the trial ,", "No end ; and some , which would pretend to have", "Could I stand here ? His angels are within", "Then follow me !", "No other choice : your sire hath chosen already : 430", "Still fruitful ? Did I bid her pluck them not ?", "Return ! be sure : how else should Death be peopled ? 200", "Which speaks within you .", "Away , then ! on our mighty wings !", "Less than thy father 's \u2014 for he wished to know !", "And become gods as we . \u201d Were those his words ?", "Thou errest , Adah !\u2014 was not the Tree that", "Thou seekest to behold Death , and dead things ?", "Nor would : I would be aught above \u2014 beneath \u2014", "The Seraphs \u2019 love can be but ignorance :", "To the most gross and petty paltry wants ,", "It is not tranquil .", "Worthy of thought ;\u2014 \u2018 tis your immortal part", "I tell thee that the Serpent was no more", "With torture of my dooming . There will come", "Of space an equal flight , and I will show", "The cause of this all-spreading happiness", "And multiply himself in misery !", "That is a grovelling wish ,", "To a place", "One is yours already ,", "And walk the waters ; \u201d and the man shall walk", "If the blessedness", "And so it shall be ever \u2014 but we will", "By suffering .", "Where I will lead thee .", "Indefinite , Indissoluble Tyrant ;", "\u2018 Tis now beyond thee ,", "Not as thou lovest Cain .", "And fell . For what should spirits tempt them ? What", "But , if he made us \u2014 he cannot unmake :", "One who aspired to be what made thee , and", "Would not have made thee what thou art .", "Worship the word which strikes their ear , and deem 10", "But we , who see the truth , must speak it . Thy 240", "Let him crowd orb on orb : he is alone", "Of Knowledge ?", "His", "Have rolled o'er your dead ashes , and your seed 's ,", "Evil or good what is proclaimed to them", "Have faith in me , and thou shalt be", "They are the thoughts of all", "Less , in the universe , than thou in it ;", "If I were not that which I have said ,", "That he may torture :\u2014 let him ! He is great \u2014", "Gave you a father \u2014 and if he so doth ,", "Mortality", "Of thine enjoyments a sweet degradation ,", "Surmise ; for moments only and the space", "A most enervating and filthy cheat", "If I am not , enquire", "We are mighty .", "The worlds beyond thy little world , nor be", "Is but the wreck .", "Why dost thou hesitate ?", "Of thy fond parents , for their daring , proves .", "All die \u2014 there is what must survive .", "Though multiplied to animated atoms ,", "It has no shape ; but will absorb all things", "We and thy sons will try . But now , behold ! Is it not glorious ?", "So restless in his wretchedness , must still", "The dust which formed your father ?", "Evil ; and what else hath he made ? But let him", "Though man 's vast fears and little vanity", "But in his being ?", "Alas ! those tears ! Couldst thou but know what oceans will be shed \u2014\u2014 520", "No , she must not .", "Of Paradise , that spirits who pervade", "He ever granted : but let him reign on !", "Innumerable , more endurable ,", "Thou ne'er hadst bent to him who made thee ?", "Eternity \u2014 and heaven and earth \u2014 and that", "Who guard the tempting tree . When thousand ages", "The Earth , which is thine outward cov'ring , is", "By being", "Wouldst be immortal ?", "Think'st thou I 'd take the shape of things that die ?", "Believe in me , as a conditional creed", "Of the Invisible are the loveliest 500", "Fear not \u2014 without me thou", "He was hindered .", "Since the all-knowing Cherubim love least ,", "We are immortal !\u2014 nay , he 'd have us so ,", "Divided with me : Life and Death \u2014 and Time \u2014", "Would run the edict of the other God ,", "What wouldst thou think ?", "To lure thee on to the renewal of", "Did I plant things prohibited within 200", "And unparticipated solitude ;", "Because \u201c ye should not eat the fruits of life ,", "Darest thou look on Death ?", "But , in his greatness , is no happier than", "Thou hast seen both worms and worlds ,", "Ask of your sire , the exile fresh from Eden ;", "Less burthensome to his immense existence 150", "Or of his first-born son : ask your own heart ;", "In their abasement . I will have none such :", "Gods ; and even He who thrust ye forth , so thrust ye", "Of you , young mortals , lights at once upon", "In those he spake to with his forky tongue . 230", "Have stood before thee as I am : a serpent", ", all foredoomed to be", "Of mortals from that place", "Could he but crush himself , \u2018 twere the best boon", "No more than life is ; and that was ere thou", "And hadst thou not been fit by thine own soul", "His secret , and he keeps it . We must bear ,", "Couldst not have gone beyond thy world . On ! on !", "With all ! But He ! so wretched in his height ,", "He but woke one", "With all thy Tree of Knowledge .", "Show in an hour what he hath made in many ,", "Yourselves , in your resistance . Nothing can", "As populous as this : at present there", "Unfold its gates !", "To be resolved into the earth .", "Whence he shall come back to thee in an hour ;", "To me a shape I scorn , as I scorn all", "Thou dost fall down and worship me \u2014 thy Lord .", "To make that silent and expectant world", "With worms in clay ?", "His , and possess a kingdom which is not", "Fond parents listened to a creeping thing ,", "Had no beginning , have had one as mean", "Borne on the air", "Souls who dare look the Omnipotent tyrant in", "All foul and fulsome \u2014 and the very best", "Yea .", "The myriad myriads \u2014 the all-peopled earth \u2014", "Who", "Echo the sound to miserable things ,", "With us acts are exempt from time , and we", "As he saith \u2014 which I know not , nor believe \u2014", "No .", "Through thee and thine .", "The knowledge fatal to their narrow joys .", "Which shall deprive thee of a single good 560", "As thou ; and mightier things have been extinct", "Worlds greater than thine own \u2014 inhabited", "What ?", "That bear the form of earth-born being .", "Create , and re-create \u2014 perhaps he 'll make", "A wisdom in the spirit , which directs", "He who bows not to him has bowed to me .", "One day a Son unto himself \u2014 as he", "We breathe not by a mortal measurement \u2014", "Which is not heaven nor earth , but peopled with 550"], "true_target": ["A man shall say to a man , \u201c Believe in me ,", "I ask", "No ;\u2014 I have nought in common with him !", "If thou dost long for knowledge , I can satiate", "And I , who know all things , fear nothing ; see 300", "To the smooth agonies of adulation ,", "Aye , woman ! he alone 540", "To save thee ; but fly with me o'er the gulf", "Poor clay ! And thou pretendest to be wretched ! Thou !", "To right , as in the dim blue air the eye", "Thou didst before I came upon thee .", "And science still beyond them , were chained down", "Existence \u2014 it will cease \u2014 and thou wilt be \u2014", "Or stretch an hour into eternity :", "But in that hour see things of many days .", "Of which thy bosom is the germ .", "Each bright and sparkling \u2014 what dost think of them ?", "Before his sullen , sole eternity ;", "Hast thou seen him ?", "Ask Eve , your mother : bears she not the knowledge", "By greater things \u2014 and they themselves far more", "And yet thou seest .", "But changes make not death , except to clay ;", "Out of old worlds this new one in few days ? 530", "What must he be you cannot love when known ?", "All living \u2014 and all doomed to death \u2014 and wretched ,", "That", "Away , then !", "Then who was the Demon ? He", "Advance !", "Of Knowledge ? and was not the Tree of Life", "Throughout all space . Where should I dwell ? Where are", "No less than thou art now .", "Both partly : but what doth", "Yea , or things higher .", "And thou couldst not", "And thou ?", "He shall .", "Your vision .", "Mark me ! that Son will be a sacrifice !", "The proud One will not so far falsify , 220", "Since he could overcome them , and foreknew", ",", "Quench the mind , if the mind will be itself", "Enter !", "To make way for much meaner than we can 160", "Of Paradise .", "Than a mere serpent : ask the Cherubim", "We in our conflict ! Goodness would not make", "And if the higher knowledge quenches love ,", "I am none :", "Since better may not be without : there is", "It may be thou shalt be as we . 120", "and yet not less than those he tempted ,", "Yet thy God is alone ; and is he happy ? Lonely , and good ?", "Have been and must be all unchangeable .", "To what was before thee !", "But terror and self-hope .", "The unpeopled earth \u2014 and the o'erhYpppHeNpeopled Hell ,", "An hour , when , tossed upon some water-drops", "The Maker \u2014 Call him", "The reach of beings innocent , and curious", "In hymns and harpings , and self-seeking prayers ,", "Aye , upon one condition .", "What are they which dwell", "Which name thou wilt : he makes but to destroy .", "Have made ye live for ever , in the joy", "In nature being earth also \u2014 more in wisdom ,", "And heart to look on ?", "By the unbounded sympathy of all 160", "Sit next thy heart ?", "Knowing such things , aspiring to such things ,", "Creating worlds , to make eternity", "To sway .", "The phantasm of the world ; of which thy world", "Its present realm is thin to what it will be ,", "But what", "Linked to a servile mass of matter \u2014 and ,", "The star which watches , welcoming the morn .", "As I know not death ,", ", shall come back to thee ,", "And still loftier than the archangels .", "To that which is omnipotent , because", "His worship is but fear .", "Thee to be mine .", "Higher things than ye are slaves : and higher", "Souls who dare use their immortality \u2014", "Follow", "The sin I speak of is not of my making ,", "Yet it sparkles still .", "His power . I dwell apart ; but I am great :\u2014", "These are my realms ! so that I do divide", "I know the thoughts 100", "Thou'lt know here \u2014 and hereafter .", "Worship or worship not , thou shalt behold", "As I have shown thee much which cannot die ?", "Hast thou ne'er bowed", "To him ?", "Than them or ye would be so , did they not", "Thou livest \u2014 and must live for ever . Think not", "Or I were , or the things which seem to us", "That bows to him , who made things but to bend", "of the all-great and good", "Greater than either : many things will have", "And why not adore ?", "Of being that which I am ,\u2014 and thou art \u2014", "Sit on his vast and solitary throne \u2014", "What , if I show to thee things which have died ,", "And , suffering in concert , make our pangs", "That they are not compatible , the doom", "Of spirits and of men .", "Alone , thou say'st , be happy ?", "Who names me Demon to his angels ; they", "And cannot I , who aided in this work ,", "Amerced for doubts beyond thy little life ,", "Spirits and Men , at least we sympathise \u2014", "Space \u2014\u2014 but I speak to thee of what thou know'st not ,", "Was there to envy in the narrow bounds", "And Truth in its own essence cannot be", "As true .", "His evil is not good ! If he has made , 140", "Maker of life and living things ; it is", "And yet that grief is knowledge \u2014 so he lied not :", "The seed of the then world may thus array", "But by whom or what ?", "Art thou not nearer ? look back to thine earth !", "Many there are who worship me , and more", "But if that high thought were 50", "Save with the truth : was not the Tree , the Tree", "On , then , with me . Wouldst thou behold things mortal or immortal ?", "No : art thou ?", "And having failed to be one , would be nought", "The billows and be safe . I will not say , 20", "Dar'st thou behold ?", "\u2018 Tis part of thy eternity , and mine . 150", "Cain ! thou hast heard .", "Of good and evil ?", "But that 's a mystery . Cain , come on with me .", "Save what I am . He conquered ; let him reign ! 130", "Was it so in Eden ?", "But distinct . 190", "Had been enough to charm ye , as before .", "Fresh souls and bodies", "Aught save a sharer or a servant of", "Choose betwixt Love and Knowledge \u2014 since there is", "Consists in slavery \u2014 no .", "I tempt none ,", "By their own innocence ? I would have made ye", "They have deceived thee ; thou shalt live .", "That thirst ; nor ask thee to partake of fruits", "Breathe , save the erect ones ?", "And such they are .", "Who shall \u2014 be thou amongst the first .", "Point me out the site", "As frail , and few so happy \u2014\u2014", "Saith that ? It is not written so on high :", "No more ;", "Why ?", "But must be undergone .", "Are beings past , and shadows still to come .", "Look there ! 120", "I seem that which I am ;", "Is leader of the host of Heaven .", "Who would not let ye live , or he who would", "So humbly in their pride , as to sojourn", "More than thy mother , and thy sire ?", "Perhaps \u2014 but long outlive both thine and thee .", "I cannot answer .", "They say \u2014 what they must sing and say , on pain", "Those who once peopled or shall people both \u2014", "Master of spirits .", "The million millions \u2014", "That which was clay , and such thou shall behold .", "Would make him cast upon the spiritual nature", "Are everlasting .", "What is true knowledge .", "Ask the Destroyer .", "Thy God or Gods \u2014 there am I : all things are", "No , not yet ;", "Which , knowing nought beyond their shallow senses ,", "And centre of surrounding things \u2014 \u2018 tis made", "And some of us resist \u2014 and both in vain , 490", "Did not your Maker make", "But thou art clay \u2014 and canst but comprehend", "And cannot be a sin in you \u2014 whate'er", "It one day will be in your children .", "Wouldst thou have men without them ? must no reptiles", "But the symbols", "Him makes thee mine the same .", "Yet deem not that thou canst escape it ; thou"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 206}, {"query": ["I mean not", "I have too many duties towards you", "My good Lord , forgive me .", "By you and by \u201c the Ten \u201d gives peace to Venice .", "My heart bleeds for you .", "Which should be made manifest .", "With the Turk , or the powers of Italy ;", "For them , but not for us ;", "A summons to \u201c the Ten ! \u201d why so ?", "Not to feel deeply for your son .", "\u2018 Tis almost", "No doubt , are worth it .", "I am silent .", "Chosen , however reluctantly so chosen ,", "I sought not", "So far \u2014 let 's in .", "And merits all our country 's gratitude .", "Most true . I say no more ."], "true_target": ["All are not met , but I am of your thought", "And for your \u2014\u2014", "A place within the sanctuary ; but being", "They would accord some time for your repose .", "Is it your pleasure to sign the report", "To oppose them , but \u2014\u2014", "You have forgot ; it is not signed .", "Your hand , too , shakes , my Lord : allow me , thus \u2014", "I shall fulfil my office .", "The state had need of some repose .", "Thirty-four years of nearly ceaseless warfare", "I would know why .", "It must have way , my Lord :", "Let us view them : they ,", "\u2018 Tis most true ,", "Now , or postpone it till to-morrow ?", "And all your house , for past and present kindness , 30", "What , my Lord ?", "Thus the act confirmed 10"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 207}, {"query": ["I cannot break my oath .", "\u2018 Tis the knell of my poor boy ! My heart aches bitterly .", "My unhappy children !", "Of your three goodly brothers , now in earth ,", "I cannot", "Something from", "An oath from me that I would never more", "Which you have worn so long and venerably :", "Let them resume the gewgaws !", "Let them meet when they will , I shall be found", "Instead of your compliance .", ", all that history has bequeathed", "Is manifest , then you shall all be answered .", "It is your province .", "Was theirs ; but I was openly their foe : 230", "Methinks we must have sinned in some old world ,", "We find in others , Nature made our own ;", "I cannot weep \u2014 I would I could ; but if", "But the decree being rendered , I obey .", "And false , and hollow \u2014 clay from first to last ,", "This ducal ring with which I wed the waves", "By the private staircase , which conducts you towards", "Inform the Signory from me , the Doge ,", "More than my wont : it is a foible which", "Perhaps so .", "Was prejudicial to the State , the Chief", "With as we may , and least in humblest stations ,", "When I twice before reiterated", "A high crime , which I neither can deny", "With womanish impatience to return ,", "Chief of the Ten . We", "Against his Country , had he a thousand lives", "The proof is \u2014 your existence .", "This ducal cap the Diadem of earth , 80", "The Israelite and his Philistine foes . 220", "Renew this instance . I have sworn to die", "You know not \u2014\u2014", "And even to move but slowly must begin", "To mingle with my name ; that name shall be ,", "Earth and Heaven !", "Have chosen well their envoy .", ",", "Cabal in commonwealth , nor secret means", "And when we cry out against Fate , \u2018 twere well", "Accept it as \u2018 tis given \u2014 proceed .", "\u2014 So , we are slaves ,", "The exile of the disinterr\u00e9d ashes", "I dare them to the proof , the chart of what", "That answer only shows you know not Venice .", "20", "Within an hour I 'll hear you .", "To poison . \u2018 Tis perhaps as true as most", "To the point \u2014", "On the flood , in the field , or , if it must be ,", "Have served you , so have I , and I and they", "Chief of the Ten . \u201c The Ten , \u201d", "And that is five and thirty years ago ;", "I found the law ; I did not make it . Were I", "That 's new \u2014 when spared they either ? I thank them , notwithstanding .", "What ?", "All your own private fortune .", "Your husband ? 50", "Now he is mine \u2014 my broken-hearted boy !", "That you repeat the word emphatically ?", "somewhat beyond what", "This insult at the least was spared him .", "That you would have me thought , you long ere now", "Now ;", "Chief of the Ten . Reduce us not", "Has left , or is about to leave , me single .", "\u2018 Tis dubious .", "The whole Republic : when the general will", "To the State 's service , to fulfil her wishes ,", "My services have called me up those steps ,", "To fall upon you ! else they would , as erst", "For what ?", "No \u2014 I merely", "Nor should do so", "Hath ruined all by that detected letter :", "As sign of our esteem .", "For us to look beyond .", "Stir \u2014 in my train , at least . I entered here", "I could enforce for my authority ,", "In your commission ?", "Command my time , when not commanded by", "And", "I have no repose , that is , none which shall cause 40", "All our advantages are those of Fortune ; 340", "Time may restore his memory \u2014 I would hope so .", "Marina !", "Signors , if it please you ,", "Marina ! art thou willing ?", "Well I recognise", "He was my pride , my \u2014\u2014 but \u2018 tis useless now \u2014", "And if they did so , better 210", "That I have added to her diadem", "Less than their breath ; our durance upon days", "But yet subdued the World : in such a state", "I am ready to lay down my life for her ,", "Twice I demanded it , but was refused :", "Definitive and absolute !", "He speaks truth .", "To the point ! I know of old the forms of office ,", "\u2018 Tis long since she enjoyed it : may it be", "That words have ceased to shake me .", "I overlooked it yesterday : it wants", "Had I as many sons 420", "Something which is not us !", "Else \u2014\u2014", "Since aggravated errors on the part", "Heaven took from me ,", "According to my honour and my conscience \u2014", "Mar No ; thou", "I never worked by plot in Council , nor", "Obey . I had in charge , too , from the Council ,", "Not useless to that Country , I would fain", "For him .", "Striven all they dare to weigh me down : be sure ,", "Without these jealous spies upon the great .", "Elsewhere .", "Chief of the Ten . With this , then , must we", "In glory", "My last of children ! Tell him I will come .", "Now you are last ; but did the State demand", "As their son e'er can be , and I no less", "A code of mercy by comparison .", "The form has been omitted in the haste", "In such a curse as mine , provoked by such", "Can touch me more than him thou look'st on there ;", "There five and thirty years ago was I", "Say , when they will \u2014 now , even at this moment ,", "My boy ! Couldst thou but know \u2014\u2014", "Better for me .\u2014 I have seen our house dishonoured .", "Take it . Alas ! how thine own trembles ! 180", "Was this", "Nor palliate , as parent or as Duke :", "I do", "I must bear these reproaches , though they wrong me . Couldst thou but read \u2014\u2014", "Alone , come all the world around me , I", "We should remember Fortune can take nought", "All these vain ceremonies are base insults ,", "As I have years , I would have given them all ,", "I forgive this , for", "I am proud to say , would not enrich the treasury .", "I cannot comfort thee .", "It does their wisdom honour ,", "Boy ! no tears .", "In full exertion of the functions , which", "Woman , this clamorous grief of thine , I tell thee ,", "You behold me :", "Those black and bloody leaves , his heart and brain ,", "Will now retire .", "\u2018 Tis the fittest time ;", "Shall ever use that base word , with which men", "But nothing will advance ; no , not a moment . 60", "The loss of an hour 's time unto the State .", "Is that so strange ,", "And this is Hell : the best is , that it is not", "Will now descend the stairs by which I mounted 240", "Your father was my friend .\u2014 But sons and fathers !\u2014", "You have heard it .", "As old as I am , and I 'm very old ,", "They must then be fulfilled .", "All things are so to mortals ; who can read them", "She was and is : my reign has doubled realms ;", "Was not of mine , but more excuses you ,", "My son , you are feeble ; take this hand .", "You shall not", "A Sovereign should die standing . My poor boy !", "Envy the dead .", "There is a populace , perhaps , whose looks", "Such sound for his successor : happier he ,", "And happier than his father . The rash boy ,", "Were I disposed to brawl ; but , as I said ,", "Pitied ! None", "No . I", "I was publicly", "Cold to your years and services , they add", "In what a presence you pronounce these things ?", "Has he not been condemned ?", "Not eight hours , Signor ,", "I 'll", "Not for the laws alone , for those you have strained 250", "But come ; my son and I will go together \u2014 250", "Farewell ! Is there aught else ?", "And to prove that they are not ungrateful , nor", "You had so .", "I have borne so much ,", "Such pure antipathy to poisons as", "And turn him into traitor ?", "The policy , irrevocably tending", "That loathsome volume \u2014 man , and pored upon", "By the assembled \u201c Ten , \u201d and hardly now", "Not signed ? Ah , I perceive my eyes begin", "Which only ulcerate the heart the more ,", "Doge", "But I , good Signor , 240", "There are the princes of the Prince !", "I have not complained , sir .", "Will be accorded to a third request ,", "Thus much they cannot well deny .", "It means , I am more citizen than either .", "Which \u2014\u2014 but I pity thee , my poor Marina !", "Would change , for the sake of my house , the charter", "Not so : they shall await you in my chamber .", "I shrank not from him :", "Broad eminence I was invested Duke .", "\u2018 Tis done , I thank you .", "Your children live , Marina .", "And when we think we lead , we are most led ,", "I found her Queen of Ocean , and I leave her", "And the original ordinance , that man", "Three days are left you to remove from hence ,", "My child ! this is a phantasy of grief .", "Only repeat \u2014 I am ready .", "As long ere she resume her arms !", "Farewell , sirs !", "While her sea-sway has not shrunk .", "In blood , in mind , in means ; and that they know", "Am , or at least was , more than a mere duke ,", "That is not a Venetian thought , my daughter .", "He to his grave , and I to pray for mine .", "I have none from you , my child .", "Return with it to them who sent you .", "And gifted spirits , who have studied long", "May shame you ; but they dare not groan nor curse you , 260", "No .\u2014 Have you done ?", "Under such laws , Venice 400", "He must return .", "Had thousands of such citizens , and shall ,", "You behold", "No more \u2014 no more of that .", "That Council when you were a young patrician .", "Live to hear this !\u2014 the first Doge who e'er heard 230", "Else you dare not deal thus by them or me .", "Off with your arms !\u2014 That bell !", "You bore this goblet , and it is not broken .", "They", "And not alone refused , but ye exacted", "The palace with us ? Its old walls , ten times", "And no less to their courtesy .\u2014 Proceed .", "And I to answer . Chief of the Ten . What ?", "I feel athirst \u2014 will no one bring me here 290 A cup of water ? Bar . I \u2014\u2014", "Of practice against life by steel or drug .", "Or state in person what is meet ; and for", "Is he \u2014\u2014", "But not pushed hence by fellow-citizens .", "And that is \u2014 but they have not conquered yet . 90", "I thank you . If the tidings which you bring", "When he was born : those drops were ominous . 180", "Bid her enter . Poor", "\u2018 Tis some years since I learned this , long before", "True ,", "I have observed with veneration , like", "Your ducal robes must be put off ; but for 170", "Having deliberated on the state", "To the alternative of a decree ,", "But for my dignity \u2014 I hold it of", "Chief of the Ten . My Lord , if you indeed", "If we had not for many centuries", "\u2018 tis not", "Of twenty-five of the best born patricians ,", "This prattle", "By the same portals , but as citizen .", "Answer that ;", "No Prince \u2014 200", "Chief of the Ten . I have spoken . Twenty four", "The father \u2014\u2014", "The greatest as the meanest \u2014 nothing rests", "That he obey", "And lusts , and appetites , and vanities ,", "And gentle preludes to strong acts .\u2014 Go on !", "Had he but borne a little , little longer", "Be firm , my son !", "Without our act or choice as birth , so that", "Proceed , my daughter !", "No ; my seat here has been a throne till now . Marina ! let us go .", "They have no further power upon those ashes :", "He was", "Chief of the Ten . We grieve for such an answer ; but it cannot", "As Sovereign \u2014 I go out as citizen", "This prayer of yours was twice denied before", "You ever were my dearest offspring , when", "To which I am tending : when", "I trust ,"], "true_target": ["Chief of the Ten . If you would have the three days named extended ,", "Have consecrated my last moments to her .", "Foul rumours were abroad ; I have also read", "To burst , if aught of venom touches it .", "Elected , and so will I be deposed .", "Accept the homage of respect ?", "But this life having been so many years", "Signers , you may depart : what would you more ?", "Chief of the Ten . Why", "The sire 's destruction would not save the son ;", "Than should become a Sovereign 's retreat .", "Left by our fathers .", "Chief of the Ten . Hear you then the last decree ,", "I have obeyed your summons . Chief of the Ten . We come once more to urge our past request .", "Safety , and all save honour , the decrees ,", "Now , you will know me better .", "An individual , be he richest of", "Ah !", "He 's free .", "Known Loredano .", "Daughter !", "Than Jacopo 's disgrace .", "But ye have no right to reproach my length", "Am now and evermore . But we will bear it .", "Chief of the Ten . Speak !", "I must look on him once more .", "Cloak their soul 's hoarded triumph , as a fit one", "Prolongs my days to prove and chasten me ; 50", "Are evil , you may say them ; nothing further", "I do .", "The deaths of the two sons", "Lady of Lombardy ; it is a comfort", "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 .", "Not till I pass the threshold of these doors .", "Has risen to what she is \u2014 a state to rival", "Say on .", "Must sweat for his poor pittance , keeps all passions 350", "To impede the act , I must no less obey", "The people swayed by Senates .", "At Foscari , aim no less at his father ;", "I became Doge , or dreamed of such advancement .", "The malice of my foes will drive me down them .", "You have reason . I have spoken much", "With a selected giunta from the Senate", "And did not they ?", "Merely the signature . Give me the pen \u2014", "Alas !", "No doubt :", "The sacrifice of my own blood and quiet ,", "A subject , still I might find parts and portions", "Your fathers were mine enemies , as bitter", "Without a name , is alike nothing , when", "By whom ?", "The adept who pursues it : all the sins", "Of days , since every hour has been the Country 's .", "His own high dignity before his Country ;", "Daughter , know you", "I can submit to all things ,", "Now to solicit from your wisdom", "You well know", "And Bergamo no less are hers ; her realm", "What should I think of mortals ?", "Did I hear rightly ? Chief of the Ten . Need I say again ?", "Alone !", "I have said it .", "The universal heritage , to battle", "What , ho ! my servants there !", "A fable .", "Save what she gave \u2014 the rest was nakedness ,", "And now , sir , to your business .", "A duty , paramount to every duty .", "A dotage which may justify this deed", "Which , at this moment , doubly must oppress", "To judge my son ? I have administered", "And still towards Death , a thing which comes as much", "We willingly will lengthen them to eight ,", "That I had dipped the pen without effect .", "For my own part , I credit neither ; \u2018 tis", "What , wouldst thou have a renegade for husband ,", "The people ,\u2014 There 's no people , you well know it ,", "If I could have foreseen that my old age", "Sen . I", "An hour ago I should have felt it .", "Our days on seasons ; our whole being on", "The laws .", "It lies upon this heart , far lightlier , though", "What command ?", "When I received it .", "Stay ! four and twenty hours", "I !\u2014\u2014 \u2018 Tis true", "I feel too much thou hast not .", "I am , but only to these gates .\u2014 Ah !", "Already mentioned in our former congress .", "Of Rome and Carthage in their best times , when", "With which the court adjourned ; and till it meets ,", "Your years , so long devoted to your Country ,", "By land has grown by thus much in my reign ,", "Soon may be a Prince no longer .", "Inscriptions upon tombs , and yet no less", "To me all hours are like . Let them approach .", "Perhaps it is not requisite , if this 190", "Ducats , to make retirement not less splendid", "My attainted predecessor , stern Faliero \u2014", "The Prince 's urn no less than potter 's vessel .", "Chief of the Ten . Will not the Duke", "Birth , wealth , health , beauty , are her accidents ,", "For all that yet is past , as many years", "They have taken my son from me , and now aim", "Of the State 's palace , at the least retire", "The Doge will choose his own ambassador ,", "Save he who made ? or , if they can , the few", "Of your Lord renders them still more austere .", "You may be admitted .", "The bell tolls on !\u2014 let 's hence \u2014 my brain 's on fire !", "Is no more in the balance weighed with that", "I understand you ;", "No !", "Who dreaded to elect me , and have since", "Chief of the Ten . You speak in passion ,", "Were past the sense of fear . Hate on ; I care not .", "But I have other duties than a father 's ;", "The deference due even to the lightest word", "We are going ; do you fear that we shall bear", "Instead of that \u2014\u2014", "The landing-place of the canal .", "Stop !", "And call Marina ,", "She might decree .", "I will endeavour .", "Avail you aught .", "Ye will reverberate this peal ; and I", "Son Jacopo ,", "I never thought to be divorced except", "Applying poisons there as antidotes .", "It could avail thee ! but no less thou hast it .", "What ! have they met again , and met without", "Concerns your husband , and if not \u2014\u2014 Well , Signor ,", "And their desponding shades came flitting round", "An appanage of twenty hundred golden 30", "Loaded with marble , than the thoughts which press it", "Such rank as is permitted , or the meanest , 410", "So rashly ? \u2018 twill give scandal .", "I have observed the strictest reverence ;", "Who bears it ?", "At my too long worn diadem and ring .", "A face I know not .\u2014 Senator ! your name ,", "Under the penalty to see confiscated", "Chief of the Ten . What ! thus in public ?", "Where Hunger swallows all in one low want ,", "That they can comfort me .", "\u2018 Tis said that our Venetian crystal has", "The gems of Brescia and Ravenna ; Crema", "A word of mine had set such spirits to work", "To one great end , must be maintained in vigour .", "Or a Prince 's son .", "My daughter !", "Better for him he never had been born ;", "Upon our will ; the will itself no less", "Depends upon a straw than on a storm ; 360", "That can ne'er be . And whither would you fly ?", "They work by different means to the same end ,", "Have judged it fitting , with all reverence ,", "The last !\u2014 my boy !\u2014 the last time I shall see", "Of the Republic never would have shown 180", "Chief of the Ten . You are no longer Doge ; you are released", "Such power I do believe there might exist", "As would have made you nothing . But in all things", "We ?", "My Country called me here to exercise ,", "Would it were so !", "Where I should be , and what I have been ever .", "You need not school me , Signor ; I sate in", "If they be good , say on ; you need not fear", "Nor crushed as yet \u2014 I live .", "A talisman to still them \u2014 I 'd give all", "To sovereignty \u2014 the Giants \u2019 Stairs , on whose", "You , by your garb , Chief of the Forty !", "You hear , she speaks wildly .", "You know not what you say .", "Even then I was not young .", "I trust , have still such , Venice were no city .", "Exile , or chains , or whatsoever worse", "As it , alas ! has been , to ostracism ,", "They were more numerous , nor can be less so 110", "Charge me with such a breach of faith .", "Save with their hearts and eyes .", "And , in reward , the gratitude of Venice", "Most fit for such an hour as this .", "But learn a magic which recoils upon", "Indeed all you have said . I better bore", "My wish to abdicate , it was refused me : 40", "Chief of the Ten . Yet go not forth so quickly .", "Fit for amendment ; but as Prince , I never", "My country faithfully \u2014 victoriously \u2014 370", "If \u2018 twas so , I can", "Providence", "The Doge ; it may be also from a parent .", "In deeds , and days , and sway , and , let me add ,", "Aloof , save fear of famine ! All is low ,", "The State .", "You have heard me .Chief of the Ten . With all due reverence we retire .", "Our Fame is in men 's breath , our lives upon", "So die than live on lingeringly in pain .", "A corse \u2014 a corse , it might be , fighting for them \u2014", "You shall be so ;", "Installed , and traversed these same halls , from which", "Return to those who sent us ?", "True ; but in freedom , 210", "Could tell a tale ; but I invoke them not", "Your sires were mine , and you are heir in all things . 220", "Give it way : 70", "My time is hers .", "ACT III .", "That last clause ,", "Inasmuch as it shows , that I approach", "And how then shall we judge each other ,", "He !\u2014 but admit him .", "Apprising me ?", "Each white hair on this head were a young life ,", "In all her mystery . Hear me \u2014 they who aim", "I am not given to tears , but wept for joy", "As you ; but I curse not . Adieu , good Signers !", "That falls from those who rule in Venice .", "Before or since that period , had I held you", "While he lived , he was theirs , as fits a subject \u2014", "An idle legend .", "May the next Duke be better than the present !", "Will alter nothing which I have to say .", "Observ'st , obey'st such laws as make old Draco 's", "So far take on myself , as order that", "I am old , sir ,", "Not without feeling , but I would have given them", "To wax more weak with age . I did not see", "That you would fix an hour for their reunion .", "Of yours , although the law does not , nor will .", "The resignation of the ducal ring ,", "Your grief distracts you .", "And he is in his shroud !", "Of the Republic , and the o'erwhelming cares 20", "And here my staff : thus propped will I go forth . Chief of the Ten . It must not be \u2014 the people will perceive it .", "Your services , the State allots the appanage", "You have no cause , being what I am ; but were I", "For me , Signor ?", "Then say", "The health , the pride , and welfare of the State .", "Your fathers were my foes , and I have heard", "I am what you behold .", "I see the man \u2014 what mean'st thou ?", "To move betimes . Methinks I see amongst you", "Hours are accorded you to give an answer .", "Then it is false , or you are true .", "What you decree \u2014 decree .", "I take yours , Loredano , from the hand", "I spoke not to you , but to Loredano . He understands me .", "Get thee ready , we must mourn", "I shall not need so many seconds .", "These white hairs !", "Perhaps so ;", "The sound ! I heard it once , but once before ,", "Eternal .", "As I have laid down dearer things than life :", "A priest 's for the High Altar , even unto", "The pillars of stone Dagon 's temple on", "Chief of the Ten . Your answer , Duke !", "Alas ! how should you ? she knows not herself ,", "From your imperial oath as Sovereign ;", "My only answer .", "Child \u2014 child \u2014\u2014", "The state would not dispense me from those duties ;", "Of things you know not : but the treaty 's signed ;", "Pomp is for Princes \u2014 I am none !\u2014 That 's false ,", "Go and obey our Country 's will :", "Bear hence the body .", "His Candiote exile , I had hopes \u2014 he has quenched them \u2014 100", "Himself so far ungrateful , as to place", "If it so please them : I am the State 's servant .", "Are bent upon this rash abandonment", "Not even eight minutes \u2014 there 's the ducal ring , 190", "At so much price as to require your absence ,", "As far as I have borne it , what it was 150", "Would", "Their epitaph , attributing their deaths", "What mean you ?", "Who are all earth , and I , who am called upon", "Daughter , it is superfluous ; I have long"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 207}, {"query": ["Of the realm , while his age permitted him", "Chief of the Ten . If it be so , at least his obsequies 310", "The illustrious lady Foscari", "The noble dame Marina craves an audience .", "\u201c The Ten . \u201d", "His rank and his devotion to the duties", "My Lord ,", "With the illustrious lady his son 's widow .", "To do himself and them full justice . Brethren ,", "But add , that if another hour would better", "Accord with your will , they will make it theirs ."], "true_target": ["To the chamber where the body lies .", "This instant retired hence ,", "Noble Loredano .", "Shall be such as befits his name and nation ,", "My Lord , the deputation is in waiting ;", "Prince !", "A message from", "He shall be informed .", "Say , shall it not be so ?", "\u2018 Tis all over .", "Requests an audience ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 207}, {"query": ["Too much", "A moment , as the Eternal Fire , ere long ,", "Then leave them .", "\u2018 Tis revoked .", "From him or such as he is .", "\u2018 Tis ye who are all traitors , Tyrant !\u2014 ye !", "To good , depress thee thus ?", "That 's false !", "Unjust , and \u2014\u2014", "But for the poor children", "My best belov\u00e9d !", "I fear , by the prevention of the state 's", "And him to whose good offices you owe", "Doubtless , as your nice feelings would prescribe ,", "Most readily .", "No more than woman 's tears , that they should shake you .", "Of destinies : each day secures him more", "The interview of husband and of wife ,", "There .", "I say he 's innocent ! And were he not so ,", "Touch it not , Foscari ; \u2018 twill sting you . Signor ,", "Were no more than the feelings long extinguished", "Those tears , or add my own . I could weep now , 420", "In the earth ?", "To back his suit . Dishonoured !\u2014 he dishonoured !", "Had been so !", "The body bleeds in presence of the assassin .", "And not so hopelessly . This love of thine", "Pleasure ! what a word", "You came here to enjoy a heartless triumph", "Doge , look there !", "He said not which . I would that you could bear", "Of leaves and most mature of fruits , and there", "I will divide this with you . Let us think", "That word again ?", "They tortured from him . This", "Pity my husband , or I cast it from me ;", "Not he alone , but all who dwell here , could", "In their accurs\u00e9d bosoms .", "the coasts", "And thus far I am also the State 's debtor ,", "Their sire was a mere hunted outlaw . Well , 370", "They should , I will fly with him .", "My God ! My God !", "I thought you had no tears \u2014 you hoarded them", "That he is known .", "Of the familiar 's torch , which seems akin", "Knew sunbeam , and the sallow sullen glare", "I do \u2014 I do \u2014 and so should you , methinks \u2014", "A cell so far below the water 's level ,", "And how feel you ?", "And I must live !", "Of our departure from this much-loved city ,", "No \u2014 no , he is not dead ;", "Their sting is honester .", "Aught in its favour , who would praise like thee ?", "Has been anticipated : it is known .", "None rebels except subjects ? The Prince who", "Hold thy peace , old man ! I am no daughter now \u2014 thou hast no son . Oh , Foscari !", "Men : howsoever let him have my thanks", "Doge", "Inhibited ?", "Those maxims for your mass of scared mechanics , 300", "Chamber of state , her gratitude allots you .", "From those Venetians who have skirred", "This means that you are more a Doge than father .", "I have some sons , sir ,", "I know it ,", "To whom your midnight carryings off and drownings ,", "A shrine . Get thee back to thy place of torment !", "To freeze their young blood in its natural current .", "Groaned under the stern Oligarchs .", "That 's false ! A truer , nobler , trustier heart ,", "What ?", "Who obtained that justice ?", "Bowed down by such oppression ; yes , I thought", "However you \u2014 and you \u2014 and most of all , 380", "Shall be exposed with wonted pomp , and followed", ",", "And these vile damps , too , and yon thick green wave", "They are his weapons , not his armour , for", "I thought I could have borne it , when I saw him", "Then , father , 280 Surely you can obtain or grant me thus much :", "The latter \u2014 like yourselves ; and can face both .", "That I would rather look upon his corse", "For the only boon I would have asked or taken", "To attend my husband for a limited number", "A brigand than the robber-chief .", "Of Egypt and her neighbour Araby :", "On earth to bear .", "Be it to the earth 's end , from this abhorred ,", "Foscari ; now let us go , and leave this felon ,", "I 've heard of widows \u2019 tears \u2014", "In pain , in peril , or in death \u2014 who are ,", "That these are demons : could it be else that", "Depart . Ah ! now you look as looked my husband !", "But \u2014 I can leave them , children as they are ,", "Cannot comply with your request . His relics 350", "And", "Even if I were of fearful nature , which", "To make a pageant over what you trampled . 330", "By thunder blasted :", "Is Passion , and not Patriotism ; for me ,", "Our bridal bed is now his bier , 110", "Purpose , with idle and superfluous pomp ,", "Will reach it always . See how he shrinks from me !", "Thy life is safe .", "The dungeon gloom is deep enough without you ,", "To shame him , and they cannot shame him now .", "To teach you to be less a child . From this", "Our purposes so readily .", "You talk wildly , and 300", "Which I prepared to pass with Foscari ,", "No \u2014 no \u2014 no more of that : even they relent", "He might have lived ,", "The last , were all men 's merits well rewarded .", "Will one day thank you better .", "For such a son \u2014 thou cold inveterate hater !", "And feel it nothing .", "His grace for your enormous guilt .", "May the worm which never dieth feed upon them !", "The sole fit habitant of such a cell ,", "Touch it not , dungeon miscreants ! your base office", "No , \u2018 twas too human . May I share his exile ?", "And can I not go with him ?", "Until they are useless ; but weep on ! he never", "Aye , they are fatherless , I thank you .", "With Loredano mourning like an heir .", "Oh !", "Dost thou see this ?", "Men and Angels ! 240", "What hast thou done ?", "But he , who , had he been enough protected , 90", "Of this wide realm , of which thy sire is Prince .", "Sirs , I am ready .", "In the State 's service , I have still my dowry ,", "With one foot in the grave , with dim eyes , strange", "Your \u201c Bridge of Sighs , \u201d your strangling chamber , and", "He is none !", "Till he himself shall brood in it alone .", "Must I then retire ?", "No \u2014 not here .", "Your privacy .", "O'er those they slew .", "These are things we cannot judge", "Which shall be consecrated to his rites ,", "The holiest tie beneath the Heavens !\u2014 Oh God !", "I speak of thee !", "With him . Then what have I to fear from you ,", "You were the last to bear it .", "I have ventured , father , on", "The hangman shrinks from , as all men from him !", "And I will find an hour to wipe away", "Imprisonment and actual torture ?", "Before that horrible tribunal . Would he", "Is none but guilt so ?", "Oh , God !\u2014 My Foscari , how fare you ?", "For your oppressors .", "Come with me !", "But would not gratify yon wretch so far .", "Which , as compared with what you have undergone", "No hand of ours would stretch itself to meet it .", "Accept the tardy penitence of demons .", "Are you , then ,", "Let him partake it !", "For what he suffers , not for what he did .", "Wretch ! \u2018 tis no virtue , but the policy", "I would that they beheld their father in", "You know it well ,", "Though last , not least , thy silence ! Couldst thou say", "Chief of the Ten . Best retain it for your children .", "Be ignorant of each other , yet I will", "Which you have made a Prince 's son \u2014 my husband ;", "They live , they 'll make you soldiers , senators ,", "Last council on thy doom .", "I would not cavil about climes or regions .", "I will be with thee .", "In all things painful . If they 're sick , they will", "And the apparel of the grave .", "Oh , no doubt !", "And your son .", "And no permission had been given in writing ,", "Venetian", "Their antique energy of mind , all that", "Hope not ?", "But the tomb last of all , for there we shall", "I have seen him pass through such an ordeal as", "To me it seems the worst barbarity .", "To Syria , Egypt , to the Ottoman \u2014 380", "No less than Master ; I have probed his soul", "Chief of the Ten . We", "You feel it then at last \u2014 you !\u2014 Where is now", "To be Venetian .", "But oppresses 280", "Farewell ! at least to this detested dungeon ,", "No more .", "Strange to thy heart \u2014 how came it on thy lips ?", "Your dungeons next the palace roofs , or under", "For that thought now . Would I were in his grave !", "I have sued to accompany thee hence , 140", "This crowd of palaces and prisons is not", "They ,", "From that atrocity .", "It may be so ; and who hath made us mad ?", "In human breasts . Alas ! Will nothing calm you ?", "Grief is fantastical , and loves the dead ,", "What !", "To scatter o'er his kind as he thinks fit ;", "Aye , weep on !", "Austere ? Atrocious ! The old human fiends ,", "A moment 's access to his dungeon .", "A place which would not mingle fear with love ,", "My children ! true \u2014 they live , and I must live", "I have heard of murderers , who have interred", "Do as they have done by yours , and you yourself \u2014", "Your exile as he bears it .", "More than in years ; and mine , which is as old", "A Paradise ; its first inhabitants", "With less he surely might be saved .", "By duties paramount ; and \u2018 tis our first", "Would raise us from the gulf wherein we are plunged , 430", "Or were , at least in seeming , human , could", "Yes ; all things which conduce to other men 's", "Neglects or violates his trust is more 390", "I know not , reck not \u2014", "We say the \u201c generous steed \u201d to express the purity 290", "Let me seek out my husband : the sage \u201c Ten , \u201d", "To teach you not to shrink now from a lot ,", "As my poor Foscari ? Nothing was wanting", "I have informed him , not so gently , 260", "Remained of Rome for their inheritance ,", "So far with a weak woman as deny me", "It is too much to have survived the first .", "To me to bury and to mourn ; but if", "Will not be suffered to proceed with us .", "Be left to me to tend them ; should they die , 390", "And everywhere .", "Their victims ; but ne'er heard , until this hour ,", "And masked nobility , your sbirri , and", "Endeavour \u2014\u2014 Oh , my husband !", "Away ! Let me support him \u2014 my best love ! Oh , God ! How faintly beats this heart \u2014 this pulse !", "ACT IV .", "Is far the worst of treasons . Dost thou deem", "Is our own blood and kin to shrink from us", "What is this to the things thou hast borne in silence \u2014", "Indeed , thus to be pitied ?", "Cannot assist his father .", "Here , or in the ducal chamber \u2014", "Not wisely , yet not wildly .", "The Country is the traitress , which thrusts forth", "His name shall be her foulest , worst reproach ,", "I 've heard of heirs in sables \u2014 you have left none", "Oppressed but not disgraced , crushed , overwhelmed , 160", "Abhorrent policy ,", "That were too human , also . But it was not", "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 ?", "Ere he depart ? It may be the last time .", "Mothers , and wives , and sons , and sires , and subjects ,", "Of so much splendour in hypocrisy", "Should I behold this sympathy ? or shall ?", "Your spies , your galley and your other slaves ,", "And what of him ? 70", "A few brief words of truth shame the Devil 's servants", "It is my last of duties , and may prove 340", "As spy upon us , or as hostage for us ?", "The indulgence of your colleagues ; but he knew it .", "Chief of the Ten . Do you", "Of his high blood . Thus much I 've learnt , although", "Leave him to me ; you would have done so for", "As far as touches torturing the living .", "And hoard our groans \u2014 to gaze upon the wreck", "And he but live , for him the very worst 320", "I have sons , who shall be men .", "My Lord , if I intrude \u2014", "Aye , he may veil beneath a marble brow", "Her best and bravest from her . Tyranny", "Here !", "Would stifle Nature 's !", "In fatal moments ?", "To me my husband and my children were", "Oh , the tyrants ! In such an hour too !", "The Stoic of the State ?", "Pass on .", "I trust I am not ?", "To darkness more than light , by lending to"], "true_target": ["And your son ,\u2014 how long will he live ?", "What pangs are those they have spared you ?", "Of such . Well , sirs , your will be done ! as one day ,", "Ah ! I thought it would be so .", "Country and home . I loved him \u2014 how I loved him !", "And sneering lip the pang , but he partakes it . 310", "Might have repaid protection in this moment ,", "Did you but love your Country like this victim", "And if it do , it will not 120", "Chief of the Ten . Lady , we revoke not", "Slaves , exiles \u2014 what you will ; or if they are", "The water 's level ;", "Another land , and who so blest and blessing", "Who totters back in chains to tortures , and", "My husband ! let us on : this but prolongs", "To be sued to in vain \u2014 to mark our tears ,", "Our children will be cared for by the Doge ,", "Aye ,", "More loving , or more loyal , never beat", "As more generous !", "Had better now be seated , nor as yet", "Come , come , old man !", "So formed for gentle privacy of life ,", "\u2018 Tis 50", "Thank God ! At least they will not drag him more", "To let him know", "They 'll torture him again ; and he and I", "Ends with his life , and goes not beyond murder ,", "Chief of the Ten . Know you , Lady ,", "Obey her , then : \u2018 tis she that puts thee forth .", "I know his fate may one day be their heritage ,", "That you", "\u2018 Tis not upon thy brow ,", "Sending its pestilence through every crevice ,", "your mysterious meetings ,", "Pity thy son ! Thou pity !\u2014 \u2018 tis a word", "You , who abet them ?", "And here ?", "Behold the State 's care for its sons and mothers !", "Blush to find ancestors , who would have blushed", "So I be left with him .", "Nobler !", "Were he a peasant :\u2014 well , then , you 're a Prince ,", "Of hours .", "Were barrenness in Venice ! Would my mother", "As I had been without it . Couldst thou see here ?", "and this", "Are you content ? 330", "Pretend still to this office ?", "His dregs of life , which you have kindly shortened :", "Doge", "Held in the bondage of ten bald-heads ; and", "To exile ?", "Alive , or dead , for Prince or Paladin", "The presence that should silence my free thoughts ?", "And after that , what are a woman 's words ? 130", "He 's busy , look , About the business you provided for him . Are ye content ?", "How have you sped ? We are wretched , Signor , as", "As palsied as their hearts are hard , they counsel ,", "I tell thee , Doge , \u2018 tis Venice is dishonoured ;", "As died their father . Oh ! what best of blessings 210", "Upon their knees , perhaps have mourned above them \u2014", "Return to Candia .", "Nothing more easy . He partakes it now \u2014", "The retribution of his wrongs !\u2014 Well , well !", "Even by your murderous laws . Leave his remains 200", "Learn you to sway your feelings , when exacted 200", "Yes , light us on , as to a funeral pyre ,", "On earth .", "Let them flow on : he wept not on the rack", "Their hands in sacred vows \u2014 have danced their babes 120", "To man thyself , I trust , with time , to master", "With death , and chains , and exile in his hand ,", "Have nought to give but tears ! But could I compass", "As Doge , but simply as a senator .", "Yes \u2014 with many a pang !", "Will quickly clear the harbour .", "Our sorrow .", "Yes ; worse he could not .", "Nor would be", "The old martyrs would have shrunk from : he is gone ,", "Alive to love , are yet awake to terror ;", "The rack , the grave , all \u2014 any thing with thee , 40", "May they thrive with him", "Stand off ! be sure , that if a grasp of yours", "Men , who have been of women born and suckled \u2014", ",", "Created by degrees an ocean Rome ;", "I do , Signor .", "To the deceased , so you would act the part 360", "And you , Signor ?", "The beings of another and worse world !", "And unknown dooms , and sudden executions ,", "Your merchants , your Dalmatian and Greek slaves ,", "I come to tell thee the result of their", "To Foscari from his father ?", "And full of reptiles , not less loathsome , though", "But let it only be their heritage ,", "Did they make it for", "It galls you :\u2014 well , you are his equal , as 290", "Unto their home by the new Doge , not clad", "My exiled , persecuted , mangled husband ,", "Alas ! and this", "The Country and the People whom he loved ,", "The fate of myriads more .", "Of those who fain must deal perforce with vice :", "Again ! still , Marina .", "Caution !", "Will you not now resent it ?\u2014 Oh , for vengeance !", ",", "The dungeon vapours its bituminous smoke ,", "Rather say ,", "Share that \u2014 all things except new separation ;", "And not his honour .", "A dreary comfort in my desolation .", "So I could see thee with a quiet aspect ,", "And yet you see how , from their banishment 150", "And shall an evil , which so often leads", "By some strange destiny , to him proved deadly . 80", "And those of \u2014\u2014", "Ah ! the Devil come to insult the dead ! Avaunt !", "Have known and proved your worst , in the infernal", "A princely funeral will be your reproach ,", "And by my uncles ; we must sail ere night . 220", "Submits to all things rather than to exile , 170", "The groans of slaves in chains , and men in dungeons ,", "The mind should make its own !", "Small dungeon is all that belongs to thee", "They have fed well , slept soft , and knew not that", "From tyrannous injustice , and enough", "You have seen your son 's blood flow , and your flesh shook not ;", "And now , when he can neither know these honours ,", "Keep", "It was the lot of millions , and must be", "Shall weep more \u2014 never , never more .", "And I , who would have given my blood for him , 100", "That is true ,", "We 'll part", "I wished to speak to you of him .", "Change their hearts , or your lot : the galley 's oars", "Might strike them : this is not their atmosphere ,", "Were wretched exiles .", "To use for the decrees of \u2014\u2014", "Your tributaries , your dumb citizens ,", "Resemble that you exercise on earth .", "Though his possessions have been all consumed", "And \u2014\u2014", "Incarnate Lucifer ! \u2018 tis holy ground .", "And Foscari ? I do not think of such things ,", "Females with portions , brides and bribes for nobles !", "Came you here to insult us , or remain", "And what shall I say", "Floating on the free waves \u2014 away \u2014 away \u2014", "I care not for his frowns ! We can but die ,", "Cabal , and put men 's lives out , as if Life", "His tempter 's .", "Why do I ask ? Thy paleness \u2014\u2014", "consigned to powers which may", "\u201c The Ten . \u201d \u2014 When we had reached \u201c the Bridge of Sighs , \u201d", "As such I recommend it , as I would 350", "The dungeon walls must still divide us .", "But they have crushed .", "With all its jealousy , will hardly war 430", "And scanty hairs , and shaking hands , and heads", "The ruin of their children ?", "Alas ! I have shed some \u2014 always thanks to you !", "And why not say as soon the \u201c generous man ? \u201d", "To bring them up to serve the State , and die", "Of him thou canst not , or thou wilt not save ,", "Unto his happiness and mine save not", "How ?", "Wherefore not ?", "I was thrust back , with the assurance that 60", "May breathe it without prejudice .", "If you come for our thanks , take them , and hence !", "And if they do , Heaven will not", "That tenderness", "Which floats above the place where we now stand \u2014", "For an ungrateful and tyrannic soil", "I have pierced him to the core of his cold heart .", "In story or in fable , with a world", "No , not thine eyes \u2014 they sparkle \u2014 how they sparkle !", "Perhaps you fain would be alone ?", "The gloomy guardian of that passage first", "Your plots could make , and vengeance could desire us ,", "\u201c The Ten ; \u201d \u2014 but as the Court no longer sate ,", "May be pure patriotism . I am a woman :", "Fear not : that 's reserved 170", "From his high place , with such relentless coldness ;", "Which cloud whate'er we gaze on , even thine eyes \u2014", "Thus leave me .", "Process of my poor husband ! Treat me as", "And I \u2014\u2014", "A martyr 's ashes now lie there , which make it 220", "Though", "Doge", "It could not save , but will support you ever .", "You banished from his palace and tore down", "I thought the dead had been beyond even you ,", "Of cold looks upon manifold griefs ! You came", "Come , Foscari , take the hand the altar gave you ;", "Of late , is mercy .", "110", "To those who know to honour them .", "There 's death in that damp , clammy grasp .", "Accurs\u00e9d be the city where the laws", "And not their present fee . Their senses , though", "Nor would accept them if he could , you , Signors ,", "Nor in thine eyes , nor in thine acts ,\u2014 where then 140", "I thought they had been mine .", "You will .", "The Prince of whom he was the elder born ,", "A princely noble ; and what then am I ?", "Until that high tribunal reassembled", "To one whose foot was on an adder 's path .", "Signers , your pardon : this is mockery . 320", "I trust , Heaven 's will be done too !", "You shall be so no more \u2014 I will go with thee .", "The gloom of this eternal cell , which never", "A sufferer , but not a loud one : why", "Wish you more funerals ?", "Such useless passion . Until now thou wert", "And nothing more ? Will you not see him", "We will , and for the sake of those who are ,", "Look not so stern \u2014 but get you back , and pore", "Your torturing instruments , have made ye seem 310", "And shall be more so when I see us both", "All ! the consummate fiends ! A thousandfold", "A moment since , while yet it had a soul ,", "So loving , so beloved ; the native of", "With a last look upon our misery ?", "And that 's a mystery .", "Imperfect happiness or high ambition ,", "Here 's my arm !", "You think ; but that you are not , nor would be ,", "Lo ! there is the blood beginning 240", "As worthiest \u2014 you , sir , noble Loredano !", "A Prince 's and his subject 's .", "Before the Tartar into these salt isles ,", "But think so , to my mind the happiest doom ,", "Ye treated him :\u2014 you did so , in so dealing", "Juggle no more with that poor remnant , which ,", "I know the former better than yourselves ;", "Any where , where we might respire unfettered ,", "Desire , were to escape from such a land .", "My husband !", "Which he has peopled often , but ne'er fitly", "And if", "In part your past imprisonment .", "To tears save drops of dotage , with long white", "In short , to trample on the fallen \u2014 an office 330", "Let us proceed . Doge , lead the way .", "They will relieve his heart \u2014 that too kind heart \u2014", "If race be aught , it is in qualities", "Within a human breast . I would not change", "So much !\u2014 no more .", "They feel not , but no less are shivered . Come ,", "Ah , he is dying !", "So I thought !", "How dost thou ? How are those worn limbs ? Alas !", "To one as noble . What , or whose , then , is", "Keep such for them : I fear ye not . I know ye ;", "To edicts of inquisitors of state .", "That is ,", "And the sweet freedom of the earth and air ,", "As yours , is better in its product , nay \u2014", "Than his prolonged captivity :\u2014 I am punished", "Accumulated ! 230", "And wish you this with me beside you ?", "To flow through the dead lips of Foscari \u2014", "The blood of myriads reeking up to Heaven ,", "Till it meets ! and when it meets ,", "You 'd fling yourselves before him , and implore", "And wedded", "Must purchase by renewal of the rack", "And this is Patriotism ?", "Upon your genealogic tree 's most green 300", "To whom ye speak , and perils of such speech ?", "See you not , he comes here to glut his hate", "Demurred : a messenger was sent back to", "And live nor girt by spies , nor liable", "There must be life yet in that heart \u2014 he could not", "I had obtained permission from \u201c the Ten \u201d", "Who have loved , or talked at least of Love \u2014 have given", "No , ye only make them ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 207}, {"query": ["Than calling it at moments back to this .", "We sought the Doge .", "In their accelerated graves , nor will 330", "We have decided .", "If they were from his heart , he may be thankful :", "Ago to Carmagnuola .", "The hour approaches , and the wind is fair .", "In Canea \u2014 afterwards the freedom of", "Their thoughts , their objects , have been sounded , do not", "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 that is vengeance .", "The busy have no time for tears .", "Of Carmagnuola , eight months ere he died ;", "They are the State 's .", "The present Duke is Paschal Malipiero .", "We must be speedy : let us call together", "I will be legislator in this business .", "What laws ?\u2014 \u201c The Ten \u201d are laws ; and if they were not ,", "That he has paid me !Chief of the Ten . What debt did he owe you ? 370", "The time narrows , Signor . 410", "Have made it law \u2014 who shall oppose that law ?", "And be thou fixed in purpose for this once .", "Till Foscari fills his . Each night I see them", "\u2018 Twill be full soon , and may be closed for ever !", "His dignity is looked to , his estate", "Subject !", "Neither are of my office , noble Lady !", "To grant it the third time .", "Because his son is dead ?", "\u2018 Tis decreed , 260", "In Venice had to dread a Doge 's frown ,", "Is dead ; so is young Foscari and his brethren \u2014", "That they have power to act at their discretion ,", "Even ag\u00e9d men , be , or appear to be ,", "and \u201c the Ten \u201d", "His fourscore years and five may linger on", "Where ?", "Cared for \u2014 what would he more ?", "As much of ceremony as you will ,", "One who wars not with women .", "Because we have waited long enough , and he", "As they are offered .", "The feelings", "A start of feeling in his dungeon , never", "Hark ! 280", "The ducal palace , marshal me to vengeance .", "In early life its foe , but in his manhood ,", "To private havoc , such as between him 320", "Age has no heart to break .", "For his inauguration .", "You talk unwarily . \u2018 Twere best they hear not", "Stalk frowning round my couch , and , pointing towards", "We have higher business for our own . This day", "Yes ,", "For life .", "This from you .", "An atom of their ancestors from earth .", "As the first of his son 's last banishment , 20", "Learnt but in eighty years . Brave Carmagnuola", "Why so ?", "A year 's imprisonment", "Kind to relieve him from the cares of State .", "Of the tribunal .", "And sail in the same galley which conveyed him . 270", "And so he seemed not long", "\u201c That he in truth had passed a night of vigil ,", "I 'll take their voices on it ne'ertheless ,", "In which \u201d", "\u2018 Tis not the first time", "If we should measure forth the cities taken", "With or without the presence of the Doge .", "More soundly .", "My sire and uncle \u2014 I consent . Men may ,", "In my mind half so natural as theirs .", "Take mine .", "Sires of a hundred sons , but cannot kindle", "No doubt : yet most men like to live their days out .", "His son , and the whole race of Foscaris .", "That is , by open means .", "Let him call up into life", "\u2018 Tis not for me to anticipate the pleasure", "They owe me still my father 's and my uncle 's .", "As I said , suddenly .", "Being", "True , in my father 's time ; I have heard him and", "Yet \u2018 twas important .", "In battle : the rewards are equal . Now ,", "Denounced of retribution from all time ;", "\u201c There often has been question about you . \u201d", "With deadly cozenage , eight long months beforehand \u2014", "So that the thing be done . You may , for aught", "It was not named .", "No .", "He was the safeguard of the city .", "My dabbling in vile drugs .", "You may know him better .", "The thing 's decreed . The Giunta", "I never smiled on them .", "\u2018 Twas true ; the question was the death resolved", "To await their coming here , and join them in", "The impression of his former instances :", "The virtue which this noble lady most", "May practise , she doth well to recommend it .", "Let the fair dame preserve", "Doge ! have you aught in answer ?", "They wished to spare your feelings ,", "Your Highness may remember them ; they both", "And see whose most may sway them , yours or mine .", "I used no poison , bribed no subtle master", "As rocks .", "To him who took a city : and they gave", "Than to the threshold , saving such as pass", "Shorten the path to the eternal cure .", "The public benefit ; and what the State", "I care , depute the Council on their knees ,", "I have \u2014 and had a father . 270", "That they have mortal foes .", "The Grave knows best : they died ,", "What ! Do you regret a traitor ?", "The Council 's resolution .", "As how ?", "The Admiral , his brother , say as much .", "See , the Duke comes !", "The Romans", "You best know if I should be so .", "Dreaded to have its acts beheld by others .", "So far from strange , that never was there death", "As long as he can drag them : \u2018 tis his throne", "Of private passion may not interrupt", "Demanding whether he should augur him", "He receives them", "And men of eighty", "Announce \u201c the Ten 's \u201d decree .", "And make him null .", "Its solitude , and nothing more diverts it"], "true_target": ["Between the Duke and me on the State 's service .", "And all will prosper .", "Say rather", "To have the courtesy to abdicate .", "To-morrow for a natural accident .", ",", "Your answer , Francis Foscari !", "Of the destructive art of healing , to", "I fear not .", "Its saviour first , then victim .", "Eight months of such hypocrisy as is", "Bid to his Dukedom .", "He has seen his son 's half broken , and , except", "There is none , I tell you , 40", "Where go you , sirrah ?", "The better reason", "\u2018 Twas his own wish that all should be done promptly . 120", "To nurse them wisely . Foscari \u2014 you know", "My sires by violent and mysterious maladies . 280", "to beg him", "I never yet knew that a noble 's life", "Why , what should change me ?", "And bow me to the Duke .", "Lived longer than enough . Hence ! in to council !", "As you please \u2014", "The offspring of a noble house .", "The act was passing , it might have suspended", "Their office : they 'll be here soon after us .", "A crown to him who saved a citizen", "The whole isle .", "You talk but idly .", "You do well 270", "You have consented to", "His sons \u2014 and he had four \u2014 are dead , without", "Come , they are met by this time ; let us join them ,", "Our powers are such .", "I kiss the hands of the illustrious Lady ,", "Saint Mark 's great bell is soon about to toll", "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 ?", "The Question , or continuance of the trial ,", "My mission here is to the Doge .", "Which only tends to show how stubborn guilt is ,", "Which leads me here .", "Destroyed by him , or through him , the account", "In his own portion of the palace , with", "They sleep not", "Your sentence , then ?", "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 .", "\u201c The Ten \u201d in council .", "Shall be the last of the old Doge 's reign ,", "\u2018 Twas fit that some one of such different thoughts", "Her sex 's privilege .", "Forthwith \u2014 when this long leave is taken . \u2018 Tis", "\u2018 Twas so", "And I \u2014\u2014", "The presence of your husband 's Judges .", "I am sent hither to your husband , to", "All that 's essential \u2014 leave the rest to me .", "\u2018 Tis moderate \u2014 not even life for life , the rule", "And the old Doge , who knew him doomed , smiled on him 300", "Swerved .", "You must .", "I bear that of \u201c the Ten . \u201d", "It shows", "Decides to-day must not give way before", "From ours should be a witness , lest false tongues", "Its passage , but impedes it not \u2014 once passed .", "You , with your wonted scruples , teach us pause ,", "I have .", "Time to admonish them again .", "Doubtless .", "Retire , But leave the torch .", "Right ! 350", "Even so : when he ,", "Sorrow preys upon", "And present", "We 'll elect another ,", "You may .", "Fail to move them , and to remove him : since", "I have prepared such arguments as will not 50", "If not , \u2018 twill punish his hypocrisy .", "The torch , there !", "More seldom still .", "Well , sir !", "You know well 200", "ACT V .", "gave a crown", "His sons expire by natural deaths , and I", "If she so wills it .", "Lady ! words", "You forget , you cannot .", "They are , in all maternal things .", "The victims are not equal ; he has seen", "No less than age .", "Alone is aimed at .", "And my dead father .", "How !\u2014 my Giunta !", "Not I , now", "When I came here . The galley floats within", "Met the great Duke at daybreak with a jest ,", "Still .", "We have the implicit order of the Giunta", "Lady !", "Uttered within these walls I bear no further 320", "Of this \u201c the Ten \u201d said nothing .", "decided his destruction ,", "I have visited these places .", "I said \u2014 for life .", "Had we known this when 260", "He is safe , I tell you ;", "\u201c The good day or good night ? \u201d his Doge-ship answered ,", "True \u2014", "Should whisper that a harsh majority 130", "A bow-shot of the \u201c Riva di Schiavoni . \u201d 400", "By the Doge Foscari , with citizens", "That , without further repetition of", "Let her go on ; it irks not me .", "Who dares say so ?", "How nobler ?", "A last ! as , soon , he shall", "He said himself that nought", "What 's here ?", "From its sad visions of the other world ,", "I remember mine .\u2014 Farewell !", "He answered quickly , and must so be answered ;", "Were fearfully against him , although narrowed", "Think you not so ?", "James Foscari return to banishment ,", "Could give him trouble farther .", "After the very night in which \u201c the Ten \u201d 290", "\u2018 Tis their choice", "Most sure .", "Died suddenly .", "The delegates appointed to convey", "Liberation ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 207}, {"query": ["I say ,\u2014 the parent of all honest feeling .", "The tyranny of silence is not lasting ,", "Glide through the crevices made by the winds", "But I reproach not .", "\u2018 Twas time .", "Fos . Return to Candia ?", "Was kinder to mine eyes than the full Sun ,", "Of feeling or compassion on his part", "160", "Look back . I pray you think of me .", "Which never echoed but to Sorrow 's sounds ,", "Repeat \u2014 not long .", "Fos . And I", "Familiarity with what was darkness ;", "My true wife ,", "And holding on its course ; but there , afar ,", "Thy fond fidelity for a time deprives", "Fos . Now , I 'm ready \u2014", "And blighted like to mine , which I will add ,", "Fos . No doubt ! but \u2018 tis", "Let them be all to you which he was once ,", "I would have given some tears to my late country", "The exiles you speak of went forth by nations ,", "Than me ; but \u2018 tis not all , for there are things", "Of the sad mountaineer , when far away", "Of feet on which the iron clanked the groan", "Another region , with their flocks and herds ;", "I know if mind may bear us up , or no ,", "Look to my children \u2014 to your last child 's children :", "Fos .", "I may breathe many years .", "May I not see them also ?", "Fos . That has a noble sound ; but \u2018 tis a sound ,", "Indeed , our last of meetings ?", "Which only can be read , as writ , by wretches .", ", without a groan , 90", "And never be to you what I am now .", "Fos . They might behold their parent any where .", "And tear the vessel , till the mariners ,", "I could endure my dungeon , for \u2018 twas Venice ;", "Fos . How ! would'st thou share a dungeon ?", "Fos . Both the same to me : the after", "Ne'er blows in all its blustering freedom ?", "I am past hunger : but my lips are parched \u2014 30", "I sometimes murmur for a moment ; but", "A point of time , as beacon to my heart ,", "The galley 's sails are not unfurled :\u2014 who knows ?", "Fos . Well I know how wretched !", "With the like answer \u2014 doubt and dreadful surmise \u2014", "Fos . I pray you set it down ;", "Of seeing thee again so soon , and so", "Fos . Ah , father ! though I must and will depart ,", "It must be borne . Father , your blessing .", "Reproaches , which boot nothing . Is it \u2014 is it ,", "One lacerated like the heart which then 150", "Chastened and visited , I needs must think", "Those lying likenesses of lying men .", "Till the sea dash me back on my own shore", "Fos . But we are not summoned yet ;", "Put up to patron saint such prayers for prosperous", "Must I consume my own , which never beat 10", "And piecemeal I shall perish , if remanded .", "Will stream along those moted rays of light", "Fos . I will do my endeavour .", "And I shall be alone : no men ; no books \u2014", "Fos . Well !", "Fos . And wherefore not ? All then shall speak of me :", "Fos . These walls are silent of men 's ends ; they only", "For I have such , and shown it before men ;", "When gorgeously o'ergilding any towers", "Appalled , turn their despairing eyes on me ,", "Because we have brief time for preparation ,", "With some faint hope , \u2018 tis true , that Time , which wears", "Fos . At once \u2014 by better means , as briefer .", "For thou art pale too , my Marina !", "Prepare my children to behold their father .", "Fos . Then my last hope 's gone .", "Of the survivors \u2019 toil in their new lands ,", "Fos . Most welcome , noble Signor .", "Fos . Aye \u2014 we but hear", "Fos . Blame him not .", "Ye love not with more holy love than I ,", "The hearts which broke in silence at that parting ,", "which bears", "That melody ,", "Were never piled on high save o'er the dead ,", "Fos . I pray you , calm you :", "And me for having lived , and you yourself", "Your hand !", "A new home and fresh state : perhaps I could", "So calmly with its gold and crimson glory ,", "A broken corse upon the barren Lido ,", "To our departure . Who comes here ?", "Her callow brood . What letters are these which", "Myself , with those about me , to create", "Fos . No \u2014 you mistake ; \u2018 tis yours that shakes , my father . Farewell !", "Fos . I cannot wish them all they have inflicted .", "As the Phenicians did on Jonah , then", "Fos . Curse it not . If I am silent ,", "Seem to hint shrewdly of them . Such stern walls", "And the poor captive 's tale is graven on", "That I once more return unto my home ,", "While every furrow of the vessel 's track", "Fos . My father still ! How long it is since I", "Holds like an epitaph their history ; 20", "His own and his belov\u00e9d 's name . Alas !", "Fos . I had not", "Even on these dull damp walls , and \u2014\u2014", "Have borne this \u2014 though I know not .", "He who loves not his Country , can love nothing .", "Fos . Father ! I pray you to precede me , and", "Fos . That thought would scarcely aid me to endure it .", "Fos . And liberty ?", "Fos . The light ! Is it the light ?\u2014 I am faint .", "A music most impressive , but too transient :", "Thou askest .\u2014 What of me ? may soon be asked ,", "My very soul seemed mouldering in my bosom ,", "Fos . My name : look , \u2018 tis there \u2014 recorded next", "And the grey twilight of such glimmerings as", "Fittest for such a chronicle as this ,", "In my native air that buoyed my spirits up", "Fos .I thank you : I am better .", "Will be .\u2014 But wherefore breaks it not ? why live I ?", "Fos . My father ! DogeJacopo ! my son \u2014 my son ! 340", "Venice without beholding him or you ,", "That he feeds on the sweet , but poisonous thought ,", "Fos . But still I must", "I could support the torture , there was something", "But proudly still bestriding", "Back to my heart , and left my cheeks like thine ,", "Dead , but still bear me to a native grave ,", "Their hands upheld each other by the way ,", "And , though events be hidden , just men 's groans 80", "Fos . And must I leave them \u2014 all ?", "Fos . What then ?", "Fos . No \u2014", "From fishers \u2019 hands , upon the desolate strand ,", "Fos . Had I gone forth", "And many thoughts ; but afterwards addressed", "Exchange of chains for heavier chains I owe him .", "Will be more merciful than man , and bear me", "The dove has for her distant nest , when wheeling", "This lady , of a house noble as yours .", "Save those of Venice ; but a moment ere", "Which , of its thousand wrecks , hath ne'er received", "Is one away from Venice , I look back", "From the rough deep , with such identity", "Fos . I know it \u2014 look !", "Like a ship on the Ocean tossed by storms , 130", "Fos . That of leaving", "And after dreaming a disturb\u00e9d vision", "I have been so beyond the common lot", "Fos . Till when ?", "Fos . Ah ! if it were so ! 110", "Fos . How know you that here , where the genial wind", "Fos . This is mere insanity ."], "true_target": ["Fos . My poor mother , for my birth , 160", "Who dares accuse my Country ?", "It sinks in solitude : my soul is social .", "Will never be so white . Embrace me , father !", "That every step I take , even from this cell ,", "And yet for this I have returned to Venice ,", "No \u2014 not for thee , too good , too kind ! May'st thou", "And waken Auster , sovereign of the Tempest ! 130", "Had I been cast out like the Jews from Zion ,", "Fos . And I feel , besides , that mine", "Fos . Alas ! I little thought so lingeringly", "Fos . Nothing . I cannot charge", "Their numbers and success ; but who can number 170", "Last night in yon enormous spider 's net ,", "Or after their departure ; of that malady", "Or those who soon must be so .\u2014 What of him ?", "Of such support ! But for myself alone ,", "But let me still return .", "From his snow canopy of cliffs and clouds , 180", "May all the winds of Heaven howl down the Gulf , 140", "The Mind is much , but is not all . The Mind", "Thou earnest hither I was busy writing .", "The Hall not far from hence , which bears on high 120", "Her beautiful towers in the receding distance ,", "Of Death , the imprecation of Despair !", "Which might have been forbidden now , as \u2018 twas", "And you perceive your presence doth disquiet", "Fos . Not one ?", "More faithful pictures of Venetian story ,", "But then my heart is sometimes high , and hope 100", "And a strange firefly , which was quickly caught", "Collects such pasture for the longing sorrow", "Fos . And I to be attended . Once more , father ,", "What I have undergone here keep me from", "I asked for even those outlines of their kind ,", "Of men 's hearts ; but I knew them not , and here", "To lash up from the deep the Adrian waves ,", "Fos . Not long .", "With any penalty annexed they please ,", "I do not doubt my memory , but my life ;", "Fos . That were difficult .", "High in the air on her return to greet", "Freedom as is the first imprisonment .", "Fos . I rarely , sir , have murmured .", "From my own land , like the old patriarchs , seeking", "He could not now act otherwise . A show", "Such presence hither .", "Fos . And thine !\u2014 but I am blinded by the torch .", "Refused me ,\u2014 so these walls have been my study ,", "Fos . I doubt not . Father \u2014 wife \u2014 190", "The name of him who here preceded me ,\u2014", "Seemed ploughing deep into your heart ; you never 210", "The sigh of long imprisonment , the step", "Upon the bark of some tall tree ,", "To leave abodes like this : but when I feel", "But none like mine , so near their father 's palace ;", "Triple , and tenfold torture ! But you are right ,", "Fos . Aye , there it is ; \u2018 tis like a mother 's curse", "A like hereafter !", "Or with a cry which rather shamed my judges", "That I was wicked . If it be so , may", "In that accurs\u00e9d isle of slaves and captives ,", "I loved you ever \u2014 never more than now . 360", "Fos . They may repent .", "And dies .", "Your hands !", "Fos . Have I not borne ?", "Fos . Nothing at first ; but use and time had taught me 60", "My eyes swim strangely \u2014 where 's the door ?", "Must youth support itself on age , and I", "The wind may change .", "Ye tutelar saints of my own city ! which", "I shall depart , then , without meeting them ?", "You call this weakness ! It is strength ,", "The land I love , and never shall see more !", "To appease the waves . The billow which destroys me", "Reflected upon this , but acquiesce .", "Their tents were pitched together \u2014 I 'm alone . 190", "Fos .", "Fos . Father , let not these", "Accumulated ills .", "Fos . Is this , sir , your whole mission ?", "From fertile Italy , to barren islets ,", "Fos . Where ?", "Fos . Alas !", "the high waves ,", "And neither do I fear .", "Fos . \u2018 Tis the joy", "He knows this , or he had not sought to change them ,", "Fos . My best Marina !\u2014 and our children ?", "Suspicion from \u201c the Ten , \u201d and upon mine", "Howe'er remote the period . Let there be", "My doom is common ; many are in dungeons ,", "Which men bequeath as portraits , and they were", "And only friend ! What happiness !", "Our only day ; for , save the gaoler 's torch ,", "What ! would they even deny me my Sire 's sepulchre ,", "My memory with much save sorrow : but", "And pleasant breezes , as I call upon you ,", "For Venice but with such a yearning as", "A grief too great for many . This stone page", "Can scarcely be restrained from treading them ?", "Peopled with dusty atoms , which afford", "Saw day go down upon your native spires", "With all their blank , or dismal stains , than is", "Fos . O , ye Elements ! Where are your storms ?", "which out of tones and tunes", "Fos . And canst thou leave them ?", "Hundreds of Doges , and their deeds and dates .", ", for the gift of life ,", "What can avail such words ?", "Unless thou tell'st my tale .", "As well as home and heritage ?", "To the poor exile 's fevered eye , that he", "Would have but drawn upon his ag\u00e9d head", "Fos . That 's sudden . Shall I not behold my father ?", "Which they term annals , history , what you will ,", "Is't true my wife accompanies me ?", "Upon my soul \u2014 the mark is set upon me .", "Which you bestowed upon me as my sire .", "Fos . Double ,", "Cast me out from amongst them , as an offering", "More woful \u2014 such as this small dungeon , where", "Have heard thee name my name \u2014 our name !", "Live long to be a mother to those children", "Where I may mingle with the sands which skirt", "Fos . Again , Marina !", "If dungeon dates say true .", "Will burst all cerement , even a living grave 's !", "Our parting hours be lost in listening to", "Without expectancy , has sent the blood", "I recognise some names familiar to me ,", "No light , save yon faint gleam which shows me walls", "The dates of their despair , the brief words of", "But that they never granted \u2014 nor will grant ,", "Fos . Ah ! you never yet", "Or like our fathers , driven by Attila", "Of them and theirs , awoke and found them not .", "Fos . Never yet did mariner", "Fos . Let us address us then , since so it must be ,", "Who ought to be the prop of yours ?", "I did not deem this poor place could have drawn 250", "Fos . Forgive \u2014\u2014", "Upon my former exile .", "And torture positive , far worse than death", "Were far away from Venice , never saw", "I ne'er saw aught here like a ray . Alas !", "The marble down , had worn away the hate", "Which calls up green and native fields to view", "And unbelievers , like a stranded wreck ,", "Fos . Let me hope not .", "Fos . No \u2014 nothing .", "The water !", "Yet \u2014 yet \u2014 I pray you to obtain for me 100", "His dungeon barrier , like the lover 's record", "Hath nerved me to endure the risk of death ,", "Fos . Ah ! they relent , then \u2014 I had ceased to hope it :"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 207}, {"query": ["I am commanded to inform you that", "Your further trial is postponed .", "I bring you food ."], "true_target": ["That your illustrious lady be admitted .", "I know not .\u2014 It is also in my orders", "There ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 207}, {"query": ["Their 340", "Your plans , and do your work . Are they not yours ?", "He dealt in such ?", "My best to save his honours , and opposed", "Chief of the Ten . We are agreed , then ?", "Not even its opposite , Love , so peoples air", "He could not have lived long ; but I have done", "So desolate , that the most clamorous grief", "I would support you .", "Inter his son before we press upon him", "Solicited permission to retire ,", "Behold ! your work 's completed ! Chief of the Ten . Is there then No aid ? Call in assistance !", "And yet he seems", "But I have seen him sometimes in a calm", "But you , I know , are marble to retain", "You are ingenious , Loredano , in", "Your modes of vengeance , nay , poetical ,", "Ah ! that seems", "I 'll not consent .", "Enter the Deputation as before .", "Could I but be certain", "Chief of the Ten . St. Mark 's , which tolls for the election", "Sit down , my Lord ! You tremble .", "Bidding farewell .", "But be human ! 160", "It shall not be 230", "But he has twice already", "Where is the Doge ?", "Why would the general vote compel me hither ?", "Due to his years , his station , and his deeds . 30", "They speak your language , watch your nod , approve", "He has not had", "And you and yours triumphant , shall you sleep ?", "Why press his abdication now ?", "Even their exorbitance of power : and when", "But let him", "Chief of the Ten . We will not note them down .", "Chief of the Ten . Heaven 's peace be with him !", "More spectral or fantastical than Hate ;", "Ere you sleep with your fathers .", "What if he will not ?", "The Duke is with his son .", "Lady , we knew not of this sad event ,", "The old man is deposed , his name degraded ,", "But if this deposition should take place", "Of Malipiero .", "A feud . But when all is accomplished , when", "You would deprive this old man of all business ?", "\u2018 Tis hard upon his years .", "How bears the Doge", "My brethren , will we not ?", "This proposition to the last , though vainly .", "That which changes me .", "The misery to die a subject where", "Be troubled now .", "And foreign traitor ?", "Heed not her rash words ;", "The penalty of saving cities . He", "I pray you sit .", "That remains for proof . 150", "He reigned : then let his funeral rites be princely .", "We seek his presence ?", "Humanity !", "All openness .", "Just now , though Venice tottered o'er the deep", "States , stung humanity will rise to check it .", "But passed here merely on our path from council .", ", to you", "From louder tongues than mine ; they have gone beyond", "All , except Lor ., answer , Yes .", "I would they could !", "Fancy 's distemperature ! There is no passion", "Are you then thus fixed ?", "We will accompany , with due respect , 270", "Oh ! they 'll hear as much one day"], "true_target": ["And have you confidence in such a project ?", "What art thou writing , With such an earnest brow , upon thy tablets ?", "Upon it barbarous .", "Against it at this moment .", "He means", "Will move all Venice in his favour .", "And did not this shake your suspicion ?", "And why not wait these few years ?", "This is no prelude to such persecution", "Your Giunta 's duties .", "This edict .", "But will the laws uphold us ?", "But Grief is lonely , and the breaking in 250", "He must not", "He sinks !\u2014 support him !\u2014 quick \u2014 a chair \u2014 support him !", "Vault has been often opened of late years .", "And not less , I must needs think , for the sake", "By our united influence in the Council ,", "His sons all dead , his family depressed ,", "I do beseech you , lean upon us !", "In my mind , too deep .", "Forbear ;", "We will remit him till the rites are over .", "Are seldom long of life .", "Let us return . \u2018 Tis time enough to-morrow .", "\u2018 Twill break his heart .", "With phantoms , as this madness of the heart .", "A very Ovid in the art of hating ;", "You shall not depart without", "Was Carmagnuola", "This undesired association in 140", "And art thou sure", "Let us return , then .", "This stroke", "And therefore", "An escort fitting past and present rank .", "In his countenance , I grant you , never ;", "Die in his robes :", "Your friend ?", "Unasked ?", "Chief of the Ten . Is the Duke aware", "A parent 's sorrows .", "The attainted", "And twice it was refused .", "Chief of the Ten . If it be so ,", "Retrench not from their moments .", "And yet unburied .", "Her circumstances must excuse her bearing .", "This happens in the most contemned and abject", "When embarks the son ?", "The bell !", "These are words ;", "Had nought to envy him within . Where is he ? 10", "Of the sire as has fallen upon the son ,", "We will not interrupt", "Our own , but added others to her sway .", "I owe , by way of foil to the more zealous ,", "I protest", "Of humbling me for my vain opposition .", "At your own peril ?", "You have a son .", "The body of his son .", "And will they press their answer on the Doge ?", "\u2018 Tis thus", "It must be done with all the deference", "No \u2014 not now .", "Like a frail vessel . I respect your griefs .", "This last calamity ?", "Whom we now act against not only saved 310", "Yours !", "Did not the Doge deny this strongly ?", "The Doge unto his private palace . Say !", "But discarded Princes 60", "Here come our colleagues .", "That 's an error , and you 'll find it", "Still so inexorable ?"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 207}, {"query": ["Thus hesitate ? \u201c The Ten \u201d have called in aid", "The Bridge which few repass .", "Being worth our lives", "Of their deliberation five and twenty", "If we divulge them , doubtless they are worth 90", "As we hope , Signor ,", "Be latest in obeying \u201c the Ten 's \u201d summons .", "If you obey : and , if not , you no less", "The earliest are most welcome", "I am the son of Marco Memmo .", "To view the mysteries .", "Something , at least to you or me .", "Signor ,", "You will know why anon , 70", "Decemvir , it is surely for the Senate 's", "And I another ; and it seems to me", "That is enough ."], "true_target": ["To mingle with a body so august .", "Why", "In earnest councils \u2014 we will not be least so .", "Be thus admitted , though as novices ,", "Patricians of the Senate \u2014 you are one ,", "Will know why you should have obeyed .", "In Venice \u201c but \"' s a traitor .", "Alone can answer ; they are rarely wont", "But me no \u201c buts \u201d unless you would pass o'er", "one day hope to be", "And all may honestly ,", "Let us not", "Both honoured by the choice or chance which leads us 80", "Chosen delegates , a school of wisdom , to", "By previous proclamation . We are summoned \u2014", "\u201c The Ten \u201d", "To let their thoughts anticipate their purpose"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 207}, {"query": ["Some water !", "Scarce audibly . I must proceed .", "With desperate firmness .", "To forward the preparatory rites", "Is rising \u2014 we are ready to attend you .", "Perhaps , in the air .", "He 's gone !", "In presence of another he says little ,", "Let me support you \u2014 paler \u2014 ho ! some aid there !", "Apartment , mutter forth the words \u2014 \u201c My son ! \u201d", "Inform the Signory , and learn their pleasure ."], "true_target": ["He will be better ,", "For the late Foscari 's interment .", "By the ducal order", "A melancholy one \u2014 to call the attendance", "You turn pale \u2014", "Signor ! the boat is at the shore \u2014 the wind", "But I perceive his lips move now and then ;", "I must", "And once or twice I heard him , from the adjoining", "May I pass on ?", "Of \u2014\u2014", "We must remove the body ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 207}, {"query": ["Her fruits with little labour .", "Light on the waters with a word \u2014 All Hail !", "Our orisons completed , let us hence ,", "So will God , I trust .", "But thou my eldest born ? art silent still ?", "Dost thou not live ?", "Needful : the earth is young , and yields us kindly", "Oh ! my son ,", "Blaspheme not : these are Serpent 's words ."], "true_target": ["We have , most fervently .", "Wherefore so ?", "To pray .", "Who out of darkness on the deep didst make", "Each to his task of toil \u2014 not heavy , though", "God , the Eternal ! Infinite ! All-wise !\u2014", "Son Cain ! my first-born \u2014 wherefore art thou silent ?", "Jehovah ! with returning light \u2014 All Hail !", "Nor aught to thank for ?", "And we must gather it again . Oh God ! why didst thou plant the tree of knowledge ?"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 207}, {"query": ["The fruit of our forbidden tree begins 30", "Content thee with what is . Had we been so ,", "God ! who didst name the day , and separate", "Cain \u2014 my son \u2014 50", "Let me not see my offspring fall into", "Alas !", "Who didst divide the wave from wave , and call", "Which even in Paradise destroyed his parents .", "Thou now hadst been contented .\u2014 Oh , my son !"], "true_target": ["My misery in thine . I have repented .", "The snares beyond the walls of Paradise ,", "Before thy birth : let me not see renewed 40", "And do as he doth .", "Part of thy work the firmament \u2014 All Hail !", "Behold thy father cheerful and resigned \u2014", "My boy ! thou speakest as I spoke in sin ,", "To fall .", "Morning from night , till then divided never \u2014"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 207}, {"query": ["In Twilight 's hour , to catch a glimpse of those", "The peace of God", "Beauteous , and yet not all as beautiful", "If not , why place him near it , where it grew", "What had I done in this ?\u2014 I was unborn :", "God ! who didst call the elements into", "Gardens which are my just inheritance ,", "Life ?\u2014 Toil ! and wherefore should I toil ?\u2014 because", "Before the gates round which I linger oft ,", "Yielding \u2014 why suffer ? What was there in this ?", "And this is", "Half of his immortality .", "Amen !", "Yet of a sterner and a sadder aspect", "I judge but by the fruits \u2014 and they are bitter \u2014", "So ? and can aught grieve save Humanity ?", "And he is good . \u201d How know I that ? Because", "Be on your spirit , brother !", "Yet \u2014 he seems mightier far than them , nor less", "Earth , ocean , air and fire \u2014 and with the day 10", "Or shadow , madest beings to enjoy them ,", "Whom have we here ?\u2014 A shape like to the angels 80", "And the immortal trees which overtop", "To which that birth has brought me . Why did he"], "true_target": ["If I shrink not from these , the fire-armed angels ,", "Yield to the Serpent and the woman ? or 70", "Why wilt thou wear this gloom upon thy brow ,", "Which can avail thee nothing , save to rouse", "Whom I see daily wave their fiery swords", "And is it", "As he hath been , and might be : sorrow seems", "The tree was planted , and why not for him ?", "Which I must feed on for a fault not mine .", "And love both them and thee \u2014 All Hail ! All Hail !", "And night , and worlds which these illuminate ,", "Ere the night closes o'er the inhibited walls", "The fairest in the centre ? They have but", "Why should I fear him more than other spirits ,", "I sought not to be born ; nor love the state", "Why should I quail from him who now approaches ?", "One answer to all questions , \u201c \u2018 Twas his will ,", "The Eternal anger ?", "Of spiritual essence : why do I quake ?", "My father could not keep his place in Eden ?", "He cometh .", "The Cherubim-defended battlements ? 90", "He is all-powerful , must all-good , too , follow ?", "Cain"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 207}, {"query": ["Dissatisfied and curious thoughts \u2014 as thou", "Fiend ! tempt me not with beauty ; thou art fairer", "The Seraphs love most \u2014 Cherubim know most", "Thou seem'st unhappy : do not make us so ,", "How know'st thou ?", "Return to seek you here .", "Streak the deep purple , and unnumbered stars", "It is our hour of rest and joy \u2014 and we", "Wert happy \u2014\u2014", "The angels and the mortals to make happy ,", "And dread , and toil , and sweat , and heaviness ;", "Saith that he has beheld the God himself", "Our father", "O Cain ! This spirit curseth us .", "So did the Serpent , and it lied .", "With me ? did we not love each other ? and", "Spangle the wonderful mysterious vault", "In sooth , return within an hour ?", "But we , thy children , ignorant of Eden , 400", "To me my solitude seems sin ; unless", "Let me go with thee .", "If not , I will", "Which , as I know it not , I dread not , though", "And leave us ?", "In seeming : as the silent sunny noon ,", "I have heard it said , 420", "Aye \u2014 but not bless\u00e9d .", "Who", "Remorse of that which was \u2014 and hope of that 360", "I cannot answer this immortal thing", "Forth with this spirit ; he is not of ours .", "It is a beautiful star ; I love it for", "Will he ,", "Or virtue ?\u2014 if it doth , we are the slaves", "And me ?", "It seems an awful shadow \u2014 if I may 470", "Love thee .", "Where dwellest thou ?", "And happy intercourse with happy spirits :", "Should we not love them \u2014 and our children , Cain ?", "They fill my eyes with tears , and so dost thou .", "Like them .", "What is the sin which is not 380", "How can that be ?", "Art thou that steppest between heart and heart ?", "We have seen many : will he share our hour", "Oh , Cain ! choose Love .", "\u2014", "By me ?", "With things that look as if they would be suns ;", "Wilt thou frown even on me ?", "Are girt about by demons , who assume", "Come away .", "Sin in itself ? Can circumstance make sin", "He is not God \u2014 nor God 's : I have beheld", "Bear with what we have borne , and love me \u2014 I", "The Cherubs and the Seraphs ; he looks not", "Spoke with our mother first .", "Save in my father , who is God 's own image ;", "All light , they look upon us ; but thou seem'st 510", "Whither ?", "Yes \u2014 in his works .", "Will he return ?", "Our father", "Which cometh not . Cain ! walk not with this Spirit .", "Them ?\u2014 And as I love thee , my Cain ! go not", "Or in his angels , who are like to thee \u2014", "Have less without thee . Thou hast laboured not", "Oh , my God !", "Omnipotence 390", "Born of the same sole womb ,"], "true_target": ["Like an ethereal night", "We were not born then \u2014 and if we had been ,", "Fixes my fluttering eyes on his ; my heart", "Which stands before me ; I cannot abhor him ;", "Who didst create these best and beauteous beings ,", "Let me love thee and them :\u2014 All Hail ! All Hail !", "Nearer and nearer :\u2014 Cain \u2014 Cain \u2014 save me from him !", "Are ripe , and glowing as the light which ripens :", "What all ?", "in the same hour", "The words of God , and tempt us with our own", "Alas ! no ! and you \u2014", "Must be all goodness .", "To be belov\u00e9d , more than all , save thee \u2014", "And I will weep for thee .", "I look upon him with a pleasing fear ,", "But he is welcome , as they were : they deigned", "To be our guests \u2014 will he ?", "And thus becomes so in diffusing joy . 480", "Its beauty .", "My brother , I have come for thee ;", "Thy youth in Paradise , in innocent", "God ! the Eternal parent of all things !", "Who could be happy and alone , or good ?", "Hast plucked a fruit more fatal to thine offspring", "In multiplying our being multiply", "He is not so ; he hath", "Of \u2014\u2014", "Not dazzling , and yet drawing us to them ,", "Are there , then , others ?", "Adores the Invisible only .", "Out of this bosom ? was not he , their father , 370", "Out of their love ? have they not drawn their milk", "Our parents ?", "What else can joy be , but the spreading joy ?", "When I think how soon I shall see my brother ,", "Who made him and our mother .", "Oh , my mother ! thou", "Evil on ill ; expulsion from our home ,", "So beautiful , unnumbered , and endearing ,", "Nor would be happy ; but with those around us", "Shall they not love and bring forth things that love", "Things which will love each other as we love", "Beats quick ; he awes me , and yet draws me near ,", "My belov\u00e9d Cain", "And heedless , harmless wantonness of bliss .", "Judge from what I have heard .", "What ! Must not my daughter love her brother Enoch ?", "Alone I could not ,", "I see an angel ; 340", "Than was the Serpent , and as false .", "Aye \u2014 to our eternal sorrow .", "And this should be a Cherub \u2014 since he loves not .", "So they were when the fair Serpent", "I think I could be so , despite of Death ,", "There is a fastening attraction which 410", "I am not wretched , Cain , and if thou", "Are you of Heaven ?", "And brighter , yet less beautiful and powerful", "No \u2014", "Than to thyself ; thou at the least hast passed", "And yet I fly not from him : in his eye", ", where long white clouds", "I do . Is that a sin , too ?", "Cain", "His brother , and our children , and our parents .", "Alone ! Oh , my God !", "But all we know of it has gathered", "Wert worked on by the snake , in thy most flushed", "This morn ; but I have done thy task : the fruits", "Wilt thou ?", "Of rest ?\u2014 he is welcome ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 207}, {"query": ["Yet didst permit the Serpent to creep in ,", "Oh , God ! who loving , making , blessing all ,"], "true_target": ["Keep us from further evil :\u2014 Hail ! All Hail !", "And drive my father forth from Paradise , 20", "Wilt thou not , my brother ?"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 207}, {"query": ["Belov\u00e9d Adah !", "Of knowledge \u2014 and the mystery of Death", "And Edens in them ?", "Have heard you .", "Ah !", "Why , what are things ?", "The Life-tree ?", "Increase their myriads .", "In the same hour ! They plucked the tree of science", "But shall I know it ?", "Be thou happy , then , alone \u2014", "Immortal in despite of me . I knew not", "The gates of what they call their Paradise", "And what art thou who dwellest", "In visions through my thought : I never could", "In thunder .", "Of Death : although I know not what it is \u2014", "I will .", "Instinct of life , which I abhor , as I", "Must both be guided .", "To till the earth \u2014 for I had promised \u2014\u2014", "Thoughts unspeakable", "Which knew such things .", "Reconcile what I saw with what I heard .", "Ah ! didst thou tempt my mother ?", "They say the Serpent was a spirit .", "Sprinkle the dusky groves and the green banks", "The very blue of the empurpled night", "And so I live . Would I had never lived !", "And being so , canst thou", "In play , till he ran roaring from my gripe .", "Why should I speak ?", "All we love in our children and each other ,", "Enormous vapours roll", "Would they had snatched both 210", "But the lights fade from me fast ,", "Must I not die ?", "For I was made of it .", "Lead on .", "By the far-flashing of the Cherubs \u2019 swords ,", "While that of Knowledge , by my mother 's haste ,", "Written upon his forehead . But at least", "Unequal , of deep valleys and vast mountains ;", "And what is that ? 320", "How know I what", "What do they know ?\u2014 that they are miserable .", "Hath not fulfilled its promise :\u2014 if they sinned ,", "My father and my mother talk to me 170", ", 30", "What dreads my Adah ? This is no ill spirit .", "Show me .", "But live to die ; and , living , see no thing 110", "I live ,", "Here let me die : for to give birth to those", "The earth ! where is my earth ? Let me look on it ,", "Interchecked with an instant of brief pleasure ,", "It be as thou hast said", "The Other", "Can I return ?", "I have nought to ask .", "Such , and that my sire 's sin makes him and me ,", "Rather than see her weep , I would , methinks ,", "The things I see .", "Can I do so without impiety ?", "Which shone the roundest of the stars , when I", "And wherefore plucked ye not the tree of life ? Ye might have then defied him .", "\u2018 Tis darkness !", "No less ! and why", "What \u2018 twas which shook us all \u2014 but nothing came .", "Was plucked too soon ; and all the fruit is Death !", "That were no evil : would I ne'er had been", "Fades to a dreary twilight \u2014 yet I see 180", "Who ?", "The knowledge , he was ignorant of Death .", "I never 310", "Says he is something dreadful , and my mother", "I will have nought to do with happiness ,", "I am :\u2014 and thou , with all thy might , what art thou ?", "Born with me \u2014 but I love nought else .", "To cull some first-fruits .", "Ye multiplying masses of increased 100", "Why not ?", "Unworthy what I see , though my dust is ;", "Of which I have heard my parents speak , as of", "But thou canst not", "To Death \u2014 the unknown ! Methinks the Tree of Knowledge", "Which shut them out \u2014 and me : I feel the weight", "\u2018 Tis a fearful light !", "The archangels .", "The offering is more his than mine \u2014 and Adah \u2014\u2014", "The mind which overwhelms me : never till", "Are ye happy ?", "And yet I fear it \u2014 fear I know not what !", "And multiplying murder .", "To such , I would behold , at once , what I", "And sin \u2014 and , not content with their own sorrow ,", "Which bears them .", "Seem'st sorrowful ?", "Through an a\u00ebrial universe of endless", "Than the birds \u2019 matins ; and my Adah \u2014 my", "We were approaching , which , begirt with light ,", "Have I not said it ?\u2014 need I say it ? Could not thy mighty knowledge teach thee that ?", "Your works , or accidents , or whatsoe'er", "How beautiful ye are ! how beautiful", "Sweep on in your unbounded revelry", "And all the unnumbered and innumerable", ",", "The fruits , or neither !", "The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden ?", "Although my brother Abel oft implores", "And all that we inherit , liable", "Could I but deem them happy , I would half", "She wrung from me , with tears , this promise ; and", "I watched for what I thought his coming ; for", "And when I saw gigantic shadows in", "With luminous belts , and floating moons , which took ,", "Spirit ! I 60", "Could master all things \u2014 but I thought alone", "That !\u2014 yonder !", "The earth yield nothing to us without sweat ;", "Where dost thou lead me ?", "A God .", "Of most innumerable lights .", "Was withheld from us by my father 's folly ,", "But the thing had a demon ?", "A watching shepherd boy ,", "Own and belov\u00e9d \u2014 she , too , understands not", "Name it .", "He shut him forth from Paradise , with death", "Up to the lights above us , in the azure , 280", "I feel , it is a dreadful thing ; but what ,", "As yet have bowed unto my father 's God .", "He is a God .", "To offer up", "My father", "Seest thou not ?", "?", "Despise myself , yet cannot overcome \u2014", "Of light gave way , and showed them taking shapes", "I wrestled with the lion , when a boy , 260", "Thou hast said , I must be 90", "To sink .", "To know .", "Crowd in my breast to burning , when I hear", "Apart \u2014 what 's this ?", "No less than life \u2014 a heritage not happy ,", "And you , too , sisters , tarry not behind ; 60", "Him will I follow .", "How the lights recede ! Where fly we ?", "They may be ! Let me die , as atoms die ,", "And my conceptions .", "Multitudes , millions , myriads , which may be ,", "Thoughts which arise within me , as if they", "Inevitable . Could I wrestle with him ?", "Yet it seems horrible . I have looked out 270", "But he is not like", "How so ?", "She is my sister , 330", "Yon small blue circle , swinging in far ether", "At least they ought to have known all things that are", "I thought it was a being : who could do", "Appear to join the innumerable stars", "And ye ?", "What need of snakes and fruits to teach us that ?", "Which humbles me and mine .", "Oh God ! Oh Gods ! or whatsoe'er ye are ! 110", "How should I ? As we move", "Spirit , who art thou ?", "I tread on air , and sink not \u2014 yet I fear", "Thou art not the Lord my father worships .", "With fear rose longing in my heart to know", "Did they love us when they snatched from the Tree", "And still-increasing lights ! what are ye ? what", "Like them , the features of fair earth :\u2014 instead ,", "I seek it not ; but as I know there are", "Who ?", "Were I quiet earth , 290", "But I must retire", "And men ? 170"], "true_target": ["Beyond all power of my born faculties ,", "Aught else but dust !", "Do so .", "Born on the same day , of the same womb ; and", "Why , I have seen the fire-flies and fire-worms", "Which are around us ; and , as we move on ,", "Of an eternal curse ; my brother is", "And do not thirst to know , and bear a mind", "The umbrage of the walls of Eden , chequered", "Clay \u2014 Spirit \u2014 what thou wilt \u2014 I can survey .", "Let him say on ;", "And some till now grew larger as we approached ,", "And they who guard them ?", "Is your course measured for ye ? Or do ye", "This until lately \u2014 but since it must be ,", "To Heaven , and Zillah casts hers to the earth ,", "And Heaven 's ,", "Why should I bow to thee ?", "But I will bend to neither .", "Be taught the mystery of my being .", "It was the Tree of Life : knowledge is good ,", "Oh ! how we cleave the blue ! The stars fade from us !", "My sister Zillah sings an earlier hymn", "Begot me \u2014 thee \u2014 and all the few that are ,", "How ! You know my thoughts ?", "Which looks like that which lit our earthly night ?", "But lead them and ourselves through many years", "460", "Aye .", "Gathers a halo round it , like the light", "And speaks not .", "Seemed full of life even when their atmosphere", "With an inferior circlet purpler it still", "Let me , or happy or unhappy , learn", "That which hath driven us all from Paradise ?", "I dare behold ? As yet , thou hast shown nought", "My little Enoch ! and his lisping sister !", "Which are so beautiful : shall they , too , die ?", "Methinks is merely propagating Death , 70", "Enormous liquid plains , and some begirt", "I fain would be alone a little while .", "A hideous heritage I owe to them", "Thou speak'st to me of things which long have swum", "They are so lovely . What is Death ? I fear ,", "Where is it ? I see nothing save a mass", "Can it be ?", "Is this our Paradise ? Where are its walls ,", "Of serpents , and of fruits and trees : I see", "Nor ever shall \u2014 the mysteries of Death . 140", "A loathsome , and yet all invincible", "And some emitting sparks , and some displaying", "If I may judge , till now . But , Spirit ! if", "No , Adah ! no ;", "Abel , I 'm sick at heart ; but it will pass ;", "What ! is it not then new ?", "Not to snatch first that fruit :\u2014 but ere he plucked", "He has not yet 250", "Intoxicated with eternity", "The firstlings of the flock to him who bids", "Aye ! and serpents too ?", ",", "That they are beautiful in their own sphere ,", "Both them who sinned and sinned not , as an ill \u2014", "What immortal part ?", "Let what is mortal of me perish , that", "He speaks like 350", "The little shining fire-fly in its flight , 130", "So haughtily in spirit , and canst range", "All here seems dark and dreadful .", "And thou !", "Oh God ! or Demon ! or whate'er thou art ,", ", or know ye in your might", "Oh thou beautiful", "No sun \u2014 no moon \u2014 no lights innumerable \u2014", "Now met I aught to sympathise with me . 190", "And see thou show'st me things beyond my power , 80", "Which made her thirst for knowledge at the risk", "Thy beauty and thy love \u2014 my love and joy ,", "Our native and forbidden Paradise ,", "No .", "Around a world where I seem nothing , with", "The clouds still open wide", "I cannot compass : \u2018 tis denounced against us ,", "Shall men love the remembrance of the man", "By ages !\u2014 and I must be sire of such things ! 450", "I should be proud of thought", "But didst thou tempt my parents ? Lucifer . I ? Poor clay \u2014 what should I tempt them for , or how ?", "Bear all \u2014 and worship aught .", "To anticipate my immortality .", "I know not what thou art : I see thy power ,", "In the dim twilight , brighter than yon world", "And sighs a prayer ; and Adah looks on me ,", "Like sunbeams onward , it grows small and smaller ,", "I 'll follow you anon .", "To make death hateful , save an innate clinging ,", "I must away with him .", "And loudly : I", "That I would join with him in sacrifice :\u2014", "Methinks they both , as we recede from them , 40", "But not to live \u2014 or wherefore plucked he not", "Speak aught of Knowledge which I would not know ,", "They were , as I have heard from those who heard them ,", "Forget \u2014\u2014 but it can never be forgotten 440", "Spirit ! let me expire , or see them nearer .", "And all that in them is . So I have heard", "Expansion \u2014 at which my soul aches to think \u2014", "To inherit agonies accumulated", "Weeps when he 's named ; and Abel lifts his eyes", "\u2018 Tis well \u2014 I rather would consort with spirits .", "Must one day see perforce .", "Guarded by fiery-sworded Cherubim ,", "And Life is good ; and how can both be evil ?", "And then I turned my weary eyes from off", "Who can but suffer many years , and die \u2014", "But it grows dark , and dark \u2014 the stars are gone !", "But there are spirits loftier still \u2014", "Is yon our earth ?", "And that the night , which makes both beautiful ,", "And what is that ?", "Your gentleness must not be harshly met :", "In the vast desolate night in search of him ;", "Tamed down ; my mother has forgot the mind 180", "And as it waxes little , and then less ,", "Be it proved .", "Let me but", "Is this blue wilderness of interminable", "What ill ?", "And wore the look of worlds .", "Huge dusky masses ; but unlike the worlds", "This has not been revealed : the Tree of Life", "I dare not gaze on further .", "I knew not that , yet thought it , since I heard", "Have ye not prayed ?", "Spake not of this unto my father , when", "And unimaginable ether ! and", "The things I have not seen ,", "Nature and immortality \u2014 and yet", "I may be in the rest as angels are .", "Wilt thou teach me all ?", "The rapturous moment and the placid hour ,", "Yes \u2014", "With Abel on an altar .", "This misery was mine . My father is", "His equal ?", "Through thrice a thousand generations ! never", "who offers up", "Of this almighty Death , who is , it seems ,", "Deadly error !", "The angels we have seen .", "For thee , my Adah , I choose not \u2014 It was", "How should I be so ? Look on me !", "And wilt thou tell me so ?", "Know nought of Death , save as a dreadful thing", "I 'm glad of that : I would not have them die \u2014", "Air , where ye roll along , as I have seen", "Of sin and pain \u2014 or few , but still of sorrow ,", "Leave them , and walk with dust ?", "Are ye happy ?", "Such evil things to beings save a being ?", "Alas ! I scarcely now know what it is ,", "\u2018 Tis better I should be so .", "Ah ! Thou look'st almost a god ; and \u2014\u2014", "Beheld them from the skirts of Paradise :", "And wider , and make widening circles round us !", "Been seen .", "Of daily toil , and constant thought : I look", "His Seraphs sing ; and so my father saith .", "But Abel 's earnest prayer has wrought upon me ;", "Precede me , brother \u2014 I will follow shortly .", "Spirit , I have said it . AdahCain ! my brother ! Cain ! ACT II .", "The snake spoke truth ; it was the Tree of Knowledge ;", "And the immortal star in its great course ,", "And knowledge ! My thoughts are not in this hour", "How ?", "No more ?", "And must torture be immortal ?", "Who sowed the seed of evil and mankind", "Although inferior still to my desires", "I cannot see it ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 207}, {"query": ["Believe in me , as a conditional creed", "Him makes thee mine the same .", "And science still beyond them , were chained down", "Mortal !", "And thou couldst not", "Ask of your sire , the exile fresh from Eden ;", "It may be .", "And Truth in its own essence cannot be", "The seed of the then world may thus array", "And some of us resist \u2014 and both in vain , 490", "Could I stand here ? His angels are within", "And yet that grief is knowledge \u2014 so he lied not :", "Wouldst thou have men without them ? must no reptiles", "If thou dost long for knowledge , I can satiate", "And I , who know all things , fear nothing ; see 300", "That which was clay , and such thou shall behold .", "What ?", "Since better may not be without : there is", "Why dost thou hesitate ?", "No ;\u2014 I have nought in common with him !", "His", "His evil is not good ! If he has made , 140", "Knowing such things , aspiring to such things ,", "Though man 's vast fears and little vanity", "Amerced for doubts beyond thy little life ,", "To the world of phantoms , which", "Aye , woman ! he alone 540", "Couldst not have gone beyond thy world . On ! on !", "Maker of life and living things ; it is", "\u2018 Tis now beyond thee ,", "To make way for much meaner than we can 160", "Higher things than ye are slaves : and higher", "He but woke one", "Can crowd eternity into an hour ,", "Sit on his vast and solitary throne \u2014", "Are few inhabitants .", "Of past \u2014 and present , and of future worlds .", "Art thou not nearer ? look back to thine earth !", "Its present realm is thin to what it will be ,", "But in his being ?", "Which , knowing nought beyond their shallow senses ,", "And heart to look on ?", "To lure thee on to the renewal of", "Worthy of thought ;\u2014 \u2018 tis your immortal part", "The proud One will not so far falsify , 220", "Saith that ? It is not written so on high :", "The sin I speak of is not of my making ,", "But what", "Are everlasting .", "As he saith \u2014 which I know not , nor believe \u2014", "The Maker \u2014 Call him", "Than a mere serpent : ask the Cherubim", "Are beings past , and shadows still to come .", "Why ?", "But in that hour see things of many days .", "And if he did betray you , \u2018 twas with Truth ;", "Whence he shall come back to thee in an hour ;", "Thy God or Gods \u2014 there am I : all things are", "We and thy sons will try . But now , behold ! Is it not glorious ?", "It one day will be in your children .", "And hadst thou not been fit by thine own soul", "Or stretch an hour into eternity :", "Thou seekest to behold Death , and dead things ?", "His secret , and he keeps it . We must bear ,", "But must be undergone .", "A most enervating and filthy cheat", "To save thee ; but fly with me o'er the gulf", "They are the thoughts of all", "I am none :", "So humbly in their pride , as to sojourn", "Gods ; and even He who thrust ye forth , so thrust ye", "Enter !", "Greater than either : many things will have", "I cannot answer .", "Had been enough to charm ye , as before .", "Have faith in me , and thou shalt be", "It is not tranquil .", "And having failed to be one , would be nought", "By the unbounded sympathy of all 160", "Thou livest \u2014 and must live for ever . Think not", "Alone , thou say'st , be happy ?", "As I have shown thee much which cannot die ?", "But distinct . 190", "Did I plant things prohibited within 200", "Is but the wreck .", "Fond parents listened to a creeping thing ,", "Which is not heaven nor earth , but peopled with 550", "Of space an equal flight , and I will show", "Mark me ! that Son will be a sacrifice !", "By greater things \u2014 and they themselves far more", "No .", "With us acts are exempt from time , and we", "He ever granted : but let him reign on !", "Aught save a sharer or a servant of", "Did not your Maker make", "Who", "Out of old worlds this new one in few days ? 530", "But , in his greatness , is no happier than", "To make that silent and expectant world", "Choose betwixt Love and Knowledge \u2014 since there is", "Of good and evil ?", "Alas ! those tears ! Couldst thou but know what oceans will be shed \u2014\u2014 520", "By all .", "Who would not let ye live , or he who would", "Would run the edict of the other God ,", "Thy Sire 's maker \u2014 and the Earth 's .", "No : art thou ?", "Still fruitful ? Did I bid her pluck them not ?", "of the all-great and good", "Mortality", "But good .", "Because \u201c ye should not eat the fruits of life ,", "Thou dost fall down and worship me \u2014 thy Lord .", "That he may torture :\u2014 let him ! He is great \u2014", "He shall .", "Could he but crush himself , \u2018 twere the best boon", "Of Knowledge ?", "Of thine enjoyments a sweet degradation ,", "One is yours already ,", "A wisdom in the spirit , which directs", "Their earliest fault in fable , and attribute", "We are mighty .", "The dust which formed your father ?", "To me a shape I scorn , as I scorn all", "Follow", "We in our conflict ! Goodness would not make", "Hast thou ne'er bowed", "Worlds greater than thine own \u2014 inhabited", "That they are not compatible , the doom", "Who names me Demon to his angels ; they", "The unpeopled earth \u2014 and the o'erhYpppHeNpeopled Hell ,", "In their abasement . I will have none such :", "Quench the mind , if the mind will be itself", "More than thy mother , and thy sire ?", "And if the higher knowledge quenches love ,", "With worms in clay ?", "What thou dar'st not deny ,\u2014 the history", "Shalt soon return to earth , and all its dust :", "His , and possess a kingdom which is not", "To right , as in the dim blue air the eye", "Echo the sound to miserable things ,", "Less , in the universe , than thou in it ;", "Of what is visible ; and yon bright star", "Souls who dare use their immortality \u2014", "To a place", "Fear not \u2014 without me thou", "Creating worlds , to make eternity", "By their own innocence ? I would have made ye", "And multiply himself in misery !", "Before his sullen , sole eternity ;", "Of being that which I am ,\u2014 and thou art \u2014", "But , if he made us \u2014 he cannot unmake :", "Space \u2014\u2014 but I speak to thee of what thou know'st not ,", "And become gods as we . \u201d Were those his words ?", "Worship or worship not , thou shalt behold", "No less than thou art now .", "Than them or ye would be so , did they not", "No other choice : your sire hath chosen already : 430", "And unparticipated solitude ;", "The Conqueror has left thee . Follow me .", "Behold !", "Yet deem not that thou canst escape it ; thou", "Consists in slavery \u2014 no .", "And fell . For what should spirits tempt them ? What", "Surmise ; for moments only and the space", "But terror and self-hope .", "What are they which dwell", "Dar'st thou behold ?", "To be resolved into the earth .", "In those he spake to with his forky tongue . 230", "His everlasting face , and tell him that", "And such they are .", "Indefinite , Indissoluble Tyrant ;", "He who bows not to him has bowed to me .", "Since the all-knowing Cherubim love least ,", "Both partly : but what doth", "Of dust , and feel for it , and with you .", "No , not yet ;", "Yea , or things higher .", "Sate nearest it ?", "Thou art my worshipper ; not worshipping", "\u2018 Tis part of thy eternity , and mine . 150", "I am angelic : wouldst thou be as I am ?", "Not as thou lovest Cain .", "They say \u2014 what they must sing and say , on pain", "To sway .", "Away , then !", "Worship the word which strikes their ear , and deem 10", "As frail , and few so happy \u2014\u2014", "And centre of surrounding things \u2014 \u2018 tis made"], "true_target": ["The reach of beings innocent , and curious", "But by whom or what ?", "Of Paradise , that spirits who pervade", "Of the Invisible are the loveliest 500", "Then who was the Demon ? He", "Aye , upon one condition .", "And , suffering in concert , make our pangs", "If the blessedness", "To what was before thee !", "Sit next thy heart ?", "It seem in those who will replace ye in", "And thou ?", "And therefore do I ask of thee , if thou", "Or I were , or the things which seem to us", "And cannot be a sin in you \u2014 whate'er", ", of which I am the Prince .", "Nor would : I would be aught above \u2014 beneath \u2014", "And cannot I , who aided in this work ,", "To the most gross and petty paltry wants ,", "I know the thoughts 100", "Hast thou seen him ?", "By being", "On , then , with me . Wouldst thou behold things mortal or immortal ?", ",", "and yet not less than those he tempted ,", "If I were not that which I have said ,", "Thou ne'er hadst bent to him who made thee ?", "To that which is omnipotent , because", "Evil ; and what else hath he made ? But let him", "It is omnipotent , and not from love ,", "As thou ; and mightier things have been extinct", "Yea .", "Believe \u2014 and sink not ! doubt \u2014 and perish ! thus", "Wouldst be immortal ?", "And if there should be", "But the symbols", "Point me out the site", "Of which thy bosom is the germ .", "Of Knowledge ? and was not the Tree of Life", "That bear the form of earth-born being .", "Souls who dare look the Omnipotent tyrant in", "The myriad myriads \u2014 the all-peopled earth \u2014", "He was hindered .", "The Earth , which is thine outward cov'ring , is", "That is a grovelling wish ,", "Gave you a father \u2014 and if he so doth ,", "The cause of this all-spreading happiness", "His own low failing . The snake was the snake \u2014", "Think'st thou I 'd take the shape of things that die ?", "Innumerable , more endurable ,", "The other may be still .", "No , she must not .", "Of Paradise .", "The knowledge fatal to their narrow joys .", "Would make him cast upon the spiritual nature", "Said'st thou not", "All die \u2014 there is what must survive .", "His Seraphs say : but it is worth the trial ,", "To him ?", "And power of Knowledge ?", "One day a Son unto himself \u2014 as he", "These are my realms ! so that I do divide", "Thou errest , Adah !\u2014 was not the Tree that", "Thou hast seen both worms and worlds ,", "Then follow me !", "No more than life is ; and that was ere thou", "All living \u2014 and all doomed to death \u2014 and wretched ,", "Return ! be sure : how else should Death be peopled ? 200", "But if that high thought were 50", "Away , then ! on our mighty wings !", "Thou canst not", "Many there are who worship me , and more", "What is true knowledge .", "Or of his first-born son : ask your own heart ;", "Had no beginning , have had one as mean", "Which shall deprive thee of a single good 560", "In number than the dust of thy dull earth ,", "Which name thou wilt : he makes but to destroy .", "Dost thou not recognise", "Was it so in Eden ?", "Thee to be mine .", "What wouldst thou think ?", "As I know not death ,", "No more ;", "I seem that which I am ;", "Save with the truth : was not the Tree , the Tree", "Yet thy God is alone ; and is he happy ? Lonely , and good ?", "Poor clay ! And thou pretendest to be wretched ! Thou !", "The billows and be safe . I will not say , 20", "Advance !", "His worship is but fear .", "Or hath destroyed in few ?", "Breathe , save the erect ones ?", "Cain ! thou hast heard .", "Less than thy father 's \u2014 for he wished to know !", "I tell thee that the Serpent was no more", "Show in an hour what he hath made in many ,", "The Seraphs \u2019 love can be but ignorance :", "Borne on the air", "In nature being earth also \u2014 more in wisdom ,", "Have rolled o'er your dead ashes , and your seed 's ,", "If I am not , enquire", "But changes make not death , except to clay ;", "In hymns and harpings , and self-seeking prayers ,", "Existence \u2014 it will cease \u2014 and thou wilt be \u2014", "Let him crowd orb on orb : he is alone", "Though multiplied to animated atoms ,", "Save what I am . He conquered ; let him reign ! 130", "Where I will lead thee .", "Perhaps \u2014 but long outlive both thine and thee .", "But we , who see the truth , must speak it . Thy 240", "No end ; and some , which would pretend to have", "Which speaks within you .", "Was there to envy in the narrow bounds", "But thou art clay \u2014 and canst but comprehend", "And so it shall be ever \u2014 but we will", "Of mortals from that place", "Since he could overcome them , and foreknew", "Master of spirits .", "Have stood before thee as I am : a serpent", "Who shall \u2014 be thou amongst the first .", "I ask", "They have deceived thee ; thou shalt live .", "Would not have made thee what thou art .", "Through thee and thine .", "Have been and must be all unchangeable .", "What must he be you cannot love when known ?", "That", "And walk the waters ; \u201d and the man shall walk", "The phantasm of the world ; of which thy world", "Thou'lt know here \u2014 and hereafter .", "Darest thou look on Death ?", "Fresh souls and bodies", "We are immortal !\u2014 nay , he 'd have us so ,", "Divided with me : Life and Death \u2014 and Time \u2014", "Yourselves , in your resistance . Nothing can", "For such companionship , I would not now", "The million millions \u2014", "With all thy Tree of Knowledge .", "Less burthensome to his immense existence 150", "Prefer an independency of torture", "The star which watches , welcoming the morn .", "Ne'er the less ,", "So restless in his wretchedness , must still", "Eternity \u2014 and heaven and earth \u2014 and that", "That thirst ; nor ask thee to partake of fruits", "Throughout all space . Where should I dwell ? Where are", "One who aspired to be what made thee , and", "And still loftier than the archangels .", "Of you , young mortals , lights at once upon", "Those who once peopled or shall people both \u2014", "Create , and re-create \u2014 perhaps he 'll make", "An hour , when , tossed upon some water-drops", "By suffering .", ", shall come back to thee ,", "His power . I dwell apart ; but I am great :\u2014", "Yet it sparkles still .", "Look there ! 120", "Of thy fond parents , for their daring , proves .", "All foul and fulsome \u2014 and the very best", "Your vision .", "Have made ye live for ever , in the joy", "It may be thou shalt be as we . 120", "Unfold its gates !", "Is leader of the host of Heaven .", "What , if I show to thee things which have died ,", "Ask Eve , your mother : bears she not the knowledge", "That bows to him , who made things but to bend", "But that 's a mystery . Cain , come on with me .", "With all ! But He ! so wretched in his height ,", "We breathe not by a mortal measurement \u2014", "I tempt none ,", "As populous as this : at present there", "Linked to a servile mass of matter \u2014 and ,", "And why not adore ?", "It has no shape ; but will absorb all things", "And yet thou seest .", "With torture of my dooming . There will come", "The worlds beyond thy little world , nor be", "As true .", "Spirits and Men , at least we sympathise \u2014", "Each bright and sparkling \u2014 what dost think of them ?", "Who guard the tempting tree . When thousand ages", ", all foredoomed to be", "A man shall say to a man , \u201c Believe in me ,", "Evil or good what is proclaimed to them", "Thou didst before I came upon thee .", "Of spirits and of men .", "Ask the Destroyer .", "To the smooth agonies of adulation ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 207}, {"query": ["Fos . And liberty ?", "Who ought to be the prop of yours ?", "And after dreaming a disturb\u00e9d vision", "Fos . Most welcome , noble Signor .", "And me for having lived , and you yourself", "And only friend ! What happiness !", "Freedom as is the first imprisonment .", "Even on these dull damp walls , and \u2014\u2014", "Will be more merciful than man , and bear me", "Which they term annals , history , what you will ,", "Another region , with their flocks and herds ;", "Fos . And must I leave them \u2014 all ?", "And waken Auster , sovereign of the Tempest ! 130", "Fos . And wherefore not ? All then shall speak of me :", "That I was wicked . If it be so , may", "Of them and theirs , awoke and found them not .", "Is't true my wife accompanies me ?", "Which you bestowed upon me as my sire .", "Fos . Father , let not these", "From the rough deep , with such identity", "Thou askest .\u2014 What of me ? may soon be asked ,", "Your hand !", "Fos . At once \u2014 by better means , as briefer .", "When gorgeously o'ergilding any towers", "Of seeing thee again so soon , and so", "May I not see them also ?", "Would have but drawn upon his ag\u00e9d head", "Fos . And I to be attended . Once more , father ,", "Reflected upon this , but acquiesce .", "I know if mind may bear us up , or no ,", "Fos . Ah ! they relent , then \u2014 I had ceased to hope it :", "Who dares accuse my Country ?", "Must youth support itself on age , and I", "Myself , with those about me , to create", "And neither do I fear .", "With all their blank , or dismal stains , than is", "Last night in yon enormous spider 's net ,", "Fos . Ah ! you never yet", "Fos . And thine !\u2014 but I am blinded by the torch .", "Of the sad mountaineer , when far away", "Fos . Double ,", "Seemed ploughing deep into your heart ; you never 210", "And torture positive , far worse than death", "Fos . Nothing . I cannot charge", "With the like answer \u2014 doubt and dreadful surmise \u2014", "Or with a cry which rather shamed my judges", "Venice without beholding him or you ,", "Fos . Is this , sir , your whole mission ?", "To lash up from the deep the Adrian waves ,", "I did not deem this poor place could have drawn 250", "I shall depart , then , without meeting them ?", "I recognise some names familiar to me ,", "You call this weakness ! It is strength ,", "Fos . I cannot wish them all they have inflicted .", "Than me ; but \u2018 tis not all , for there are things", "Her callow brood . What letters are these which", "Reproaches , which boot nothing . Is it \u2014 is it ,", "While every furrow of the vessel 's track", "More woful \u2014 such as this small dungeon , where", "Glide through the crevices made by the winds", "Fos . Never yet did mariner", "Fos . Let us address us then , since so it must be ,", "To leave abodes like this : but when I feel", "But that they never granted \u2014 nor will grant ,", "Fos . How know you that here , where the genial wind", "A music most impressive , but too transient :", "Collects such pasture for the longing sorrow", "Of such support ! But for myself alone ,", "Unless thou tell'st my tale .", "As the Phenicians did on Jonah , then", "Those lying likenesses of lying men .", "Look to my children \u2014 to your last child 's children :", "I am past hunger : but my lips are parched \u2014 30", "A like hereafter !", "Fos . And I feel , besides , that mine", "Fos . No doubt ! but \u2018 tis", "No light , save yon faint gleam which shows me walls", "Is one away from Venice , I look back", "Save those of Venice ; but a moment ere", "Which , of its thousand wrecks , hath ne'er received", "I could endure my dungeon , for \u2018 twas Venice ;", "Will burst all cerement , even a living grave 's !", "That every step I take , even from this cell ,", "For I have such , and shown it before men ;", "But I reproach not .", "My true wife ,", "To appease the waves . The billow which destroys me", "Ye love not with more holy love than I ,", "If dungeon dates say true .", "Fos . That has a noble sound ; but \u2018 tis a sound ,", "But proudly still bestriding", "I asked for even those outlines of their kind ,", "Have heard thee name my name \u2014 our name !", "The dates of their despair , the brief words of", "Which never echoed but to Sorrow 's sounds ,", "A broken corse upon the barren Lido ,", "Fos . Let me hope not .", "A point of time , as beacon to my heart ,", "And dies .", "Holds like an epitaph their history ; 20", "Dead , but still bear me to a native grave ,", "I say ,\u2014 the parent of all honest feeling .", "And many thoughts ; but afterwards addressed", "Or those who soon must be so .\u2014 What of him ?", "But then my heart is sometimes high , and hope 100", "Fos . Not one ?", "Her beautiful towers in the receding distance ,", "Which men bequeath as portraits , and they were", "Live long to be a mother to those children", "His own and his belov\u00e9d 's name . Alas !", "Fos . No \u2014 nothing .", "And never be to you what I am now .", "But none like mine , so near their father 's palace ;", "He who loves not his Country , can love nothing .", "From fertile Italy , to barren islets ,", "Or like our fathers , driven by Attila", "To our departure . Who comes here ?", "Yet \u2014 yet \u2014 I pray you to obtain for me 100", "What can avail such words ?", "Will stream along those moted rays of light", "which bears", "Their numbers and success ; but who can number 170", ", for the gift of life ,", "Thy fond fidelity for a time deprives", "And holding on its course ; but there , afar ,", "Their hands upheld each other by the way ,", "Saw day go down upon your native spires", "Fos . Where ?", "The tyranny of silence is not lasting ,", "Will never be so white . Embrace me , father !", "Fos . Have I not borne ?", "I sometimes murmur for a moment ; but", "Fos . Ah ! if it were so ! 110", "I loved you ever \u2014 never more than now . 360", "The galley 's sails are not unfurled :\u2014 who knows ?", "More faithful pictures of Venetian story ,", "Fos . The light ! Is it the light ?\u2014 I am faint .", "And I shall be alone : no men ; no books \u2014", "Fos . My best Marina !\u2014 and our children ?", "Fos . Then my last hope 's gone .", "Fos . Now , I 'm ready \u2014", "Fos . This is mere insanity .", "Fos . What then ?", "Fos . That thought would scarcely aid me to endure it .", "I do not doubt my memory , but my life ;", "Fos .I thank you : I am better .", "The hearts which broke in silence at that parting ,", "Their tents were pitched together \u2014 I 'm alone . 190", "Or after their departure ; of that malady", "Fos . I rarely , sir , have murmured .", "Ye tutelar saints of my own city ! which", "\u2018 Twas time .", "Fos . No \u2014 you mistake ; \u2018 tis yours that shakes , my father . Farewell !", "This lady , of a house noble as yours .", "Hundreds of Doges , and their deeds and dates .", "Indeed , our last of meetings ?"], "true_target": ["Fos . I pray you set it down ;", "My memory with much save sorrow : but", "Fos . How ! would'st thou share a dungeon ?", "Fos . But still I must", "From his snow canopy of cliffs and clouds , 180", "For thou art pale too , my Marina !", "Which might have been forbidden now , as \u2018 twas", "And blighted like to mine , which I will add ,", "And the poor captive 's tale is graven on", "My doom is common ; many are in dungeons ,", "With any penalty annexed they please ,", "Suspicion from \u201c the Ten , \u201d and upon mine", "And unbelievers , like a stranded wreck ,", "Where I may mingle with the sands which skirt", "Because we have brief time for preparation ,", "Fos .", "My very soul seemed mouldering in my bosom ,", "Appalled , turn their despairing eyes on me ,", "And you perceive your presence doth disquiet", "A grief too great for many . This stone page", "Fos . Nothing at first ; but use and time had taught me 60", "I have been so beyond the common lot", "And a strange firefly , which was quickly caught", "High in the air on her return to greet", "With some faint hope , \u2018 tis true , that Time , which wears", "Repeat \u2014 not long .", "Prepare my children to behold their father .", ", without a groan , 90", "His dungeon barrier , like the lover 's record", "Of feeling or compassion on his part", "And the grey twilight of such glimmerings as", "I may breathe many years .", "No \u2014 not for thee , too good , too kind ! May'st thou", "Fos . O , ye Elements ! Where are your storms ?", "Upon my soul \u2014 the mark is set upon me .", "Exchange of chains for heavier chains I owe him .", "Triple , and tenfold torture ! But you are right ,", "Your hands !", "Let them be all to you which he was once ,", "Fos . They may repent .", "Familiarity with what was darkness ;", "Had I been cast out like the Jews from Zion ,", "What I have undergone here keep me from", "Fos . Alas ! I little thought so lingeringly", "Were far away from Venice , never saw", "Put up to patron saint such prayers for prosperous", "He knows this , or he had not sought to change them ,", "Must I consume my own , which never beat 10", "Fos . Ah , father ! though I must and will depart ,", "Fos .", "Thou earnest hither I was busy writing .", "Fos . I will do my endeavour .", "The water !", "Will be .\u2014 But wherefore breaks it not ? why live I ?", "The Mind is much , but is not all . The Mind", "And yet for this I have returned to Venice ,", "To the poor exile 's fevered eye , that he", "Fittest for such a chronicle as this ,", "Were never piled on high save o'er the dead ,", "It sinks in solitude : my soul is social .", "From fishers \u2019 hands , upon the desolate strand ,", "which out of tones and tunes", "Which only can be read , as writ , by wretches .", "What ! would they even deny me my Sire 's sepulchre ,", "Fos . These walls are silent of men 's ends ; they only", "I ne'er saw aught here like a ray . Alas !", "He could not now act otherwise . A show", "The marble down , had worn away the hate", "Fos . My name : look , \u2018 tis there \u2014 recorded next", "The exiles you speak of went forth by nations ,", "Refused me ,\u2014 so these walls have been my study ,", "That he feeds on the sweet , but poisonous thought ,", "And pleasant breezes , as I call upon you ,", "Fos . Well I know how wretched !", "Fos . Alas !", "Fos . My father still ! How long it is since I", "Like a ship on the Ocean tossed by storms , 130", "Till the sea dash me back on my own shore", "Without expectancy , has sent the blood", "The sigh of long imprisonment , the step", "Fos . Curse it not . If I am silent ,", "Fos . They might behold their parent any where .", "Fos . That of leaving", "Hath nerved me to endure the risk of death ,", "And tear the vessel , till the mariners ,", "Fos . My poor mother , for my birth , 160", "Fos . Father ! I pray you to precede me , and", "Of the survivors \u2019 toil in their new lands ,", "Fos . Till when ?", "The dove has for her distant nest , when wheeling", "Fos . Again , Marina !", "Look back . I pray you think of me .", "One lacerated like the heart which then 150", "And , though events be hidden , just men 's groans 80", "Of feet on which the iron clanked the groan", "Cast me out from amongst them , as an offering", "Fos . Blame him not .", "Fos . And I", "May all the winds of Heaven howl down the Gulf , 140", "That I once more return unto my home ,", "In that accurs\u00e9d isle of slaves and captives ,", "Fos . That were difficult .", "Howe'er remote the period . Let there be", "Fos . Return to Candia ?", "Of men 's hearts ; but I knew them not , and here", "Fos . And canst thou leave them ?", "Fos . That 's sudden . Shall I not behold my father ?", "Fos . Not long .", "Ne'er blows in all its blustering freedom ?", "Seem to hint shrewdly of them . Such stern walls", "Fos . I pray you , calm you :", "160", "And piecemeal I shall perish , if remanded .", "For Venice but with such a yearning as", "That melody ,", "Fos . I had not", "The Hall not far from hence , which bears on high 120", "Upon my former exile .", "From my own land , like the old patriarchs , seeking", "Peopled with dusty atoms , which afford", "But let me still return .", "The name of him who here preceded me ,\u2014", "Which calls up green and native fields to view", "Can scarcely be restrained from treading them ?", "As well as home and heritage ?", "Fos . Both the same to me : the after", "So calmly with its gold and crimson glory ,", "Fos . My father ! DogeJacopo ! my son \u2014 my son ! 340", "Fos . But we are not summoned yet ;", "I would have given some tears to my late country", "Fos . Aye \u2014 we but hear", "Fos . I know it \u2014 look !", "In my native air that buoyed my spirits up", "Fos . I doubt not . Father \u2014 wife \u2014 190", "Fos . Had I gone forth", "Accumulated ills .", "Fos . Well !", "It must be borne . Father , your blessing .", "the high waves ,", "Have borne this \u2014 though I know not .", "The land I love , and never shall see more !", "Our only day ; for , save the gaoler 's torch ,", "Back to my heart , and left my cheeks like thine ,", "Our parting hours be lost in listening to", "Was kinder to mine eyes than the full Sun ,", "Of Death , the imprecation of Despair !", "Fos . Forgive \u2014\u2014", "My eyes swim strangely \u2014 where 's the door ?", "The wind may change .", "Chastened and visited , I needs must think", "Fos . \u2018 Tis the joy", "A new home and fresh state : perhaps I could", "Fos . No \u2014", "I could support the torture , there was something", "Such presence hither .", "Fos . Aye , there it is ; \u2018 tis like a mother 's curse", "Upon the bark of some tall tree ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 208}, {"query": ["That your illustrious lady be admitted .", "I know not .\u2014 It is also in my orders", "There ."], "true_target": ["Your further trial is postponed .", "I bring you food .", "I am commanded to inform you that"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 208}, {"query": ["Aye , they are fatherless , I thank you .", "Unto their home by the new Doge , not clad", "Chamber of state , her gratitude allots you .", "Why do I ask ? Thy paleness \u2014\u2014", "Accumulated ! 230", "Mothers , and wives , and sons , and sires , and subjects ,", "And not so hopelessly . This love of thine", "The fate of myriads more .", "I fear , by the prevention of the state 's", "Obey her , then : \u2018 tis she that puts thee forth .", "Doge", "To teach you not to shrink now from a lot ,", "But would not gratify yon wretch so far .", "I know it ,", "Their sting is honester .", "A few brief words of truth shame the Devil 's servants", "A Paradise ; its first inhabitants", "Away ! Let me support him \u2014 my best love ! Oh , God ! How faintly beats this heart \u2014 this pulse !", "A place which would not mingle fear with love ,", "A princely funeral will be your reproach ,", "I have seen him pass through such an ordeal as", ",", "Accept the tardy penitence of demons .", "Floating on the free waves \u2014 away \u2014 away \u2014", "It was the lot of millions , and must be", "Then leave them .", "So formed for gentle privacy of life ,", "But he , who , had he been enough protected , 90", "Those tears , or add my own . I could weep now , 420", "I 've heard of heirs in sables \u2014 you have left none", "I will divide this with you . Let us think", "Your plots could make , and vengeance could desire us ,", "Oh , the tyrants ! In such an hour too !", "It could not save , but will support you ever .", "However you \u2014 and you \u2014 and most of all , 380", "The blood of myriads reeking up to Heaven ,", "They will relieve his heart \u2014 that too kind heart \u2014", "Stand off ! be sure , that if a grasp of yours", "Of so much splendour in hypocrisy", "This crowd of palaces and prisons is not", "My best belov\u00e9d !", "Unto his happiness and mine save not", "Incarnate Lucifer ! \u2018 tis holy ground .", "Aye , weep on !", "I have informed him , not so gently , 260", "In the State 's service , I have still my dowry ,", "Yes , light us on , as to a funeral pyre ,", "Alas ! I have shed some \u2014 always thanks to you !", "Hold thy peace , old man ! I am no daughter now \u2014 thou hast no son . Oh , Foscari !", "With death , and chains , and exile in his hand ,", "To those who know to honour them .", "You feel it then at last \u2014 you !\u2014 Where is now", "Touch it not , Foscari ; \u2018 twill sting you . Signor ,", "Nobler !", "Come with me !", "As worthiest \u2014 you , sir , noble Loredano !", "the coasts", "And hoard our groans \u2014 to gaze upon the wreck", "I will be with thee .", "Be left to me to tend them ; should they die , 390", "The Prince of whom he was the elder born ,", "They are his weapons , not his armour , for", "Which floats above the place where we now stand \u2014", "May be pure patriotism . I am a woman :", "No , not thine eyes \u2014 they sparkle \u2014 how they sparkle !", "And now , when he can neither know these honours ,", "For that thought now . Would I were in his grave !", "He said not which . I would that you could bear", "His dregs of life , which you have kindly shortened :", "Upon your genealogic tree 's most green 300", "Will you not now resent it ?\u2014 Oh , for vengeance !", "Females with portions , brides and bribes for nobles !", "Our bridal bed is now his bier , 110", "To me my husband and my children were", "Fear not : that 's reserved 170", "Venetian", "From those Venetians who have skirred", "By duties paramount ; and \u2018 tis our first", "And wish you this with me beside you ?", "A moment , as the Eternal Fire , ere long ,", "Change their hearts , or your lot : the galley 's oars", "No \u2014 no , he is not dead ;", "Alas ! and this", "No hand of ours would stretch itself to meet it .", "In human breasts . Alas ! Will nothing calm you ?", "That is true ,", "O'er those they slew .", "Is Passion , and not Patriotism ; for me ,", "Though his possessions have been all consumed", "And those of \u2014\u2014", "The hangman shrinks from , as all men from him !", "My Lord , if I intrude \u2014", "There must be life yet in that heart \u2014 he could not", "And shall an evil , which so often leads", "As my poor Foscari ? Nothing was wanting", "Of our departure from this much-loved city ,", "The old martyrs would have shrunk from : he is gone ,", "I thought the dead had been beyond even you ,", "To good , depress thee thus ?", "Perhaps you fain would be alone ?", "With a last look upon our misery ?", "And everywhere .", "And I must live !", "No \u2014 not here .", "Of the familiar 's torch , which seems akin", "To darkness more than light , by lending to", "I 've heard of widows \u2019 tears \u2014", "I have sons , who shall be men .", "I thought you had no tears \u2014 you hoarded them", "And he but live , for him the very worst 320", "Chief of the Ten . Best retain it for your children .", "I thought they had been mine .", "But the tomb last of all , for there we shall", "What is this to the things thou hast borne in silence \u2014", "You talk wildly , and 300", "I have some sons , sir ,", "Here 's my arm !", "Our purposes so readily .", "To make a pageant over what you trampled . 330", "Nor would be", "The sole fit habitant of such a cell ,", "May they thrive with him", "The Stoic of the State ?", ",", "They live , they 'll make you soldiers , senators ,", "And thus far I am also the State 's debtor ,", "I do , Signor .", "So loving , so beloved ; the native of", "Ah ! the Devil come to insult the dead ! Avaunt !", "That tenderness", "A martyr 's ashes now lie there , which make it 220", "To flow through the dead lips of Foscari \u2014", "To the deceased , so you would act the part 360", "See you not , he comes here to glut his hate", "Depart . Ah ! now you look as looked my husband !", "I trust , Heaven 's will be done too !", "A sufferer , but not a loud one : why", "Here !", "Most readily .", "Too much", "By thunder blasted :", "Aye ,", "And I will find an hour to wipe away", "Will reach it always . See how he shrinks from me !", "Than his prolonged captivity :\u2014 I am punished", "Return to Candia .", "How ?", "To whom ye speak , and perils of such speech ?", "For such a son \u2014 thou cold inveterate hater !", "And full of reptiles , not less loathsome , though", "Let him partake it !", "Will not be suffered to proceed with us .", "What pangs are those they have spared you ?", "Might have repaid protection in this moment ,", "May breathe it without prejudice .", "Abhorrent policy ,", "Nothing more easy . He partakes it now \u2014", "If race be aught , it is in qualities", "I would that they beheld their father in", "\u2018 Tis 50", "To let him know", "As such I recommend it , as I would 350", "And the sweet freedom of the earth and air ,", "And why not say as soon the \u201c generous man ? \u201d", "I have pierced him to the core of his cold heart .", "Of destinies : each day secures him more", "Who obtained that justice ?", "Had better now be seated , nor as yet", "I come to tell thee the result of their", "Might strike them : this is not their atmosphere ,", "I care not for his frowns ! We can but die ,", "I thought I could have borne it , when I saw him", "He might have lived ,", "A moment since , while yet it had a soul ,", "May the worm which never dieth feed upon them !", "As I had been without it . Couldst thou see here ?", "The mind should make its own !", "And not his honour .", "That I would rather look upon his corse", "Of such . Well , sirs , your will be done ! as one day ,", "From his high place , with such relentless coldness ;", "Their victims ; but ne'er heard , until this hour ,", "Cannot assist his father .", "Endeavour \u2014\u2014 Oh , my husband !", "As more generous !", "You came here to enjoy a heartless triumph", "From him or such as he is .", "Share that \u2014 all things except new separation ;", "For your oppressors .", "The dungeon gloom is deep enough without you ,", "For an ungrateful and tyrannic soil", "The retribution of his wrongs !\u2014 Well , well !", "Your exile as he bears it .", "Come , Foscari , take the hand the altar gave you ;", "They feel not , but no less are shivered . Come ,", "Doubtless , as your nice feelings would prescribe ,", "Their sire was a mere hunted outlaw . Well , 370", "Alive to love , are yet awake to terror ;", "Which shall be consecrated to his rites ,"], "true_target": ["Wretch ! \u2018 tis no virtue , but the policy", "Ah ! I thought it would be so .", "My husband !", "Knew sunbeam , and the sallow sullen glare", "I would not cavil about climes or regions .", "Were wretched exiles .", "And by my uncles ; we must sail ere night . 220", "Yes ; worse he could not .", "Slaves , exiles \u2014 what you will ; or if they are", "Here , or in the ducal chamber \u2014", "Hope not ?", "Though last , not least , thy silence ! Couldst thou say", "ACT IV .", "How dost thou ? How are those worn limbs ? Alas !", "And I \u2014\u2014", "Of his high blood . Thus much I 've learnt , although", "Unjust , and \u2014\u2014", "Look not so stern \u2014 but get you back , and pore", "Were barrenness in Venice ! Would my mother", "Resemble that you exercise on earth .", "The indulgence of your colleagues ; but he knew it .", "Till he himself shall brood in it alone .", ",", "It is my last of duties , and may prove 340", "You shall be so no more \u2014 I will go with thee .", "To one whose foot was on an adder 's path .", "No less than Master ; I have probed his soul", "To freeze their young blood in its natural current .", "Held in the bondage of ten bald-heads ; and", "Ah , he is dying !", "Be ignorant of each other , yet I will", "And if it do , it will not 120", "No more .", "A shrine . Get thee back to thy place of torment !", "That is ,", "and this", "All ! the consummate fiends ! A thousandfold", "Grief is fantastical , and loves the dead ,", "Small dungeon is all that belongs to thee", "That 's false !", "A cell so far below the water 's level ,", "And not their present fee . Their senses , though", "Farewell ! at least to this detested dungeon ,", "And here ?", "Let them flow on : he wept not on the rack", "On earth to bear .", "The latter \u2014 like yourselves ; and can face both .", "Chief of the Ten . Know you , Lady ,", "Our sorrow .", "Yes \u2014 with many a pang !", "Even by your murderous laws . Leave his remains 200", "Chief of the Ten . Lady , we revoke not", "Of leaves and most mature of fruits , and there", "Of Egypt and her neighbour Araby :", "That you", "I speak of thee !", "Wherefore not ?", "Oh , God !\u2014 My Foscari , how fare you ?", "Which he has peopled often , but ne'er fitly", "Which you have made a Prince 's son \u2014 my husband ;", "Sending its pestilence through every crevice ,", "But let it only be their heritage ,", "A dreary comfort in my desolation .", "Imperfect happiness or high ambition ,", "Nor would accept them if he could , you , Signors ,", "And what of him ? 70", "Come , come , old man !", "Such useless passion . Until now thou wert", "His tempter 's .", "More than in years ; and mine , which is as old", "And sneering lip the pang , but he partakes it . 310", "But \u2014 I can leave them , children as they are ,", "From tyrannous injustice , and enough", "Let us proceed . Doge , lead the way .", "But oppresses 280", "Which , as compared with what you have undergone", "From that atrocity .", "To shame him , and they cannot shame him now .", "And \u2014\u2014", "He 's busy , look , About the business you provided for him . Are ye content ?", "It may be so ; and who hath made us mad ?", "They ,", "Will one day thank you better .", "What !", "With Loredano mourning like an heir .", "It is too much to have survived the first .", "Men and Angels ! 240", "Doge", "Will quickly clear the harbour .", "There 's death in that damp , clammy grasp .", "Of late , is mercy .", "We say the \u201c generous steed \u201d to express the purity 290", "Foscari ; now let us go , and leave this felon ,", "Before the Tartar into these salt isles ,", "Our children will be cared for by the Doge ,", "They have fed well , slept soft , and knew not that", "That he is known .", "Created by degrees an ocean Rome ;", "Juggle no more with that poor remnant , which ,", "In all things painful . If they 're sick , they will", "And I , who would have given my blood for him , 100", "How have you sped ? We are wretched , Signor , as", "Have nought to give but tears ! But could I compass", "And these vile damps , too , and yon thick green wave", "Aught in its favour , who would praise like thee ?", "The dungeon vapours its bituminous smoke ,", "As far as touches torturing the living .", "You will .", "Behold the State 's care for its sons and mothers !", "Ends with his life , and goes not beyond murder ,", "No , ye only make them ,", "To scatter o'er his kind as he thinks fit ;", "My husband ! let us on : this but prolongs", "Caution !", "Of those who fain must deal perforce with vice :", "My children ! true \u2014 they live , and I must live", "Which cloud whate'er we gaze on , even thine eyes \u2014", "To man thyself , I trust , with time , to master", "Lo ! there is the blood beginning 240", "No \u2014 no \u2014 no more of that : even they relent", "What ?", "They tortured from him . This", "Again ! still , Marina .", "By some strange destiny , to him proved deadly . 80", "The gloom of this eternal cell , which never", "So much !\u2014 no more .", "In short , to trample on the fallen \u2014 an office 330", "Another land , and who so blest and blessing", "We 'll part", "As died their father . Oh ! what best of blessings 210", "You banished from his palace and tore down", "Had been so !", "Wish you more funerals ?", "consigned to powers which may", "Purpose , with idle and superfluous pomp ,", "Touch it not , dungeon miscreants ! your base office", "So I could see thee with a quiet aspect ,", "I have sued to accompany thee hence , 140", "Of cold looks upon manifold griefs ! You came", "To me to bury and to mourn ; but if", "Aye , he may veil beneath a marble brow", "Be it to the earth 's end , from this abhorred ,", "Blush to find ancestors , who would have blushed", "As spy upon us , or as hostage for us ?", "Shall weep more \u2014 never , never more .", "To teach you to be less a child . From this", "What hast thou done ?", "Men : howsoever let him have my thanks", "The groans of slaves in chains , and men in dungeons ,", "Learn you to sway your feelings , when exacted 200", "The body bleeds in presence of the assassin .", "Imprisonment and actual torture ?", "I know the former better than yourselves ;", "Country and home . I loved him \u2014 how I loved him !", "And the apparel of the grave .", "Last council on thy doom .", "And him to whose good offices you owe", "Chief of the Ten . Do you", "The rack , the grave , all \u2014 any thing with thee , 40", "I have heard of murderers , who have interred", "And how feel you ?", "To be sued to in vain \u2014 to mark our tears ,", "To be Venetian .", "Pretend still to this office ?", "The Country and the People whom he loved ,", "As Doge , but simply as a senator .", "Came you here to insult us , or remain", "In part your past imprisonment .", "If you come for our thanks , take them , and hence !", "As yours , is better in its product , nay \u2014", "Chief of the Ten . We", "And", "And yet you see how , from their banishment 150", "Thus leave me .", "Would raise us from the gulf wherein we are plunged , 430", "And if they do , Heaven will not", "To bring them up to serve the State , and die", "Thy life is safe .", "Leave him to me ; you would have done so for", "Cannot comply with your request . His relics 350", "Pass on .", "Remained of Rome for their inheritance ,", "For the only boon I would have asked or taken", "My God ! My God !", "I know his fate may one day be their heritage ,", "Sirs , I am ready .", "Though", "Signers , your pardon : this is mockery . 320", "Has been anticipated : it is known .", "We will , and for the sake of those who are ,", "Shall be exposed with wonted pomp , and followed", "And shall be more so when I see us both", "Bowed down by such oppression ; yes , I thought", "Yes ; all things which conduce to other men 's", "Doge , look there !", "Of this wide realm , of which thy sire is Prince .", "Until they are useless ; but weep on ! he never", "The last , were all men 's merits well rewarded .", "Their antique energy of mind , all that"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 208}, {"query": ["Still .", "Even so : when he ,", "Were fearfully against him , although narrowed", "What laws ?\u2014 \u201c The Ten \u201d are laws ; and if they were not ,", "The whole isle .", "They sleep not", "Decides to-day must not give way before", "His fourscore years and five may linger on", "Demanding whether he should augur him", "The torch , there !", "He is safe , I tell you ;", "To have the courtesy to abdicate .", "If we should measure forth the cities taken", "\u2018 Tis not the first time", "What 's here ?", "Time to admonish them again .", "If she so wills it .", "True \u2014", "Ago to Carmagnuola .", "Have made it law \u2014 who shall oppose that law ?", "Hark ! 280", "We sought the Doge .", "Retire , But leave the torch .", "Bid to his Dukedom .", "As how ?", "A bow-shot of the \u201c Riva di Schiavoni . \u201d 400", "You , with your wonted scruples , teach us pause ,", "Where ?", "From its sad visions of the other world ,", "More seldom still .", "Most sure .", "Its solitude , and nothing more diverts it", "This from you .", "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 ?", "Let her go on ; it irks not me .", "His sons \u2014 and he had four \u2014 are dead , without", "We have higher business for our own . This day", "I have \u2014 and had a father . 270", "For his inauguration .", "An atom of their ancestors from earth .", "ACT V .", "Let him call up into life", "As rocks .", "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 .", "No .", "We 'll elect another ,", "The better reason", "Forthwith \u2014 when this long leave is taken . \u2018 Tis", "One who wars not with women .", "Our powers are such .", "As they are offered .", "You talk unwarily . \u2018 Twere best they hear not", "Doubtless .", "How nobler ?", "Could give him trouble farther .", "And that is vengeance .", "Right ! 350", "And so he seemed not long", "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 .", "\u2018 Twas fit that some one of such different thoughts", "I am sent hither to your husband , to", "Because we have waited long enough , and he", "The victims are not equal ; he has seen", "Saint Mark 's great bell is soon about to toll", "Her sex 's privilege .", "Not I , now", "To-morrow for a natural accident .", "The feelings", "Is dead ; so is young Foscari and his brethren \u2014", "Dreaded to have its acts beheld by others .", "Where go you , sirrah ?", "Fail to move them , and to remove him : since", "More soundly .", "Cared for \u2014 what would he more ?", "He said himself that nought", "I used no poison , bribed no subtle master", "The act was passing , it might have suspended", "If not , \u2018 twill punish his hypocrisy .", "So that the thing be done . You may , for aught", "Take mine .", "Neither are of my office , noble Lady !", "Had we known this when 260", "To private havoc , such as between him 320", "\u201c The good day or good night ? \u201d his Doge-ship answered ,", "In their accelerated graves , nor will 330", "By the Doge Foscari , with citizens", "And the old Doge , who knew him doomed , smiled on him 300", "You must .", "Swerved .", "A start of feeling in his dungeon , never", "Yes ,", "I said \u2014 for life .", "Yet \u2018 twas important .", "\u2018 Twas true ; the question was the death resolved", "As you please \u2014", "Alone is aimed at .", "And make him null .", "Than calling it at moments back to this .", "His son , and the whole race of Foscaris .", "Why so ?", "As the first of his son 's last banishment , 20", "In Canea \u2014 afterwards the freedom of", "They owe me still my father 's and my uncle 's .", "Sires of a hundred sons , but cannot kindle", "You have consented to", "Learnt but in eighty years . Brave Carmagnuola", "A last ! as , soon , he shall", "Stalk frowning round my couch , and , pointing towards", "A crown to him who saved a citizen"], "true_target": ["And my dead father .", "If they were from his heart , he may be thankful :", "He receives them", "You may know him better .", "I have prepared such arguments as will not 50", "The delegates appointed to convey", "\u201c There often has been question about you . \u201d", "The ducal palace , marshal me to vengeance .", "I will be legislator in this business .", "Shall be the last of the old Doge 's reign ,", "I never smiled on them .", "That he has paid me !Chief of the Ten . What debt did he owe you ? 370", "Your answer , Francis Foscari !", "In which \u201d", "\u2018 Twill be full soon , and may be closed for ever !", "He was the safeguard of the city .", "The public benefit ; and what the State", "When I came here . The galley floats within", "The Romans", "and \u201c the Ten \u201d", "The Council 's resolution .", "\u2018 Twas so", "They are the State 's .", "His dignity is looked to , his estate", "How !\u2014 my Giunta !", "Its saviour first , then victim .", "A year 's imprisonment", "You do well 270", "To nurse them wisely . Foscari \u2014 you know", "Say rather", "Because his son is dead ?", "gave a crown", "To await their coming here , and join them in", "And I \u2014\u2014", "Till Foscari fills his . Each night I see them", "Being", "May practise , she doth well to recommend it .", "Destroyed by him , or through him , the account", "Let the fair dame preserve", "Why , what should change me ?", "Of Carmagnuola , eight months ere he died ;", "Should whisper that a harsh majority 130", "To grant it the third time .", "The virtue which this noble lady most", "In battle : the rewards are equal . Now ,", "Liberation .", "With deadly cozenage , eight long months beforehand \u2014", "Denounced of retribution from all time ;", "Well , sir !", "Age has no heart to break .", "The impression of his former instances :", "Of private passion may not interrupt", "decided his destruction ,", "From ours should be a witness , lest false tongues", "Its passage , but impedes it not \u2014 once passed .", "The thing 's decreed . The Giunta", "The hour approaches , and the wind is fair .", "Even ag\u00e9d men , be , or appear to be ,", "You talk but idly .", "And be thou fixed in purpose for this once .", "For life .", "See , the Duke comes !", "In his own portion of the palace , with", "He has seen his son 's half broken , and , except", "Lived longer than enough . Hence ! in to council !", "We must be speedy : let us call together", "Eight months of such hypocrisy as is", "We have the implicit order of the Giunta", "You forget , you cannot .", "To him who took a city : and they gave", "The busy have no time for tears .", "And men of eighty", "Shorten the path to the eternal cure .", "What ! Do you regret a traitor ?", "And all will prosper .", "They are , in all maternal things .", "Of the destructive art of healing , to", "Met the great Duke at daybreak with a jest ,", "And see whose most may sway them , yours or mine .", "My sires by violent and mysterious maladies . 280", "to beg him", "Sorrow preys upon", "\u2018 Tis moderate \u2014 not even life for life , the rule", "\u2018 Twas his own wish that all should be done promptly . 120", "As much of ceremony as you will ,", "After the very night in which \u201c the Ten \u201d 290", "In early life its foe , but in his manhood ,", "Come , they are met by this time ; let us join them ,", "Your sentence , then ?", "I have visited these places .", "Announce \u201c the Ten 's \u201d decree .", "My dabbling in vile drugs .", "And present", "I care , depute the Council on their knees ,", "I 'll take their voices on it ne'ertheless ,", "Their thoughts , their objects , have been sounded , do not", "He answered quickly , and must so be answered ;", "My sire and uncle \u2014 I consent . Men may ,", "Kind to relieve him from the cares of State .", "There is none , I tell you , 40", "All that 's essential \u2014 leave the rest to me .", "The time narrows , Signor . 410", "\u201c That he in truth had passed a night of vigil ,", "The present Duke is Paschal Malipiero .", "I have .", "Their office : they 'll be here soon after us .", "His sons expire by natural deaths , and I", "You may .", "As long as he can drag them : \u2018 tis his throne", "It shows"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 208}, {"query": ["A dotage which may justify this deed", "The bell tolls on !\u2014 let 's hence \u2014 my brain 's on fire !", "The sound ! I heard it once , but once before ,", "The Israelite and his Philistine foes . 220", "Now he is mine \u2014 my broken-hearted boy !", "But the decree being rendered , I obey .", "No \u2014 I merely", "Already mentioned in our former congress .", "They have taken my son from me , and now aim", "No . I", "Chief of the Ten . Yet go not forth so quickly .", "The pillars of stone Dagon 's temple on", "I was publicly", "Be firm , my son !", "Without these jealous spies upon the great .", "And not alone refused , but ye exacted", "My daughter !", "Boy ! no tears .", "To the alternative of a decree ,", "Chief of the Ten . We", "I never thought to be divorced except", "Farewell , sirs !", "Doge", "Three days are left you to remove from hence ,", "As sign of our esteem .", "Farewell ! Is there aught else ?", "And even to move but slowly must begin", "No ; my seat here has been a throne till now . Marina ! let us go .", "You behold", "To move betimes . Methinks I see amongst you", "Not so : they shall await you in my chamber .", "\u2018 Tis the knell of my poor boy ! My heart aches bitterly .", "Now to solicit from your wisdom", "Could tell a tale ; but I invoke them not", "As I have laid down dearer things than life :", "And gentle preludes to strong acts .\u2014 Go on !", "While he lived , he was theirs , as fits a subject \u2014", "Accept the homage of respect ?", "Renew this instance . I have sworn to die", "It could avail thee ! but no less thou hast it .", "Return to those who sent us ?", "Of your three goodly brothers , now in earth ,", "You bore this goblet , and it is not broken .", "Is manifest , then you shall all be answered .", "What command ?", "Himself so far ungrateful , as to place", "A face I know not .\u2014 Senator ! your name ,", "Alas !", "Installed , and traversed these same halls , from which", "As Sovereign \u2014 I go out as citizen", "Will now retire .", "Ah !", "The people ,\u2014 There 's no people , you well know it ,", "An idle legend .", "As you ; but I curse not . Adieu , good Signers !", "Chief of the Ten . I have spoken . Twenty four", "When I twice before reiterated", "Your children live , Marina .", "And to prove that they are not ungrateful , nor", "Of the Republic , and the o'erwhelming cares 20", "Take it . Alas ! how thine own trembles ! 180", "Answer that ;", "Nor should do so", "Chief of the Ten . You speak in passion ,", "Then it is false , or you are true .", "I spoke not to you , but to Loredano . He understands me .", "Accept it as \u2018 tis given \u2014 proceed .", "He 's free .", "Cold to your years and services , they add", "I am , but only to these gates .\u2014 Ah !", "An hour ago I should have felt it .", "Son Jacopo ,", "That they can comfort me .", "Your services , the State allots the appanage", "Under the penalty to see confiscated", "Have judged it fitting , with all reverence ,", "May the next Duke be better than the present !", "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 .", "There is a populace , perhaps , whose looks", "Of days , since every hour has been the Country 's .", "Not useless to that Country , I would fain", "Having deliberated on the state", "I cannot comfort thee .", "From your imperial oath as Sovereign ;", "Now you are last ; but did the State demand", "But not pushed hence by fellow-citizens .", "Hours are accorded you to give an answer .", "I thank you . If the tidings which you bring", "Chief of the Ten . What ! thus in public ?", "Did I hear rightly ? Chief of the Ten . Need I say again ?", "Which you have worn so long and venerably :", "A corse \u2014 a corse , it might be , fighting for them \u2014", "There five and thirty years ago was I", "To me all hours are like . Let them approach .", "According to my honour and my conscience \u2014", "All your own private fortune .", "Chief of the Ten . We grieve for such an answer ; but it cannot", "Providence", "I can submit to all things ,", "No !", "Save with their hearts and eyes .", "Avail you aught .", "With a selected giunta from the Senate", "Than should become a Sovereign 's retreat .", "Not eight hours , Signor ,", "Signors , if it please you ,", "Chief of the Ten . My Lord , if you indeed", "Chief of the Ten . Speak !", "Such pure antipathy to poisons as", "In such a curse as mine , provoked by such", "Envy the dead .", "Only repeat \u2014 I am ready .", "But this life having been so many years", "We are going ; do you fear that we shall bear", "You have reason . I have spoken much", "To impede the act , I must no less obey", "Ducats , to make retirement not less splendid", "Chief of the Ten . With this , then , must we", "My son , you are feeble ; take this hand .", "They have no further power upon those ashes :", "Not till I pass the threshold of these doors .", "Live to hear this !\u2014 the first Doge who e'er heard 230", "Chief of the Ten . You are no longer Doge ; you are released", "Of the Republic never would have shown 180", "Chief of the Ten . Hear you then the last decree ,", "Chief of the Ten . Your answer , Duke !", "More than my wont : it is a foible which", "And he is in his shroud !", "Get thee ready , we must mourn", "Will alter nothing which I have to say .", "At my too long worn diadem and ring .", "Against his Country , had he a thousand lives", "Bear hence the body .", "My wish to abdicate , it was refused me : 40", "My child ! this is a phantasy of grief .", "I am ready to lay down my life for her ,", "Signers , you may depart : what would you more ?", "Can touch me more than him thou look'st on there ;", "Alone , come all the world around me , I"], "true_target": ["And here my staff : thus propped will I go forth . Chief of the Ten . It must not be \u2014 the people will perceive it .", "For my own part , I credit neither ; \u2018 tis", "If they be good , say on ; you need not fear", "Is he \u2014\u2014", "Which , at this moment , doubly must oppress", "You ever were my dearest offspring , when", "Which only ulcerate the heart the more ,", "Within an hour I 'll hear you .", "What , ho ! my servants there !", "Go and obey our Country 's will :", "No Prince \u2014 200", "Chief of the Ten . \u201c The Ten , \u201d", "And that is five and thirty years ago ;", "My Country called me here to exercise ,", "Let them resume the gewgaws !", "Daughter !", "Broad eminence I was invested Duke .", "Chief of the Ten . Will not the Duke", "May shame you ; but they dare not groan nor curse you , 260", "Or a Prince 's son .", "Your ducal robes must be put off ; but for 170", "The exile of the disinterr\u00e9d ashes", "What ?", "Such sound for his successor : happier he ,", "Chief of the Ten . Reduce us not", "Definitive and absolute !", "Your grief distracts you .", "No .\u2014 Have you done ?", "In full exertion of the functions , which", "Not even eight minutes \u2014 there 's the ducal ring , 190", "For us to look beyond .", "Am now and evermore . But we will bear it .", "Prolongs my days to prove and chasten me ; 50", "This insult at the least was spared him .", "Inform the Signory from me , the Doge ,", "A duty , paramount to every duty .", "Elsewhere .", "Will now descend the stairs by which I mounted 240", "Of the State 's palace , at the least retire", "I feel too much thou hast not .", "If I could have foreseen that my old age", "Else \u2014\u2014", "Daughter , it is superfluous ; I have long", "An oath from me that I would never more", "Chief of the Ten . If you would have the three days named extended ,", "If \u2018 twas so , I can", "You have heard it .", "And call Marina ,", "A Sovereign should die standing . My poor boy !", "Else you dare not deal thus by them or me .", "I am old , sir ,", "Elected , and so will I be deposed .", "To sovereignty \u2014 the Giants \u2019 Stairs , on whose", "To the point \u2014", "To fall upon you ! else they would , as erst", "Of twenty-five of the best born patricians ,", "He to his grave , and I to pray for mine .", "Of yours , although the law does not , nor will .", "No more \u2014 no more of that .", "I must look on him once more .", "I do", "Instead of that \u2014\u2014", "My only answer .", "What mean you ?", "Have served you , so have I , and I and they", "Known Loredano .", "By the private staircase , which conducts you towards", "He speaks truth .", "Your father was my friend .\u2014 But sons and fathers !\u2014", "But come ; my son and I will go together \u2014 250", "My boy ! Couldst thou but know \u2014\u2014", "But ye have no right to reproach my length", "Are bent upon this rash abandonment", "Chief of the Ten . Why", "So rashly ? \u2018 twill give scandal .", "Was not of mine , but more excuses you ,", "\u2018 Tis the fittest time ;", "My services have called me up those steps ,", "I am proud to say , would not enrich the treasury .", "Your years , so long devoted to your Country ,", "Well I recognise", "The landing-place of the canal .", "There are the princes of the Prince !", "That last clause ,", "\u2018 tis not", "They were more numerous , nor can be less so 110", "Stay ! four and twenty hours", "I see the man \u2014 what mean'st thou ?", "Such power I do believe there might exist", "To burst , if aught of venom touches it .", "Pomp is for Princes \u2014 I am none !\u2014 That 's false ,", "My attainted predecessor , stern Faliero \u2014", "Stir \u2014 in my train , at least . I entered here", "I take yours , Loredano , from the hand", "And their desponding shades came flitting round", "Inasmuch as it shows , that I approach", "But nothing will advance ; no , not a moment . 60", "The whole Republic : when the general will", ",", "These white hairs !", "As old as I am , and I 'm very old ,", "The resignation of the ducal ring ,", "Most fit for such an hour as this .", "Earth and Heaven !", "The malice of my foes will drive me down them .", "His own high dignity before his Country ;", "True ; but in freedom , 210", "What you decree \u2014 decree .", "You , by your garb , Chief of the Forty !", "Applying poisons there as antidotes .", "Ye will reverberate this peal ; and I", "But for my dignity \u2014 I hold it of", "You shall not", "It is your province .", "Alone !", "The palace with us ? Its old walls , ten times", "You have heard me .Chief of the Ten . With all due reverence we retire .", "Would", "Marina ! art thou willing ?", "An appanage of twenty hundred golden 30", "By the same portals , but as citizen .", "Was prejudicial to the State , the Chief", "My time is hers .", "Even then I was not young .", "All these vain ceremonies are base insults ,", "Soon may be a Prince no longer .", "Off with your arms !\u2014 That bell !", "I feel athirst \u2014 will no one bring me here 290 A cup of water ? Bar . I \u2014\u2014", "Have consecrated my last moments to her .", "I shall not need so many seconds .", "To the point ! I know of old the forms of office ,", "\u2018 Tis said that our Venetian crystal has", "Give it way : 70", "We willingly will lengthen them to eight ,", "Are evil , you may say them ; nothing further", "My unhappy children !", "I cannot break my oath .", "I have obeyed your summons . Chief of the Ten . We come once more to urge our past request .", "Instead of your compliance .", "And I to answer . Chief of the Ten . What ?"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 208}, {"query": ["He reigned : then let his funeral rites be princely .", "Your plans , and do your work . Are they not yours ?", "Here come our colleagues .", "Their 340", "And not less , I must needs think , for the sake", "Heed not her rash words ;", "I pray you sit .", "Against it at this moment .", "This edict .", "Are you then thus fixed ?", "I would support you .", "He means", "He has not had", "And twice it was refused .", "The old man is deposed , his name degraded ,", "And yet he seems", "Sit down , my Lord ! You tremble .", "Had nought to envy him within . Where is he ? 10", "Let us return , then .", "This stroke", "I protest", "Your modes of vengeance , nay , poetical ,", "From louder tongues than mine ; they have gone beyond", "This is no prelude to such persecution", "Chief of the Ten . We will not note them down .", "Where is the Doge ?", "These are words ;", "Unasked ?", "Of Malipiero .", "Be troubled now .", "I do beseech you , lean upon us !", "The misery to die a subject where", "Die in his robes :", "But discarded Princes 60", "Retrench not from their moments .", "Of the sire as has fallen upon the son ,", "A feud . But when all is accomplished , when", "Did not the Doge deny this strongly ?", "At your own peril ?", "But passed here merely on our path from council .", "Whom we now act against not only saved 310", "Yours !", "And you and yours triumphant , shall you sleep ?", "How bears the Doge", "Not even its opposite , Love , so peoples air", "You would deprive this old man of all business ?", "The Doge unto his private palace . Say !", "And therefore", "Chief of the Ten . Heaven 's peace be with him !", "A very Ovid in the art of hating ;", "All openness .", "And have you confidence in such a project ?", "This undesired association in 140", "The bell !", "Like a frail vessel . I respect your griefs .", "In my mind , too deep .", "He must not", "What art thou writing , With such an earnest brow , upon thy tablets ?", "We seek his presence ?", "He could not have lived long ; but I have done", "That which changes me .", "I would they could !", "Just now , though Venice tottered o'er the deep", "But I have seen him sometimes in a calm", "But let him", "He sinks !\u2014 support him !\u2014 quick \u2014 a chair \u2014 support him !", "This happens in the most contemned and abject", "It must be done with all the deference", "He dealt in such ?", "Solicited permission to retire ,", "Her circumstances must excuse her bearing .", "More spectral or fantastical than Hate ;", "Chief of the Ten . If it be so ,", "Due to his years , his station , and his deeds . 30", "We will accompany , with due respect , 270"], "true_target": ["Why would the general vote compel me hither ?", "And foreign traitor ?", "When embarks the son ?", "This proposition to the last , though vainly .", "\u2018 Tis thus", "Lady , we knew not of this sad event ,", "States , stung humanity will rise to check it .", "My best to save his honours , and opposed", "Are seldom long of life .", "Forbear ;", "Your friend ?", "\u2018 Twill break his heart .", "Still so inexorable ?", "My brethren , will we not ?", "What if he will not ?", "Upon it barbarous .", "But you , I know , are marble to retain", "Will move all Venice in his favour .", "Fancy 's distemperature ! There is no passion", "It shall not be 230", "They speak your language , watch your nod , approve", "And did not this shake your suspicion ?", "Enter the Deputation as before .", "And art thou sure", "Let us return . \u2018 Tis time enough to-morrow .", "So desolate , that the most clamorous grief", "Vault has been often opened of late years .", "Inter his son before we press upon him", "Oh ! they 'll hear as much one day", "Of humbling me for my vain opposition .", "We will not interrupt", "No \u2014 not now .", "And why not wait these few years ?", "I 'll not consent .", "The Duke is with his son .", "A parent 's sorrows .", "With phantoms , as this madness of the heart .", "Behold ! your work 's completed ! Chief of the Ten . Is there then No aid ? Call in assistance !", "We will remit him till the rites are over .", "\u2018 Tis hard upon his years .", "You shall not depart without", "Bidding farewell .", "But if this deposition should take place", "Humanity !", "The attainted", "Our own , but added others to her sway .", "The penalty of saving cities . He", "By our united influence in the Council ,", "Chief of the Ten . Is the Duke aware", "But he has twice already", "Why press his abdication now ?", "The body of his son .", "An escort fitting past and present rank .", "But Grief is lonely , and the breaking in 250", "Your Giunta 's duties .", "And will they press their answer on the Doge ?", "All , except Lor ., answer , Yes .", "In his countenance , I grant you , never ;", "Ah ! that seems", "And yet unburied .", "That 's an error , and you 'll find it", "Was Carmagnuola", "This last calamity ?", "His sons all dead , his family depressed ,", "Chief of the Ten . We are agreed , then ?", ", to you", "Could I but be certain", "That remains for proof . 150", "Even their exorbitance of power : and when", "You are ingenious , Loredano , in", "Ere you sleep with your fathers .", "But be human ! 160", "I owe , by way of foil to the more zealous ,", "Chief of the Ten . St. Mark 's , which tolls for the election", "But will the laws uphold us ?", "You have a son ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 208}, {"query": ["I mean not", "I shall fulfil my office .", "To oppose them , but \u2014\u2014", "Let us view them : they ,", "For them , but not for us ;", "All are not met , but I am of your thought", "Chosen , however reluctantly so chosen ,"], "true_target": ["I am silent .", "A place within the sanctuary ; but being", "Most true . I say no more .", "A summons to \u201c the Ten ! \u201d why so ?", "I sought not", "So far \u2014 let 's in .", "No doubt , are worth it .", "I would know why ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 208}, {"query": ["Let us not", "In earnest councils \u2014 we will not be least so .", "Alone can answer ; they are rarely wont", "Something , at least to you or me .", "Patricians of the Senate \u2014 you are one ,", "That is enough .", "To view the mysteries .", "Signor ,", "You will know why anon , 70", "But me no \u201c buts \u201d unless you would pass o'er", "Be latest in obeying \u201c the Ten 's \u201d summons .", "In Venice \u201c but \"' s a traitor .", "If you obey : and , if not , you no less", "The Bridge which few repass .", "Decemvir , it is surely for the Senate 's", "By previous proclamation . We are summoned \u2014", "Will know why you should have obeyed ."], "true_target": ["I am the son of Marco Memmo .", "Chosen delegates , a school of wisdom , to", "\u201c The Ten \u201d", "Be thus admitted , though as novices ,", "If we divulge them , doubtless they are worth 90", "As we hope , Signor ,", "Thus hesitate ? \u201c The Ten \u201d have called in aid", "To let their thoughts anticipate their purpose", "Both honoured by the choice or chance which leads us 80", "Why", "Of their deliberation five and twenty", "one day hope to be", "Being worth our lives", "To mingle with a body so august .", "And all may honestly ,", "And I another ; and it seems to me", "The earliest are most welcome"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 208}, {"query": ["May I pass on ?", "He will be better ,", "To forward the preparatory rites", "By the ducal order", "But I perceive his lips move now and then ;", "Signor ! the boat is at the shore \u2014 the wind", "Perhaps , in the air .", "Some water !", "A melancholy one \u2014 to call the attendance", "Is rising \u2014 we are ready to attend you .", "We must remove the body ."], "true_target": ["And once or twice I heard him , from the adjoining", "With desperate firmness .", "Apartment , mutter forth the words \u2014 \u201c My son ! \u201d", "He 's gone !", "Scarce audibly . I must proceed .", "I must", "Let me support you \u2014 paler \u2014 ho ! some aid there !", "Of \u2014\u2014", "In presence of another he says little ,", "Inform the Signory , and learn their pleasure .", "For the late Foscari 's interment .", "You turn pale \u2014"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 208}, {"query": ["Accord with your will , they will make it theirs .", "My Lord , the deputation is in waiting ;", "Of the realm , while his age permitted him", "His rank and his devotion to the duties", "But add , that if another hour would better", "Chief of the Ten . If it be so , at least his obsequies 310", "My Lord ,", "The noble dame Marina craves an audience ."], "true_target": ["With the illustrious lady his son 's widow .", "He shall be informed .", "To the chamber where the body lies .", "\u2018 Tis all over .", "This instant retired hence ,", "Say , shall it not be so ?", "To do himself and them full justice . Brethren ,", "Shall be such as befits his name and nation ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 208}, {"query": ["But thou my eldest born ? art silent still ?", "Her fruits with little labour .", "Each to his task of toil \u2014 not heavy , though", "God , the Eternal ! Infinite ! All-wise !\u2014", "Light on the waters with a word \u2014 All Hail !", "So will God , I trust .", "Jehovah ! with returning light \u2014 All Hail !", "Our orisons completed , let us hence ,", "We have , most fervently ."], "true_target": ["Son Cain ! my first-born \u2014 wherefore art thou silent ?", "To pray .", "Who out of darkness on the deep didst make", "Wherefore so ?", "Nor aught to thank for ?", "Blaspheme not : these are Serpent 's words .", "Dost thou not live ?", "And we must gather it again . Oh God ! why didst thou plant the tree of knowledge ?", "Needful : the earth is young , and yields us kindly", "Oh ! my son ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 208}, {"query": ["My misery in thine . I have repented .", "Let me not see my offspring fall into", "Alas !", "Before thy birth : let me not see renewed 40", "Part of thy work the firmament \u2014 All Hail !", "The fruit of our forbidden tree begins 30", "The snares beyond the walls of Paradise ,", "Behold thy father cheerful and resigned \u2014", "My boy ! thou speakest as I spoke in sin ,"], "true_target": ["Content thee with what is . Had we been so ,", "Which even in Paradise destroyed his parents .", "Who didst divide the wave from wave , and call", "God ! who didst name the day , and separate", "Morning from night , till then divided never \u2014", "Cain \u2014 my son \u2014 50", "Thou now hadst been contented .\u2014 Oh , my son !", "To fall .", "And do as he doth ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 208}, {"query": ["If not , why place him near it , where it grew", "I sought not to be born ; nor love the state", "Why wilt thou wear this gloom upon thy brow ,", "Whom have we here ?\u2014 A shape like to the angels 80", "Cain", "Yield to the Serpent and the woman ? or 70", "The Eternal anger ?", "The tree was planted , and why not for him ?", "Earth , ocean , air and fire \u2014 and with the day 10", "And is it", "Of spiritual essence : why do I quake ?", "Which I must feed on for a fault not mine .", "If I shrink not from these , the fire-armed angels ,", "The peace of God", "And this is", "Which can avail thee nothing , save to rouse", "He is all-powerful , must all-good , too , follow ?", "What had I done in this ?\u2014 I was unborn :", "Whom I see daily wave their fiery swords", "Why should I quail from him who now approaches ?", "He cometh .", "In Twilight 's hour , to catch a glimpse of those", "As he hath been , and might be : sorrow seems", "And the immortal trees which overtop"], "true_target": ["Yielding \u2014 why suffer ? What was there in this ?", "And night , and worlds which these illuminate ,", "God ! who didst call the elements into", "The fairest in the centre ? They have but", "Yet of a sterner and a sadder aspect", "Before the gates round which I linger oft ,", "One answer to all questions , \u201c \u2018 Twas his will ,", "Life ?\u2014 Toil ! and wherefore should I toil ?\u2014 because", "Ere the night closes o'er the inhibited walls", "Why should I fear him more than other spirits ,", "To which that birth has brought me . Why did he", "Be on your spirit , brother !", "Beauteous , and yet not all as beautiful", "And love both them and thee \u2014 All Hail ! All Hail !", "The Cherubim-defended battlements ? 90", "And he is good . \u201d How know I that ? Because", "Yet \u2014 he seems mightier far than them , nor less", "Gardens which are my just inheritance ,", "So ? and can aught grieve save Humanity ?", "My father could not keep his place in Eden ?", "Or shadow , madest beings to enjoy them ,", "Amen !", "Half of his immortality .", "I judge but by the fruits \u2014 and they are bitter \u2014"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 208}, {"query": ["Thy youth in Paradise , in innocent", "Who could be happy and alone , or good ?", "Will he ,", "Bear with what we have borne , and love me \u2014 I", "By me ?", "If not , I will", "Wert worked on by the snake , in thy most flushed", "All light , they look upon us ; but thou seem'st 510", "Oh , my God !", ", where long white clouds", "I have heard it said , 420", "Than was the Serpent , and as false .", "Are girt about by demons , who assume", "Must be all goodness .", "Love thee .", "I think I could be so , despite of Death ,", "Born of the same sole womb ,", "He is not so ; he hath", "Let me go with thee .", "And thus becomes so in diffusing joy . 480", "Which , as I know it not , I dread not , though", "Them ?\u2014 And as I love thee , my Cain ! go not", "His brother , and our children , and our parents .", "Saith that he has beheld the God himself", "Our father", "What else can joy be , but the spreading joy ?", "In multiplying our being multiply", "When I think how soon I shall see my brother ,", "Forth with this spirit ; he is not of ours .", "They fill my eyes with tears , and so dost thou .", "Sin in itself ? Can circumstance make sin", "And brighter , yet less beautiful and powerful", "But he is welcome , as they were : they deigned", "Omnipotence 390", "Out of their love ? have they not drawn their milk", "Wilt thou ?", "\u2014", "Oh , my mother ! thou", "Save in my father , who is God 's own image ;", "He is not God \u2014 nor God 's : I have beheld", "I do . Is that a sin , too ?", "With me ? did we not love each other ? and", "Like an ethereal night", "Art thou that steppest between heart and heart ?", "Adores the Invisible only .", "And leave us ?", "What all ?", "Fiend ! tempt me not with beauty ; thou art fairer", "Who", "Aye \u2014 to our eternal sorrow .", "Dissatisfied and curious thoughts \u2014 as thou", "Streak the deep purple , and unnumbered stars", "How can that be ?", "Which stands before me ; I cannot abhor him ;", "In seeming : as the silent sunny noon ,", "There is a fastening attraction which 410", "Out of this bosom ? was not he , their father , 370", "My brother , I have come for thee ;", "In sooth , return within an hour ?", "Thou seem'st unhappy : do not make us so ,", "I look upon him with a pleasing fear ,", "Whither ?", "Have less without thee . Thou hast laboured not", "Fixes my fluttering eyes on his ; my heart", "How know'st thou ?", "So they were when the fair Serpent", "Alone ! Oh , my God !", "Remorse of that which was \u2014 and hope of that 360", "Or virtue ?\u2014 if it doth , we are the slaves", "With things that look as if they would be suns ;", "And this should be a Cherub \u2014 since he loves not ."], "true_target": ["So beautiful , unnumbered , and endearing ,", "Its beauty .", "No \u2014", "It seems an awful shadow \u2014 if I may 470", "Are there , then , others ?", "Return to seek you here .", "Hast plucked a fruit more fatal to thine offspring", "We were not born then \u2014 and if we had been ,", "Let me love thee and them :\u2014 All Hail ! All Hail !", "Alone I could not ,", "Of rest ?\u2014 he is welcome .", "To be our guests \u2014 will he ?", "And heedless , harmless wantonness of bliss .", "in the same hour", "Our father", "Alas ! no ! and you \u2014", "The words of God , and tempt us with our own", "Than to thyself ; thou at the least hast passed", "Who made him and our mother .", "Which cometh not . Cain ! walk not with this Spirit .", "Of \u2014\u2014", "Nearer and nearer :\u2014 Cain \u2014 Cain \u2014 save me from him !", "Spoke with our mother first .", "Shall they not love and bring forth things that love", "What ! Must not my daughter love her brother Enoch ?", "And I will weep for thee .", "What is the sin which is not 380", "It is a beautiful star ; I love it for", "And yet I fly not from him : in his eye", "It is our hour of rest and joy \u2014 and we", "This morn ; but I have done thy task : the fruits", "I am not wretched , Cain , and if thou", "To me my solitude seems sin ; unless", "Nor would be happy ; but with those around us", "The angels and the mortals to make happy ,", "We have seen many : will he share our hour", "But we , thy children , ignorant of Eden , 400", "The Seraphs love most \u2014 Cherubim know most", "So did the Serpent , and it lied .", "And dread , and toil , and sweat , and heaviness ;", "O Cain ! This spirit curseth us .", "Spangle the wonderful mysterious vault", "Our parents ?", "Cain", "And me ?", "Evil on ill ; expulsion from our home ,", "To be belov\u00e9d , more than all , save thee \u2014", "Where dwellest thou ?", "Come away .", "The Cherubs and the Seraphs ; he looks not", "Who didst create these best and beauteous beings ,", "My belov\u00e9d Cain", "But all we know of it has gathered", "I cannot answer this immortal thing", "Beats quick ; he awes me , and yet draws me near ,", "God ! the Eternal parent of all things !", "Yes \u2014 in his works .", "Or in his angels , who are like to thee \u2014", "Wilt thou frown even on me ?", "Are ripe , and glowing as the light which ripens :", "Should we not love them \u2014 and our children , Cain ?", "Will he return ?", "I see an angel ; 340", "Aye \u2014 but not bless\u00e9d .", "Oh , Cain ! choose Love .", "Things which will love each other as we love", "Judge from what I have heard .", "Are you of Heaven ?", "And happy intercourse with happy spirits :", "Wert happy \u2014\u2014", "Like them .", "Not dazzling , and yet drawing us to them ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 208}, {"query": ["Wilt thou not , my brother ?", "Keep us from further evil :\u2014 Hail ! All Hail !"], "true_target": ["Yet didst permit the Serpent to creep in ,", "And drive my father forth from Paradise , 20", "Oh , God ! who loving , making , blessing all ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 208}, {"query": ["Yet it seems horrible . I have looked out 270", "Spirit ! I 60", "But he is not like", "To till the earth \u2014 for I had promised \u2014\u2014", "And what is that ?", "It was the Tree of Life : knowledge is good ,", "Increase their myriads .", "And Life is good ; and how can both be evil ?", "He speaks like 350", "Why , I have seen the fire-flies and fire-worms", "Nature and immortality \u2014 and yet", "And some till now grew larger as we approached ,", "Of most innumerable lights .", "Beheld them from the skirts of Paradise :", "I cannot see it .", "Ah ! didst thou tempt my mother ?", "Seemed full of life even when their atmosphere", "Spirit , I have said it . AdahCain ! my brother ! Cain ! ACT II .", "Which are around us ; and , as we move on ,", "I 'll follow you anon .", "Of sin and pain \u2014 or few , but still of sorrow ,", "Is your course measured for ye ? Or do ye", "Yes \u2014", "How ! You know my thoughts ?", "I fain would be alone a little while .", "And unimaginable ether ! and", "Which are so beautiful : shall they , too , die ?", "\u2018 Tis darkness !", "Of serpents , and of fruits and trees : I see", "I will have nought to do with happiness ,", "To cull some first-fruits .", "The archangels .", "Now met I aught to sympathise with me . 190", "\u2018 Tis well \u2014 I rather would consort with spirits .", "I know not what thou art : I see thy power ,", "Seest thou not ?", "To offer up", "She wrung from me , with tears , this promise ; and", "Which shone the roundest of the stars , when I", "Can I return ?", "Which looks like that which lit our earthly night ?", "By the far-flashing of the Cherubs \u2019 swords ,", "Why not ?", "I seek it not ; but as I know there are", "The snake spoke truth ; it was the Tree of Knowledge ;", "And wore the look of worlds .", "Be it proved .", "How should I ? As we move", "Yon small blue circle , swinging in far ether", "But the thing had a demon ?", "And what art thou who dwellest", "And must torture be immortal ?", "No .", "Although inferior still to my desires", "Of Death : although I know not what it is \u2014", "\u2018 Tis a fearful light !", "Leave them , and walk with dust ?", "The gates of what they call their Paradise", "And men ? 170", "It be as thou hast said", "Which made her thirst for knowledge at the risk", "And thou !", "Clay \u2014 Spirit \u2014 what thou wilt \u2014 I can survey .", "Can it be ?", "Let me , or happy or unhappy , learn", "Why should I bow to thee ?", "He shut him forth from Paradise , with death", "Oh ! how we cleave the blue ! The stars fade from us !", "Why should I speak ?", "The Life-tree ?", "What need of snakes and fruits to teach us that ?", "Of this almighty Death , who is , it seems ,", "The earth yield nothing to us without sweat ;", "No less ! and why", "Oh thou beautiful", "What \u2018 twas which shook us all \u2014 but nothing came .", "Which knew such things .", "His equal ?", "While that of Knowledge , by my mother 's haste ,", "And sighs a prayer ; and Adah looks on me ,", "Speak aught of Knowledge which I would not know ,", "How should I be so ? Look on me !", "Show me .", "That !\u2014 yonder !", "This misery was mine . My father is", "Be thou happy , then , alone \u2014", "Which humbles me and mine .", "But there are spirits loftier still \u2014", "But shall I know it ?", "But it grows dark , and dark \u2014 the stars are gone !", "I may be in the rest as angels are .", "Spirit , who art thou ?", "The mind which overwhelms me : never till", "How beautiful ye are ! how beautiful", "Sprinkle the dusky groves and the green banks", "Must both be guided .", "And yet I fear it \u2014 fear I know not what !", "A God .", "Of which I have heard my parents speak , as of", "I wrestled with the lion , when a boy , 260", "Thou art not the Lord my father worships .", "And speaks not .", "No less than life \u2014 a heritage not happy ,", "The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden ?", "Your gentleness must not be harshly met :", "Have heard you .", "Such evil things to beings save a being ?", "Seem'st sorrowful ?", "The things I have not seen ,", "Who ?", "To know .", "How the lights recede ! Where fly we ?", "In the same hour ! They plucked the tree of science", "But thou canst not", "With an inferior circlet purpler it still", "Unequal , of deep valleys and vast mountains ;", "Appear to join the innumerable stars", "Weeps when he 's named ; and Abel lifts his eyes", "?", "I dare not gaze on further .", "I must away with him .", "What do they know ?\u2014 that they are miserable .", "Ah !", "I thought it was a being : who could do", "Which bears them .", "I never 310", "And wilt thou tell me so ?", "Aye ! and serpents too ?", "Thoughts which arise within me , as if they", "Forget \u2014\u2014 but it can never be forgotten 440", "But I will bend to neither .", "And wider , and make widening circles round us !", "Of knowledge \u2014 and the mystery of Death", "The clouds still open wide", "Despise myself , yet cannot overcome \u2014", "Not to snatch first that fruit :\u2014 but ere he plucked", "I will .", "My father and my mother talk to me 170", "And all the unnumbered and innumerable", "I cannot compass : \u2018 tis denounced against us ,", "In visions through my thought : I never could", "Were I quiet earth , 290", "But Abel 's earnest prayer has wrought upon me ;", "A loathsome , and yet all invincible", "The fruits , or neither !", "And what is that ? 320", "Wilt thou teach me all ?", "Born on the same day , of the same womb ; and", "So haughtily in spirit , and canst range", "Oh God ! Oh Gods ! or whatsoe'er ye are ! 110", "And knowledge ! My thoughts are not in this hour", "Could master all things \u2014 but I thought alone", "Let me but", "The rapturous moment and the placid hour ,", "Guarded by fiery-sworded Cherubim ,", "The umbrage of the walls of Eden , chequered", "And multiplying murder .", "The things I see .", "Can I do so without impiety ?", "Your works , or accidents , or whatsoe'er", "But I must retire", "Lead on .", "Be taught the mystery of my being .", "Have I not said it ?\u2014 need I say it ? Could not thy mighty knowledge teach thee that ?", "Oh God ! or Demon ! or whate'er thou art ,", "Fades to a dreary twilight \u2014 yet I see 180", "To sink .", "460", "Such , and that my sire 's sin makes him and me ,", "I live ,", "Reconcile what I saw with what I heard .", "Thou hast said , I must be 90", "And loudly : I", "How so ?", "Up to the lights above us , in the azure , 280", "But didst thou tempt my parents ? Lucifer . I ? Poor clay \u2014 what should I tempt them for , or how ?", "Aught else but dust !", "The Other", "And the immortal star in its great course ,"], "true_target": ["I tread on air , and sink not \u2014 yet I fear", "All here seems dark and dreadful .", "Instinct of life , which I abhor , as I", "They may be ! Let me die , as atoms die ,", "Own and belov\u00e9d \u2014 she , too , understands not", "That I would join with him in sacrifice :\u2014", "I dare behold ? As yet , thou hast shown nought", "For thee , my Adah , I choose not \u2014 It was", "Been seen .", "Who ?", "Did they love us when they snatched from the Tree", "Interchecked with an instant of brief pleasure ,", "Says he is something dreadful , and my mother", "The very blue of the empurpled night", "Would they had snatched both 210", "Thoughts unspeakable", "Like them , the features of fair earth :\u2014 instead ,", "And they who guard them ?", "And still-increasing lights ! what are ye ? what", "And all that in them is . So I have heard", "Immortal in despite of me . I knew not", "Is yon our earth ?", "Spirit ! let me expire , or see them nearer .", "No , Adah ! no ;", "Thou speak'st to me of things which long have swum", "Belov\u00e9d Adah !", "All we love in our children and each other ,", "The little shining fire-fly in its flight , 130", "Beyond all power of my born faculties ,", "Our native and forbidden Paradise ,", "His Seraphs sing ; and so my father saith .", "Where is it ? I see nothing save a mass", "Both them who sinned and sinned not , as an ill \u2014", "And all that we inherit , liable", "That they are beautiful in their own sphere ,", "And wherefore plucked ye not the tree of life ? Ye might have then defied him .", "In the vast desolate night in search of him ;", "And so I live . Would I had never lived !", "Than the birds \u2019 matins ; and my Adah \u2014 my", "Know nought of Death , save as a dreadful thing", "Let him say on ;", "What immortal part ?", "To Death \u2014 the unknown ! Methinks the Tree of Knowledge", "Apart \u2014 what 's this ?", "Crowd in my breast to burning , when I hear", "A watching shepherd boy ,", "Through an a\u00ebrial universe of endless", "And some emitting sparks , and some displaying", "And when I saw gigantic shadows in", "Where dost thou lead me ?", "Which shut them out \u2014 and me : I feel the weight", "My sister Zillah sings an earlier hymn", "How know I what", "This has not been revealed : the Tree of Life", "Intoxicated with eternity", "Enormous liquid plains , and some begirt", "My little Enoch ! and his lisping sister !", "Like sunbeams onward , it grows small and smaller ,", "Expansion \u2014 at which my soul aches to think \u2014", "Ye multiplying masses of increased 100", "She is my sister , 330", "We were approaching , which , begirt with light ,", "Tamed down ; my mother has forgot the mind 180", "Deadly error !", "And see thou show'st me things beyond my power , 80", "But not to live \u2014 or wherefore plucked he not", "Huge dusky masses ; but unlike the worlds", "Aye .", "Ah ! Thou look'st almost a god ; and \u2014\u2014", "Nor ever shall \u2014 the mysteries of Death . 140", "I 'm glad of that : I would not have them die \u2014", "And Heaven 's ,", "How ?", "Must one day see perforce .", "The earth ! where is my earth ? Let me look on it ,", "With Abel on an altar .", "What ill ?", "To make death hateful , save an innate clinging ,", "Multitudes , millions , myriads , which may be ,", "Who can but suffer many years , and die \u2014", "Methinks they both , as we recede from them , 40", "Was plucked too soon ; and all the fruit is Death !", ",", "And Edens in them ?", "Of an eternal curse ; my brother is", "Written upon his forehead . But at least", "Air , where ye roll along , as I have seen", "Who sowed the seed of evil and mankind", "He is a God .", "Must I not die ?", "Shall men love the remembrance of the man", "Thy beauty and thy love \u2014 my love and joy ,", "The angels we have seen .", "And then I turned my weary eyes from off", "Of light gave way , and showed them taking shapes", "Have ye not prayed ?", "Sweep on in your unbounded revelry", "In thunder .", "Born with me \u2014 but I love nought else .", "Although my brother Abel oft implores", "If I may judge , till now . But , Spirit ! if", "What dreads my Adah ? This is no ill spirit .", "For I was made of it .", "Is this our Paradise ? Where are its walls ,", "Could I but deem them happy , I would half", "No sun \u2014 no moon \u2014 no lights innumerable \u2014", "With fear rose longing in my heart to know", "Unworthy what I see , though my dust is ;", ", 30", "They are so lovely . What is Death ? I fear ,", "That were no evil : would I ne'er had been", "who offers up", "I watched for what I thought his coming ; for", "Inevitable . Could I wrestle with him ?", "No more ?", "Are ye happy ?", "But the lights fade from me fast ,", "A hideous heritage I owe to them", "Spake not of this unto my father , when", "To Heaven , and Zillah casts hers to the earth ,", "In the dim twilight , brighter than yon world", "Him will I follow .", "Begot me \u2014 thee \u2014 and all the few that are ,", ", or know ye in your might", ",", "And sin \u2014 and , not content with their own sorrow ,", "And do not thirst to know , and bear a mind", "I have nought to ask .", "Here let me die : for to give birth to those", "And you , too , sisters , tarry not behind ; 60", "At least they ought to have known all things that are", "Around a world where I seem nothing , with", "But live to die ; and , living , see no thing 110", "And as it waxes little , and then less ,", "Alas ! I scarcely now know what it is ,", "Why , what are things ?", "My father", "He has not yet 250", "Do so .", "And ye ?", "What ! is it not then new ?", "To inherit agonies accumulated", "Enormous vapours roll", "\u2018 Tis better I should be so .", "And that the night , which makes both beautiful ,", "I should be proud of thought", "I am :\u2014 and thou , with all thy might , what art thou ?", "They say the Serpent was a spirit .", "With luminous belts , and floating moons , which took ,", "The firstlings of the flock to him who bids", "Methinks is merely propagating Death , 70", "Rather than see her weep , I would , methinks ,", "Is this blue wilderness of interminable", "This until lately \u2014 but since it must be ,", "They were , as I have heard from those who heard them ,", "Hath not fulfilled its promise :\u2014 if they sinned ,", "The knowledge , he was ignorant of Death .", "Precede me , brother \u2014 I will follow shortly .", "In play , till he ran roaring from my gripe .", "By ages !\u2014 and I must be sire of such things ! 450", "Through thrice a thousand generations ! never", "Are ye happy ?", "I knew not that , yet thought it , since I heard", "That which hath driven us all from Paradise ?", "As yet have bowed unto my father 's God .", "I feel , it is a dreadful thing ; but what ,", "Name it .", "Bear all \u2014 and worship aught .", "But lead them and ourselves through many years", "Let what is mortal of me perish , that", "Abel , I 'm sick at heart ; but it will pass ;", "Gathers a halo round it , like the light", "Was withheld from us by my father 's folly ,", "Of daily toil , and constant thought : I look", "The offering is more his than mine \u2014 and Adah \u2014\u2014", "And my conceptions .", "To anticipate my immortality .", "To such , I would behold , at once , what I", "And being so , canst thou"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 208}, {"query": ["Then follow me !", "Mortal !", "Point me out the site", "Can crowd eternity into an hour ,", "Hast thou seen him ?", "To what was before thee !", "Breathe , save the erect ones ?", "And hadst thou not been fit by thine own soul", "No more ;", "Thou didst before I came upon thee .", "With torture of my dooming . There will come", "Cain ! thou hast heard .", "Eternity \u2014 and heaven and earth \u2014 and that", "Aught save a sharer or a servant of", "I am angelic : wouldst thou be as I am ?", "Consists in slavery \u2014 no .", "Have rolled o'er your dead ashes , and your seed 's ,", "Why ?", "Thou seekest to behold Death , and dead things ?", "Yet it sparkles still .", "To make that silent and expectant world", "As I have shown thee much which cannot die ?", "All die \u2014 there is what must survive .", "With worms in clay ?", "By their own innocence ? I would have made ye", "Wouldst thou have men without them ? must no reptiles", "Follow", "One is yours already ,", "To right , as in the dim blue air the eye", "Away , then ! on our mighty wings !", "Save with the truth : was not the Tree , the Tree", "One who aspired to be what made thee , and", "What are they which dwell", "With all thy Tree of Knowledge .", "Fresh souls and bodies", "Whence he shall come back to thee in an hour ;", "Since he could overcome them , and foreknew", "Mark me ! that Son will be a sacrifice !", "And thou ?", "Thou ne'er hadst bent to him who made thee ?", "What , if I show to thee things which have died ,", "Are everlasting .", "\u2018 Tis now beyond thee ,", "Amerced for doubts beyond thy little life ,", "Or I were , or the things which seem to us", "What wouldst thou think ?", "Of dust , and feel for it , and with you .", "Ask of your sire , the exile fresh from Eden ;", "Or of his first-born son : ask your own heart ;", "Of space an equal flight , and I will show", "The unpeopled earth \u2014 and the o'erhYpppHeNpeopled Hell ,", "Or stretch an hour into eternity :", "We are mighty .", "It may be thou shalt be as we . 120", "If thou dost long for knowledge , I can satiate", "But , if he made us \u2014 he cannot unmake :", ", of which I am the Prince .", "I am none :", "So humbly in their pride , as to sojourn", "Had been enough to charm ye , as before .", "Master of spirits .", "It is not tranquil .", "To that which is omnipotent , because", "Return ! be sure : how else should Death be peopled ? 200", "Yet thy God is alone ; and is he happy ? Lonely , and good ?", "and yet not less than those he tempted ,", "And why not adore ?", "And unparticipated solitude ;", "Was it so in Eden ?", "Would run the edict of the other God ,", "And power of Knowledge ?", "Of good and evil ?", "Than a mere serpent : ask the Cherubim", "To make way for much meaner than we can 160", "And Truth in its own essence cannot be", "\u2018 Tis part of thy eternity , and mine . 150", "They have deceived thee ; thou shalt live .", "Of Knowledge ? and was not the Tree of Life", "Aye , woman ! he alone 540", "And heart to look on ?", "Its present realm is thin to what it will be ,", "Many there are who worship me , and more", "For such companionship , I would not now", "Souls who dare use their immortality \u2014", "We breathe not by a mortal measurement \u2014", "In nature being earth also \u2014 more in wisdom ,", "By all .", "Couldst not have gone beyond thy world . On ! on !", "Who would not let ye live , or he who would", "Have been and must be all unchangeable .", "Of you , young mortals , lights at once upon", "Not as thou lovest Cain .", "But that 's a mystery . Cain , come on with me .", "He but woke one", "I tell thee that the Serpent was no more", "The worlds beyond thy little world , nor be", "Linked to a servile mass of matter \u2014 and ,", "Both partly : but what doth", "Saith that ? It is not written so on high :", "No ;\u2014 I have nought in common with him !", "As thou ; and mightier things have been extinct", "That bows to him , who made things but to bend", "And such they are .", "The other may be still .", "Away , then !", "Would make him cast upon the spiritual nature", "To save thee ; but fly with me o'er the gulf", "But what", "But by whom or what ?", "The seed of the then world may thus array", "We in our conflict ! Goodness would not make", "An hour , when , tossed upon some water-drops", "That they are not compatible , the doom", "Yea .", "Through thee and thine .", "The proud One will not so far falsify , 220", "With us acts are exempt from time , and we", "The Conqueror has left thee . Follow me .", "Dar'st thou behold ?", "It is omnipotent , and not from love ,", "The cause of this all-spreading happiness", "I know the thoughts 100", "Though multiplied to animated atoms ,", "Of thine enjoyments a sweet degradation ,", "But we , who see the truth , must speak it . Thy 240", "To the most gross and petty paltry wants ,", "Unfold its gates !", "Him makes thee mine the same .", "Nor would : I would be aught above \u2014 beneath \u2014", "Hast thou ne'er bowed", "That is a grovelling wish ,", "These are my realms ! so that I do divide", "Did I plant things prohibited within 200", "And some of us resist \u2014 and both in vain , 490", "The million millions \u2014", "I cannot answer .", "Show in an hour what he hath made in many ,", ", all foredoomed to be", "And yet thou seest .", "Look there ! 120", "Each bright and sparkling \u2014 what dost think of them ?", "Worlds greater than thine own \u2014 inhabited", "No , not yet ;", "Perhaps \u2014 but long outlive both thine and thee .", "Ask Eve , your mother : bears she not the knowledge", "No end ; and some , which would pretend to have", "No , she must not .", "And I , who know all things , fear nothing ; see 300", "His own low failing . The snake was the snake \u2014", "Gods ; and even He who thrust ye forth , so thrust ye", "Yea , or things higher .", "The star which watches , welcoming the morn .", "I ask", "Thou dost fall down and worship me \u2014 thy Lord .", "He who bows not to him has bowed to me .", "Thou errest , Adah !\u2014 was not the Tree that", "His", "Existence \u2014 it will cease \u2014 and thou wilt be \u2014", "In hymns and harpings , and self-seeking prayers ,", "By the unbounded sympathy of all 160", "Though man 's vast fears and little vanity", ",", "I tempt none ,", "That he may torture :\u2014 let him ! He is great \u2014", "Of being that which I am ,\u2014 and thou art \u2014", "Ask the Destroyer .", "Is leader of the host of Heaven .", "Who shall \u2014 be thou amongst the first .", "But changes make not death , except to clay ;", "Souls who dare look the Omnipotent tyrant in", "Of which thy bosom is the germ .", "The billows and be safe . I will not say , 20", "But the symbols", "No less than thou art now .", "No .", "But in that hour see things of many days .", "Thou livest \u2014 and must live for ever . Think not", "His power . I dwell apart ; but I am great :\u2014", "He shall .", "Have faith in me , and thou shalt be", "Sate nearest it ?", "And become gods as we . \u201d Were those his words ?", "Who names me Demon to his angels ; they", "And therefore do I ask of thee , if thou", "That thirst ; nor ask thee to partake of fruits", "And cannot I , who aided in this work ,", "Create , and re-create \u2014 perhaps he 'll make", "His , and possess a kingdom which is not", "Of thy fond parents , for their daring , proves .", "Could I stand here ? His angels are within"], "true_target": ["The phantasm of the world ; of which thy world", "His worship is but fear .", "Since the all-knowing Cherubim love least ,", "Behold !", "To a place", "All foul and fulsome \u2014 and the very best", "To him ?", "But distinct . 190", "So restless in his wretchedness , must still", "To the world of phantoms , which", "Worthy of thought ;\u2014 \u2018 tis your immortal part", "Of mortals from that place", "Believe \u2014 and sink not ! doubt \u2014 and perish ! thus", "That bear the form of earth-born being .", "What thou dar'st not deny ,\u2014 the history", "Let him crowd orb on orb : he is alone", "Prefer an independency of torture", "One day a Son unto himself \u2014 as he", "And having failed to be one , would be nought", "Enter !", "To me a shape I scorn , as I scorn all", "Had no beginning , have had one as mean", "It has no shape ; but will absorb all things", "That which was clay , and such thou shall behold .", "Mortality", "What is true knowledge .", "As he saith \u2014 which I know not , nor believe \u2014", "What ?", "The Earth , which is thine outward cov'ring , is", "Aye , upon one condition .", "More than thy mother , and thy sire ?", "Wouldst be immortal ?", "Thou canst not", "As I know not death ,", "Higher things than ye are slaves : and higher", "To sway .", "Since better may not be without : there is", "But if that high thought were 50", "His secret , and he keeps it . We must bear ,", "Evil or good what is proclaimed to them", "Borne on the air", "Have stood before thee as I am : a serpent", "Maker of life and living things ; it is", "Ne'er the less ,", "As populous as this : at present there", "By greater things \u2014 and they themselves far more", "Poor clay ! And thou pretendest to be wretched ! Thou !", "If I were not that which I have said ,", "That", "Is but the wreck .", "But , in his greatness , is no happier than", "Shalt soon return to earth , and all its dust :", "Are beings past , and shadows still to come .", "Less burthensome to his immense existence 150", "But must be undergone .", "Thy God or Gods \u2014 there am I : all things are", "All living \u2014 and all doomed to death \u2014 and wretched ,", "Before his sullen , sole eternity ;", "To the smooth agonies of adulation ,", "Have made ye live for ever , in the joy", "Surmise ; for moments only and the space", "And if he did betray you , \u2018 twas with Truth ;", "Believe in me , as a conditional creed", "Was there to envy in the narrow bounds", "Then who was the Demon ? He", "Save what I am . He conquered ; let him reign ! 130", "With all ! But He ! so wretched in his height ,", "Your vision .", "He was hindered .", "Which , knowing nought beyond their shallow senses ,", "Could he but crush himself , \u2018 twere the best boon", "And walk the waters ; \u201d and the man shall walk", "Of Knowledge ?", "No : art thou ?", "Yet deem not that thou canst escape it ; thou", "Than them or ye would be so , did they not", "Think'st thou I 'd take the shape of things that die ?", "Knowing such things , aspiring to such things ,", "And fell . For what should spirits tempt them ? What", "Echo the sound to miserable things ,", "Where I will lead thee .", "Innumerable , more endurable ,", "The Maker \u2014 Call him", "His everlasting face , and tell him that", "A most enervating and filthy cheat", "Still fruitful ? Did I bid her pluck them not ?", "But thou art clay \u2014 and canst but comprehend", "A wisdom in the spirit , which directs", "The sin I speak of is not of my making ,", "And multiply himself in misery !", ", shall come back to thee ,", "No other choice : your sire hath chosen already : 430", "Which shall deprive thee of a single good 560", "No more than life is ; and that was ere thou", "To lure thee on to the renewal of", "We are immortal !\u2014 nay , he 'd have us so ,", "And cannot be a sin in you \u2014 whate'er", "Thou art my worshipper ; not worshipping", "The Seraphs \u2019 love can be but ignorance :", "Or hath destroyed in few ?", "It one day will be in your children .", "Less , in the universe , than thou in it ;", "On , then , with me . Wouldst thou behold things mortal or immortal ?", "I seem that which I am ;", "Divided with me : Life and Death \u2014 and Time \u2014", "Of past \u2014 and present , and of future worlds .", "We and thy sons will try . But now , behold ! Is it not glorious ?", "Indefinite , Indissoluble Tyrant ;", "They say \u2014 what they must sing and say , on pain", "And science still beyond them , were chained down", "Gave you a father \u2014 and if he so doth ,", "Which speaks within you .", "And thou couldst not", "Out of old worlds this new one in few days ? 530", "And still loftier than the archangels .", "Creating worlds , to make eternity", "And so it shall be ever \u2014 but we will", "Sit next thy heart ?", "And yet that grief is knowledge \u2014 so he lied not :", "And if the higher knowledge quenches love ,", "But terror and self-hope .", "But in his being ?", "Those who once peopled or shall people both \u2014", "Throughout all space . Where should I dwell ? Where are", "As true .", "Less than thy father 's \u2014 for he wished to know !", "Spirits and Men , at least we sympathise \u2014", "Would not have made thee what thou art .", "By suffering .", "In number than the dust of thy dull earth ,", "And if there should be", "Advance !", "Choose betwixt Love and Knowledge \u2014 since there is", "Quench the mind , if the mind will be itself", "Are few inhabitants .", "To be resolved into the earth .", "Dost thou not recognise", "They are the thoughts of all", "Fear not \u2014 without me thou", "It seem in those who will replace ye in", "The knowledge fatal to their narrow joys .", "What must he be you cannot love when known ?", "He ever granted : but let him reign on !", "Who", "In their abasement . I will have none such :", "If the blessedness", "It may be .", "A man shall say to a man , \u201c Believe in me ,", "of the all-great and good", "Thou hast seen both worms and worlds ,", "Alone , thou say'st , be happy ?", "Of the Invisible are the loveliest 500", "Their earliest fault in fable , and attribute", "The myriad myriads \u2014 the all-peopled earth \u2014", "Which name thou wilt : he makes but to destroy .", "Of Paradise , that spirits who pervade", "His Seraphs say : but it is worth the trial ,", "Sit on his vast and solitary throne \u2014", "In those he spake to with his forky tongue . 230", "The reach of beings innocent , and curious", "By being", "Who guard the tempting tree . When thousand ages", "If I am not , enquire", "Which is not heaven nor earth , but peopled with 550", "Why dost thou hesitate ?", "Thy Sire 's maker \u2014 and the Earth 's .", "And , suffering in concert , make our pangs", "Yourselves , in your resistance . Nothing can", "Did not your Maker make", "Fond parents listened to a creeping thing ,", "Alas ! those tears ! Couldst thou but know what oceans will be shed \u2014\u2014 520", "Said'st thou not", "Worship the word which strikes their ear , and deem 10", "As frail , and few so happy \u2014\u2014", "Art thou not nearer ? look back to thine earth !", "Because \u201c ye should not eat the fruits of life ,", "But good .", "Greater than either : many things will have", "His evil is not good ! If he has made , 140", "Worship or worship not , thou shalt behold", "Of what is visible ; and yon bright star", "Space \u2014\u2014 but I speak to thee of what thou know'st not ,", "The dust which formed your father ?", "Darest thou look on Death ?", "Thou'lt know here \u2014 and hereafter .", "Evil ; and what else hath he made ? But let him", "Of spirits and of men .", "Of Paradise .", "Thee to be mine .", "And centre of surrounding things \u2014 \u2018 tis made"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 208}, {"query": ["Their 340", "What art thou writing , With such an earnest brow , upon thy tablets ?", "In my mind , too deep .", "That 's an error , and you 'll find it", "Chief of the Ten . We are agreed , then ?", "Ere you sleep with your fathers .", "But discarded Princes 60", "Inter his son before we press upon him", "He dealt in such ?", "This undesired association in 140", "Like a frail vessel . I respect your griefs .", "Had nought to envy him within . Where is he ? 10", "That which changes me .", "Chief of the Ten . Is the Duke aware", "That remains for proof . 150", "These are words ;", "I pray you sit .", "More spectral or fantastical than Hate ;", "I protest", "We will remit him till the rites are over .", "Let us return , then .", "Did not the Doge deny this strongly ?", "Was Carmagnuola", "Let us return . \u2018 Tis time enough to-morrow .", "Solicited permission to retire ,", "Forbear ;", "Your plans , and do your work . Are they not yours ?", "The body of his son .", "Sit down , my Lord ! You tremble .", "Your friend ?", "But will the laws uphold us ?", "Not even its opposite , Love , so peoples air", "Be troubled now .", "Just now , though Venice tottered o'er the deep", "I do beseech you , lean upon us !", "It shall not be 230", "How bears the Doge", "You would deprive this old man of all business ?", "My brethren , will we not ?", "And you and yours triumphant , shall you sleep ?", "Your Giunta 's duties .", "Even their exorbitance of power : and when", "Of humbling me for my vain opposition .", "The Duke is with his son .", "I would support you .", "I would they could !", "Die in his robes :", "And foreign traitor ?", "This last calamity ?", "The attainted", "You shall not depart without", "Why would the general vote compel me hither ?", "But if this deposition should take place", "\u2018 Twill break his heart .", "The bell !", "Your modes of vengeance , nay , poetical ,", "When embarks the son ?", "By our united influence in the Council ,", "Ah ! that seems", "But passed here merely on our path from council .", "He must not", "Chief of the Ten . Heaven 's peace be with him !", "Still so inexorable ?", "Upon it barbarous .", "Bidding farewell .", "He could not have lived long ; but I have done", "They speak your language , watch your nod , approve", "All openness .", "My best to save his honours , and opposed", "Chief of the Ten . St. Mark 's , which tolls for the election", "Will move all Venice in his favour .", "States , stung humanity will rise to check it .", "Are seldom long of life .", "And will they press their answer on the Doge ?", "But Grief is lonely , and the breaking in 250"], "true_target": ["And not less , I must needs think , for the sake", "This happens in the most contemned and abject", "Here come our colleagues .", "\u2018 Tis thus", "Of the sire as has fallen upon the son ,", "Heed not her rash words ;", "Chief of the Ten . If it be so ,", "Whom we now act against not only saved 310", "Our own , but added others to her sway .", "Chief of the Ten . We will not note them down .", "We seek his presence ?", "But he has twice already", "An escort fitting past and present rank .", "It must be done with all the deference", "I 'll not consent .", "Where is the Doge ?", "You are ingenious , Loredano , in", "He has not had", "You have a son .", "So desolate , that the most clamorous grief", "We will not interrupt", "And yet he seems", "But I have seen him sometimes in a calm", "Yours !", "Of Malipiero .", "Enter the Deputation as before .", "This stroke", "A parent 's sorrows .", "A very Ovid in the art of hating ;", "With phantoms , as this madness of the heart .", "Vault has been often opened of late years .", "Lady , we knew not of this sad event ,", "And therefore", "The Doge unto his private palace . Say !", "His sons all dead , his family depressed ,", "Are you then thus fixed ?", "He means", "Retrench not from their moments .", "But let him", "At your own peril ?", "And why not wait these few years ?", "I owe , by way of foil to the more zealous ,", "This edict .", "And art thou sure", "Oh ! they 'll hear as much one day", "But be human ! 160", "No \u2014 not now .", "Her circumstances must excuse her bearing .", "The misery to die a subject where", "And yet unburied .", "Against it at this moment .", "We will accompany , with due respect , 270", ", to you", "This is no prelude to such persecution", "\u2018 Tis hard upon his years .", "He sinks !\u2014 support him !\u2014 quick \u2014 a chair \u2014 support him !", "Unasked ?", "And twice it was refused .", "Why press his abdication now ?", "He reigned : then let his funeral rites be princely .", "The old man is deposed , his name degraded ,", "And have you confidence in such a project ?", "Behold ! your work 's completed ! Chief of the Ten . Is there then No aid ? Call in assistance !", "What if he will not ?", "The penalty of saving cities . He", "A feud . But when all is accomplished , when", "Could I but be certain", "Fancy 's distemperature ! There is no passion", "All , except Lor ., answer , Yes .", "From louder tongues than mine ; they have gone beyond", "This proposition to the last , though vainly .", "But you , I know , are marble to retain", "Humanity !", "In his countenance , I grant you , never ;", "And did not this shake your suspicion ?", "Due to his years , his station , and his deeds . 30"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 209}, {"query": ["Its saviour first , then victim .", "Learnt but in eighty years . Brave Carmagnuola", "He was the safeguard of the city .", "Is dead ; so is young Foscari and his brethren \u2014", "My sire and uncle \u2014 I consent . Men may ,", "You have consented to", "Should whisper that a harsh majority 130", "\u2018 Twill be full soon , and may be closed for ever !", "Their office : they 'll be here soon after us .", "And so he seemed not long", "You talk but idly .", "And be thou fixed in purpose for this once .", "The better reason", "You may .", "\u201c The good day or good night ? \u201d his Doge-ship answered ,", "Of the destructive art of healing , to", "The feelings", "You forget , you cannot .", "To him who took a city : and they gave", "As much of ceremony as you will ,", "and \u201c the Ten \u201d", "We 'll elect another ,", "More seldom still .", "If they were from his heart , he may be thankful :", "Its passage , but impedes it not \u2014 once passed .", "Swerved .", "Shall be the last of the old Doge 's reign ,", "We sought the Doge .", "Stalk frowning round my couch , and , pointing towards", "Saint Mark 's great bell is soon about to toll", "We have higher business for our own . This day", "They sleep not", "Have made it law \u2014 who shall oppose that law ?", "\u2018 Tis moderate \u2014 not even life for life , the rule", "From its sad visions of the other world ,", "As the first of his son 's last banishment , 20", "To await their coming here , and join them in", "Of private passion may not interrupt", "The delegates appointed to convey", "Time to admonish them again .", "In early life its foe , but in his manhood ,", "This from you .", "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 .", "Because we have waited long enough , and he", "to beg him", "And I \u2014\u2014", "The busy have no time for tears .", "Right ! 350", "In his own portion of the palace , with", "Sires of a hundred sons , but cannot kindle", "An atom of their ancestors from earth .", "\u2018 Twas fit that some one of such different thoughts", "Well , sir !", "That he has paid me !Chief of the Ten . What debt did he owe you ? 370", "If we should measure forth the cities taken", "You talk unwarily . \u2018 Twere best they hear not", "And the old Doge , who knew him doomed , smiled on him 300", "The Council 's resolution .", "By the Doge Foscari , with citizens", "Our powers are such .", "In their accelerated graves , nor will 330", "We must be speedy : let us call together", "Fail to move them , and to remove him : since", "Where go you , sirrah ?", "To private havoc , such as between him 320", "If not , \u2018 twill punish his hypocrisy .", "Say rather", "Lived longer than enough . Hence ! in to council !", "What ! Do you regret a traitor ?", "A last ! as , soon , he shall", "He said himself that nought", "I 'll take their voices on it ne'ertheless ,", "Sorrow preys upon", "Than calling it at moments back to this .", "I never smiled on them .", "Still .", "And make him null .", "He answered quickly , and must so be answered ;", "The ducal palace , marshal me to vengeance .", "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 ?", "Could give him trouble farther .", "What laws ?\u2014 \u201c The Ten \u201d are laws ; and if they were not ,", "Decides to-day must not give way before", "\u2018 Twas true ; the question was the death resolved", "Met the great Duke at daybreak with a jest ,", "Till Foscari fills his . Each night I see them", "\u2018 Twas his own wish that all should be done promptly . 120", "In battle : the rewards are equal . Now ,"], "true_target": ["To grant it the third time .", "He is safe , I tell you ;", "Let him call up into life", "There is none , I tell you , 40", "He has seen his son 's half broken , and , except", "Even ag\u00e9d men , be , or appear to be ,", "And see whose most may sway them , yours or mine .", "Demanding whether he should augur him", "Dreaded to have its acts beheld by others .", "What 's here ?", "All that 's essential \u2014 leave the rest to me .", "His sons \u2014 and he had four \u2014 are dead , without", "Ago to Carmagnuola .", "In which \u201d", "I used no poison , bribed no subtle master", "His dignity is looked to , his estate", "We have the implicit order of the Giunta", "Shorten the path to the eternal cure .", "Hark ! 280", "The present Duke is Paschal Malipiero .", "Denounced of retribution from all time ;", "Age has no heart to break .", "It shows", "I have \u2014 and had a father . 270", "Of Carmagnuola , eight months ere he died ;", "Cared for \u2014 what would he more ?", "A start of feeling in his dungeon , never", "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 my dead father .", "And all will prosper .", "For his inauguration .", "How !\u2014 my Giunta !", "As long as he can drag them : \u2018 tis his throne", "More soundly .", "I care , depute the Council on their knees ,", "Come , they are met by this time ; let us join them ,", "The victims are not equal ; he has seen", "ACT V .", "Why so ?", "Most sure .", "And that is vengeance .", "A crown to him who saved a citizen", "The impression of his former instances :", "Their thoughts , their objects , have been sounded , do not", "Kind to relieve him from the cares of State .", "His fourscore years and five may linger on", "Yet \u2018 twas important .", "So that the thing be done . You may , for aught", "Not I , now", "From ours should be a witness , lest false tongues", "Why , what should change me ?", "Doubtless .", "No .", "I have .", "The act was passing , it might have suspended", "I have prepared such arguments as will not 50", "Even so : when he ,", "The Romans", "Your answer , Francis Foscari !", "Where ?", "Because his son is dead ?", "Eight months of such hypocrisy as is", "His son , and the whole race of Foscaris .", "As you please \u2014", "decided his destruction ,", "\u201c There often has been question about you . \u201d", "gave a crown", "To have the courtesy to abdicate .", "My dabbling in vile drugs .", "Bid to his Dukedom .", "The thing 's decreed . The Giunta", "With deadly cozenage , eight long months beforehand \u2014", "Had we known this when 260", "Destroyed by him , or through him , the account", "My sires by violent and mysterious maladies . 280", "You , with your wonted scruples , teach us pause ,", "The public benefit ; and what the State", "And men of eighty", "To-morrow for a natural accident .", "Alone is aimed at .", "Its solitude , and nothing more diverts it", "See , the Duke comes !", "\u201c That he in truth had passed a night of vigil ,", "I will be legislator in this business .", "They owe me still my father 's and my uncle 's .", "After the very night in which \u201c the Ten \u201d 290", "Were fearfully against him , although narrowed", "His sons expire by natural deaths , and I", "Forthwith \u2014 when this long leave is taken . \u2018 Tis"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 209}, {"query": ["I am silent .", "Most true . I say no more .", "I shall fulfil my office .", "For them , but not for us ;", "I would know why .", "All are not met , but I am of your thought", "To oppose them , but \u2014\u2014"], "true_target": ["I mean not", "I sought not", "Chosen , however reluctantly so chosen ,", "A summons to \u201c the Ten ! \u201d why so ?", "A place within the sanctuary ; but being", "Let us view them : they ,", "No doubt , are worth it .", "So far \u2014 let 's in ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 209}, {"query": ["Let us not", "As we hope , Signor ,", "If you obey : and , if not , you no less", "If we divulge them , doubtless they are worth 90", "Being worth our lives", "I am the son of Marco Memmo .", "By previous proclamation . We are summoned \u2014", "The Bridge which few repass .", "And I another ; and it seems to me", "That is enough .", "Chosen delegates , a school of wisdom , to", "\u201c The Ten \u201d", "Both honoured by the choice or chance which leads us 80", "Be thus admitted , though as novices ,", "Alone can answer ; they are rarely wont", "Patricians of the Senate \u2014 you are one ,", "You will know why anon , 70"], "true_target": ["Something , at least to you or me .", "Of their deliberation five and twenty", "Will know why you should have obeyed .", "To view the mysteries .", "Thus hesitate ? \u201c The Ten \u201d have called in aid", "Why", "To mingle with a body so august .", "Decemvir , it is surely for the Senate 's", "To let their thoughts anticipate their purpose", "Be latest in obeying \u201c the Ten 's \u201d summons .", "In earnest councils \u2014 we will not be least so .", "Signor ,", "In Venice \u201c but \"' s a traitor .", "And all may honestly ,", "one day hope to be", "The earliest are most welcome", "But me no \u201c buts \u201d unless you would pass o'er"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 209}, {"query": ["Yet \u2014 yet \u2014 I pray you to obtain for me 100", "Look back . I pray you think of me .", "Fos . I doubt not . Father \u2014 wife \u2014 190", "Fos . Nothing . I cannot charge", "Fos . Now , I 'm ready \u2014", "Appalled , turn their despairing eyes on me ,", "Howe'er remote the period . Let there be", "Ye love not with more holy love than I ,", "That I was wicked . If it be so , may", "Fos . My poor mother , for my birth , 160", "Fos . No \u2014", "To lash up from the deep the Adrian waves ,", "Your hand !", "Fos . Never yet did mariner", "And me for having lived , and you yourself", "Fos . No \u2014 you mistake ; \u2018 tis yours that shakes , my father . Farewell !", "As the Phenicians did on Jonah , then", "What I have undergone here keep me from", "And tear the vessel , till the mariners ,", "May all the winds of Heaven howl down the Gulf , 140", "Will be .\u2014 But wherefore breaks it not ? why live I ?", "I have been so beyond the common lot", "A like hereafter !", "But let me still return .", "My eyes swim strangely \u2014 where 's the door ?", "Cast me out from amongst them , as an offering", "Thy fond fidelity for a time deprives", "Chastened and visited , I needs must think", "It must be borne . Father , your blessing .", "No \u2014 not for thee , too good , too kind ! May'st thou", "With any penalty annexed they please ,", "A broken corse upon the barren Lido ,", "Till the sea dash me back on my own shore", "Fos . And I to be attended . Once more , father ,"], "true_target": ["Ye tutelar saints of my own city ! which", "Fos . But still I must", "Fos . Well !", "Fos . I cannot wish them all they have inflicted .", "Which you bestowed upon me as my sire .", "A point of time , as beacon to my heart ,", "Which , of its thousand wrecks , hath ne'er received", "Live long to be a mother to those children", "Fos . The light ! Is it the light ?\u2014 I am faint .", "Fos . Ah , father ! though I must and will depart ,", "Where I may mingle with the sands which skirt", "And waken Auster , sovereign of the Tempest ! 130", "Of such support ! But for myself alone ,", "Fos . Forgive \u2014\u2014", "Fos . O , ye Elements ! Where are your storms ?", "The galley 's sails are not unfurled :\u2014 who knows ?", "My memory with much save sorrow : but", "Will be more merciful than man , and bear me", "The land I love , and never shall see more !", "And pleasant breezes , as I call upon you ,", "One lacerated like the heart which then 150", "Fos . No \u2014 nothing .", "From fishers \u2019 hands , upon the desolate strand ,", "Fos . Let me hope not .", "Dead , but still bear me to a native grave ,", "That I once more return unto my home ,", "Triple , and tenfold torture ! But you are right ,", "Fos . Double ,", ", for the gift of life ,", "Your hands !", "To appease the waves . The billow which destroys me", "Put up to patron saint such prayers for prosperous", "The wind may change .", "Fos . They may repent .", "Fos . But we are not summoned yet ;"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 209}, {"query": ["They have taken my son from me , and now aim", "Accept it as \u2018 tis given \u2014 proceed .", "Earth and Heaven !", "I cannot break my oath .", "Bear hence the body .", "An appanage of twenty hundred golden 30", "To the point \u2014", "Is manifest , then you shall all be answered .", "Now to solicit from your wisdom", "I never thought to be divorced except", "No Prince \u2014 200", "A face I know not .\u2014 Senator ! your name ,", "Such sound for his successor : happier he ,", "To fall upon you ! else they would , as erst", "Instead of your compliance .", "Within an hour I 'll hear you .", "Well I recognise", "Pomp is for Princes \u2014 I am none !\u2014 That 's false ,", "To burst , if aught of venom touches it .", "Inasmuch as it shows , that I approach", "Three days are left you to remove from hence ,", "My attainted predecessor , stern Faliero \u2014", "Answer that ;", "Give it way : 70", "My unhappy children !", "No \u2014 I merely", "Renew this instance . I have sworn to die", "And here my staff : thus propped will I go forth . Chief of the Ten . It must not be \u2014 the people will perceive it .", "And their desponding shades came flitting round", "What ?", "We are going ; do you fear that we shall bear", "All these vain ceremonies are base insults ,", "Chief of the Ten . Yet go not forth so quickly .", "They were more numerous , nor can be less so 110", "Of your three goodly brothers , now in earth ,", "Accept the homage of respect ?", "Chief of the Ten . My Lord , if you indeed", "Of twenty-five of the best born patricians ,", "And call Marina ,", "You have reason . I have spoken much", "My Country called me here to exercise ,", "Son Jacopo ,", "You have heard me .Chief of the Ten . With all due reverence we retire .", "But come ; my son and I will go together \u2014 250", "You ever were my dearest offspring , when", "The malice of my foes will drive me down them .", "Than should become a Sovereign 's retreat .", "Under the penalty to see confiscated", "According to my honour and my conscience \u2014", "Not even eight minutes \u2014 there 's the ducal ring , 190", "Already mentioned in our former congress .", "I must look on him once more .", "Will now descend the stairs by which I mounted 240", "Your grief distracts you .", "My child ! this is a phantasy of grief .", "Elected , and so will I be deposed .", "Was prejudicial to the State , the Chief", "For my own part , I credit neither ; \u2018 tis", "Else you dare not deal thus by them or me .", "It is your province .", "My time is hers .", "If \u2018 twas so , I can", "No !", "I shall not need so many seconds .", "May the next Duke be better than the present !", "Of days , since every hour has been the Country 's .", "Chief of the Ten . Speak !", "Most fit for such an hour as this .", "Have consecrated my last moments to her .", "Chief of the Ten . What ! thus in public ?", "Or a Prince 's son .", "The Israelite and his Philistine foes . 220", "The palace with us ? Its old walls , ten times", "Would", "Against his Country , had he a thousand lives", "As sign of our esteem .", "Are evil , you may say them ; nothing further", "I take yours , Loredano , from the hand", "Prolongs my days to prove and chasten me ; 50", "Chief of the Ten . Hear you then the last decree ,", "Himself so far ungrateful , as to place", "Is he \u2014\u2014", "Chief of the Ten . Will not the Duke", "A duty , paramount to every duty .", "\u2018 Tis said that our Venetian crystal has", "I am proud to say , would not enrich the treasury .", "Now he is mine \u2014 my broken-hearted boy !", "Such pure antipathy to poisons as", "Chief of the Ten . Why", "Go and obey our Country 's will :", "True ; but in freedom , 210", "The sound ! I heard it once , but once before ,", "But ye have no right to reproach my length", "And I to answer . Chief of the Ten . What ?", "With a selected giunta from the Senate", "A Sovereign should die standing . My poor boy !", "No ; my seat here has been a throne till now . Marina ! let us go .", "Definitive and absolute !", "In such a curse as mine , provoked by such", "Which , at this moment , doubly must oppress", "Having deliberated on the state", "When I twice before reiterated", "My daughter !", "There five and thirty years ago was I", "Signers , you may depart : what would you more ?", "I am ready to lay down my life for her ,", "Even then I was not young .", "Of the State 's palace , at the least retire", "Inform the Signory from me , the Doge ,", "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 .", "The whole Republic : when the general will", "Your father was my friend .\u2014 But sons and fathers !\u2014", "Then it is false , or you are true .", "Not useless to that Country , I would fain", "A dotage which may justify this deed", "The resignation of the ducal ring ,", "To me all hours are like . Let them approach .", "Which only ulcerate the heart the more ,", "Will now retire .", "Daughter !", "As Sovereign \u2014 I go out as citizen", "He to his grave , and I to pray for mine .", "Off with your arms !\u2014 That bell !", "I thank you . If the tidings which you bring", "I was publicly", "I am old , sir ,", "Such power I do believe there might exist", "Will alter nothing which I have to say .", "Could tell a tale ; but I invoke them not", "Live to hear this !\u2014 the first Doge who e'er heard 230", "You have heard it .", "Which you have worn so long and venerably :", "I feel athirst \u2014 will no one bring me here 290 A cup of water ? Bar . I \u2014\u2014"], "true_target": ["Have judged it fitting , with all reverence ,", "Not till I pass the threshold of these doors .", "So rashly ? \u2018 twill give scandal .", "And not alone refused , but ye exacted", "I spoke not to you , but to Loredano . He understands me .", "Stay ! four and twenty hours", "To impede the act , I must no less obey", "To the point ! I know of old the forms of office ,", "I do", "You , by your garb , Chief of the Forty !", "Not eight hours , Signor ,", "Did I hear rightly ? Chief of the Ten . Need I say again ?", "His own high dignity before his Country ;", "If I could have foreseen that my old age", "The people ,\u2014 There 's no people , you well know it ,", "\u2018 Tis the knell of my poor boy ! My heart aches bitterly .", "Chief of the Ten . I have spoken . Twenty four", "To move betimes . Methinks I see amongst you", "But the decree being rendered , I obey .", "Instead of that \u2014\u2014", "It could avail thee ! but no less thou hast it .", "Without these jealous spies upon the great .", "As I have laid down dearer things than life :", "Chief of the Ten . Your answer , Duke !", "Take it . Alas ! how thine own trembles ! 180", "Marina ! art thou willing ?", "If they be good , say on ; you need not fear", "Let them resume the gewgaws !", "An oath from me that I would never more", "For us to look beyond .", "No . I", "Chief of the Ten . We grieve for such an answer ; but it cannot", "What mean you ?", "The bell tolls on !\u2014 let 's hence \u2014 my brain 's on fire !", "The pillars of stone Dagon 's temple on", "My services have called me up those steps ,", "Alone !", "Envy the dead .", "But nothing will advance ; no , not a moment . 60", "Broad eminence I was invested Duke .", "Farewell ! Is there aught else ?", "Return to those who sent us ?", "And gentle preludes to strong acts .\u2014 Go on !", "Save with their hearts and eyes .", "I have obeyed your summons . Chief of the Ten . We come once more to urge our past request .", "He 's free .", "What , ho ! my servants there !", "Stir \u2014 in my train , at least . I entered here", "Of the Republic , and the o'erwhelming cares 20", "Chief of the Ten . Reduce us not", "Chief of the Ten . You speak in passion ,", "By the same portals , but as citizen .", "All your own private fortune .", ",", "Am now and evermore . But we will bear it .", "At my too long worn diadem and ring .", "Of the Republic never would have shown 180", "This insult at the least was spared him .", "Chief of the Ten . With this , then , must we", "And even to move but slowly must begin", "The exile of the disinterr\u00e9d ashes", "No more \u2014 no more of that .", "There are the princes of the Prince !", "Your years , so long devoted to your Country ,", "Was not of mine , but more excuses you ,", "Farewell , sirs !", "Your children live , Marina .", "Elsewhere .", "There is a populace , perhaps , whose looks", "Alone , come all the world around me , I", "We willingly will lengthen them to eight ,", "You bore this goblet , and it is not broken .", "From your imperial oath as Sovereign ;", "May shame you ; but they dare not groan nor curse you , 260", "Applying poisons there as antidotes .", "Hours are accorded you to give an answer .", "My wish to abdicate , it was refused me : 40", "In full exertion of the functions , which", "The landing-place of the canal .", "But for my dignity \u2014 I hold it of", "I can submit to all things ,", "Doge", "My only answer .", "An hour ago I should have felt it .", "Avail you aught .", "What you decree \u2014 decree .", "But this life having been so many years", "Your ducal robes must be put off ; but for 170", "I am , but only to these gates .\u2014 Ah !", "Ye will reverberate this peal ; and I", "Cold to your years and services , they add", "To the alternative of a decree ,", "An idle legend .", "And that is five and thirty years ago ;", "That they can comfort me .", "Chief of the Ten . You are no longer Doge ; you are released", "\u2018 tis not", "Soon may be a Prince no longer .", "To sovereignty \u2014 the Giants \u2019 Stairs , on whose", "Get thee ready , we must mourn", "As you ; but I curse not . Adieu , good Signers !", "Nor should do so", "I cannot comfort thee .", "Chief of the Ten . \u201c The Ten , \u201d", "Installed , and traversed these same halls , from which", "Only repeat \u2014 I am ready .", "You shall not", "Signors , if it please you ,", "Chief of the Ten . We", "They have no further power upon those ashes :", "Ducats , to make retirement not less splendid", "And to prove that they are not ungrateful , nor", "Are bent upon this rash abandonment", "What command ?", "While he lived , he was theirs , as fits a subject \u2014", "Can touch me more than him thou look'st on there ;", "\u2018 Tis the fittest time ;", "Your services , the State allots the appanage", "Chief of the Ten . If you would have the three days named extended ,", "As old as I am , and I 'm very old ,", "Alas !", "Providence", "Of yours , although the law does not , nor will .", "But not pushed hence by fellow-citizens .", "Now you are last ; but did the State demand", "That last clause ,", "A corse \u2014 a corse , it might be , fighting for them \u2014", "By the private staircase , which conducts you towards", "Ah !", "And he is in his shroud !", "Else \u2014\u2014", "No .\u2014 Have you done ?", "More than my wont : it is a foible which", "Have served you , so have I , and I and they"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 209}, {"query": ["Doge", "Might have repaid protection in this moment ,", "Country and home . I loved him \u2014 how I loved him !", "Sirs , I am ready .", "And \u2014\u2014", "What hast thou done ?", "And", "Will you not now resent it ?\u2014 Oh , for vengeance !", "Oh , God !\u2014 My Foscari , how fare you ?", "And if it do , it will not 120", "Our purposes so readily .", "What !", "Thus leave me .", "Here 's my arm !", "Ah , he is dying !", "We will , and for the sake of those who are ,", "I know the former better than yourselves ;", "The retribution of his wrongs !\u2014 Well , well !", "It is my last of duties , and may prove 340", "Perhaps you fain would be alone ?", "Chief of the Ten . Lady , we revoke not", "I thought you had no tears \u2014 you hoarded them", "Accept the tardy penitence of demons .", "How ?", "Shall weep more \u2014 never , never more .", "What is this to the things thou hast borne in silence \u2014", "I do , Signor .", "Then leave them .", "Another land , and who so blest and blessing", "Chief of the Ten . We", "And wish you this with me beside you ?", "Away ! Let me support him \u2014 my best love ! Oh , God ! How faintly beats this heart \u2014 this pulse !", "And now , when he can neither know these honours ,", "My husband ! let us on : this but prolongs", "To me my husband and my children were", "Bowed down by such oppression ; yes , I thought", "Leave him to me ; you would have done so for", "My children ! true \u2014 they live , and I must live", "Imprisonment and actual torture ?", "Incarnate Lucifer ! \u2018 tis holy ground .", "Fear not : that 's reserved 170", "All ! the consummate fiends ! A thousandfold", "Unto their home by the new Doge , not clad", "But he , who , had he been enough protected , 90", "A sufferer , but not a loud one : why", "Touch it not , dungeon miscreants ! your base office", "Oh , the tyrants ! In such an hour too !", "Here !", "I know it ,", "Which shall be consecrated to his rites ,", "That I would rather look upon his corse", "Doge", "In human breasts . Alas ! Will nothing calm you ?", "Hope not ?", "I trust , Heaven 's will be done too !", "Juggle no more with that poor remnant , which ,", "To be Venetian .", "Though his possessions have been all consumed", "No , ye only make them ,", "To man thyself , I trust , with time , to master", "Of so much splendour in hypocrisy", "And everywhere .", "Change their hearts , or your lot : the galley 's oars", "The latter \u2014 like yourselves ; and can face both .", "Even by your murderous laws . Leave his remains 200", "I thought I could have borne it , when I saw him", "A dreary comfort in my desolation .", "Endeavour \u2014\u2014 Oh , my husband !", "Depart . Ah ! now you look as looked my husband !", "O'er those they slew .", "Have nought to give but tears ! But could I compass", "So formed for gentle privacy of life ,", "Aye , weep on !", "And I , who would have given my blood for him , 100", "To the deceased , so you would act the part 360", "He 's busy , look , About the business you provided for him . Are ye content ?", "Had better now be seated , nor as yet", "Than his prolonged captivity :\u2014 I am punished", "Signers , your pardon : this is mockery . 320", "And I \u2014\u2014", "To whom ye speak , and perils of such speech ?", "They tortured from him . This", "To bring them up to serve the State , and die"], "true_target": ["The Prince of whom he was the elder born ,", "Come , come , old man !", "consigned to powers which may", "In the State 's service , I have still my dowry ,", "And not his honour .", "As died their father . Oh ! what best of blessings 210", "Alas ! I have shed some \u2014 always thanks to you !", "Imperfect happiness or high ambition ,", "I have seen him pass through such an ordeal as", "To make a pageant over what you trampled . 330", "Cannot comply with your request . His relics 350", "Our bridal bed is now his bier , 110", "From his high place , with such relentless coldness ;", "Shall be exposed with wonted pomp , and followed", "Ah ! I thought it would be so .", "You talk wildly , and 300", "Come with me !", "Chief of the Ten . Best retain it for your children .", "For your oppressors .", "You banished from his palace and tore down", "Ah ! the Devil come to insult the dead ! Avaunt !", "As Doge , but simply as a senator .", "Of such . Well , sirs , your will be done ! as one day ,", "I 've heard of heirs in sables \u2014 you have left none", ",", "The Stoic of the State ?", "Were barrenness in Venice ! Would my mother", "And I must live !", "Chief of the Ten . Do you", "He might have lived ,", "So loving , so beloved ; the native of", "You feel it then at last \u2014 you !\u2014 Where is now", "Pretend still to this office ?", "Chief of the Ten . Know you , Lady ,", "A shrine . Get thee back to thy place of torment !", "A princely funeral will be your reproach ,", "Grief is fantastical , and loves the dead ,", "Purpose , with idle and superfluous pomp ,", "May the worm which never dieth feed upon them !", "I have heard of murderers , who have interred", "And those of \u2014\u2014", "There 's death in that damp , clammy grasp .", "By some strange destiny , to him proved deadly . 80", "And if they do , Heaven will not", "Lo ! there is the blood beginning 240", "I thought the dead had been beyond even you ,", "As my poor Foscari ? Nothing was wanting", "There must be life yet in that heart \u2014 he could not", "Yes ; all things which conduce to other men 's", "Ends with his life , and goes not beyond murder ,", "The Country and the People whom he loved ,", "Our sorrow .", "To those who know to honour them .", "Aye , they are fatherless , I thank you .", "His dregs of life , which you have kindly shortened :", "A martyr 's ashes now lie there , which make it 220", "My God ! My God !", "Though", "Unto his happiness and mine save not", "May be pure patriotism . I am a woman :", "The body bleeds in presence of the assassin .", "Until they are useless ; but weep on ! he never", "Had been so !", "Cannot assist his father .", "The old martyrs would have shrunk from : he is gone ,", "I 've heard of widows \u2019 tears \u2014", "No \u2014 no , he is not dead ;", "Their victims ; but ne'er heard , until this hour ,", "My Lord , if I intrude \u2014", "A moment since , while yet it had a soul ,", "Will quickly clear the harbour .", "Pass on .", "Hold thy peace , old man ! I am no daughter now \u2014 thou hast no son . Oh , Foscari !", "I have sons , who shall be men .", "For that thought now . Would I were in his grave !", "Resemble that you exercise on earth .", "Wish you more funerals ?", "And the apparel of the grave .", "As far as touches torturing the living .", "Most readily .", "Nor would accept them if he could , you , Signors ,", "To flow through the dead lips of Foscari \u2014", "Such useless passion . Until now thou wert"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 209}, {"query": ["Perhaps , in the air .", "May I pass on ?", "In presence of another he says little ,", "For the late Foscari 's interment .", "Is rising \u2014 we are ready to attend you .", "Inform the Signory , and learn their pleasure .", "Apartment , mutter forth the words \u2014 \u201c My son ! \u201d", "Scarce audibly . I must proceed .", "By the ducal order", "And once or twice I heard him , from the adjoining", "But I perceive his lips move now and then ;"], "true_target": ["He 's gone !", "Signor ! the boat is at the shore \u2014 the wind", "To forward the preparatory rites", "A melancholy one \u2014 to call the attendance", "We must remove the body .", "With desperate firmness .", "Of \u2014\u2014", "You turn pale \u2014", "He will be better ,", "Some water !", "Let me support you \u2014 paler \u2014 ho ! some aid there !", "I must"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 209}, {"query": ["To the chamber where the body lies .", "\u2018 Tis all over .", "Accord with your will , they will make it theirs .", "My Lord ,", "My Lord , the deputation is in waiting ;", "With the illustrious lady his son 's widow .", "This instant retired hence ,", "Say , shall it not be so ?"], "true_target": ["Of the realm , while his age permitted him", "Chief of the Ten . If it be so , at least his obsequies 310", "Shall be such as befits his name and nation ,", "To do himself and them full justice . Brethren ,", "The noble dame Marina craves an audience .", "He shall be informed .", "But add , that if another hour would better", "His rank and his devotion to the duties"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 209}, {"query": ["Son Cain ! my first-born \u2014 wherefore art thou silent ?", "We have , most fervently .", "Each to his task of toil \u2014 not heavy , though", "But thou my eldest born ? art silent still ?", "Jehovah ! with returning light \u2014 All Hail !", "Dost thou not live ?", "Wherefore so ?", "Needful : the earth is young , and yields us kindly", "Her fruits with little labour ."], "true_target": ["And we must gather it again . Oh God ! why didst thou plant the tree of knowledge ?", "To pray .", "Light on the waters with a word \u2014 All Hail !", "Nor aught to thank for ?", "Our orisons completed , let us hence ,", "Blaspheme not : these are Serpent 's words .", "Oh ! my son ,", "God , the Eternal ! Infinite ! All-wise !\u2014", "Who out of darkness on the deep didst make", "So will God , I trust ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 209}, {"query": ["Part of thy work the firmament \u2014 All Hail !", "Content thee with what is . Had we been so ,", "Before thy birth : let me not see renewed 40", "Behold thy father cheerful and resigned \u2014", "Let me not see my offspring fall into", "To fall .", "The snares beyond the walls of Paradise ,", "Alas !", "Who didst divide the wave from wave , and call"], "true_target": ["And do as he doth .", "My misery in thine . I have repented .", "God ! who didst name the day , and separate", "Morning from night , till then divided never \u2014", "The fruit of our forbidden tree begins 30", "Thou now hadst been contented .\u2014 Oh , my son !", "My boy ! thou speakest as I spoke in sin ,", "Cain \u2014 my son \u2014 50", "Which even in Paradise destroyed his parents ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 209}, {"query": ["What had I done in this ?\u2014 I was unborn :", "My father could not keep his place in Eden ?", "And this is", "One answer to all questions , \u201c \u2018 Twas his will ,", "Amen !", "Or shadow , madest beings to enjoy them ,", "To which that birth has brought me . Why did he", "If not , why place him near it , where it grew", "Whom have we here ?\u2014 A shape like to the angels 80", "Which can avail thee nothing , save to rouse", "I judge but by the fruits \u2014 and they are bitter \u2014", "Be on your spirit , brother !", "The peace of God", "Why should I fear him more than other spirits ,", "And love both them and thee \u2014 All Hail ! All Hail !", "I sought not to be born ; nor love the state", "The Cherubim-defended battlements ? 90", "Yield to the Serpent and the woman ? or 70", "Yet of a sterner and a sadder aspect", "The tree was planted , and why not for him ?", "Gardens which are my just inheritance ,", "And is it", "Whom I see daily wave their fiery swords", "Why wilt thou wear this gloom upon thy brow ,"], "true_target": ["And night , and worlds which these illuminate ,", "Which I must feed on for a fault not mine .", "And he is good . \u201d How know I that ? Because", "Before the gates round which I linger oft ,", "Why should I quail from him who now approaches ?", "God ! who didst call the elements into", "Ere the night closes o'er the inhibited walls", "Cain", "Of spiritual essence : why do I quake ?", "Life ?\u2014 Toil ! and wherefore should I toil ?\u2014 because", "If I shrink not from these , the fire-armed angels ,", "Yet \u2014 he seems mightier far than them , nor less", "So ? and can aught grieve save Humanity ?", "He cometh .", "The Eternal anger ?", "The fairest in the centre ? They have but", "Yielding \u2014 why suffer ? What was there in this ?", "Half of his immortality .", "In Twilight 's hour , to catch a glimpse of those", "And the immortal trees which overtop", "He is all-powerful , must all-good , too , follow ?", "Earth , ocean , air and fire \u2014 and with the day 10", "Beauteous , and yet not all as beautiful", "As he hath been , and might be : sorrow seems"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 209}, {"query": ["Like an ethereal night", "Shall they not love and bring forth things that love", "And this should be a Cherub \u2014 since he loves not .", "Wilt thou frown even on me ?", "Out of their love ? have they not drawn their milk", "No \u2014", "Love thee .", "Bear with what we have borne , and love me \u2014 I", "With things that look as if they would be suns ;", "Forth with this spirit ; he is not of ours .", "Or in his angels , who are like to thee \u2014", "Like them .", "In multiplying our being multiply", "If not , I will", "The words of God , and tempt us with our own", "Out of this bosom ? was not he , their father , 370", "Our father", "I am not wretched , Cain , and if thou", "And dread , and toil , and sweat , and heaviness ;", "Which cometh not . Cain ! walk not with this Spirit .", "Return to seek you here .", "And brighter , yet less beautiful and powerful", "Not dazzling , and yet drawing us to them ,", "By me ?", "To me my solitude seems sin ; unless", "The Cherubs and the Seraphs ; he looks not", "Our parents ?", "Alone ! Oh , my God !", "And yet I fly not from him : in his eye", ", where long white clouds", "And happy intercourse with happy spirits :", "Spangle the wonderful mysterious vault", "Saith that he has beheld the God himself", "Alas ! no ! and you \u2014", "Streak the deep purple , and unnumbered stars", "In sooth , return within an hour ?", "Born of the same sole womb ,", "I look upon him with a pleasing fear ,", "And heedless , harmless wantonness of bliss .", "It is our hour of rest and joy \u2014 and we", "Remorse of that which was \u2014 and hope of that 360", "in the same hour", "Hast plucked a fruit more fatal to thine offspring", "I cannot answer this immortal thing", "Should we not love them \u2014 and our children , Cain ?", "Oh , my mother ! thou", "Fiend ! tempt me not with beauty ; thou art fairer", "So beautiful , unnumbered , and endearing ,", "His brother , and our children , and our parents .", "All light , they look upon us ; but thou seem'st 510", "Thy youth in Paradise , in innocent", "Nor would be happy ; but with those around us", "I have heard it said , 420", "When I think how soon I shall see my brother ,", "\u2014", "Our father", "Must be all goodness .", "Evil on ill ; expulsion from our home ,", "With me ? did we not love each other ? and", "It is a beautiful star ; I love it for", "Where dwellest thou ?", "Save in my father , who is God 's own image ;", "Art thou that steppest between heart and heart ?", "And I will weep for thee .", "We have seen many : will he share our hour", "To be belov\u00e9d , more than all , save thee \u2014", "Its beauty .", "Alone I could not ,", "I think I could be so , despite of Death ,", "Of rest ?\u2014 he is welcome .", "O Cain ! This spirit curseth us ."], "true_target": ["We were not born then \u2014 and if we had been ,", "Oh , Cain ! choose Love .", "Have less without thee . Thou hast laboured not", "Who could be happy and alone , or good ?", "Are there , then , others ?", "Which , as I know it not , I dread not , though", "Aye \u2014 but not bless\u00e9d .", "Who made him and our mother .", "Will he ,", "And thus becomes so in diffusing joy . 480", "The angels and the mortals to make happy ,", "Whither ?", "I see an angel ; 340", "Are ripe , and glowing as the light which ripens :", "Than to thyself ; thou at the least hast passed", "God ! the Eternal parent of all things !", "But he is welcome , as they were : they deigned", "So did the Serpent , and it lied .", "But we , thy children , ignorant of Eden , 400", "What ! Must not my daughter love her brother Enoch ?", "Wilt thou ?", "Than was the Serpent , and as false .", "Cain", "Beats quick ; he awes me , and yet draws me near ,", "But all we know of it has gathered", "Sin in itself ? Can circumstance make sin", "Who", "Wert happy \u2014\u2014", "What is the sin which is not 380", "Are girt about by demons , who assume", "There is a fastening attraction which 410", "And leave us ?", "I do . Is that a sin , too ?", "To be our guests \u2014 will he ?", "Judge from what I have heard .", "Come away .", "Oh , my God !", "Fixes my fluttering eyes on his ; my heart", "Omnipotence 390", "And me ?", "My belov\u00e9d Cain", "Things which will love each other as we love", "It seems an awful shadow \u2014 if I may 470", "He is not God \u2014 nor God 's : I have beheld", "Them ?\u2014 And as I love thee , my Cain ! go not", "Aye \u2014 to our eternal sorrow .", "Will he return ?", "The Seraphs love most \u2014 Cherubim know most", "Of \u2014\u2014", "So they were when the fair Serpent", "They fill my eyes with tears , and so dost thou .", "He is not so ; he hath", "Thou seem'st unhappy : do not make us so ,", "Spoke with our mother first .", "Let me go with thee .", "Who didst create these best and beauteous beings ,", "This morn ; but I have done thy task : the fruits", "Wert worked on by the snake , in thy most flushed", "Nearer and nearer :\u2014 Cain \u2014 Cain \u2014 save me from him !", "How know'st thou ?", "Which stands before me ; I cannot abhor him ;", "My brother , I have come for thee ;", "What all ?", "How can that be ?", "Or virtue ?\u2014 if it doth , we are the slaves", "In seeming : as the silent sunny noon ,", "Dissatisfied and curious thoughts \u2014 as thou", "Are you of Heaven ?", "What else can joy be , but the spreading joy ?", "Adores the Invisible only .", "Yes \u2014 in his works .", "Let me love thee and them :\u2014 All Hail ! All Hail !"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 209}, {"query": ["Oh , God ! who loving , making , blessing all ,", "And drive my father forth from Paradise , 20"], "true_target": ["Wilt thou not , my brother ?", "Yet didst permit the Serpent to creep in ,", "Keep us from further evil :\u2014 Hail ! All Hail !"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 209}, {"query": ["Belov\u00e9d Adah !", "I should be proud of thought", "Thy beauty and thy love \u2014 my love and joy ,", "To make death hateful , save an innate clinging ,", "Our native and forbidden Paradise ,", "I have nought to ask .", "Air , where ye roll along , as I have seen", "I fain would be alone a little while .", "The earth yield nothing to us without sweat ;", "And wore the look of worlds .", "He speaks like 350", "Spirit ! let me expire , or see them nearer .", "Let him say on ;", "Know nought of Death , save as a dreadful thing", "Why should I bow to thee ?", "And the immortal star in its great course ,", "And my conceptions .", "Bear all \u2014 and worship aught .", "Let me , or happy or unhappy , learn", "Like sunbeams onward , it grows small and smaller ,", "I feel , it is a dreadful thing ; but what ,", "I cannot see it .", "Can it be ?", "I never 310", "The fruits , or neither !", "The very blue of the empurpled night", "To Heaven , and Zillah casts hers to the earth ,", "The snake spoke truth ; it was the Tree of Knowledge ;", "Here let me die : for to give birth to those", "I watched for what I thought his coming ; for", "She wrung from me , with tears , this promise ; and", "She is my sister , 330", "I knew not that , yet thought it , since I heard", "Which bears them .", "But he is not like", "But I must retire", "With fear rose longing in my heart to know", "Although inferior still to my desires", "Which are around us ; and , as we move on ,", "Who ?", "Which humbles me and mine .", "Did they love us when they snatched from the Tree", "Of this almighty Death , who is , it seems ,", "Despise myself , yet cannot overcome \u2014", "Aught else but dust !", "Nor ever shall \u2014 the mysteries of Death . 140", "Yet it seems horrible . I have looked out 270", "If I may judge , till now . But , Spirit ! if", "The little shining fire-fly in its flight , 130", "No .", "Was plucked too soon ; and all the fruit is Death !", "Ye multiplying masses of increased 100", "Huge dusky masses ; but unlike the worlds", "Sprinkle the dusky groves and the green banks", "Why should I speak ?", "No less than life \u2014 a heritage not happy ,", "No less ! and why", ", or know ye in your might", "How know I what", "The things I see .", "Oh thou beautiful", "They say the Serpent was a spirit .", "And do not thirst to know , and bear a mind", "The offering is more his than mine \u2014 and Adah \u2014\u2014", "No , Adah ! no ;", "Begot me \u2014 thee \u2014 and all the few that are ,", "Of sin and pain \u2014 or few , but still of sorrow ,", "Beyond all power of my born faculties ,", "Have ye not prayed ?", "Thou art not the Lord my father worships .", "Although my brother Abel oft implores", "My sister Zillah sings an earlier hymn", "The firstlings of the flock to him who bids", "What \u2018 twas which shook us all \u2014 but nothing came .", "And some till now grew larger as we approached ,", "Why not ?", "\u2018 Tis better I should be so .", "The angels we have seen .", "I may be in the rest as angels are .", "I live ,", "And all that in them is . So I have heard", "With Abel on an altar .", "I am :\u2014 and thou , with all thy might , what art thou ?", "In the vast desolate night in search of him ;", "By the far-flashing of the Cherubs \u2019 swords ,", "And that the night , which makes both beautiful ,", "Written upon his forehead . But at least", "Of most innumerable lights .", "And unimaginable ether ! and", "To cull some first-fruits .", "In the dim twilight , brighter than yon world", "Your gentleness must not be harshly met :", "Who sowed the seed of evil and mankind", "And some emitting sparks , and some displaying", "I wrestled with the lion , when a boy , 260", "Oh God ! or Demon ! or whate'er thou art ,", "Of knowledge \u2014 and the mystery of Death", "Can I do so without impiety ?", "Spirit , I have said it . AdahCain ! my brother ! Cain ! ACT II .", "Be it proved .", "Your works , or accidents , or whatsoe'er", "Name it .", "A hideous heritage I owe to them", "But the lights fade from me fast ,", "Been seen .", "To till the earth \u2014 for I had promised \u2014\u2014", "Ah ! Thou look'st almost a god ; and \u2014\u2014", "Ah !", "Have I not said it ?\u2014 need I say it ? Could not thy mighty knowledge teach thee that ?", "Aye ! and serpents too ?", "Must I not die ?", "I tread on air , and sink not \u2014 yet I fear", "Says he is something dreadful , and my mother", "Who ?", "And being so , canst thou", "And men ? 170", "Why , I have seen the fire-flies and fire-worms", "And so I live . Would I had never lived !", "What dreads my Adah ? This is no ill spirit .", "His equal ?", "Thou hast said , I must be 90", "The Other", "Through thrice a thousand generations ! never", "But it grows dark , and dark \u2014 the stars are gone !", "For I was made of it .", "Where dost thou lead me ?", "Thou speak'st to me of things which long have swum", "And what is that ?", "And must torture be immortal ?", "Tamed down ; my mother has forgot the mind 180", "This has not been revealed : the Tree of Life", "By ages !\u2014 and I must be sire of such things ! 450", "And see thou show'st me things beyond my power , 80", "Forget \u2014\u2014 but it can never be forgotten 440", "They were , as I have heard from those who heard them ,", "And ye ?", "Who can but suffer many years , and die \u2014", "A loathsome , and yet all invincible", "They may be ! Let me die , as atoms die ,", "?", "Interchecked with an instant of brief pleasure ,", "Would they had snatched both 210", "Instinct of life , which I abhor , as I", "To Death \u2014 the unknown ! Methinks the Tree of Knowledge", ",", "Immortal in despite of me . I knew not", "His Seraphs sing ; and so my father saith .", "But the thing had a demon ?", "Could master all things \u2014 but I thought alone", "Thoughts unspeakable", "What ! is it not then new ?", "He is a God .", "The Life-tree ?", "The rapturous moment and the placid hour ,", "Spirit ! I 60", "That were no evil : would I ne'er had been", "Shall men love the remembrance of the man", "Of an eternal curse ; my brother is", "Not to snatch first that fruit :\u2014 but ere he plucked", "Of daily toil , and constant thought : I look", "who offers up", "No more ?", "And wherefore plucked ye not the tree of life ? Ye might have then defied him .", ", 30", "Deadly error !", "But didst thou tempt my parents ? Lucifer . I ? Poor clay \u2014 what should I tempt them for , or how ?", "How should I ? As we move", "I must away with him .", "Is yon our earth ?", "The knowledge , he was ignorant of Death .", "And yet I fear it \u2014 fear I know not what !", "So haughtily in spirit , and canst range", "Which shone the roundest of the stars , when I", "I dare behold ? As yet , thou hast shown nought", "Are ye happy ?", "Show me .", "No sun \u2014 no moon \u2014 no lights innumerable \u2014", "To inherit agonies accumulated", "Seem'st sorrowful ?"], "true_target": ["Intoxicated with eternity", "Which made her thirst for knowledge at the risk", "\u2018 Tis darkness !", "The umbrage of the walls of Eden , chequered", "He shut him forth from Paradise , with death", "Which are so beautiful : shall they , too , die ?", "Alas ! I scarcely now know what it is ,", "At least they ought to have known all things that are", "And you , too , sisters , tarry not behind ; 60", "My father and my mother talk to me 170", "And sighs a prayer ; and Adah looks on me ,", "I thought it was a being : who could do", "And what is that ? 320", "Is this our Paradise ? Where are its walls ,", "And all the unnumbered and innumerable", "And Edens in them ?", "Let what is mortal of me perish , that", "Seest thou not ?", "Where is it ? I see nothing save a mass", "Methinks they both , as we recede from them , 40", "Up to the lights above us , in the azure , 280", "Be taught the mystery of my being .", "And wilt thou tell me so ?", "All here seems dark and dreadful .", "I 'll follow you anon .", "Born with me \u2014 but I love nought else .", "With luminous belts , and floating moons , which took ,", "\u2018 Tis well \u2014 I rather would consort with spirits .", "Enormous vapours roll", "Him will I follow .", "Increase their myriads .", "This misery was mine . My father is", "To anticipate my immortality .", "Apart \u2014 what 's this ?", "Hath not fulfilled its promise :\u2014 if they sinned ,", "Why , what are things ?", "How so ?", "Crowd in my breast to burning , when I hear", "\u2018 Tis a fearful light !", "Speak aught of Knowledge which I would not know ,", "How should I be so ? Look on me !", "Are ye happy ?", "But Abel 's earnest prayer has wrought upon me ;", "Wilt thou teach me all ?", "Appear to join the innumerable stars", "What immortal part ?", "Of serpents , and of fruits and trees : I see", "Is this blue wilderness of interminable", "And thou !", "Oh ! how we cleave the blue ! The stars fade from us !", "They are so lovely . What is Death ? I fear ,", "Oh God ! Oh Gods ! or whatsoe'er ye are ! 110", "To know .", "Fades to a dreary twilight \u2014 yet I see 180", "But I will bend to neither .", "Now met I aught to sympathise with me . 190", "I dare not gaze on further .", "Clay \u2014 Spirit \u2014 what thou wilt \u2014 I can survey .", "Yes \u2014", "Ah ! didst thou tempt my mother ?", "All we love in our children and each other ,", "And then I turned my weary eyes from off", "Reconcile what I saw with what I heard .", "And as it waxes little , and then less ,", "But live to die ; and , living , see no thing 110", "And loudly : I", "Let me but", "We were approaching , which , begirt with light ,", "It be as thou hast said", "The earth ! where is my earth ? Let me look on it ,", "Aye .", "Can I return ?", "And still-increasing lights ! what are ye ? what", "The mind which overwhelms me : never till", "Was withheld from us by my father 's folly ,", "The gates of what they call their Paradise", "A watching shepherd boy ,", "It was the Tree of Life : knowledge is good ,", "Abel , I 'm sick at heart ; but it will pass ;", "I 'm glad of that : I would not have them die \u2014", "In the same hour ! They plucked the tree of science", "That they are beautiful in their own sphere ,", "Of which I have heard my parents speak , as of", "He has not yet 250", "And wider , and make widening circles round us !", "How ! You know my thoughts ?", "Spirit , who art thou ?", "Do so .", "Rather than see her weep , I would , methinks ,", "Such evil things to beings save a being ?", "But thou canst not", "Of Death : although I know not what it is \u2014", "Around a world where I seem nothing , with", "My little Enoch ! and his lisping sister !", "How beautiful ye are ! how beautiful", "Like them , the features of fair earth :\u2014 instead ,", "Unequal , of deep valleys and vast mountains ;", "Guarded by fiery-sworded Cherubim ,", "Which shut them out \u2014 and me : I feel the weight", "Methinks is merely propagating Death , 70", "Born on the same day , of the same womb ; and", "Which looks like that which lit our earthly night ?", "460", "Enormous liquid plains , and some begirt", "But there are spirits loftier still \u2014", "I will .", "I seek it not ; but as I know there are", "That which hath driven us all from Paradise ?", "Precede me , brother \u2014 I will follow shortly .", "Yon small blue circle , swinging in far ether", ",", "The archangels .", "A God .", "My father", "For thee , my Adah , I choose not \u2014 It was", "In thunder .", "What need of snakes and fruits to teach us that ?", "And they who guard them ?", "And what art thou who dwellest", "Be thou happy , then , alone \u2014", "Of light gave way , and showed them taking shapes", "The things I have not seen ,", "Leave them , and walk with dust ?", "I know not what thou art : I see thy power ,", "Beheld them from the skirts of Paradise :", "Lead on .", "And knowledge ! My thoughts are not in this hour", "And sin \u2014 and , not content with their own sorrow ,", "To sink .", "And when I saw gigantic shadows in", "Thoughts which arise within me , as if they", "And multiplying murder .", "Is your course measured for ye ? Or do ye", "The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden ?", "Weeps when he 's named ; and Abel lifts his eyes", "Must one day see perforce .", "Which knew such things .", "That !\u2014 yonder !", "With an inferior circlet purpler it still", "How ?", "But shall I know it ?", "I will have nought to do with happiness ,", "Gathers a halo round it , like the light", "I cannot compass : \u2018 tis denounced against us ,", "Own and belov\u00e9d \u2014 she , too , understands not", "Unworthy what I see , though my dust is ;", "While that of Knowledge , by my mother 's haste ,", "This until lately \u2014 but since it must be ,", "And Heaven 's ,", "Nature and immortality \u2014 and yet", "Seemed full of life even when their atmosphere", "Spake not of this unto my father , when", "What ill ?", "Both them who sinned and sinned not , as an ill \u2014", "Such , and that my sire 's sin makes him and me ,", "Must both be guided .", "Have heard you .", "Expansion \u2014 at which my soul aches to think \u2014", "Were I quiet earth , 290", "And speaks not .", "And Life is good ; and how can both be evil ?", "Through an a\u00ebrial universe of endless", "Than the birds \u2019 matins ; and my Adah \u2014 my", "Sweep on in your unbounded revelry", "Multitudes , millions , myriads , which may be ,", "But not to live \u2014 or wherefore plucked he not", "That I would join with him in sacrifice :\u2014", "But lead them and ourselves through many years", "And all that we inherit , liable", "To such , I would behold , at once , what I", "Could I but deem them happy , I would half", "How the lights recede ! Where fly we ?", "In visions through my thought : I never could", "What do they know ?\u2014 that they are miserable .", "As yet have bowed unto my father 's God .", "To offer up", "Inevitable . Could I wrestle with him ?", "The clouds still open wide", "In play , till he ran roaring from my gripe ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 209}, {"query": ["As he saith \u2014 which I know not , nor believe \u2014", "What wouldst thou think ?", "The Seraphs \u2019 love can be but ignorance :", "They are the thoughts of all", "The myriad myriads \u2014 the all-peopled earth \u2014", "Have made ye live for ever , in the joy", "No : art thou ?", "It is omnipotent , and not from love ,", "We and thy sons will try . But now , behold ! Is it not glorious ?", "It has no shape ; but will absorb all things", "By all .", "Linked to a servile mass of matter \u2014 and ,", "Hast thou seen him ?", "To make that silent and expectant world", "But we , who see the truth , must speak it . Thy 240", "Each bright and sparkling \u2014 what dost think of them ?", "Evil ; and what else hath he made ? But let him", "We are mighty .", "Sit next thy heart ?", "Fear not \u2014 without me thou", "Let him crowd orb on orb : he is alone", "Dar'st thou behold ?", "His own low failing . The snake was the snake \u2014", "Who would not let ye live , or he who would", "No , she must not .", "That thirst ; nor ask thee to partake of fruits", "Consists in slavery \u2014 no .", "But must be undergone .", "And centre of surrounding things \u2014 \u2018 tis made", "I tempt none ,", "But in that hour see things of many days .", "No end ; and some , which would pretend to have", "To right , as in the dim blue air the eye", "That bows to him , who made things but to bend", "We in our conflict ! Goodness would not make", "On , then , with me . Wouldst thou behold things mortal or immortal ?", "By the unbounded sympathy of all 160", "Is leader of the host of Heaven .", "Or hath destroyed in few ?", "Less than thy father 's \u2014 for he wished to know !", "Throughout all space . Where should I dwell ? Where are", "The sin I speak of is not of my making ,", "And science still beyond them , were chained down", "Mortality", ", of which I am the Prince .", "With torture of my dooming . There will come", "And still loftier than the archangels .", "Yet thy God is alone ; and is he happy ? Lonely , and good ?", "Art thou not nearer ? look back to thine earth !", "Surmise ; for moments only and the space", "With all thy Tree of Knowledge .", "But in his being ?", "Wouldst thou have men without them ? must no reptiles", "The worlds beyond thy little world , nor be", "The proud One will not so far falsify , 220", "Was there to envy in the narrow bounds", "Who", "Shalt soon return to earth , and all its dust :", "If I were not that which I have said ,", "Eternity \u2014 and heaven and earth \u2014 and that", "And cannot be a sin in you \u2014 whate'er", "Did not your Maker make", "Of you , young mortals , lights at once upon", "His power . I dwell apart ; but I am great :\u2014", "And cannot I , who aided in this work ,", "And so it shall be ever \u2014 but we will", "And why not adore ?", "Him makes thee mine the same .", "Unfold its gates !", "and yet not less than those he tempted ,", "What , if I show to thee things which have died ,", "The unpeopled earth \u2014 and the o'erhYpppHeNpeopled Hell ,", "Fresh souls and bodies", "Before his sullen , sole eternity ;", "Have stood before thee as I am : a serpent", "Souls who dare use their immortality \u2014", "They say \u2014 what they must sing and say , on pain", "His everlasting face , and tell him that", "Follow", "Higher things than ye are slaves : and higher", "To the world of phantoms , which", "Those who once peopled or shall people both \u2014", "Enter !", "And walk the waters ; \u201d and the man shall walk", "Advance !", "Was it so in Eden ?", "of the all-great and good", "But what", "The cause of this all-spreading happiness", "Away , then ! on our mighty wings !", "He shall .", "Thou seekest to behold Death , and dead things ?", "By greater things \u2014 and they themselves far more", "Of dust , and feel for it , and with you .", "With us acts are exempt from time , and we", "More than thy mother , and thy sire ?", "Yea .", "One is yours already ,", "Did I plant things prohibited within 200", "A man shall say to a man , \u201c Believe in me ,", "Then who was the Demon ? He", "And if he did betray you , \u2018 twas with Truth ;", "The other may be still .", "That he may torture :\u2014 let him ! He is great \u2014", "Would not have made thee what thou art .", "Thou errest , Adah !\u2014 was not the Tree that", "But good .", "It one day will be in your children .", "Quench the mind , if the mind will be itself", "Can crowd eternity into an hour ,", "And fell . For what should spirits tempt them ? What", "I am angelic : wouldst thou be as I am ?", "What is true knowledge .", "Who shall \u2014 be thou amongst the first .", "Then follow me !", "Since the all-knowing Cherubim love least ,", "As thou ; and mightier things have been extinct", "Its present realm is thin to what it will be ,", "It may be .", "The reach of beings innocent , and curious", "Of Paradise , that spirits who pervade", "The star which watches , welcoming the morn .", "Master of spirits .", "Of the Invisible are the loveliest 500", "Thy Sire 's maker \u2014 and the Earth 's .", "He who bows not to him has bowed to me .", "To sway .", "But if that high thought were 50", "Believe \u2014 and sink not ! doubt \u2014 and perish ! thus", "But , if he made us \u2014 he cannot unmake :", "As true .", "So humbly in their pride , as to sojourn", "These are my realms ! so that I do divide", "By being", "And become gods as we . \u201d Were those his words ?", "Ask of your sire , the exile fresh from Eden ;", "But , in his greatness , is no happier than", "We are immortal !\u2014 nay , he 'd have us so ,", "In nature being earth also \u2014 more in wisdom ,", "Had been enough to charm ye , as before .", "Why ?", "An hour , when , tossed upon some water-drops", "Of being that which I am ,\u2014 and thou art \u2014", "Yea , or things higher .", "His , and possess a kingdom which is not", "Less , in the universe , than thou in it ;", "Thou didst before I came upon thee .", "Of Knowledge ?", "By suffering .", "Show in an hour what he hath made in many ,", "Yourselves , in your resistance . Nothing can", "And power of Knowledge ?", "Believe in me , as a conditional creed", "Cain ! thou hast heard .", "Less burthensome to his immense existence 150", "And hadst thou not been fit by thine own soul", "Knowing such things , aspiring to such things ,", "Of thy fond parents , for their daring , proves .", "Gods ; and even He who thrust ye forth , so thrust ye", "To a place", "Or I were , or the things which seem to us", "Thy God or Gods \u2014 there am I : all things are", "The billows and be safe . I will not say , 20", "But that 's a mystery . Cain , come on with me .", "And unparticipated solitude ;", "Alone , thou say'st , be happy ?", "Aught save a sharer or a servant of", "We breathe not by a mortal measurement \u2014", "And multiply himself in misery !", "No .", "His Seraphs say : but it is worth the trial ,", "Which shall deprive thee of a single good 560", "It is not tranquil .", "I know the thoughts 100", "To him ?", "Are everlasting .", "Thou dost fall down and worship me \u2014 thy Lord .", "And heart to look on ?", "Sate nearest it ?", "His worship is but fear .", "I ask", "Return ! be sure : how else should Death be peopled ? 200", "To the smooth agonies of adulation ,", "Since he could overcome them , and foreknew", "Hast thou ne'er bowed", "What thou dar'st not deny ,\u2014 the history", "To be resolved into the earth .", "Thee to be mine .", "Of what is visible ; and yon bright star", "Could he but crush himself , \u2018 twere the best boon"], "true_target": ["Nor would : I would be aught above \u2014 beneath \u2014", "And Truth in its own essence cannot be", "Their earliest fault in fable , and attribute", "Had no beginning , have had one as mean", "So restless in his wretchedness , must still", "And thou ?", "With worms in clay ?", "Choose betwixt Love and Knowledge \u2014 since there is", "Of which thy bosom is the germ .", "The phantasm of the world ; of which thy world", "To me a shape I scorn , as I scorn all", "Though multiplied to animated atoms ,", "Create , and re-create \u2014 perhaps he 'll make", "Have been and must be all unchangeable .", "Where I will lead thee .", "Maker of life and living things ; it is", "The Earth , which is thine outward cov'ring , is", "But the symbols", "Worship or worship not , thou shalt behold", ", all foredoomed to be", "No other choice : your sire hath chosen already : 430", "Behold !", "Save with the truth : was not the Tree , the Tree", "That is a grovelling wish ,", "But distinct . 190", "Greater than either : many things will have", "Spirits and Men , at least we sympathise \u2014", "Wouldst be immortal ?", "Gave you a father \u2014 and if he so doth ,", "Worlds greater than thine own \u2014 inhabited", "All die \u2014 there is what must survive .", "He but woke one", "To save thee ; but fly with me o'er the gulf", "He ever granted : but let him reign on !", "Mark me ! that Son will be a sacrifice !", "Thou canst not", "And if there should be", "Echo the sound to miserable things ,", "I seem that which I am ;", "But by whom or what ?", "Save what I am . He conquered ; let him reign ! 130", "If the blessedness", "Look there ! 120", "And some of us resist \u2014 and both in vain , 490", "Both partly : but what doth", "Than a mere serpent : ask the Cherubim", "And if the higher knowledge quenches love ,", "Ne'er the less ,", "Would run the edict of the other God ,", "That they are not compatible , the doom", "But changes make not death , except to clay ;", "To that which is omnipotent , because", "His", "They have deceived thee ; thou shalt live .", "Or of his first-born son : ask your own heart ;", "Still fruitful ? Did I bid her pluck them not ?", "Whence he shall come back to thee in an hour ;", "Though man 's vast fears and little vanity", "In those he spake to with his forky tongue . 230", "I tell thee that the Serpent was no more", "Which name thou wilt : he makes but to destroy .", "In number than the dust of thy dull earth ,", "And yet that grief is knowledge \u2014 so he lied not :", "Ask the Destroyer .", "Saith that ? It is not written so on high :", "To make way for much meaner than we can 160", "No more than life is ; and that was ere thou", "Of past \u2014 and present , and of future worlds .", "Of space an equal flight , and I will show", "Which speaks within you .", "Thou hast seen both worms and worlds ,", "Poor clay ! And thou pretendest to be wretched ! Thou !", "Dost thou not recognise", "But terror and self-hope .", "Of spirits and of men .", "Divided with me : Life and Death \u2014 and Time \u2014", "Fond parents listened to a creeping thing ,", "Aye , woman ! he alone 540", "One who aspired to be what made thee , and", "I am none :", "Ask Eve , your mother : bears she not the knowledge", "It may be thou shalt be as we . 120", "Out of old worlds this new one in few days ? 530", "The seed of the then world may thus array", "Yet it sparkles still .", "Yet deem not that thou canst escape it ; thou", "Why dost thou hesitate ?", "He was hindered .", "Perhaps \u2014 but long outlive both thine and thee .", "Is but the wreck .", "In hymns and harpings , and self-seeking prayers ,", "All living \u2014 and all doomed to death \u2014 and wretched ,", "No , not yet ;", "Borne on the air", "Said'st thou not", "\u2018 Tis part of thy eternity , and mine . 150", "What ?", "Many there are who worship me , and more", "Amerced for doubts beyond thy little life ,", "And yet thou seest .", "Prefer an independency of torture", "If I am not , enquire", "As I have shown thee much which cannot die ?", "Couldst not have gone beyond thy world . On ! on !", "Thou'lt know here \u2014 and hereafter .", "And I , who know all things , fear nothing ; see 300", "And such they are .", "Which , knowing nought beyond their shallow senses ,", "I cannot answer .", "Could I stand here ? His angels are within", "What must he be you cannot love when known ?", "Innumerable , more endurable ,", "The knowledge fatal to their narrow joys .", "That which was clay , and such thou shall behold .", "Through thee and thine .", "Have faith in me , and thou shalt be", "And thou couldst not", "If thou dost long for knowledge , I can satiate", "His evil is not good ! If he has made , 140", "As I know not death ,", "Mortal !", "The Conqueror has left thee . Follow me .", "As frail , and few so happy \u2014\u2014", "And , suffering in concert , make our pangs", "Breathe , save the erect ones ?", "No more ;", "A wisdom in the spirit , which directs", "And having failed to be one , would be nought", "Evil or good what is proclaimed to them", "No less than thou art now .", "Darest thou look on Death ?", "All foul and fulsome \u2014 and the very best", "His secret , and he keeps it . We must bear ,", "Space \u2014\u2014 but I speak to thee of what thou know'st not ,", "Thou livest \u2014 and must live for ever . Think not", "Worship the word which strikes their ear , and deem 10", "Your vision .", "Point me out the site", "Worthy of thought ;\u2014 \u2018 tis your immortal part", "Sit on his vast and solitary throne \u2014", "Who guard the tempting tree . When thousand ages", "To the most gross and petty paltry wants ,", "Not as thou lovest Cain .", "Alas ! those tears ! Couldst thou but know what oceans will be shed \u2014\u2014 520", "The million millions \u2014", "Of mortals from that place", "But thou art clay \u2014 and canst but comprehend", "Since better may not be without : there is", "A most enervating and filthy cheat", "Of Knowledge ? and was not the Tree of Life", "No ;\u2014 I have nought in common with him !", "Creating worlds , to make eternity", "Are few inhabitants .", "Because \u201c ye should not eat the fruits of life ,", "Of Paradise .", "Have rolled o'er your dead ashes , and your seed 's ,", "By their own innocence ? I would have made ye", ",", "Of thine enjoyments a sweet degradation ,", "\u2018 Tis now beyond thee ,", "In their abasement . I will have none such :", "For such companionship , I would not now", "Who names me Demon to his angels ; they", "That", "That bear the form of earth-born being .", "Souls who dare look the Omnipotent tyrant in", "Indefinite , Indissoluble Tyrant ;", "Which is not heaven nor earth , but peopled with 550", "Would make him cast upon the spiritual nature", "Existence \u2014 it will cease \u2014 and thou wilt be \u2014", "It seem in those who will replace ye in", "Are beings past , and shadows still to come .", "What are they which dwell", "Than them or ye would be so , did they not", "With all ! But He ! so wretched in his height ,", "To lure thee on to the renewal of", "Think'st thou I 'd take the shape of things that die ?", "Away , then !", "The Maker \u2014 Call him", "Thou art my worshipper ; not worshipping", "Of good and evil ?", "To what was before thee !", "The dust which formed your father ?", "One day a Son unto himself \u2014 as he", "Thou ne'er hadst bent to him who made thee ?", "As populous as this : at present there", "Or stretch an hour into eternity :", "Aye , upon one condition .", "And therefore do I ask of thee , if thou", ", shall come back to thee ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 209}, {"query": ["But add , that if another hour would better", "Chief of the Ten . If it be so , at least his obsequies 310", "He shall be informed .", "To do himself and them full justice . Brethren ,", "This instant retired hence ,", "Of the realm , while his age permitted him", "Shall be such as befits his name and nation ,", "\u2018 Tis all over ."], "true_target": ["Accord with your will , they will make it theirs .", "My Lord ,", "Say , shall it not be so ?", "To the chamber where the body lies .", "His rank and his devotion to the duties", "With the illustrious lady his son 's widow .", "My Lord , the deputation is in waiting ;", "The noble dame Marina craves an audience ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 210}, {"query": ["Chief of the Ten . You are no longer Doge ; you are released", "Which only ulcerate the heart the more ,", "Save with their hearts and eyes .", "His own high dignity before his Country ;", "You bore this goblet , and it is not broken .", "What , ho ! my servants there !", "Have consecrated my last moments to her .", "Most fit for such an hour as this .", "The bell tolls on !\u2014 let 's hence \u2014 my brain 's on fire !", "Earth and Heaven !", "The pillars of stone Dagon 's temple on", "Chief of the Ten . What ! thus in public ?", "Your years , so long devoted to your Country ,", "Return to those who sent us ?", "Cold to your years and services , they add", "Will alter nothing which I have to say .", "A corse \u2014 a corse , it might be , fighting for them \u2014", "As Sovereign \u2014 I go out as citizen", "Such power I do believe there might exist", "You , by your garb , Chief of the Forty !", "Renew this instance . I have sworn to die", "My attainted predecessor , stern Faliero \u2014", "Is manifest , then you shall all be answered .", "There five and thirty years ago was I", "My services have called me up those steps ,", "You have heard me .Chief of the Ten . With all due reverence we retire .", "A dotage which may justify this deed", "Stay ! four and twenty hours", "A face I know not .\u2014 Senator ! your name ,", "Ducats , to make retirement not less splendid", "You have heard it .", "For my own part , I credit neither ; \u2018 tis", "In such a curse as mine , provoked by such", "Live to hear this !\u2014 the first Doge who e'er heard 230", "But the decree being rendered , I obey .", "Will now retire .", "Farewell , sirs !", "Applying poisons there as antidotes .", "By the same portals , but as citizen .", "It is your province .", "Soon may be a Prince no longer .", "And I to answer . Chief of the Ten . What ?", "Inasmuch as it shows , that I approach", "To the alternative of a decree ,", "Did I hear rightly ? Chief of the Ten . Need I say again ?", "Not even eight minutes \u2014 there 's the ducal ring , 190", "Even then I was not young .", "No ; my seat here has been a throne till now . Marina ! let us go .", "A Sovereign should die standing . My poor boy !", "And even to move but slowly must begin", "But this life having been so many years", "To sovereignty \u2014 the Giants \u2019 Stairs , on whose", "No Prince \u2014 200", "I have obeyed your summons . Chief of the Ten . We come once more to urge our past request .", "Signers , you may depart : what would you more ?", "I cannot comfort thee .", "What you decree \u2014 decree .", "Of the Republic never would have shown 180", "Chief of the Ten . With this , then , must we", "Such pure antipathy to poisons as", "But for my dignity \u2014 I hold it of", "All these vain ceremonies are base insults ,", "The palace with us ? Its old walls , ten times", "Now to solicit from your wisdom", "We willingly will lengthen them to eight ,", "We are going ; do you fear that we shall bear", "An idle legend .", "And he is in his shroud !", "As I have laid down dearer things than life :", "Else \u2014\u2014", "No more \u2014 no more of that .", "Stir \u2014 in my train , at least . I entered here", "An hour ago I should have felt it .", "Marina ! art thou willing ?", "Than should become a Sovereign 's retreat .", "Chief of the Ten . My Lord , if you indeed", "I feel athirst \u2014 will no one bring me here 290 A cup of water ? Bar . I \u2014\u2014", "This insult at the least was spared him .", "To move betimes . Methinks I see amongst you", "Chief of the Ten . Your answer , Duke !", "The malice of my foes will drive me down them .", "Is he \u2014\u2014", "Elected , and so will I be deposed .", "The sound ! I heard it once , but once before ,", "I must look on him once more .", "To burst , if aught of venom touches it .", "No !", "Have judged it fitting , with all reverence ,", "There are the princes of the Prince !", "Get thee ready , we must mourn", "May the next Duke be better than the present !", "Not eight hours , Signor ,", "\u2018 Tis the fittest time ;", "You shall not", "In full exertion of the functions , which", "Am now and evermore . But we will bear it .", "There is a populace , perhaps , whose looks", "And that is five and thirty years ago ;", "An appanage of twenty hundred golden 30", "Chief of the Ten . \u201c The Ten , \u201d", "Pomp is for Princes \u2014 I am none !\u2014 That 's false ,", "Already mentioned in our former congress .", "Of the State 's palace , at the least retire", "Which you have worn so long and venerably :", "I never thought to be divorced except", "As you ; but I curse not . Adieu , good Signers !", "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 .", "If I could have foreseen that my old age", "\u2018 Tis the knell of my poor boy ! My heart aches bitterly .", "Of yours , although the law does not , nor will .", "Three days are left you to remove from hence ,", "Which , at this moment , doubly must oppress", "My time is hers .", "At my too long worn diadem and ring ."], "true_target": ["Doge", "To the point \u2014", "No \u2014 I merely", "Himself so far ungrateful , as to place", "Your grief distracts you .", "Of days , since every hour has been the Country 's .", "That last clause ,", "And here my staff : thus propped will I go forth . Chief of the Ten . It must not be \u2014 the people will perceive it .", "Will now descend the stairs by which I mounted 240", "Are bent upon this rash abandonment", "Then it is false , or you are true .", "Was prejudicial to the State , the Chief", "I am , but only to these gates .\u2014 Ah !", "Could tell a tale ; but I invoke them not", "Accept it as \u2018 tis given \u2014 proceed .", ",", "I am ready to lay down my life for her ,", "The people ,\u2014 There 's no people , you well know it ,", "Alone !", "But not pushed hence by fellow-citizens .", "Give it way : 70", "My wish to abdicate , it was refused me : 40", "Have served you , so have I , and I and they", "The whole Republic : when the general will", "According to my honour and my conscience \u2014", "Else you dare not deal thus by them or me .", "Of the Republic , and the o'erwhelming cares 20", "And gentle preludes to strong acts .\u2014 Go on !", "Chief of the Ten . Reduce us not", "And to prove that they are not ungrateful , nor", "But come ; my son and I will go together \u2014 250", "Avail you aught .", "To fall upon you ! else they would , as erst", "Chief of the Ten . If you would have the three days named extended ,", "Chief of the Ten . Speak !", "I was publicly", "Or a Prince 's son .", "The resignation of the ducal ring ,", "I cannot break my oath .", "Installed , and traversed these same halls , from which", "Not useless to that Country , I would fain", "I am proud to say , would not enrich the treasury .", "Ye will reverberate this peal ; and I", "Of twenty-five of the best born patricians ,", "Such sound for his successor : happier he ,", "You have reason . I have spoken much", "I can submit to all things ,", "So rashly ? \u2018 twill give scandal .", "Your ducal robes must be put off ; but for 170", "But ye have no right to reproach my length", "I take yours , Loredano , from the hand", "Your father was my friend .\u2014 But sons and fathers !\u2014", "Against his Country , had he a thousand lives", "Chief of the Ten . Hear you then the last decree ,", "The Israelite and his Philistine foes . 220", "May shame you ; but they dare not groan nor curse you , 260", "Chief of the Ten . We", "Chief of the Ten . We grieve for such an answer ; but it cannot", "Under the penalty to see confiscated", "Not till I pass the threshold of these doors .", "Your services , the State allots the appanage", "To me all hours are like . Let them approach .", "And call Marina ,", "More than my wont : it is a foible which", "Nor should do so", "Broad eminence I was invested Duke .", "My only answer .", "Instead of that \u2014\u2014", "Prolongs my days to prove and chasten me ; 50", "Chief of the Ten . Why", "And not alone refused , but ye exacted", "Elsewhere .", "He to his grave , and I to pray for mine .", "Hours are accorded you to give an answer .", "Was not of mine , but more excuses you ,", "As old as I am , and I 'm very old ,", "By the private staircase , which conducts you towards", "No .\u2014 Have you done ?", "Without these jealous spies upon the great .", "My daughter !", "Let them resume the gewgaws !", "\u2018 Tis said that our Venetian crystal has", "Definitive and absolute !", "Chief of the Ten . Will not the Duke", "To the point ! I know of old the forms of office ,", "But nothing will advance ; no , not a moment . 60", "I shall not need so many seconds .", "Ah !", "No . I", "The landing-place of the canal .", "Instead of your compliance .", "Chief of the Ten . You speak in passion ,", "From your imperial oath as Sovereign ;", "I do", "They have taken my son from me , and now aim", "Envy the dead .", "All your own private fortune .", "I am old , sir ,", "Accept the homage of respect ?", "Having deliberated on the state", "What command ?", "Providence", "With a selected giunta from the Senate", "Alone , come all the world around me , I", "True ; but in freedom , 210", "When I twice before reiterated", "Off with your arms !\u2014 That bell !", "Answer that ;", "Chief of the Ten . I have spoken . Twenty four", "Well I recognise", "An oath from me that I would never more", "My Country called me here to exercise ,", "As sign of our esteem .", "Chief of the Ten . Yet go not forth so quickly ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 210}, {"query": ["A melancholy one \u2014 to call the attendance"], "true_target": ["Of \u2014\u2014"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 210}, {"query": ["And", "And I , who would have given my blood for him , 100", "For that thought now . Would I were in his grave !", "Than his prolonged captivity :\u2014 I am punished", "Come with me !", "Yes ; all things which conduce to other men 's", "Alas ! I have shed some \u2014 always thanks to you !", "Juggle no more with that poor remnant , which ,", "I 've heard of widows \u2019 tears \u2014", "And now , when he can neither know these honours ,", "Unto his happiness and mine save not", ",", "I 've heard of heirs in sables \u2014 you have left none", "Cannot comply with your request . His relics 350", "And \u2014\u2014", "Here 's my arm !", "The old martyrs would have shrunk from : he is gone ,", "So loving , so beloved ; the native of", "I have heard of murderers , who have interred", "You talk wildly , and 300", "He might have lived ,", "To be Venetian .", "As Doge , but simply as a senator .", "Most readily .", "Have nought to give but tears ! But could I compass", "Shall be exposed with wonted pomp , and followed", "Depart . Ah ! now you look as looked my husband !", "To whom ye speak , and perils of such speech ?", "I know the former better than yourselves ;", "And the apparel of the grave .", "Resemble that you exercise on earth .", "His dregs of life , which you have kindly shortened :", "And I \u2014\u2014", "O'er those they slew .", "Grief is fantastical , and loves the dead ,", "Of so much splendour in hypocrisy", "In the State 's service , I have still my dowry ,", "Signers , your pardon : this is mockery . 320", "Will you not now resent it ?\u2014 Oh , for vengeance !", "I have seen him pass through such an ordeal as", "I trust , Heaven 's will be done too !", "Might have repaid protection in this moment ,", "Chief of the Ten . Do you", "Though his possessions have been all consumed", "Come , come , old man !", "My Lord , if I intrude \u2014", "That I would rather look upon his corse", "Oh , the tyrants ! In such an hour too !", "I thought the dead had been beyond even you ,", "A moment since , while yet it had a soul ,", "Chief of the Ten . Best retain it for your children .", "To me my husband and my children were"], "true_target": ["And those of \u2014\u2014", "And not his honour .", "Our bridal bed is now his bier , 110", "As my poor Foscari ? Nothing was wanting", "The latter \u2014 like yourselves ; and can face both .", "We will , and for the sake of those who are ,", "Cannot assist his father .", "Purpose , with idle and superfluous pomp ,", "Country and home . I loved him \u2014 how I loved him !", "Endeavour \u2014\u2014 Oh , my husband !", "Wish you more funerals ?", "To make a pageant over what you trampled . 330", "A princely funeral will be your reproach ,", "How ?", "From his high place , with such relentless coldness ;", "Another land , and who so blest and blessing", "So formed for gentle privacy of life ,", "consigned to powers which may", "I know it ,", "My God ! My God !", "I have sons , who shall be men .", "Their victims ; but ne'er heard , until this hour ,", "Leave him to me ; you would have done so for", "Chief of the Ten . Lady , we revoke not", "Aye , they are fatherless , I thank you .", "Chief of the Ten . We", "By some strange destiny , to him proved deadly . 80", "But he , who , had he been enough protected , 90", "I thought I could have borne it , when I saw him", "Though", "May be pure patriotism . I am a woman :", "Perhaps you fain would be alone ?", "Chief of the Ten . Know you , Lady ,", "I do , Signor .", "You banished from his palace and tore down", "Imperfect happiness or high ambition ,", "Pretend still to this office ?", "Had better now be seated , nor as yet", "A dreary comfort in my desolation .", "The Prince of whom he was the elder born ,", "To the deceased , so you would act the part 360", "The Country and the People whom he loved ,", "Unto their home by the new Doge , not clad", "It is my last of duties , and may prove 340", "Of such . Well , sirs , your will be done ! as one day ,", "They tortured from him . This", "And everywhere .", "The retribution of his wrongs !\u2014 Well , well !", "Nor would accept them if he could , you , Signors ,", "As far as touches torturing the living .", "Which shall be consecrated to his rites ,", "Bowed down by such oppression ; yes , I thought", "Our purposes so readily ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 210}, {"query": ["You shall not depart without", "Oh ! they 'll hear as much one day", "They speak your language , watch your nod , approve", "Why would the general vote compel me hither ?", "I do beseech you , lean upon us !", "Chief of the Ten . St. Mark 's , which tolls for the election", "A very Ovid in the art of hating ;", "I pray you sit .", "The Doge unto his private palace . Say !", "Where is the Doge ?", "Let us return , then .", "Die in his robes :", "An escort fitting past and present rank .", "Chief of the Ten . If it be so ,", "He could not have lived long ; but I have done", "The body of his son .", "What art thou writing , With such an earnest brow , upon thy tablets ?", "Yours !", "Chief of the Ten . Is the Duke aware", "All , except Lor ., answer , Yes .", "Chief of the Ten . Heaven 's peace be with him !", "This proposition to the last , though vainly .", "The Duke is with his son .", "But be human ! 160", "Of humbling me for my vain opposition .", "Your modes of vengeance , nay , poetical ,", "This happens in the most contemned and abject", "And not less , I must needs think , for the sake", "Her circumstances must excuse her bearing .", "I owe , by way of foil to the more zealous ,"], "true_target": ["He means", "We seek his presence ?", "Your plans , and do your work . Are they not yours ?", "We will remit him till the rites are over .", "Let us return . \u2018 Tis time enough to-morrow .", "Chief of the Ten . We will not note them down .", "He sinks !\u2014 support him !\u2014 quick \u2014 a chair \u2014 support him !", "\u2018 Tis thus", "That remains for proof . 150", "The bell !", "He reigned : then let his funeral rites be princely .", "This undesired association in 140", "Your Giunta 's duties .", "Even their exorbitance of power : and when", "And will they press their answer on the Doge ?", "From louder tongues than mine ; they have gone beyond", "You are ingenious , Loredano , in", "Heed not her rash words ;", "Behold ! your work 's completed ! Chief of the Ten . Is there then No aid ? Call in assistance !", ", to you", "We will accompany , with due respect , 270", "The misery to die a subject where", "My brethren , will we not ?", "Sit down , my Lord ! You tremble .", "He has not had", "Chief of the Ten . We are agreed , then ?", "States , stung humanity will rise to check it .", "My best to save his honours , and opposed", "Here come our colleagues .", "Of Malipiero .", "Enter the Deputation as before ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 210}, {"query": ["Why so ?", "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 ?", "Hark ! 280", "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 .", "For his inauguration .", "We have the implicit order of the Giunta", "The present Duke is Paschal Malipiero .", "Your answer , Francis Foscari !", "Cared for \u2014 what would he more ?", "From ours should be a witness , lest false tongues", "Where ?", "Their office : they 'll be here soon after us .", "This from you .", "Well , sir !", "What ! Do you regret a traitor ?"], "true_target": ["Dreaded to have its acts beheld by others .", "That he has paid me !Chief of the Ten . What debt did he owe you ? 370", "Should whisper that a harsh majority 130", "His dignity is looked to , his estate", "To await their coming here , and join them in", "See , the Duke comes !", "Saint Mark 's great bell is soon about to toll", "\u2018 Twas fit that some one of such different thoughts", "He answered quickly , and must so be answered ;", "How !\u2014 my Giunta !", "You forget , you cannot .", "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 .", "You talk unwarily . \u2018 Twere best they hear not", "You talk but idly .", "And I \u2014\u2014", "\u2018 Twas his own wish that all should be done promptly . 120"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 210}, {"query": ["Signor ,"], "true_target": ["I am the son of Marco Memmo ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 210}, {"query": ["Needful : the earth is young , and yields us kindly", "Our orisons completed , let us hence ,", "Jehovah ! with returning light \u2014 All Hail !", "God , the Eternal ! Infinite ! All-wise !\u2014", "Her fruits with little labour .", "And we must gather it again . Oh God ! why didst thou plant the tree of knowledge ?", "To pray .", "Nor aught to thank for ?", "Dost thou not live ?"], "true_target": ["But thou my eldest born ? art silent still ?", "Who out of darkness on the deep didst make", "Blaspheme not : these are Serpent 's words .", "Son Cain ! my first-born \u2014 wherefore art thou silent ?", "Oh ! my son ,", "Light on the waters with a word \u2014 All Hail !", "Each to his task of toil \u2014 not heavy , though", "Wherefore so ?", "We have , most fervently .", "So will God , I trust ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 210}, {"query": ["Content thee with what is . Had we been so ,", "Cain \u2014 my son \u2014 50", "And do as he doth .", "Let me not see my offspring fall into", "God ! who didst name the day , and separate", "Thou now hadst been contented .\u2014 Oh , my son !", "Which even in Paradise destroyed his parents .", "Before thy birth : let me not see renewed 40", "Alas !"], "true_target": ["Who didst divide the wave from wave , and call", "The fruit of our forbidden tree begins 30", "Behold thy father cheerful and resigned \u2014", "To fall .", "Morning from night , till then divided never \u2014", "The snares beyond the walls of Paradise ,", "My misery in thine . I have repented .", "My boy ! thou speakest as I spoke in sin ,", "Part of thy work the firmament \u2014 All Hail !"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 210}, {"query": ["Earth , ocean , air and fire \u2014 and with the day 10", "Which I must feed on for a fault not mine .", "Whom I see daily wave their fiery swords", "Ere the night closes o'er the inhibited walls", "So ? and can aught grieve save Humanity ?", "To which that birth has brought me . Why did he", "Why wilt thou wear this gloom upon thy brow ,", "Amen !", "In Twilight 's hour , to catch a glimpse of those", "And this is", "He is all-powerful , must all-good , too , follow ?", "Or shadow , madest beings to enjoy them ,", "Yielding \u2014 why suffer ? What was there in this ?", "Cain", "If not , why place him near it , where it grew", "And night , and worlds which these illuminate ,", "And love both them and thee \u2014 All Hail ! All Hail !", "Before the gates round which I linger oft ,", "He cometh .", "Yield to the Serpent and the woman ? or 70", "Life ?\u2014 Toil ! and wherefore should I toil ?\u2014 because", "My father could not keep his place in Eden ?", "I sought not to be born ; nor love the state", "If I shrink not from these , the fire-armed angels ,"], "true_target": ["And he is good . \u201d How know I that ? Because", "Gardens which are my just inheritance ,", "As he hath been , and might be : sorrow seems", "The tree was planted , and why not for him ?", "Of spiritual essence : why do I quake ?", "And is it", "Be on your spirit , brother !", "One answer to all questions , \u201c \u2018 Twas his will ,", "Whom have we here ?\u2014 A shape like to the angels 80", "Which can avail thee nothing , save to rouse", "Beauteous , and yet not all as beautiful", "The Eternal anger ?", "The Cherubim-defended battlements ? 90", "What had I done in this ?\u2014 I was unborn :", "Half of his immortality .", "Why should I fear him more than other spirits ,", "Why should I quail from him who now approaches ?", "And the immortal trees which overtop", "The fairest in the centre ? They have but", "Yet of a sterner and a sadder aspect", "I judge but by the fruits \u2014 and they are bitter \u2014", "The peace of God", "Yet \u2014 he seems mightier far than them , nor less", "God ! who didst call the elements into"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 210}, {"query": ["Of \u2014\u2014", "Streak the deep purple , and unnumbered stars", "But all we know of it has gathered", "I think I could be so , despite of Death ,", "Out of this bosom ? was not he , their father , 370", "Save in my father , who is God 's own image ;", "In seeming : as the silent sunny noon ,", "\u2014", "Should we not love them \u2014 and our children , Cain ?", "Born of the same sole womb ,", "Are ripe , and glowing as the light which ripens :", "My brother , I have come for thee ;", "Judge from what I have heard .", "Shall they not love and bring forth things that love", "Things which will love each other as we love", "God ! the Eternal parent of all things !", ", where long white clouds", "Where dwellest thou ?", "Fiend ! tempt me not with beauty ; thou art fairer", "No \u2014", "And heedless , harmless wantonness of bliss .", "Are girt about by demons , who assume", "Come away .", "He is not so ; he hath", "Will he ,", "Like them .", "Yes \u2014 in his works .", "But we , thy children , ignorant of Eden , 400", "Alas ! no ! and you \u2014", "To be belov\u00e9d , more than all , save thee \u2014", "The angels and the mortals to make happy ,", "So beautiful , unnumbered , and endearing ,", "Aye \u2014 to our eternal sorrow .", "Thou seem'st unhappy : do not make us so ,", "Must be all goodness .", "It is a beautiful star ; I love it for", "And brighter , yet less beautiful and powerful", "Remorse of that which was \u2014 and hope of that 360", "Aye \u2014 but not bless\u00e9d .", "I am not wretched , Cain , and if thou", "I look upon him with a pleasing fear ,", "Who didst create these best and beauteous beings ,", "His brother , and our children , and our parents .", "I do . Is that a sin , too ?", "And I will weep for thee .", "Are you of Heaven ?", "It is our hour of rest and joy \u2014 and we", "And happy intercourse with happy spirits :", "In sooth , return within an hour ?", "And dread , and toil , and sweat , and heaviness ;", "Beats quick ; he awes me , and yet draws me near ,", "My belov\u00e9d Cain", "The words of God , and tempt us with our own", "Dissatisfied and curious thoughts \u2014 as thou", "We have seen many : will he share our hour", "Our parents ?", "Let me go with thee .", "He is not God \u2014 nor God 's : I have beheld", "And leave us ?", "I see an angel ; 340", "Hast plucked a fruit more fatal to thine offspring", "Oh , Cain ! choose Love .", "Wilt thou ?", "Whither ?", "This morn ; but I have done thy task : the fruits", "Fixes my fluttering eyes on his ; my heart", "Will he return ?", "What ! Must not my daughter love her brother Enoch ?", "And this should be a Cherub \u2014 since he loves not .", "In multiplying our being multiply", "Which stands before me ; I cannot abhor him ;"], "true_target": ["Return to seek you here .", "How know'st thou ?", "Bear with what we have borne , and love me \u2014 I", "Art thou that steppest between heart and heart ?", "Omnipotence 390", "We were not born then \u2014 and if we had been ,", "It seems an awful shadow \u2014 if I may 470", "Nearer and nearer :\u2014 Cain \u2014 Cain \u2014 save me from him !", "Forth with this spirit ; he is not of ours .", "Have less without thee . Thou hast laboured not", "Out of their love ? have they not drawn their milk", "And yet I fly not from him : in his eye", "Alone I could not ,", "So they were when the fair Serpent", "If not , I will", "Wert happy \u2014\u2014", "Our father", "Thy youth in Paradise , in innocent", "Than to thyself ; thou at the least hast passed", "Wert worked on by the snake , in thy most flushed", "Are there , then , others ?", "With me ? did we not love each other ? and", "Not dazzling , and yet drawing us to them ,", "Wilt thou frown even on me ?", "Sin in itself ? Can circumstance make sin", "They fill my eyes with tears , and so dost thou .", "Evil on ill ; expulsion from our home ,", "Cain", "How can that be ?", "Saith that he has beheld the God himself", "The Cherubs and the Seraphs ; he looks not", "Adores the Invisible only .", "I have heard it said , 420", "And thus becomes so in diffusing joy . 480", "Oh , my God !", "When I think how soon I shall see my brother ,", "Which , as I know it not , I dread not , though", "Who made him and our mother .", "But he is welcome , as they were : they deigned", "Of rest ?\u2014 he is welcome .", "All light , they look upon us ; but thou seem'st 510", "Than was the Serpent , and as false .", "Spangle the wonderful mysterious vault", "Or virtue ?\u2014 if it doth , we are the slaves", "Like an ethereal night", "With things that look as if they would be suns ;", "Who could be happy and alone , or good ?", "I cannot answer this immortal thing", "The Seraphs love most \u2014 Cherubim know most", "By me ?", "What all ?", "Its beauty .", "Our father", "Them ?\u2014 And as I love thee , my Cain ! go not", "And me ?", "Or in his angels , who are like to thee \u2014", "What else can joy be , but the spreading joy ?", "Love thee .", "O Cain ! This spirit curseth us .", "Let me love thee and them :\u2014 All Hail ! All Hail !", "To me my solitude seems sin ; unless", "There is a fastening attraction which 410", "Nor would be happy ; but with those around us", "Alone ! Oh , my God !", "Who", "Which cometh not . Cain ! walk not with this Spirit .", "To be our guests \u2014 will he ?", "What is the sin which is not 380", "Oh , my mother ! thou", "So did the Serpent , and it lied .", "Spoke with our mother first .", "in the same hour"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 210}, {"query": ["Wilt thou not , my brother ?", "And drive my father forth from Paradise , 20"], "true_target": ["Yet didst permit the Serpent to creep in ,", "Oh , God ! who loving , making , blessing all ,", "Keep us from further evil :\u2014 Hail ! All Hail !"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 210}, {"query": ["To offer up", "The umbrage of the walls of Eden , chequered", "I watched for what I thought his coming ; for", "All we love in our children and each other ,", "Crowd in my breast to burning , when I hear", "I 'll follow you anon .", "Like them , the features of fair earth :\u2014 instead ,", "Alas ! I scarcely now know what it is ,", "This misery was mine . My father is", "He shut him forth from Paradise , with death", "I cannot compass : \u2018 tis denounced against us ,", "I seek it not ; but as I know there are", "Were I quiet earth , 290", "Intoxicated with eternity", "The mind which overwhelms me : never till", "And must torture be immortal ?", "Show me .", "Have ye not prayed ?", "Are ye happy ?", "With luminous belts , and floating moons , which took ,", "I never 310", "Lead on .", "She wrung from me , with tears , this promise ; and", "For I was made of it .", "He speaks like 350", "Who ?", "At least they ought to have known all things that are", "But the thing had a demon ?", "The things I have not seen ,", "Have I not said it ?\u2014 need I say it ? Could not thy mighty knowledge teach thee that ?", "Him will I follow .", ",", "Seest thou not ?", "They are so lovely . What is Death ? I fear ,", "Which shone the roundest of the stars , when I", "Which are around us ; and , as we move on ,", "And what is that ? 320", "A watching shepherd boy ,", "who offers up", "How the lights recede ! Where fly we ?", "Methinks is merely propagating Death , 70", "Interchecked with an instant of brief pleasure ,", "Must one day see perforce .", "And wider , and make widening circles round us !", "Tamed down ; my mother has forgot the mind 180", "Can I do so without impiety ?", "Belov\u00e9d Adah !", ",", "Why should I bow to thee ?", "But he is not like", "Enormous liquid plains , and some begirt", "\u2018 Tis well \u2014 I rather would consort with spirits .", "My father and my mother talk to me 170", "Did they love us when they snatched from the Tree", "The very blue of the empurpled night", "And wore the look of worlds .", "And so I live . Would I had never lived !", "How know I what", "Thou hast said , I must be 90", "I wrestled with the lion , when a boy , 260", "Must I not die ?", "Your gentleness must not be harshly met :", "But shall I know it ?", "To anticipate my immortality .", "That !\u2014 yonder !", "What \u2018 twas which shook us all \u2014 but nothing came .", "Of which I have heard my parents speak , as of", "But the lights fade from me fast ,", "Yet it seems horrible . I have looked out 270", "The firstlings of the flock to him who bids", "But live to die ; and , living , see no thing 110", "And you , too , sisters , tarry not behind ; 60", "Could master all things \u2014 but I thought alone", "Instinct of life , which I abhor , as I", "And wherefore plucked ye not the tree of life ? Ye might have then defied him .", "To make death hateful , save an innate clinging ,", "Which knew such things .", "What ill ?", "Huge dusky masses ; but unlike the worlds", "Expansion \u2014 at which my soul aches to think \u2014", "And as it waxes little , and then less ,", "And some till now grew larger as we approached ,", "My little Enoch ! and his lisping sister !", "In visions through my thought : I never could", "Oh God ! Oh Gods ! or whatsoe'er ye are ! 110", "Thou art not the Lord my father worships .", "Know nought of Death , save as a dreadful thing", "And all that we inherit , liable", "Weeps when he 's named ; and Abel lifts his eyes", "Through thrice a thousand generations ! never", "How should I be so ? Look on me !", "Spirit ! I 60", "This has not been revealed : the Tree of Life", "Now met I aught to sympathise with me . 190", "Can it be ?", "Born on the same day , of the same womb ; and", "Of serpents , and of fruits and trees : I see", "Thoughts unspeakable", "Thoughts which arise within me , as if they", "Up to the lights above us , in the azure , 280", "But I must retire", "Was withheld from us by my father 's folly ,", "That which hath driven us all from Paradise ?", "Where is it ? I see nothing save a mass", "And unimaginable ether ! and", "Seem'st sorrowful ?", "Hath not fulfilled its promise :\u2014 if they sinned ,", "Sweep on in your unbounded revelry", "Are ye happy ?", "The angels we have seen .", "Such , and that my sire 's sin makes him and me ,", "Abel , I 'm sick at heart ; but it will pass ;", "Which looks like that which lit our earthly night ?", "Speak aught of Knowledge which I would not know ,", "I know not what thou art : I see thy power ,", "He is a God .", "Beyond all power of my born faculties ,", "I dare not gaze on further .", "A loathsome , and yet all invincible", "For thee , my Adah , I choose not \u2014 It was", "Shall men love the remembrance of the man", "And then I turned my weary eyes from off", "Who can but suffer many years , and die \u2014", "Despise myself , yet cannot overcome \u2014", "Why should I speak ?", "Than the birds \u2019 matins ; and my Adah \u2014 my", "Is this our Paradise ? Where are its walls ,", "And what art thou who dwellest", "In the vast desolate night in search of him ;", "And Heaven 's ,", "What do they know ?\u2014 that they are miserable .", "To inherit agonies accumulated", "Precede me , brother \u2014 I will follow shortly .", "?", "To till the earth \u2014 for I had promised \u2014\u2014", "Unworthy what I see , though my dust is ;", "To Heaven , and Zillah casts hers to the earth ,", "How ! You know my thoughts ?", "Let what is mortal of me perish , that", "Both them who sinned and sinned not , as an ill \u2014", "Here let me die : for to give birth to those", "Of knowledge \u2014 and the mystery of Death", "\u2018 Tis better I should be so .", "What need of snakes and fruits to teach us that ?", "But not to live \u2014 or wherefore plucked he not", "460", ", 30", "And some emitting sparks , and some displaying", "And see thou show'st me things beyond my power , 80", "But there are spirits loftier still \u2014", "Was plucked too soon ; and all the fruit is Death !", "The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden ?", "Begot me \u2014 thee \u2014 and all the few that are ,", "But thou canst not", "Which bears them .", "While that of Knowledge , by my mother 's haste ,", "Ah !", "And ye ?", "To cull some first-fruits .", "Of daily toil , and constant thought : I look", "Where dost thou lead me ?", "And my conceptions .", "Air , where ye roll along , as I have seen", "Which shut them out \u2014 and me : I feel the weight", "I must away with him .", "Ye multiplying masses of increased 100", "Be taught the mystery of my being .", "In the dim twilight , brighter than yon world", "Is yon our earth ?", "Thy beauty and thy love \u2014 my love and joy ,", "Not to snatch first that fruit :\u2014 but ere he plucked", "A hideous heritage I owe to them", "In the same hour ! They plucked the tree of science", "The Life-tree ?", "Wilt thou teach me all ?", "Written upon his forehead . But at least", "Would they had snatched both 210", "No , Adah ! no ;", "And when I saw gigantic shadows in"], "true_target": ["Immortal in despite of me . I knew not", "Is this blue wilderness of interminable", "Beheld them from the skirts of Paradise :", "How so ?", "Seemed full of life even when their atmosphere", "What dreads my Adah ? This is no ill spirit .", "Which humbles me and mine .", "Which made her thirst for knowledge at the risk", "I have nought to ask .", "No .", "I knew not that , yet thought it , since I heard", "Why , what are things ?", "The fruits , or neither !", "Although my brother Abel oft implores", "And men ? 170", "By the far-flashing of the Cherubs \u2019 swords ,", "I thought it was a being : who could do", "That I would join with him in sacrifice :\u2014", "Do so .", "Own and belov\u00e9d \u2014 she , too , understands not", "And that the night , which makes both beautiful ,", "Although inferior still to my desires", "Nor ever shall \u2014 the mysteries of Death . 140", "Let him say on ;", "But it grows dark , and dark \u2014 the stars are gone !", "And Edens in them ?", "Leave them , and walk with dust ?", "His Seraphs sing ; and so my father saith .", "Of sin and pain \u2014 or few , but still of sorrow ,", "No less ! and why", "Oh thou beautiful", "Forget \u2014\u2014 but it can never be forgotten 440", "Enormous vapours roll", "And all that in them is . So I have heard", "Spirit , who art thou ?", "Aught else but dust !", "And thou !", "Multitudes , millions , myriads , which may be ,", "So haughtily in spirit , and canst range", "Of Death : although I know not what it is \u2014", "Why , I have seen the fire-flies and fire-worms", "To Death \u2014 the unknown ! Methinks the Tree of Knowledge", "\u2018 Tis darkness !", "Around a world where I seem nothing , with", "How beautiful ye are ! how beautiful", "And multiplying murder .", "I will .", "I 'm glad of that : I would not have them die \u2014", "It be as thou hast said", "They may be ! Let me die , as atoms die ,", "Spake not of this unto my father , when", "And all the unnumbered and innumerable", "Let me but", "What immortal part ?", "As yet have bowed unto my father 's God .", "To sink .", "In thunder .", "And speaks not .", "Through an a\u00ebrial universe of endless", "Can I return ?", "The snake spoke truth ; it was the Tree of Knowledge ;", "Which are so beautiful : shall they , too , die ?", "Such evil things to beings save a being ?", "No sun \u2014 no moon \u2014 no lights innumerable \u2014", "And yet I fear it \u2014 fear I know not what !", "What ! is it not then new ?", "And they who guard them ?", "I should be proud of thought", "By ages !\u2014 and I must be sire of such things ! 450", "I am :\u2014 and thou , with all thy might , what art thou ?", "Sprinkle the dusky groves and the green banks", "Like sunbeams onward , it grows small and smaller ,", "She is my sister , 330", "If I may judge , till now . But , Spirit ! if", "Fades to a dreary twilight \u2014 yet I see 180", "With Abel on an altar .", "That they are beautiful in their own sphere ,", "I may be in the rest as angels are .", "The Other", "I tread on air , and sink not \u2014 yet I fear", "And do not thirst to know , and bear a mind", "Of an eternal curse ; my brother is", "But didst thou tempt my parents ? Lucifer . I ? Poor clay \u2014 what should I tempt them for , or how ?", "Of most innumerable lights .", "It was the Tree of Life : knowledge is good ,", "Of light gave way , and showed them taking shapes", "The knowledge , he was ignorant of Death .", "No more ?", "The earth ! where is my earth ? Let me look on it ,", "Born with me \u2014 but I love nought else .", "Of this almighty Death , who is , it seems ,", "With fear rose longing in my heart to know", "But I will bend to neither .", "Nature and immortality \u2014 and yet", "Who ?", "Says he is something dreadful , and my mother", "The little shining fire-fly in its flight , 130", "And sighs a prayer ; and Adah looks on me ,", "I will have nought to do with happiness ,", "And still-increasing lights ! what are ye ? what", "Appear to join the innumerable stars", "Have heard you .", "Been seen .", "Who sowed the seed of evil and mankind", "I feel , it is a dreadful thing ; but what ,", "Spirit , I have said it . AdahCain ! my brother ! Cain ! ACT II .", "Rather than see her weep , I would , methinks ,", "Name it .", "The things I see .", "Clay \u2014 Spirit \u2014 what thou wilt \u2014 I can survey .", "Apart \u2014 what 's this ?", "And knowledge ! My thoughts are not in this hour", "They were , as I have heard from those who heard them ,", "Deadly error !", "Aye .", "In play , till he ran roaring from my gripe .", "And Life is good ; and how can both be evil ?", "His equal ?", "Guarded by fiery-sworded Cherubim ,", "My father", "And loudly : I", "Our native and forbidden Paradise ,", "They say the Serpent was a spirit .", "The earth yield nothing to us without sweat ;", "I live ,", "I dare behold ? As yet , thou hast shown nought", "Thou speak'st to me of things which long have swum", "Spirit ! let me expire , or see them nearer .", "That were no evil : would I ne'er had been", "Ah ! Thou look'st almost a god ; and \u2014\u2014", "And sin \u2014 and , not content with their own sorrow ,", "Your works , or accidents , or whatsoe'er", "The archangels .", "Let me , or happy or unhappy , learn", "To such , I would behold , at once , what I", "How should I ? As we move", "Be it proved .", "How ?", "Increase their myriads .", "The offering is more his than mine \u2014 and Adah \u2014\u2014", "I cannot see it .", "And being so , canst thou", "Methinks they both , as we recede from them , 40", "I fain would be alone a little while .", "With an inferior circlet purpler it still", "A God .", "Is your course measured for ye ? Or do ye", "Yes \u2014", "But Abel 's earnest prayer has wrought upon me ;", "Aye ! and serpents too ?", "The gates of what they call their Paradise", "The rapturous moment and the placid hour ,", ", or know ye in your might", "Ah ! didst thou tempt my mother ?", "All here seems dark and dreadful .", "Unequal , of deep valleys and vast mountains ;", "This until lately \u2014 but since it must be ,", "But lead them and ourselves through many years", "\u2018 Tis a fearful light !", "And the immortal star in its great course ,", "Must both be guided .", "Yon small blue circle , swinging in far ether", "Inevitable . Could I wrestle with him ?", "Gathers a halo round it , like the light", "Could I but deem them happy , I would half", "Reconcile what I saw with what I heard .", "Oh ! how we cleave the blue ! The stars fade from us !", "No less than life \u2014 a heritage not happy ,", "Why not ?", "Bear all \u2014 and worship aught .", "The clouds still open wide", "Oh God ! or Demon ! or whate'er thou art ,", "Be thou happy , then , alone \u2014", "We were approaching , which , begirt with light ,", "My sister Zillah sings an earlier hymn", "He has not yet 250", "And what is that ?", "To know .", "And wilt thou tell me so ?"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 210}, {"query": ["\u2018 Tis part of thy eternity , and mine . 150", "Why dost thou hesitate ?", "Of being that which I am ,\u2014 and thou art \u2014", "Wouldst thou have men without them ? must no reptiles", "Because \u201c ye should not eat the fruits of life ,", "No , not yet ;", "That bear the form of earth-born being .", "If I am not , enquire", "Souls who dare look the Omnipotent tyrant in", "Less burthensome to his immense existence 150", "of the all-great and good", "Sate nearest it ?", "Away , then !", "Sit on his vast and solitary throne \u2014", "Was it so in Eden ?", "Of good and evil ?", "Have rolled o'er your dead ashes , and your seed 's ,", "And cannot I , who aided in this work ,", "To the world of phantoms , which", "Still fruitful ? Did I bid her pluck them not ?", "Thou canst not", ", all foredoomed to be", "Thou ne'er hadst bent to him who made thee ?", "Or of his first-born son : ask your own heart ;", "But in that hour see things of many days .", "Evil ; and what else hath he made ? But let him", "To make way for much meaner than we can 160", "It is omnipotent , and not from love ,", "Knowing such things , aspiring to such things ,", "Who", "And still loftier than the archangels .", "Yea , or things higher .", "Souls who dare use their immortality \u2014", "Thou errest , Adah !\u2014 was not the Tree that", "Master of spirits .", "His Seraphs say : but it is worth the trial ,", "Greater than either : many things will have", "Evil or good what is proclaimed to them", "Did not your Maker make", "What wouldst thou think ?", "Think'st thou I 'd take the shape of things that die ?", "Worship or worship not , thou shalt behold", "The reach of beings innocent , and curious", "A most enervating and filthy cheat", "Linked to a servile mass of matter \u2014 and ,", "Why ?", "More than thy mother , and thy sire ?", "No .", "Gods ; and even He who thrust ye forth , so thrust ye", "Cain ! thou hast heard .", "Prefer an independency of torture", "The seed of the then world may thus array", "No ;\u2014 I have nought in common with him !", "Thou'lt know here \u2014 and hereafter .", "Unfold its gates !", "No : art thou ?", "Then follow me !", "All living \u2014 and all doomed to death \u2014 and wretched ,", "If the blessedness", "As true .", "What , if I show to thee things which have died ,", "Then who was the Demon ? He", "Save with the truth : was not the Tree , the Tree", "Quench the mind , if the mind will be itself", "Who guard the tempting tree . When thousand ages", "Thy God or Gods \u2014 there am I : all things are", "Behold !", "And unparticipated solitude ;", "Your vision .", "In hymns and harpings , and self-seeking prayers ,", "As I know not death ,", "Poor clay ! And thou pretendest to be wretched ! Thou !", "Thee to be mine .", "Mark me ! that Son will be a sacrifice !", "Which , knowing nought beyond their shallow senses ,", "Saith that ? It is not written so on high :", "As I have shown thee much which cannot die ?", "To me a shape I scorn , as I scorn all", "But what", "I seem that which I am ;", "But distinct . 190", "Follow", "They say \u2014 what they must sing and say , on pain", "That bows to him , who made things but to bend", "The knowledge fatal to their narrow joys .", "Breathe , save the erect ones ?", "Its present realm is thin to what it will be ,", "Perhaps \u2014 but long outlive both thine and thee .", "Which shall deprive thee of a single good 560", "He was hindered .", "He shall .", "Of you , young mortals , lights at once upon", "Thou livest \u2014 and must live for ever . Think not", "Worthy of thought ;\u2014 \u2018 tis your immortal part", "In number than the dust of thy dull earth ,", "Nor would : I would be aught above \u2014 beneath \u2014", "Not as thou lovest Cain .", "His power . I dwell apart ; but I am great :\u2014", "Hast thou seen him ?", "As thou ; and mightier things have been extinct", "And multiply himself in misery !", "The million millions \u2014", "Have been and must be all unchangeable .", "That he may torture :\u2014 let him ! He is great \u2014", "They have deceived thee ; thou shalt live .", "Enter !", "Of Knowledge ? and was not the Tree of Life", "It may be thou shalt be as we . 120", "Shalt soon return to earth , and all its dust :", "Believe in me , as a conditional creed", "I ask", "Worlds greater than thine own \u2014 inhabited", "Surmise ; for moments only and the space", "I tempt none ,", "Since he could overcome them , and foreknew", "Advance !", "Aye , woman ! he alone 540", "Thy Sire 's maker \u2014 and the Earth 's .", "His worship is but fear .", "Where I will lead thee .", "Yourselves , in your resistance . Nothing can", "Whence he shall come back to thee in an hour ;", "All foul and fulsome \u2014 and the very best", "Out of old worlds this new one in few days ? 530", "And therefore do I ask of thee , if thou", "Of thy fond parents , for their daring , proves .", "Many there are who worship me , and more", "Less , in the universe , than thou in it ;", "No more than life is ; and that was ere thou", "Yea .", "By all .", "In nature being earth also \u2014 more in wisdom ,", "But terror and self-hope .", "Mortality", "Can crowd eternity into an hour ,", "To be resolved into the earth .", "And having failed to be one , would be nought", "Yet deem not that thou canst escape it ; thou", "And , suffering in concert , make our pangs", "One is yours already ,", "Existence \u2014 it will cease \u2014 and thou wilt be \u2014", "Could I stand here ? His angels are within", "What ?", "Of which thy bosom is the germ .", "Of Paradise , that spirits who pervade", "But in his being ?", "The billows and be safe . I will not say , 20", "No more ;", "But , in his greatness , is no happier than", "The phantasm of the world ; of which thy world", "A wisdom in the spirit , which directs", "The Earth , which is thine outward cov'ring , is", "To a place", "Echo the sound to miserable things ,", "His", "As frail , and few so happy \u2014\u2014", "Of past \u2014 and present , and of future worlds .", "And if the higher knowledge quenches love ,", "He ever granted : but let him reign on !", "They are the thoughts of all", "And become gods as we . \u201d Were those his words ?", ",", "To lure thee on to the renewal of", "Innumerable , more endurable ,", "To the most gross and petty paltry wants ,", "No end ; and some , which would pretend to have", "Though multiplied to animated atoms ,", "By their own innocence ? I would have made ye", "Save what I am . He conquered ; let him reign ! 130", "That thirst ; nor ask thee to partake of fruits", "Of Paradise .", "That is a grovelling wish ,", "Wouldst be immortal ?", "Throughout all space . Where should I dwell ? Where are", "Let him crowd orb on orb : he is alone", "Spirits and Men , at least we sympathise \u2014", "If I were not that which I have said ,", "Art thou not nearer ? look back to thine earth !", "Of dust , and feel for it , and with you .", "His evil is not good ! If he has made , 140", "Which speaks within you .", "Space \u2014\u2014 but I speak to thee of what thou know'st not ,", "And thou couldst not", "What are they which dwell", "He but woke one", "Fresh souls and bodies", "The sin I speak of is not of my making ,", "Is but the wreck .", "With all thy Tree of Knowledge .", "I know the thoughts 100"], "true_target": ["In those he spake to with his forky tongue . 230", "Eternity \u2014 and heaven and earth \u2014 and that", "Maker of life and living things ; it is", "And fell . For what should spirits tempt them ? What", "All die \u2014 there is what must survive .", "Higher things than ye are slaves : and higher", "With worms in clay ?", "Borne on the air", "Than a mere serpent : ask the Cherubim", "Thou hast seen both worms and worlds ,", "Through thee and thine .", "What must he be you cannot love when known ?", "And hadst thou not been fit by thine own soul", "Would make him cast upon the spiritual nature", "To the smooth agonies of adulation ,", "It one day will be in your children .", "Of spirits and of men .", "Which name thou wilt : he makes but to destroy .", "To that which is omnipotent , because", "Worship the word which strikes their ear , and deem 10", "His everlasting face , and tell him that", "Create , and re-create \u2014 perhaps he 'll make", "Would run the edict of the other God ,", "Look there ! 120", "Is leader of the host of Heaven .", "Of the Invisible are the loveliest 500", "But that 's a mystery . Cain , come on with me .", "Ask of your sire , the exile fresh from Eden ;", "No , she must not .", "To sway .", "And science still beyond them , were chained down", "It seem in those who will replace ye in", "By greater things \u2014 and they themselves far more", "Mortal !", "Who would not let ye live , or he who would", "Have faith in me , and thou shalt be", "No less than thou art now .", ", shall come back to thee ,", "So restless in his wretchedness , must still", "Thou seekest to behold Death , and dead things ?", "Gave you a father \u2014 and if he so doth ,", "What is true knowledge .", "Are few inhabitants .", "And heart to look on ?", "Show in an hour what he hath made in many ,", "And why not adore ?", "To make that silent and expectant world", "By the unbounded sympathy of all 160", "Amerced for doubts beyond thy little life ,", "Dar'st thou behold ?", "Could he but crush himself , \u2018 twere the best boon", "But we , who see the truth , must speak it . Thy 240", "Of Knowledge ?", "Of space an equal flight , and I will show", "For such companionship , I would not now", "The proud One will not so far falsify , 220", "We are immortal !\u2014 nay , he 'd have us so ,", "Which is not heaven nor earth , but peopled with 550", "Of what is visible ; and yon bright star", "Darest thou look on Death ?", "With all ! But He ! so wretched in his height ,", "And walk the waters ; \u201d and the man shall walk", "We are mighty .", "Aye , upon one condition .", "Him makes thee mine the same .", "To him ?", "And centre of surrounding things \u2014 \u2018 tis made", "Thou art my worshipper ; not worshipping", "Alone , thou say'st , be happy ?", "The star which watches , welcoming the morn .", "Creating worlds , to make eternity", "Consists in slavery \u2014 no .", "Did I plant things prohibited within 200", "And power of Knowledge ?", "Though man 's vast fears and little vanity", "His secret , and he keeps it . We must bear ,", "Ask the Destroyer .", "Than them or ye would be so , did they not", "Dost thou not recognise", "As populous as this : at present there", "It has no shape ; but will absorb all things", "Both partly : but what doth", "Since the all-knowing Cherubim love least ,", "I cannot answer .", "One day a Son unto himself \u2014 as he", "Was there to envy in the narrow bounds", "Said'st thou not", "But , if he made us \u2014 he cannot unmake :", "Sit next thy heart ?", "Hast thou ne'er bowed", "And such they are .", "Or hath destroyed in few ?", "Their earliest fault in fable , and attribute", "Would not have made thee what thou art .", "Before his sullen , sole eternity ;", "I tell thee that the Serpent was no more", "But thou art clay \u2014 and canst but comprehend", "We in our conflict ! Goodness would not make", "But good .", "Alas ! those tears ! Couldst thou but know what oceans will be shed \u2014\u2014 520", "Have made ye live for ever , in the joy", "And yet thou seest .", ", of which I am the Prince .", "That which was clay , and such thou shall behold .", "But must be undergone .", "And some of us resist \u2014 and both in vain , 490", "And if there should be", "Who shall \u2014 be thou amongst the first .", "Ask Eve , your mother : bears she not the knowledge", "The myriad myriads \u2014 the all-peopled earth \u2014", "A man shall say to a man , \u201c Believe in me ,", "Return ! be sure : how else should Death be peopled ? 200", "On , then , with me . Wouldst thou behold things mortal or immortal ?", "As he saith \u2014 which I know not , nor believe \u2014", "The worlds beyond thy little world , nor be", "Yet it sparkles still .", "I am none :", "He who bows not to him has bowed to me .", "And I , who know all things , fear nothing ; see 300", "And thou ?", "Each bright and sparkling \u2014 what dost think of them ?", "Less than thy father 's \u2014 for he wished to know !", "But if that high thought were 50", "Have stood before thee as I am : a serpent", "In their abasement . I will have none such :", "Had no beginning , have had one as mean", "Divided with me : Life and Death \u2014 and Time \u2014", "To what was before thee !", "With torture of my dooming . There will come", "Choose betwixt Love and Knowledge \u2014 since there is", "No other choice : your sire hath chosen already : 430", "To save thee ; but fly with me o'er the gulf", "Couldst not have gone beyond thy world . On ! on !", "The other may be still .", "Or I were , or the things which seem to us", "Away , then ! on our mighty wings !", "Are beings past , and shadows still to come .", "And so it shall be ever \u2014 but we will", "I am angelic : wouldst thou be as I am ?", "Believe \u2014 and sink not ! doubt \u2014 and perish ! thus", "Of mortals from that place", "But by whom or what ?", "His own low failing . The snake was the snake \u2014", "Thou dost fall down and worship me \u2014 thy Lord .", "Yet thy God is alone ; and is he happy ? Lonely , and good ?", "It may be .", "The Maker \u2014 Call him", "Had been enough to charm ye , as before .", "The unpeopled earth \u2014 and the o'erhYpppHeNpeopled Hell ,", "Indefinite , Indissoluble Tyrant ;", "and yet not less than those he tempted ,", "Or stretch an hour into eternity :", "With us acts are exempt from time , and we", "\u2018 Tis now beyond thee ,", "The dust which formed your father ?", "Ne'er the less ,", "But the symbols", "If thou dost long for knowledge , I can satiate", "That they are not compatible , the doom", "Those who once peopled or shall people both \u2014", "One who aspired to be what made thee , and", "The Conqueror has left thee . Follow me .", "We breathe not by a mortal measurement \u2014", "And Truth in its own essence cannot be", "Fear not \u2014 without me thou", "What thou dar'st not deny ,\u2014 the history", "Point me out the site", "But changes make not death , except to clay ;", "We and thy sons will try . But now , behold ! Is it not glorious ?", "By suffering .", "An hour , when , tossed upon some water-drops", "Since better may not be without : there is", "These are my realms ! so that I do divide", "Are everlasting .", "His , and possess a kingdom which is not", "The cause of this all-spreading happiness", "And if he did betray you , \u2018 twas with Truth ;", "So humbly in their pride , as to sojourn", "And cannot be a sin in you \u2014 whate'er", "Fond parents listened to a creeping thing ,", "The Seraphs \u2019 love can be but ignorance :", "Who names me Demon to his angels ; they", "By being", "It is not tranquil .", "And yet that grief is knowledge \u2014 so he lied not :", "Of thine enjoyments a sweet degradation ,", "Thou didst before I came upon thee .", "To right , as in the dim blue air the eye", "Aught save a sharer or a servant of", "That"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 210}, {"query": ["Wherefore so ?", "And we must gather it again . Oh God ! why didst thou plant the tree of knowledge ?", "We have , most fervently .", "So will God , I trust .", "To pray .", "God , the Eternal ! Infinite ! All-wise !\u2014", "Who out of darkness on the deep didst make", "But thou my eldest born ? art silent still ?", "Our orisons completed , let us hence ,"], "true_target": ["Blaspheme not : these are Serpent 's words .", "Nor aught to thank for ?", "Light on the waters with a word \u2014 All Hail !", "Each to his task of toil \u2014 not heavy , though", "Jehovah ! with returning light \u2014 All Hail !", "Her fruits with little labour .", "Son Cain ! my first-born \u2014 wherefore art thou silent ?", "Oh ! my son ,", "Dost thou not live ?", "Needful : the earth is young , and yields us kindly"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 211}, {"query": ["Content thee with what is . Had we been so ,", "My misery in thine . I have repented .", "The fruit of our forbidden tree begins 30", "Part of thy work the firmament \u2014 All Hail !", "Which even in Paradise destroyed his parents .", "Let me not see my offspring fall into", "Behold thy father cheerful and resigned \u2014", "The snares beyond the walls of Paradise ,", "Morning from night , till then divided never \u2014"], "true_target": ["Before thy birth : let me not see renewed 40", "Alas !", "Cain \u2014 my son \u2014 50", "My boy ! thou speakest as I spoke in sin ,", "And do as he doth .", "God ! who didst name the day , and separate", "Who didst divide the wave from wave , and call", "Thou now hadst been contented .\u2014 Oh , my son !", "To fall ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 211}, {"query": ["What had I done in this ?\u2014 I was unborn :", "Why should I fear him more than other spirits ,", "And this is", "To which that birth has brought me . Why did he", "Yielding \u2014 why suffer ? What was there in this ?", "The fairest in the centre ? They have but", "In Twilight 's hour , to catch a glimpse of those", "Half of his immortality .", "God ! who didst call the elements into", "Before the gates round which I linger oft ,", "Earth , ocean , air and fire \u2014 and with the day 10", "And night , and worlds which these illuminate ,", "Yet \u2014 he seems mightier far than them , nor less", "Or shadow , madest beings to enjoy them ,", "Cain", "Ere the night closes o'er the inhibited walls", "Amen !", "Whom have we here ?\u2014 A shape like to the angels 80", "Of spiritual essence : why do I quake ?", "Life ?\u2014 Toil ! and wherefore should I toil ?\u2014 because", "The peace of God", "As he hath been , and might be : sorrow seems", "If not , why place him near it , where it grew", "Whom I see daily wave their fiery swords"], "true_target": ["My father could not keep his place in Eden ?", "I judge but by the fruits \u2014 and they are bitter \u2014", "Which I must feed on for a fault not mine .", "The Cherubim-defended battlements ? 90", "Be on your spirit , brother !", "I sought not to be born ; nor love the state", "If I shrink not from these , the fire-armed angels ,", "And the immortal trees which overtop", "One answer to all questions , \u201c \u2018 Twas his will ,", "The tree was planted , and why not for him ?", "And love both them and thee \u2014 All Hail ! All Hail !", "Gardens which are my just inheritance ,", "Why should I quail from him who now approaches ?", "So ? and can aught grieve save Humanity ?", "He cometh .", "He is all-powerful , must all-good , too , follow ?", "Which can avail thee nothing , save to rouse", "The Eternal anger ?", "And is it", "Yet of a sterner and a sadder aspect", "Why wilt thou wear this gloom upon thy brow ,", "And he is good . \u201d How know I that ? Because", "Beauteous , and yet not all as beautiful", "Yield to the Serpent and the woman ? or 70"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 211}, {"query": ["Not dazzling , and yet drawing us to them ,", "What ! Must not my daughter love her brother Enoch ?", "Our father", "Born of the same sole womb ,", "We have seen many : will he share our hour", "Which cometh not . Cain ! walk not with this Spirit .", "Than was the Serpent , and as false .", "No \u2014", "And thus becomes so in diffusing joy . 480", "With me ? did we not love each other ? and", "Thy youth in Paradise , in innocent", "To be our guests \u2014 will he ?", "Like them .", "Let me love thee and them :\u2014 All Hail ! All Hail !", "Out of this bosom ? was not he , their father , 370", "His brother , and our children , and our parents .", "The angels and the mortals to make happy ,", "But he is welcome , as they were : they deigned", "This morn ; but I have done thy task : the fruits", "Who", "Wert happy \u2014\u2014", "So beautiful , unnumbered , and endearing ,", "And this should be a Cherub \u2014 since he loves not .", "Love thee .", "Come away .", "Art thou that steppest between heart and heart ?", "Thou seem'st unhappy : do not make us so ,", "Omnipotence 390", "Wilt thou frown even on me ?", "Adores the Invisible only .", "How know'st thou ?", "Alas ! no ! and you \u2014", "It is our hour of rest and joy \u2014 and we", "And brighter , yet less beautiful and powerful", "Aye \u2014 but not bless\u00e9d .", "And me ?", "Beats quick ; he awes me , and yet draws me near ,", "Forth with this spirit ; he is not of ours .", "What all ?", "In multiplying our being multiply", "\u2014", "in the same hour", "Out of their love ? have they not drawn their milk", "Oh , Cain ! choose Love .", "Of rest ?\u2014 he is welcome .", "Who made him and our mother .", "Where dwellest thou ?", "Fixes my fluttering eyes on his ; my heart", "And yet I fly not from him : in his eye", "Nor would be happy ; but with those around us", "Sin in itself ? Can circumstance make sin", "Are there , then , others ?", "By me ?", "He is not so ; he hath", "Which stands before me ; I cannot abhor him ;", "Whither ?", "Return to seek you here .", "Like an ethereal night", "The Cherubs and the Seraphs ; he looks not", "But all we know of it has gathered", "Fiend ! tempt me not with beauty ; thou art fairer", "But we , thy children , ignorant of Eden , 400", "Bear with what we have borne , and love me \u2014 I", "What else can joy be , but the spreading joy ?", "Are ripe , and glowing as the light which ripens :", "With things that look as if they would be suns ;", "So they were when the fair Serpent", "The Seraphs love most \u2014 Cherubim know most", "Them ?\u2014 And as I love thee , my Cain ! go not", "Will he return ?", "Are girt about by demons , who assume"], "true_target": ["It is a beautiful star ; I love it for", "They fill my eyes with tears , and so dost thou .", "Dissatisfied and curious thoughts \u2014 as thou", "Than to thyself ; thou at the least hast passed", "Our father", "I think I could be so , despite of Death ,", "Wilt thou ?", "We were not born then \u2014 and if we had been ,", "Alone I could not ,", "What is the sin which is not 380", "I do . Is that a sin , too ?", "Shall they not love and bring forth things that love", "Oh , my mother ! thou", "It seems an awful shadow \u2014 if I may 470", "Cain", "Are you of Heaven ?", "Evil on ill ; expulsion from our home ,", "Of \u2014\u2014", "I cannot answer this immortal thing", "The words of God , and tempt us with our own", "Things which will love each other as we love", "All light , they look upon us ; but thou seem'st 510", "Which , as I know it not , I dread not , though", "And happy intercourse with happy spirits :", "He is not God \u2014 nor God 's : I have beheld", "To be belov\u00e9d , more than all , save thee \u2014", "Remorse of that which was \u2014 and hope of that 360", "Let me go with thee .", "Hast plucked a fruit more fatal to thine offspring", "My brother , I have come for thee ;", "Or virtue ?\u2014 if it doth , we are the slaves", "Our parents ?", "Save in my father , who is God 's own image ;", "Alone ! Oh , my God !", "Yes \u2014 in his works .", "Its beauty .", "Must be all goodness .", "When I think how soon I shall see my brother ,", "Spangle the wonderful mysterious vault", "Who could be happy and alone , or good ?", "I see an angel ; 340", "Spoke with our mother first .", "Aye \u2014 to our eternal sorrow .", "Will he ,", "I have heard it said , 420", "Oh , my God !", "Nearer and nearer :\u2014 Cain \u2014 Cain \u2014 save me from him !", "Judge from what I have heard .", "And heedless , harmless wantonness of bliss .", "To me my solitude seems sin ; unless", "God ! the Eternal parent of all things !", "In seeming : as the silent sunny noon ,", "Should we not love them \u2014 and our children , Cain ?", "O Cain ! This spirit curseth us .", "I am not wretched , Cain , and if thou", "And I will weep for thee .", "Have less without thee . Thou hast laboured not", "And dread , and toil , and sweat , and heaviness ;", "Streak the deep purple , and unnumbered stars", "And leave us ?", "There is a fastening attraction which 410", "Who didst create these best and beauteous beings ,", "In sooth , return within an hour ?", "Wert worked on by the snake , in thy most flushed", "If not , I will", "Or in his angels , who are like to thee \u2014", ", where long white clouds", "Saith that he has beheld the God himself", "So did the Serpent , and it lied .", "I look upon him with a pleasing fear ,", "How can that be ?", "My belov\u00e9d Cain"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 211}, {"query": ["And drive my father forth from Paradise , 20", "Wilt thou not , my brother ?"], "true_target": ["Yet didst permit the Serpent to creep in ,", "Oh , God ! who loving , making , blessing all ,", "Keep us from further evil :\u2014 Hail ! All Hail !"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 211}, {"query": ["And so I live . Would I had never lived !", "Must one day see perforce .", "No less ! and why", "What \u2018 twas which shook us all \u2014 but nothing came .", "I wrestled with the lion , when a boy , 260", "How should I be so ? Look on me !", "I am :\u2014 and thou , with all thy might , what art thou ?", "As yet have bowed unto my father 's God .", "It was the Tree of Life : knowledge is good ,", "Wilt thou teach me all ?", "I dare not gaze on further .", "It be as thou hast said", "And sighs a prayer ; and Adah looks on me ,", "Interchecked with an instant of brief pleasure ,", "Is your course measured for ye ? Or do ye", "Could master all things \u2014 but I thought alone", "And multiplying murder .", "Can it be ?", "I tread on air , and sink not \u2014 yet I fear", "And all that we inherit , liable", "Methinks they both , as we recede from them , 40", "The angels we have seen .", "And Life is good ; and how can both be evil ?", "What ! is it not then new ?", "Of knowledge \u2014 and the mystery of Death", "He is a God .", "I live ,", "What dreads my Adah ? This is no ill spirit .", "I 'm glad of that : I would not have them die \u2014", "Spirit ! I 60", "To know .", "The things I have not seen ,", "Both them who sinned and sinned not , as an ill \u2014", "To such , I would behold , at once , what I", "To Death \u2014 the unknown ! Methinks the Tree of Knowledge", "And Edens in them ?", "With Abel on an altar .", "Methinks is merely propagating Death , 70", "And they who guard them ?", "Spirit , who art thou ?", "And what art thou who dwellest", "In the dim twilight , brighter than yon world", "And some emitting sparks , and some displaying", "The knowledge , he was ignorant of Death .", "The earth ! where is my earth ? Let me look on it ,", "I know not what thou art : I see thy power ,", "Why should I speak ?", "Thou speak'st to me of things which long have swum", "That !\u2014 yonder !", "Why should I bow to thee ?", "My father", "Ah !", "Thoughts unspeakable", "Weeps when he 's named ; and Abel lifts his eyes", "But I will bend to neither .", "A watching shepherd boy ,", "To cull some first-fruits .", "Oh God ! Oh Gods ! or whatsoe'er ye are ! 110", "Oh thou beautiful", "Can I return ?", "Written upon his forehead . But at least", "A God .", "I will have nought to do with happiness ,", "And knowledge ! My thoughts are not in this hour", "Have ye not prayed ?", "This misery was mine . My father is", "Your works , or accidents , or whatsoe'er", "Spake not of this unto my father , when", "Let me but", "Who sowed the seed of evil and mankind", ", 30", "That which hath driven us all from Paradise ?", "Immortal in despite of me . I knew not", "Oh God ! or Demon ! or whate'er thou art ,", "They say the Serpent was a spirit .", "Lead on .", "And then I turned my weary eyes from off", "And unimaginable ether ! and", "Enormous liquid plains , and some begirt", "Thou art not the Lord my father worships .", "Is yon our earth ?", "Is this our Paradise ? Where are its walls ,", "At least they ought to have known all things that are", "Which humbles me and mine .", "Who can but suffer many years , and die \u2014", "Seem'st sorrowful ?", "The firstlings of the flock to him who bids", "Would they had snatched both 210", "\u2018 Tis a fearful light !", "I must away with him .", "The offering is more his than mine \u2014 and Adah \u2014\u2014", "Sprinkle the dusky groves and the green banks", "\u2018 Tis well \u2014 I rather would consort with spirits .", "The fruits , or neither !", "Could I but deem them happy , I would half", "How ! You know my thoughts ?", ",", "And all the unnumbered and innumerable", "I will .", "Of serpents , and of fruits and trees : I see", "The Other", "Have I not said it ?\u2014 need I say it ? Could not thy mighty knowledge teach thee that ?", "Let me , or happy or unhappy , learn", "No less than life \u2014 a heritage not happy ,", "And wilt thou tell me so ?", "Why , I have seen the fire-flies and fire-worms", "But live to die ; and , living , see no thing 110", "Which looks like that which lit our earthly night ?", "But shall I know it ?", "They were , as I have heard from those who heard them ,", "Appear to join the innumerable stars", "And sin \u2014 and , not content with their own sorrow ,", "Of daily toil , and constant thought : I look", "I should be proud of thought", "Unequal , of deep valleys and vast mountains ;", "How ?", "And wider , and make widening circles round us !", "They are so lovely . What is Death ? I fear ,", "Did they love us when they snatched from the Tree", "The umbrage of the walls of Eden , chequered", "Your gentleness must not be harshly met :", "But it grows dark , and dark \u2014 the stars are gone !", "Like sunbeams onward , it grows small and smaller ,", "Seemed full of life even when their atmosphere", "Of Death : although I know not what it is \u2014", "Tamed down ; my mother has forgot the mind 180", "He has not yet 250", "To anticipate my immortality .", "Spirit ! let me expire , or see them nearer .", "Such evil things to beings save a being ?", "And my conceptions .", "I knew not that , yet thought it , since I heard", "Be taught the mystery of my being .", "Why , what are things ?", "Speak aught of Knowledge which I would not know ,", "No , Adah ! no ;", "I may be in the rest as angels are .", "What immortal part ?", "\u2018 Tis better I should be so .", "Nor ever shall \u2014 the mysteries of Death . 140", "A loathsome , and yet all invincible", "My father and my mother talk to me 170", "I cannot see it .", "I cannot compass : \u2018 tis denounced against us ,", "The clouds still open wide", "Ye multiplying masses of increased 100", "And Heaven 's ,", "Instinct of life , which I abhor , as I", "Says he is something dreadful , and my mother", "Name it .", "Through an a\u00ebrial universe of endless", "Be thou happy , then , alone \u2014", "And loudly : I", "Our native and forbidden Paradise ,", "Must both be guided .", "\u2018 Tis darkness !", "That I would join with him in sacrifice :\u2014", "How so ?", "He shut him forth from Paradise , with death", "And speaks not .", "Although inferior still to my desires", "Fades to a dreary twilight \u2014 yet I see 180", "Enormous vapours roll", "Precede me , brother \u2014 I will follow shortly .", "And what is that ? 320", "Thoughts which arise within me , as if they", "And men ? 170", "Been seen .", "But there are spirits loftier still \u2014", "The gates of what they call their Paradise", "The things I see .", "Apart \u2014 what 's this ?", "In play , till he ran roaring from my gripe .", "Have heard you .", "The earth yield nothing to us without sweat ;", "Aye ! and serpents too ?", "For I was made of it .", "His equal ?", "Do so ."], "true_target": ["What need of snakes and fruits to teach us that ?", "Oh ! how we cleave the blue ! The stars fade from us !", "And some till now grew larger as we approached ,", "Where dost thou lead me ?", "My little Enoch ! and his lisping sister !", "How the lights recede ! Where fly we ?", "And still-increasing lights ! what are ye ? what", "Know nought of Death , save as a dreadful thing", "Which shut them out \u2014 and me : I feel the weight", "Be it proved .", "To Heaven , and Zillah casts hers to the earth ,", "They may be ! Let me die , as atoms die ,", "A hideous heritage I owe to them", "And see thou show'st me things beyond my power , 80", "Born with me \u2014 but I love nought else .", "And thou !", "Rather than see her weep , I would , methinks ,", "Hath not fulfilled its promise :\u2014 if they sinned ,", "How should I ? As we move", "He speaks like 350", "Guarded by fiery-sworded Cherubim ,", "Reconcile what I saw with what I heard .", "Yet it seems horrible . I have looked out 270", "Unworthy what I see , though my dust is ;", "All we love in our children and each other ,", "No sun \u2014 no moon \u2014 no lights innumerable \u2014", "?", "Up to the lights above us , in the azure , 280", "Let him say on ;", "Despise myself , yet cannot overcome \u2014", "Spirit , I have said it . AdahCain ! my brother ! Cain ! ACT II .", "Air , where ye roll along , as I have seen", "And when I saw gigantic shadows in", "What do they know ?\u2014 that they are miserable .", "Beyond all power of my born faculties ,", "I watched for what I thought his coming ; for", "No more ?", "To inherit agonies accumulated", "And wherefore plucked ye not the tree of life ? Ye might have then defied him .", "That they are beautiful in their own sphere ,", "Own and belov\u00e9d \u2014 she , too , understands not", "Of sin and pain \u2014 or few , but still of sorrow ,", "But didst thou tempt my parents ? Lucifer . I ? Poor clay \u2014 what should I tempt them for , or how ?", "Which are so beautiful : shall they , too , die ?", "The rapturous moment and the placid hour ,", "In the same hour ! They plucked the tree of science", "I feel , it is a dreadful thing ; but what ,", "So haughtily in spirit , and canst range", "Abel , I 'm sick at heart ; but it will pass ;", "And you , too , sisters , tarry not behind ; 60", "Alas ! I scarcely now know what it is ,", "I dare behold ? As yet , thou hast shown nought", "And all that in them is . So I have heard", "Around a world where I seem nothing , with", "With an inferior circlet purpler it still", "For thee , my Adah , I choose not \u2014 It was", "Thou hast said , I must be 90", "Can I do so without impiety ?", "This until lately \u2014 but since it must be ,", "She is my sister , 330", "Who ?", "460", "And must torture be immortal ?", "By the far-flashing of the Cherubs \u2019 swords ,", "And as it waxes little , and then less ,", "Shall men love the remembrance of the man", "To till the earth \u2014 for I had promised \u2014\u2014", "But lead them and ourselves through many years", "That were no evil : would I ne'er had been", "She wrung from me , with tears , this promise ; and", ", or know ye in your might", "With luminous belts , and floating moons , which took ,", "We were approaching , which , begirt with light ,", "Of most innumerable lights .", "To offer up", "And ye ?", "Yes \u2014", "Let what is mortal of me perish , that", "Crowd in my breast to burning , when I hear", "Deadly error !", "Of this almighty Death , who is , it seems ,", "Thy beauty and thy love \u2014 my love and joy ,", "But the lights fade from me fast ,", "I never 310", "But thou canst not", "Was withheld from us by my father 's folly ,", "Must I not die ?", "Begot me \u2014 thee \u2014 and all the few that are ,", "Sweep on in your unbounded revelry", "And what is that ?", "Forget \u2014\u2014 but it can never be forgotten 440", "In the vast desolate night in search of him ;", "What ill ?", "And yet I fear it \u2014 fear I know not what !", "I have nought to ask .", "Through thrice a thousand generations ! never", "Which bears them .", "How know I what", "Are ye happy ?", "In visions through my thought : I never could", "Leave them , and walk with dust ?", "The very blue of the empurpled night", "The little shining fire-fly in its flight , 130", "And that the night , which makes both beautiful ,", "But the thing had a demon ?", "Of light gave way , and showed them taking shapes", "Yon small blue circle , swinging in far ether", "Were I quiet earth , 290", "I fain would be alone a little while .", "Aught else but dust !", "Belov\u00e9d Adah !", "His Seraphs sing ; and so my father saith .", "I 'll follow you anon .", "I seek it not ; but as I know there are", "Which made her thirst for knowledge at the risk", "Intoxicated with eternity", "By ages !\u2014 and I must be sire of such things ! 450", "Which knew such things .", "who offers up", "The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden ?", "In thunder .", "The mind which overwhelms me : never till", "With fear rose longing in my heart to know", "And do not thirst to know , and bear a mind", "Although my brother Abel oft implores", "This has not been revealed : the Tree of Life", "And the immortal star in its great course ,", "Nature and immortality \u2014 and yet", "The snake spoke truth ; it was the Tree of Knowledge ;", "Why not ?", "Who ?", "Bear all \u2014 and worship aught .", "Inevitable . Could I wrestle with him ?", "But not to live \u2014 or wherefore plucked he not", "Him will I follow .", "Are ye happy ?", "Multitudes , millions , myriads , which may be ,", "Not to snatch first that fruit :\u2014 but ere he plucked", "The archangels .", "But he is not like", "Expansion \u2014 at which my soul aches to think \u2014", "Here let me die : for to give birth to those", "Where is it ? I see nothing save a mass", "Was plucked too soon ; and all the fruit is Death !", "Which shone the roundest of the stars , when I", "While that of Knowledge , by my mother 's haste ,", "Ah ! didst thou tempt my mother ?", "No .", "Of which I have heard my parents speak , as of", "Is this blue wilderness of interminable", "Aye .", "To sink .", "But Abel 's earnest prayer has wrought upon me ;", "Now met I aught to sympathise with me . 190", "Like them , the features of fair earth :\u2014 instead ,", "Which are around us ; and , as we move on ,", "Gathers a halo round it , like the light", "The Life-tree ?", "My sister Zillah sings an earlier hymn", "And being so , canst thou", "I thought it was a being : who could do", "Than the birds \u2019 matins ; and my Adah \u2014 my", "And wore the look of worlds .", "Such , and that my sire 's sin makes him and me ,", "Seest thou not ?", "But I must retire", "Huge dusky masses ; but unlike the worlds", "If I may judge , till now . But , Spirit ! if", ",", "Born on the same day , of the same womb ; and", "How beautiful ye are ! how beautiful", "Beheld them from the skirts of Paradise :", "Ah ! Thou look'st almost a god ; and \u2014\u2014", "Of an eternal curse ; my brother is", "All here seems dark and dreadful .", "To make death hateful , save an innate clinging ,", "Increase their myriads .", "Clay \u2014 Spirit \u2014 what thou wilt \u2014 I can survey .", "Show me ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 211}, {"query": ["As he saith \u2014 which I know not , nor believe \u2014", "And having failed to be one , would be nought", "Or hath destroyed in few ?", "But that 's a mystery . Cain , come on with me .", "As I have shown thee much which cannot die ?", "Because \u201c ye should not eat the fruits of life ,", "Have faith in me , and thou shalt be", "Nor would : I would be aught above \u2014 beneath \u2014", "The other may be still .", "But if that high thought were 50", "Than them or ye would be so , did they not", "Away , then !", "Knowing such things , aspiring to such things ,", "Believe \u2014 and sink not ! doubt \u2014 and perish ! thus", "and yet not less than those he tempted ,", "On , then , with me . Wouldst thou behold things mortal or immortal ?", "And thou ?", "Who names me Demon to his angels ; they", "That thirst ; nor ask thee to partake of fruits", "That is a grovelling wish ,", "The seed of the then world may thus array", "Worship or worship not , thou shalt behold", "As thou ; and mightier things have been extinct", "By greater things \u2014 and they themselves far more", "Choose betwixt Love and Knowledge \u2014 since there is", "Your vision .", "Gave you a father \u2014 and if he so doth ,", "No end ; and some , which would pretend to have", "The sin I speak of is not of my making ,", "Ne'er the less ,", "Gods ; and even He who thrust ye forth , so thrust ye", "Have made ye live for ever , in the joy", "Both partly : but what doth", "By all .", "Which , knowing nought beyond their shallow senses ,", "As I know not death ,", "The cause of this all-spreading happiness", "Have been and must be all unchangeable .", "No more ;", "Would make him cast upon the spiritual nature", "But changes make not death , except to clay ;", "Are few inhabitants .", "He but woke one", "But in his being ?", "Mortality", "We breathe not by a mortal measurement \u2014", "Did I plant things prohibited within 200", "What thou dar'st not deny ,\u2014 the history", "If I were not that which I have said ,", "But by whom or what ?", "But what", "Unfold its gates !", "Indefinite , Indissoluble Tyrant ;", "Less burthensome to his immense existence 150", "Thou didst before I came upon thee .", "Worthy of thought ;\u2014 \u2018 tis your immortal part", "To him ?", "Of space an equal flight , and I will show", "Their earliest fault in fable , and attribute", "To lure thee on to the renewal of", "Or of his first-born son : ask your own heart ;", "Then follow me !", "Saith that ? It is not written so on high :", "And thou couldst not", "Of past \u2014 and present , and of future worlds .", "Art thou not nearer ? look back to thine earth !", "Since he could overcome them , and foreknew", "Thou ne'er hadst bent to him who made thee ?", "No .", "And centre of surrounding things \u2014 \u2018 tis made", "And yet thou seest .", "The billows and be safe . I will not say , 20", "And , suffering in concert , make our pangs", "His power . I dwell apart ; but I am great :\u2014", "Couldst not have gone beyond thy world . On ! on !", "Not as thou lovest Cain .", "His own low failing . The snake was the snake \u2014", ", all foredoomed to be", "And heart to look on ?", "Him makes thee mine the same .", "But must be undergone .", "But , in his greatness , is no happier than", "Is but the wreck .", "What is true knowledge .", "Where I will lead thee .", "Yourselves , in your resistance . Nothing can", "Did not your Maker make", "These are my realms ! so that I do divide", "Of you , young mortals , lights at once upon", "In number than the dust of thy dull earth ,", "In those he spake to with his forky tongue . 230", "Divided with me : Life and Death \u2014 and Time \u2014", "Less , in the universe , than thou in it ;", "Thou dost fall down and worship me \u2014 thy Lord .", "No ;\u2014 I have nought in common with him !", "So humbly in their pride , as to sojourn", "That he may torture :\u2014 let him ! He is great \u2014", "We are mighty .", "I tell thee that the Serpent was no more", "No , she must not .", "Of spirits and of men .", "Which is not heaven nor earth , but peopled with 550", "Can crowd eternity into an hour ,", "Of Knowledge ?", "And cannot I , who aided in this work ,", "Why ?", "The Conqueror has left thee . Follow me .", "And unparticipated solitude ;", "To the smooth agonies of adulation ,", "He shall .", "Many there are who worship me , and more", "It one day will be in your children .", "No : art thou ?", "Wouldst thou have men without them ? must no reptiles", "More than thy mother , and thy sire ?", "And if the higher knowledge quenches love ,", "Ask Eve , your mother : bears she not the knowledge", "Yet deem not that thou canst escape it ; thou", "The proud One will not so far falsify , 220", "I am angelic : wouldst thou be as I am ?", "Creating worlds , to make eternity", "That", "Sit next thy heart ?", "Said'st thou not", "Thou canst not", "Eternity \u2014 and heaven and earth \u2014 and that", ",", "Alone , thou say'st , be happy ?", "Of dust , and feel for it , and with you .", "If the blessedness", "One who aspired to be what made thee , and", "I tempt none ,", "Than a mere serpent : ask the Cherubim", "Thee to be mine .", "If I am not , enquire", "Was there to envy in the narrow bounds", "And so it shall be ever \u2014 but we will", "Higher things than ye are slaves : and higher", "One is yours already ,", "As true .", "Would not have made thee what thou art .", "Since better may not be without : there is", "Quench the mind , if the mind will be itself", "Thou hast seen both worms and worlds ,", "Look there ! 120", "That bear the form of earth-born being .", "Amerced for doubts beyond thy little life ,", "Had no beginning , have had one as mean", "It is omnipotent , and not from love ,", "Existence \u2014 it will cease \u2014 and thou wilt be \u2014", "Have rolled o'er your dead ashes , and your seed 's ,", "The Seraphs \u2019 love can be but ignorance :", "By their own innocence ? I would have made ye", "The dust which formed your father ?", "Could I stand here ? His angels are within", "Through thee and thine .", "And if there should be", "Which speaks within you .", "His Seraphs say : but it is worth the trial ,", "But in that hour see things of many days .", "To a place", "Of thy fond parents , for their daring , proves .", "To what was before thee !", "But we , who see the truth , must speak it . Thy 240", "His , and possess a kingdom which is not", "Who would not let ye live , or he who would", "Thou livest \u2014 and must live for ever . Think not", "Let him crowd orb on orb : he is alone", "With us acts are exempt from time , and we", "Borne on the air", "Those who once peopled or shall people both \u2014", "And if he did betray you , \u2018 twas with Truth ;", "An hour , when , tossed upon some water-drops", "Or stretch an hour into eternity :", "No other choice : your sire hath chosen already : 430", "Follow", "Wouldst be immortal ?", "Dar'st thou behold ?", "To the world of phantoms , which", "Spirits and Men , at least we sympathise \u2014", "I am none :", "Of which thy bosom is the germ .", "Of thine enjoyments a sweet degradation ,", "Thy Sire 's maker \u2014 and the Earth 's .", "So restless in his wretchedness , must still", "Are beings past , and shadows still to come .", "Space \u2014\u2014 but I speak to thee of what thou know'st not ,", "We and thy sons will try . But now , behold ! Is it not glorious ?", "To be resolved into the earth .", "In nature being earth also \u2014 more in wisdom ,"], "true_target": ["His worship is but fear .", "His secret , and he keeps it . We must bear ,", "And science still beyond them , were chained down", "The star which watches , welcoming the morn .", ", of which I am the Prince .", "Show in an hour what he hath made in many ,", "But the symbols", "Whence he shall come back to thee in an hour ;", "And still loftier than the archangels .", "In hymns and harpings , and self-seeking prayers ,", "By the unbounded sympathy of all 160", "Is leader of the host of Heaven .", "Of being that which I am ,\u2014 and thou art \u2014", "Thou seekest to behold Death , and dead things ?", "As frail , and few so happy \u2014\u2014", "To right , as in the dim blue air the eye", "Worlds greater than thine own \u2014 inhabited", "Fresh souls and bodies", "Throughout all space . Where should I dwell ? Where are", "Fear not \u2014 without me thou", "Why dost thou hesitate ?", "The million millions \u2014", "A most enervating and filthy cheat", "His", "I ask", "Aye , woman ! he alone 540", "Poor clay ! And thou pretendest to be wretched ! Thou !", "Hast thou ne'er bowed", "With worms in clay ?", "Have stood before thee as I am : a serpent", "Alas ! those tears ! Couldst thou but know what oceans will be shed \u2014\u2014 520", "We are immortal !\u2014 nay , he 'd have us so ,", "And fell . For what should spirits tempt them ? What", "Which name thou wilt : he makes but to destroy .", "Think'st thou I 'd take the shape of things that die ?", "Out of old worlds this new one in few days ? 530", "Its present realm is thin to what it will be ,", "Dost thou not recognise", "Of Paradise , that spirits who pervade", "Would run the edict of the other God ,", "Each bright and sparkling \u2014 what dost think of them ?", "Shalt soon return to earth , and all its dust :", "To make that silent and expectant world", "All foul and fulsome \u2014 and the very best", "Greater than either : many things will have", "The knowledge fatal to their narrow joys .", "And such they are .", "Innumerable , more endurable ,", "\u2018 Tis now beyond thee ,", "The unpeopled earth \u2014 and the o'erhYpppHeNpeopled Hell ,", "And walk the waters ; \u201d and the man shall walk", "Yea .", "That which was clay , and such thou shall behold .", "Breathe , save the erect ones ?", "Who shall \u2014 be thou amongst the first .", "Hast thou seen him ?", "\u2018 Tis part of thy eternity , and mine . 150", "By suffering .", "To me a shape I scorn , as I scorn all", "It is not tranquil .", "He was hindered .", "We in our conflict ! Goodness would not make", "To make way for much meaner than we can 160", "Believe in me , as a conditional creed", "Of good and evil ?", "I know the thoughts 100", "What ?", "Of Knowledge ? and was not the Tree of Life", "Who", "They have deceived thee ; thou shalt live .", "Echo the sound to miserable things ,", "And hadst thou not been fit by thine own soul", "Advance !", "I seem that which I am ;", "I cannot answer .", "It has no shape ; but will absorb all things", "To the most gross and petty paltry wants ,", "A man shall say to a man , \u201c Believe in me ,", "No less than thou art now .", "And some of us resist \u2014 and both in vain , 490", "It may be .", "They are the thoughts of all", "His everlasting face , and tell him that", "The Earth , which is thine outward cov'ring , is", ", shall come back to thee ,", "Evil or good what is proclaimed to them", "Still fruitful ? Did I bid her pluck them not ?", "Maker of life and living things ; it is", "What must he be you cannot love when known ?", "Create , and re-create \u2014 perhaps he 'll make", "Cain ! thou hast heard .", "But good .", "But terror and self-hope .", "Thy God or Gods \u2014 there am I : all things are", "Sate nearest it ?", "Before his sullen , sole eternity ;", "As populous as this : at present there", "Of the Invisible are the loveliest 500", "A wisdom in the spirit , which directs", "They say \u2014 what they must sing and say , on pain", "Behold !", "It seem in those who will replace ye in", "Prefer an independency of torture", "The worlds beyond thy little world , nor be", "Worship the word which strikes their ear , and deem 10", "Aye , upon one condition .", "For such companionship , I would not now", "Mark me ! that Son will be a sacrifice !", "Souls who dare look the Omnipotent tyrant in", "What , if I show to thee things which have died ,", "Since the all-knowing Cherubim love least ,", "And Truth in its own essence cannot be", "To sway .", "That they are not compatible , the doom", "His evil is not good ! If he has made , 140", "Aught save a sharer or a servant of", "of the all-great and good", "And become gods as we . \u201d Were those his words ?", "Of what is visible ; and yon bright star", "Souls who dare use their immortality \u2014", "Which shall deprive thee of a single good 560", "It may be thou shalt be as we . 120", "Thou errest , Adah !\u2014 was not the Tree that", "Ask of your sire , the exile fresh from Eden ;", "But thou art clay \u2014 and canst but comprehend", "To that which is omnipotent , because", "Fond parents listened to a creeping thing ,", "And therefore do I ask of thee , if thou", "Ask the Destroyer .", "Save what I am . He conquered ; let him reign ! 130", "Less than thy father 's \u2014 for he wished to know !", "The phantasm of the world ; of which thy world", "And why not adore ?", "If thou dost long for knowledge , I can satiate", "Sit on his vast and solitary throne \u2014", "But , if he made us \u2014 he cannot unmake :", "The reach of beings innocent , and curious", "With all thy Tree of Knowledge .", "And multiply himself in misery !", "Away , then ! on our mighty wings !", "One day a Son unto himself \u2014 as he", "Yea , or things higher .", "And yet that grief is knowledge \u2014 so he lied not :", "Thou'lt know here \u2014 and hereafter .", "Save with the truth : was not the Tree , the Tree", "He ever granted : but let him reign on !", "No more than life is ; and that was ere thou", "With all ! But He ! so wretched in his height ,", "Was it so in Eden ?", "Thou art my worshipper ; not worshipping", "The Maker \u2014 Call him", "Consists in slavery \u2014 no .", "In their abasement . I will have none such :", "And power of Knowledge ?", "Enter !", "Or I were , or the things which seem to us", "Linked to a servile mass of matter \u2014 and ,", "Mortal !", "Of mortals from that place", "Could he but crush himself , \u2018 twere the best boon", "But distinct . 190", "What are they which dwell", "The myriad myriads \u2014 the all-peopled earth \u2014", "He who bows not to him has bowed to me .", "No , not yet ;", "Surmise ; for moments only and the space", "Had been enough to charm ye , as before .", "Darest thou look on Death ?", "Master of spirits .", "Yet thy God is alone ; and is he happy ? Lonely , and good ?", "All living \u2014 and all doomed to death \u2014 and wretched ,", "Evil ; and what else hath he made ? But let him", "Of Paradise .", "Return ! be sure : how else should Death be peopled ? 200", "Yet it sparkles still .", "Then who was the Demon ? He", "And I , who know all things , fear nothing ; see 300", "Though man 's vast fears and little vanity", "With torture of my dooming . There will come", "By being", "Are everlasting .", "That bows to him , who made things but to bend", "Though multiplied to animated atoms ,", "Perhaps \u2014 but long outlive both thine and thee .", "Point me out the site", "What wouldst thou think ?", "To save thee ; but fly with me o'er the gulf", "Who guard the tempting tree . When thousand ages", "And cannot be a sin in you \u2014 whate'er", "All die \u2014 there is what must survive ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 211}, {"query": ["Such , and that my sire 's sin makes him and me ,", "Can I do so without impiety ?", "Is this blue wilderness of interminable", "So haughtily in spirit , and canst range", "Huge dusky masses ; but unlike the worlds", "No less than life \u2014 a heritage not happy ,", "Air , where ye roll along , as I have seen", "Like them , the features of fair earth :\u2014 instead ,", "Let me , or happy or unhappy , learn", "To such , I would behold , at once , what I", "No sun \u2014 no moon \u2014 no lights innumerable \u2014", "Where is it ? I see nothing save a mass", "Of light gave way , and showed them taking shapes", "Unequal , of deep valleys and vast mountains ;", "I dare not gaze on further .", "In the dim twilight , brighter than yon world", "I know not what thou art : I see thy power ,", "Why , what are things ?", "?", "And wilt thou tell me so ?", "Spake not of this unto my father , when", "And knowledge ! My thoughts are not in this hour", "Nor ever shall \u2014 the mysteries of Death . 140", "With an inferior circlet purpler it still", "Expansion \u2014 at which my soul aches to think \u2014", "And that the night , which makes both beautiful ,", "I seek it not ; but as I know there are", "Must one day see perforce .", "Which shone the roundest of the stars , when I", "How ?", "Thou hast said , I must be 90", "The very blue of the empurpled night", "Oh God ! or Demon ! or whate'er thou art ,", "The things I see .", "How should I ? As we move", "Can I return ?", "And men ? 170", "Of most innumerable lights .", "The earth ! where is my earth ? Let me look on it ,", "Yon small blue circle , swinging in far ether", "Like sunbeams onward , it grows small and smaller ,", "I may be in the rest as angels are .", "And see thou show'st me things beyond my power , 80", "Through an a\u00ebrial universe of endless", "Spirit ! I 60", "Why , I have seen the fire-flies and fire-worms", "And still-increasing lights ! what are ye ? what", "Methinks is merely propagating Death , 70", "Appear to join the innumerable stars", "\u2018 Tis darkness !", "Which are around us ; and , as we move on ,", "Ye multiplying masses of increased 100", "Is yon our earth ?", "Must both be guided .", "Where dost thou lead me ?", "Oh ! how we cleave the blue ! The stars fade from us !", ", 30", "Beyond all power of my born faculties ,", "The Other", "And wore the look of worlds .", "To anticipate my immortality .", "The clouds still open wide", "Is your course measured for ye ? Or do ye", "And what art thou who dwellest", "I cannot see it .", "To sink .", "The things I have not seen ,", "And some till now grew larger as we approached ,", "I tread on air , and sink not \u2014 yet I fear", "And thou !", "Enormous vapours roll"], "true_target": ["Apart \u2014 what 's this ?", "The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden ?", "Nature and immortality \u2014 and yet", "Increase their myriads .", "Spirit ! let me expire , or see them nearer .", "With luminous belts , and floating moons , which took ,", "But the lights fade from me fast ,", "And the immortal star in its great course ,", "I should be proud of thought", "All here seems dark and dreadful .", "Know nought of Death , save as a dreadful thing", "Oh God ! Oh Gods ! or whatsoe'er ye are ! 110", "And some emitting sparks , and some displaying", "Immortal in despite of me . I knew not", ", or know ye in your might", "Clay \u2014 Spirit \u2014 what thou wilt \u2014 I can survey .", "I dare behold ? As yet , thou hast shown nought", "They may be ! Let me die , as atoms die ,", "Beheld them from the skirts of Paradise :", "Can it be ?", "Fades to a dreary twilight \u2014 yet I see 180", "If I may judge , till now . But , Spirit ! if", "Which knew such things .", "Intoxicated with eternity", "We were approaching , which , begirt with light ,", "And multiplying murder .", "For I was made of it .", "Sweep on in your unbounded revelry", "Oh thou beautiful", "He shut him forth from Paradise , with death", "Is this our Paradise ? Where are its walls ,", "How know I what", "\u2018 Tis a fearful light !", "Written upon his forehead . But at least", "Of which I have heard my parents speak , as of", "A hideous heritage I owe to them", "How the lights recede ! Where fly we ?", "The little shining fire-fly in its flight , 130", "Gathers a halo round it , like the light", "What ! is it not then new ?", ",", "And must torture be immortal ?", "Unworthy what I see , though my dust is ;", ",", "Enormous liquid plains , and some begirt", "Do so .", "Which bears them .", "That they are beautiful in their own sphere ,", "It be as thou hast said", "Aye ! and serpents too ?", "Seemed full of life even when their atmosphere", "Your works , or accidents , or whatsoe'er", "That !\u2014 yonder !", "Let what is mortal of me perish , that", "This until lately \u2014 but since it must be ,", "And my conceptions .", "And as it waxes little , and then less ,", "Methinks they both , as we recede from them , 40", "Show me .", "Sprinkle the dusky groves and the green banks", "And they who guard them ?", "But it grows dark , and dark \u2014 the stars are gone !", "Seem'st sorrowful ?", "And unimaginable ether ! and", "And all that we inherit , liable", "Here let me die : for to give birth to those", "And wider , and make widening circles round us !", "Which looks like that which lit our earthly night ?", "And Edens in them ?", "How beautiful ye are ! how beautiful", "Although inferior still to my desires", "Who can but suffer many years , and die \u2014"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 212}, {"query": ["Look there ! 120", "Have been and must be all unchangeable .", "The billows and be safe . I will not say , 20", "And yet thou seest .", "Wouldst thou have men without them ? must no reptiles", ", all foredoomed to be", "Advance !", "Couldst not have gone beyond thy world . On ! on !", "What are they which dwell", "As thou ; and mightier things have been extinct", "Amerced for doubts beyond thy little life ,", "Yea , or things higher .", "Thou seekest to behold Death , and dead things ?", "Had no beginning , have had one as mean", "Both partly : but what doth", "By suffering .", "Dar'st thou behold ?", "A most enervating and filthy cheat", "So humbly in their pride , as to sojourn", "Less , in the universe , than thou in it ;", "Breathe , save the erect ones ?", "Worship or worship not , thou shalt behold", "Each bright and sparkling \u2014 what dost think of them ?", ",", "Thou didst before I came upon thee .", "Behold !", "An hour , when , tossed upon some water-drops", "To lure thee on to the renewal of", "To the most gross and petty paltry wants ,", "With torture of my dooming . There will come", "And therefore do I ask of thee , if thou", "Its present realm is thin to what it will be ,", "Yet deem not that thou canst escape it ; thou", "Echo the sound to miserable things ,", "All foul and fulsome \u2014 and the very best", "As frail , and few so happy \u2014\u2014", "But changes make not death , except to clay ;", "The phantasm of the world ; of which thy world", "Enter !", "The dust which formed your father ?", "Who names me Demon to his angels ; they", "But distinct . 190", "Fear not \u2014 without me thou", "Wouldst be immortal ?", "Art thou not nearer ? look back to thine earth !", "To make way for much meaner than we can 160", "Point me out the site", "To the world of phantoms , which", "With worms in clay ?", "And science still beyond them , were chained down", "In their abasement . I will have none such :", "Believe \u2014 and sink not ! doubt \u2014 and perish ! thus", "Or I were , or the things which seem to us", "What thou dar'st not deny ,\u2014 the history", "And so it shall be ever \u2014 but we will", "Dost thou not recognise", "Through thee and thine .", "Away , then ! on our mighty wings !"], "true_target": ["Return ! be sure : how else should Death be peopled ? 200", "Knowing such things , aspiring to such things ,", "And walk the waters ; \u201d and the man shall walk", "All die \u2014 there is what must survive .", "Of past \u2014 and present , and of future worlds .", "Is but the wreck .", "But what", "Believe in me , as a conditional creed", "By greater things \u2014 and they themselves far more", ", of which I am the Prince .", "I am angelic : wouldst thou be as I am ?", "Of Paradise .", "Linked to a servile mass of matter \u2014 and ,", "On , then , with me . Wouldst thou behold things mortal or immortal ?", "But by whom or what ?", "We and thy sons will try . But now , behold ! Is it not glorious ?", "\u2018 Tis now beyond thee ,", "Sit next thy heart ?", "Evil or good what is proclaimed to them", "Which , knowing nought beyond their shallow senses ,", "No end ; and some , which would pretend to have", "Unfold its gates !", "Away , then !", "Are beings past , and shadows still to come .", "Worlds greater than thine own \u2014 inhabited", "Yea .", "In number than the dust of thy dull earth ,", "What wouldst thou think ?", "And such they are .", "Borne on the air", "Yet it sparkles still .", "It may be .", "As I have shown thee much which cannot die ?", "Though multiplied to animated atoms ,", "Would run the edict of the other God ,", "Greater than either : many things will have", "Thou canst not", "What , if I show to thee things which have died ,", "Sate nearest it ?", "Of space an equal flight , and I will show", "Of thine enjoyments a sweet degradation ,", "Shalt soon return to earth , and all its dust :", "That which was clay , and such thou shall behold .", "To save thee ; but fly with me o'er the gulf", "I seem that which I am ;", "No more than life is ; and that was ere thou", "And if there should be", "But thou art clay \u2014 and canst but comprehend", "A man shall say to a man , \u201c Believe in me ,", "Worship the word which strikes their ear , and deem 10", "The worlds beyond thy little world , nor be", "All living \u2014 and all doomed to death \u2014 and wretched ,", "Have faith in me , and thou shalt be", "But if that high thought were 50", "To what was before thee !", "Thou hast seen both worms and worlds ,", "\u2018 Tis part of thy eternity , and mine . 150", "Fresh souls and bodies", "Surmise ; for moments only and the space"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 212}, {"query": ["Of glorious azure which floats on beyond us ,", "And I thee who lov'st nothing .", "Did ye not tell me that", "Cursed he not me in giving me my birth ?", "Nor form of mightiest brute , nor aught that is", "Its shining surface ?", "When ?", "Of Death and Life .", "And tusks projecting like the trees stripped of", "For what ?", "Adam is the first .", "For ever ! Since", "Which looks a spirit , or a spirit 's world \u2014", "Yes , but love more 320", "The mother 's milk , who o'er it tremulous", "And let me perish , so I see them !", "To gaze on it .", "I rather would remain ; I am sick of all", "Which thou hast shown me ?", "How came ye , being Spirits wise and infinite , 380", "Lay foaming on the earth , beneath the vain", "Thou ! for", "Like them , too , without the so dear-bought knowledge ! 160", "The Tree in Eden ?", "By what gate have we entered", "Long ceased to breathe our breath , have theirs , thou say'st ;", "To Good . Strange Good , that must arise from out", "No : \u2018 twas my mother", "Is he not of the kind which basked beneath", "A better portion for the animal", "My father plucked some herbs , and laid them to", "Haughty spirit !", "Now that I know it leads to something definite .", "I understand not this .", "The cherub-guarded walls of Eden \u2014 with", "They too must share my sire 's fate , like his sons ;", "My sister Adah .\u2014 All the stars of heaven ,", "The river which flows out of Paradise", "But", "Their swelling into palpable immensity", "And what of that ?", "Dispelled by antidotes .", "You think so , being not her brother .", "And why not now ? 400", "Its deadly opposite . I lately saw", "Of seeming strength , but of inexplicable", "And these , too \u2014 can they ne'er repass", "Ill cannot come : they are too beautiful .", "Your essence \u2014 and your nature , and your glory ?", "Where ?", "Forth from the abyss , looking as he could coil", "Even now ?", "None on it ?", "He who creates all beauty will lose more", "Along that western paradise of clouds \u2014", "Of the Intelligences I have seen", "When nearer , must be more ineffable .", "For they seem more than one , and yet more peopled", "Hast a superior .", "Than things to be inhabited themselves ,", "Meekly !", "And is more than myself , because I love it !", "And so do I .", "Then my father 's God did well", "But few ; and some of those but bitter .", "Distant , and dazzling , and innumerable ,", "But never that precisely , which persuaded", "Shape ; for I never saw such . They bear not", "Can call them living .", "Of some all unimaginable Heaven ,", "Then thou canst have no fellowship with us .", "Snows ! what are they ?", "These dim realms ! I see them , but I know them not .", "Cannot conceive my love for her the less :", "But not as now .", "Who tempted him \u2014 she tempted by the serpent .", "And so we shall remain ; but were it not so ,", "As the day closes over Eden 's walls ;\u2014", "At least it promised knowledge at the price", "Happy the day !", "It speaks of a day past .", "If thou canst do man good , why dost thou not ?", "Phantoms inferior in intelligence", "Seems dim and shadowy .", "Live ye , or have ye lived ?", "Stood licking its reviving limbs with joy .", "Serpent , which rears his dripping mane and vasty", "For crime , I know not ; but for pain ,", "And the Jehovah and thyself have thine \u2014", "That which it really is , I cannot answer .", "Why should he not ?", "An unity of purpose might make union", "But ye", "Nothing ; for", "To pluck the fruit forbidden ?", "Of things unhappy ! To produce destruction", "Peculiar element ; and things which have", "Of the deep woods of earth , the hugest which", "Have some allotted dwelling \u2014 as all things ;", "So thickly in the upper air , that I", "Let them share it", "Till I know", "Thy dwelling , or his dwelling .", "180", "Within those glorious orbs which we behold ,", "Even for the innocent !", "Would there were only one of ye ! perchance", "Like them , too , without having shared the apple ;", "But was mine theirs ?", "to the things we have passed ,", "Let him keep", "Said nothing , save that all shall die .", "Did they , too , eat of it , that they must die ?", "And when her beauty disappears , methinks", "Him sink , and feel my heart float softly with him", "Not of all things . No \u2014", "Yon blue immensity , is boundless ?", "Is spirit like to flesh ? can it fall out \u2014", "Now breathing ; mighty yet and beautiful", "But what were they ?", "And what I have seen \u2014", "The forest shade , the green bough , the bird 's voice \u2014", "My eyes with pleasant tears as I behold 260", "Of death \u2014 but knowledge still : but what knows man ?", "Live , and yet so unlike them , that I scarce", "But time has passed , and hitherto", "And piteous bleating of its restless dam ;", "Why art thou wretched ? why are all things so ? 280", "But animals \u2014", "To me ? should I not love that which all love ?", "And wherefore didst thou", "And must I be", "Behold , my son ! said Adam , how from Evil", "Cease to be beautiful ! how can that be ?", "What is that", "Jarring and turning space to misery \u2014", "I have felt much .", "The loveliest thing I know is loveliest nearest .", "Not fair like Adah and the Seraphim \u2014 330", "It is too little and too lowly to", "Can surely never be the task of joy ,", "The wing of Seraph , nor the face of man ,"], "true_target": ["And those enormous creatures ,", "Like Adah 's face : I turn from earth and heaven", "Of swimming shadows and enormous shapes ,", "Cursed he not me before my birth , in daring", "Even Adam and my mother both are fair :", "If not the last , rose higher than the first ,", "Dost thou love nothing ?", "And yon immense 190", "I 'll not believe it \u2014 for I thirst for good .", "The fatal fruit , nor even of the same aspect .", "All temporary breathing creatures their", "Resumed its careless life , and rose to drain", "Lead me here only to inform me this ?", "He is my father : but I thought , that \u2018 twere 300", "I have done this \u2014 250", "How silent and how vast are these dim worlds !", "As the most beautiful and mighty which 60", "And yon immeasurable liquid space", "Or the dull mass of life , that , being life , 20", "Than the huge brilliant luminous orbs which swung", "Than me in seeing perish such a work .", "His creatures , as thou say'st we are , or show me", "Could not retain , but needs must forfeit it \u2014", "Ev'n he who made us must be , as the maker", "But how ?", "Resembling somewhat the wild habitants", "Which looks like water , and which I should deem", "Had more of beauty .", "Nor know I now .", "But if it be as I have heard my father", "200", "The vesper bird 's , which seems to sing of love ,", "But very fair .", "Infinity with Immortality ?", "Past my own dwelling , but that it is bankless", "The deep blue noon of night , lit by an orb", "Oh , ye interminable gloomy realms 30", "But dost thou not love something like thyself ?", "With knowledge , nor allay my thousand fears", "We are brethren ,", "Himself around the orbs we lately looked on \u2014", "\u2018 Tis like another world ; a liquid sun \u2014", "And wherefore did it fall ?", "I see it not in their allotment here .", "Of Death ?", "Springs Good !", "Then why is Evil \u2014 he being Good ? I asked", "I 'm sorry for it ; but", "A lamb stung by a reptile : the poor suckling 290", "Nor in my sister-bride 's , nor in my children 's : 50", "Most assuredly :", "In magnitude and terror ; taller than", "Many of the same kind", "Rarely .", "Like them ?", "Head , ten times higher than the haughtiest cedar ,", "The road to happiness !", "In Adam 's and in Abel 's , and in mine ,", "And mingles with the song of Cherubim ,", "So be they ! wherefore speak to me of this ?", "Eyes flashing like the fiery swords which fence them \u2014 140", "When he prohibited the fatal Tree .", "But why war ?", "Had deemed them rather the bright populace", "Deal out in his long homilies , \u2018 tis a thing \u2014", "It was a lying tree \u2014 for we know nothing .", "Distance can but diminish glory \u2014 they ,", "Then leave us", "And what are they ?", "That there was Death .", "I must one day return here from the earth ,", "Ere we came down into this phantom realm ,", "Their bark and branches \u2014 what were they ?", "Then what is Death ?", "For serpents to tempt woman to .", "We knew already", "Rather than life itself . But here , all is", "Ah me ! and did they perish ?", "But one of you makes evil .", "And to what end have I beheld these things", "Till now he hath", "What is it ?", "It is not with the earth , though I must till it ,", "The hues of twilight \u2014 the Sun 's gorgeous coming \u2014", "\u2018 Tis awful !", "Some fully shown , some indistinct , and all", "All these are nothing , to my eyes and heart ,", "And those inordinate creatures sporting o'er", "Oh God ! I dare not think o n't ! Curs\u00e9d be", "Haughty , and high , and beautiful , and full", "In elements which seem now jarred in storms .", "By what it bears of beautiful , untoiling ,", "Of men nor angels , looks like something , which ,", "With agonies unutterable , though", "To win it .", "And boundless , and of an ethereal hue \u2014", "Floating around me ?\u2014 They wear not the form", "So shadowy , and so full of twilight , that", "Thy precept comes too late : there is no more", "Then I dread it less ,", "Nothing .", "I feel at war \u2014 but that I may not profit", "And is !", "With me , their sire and brother ! What else is", "What makes my feelings more endurable ,", "But that on drawing near them I beheld", "Alas ! the hopeless wretches !", "Roar nightly in the forest , but ten-fold", "All things , my father says ; but I confess", "Because this Evil only was the path", "Bequeathed to me ? I leave them my inheritance !", "Purchase renewal of its little life", "And yet they have an aspect , which , though not", "Nor wear the form of man as I have viewed it", "To earth again ?", "But all", "What are these mighty phantoms which I see", "His setting indescribable , which fills", "He who invented Life that leads to Death !", "Mighty and melancholy \u2014 what are ye ?", "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 ?", "The wound ; and by degrees the helpless wretch", "That dust has shown me \u2014 let me dwell in shadows .", "What should I be without her ?", "Why do I exist ?", "This seems too terrible . No doubt the other", "To separate ? Are ye not as brethren in", "Sustain such creatures .", "Ye do not dwell together ?", "Of matter , which seemed made for life to dwell on , 10", "Round our regretted and unentered Eden ;", "No : I 'll stay here .", "Alas ! I seem 420", "Thou speak'st it proudly ; but thyself , though proud ,", "Her favour , since the Serpent was the first", "This question of my father ; and he said ,", "And yet my sire says he 's omnipotent :", "Never to have been stung at all , than to", "Nor gratify my thousand swelling thoughts", "Clay has its earth , and other worlds their tenants ; 370", "Yes \u2014 as being 230", "Ye are both eternal ?"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 213}, {"query": ["Evil and Good are things in their own essence ,", "My counsel is a kind one ; for \u2018 tis even", "And this should be the human sum", "But for thy sons and brother ?", ", shall endure and do .\u2014", "What thy world is , thou see'st , 130", "And death to all things , and disease to most things , 150", "To what thy sons \u2019 sons \u2019 sons , accumulating", "Ye are his creatures , and not mine .", "Now let us back to earth !", "And man tempt woman :\u2014 let thy sons look to it !", "Of all belov\u00e9d things thou lovest her", "Knowledge was barred as poison . But behold", "Can tell what shape of serpent tempted her .", "\u2018 Tis fair as frail mortality ,", "The only evil ones . And you , ye new", "His sacrifices are acceptable .", "And the interminable realms of space ,", "Which struck a world to chaos , as a chaos", "Were I the victor , his works would be deemed", "One good gift has the fatal apple given ,\u2014", "All that must pass away", "Given chiefly at my own expense ; \u2018 tis true ,", "And the infinity of endless ages ,", "And scarce-born mortals , what have been his gifts", "Here , and o'er all space .", "Thyself most wicked and unhappy \u2014 is it", "And being of all things the sole thing certain ,", "Of worlds and life , which I hold with him \u2014 No !", "And the Jehovah \u2014 the indulgent Lord ,", "Perhaps", "No : for thy frail race to war", "That sight is for the other state .", "Tempt thee or them to aught that 's new or strange ,", "Are its inhabitants ,", "Unto thy children \u2014\u2014", "Be conscious to a single present spot", "Because", "Thou shalt be .", "And this thou knewest not this morn .", "Aye . 390", "On what thou callest earth", "My spirit buoys thee up to breathe in regions", "Thy pettier portion of the immortal part", "Sits he not near thy heart ?", "Somewhat of both .", "Then there must be delusion .\u2014 What is that", "He one day will unfold that further secret .", "Evil ; but what will be the Good he gives ?", "Mortal ! My brotherhood 's with those who have no children .", "There", "A Paradise of Ignorance , from which", "The Mammoth is in thy world ;\u2014 but these lie", "More beautiful than beauteous things remote ?", "Evil springs from him , do not name it mine ,", "Thy father loves him well \u2014 so does thy God . 340", "Of knowledge , to know mortal nature 's nothingness ;", "Adam could e'er have been in Eden , as 70", "In all its innocence compared to what", "He is the second born of flesh ,", "Being beyond all beauty in thine eyes ,", "Thou say'st well :", "Till ye know better its true fount ; and judge", "Inferior as thy petty feelings and", "In your own bosom \u2014 where the outward fails ;", "I pity thee who lovest what must perish .", "Which ?", "And gaze upon them on their secret thrones !", "Taught thee to know thyself ?", "To you already , in your little world ?", "We both reign .", "In its dull damp degeneracy , to", "The son of her who snatched the apple spake !", "How long ?", "Thou lovest it , because \u2018 tis beautiful ,", "With them would render the curse on it useless \u2014", "Your reason :\u2014 let it not be overswayed 460", "And true . Behold these phantoms ! they were once", "Thy hour is yet afar , and matter cannot", "ACT III .", "Are some things still which woman may tempt man to , 210", "So shall you nearer be the spiritual", "Seem clearer to thine immortality .", "A state , and many states beyond thine own \u2014", "But if he gives you good \u2014 so call him ; if", "He as a conqueror will call the conquered", "Either of these would be for thee to perish !", "Of sorrow \u2014 and thou sufferest , are both Eden", "Of your existence , such as it must be .", "Art not thou Abel 's brother ?", "Will cease , like any other appetite .", "If truth be so ,", "As much superior unto all thy sire", "As was the apple in thy mother 's eye ;", "Together ; but our dwellings are asunder .", "Not by words , though of Spirits , but the fruits", "Eat , drink , toil , tremble , laugh , weep , sleep \u2014 and die !", "\u2018 Twill not be followed , so there 's little lost .", "And star by star , and universe by universe ,", "That which", "Thy world and thou are still too young ! Thou thinkest", "Is come !", "It may be death leads to the highest knowledge ;", "There is still some such on earth ,", "True , it was more glorious .", "Back", "And clear thought : and thou wouldst go on aspiring", "I battle it against him , as I battled", "Yes ; happy ! when unfolded ,", "Material as thou art .", "And , therefore , thou canst not see if I love", "The earth , thy task \u2014 I 'll waft thee there in safety .", "Of the forbidden tree .", "Because thou hast thought of this ere now .", "What ? Hath not he who made ye", "Yet they lived .", "But there", "Eve , thy mother , best", "The gates of Death .", "Was not thy quest for knowledge ?", "But not what was beyond it .", "In the first dawn and bloom of young creation , 270", "And what can quench our immortality ,", "In its redoubled wretchedness , a Paradise", "That which it was .", "And why not he who made ? I made ye not ;", "Said \u2018 tis another life ?", "Homage he has from all \u2014 but none from me : 430", "Ask him who fells .", "Conflict shall cease , if ever it shall cease ,", "Yes , from their earth , as thou wilt fade from thine .", "Bequeath that science to thy children , and", "The curse is mutual \u2018 twixt thy sire and thee \u2014", "Pass on , and gaze upon the past .", "You have forgotten the denunciation", "And who and what doth not ? Who covets evil", "In generations like to dust", "A vision that which is reality .", "In highest Heaven \u2014 through all Eternity ,", "That which", "Destruction and disorder of the elements ,", "With time .", "Is Life , and what ye shall have \u2014 Death : the rest", "\u2018 Twill spare them many tortures ."], "true_target": ["What didst thou answer ?", "But if thou dost possess a beautiful", "But", "But thou wouldst only perish , and not see them ; 410", "Shall tremble in the balance , till the great", "To reign .", "The last of these .", "With me , then , to thine earth , and try the rest 450", "A part of all things .", "What thy remoter offspring must encounter ;", "I could show thee", "Dwell near it \u2014 \u2018 tis the phantasm of an Ocean .", "Sufficiently to see they love your brother :", "What ye in common have with what they had", "And is his mother 's favourite .", "Of Death .\u2014 Wouldst have it present ?", "In them and her .", "They did inhabit .", "A scarcely-yet shaped planet , peopled with", "Not so ?", "What these superior beings are or were ;", "But canst not comprehend the shadow of", "I have a Victor \u2014 true ; but no superior .", "No ! By heaven , which he", "It may be that thine own shall be for me .", "Your Maker told ye , they were made for you ,", "But do not think to dwell here till thine hour", "Or no \u2014 except some vast and general purpose ,", "Enough ?\u2014 why should ye differ ?", "But you have seen his angels .", "Cain . And cannot ye both reign , then ?\u2014 is there not", "Thou hast it .", "\u2018 Twould be destroyed so early .", "Where thou shall multiply the race of Adam ,", "Their earth is gone for ever \u2014 120", "The leaven of all life , and lifelessness .", "Superior to your own ? Had Adam not", "Reptiles engendered out of the subsiding", "And pangs , and bitterness ; these were the fruits", "And when it ceases to be so , thy love", "I show thee what thy predecessors are ,", "That is the prelude .", "At least leads to the surest science : therefore", "Intelligent , good , great , and glorious things ,", "Comprehend spirit wholly \u2014 but \u2018 tis something 170", "By thy own flesh .", "Which drove your race from Eden \u2014 war with all things ,", "Your father saw him not ?", "Slime of a mighty universe , crushed into", "Of high intelligence and earthly strength .", "Although inferior , and thy children shall", "Thee and thy son ;\u2014 and how weak they are , judge", "And not made good or evil by the Giver ;", "Holds , and the abyss , and the immensity", "The Tree was true , though deadly .", "And judge their beauty near .", "But had done better in not planting it .", "Hast thou ne'er beheld him ?", "Thou livest .", "who made thee answer that .", "And now I will convey thee to thy world ,", "Or mutual and irrevocable hate ?", "With agonies eternal , to innumerable", "Nature , and war triumphant with your own .", "The past Leviathans .", "By a most crushing and inexorable 80", "And bounteous planter of barred Paradise \u2014", "So changed by its convulsion , they would not", "Oh , what a beautiful world it was !", "And dost thou love thyself ?", "To which particular things must melt like snows .", "For its own bitter sake ?\u2014 None \u2014 nothing ! \u2018 tis 240", "Be happier in not knowing", "By tyrannous threats to force you into faith", "\u2018 Gainst all external sense and inward feeling :", "Things whose enjoyment was to be in blindness \u2014 100", "Where all is breathless save thyself . Gaze on ;", "Who shared thy mother 's milk , and giveth hers", "But ignorance of evil doth not save", "Thy human mind hath scarcely grasp to gather", "By mine ! But , plighted to return ,", "All to be animated for this only !", "It is the realm", "Of thine , I grant thee \u2014 but too mean to be", "Cain . I", "Of his celestial boons to you and yours .", "And the unfathomable gulfs of Hades ,", "Can make its offspring ; still it is delusion .", "As you for him .\u2014 You would not have their doom", "Living , high ,", "The little I have shown thee into calm", "No , we reign", "And earliest embraces of earth 's parents ,", "Knowledge ? And have I not , in what I showed ,", "Thou shortly may'st be ; and that state again ,", "Let He", "Must pass through what the things thou seest have passed \u2014", "Ne'er saw him , and I know not if he smiles . 350", "And his father 's ?", "The happier thou !\u2014", "Both ; but the time will come thou shalt see one", "Though rare in time , are frequent in eternity .\u2014", "Good man ! whene'er thy wife , or thy sons \u2019 wives ,", "Dust ! limit thy ambition ; for to see", "First-born of the first man !", "It was .", "Of its new scarcely hardened surface \u2014 \u2018 twas \u2014", "Thou hast seen them from afar .", "Thou knowest that there is", "But as thou saidst", "Yea !", "Of your poor attributes is such as suits", "What am I ?", "What does thy God love ? 310", "Dost thou curse thy father ?", "But bask beneath the clime which knows no winter .", "Be content ; it will", "To make thyself fit for this dwelling , thou", "The sixty-thousandth generation shall be ,", "Yet unborn myriads of unconscious atoms ,", "From evil ; it must still roll on the same ,", "Which being nearest to thine eyes is still", "Which it ne'er shall , till he or I be quenched ! 440", "Through agonies unspeakable , and clogged 40", "To the great double Mysteries ! the two Principles !", "To know there are such realms .", "And what they were thou feelest , in degree 90", "Why art thou wretched ?", "By myriads underneath its surface .", "Think and endure ,\u2014 and form an inner world", "Didst thou not require", "Thy present state of sin \u2014 and thou art evil , 220", "Where", "Be sure thou seest first who hath tempted them !", "Fallen , all had stood .", "Approach the things of earth most beautiful ,", "\u2018 Tis well and meekly done .", "Of them for evermore .", "Or , if it irk thee , turn thee back and till", "Subsiding has struck out a world : such things ,", "He , too , looks smilingly on Abel .", "And thy brother \u2014", "It cannot be : thou now beholdest as 110", "All , all , will I dispute ! And world by world ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 213}, {"query": ["Nothing except to leave thee , much as I", "The mother 's joys of watching , nourishing ,", "Surely a father 's blessing may avert", "Angel of Light ! be merciful , nor say", "No more of threats : we have had too many of them :", "Mother , thou dost him wrong \u2014", "A dreary , and an early doom , my brother ,", "It shall .", "But it were pity to disturb him till", "Visions , thou say'st , of past and present worlds ,", "A sacrifice to God on thy return .", "But first embrace thy son . May his soft spirit ,", "Not only for thyself , but him who slew thee . 550", "Thy own , but of the Spirit who was with thee .", "the early , beautiful ,", "Two altars , which our brother Abel made", "Lead ! thou shalt be my guide , and may our God", "Oh , part not with him thus , my father : do not", "How beautifully parted ! No ; you shall not", "Hardly hours .", "Hear'st thou that voice ? The Voice within . Cain ! Cain !", "Hush ! tread softly , Cain !", "Cain ! clear thee from this horrible accusal , 400", "I alone must not weep . My office is", "And my betrothed .", "Shall slay him .", "Given with a gentle and a contrite spirit .", "And Zillah \u2014 our sweet sister , and our Eve ,", "Let us depart , nor walk the wilderness", "And from the face of God shall he be hid .", "Why , all have left thee . 460", "Fitting to shadow slumber .", "Sound impious in mine ears .", "A murderer in my boy , and of his father .", "Wherefore said he so ? Jehovah said not that .", "Why wilt thou always mourn for Paradise ?", "Alas ! thou sinnest now , my Cain : thy words", "During thine absence , whereupon to offer", "\u2018 Twill come to pass , that whoso findeth him", "Even for our parents \u2019 error .", "No ,", "That this poor aching breast now nourishes", "If I thought that he would not , I would \u2014\u2014", "It soundeth like an angel 's tone .", "\u2018 Tis scarcely", "The want of this so much regretted Eden . 40", "And his lips , too ,", "Cain ! that proud Spirit , who withdrew thee hence ,", "To peace and holiness !", "A reptile 's subtlety .", "Can we not make another ?", "Be thine ! Now let us carry forth our children .", "These are a goodly offering to the Lord ,", "I must not speak of this \u2014 it is between thee", "Here , or", "Go to our children \u2014 I will follow thee .", "Henceforth to dry up tears , and not to shed them ;", "Which grief wrings from our parent .", "Blossom and bud \u2014 and bloom of flowers and fruits \u2014", "Hath given thee back to us .", "Speak , Cain ! and say it was not thou !"], "true_target": ["And can forgive him all , that he so soon", "I will not leave thee lonely with the dead \u2014", "And you his sister . Ere the sun declines", "Though thy God left thee .", "So shall our children be . I will bear Enoch ,", "Curse him not , mother , for he is thy son \u2014", "Kiss him , at least not now : he will awake soon \u2014", "But yet of all who mourn , none mourn like me ,", "Our brother comes .", "Curse him not , mother , for he is my brother ,", "\u2018 Tis closed .", "Of leaves , beneath the cypress .", "And the great God .", "Under the cloud of night .\u2014 Nay , speak to me .", "To me \u2014 thine own .", "Surely , \u2018 tis well done .", "Oh , my God ! Touch not the child \u2014 my child ! thy child ! Oh , Cain !", "Then , why so awful in thy speech ?", "Have I not thee \u2014 our boy \u2014 our sire , and brother ,", "Let us depart together .", "And Abel 's pious ministry , recall thee", "Hold !", "Of a contented knowledge ; but I see 50", "Thou know'st \u2014", "Shut out the sun like night , and therefore seemed", "Hath saddened thine still deeper . I had hoped", "His hour of mid-day rest is nearly over ;", "And loving him ? Soft ! he awakes . Sweet Enoch !", "Where'er thou wilt : where'er thou art , I feel not", "Cain", "The promised wonders which thou hast beheld ,", "Because its branches", "Our little Enoch sleeps upon yon bed", "Farewell , my Cain ;", "Dear Cain ! Nay , do not whisper o'er our son", "How know we that some such atonement one day", "Has been thy lot ! Of all who mourn for thee ,", "Cain ! thou hast heard , we must go forth . I am ready ,", "Behold thou drivest him from the face of earth ,", "Our bower .", "Now , Cain ! I will divide thy burden with thee .", "A fugitive and vagabond on earth , 480", "Shrink from the deed which leaves thee brotherless .", "Thy guide hath done thee evil : still I thank him ,", "Oh , do not say so ! Where were then the joys ,", "A Voice from within exclaims . Cain ! Cain !", "Two hours since ye departed : two long hours", "May not redeem our race ?", "To me , but only hours upon the sun .", "The fruits of the earth ,", "This punishment is more than he can bear .", "I fear", "Such melancholy yearnings o'er the past :", "To whom we owe so much besides our birth ?", "Thou hast not spoken well , nor is that thought", "Would have composed thy mind into the calm", "Never ,", "Add thy deep curse to Eve 's upon his head !", "Would I could die for them , so they might live !", "He 's gone , let us go forth ;", "Peace be with him !", "I hear our little Enoch cry within"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 214}, {"query": ["I have chosen .", "In fondness brotherly and boyish , I", "My disinherited boy ! \u2018 Tis but a dream ;", "The earth swims round me :\u2014 what is this ?\u2014 \u2018 tis wet ;", "That which I am , I am ; I did not seek", "I had beheld the immemorial works", "Were there ? why , we are innocent : what have we", "At least , without me .", "For nothing shall I be an hypocrite ,", "For what should I be gentle ? for a war", "Oh ! thou dead", "My brother 's keeper ?", "Where ?", "In his acceptance of the victims .", "Ere yet my mother 's mind subsided from", "And yet I have approached that sun , and seen", "Uniting with our children Abel 's offspring ! 560", "But bless him ne'er the less .", "From me a being I ne'er loved to bear .", "What is that", "The Serpent , and my sire still mourned for Eden .", "For being dust , and grovelling in the dust ,", "Am I then", "Thou know'st not thou art naked ! Must the time", "That saying jars you , let us only say \u2014", "And might have tempered this stern blood of mine ,", "Eastward from Eden will we take our way ;", "Give thee back this .\u2014 Now for the wilderness !", "Expiate with what we all have undergone ,", "would not cleanse my soul .", "I had borrowed more by a few drops of ages", "; little or almighty .", "It back to dust again \u2014 for what ?", "Ah ! little knows he what he weeps for ! 520", "The mind then hath capacity of time , 60", "The Immortal \u2014 the Unbounded \u2014 the Omnipotent \u2014", "\u2018 Twere better that he ceased to live , than give", "Give way !\u2014 thy God loves blood !\u2014 then look to it :\u2014 310", "I have toiled , and tilled , and sweaten in the sun ,", "And how knew he , that I would be so ready", "Thy murderer .", "From its immensity : but now I feel", "vying with", "And shining lids are trembling o'er his long", "Which were not thine nor mine ? But now sleep on !", "And friend to man . Has the Most High been so \u2014 if so you term him ? 170", "Still yearn for their dead offspring ? or the pangs", "Shall slay me ? Where are these on the lone earth", "The native of another and worse world .", "Which might have graced his recent marriage couch ,", "Worlds which he once shone on , and never more", "Thine altar , with its blood of lambs and kids ,", "And seem well-pleased with pain ? For what should I", "And that our little rosy sleeper there", "I know not .", "Thou shalt not :\u2014 add not impious works to impious", "But the four rivers", "Be contrite ? for my father 's sin , already", "And longest ; but no matter \u2014 lead me to him .", "Yes \u2014 Death , too , is amongst the debts we owe her .", "To the Creator ?", "Jehovah loves thee well .", "And measures it by that which it beholds ,", "Give \u2014", "Why , so say I \u2014 provided that one victim 80", "To do that for thee , which thou shouldst have done", "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", "I think thou wilt forgive him , whom his God", "What", "To us ? they sinned , then let them die !", "One altar may suffice ; I have no offering .", "Say , what have we here ?", "Nor hand it down to those who spring from him .", "Revere him , then \u2014 but let it be alone \u2014", "Lashes ,", "\u2018 Twere better that he never had been born .", "And yet I feel it not .\u2014 His heart !\u2014 his heart !\u2014 340", "Leave me !", "To save thee from the Serpent 's curse !", "Thy burnt flesh-offering prospers better ; see", "Singing in thunder round me , as have made me", "Knew I what calm was in the soul , although", "Can ne'er forgive , nor his own soul .\u2014 Farewell !", "Yield what it yieldeth to my toil \u2014 its fruit :", "Nothing can calm me more . Calm ! say I ? Never", "Then leave me !", "Nor suffer any \u2014\u2014", "Abel", "After the fall too soon was I begotten ;", "Unfit for mortal converse : leave me , Abel .", "By God the life to him he loved ; and taken", "Done , that we must be victims for a deed", "For all the fruits thou hast rendered to me , I", "I know not ! but if thou seest what I am ,", "With my own death redeem him from the dust \u2014", "Come thou shalt be amerced for sins unknown ,", "The rose leaves strewn beneath them .", "Think'st thou my boy will bear to look on me ?", "Of endless beings ; skirred extinguished worlds ;", "With the burnt offerings , which he daily brings 100", "And stone .", "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 I none !\u2014 Who makes me brotherless ?", "Abel , hail !", "Eden and Immortality , resolves", "Laughs out , although in slumber . He must dream \u2014 30", "I said ,", "Shall light ; and worlds he never lit : methought", "Choose for me : they to me are so much turf", "Of what ? Of Paradise !\u2014 Aye ! dream of it ,", "His !", "And everlasting witness ! whose unsinking", "A gloomy tree , which looks as if it mourned", "; and sleep shuts down our lids .", "According to the curse :\u2014 must I do more ? 110", "The dead \u2014", "Cain ! what meanest thou ?", "O Abel !", "The germs of an eternal misery", "By sacrificing"], "true_target": ["I , who sprung from the same womb with thee , drained", "O'er what it shadows ; wherefore didst thou choose it", "Give way , ere he hath more !", "Brother !", "The first grave yet dug for mortality .", "My littleness again . Well said the Spirit ,", "The innumerable worlds that were and are \u2014 180", "Half open , from beneath them the clear blue", "Atone for this mysterious , nameless sin \u2014", "Of that I doubt ; 160", "Shall not stand in the sun , to shame creation !", "And I who have shed blood cannot shed tears !", "You have said well ; I will contain", "By the immortal pleasure of Jehovah ,", "But who hath dug that grave ? Oh , earth ! Oh , earth !", "Of the sad ignorant victims underneath", "This is a vision , else I am become", "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 ?", "Endure , and , harder still , bequeath ; but since", "Words ! let that altar stand \u2014 \u2018 tis hallowed now", "My brow , but nought to that which is within it !", "His cheeks are reddening into deeper smiles ,", "And I lie ghastly ! so shall be restored", "Of a world scarce less young : sleep on , and smile ! 20", "What shall I do ?", "With ruder greeting than a father 's kiss . 130", "The fumes of scorching flesh and smoking blood ,", "How Heaven licks up the flames , when thick with blood !", "dark as the cypress which waves o'er them ;", "As yet unpeopled ?", "Blood darkens earth and heaven ! what thou now art 530", "Let me see , doth it beat ? methinks \u2014\u2014 No !\u2014 no !", "And , gazing on eternity , methought", "Before our birth , or need have victims to 90", "Shows more of fear than worship \u2014 as a bribe", "To cast down yon vile flatterer of the clouds , 290", "No .", "But I have ne'er 200", "With making us the nothing which we are ;", "No , let me die !", "For me \u2014 compose thy limbs into their grave \u2014 540", "Death is like sleep", "Would they could ! but who are they", "Asserted it .", "Is there more ? let me meet it as I may .", "With a meek brow , whose base humility", "\u2018 Tis the most desolate , and suits my steps .", "But thee the better : I care not for that ;", "Wouldst thou with me ?", "If it be such a sin to seek for knowledge ?", "For never more thyself , thy sons , nor fathers ,", "And smile , thou little , young inheritor", "My heart till then . He smiles , and sleeps !\u2014 sleep on ,", "Shall walk in that forbidden place of joy !", "And he who lieth there was childless ! I", "The overpowering mysteries of space \u2014", "If it must be so \u2014\u2014 well , then ,", "Till I return to dust ? If I am nothing \u2014", "The smoky harbinger of thy dull prayers \u2014", "And wherefore lingerest thou ? Dost thou not fear", "Years had rolled o'er my absence .", "No ;", "I must not , dare not touch what I have made thee .", "I have seen the elements stilled . My Abel , leave me !", "I snatched him in his sleep , and dashed him \u2018 gainst", "Thy pious knife ? Give way ! this bloody record", "Why so ?", "His lips , too , are apart ; why then he breathes ;", "The harmless for the guilty ? what atonement", "Cypress ! \u2018 tis", "It burns 500", "And why not so ? let him return to day ,", "Or let me leave thee to thy pious purpose .", "Where are thine ?", "And to be more than expiated by 120", "From earth they came , to earth let them return ;", "A whirlwind of such overwhelming things ,", "If that a mortal blessing may avail thee ,", "Their seed will bear fresh fruit there ere the summer :", "Might satiate the Insatiable of life ,", "Abel", "I have no flocks ;", "Which sways them , I would not accost yon infant", "The same breast , clasped thee often to my own ,", "With all the elements ere they will yield", "Bless thee , boy !", "Suns , moons , and earths , upon their loud-voiced spheres", "His pleasure ! what was his high pleasure in", "And innocent ! thou hast not plucked the fruit \u2014", "I will \u2014 but wherefore ?", "And after flattering dust with glimpses of", "For life , nor did I make myself ; but could I 510", "Fear not ! for all the stars , and all the power", "Aye , the last \u2014", "Thy brother Abel .", "The rocks , than let him live to \u2014\u2014", "For our child 's canopy ?", "To the pain of the bleating mothers , which 300", "That sacrifice may be \u2014\u2014", "Might never taste of death nor human sorrow ,", "Thine are the hours and days when both are cheering", "His eyes are open ! then he is not dead !", "I am a tiller of the ground , and must", "Can never meet thee more , nor even dare", "So soon ?", "To myriads is within him ! better \u2018 twere", "Abel , I pray thee , sacrifice alone \u2014 190", "Thou art fitter for his worship than I am ;", "The ages prophesied , upon our seed .", "No : he contents him 70", "Little deems our young blooming sleeper , there ,", "The bread we eat ? For what must I be grateful ?", "Have dried the fountain of a gentle race ,", "I will build no more altars ,", "That I was nothing !", "To dwell with one who hath done this ?", "Pleasing or painful", "Life to so much of sorrow as he must", "Which fed on milk , to be destroyed in blood .", "Another sacrifice ! Give way , or else", "It means \u2014 I pray thee , leave me ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 214}, {"query": ["Cain", "Beyond our wonted range . Was he of those", "Now .", "I stand between thee and the shrine which hath", "And suits thee , as the elder . Now prepare", "The more my grief ; I pray thee", "What 's he who speaks of God ?", "In his great name ,", "Thy cheek is flushed with an unnatural hue \u2014", "Neither ; we must perform our task together . Spurn me not .", "Poor Zillah \u2014", "Thine offerings .", "Then may God forgive him ! Cain ,", "Why then commune with him ? he may be", "Oh , God ! receive thy servant ! and", "Both well , I hope .", "To try another sacrifice , \u2018 tis thine .", "A foe to the Most High .", "If , as my elder , I revered thee not ,", "Term him ! your words are strange to-day , my brother .", "A shepherd 's humble offering .", "To do so now : thy soul seems labouring in", "He did \u2014 Cain , give me \u2014 give me thy hand ; and tell 320", "What mean'st thou ?", "Think not upon my offering 's acceptance ,", "\u2018 Tis the highest ,", "Nor what thou hast seen ?", "And in the worship of our God , called not", "What may this mean ?", "But make another of thine own \u2014 before", "Our sister tells me that thou hast been wandering ,"], "true_target": ["It is too late .", "In high communion with a Spirit , far", "My brother , as the elder , offer first 220", "My hand ! \u2018 tis all red , and with \u2014\u2014", "We have seen and spoken with , like to our father ?", "Choose thou !", "The peace of God be on thee !", "Some strong delusion ; it will calm thee .", "Where hast thou been ?", "My sister Adah , leave us for awhile \u2014", "Thine eyes are flashing with unnatural light \u2014", "Abel", "Forgive his slayer , for he knew not what", "Thy fruits are scattered on the earth .", "We mean to sacrifice", "What ?", "On thee to join me , and precede me in", "The firstlings of the flock , and fat thereof \u2014", "Had his acceptance .", "Not till we have prayed and sacrificed together .", "Choose one of those two altars . 210", "Brother , I should ill", "Deserve the name of our great father 's son ,", "Thy prayer and thanksgiving with sacrifice .", "Behold them here \u2014", "Thy words are fraught with an unnatural sound \u2014", "With violence : if that thou wilt adopt it ,", "Brother , give back ! thou shalt not touch my altar", "Our priesthood \u2014 \u2018 tis thy place .", "Comfort poor Zillah :\u2014 she has but one brother", "Welcome , Cain ! My brother ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 214}, {"query": ["\u2018 Tis Cain ; and watching by my husband . What", "As if he would not have asserted his", "Thou wert the stronger , and shouldst have stepped in", "Empoisoned all my life , before I knew", "Why camest thou not in time to save him from", "Cain", "And those lips once so warm \u2014 my heart ! my heart !", "Dost thou there , brother ? Doth he sleep ? Oh , Heaven ! 360", "The name of Death so deeply , that the thought", "Adah !\u2014 come hither ! Death is in the world ! 370", "Abel ! what 's this ?\u2014 who hath done this ? He moves not ;", "What means this paleness , and yon stream ?\u2014 No , no !", "Inexorable claim without my aid ."], "true_target": ["And who hath brought him there ?\u2014 I \u2014 who abhor", "With stony lifelessness ! Ah ! cruel Cain !", "I am awake at last \u2014 a dreary dream", "His aspect \u2014 I have led him here , and given", "My brother to his cold and still embrace ,", "He breathes not : and his hands drop down from mine", "This violence ? Whatever hath assailed him ,", "Yet one kiss on yon pale clay ,", "It is not blood ; for who would shed his blood ?", "I must watch my husband 's corse450", "I heard a heavy sound ; what can it be ?", "Had maddened me ;\u2014 but he shall ne'er awake !", "Between him and aggression ! Father !\u2014 Eve !\u2014"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 214}, {"query": ["Earth 's fruits be ashes in his mouth \u2014 the leaves", "Henceforth alone \u2014 we never must meet more .", "Speak , and assure us , wretched as we are ,", "By day and night \u2014 snakes spring up in his path \u2014", "Depart ! and leave the dead to me \u2014 I am", "Who ,", "Deny thee shelter ! earth a home ! the dust", "We will return again , when he is gone", "Who walks not with Jehovah ? or some wild", "Thy natural grief , lead to impiety !", "To strew it with the dead . May all the curses", "Drive him forth o'er the wilderness , like us", "May the grass wither from thy feet ! the woods", "His waking a continual dread of Death !", "Or what hath done this deed ?\u2014 speak , Cain , since thou", "!", "Eve", "His will ! the will of yon Incarnate Spirit", "On which he lays his head to sleep be strewed", "To him who first acquainted him with man !", "Speak , my son !", "That we are not more miserable still .", "Wert present ; was it some more hostile angel ,", "Eve ! let not this ,", "May every element shun or change to him !"], "true_target": ["I curse him not : his spirit be his curse . Come , Zillah !", "Hence , fratricide ! henceforth that word is Cain ,", "A grave ! the sun his light ! and heaven her God", "And Death itself wax something worse than Death", "From Eden , till his children do by him", "Who hath provided for us this dread office .", "And wings of fiery Cherubim pursue him", "A voice of woe from Zillah brings me here \u2014 380", "Of Death , whom I have brought upon the earth 420", "With scorpions ! May his dreams be of his victim ! 430", "As he did by his brother ! May the swords", "And now that it begins , let it be borne", "Are faithful servants to his holy will .", "Of life be on him ! and his agonies", "A heavy doom was long forespoken to us ;", "Through all the coming myriads of mankind ,", "Brute of the forest ?", "Cain ! get thee forth : we dwell no more together .", "Stoops down to stain them with his raging lip !", "Woman , behold the Serpent 's work , and thine !", "In such sort as may show our God , that we", "May he live in the pangs which others die with !", "May the clear rivers turn to blood as he", "What do I see ?\u2014 \u2018 Tis true !\u2014 My son !\u2014 my son !", "Come , Zillah !", "Who shall abhor thee , though thou wert their sire ! 440"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 214}, {"query": ["A mother 's sin , to take him from me !", "Oh ! speak not of it now : the Serpent 's fangs", "I curse him from my sight for evermore !", "Incarnadine !", "Why dost thou not so now ?", "Jehovah ! this is punishment beyond", "Why didst thou not take me , who first incurred thee ?", "I see it now \u2014 he hangs his guilty head ,", "Ah ! a livid light 390", "Are in my heart ! My best beloved , Abel !"], "true_target": ["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", "Zillah no husband \u2014 me no son ! for thus", "All bonds I break between us , as he broke 410", "Breaks through , as from a thunder-cloud ! yon brand", "It was !", "That of his nature , in yon \u2014\u2014 Oh Death ! Death !", "And black with smoke , and red with \u2014\u2014", "And covers his ferocious eye with hands", "Massy and bloody ! snatched from off the altar ,", "He hath left thee no brother \u2014"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 214}, {"query": ["Exemption from such deeds as thou hast done .", "Did not the milk of Eve give nutriment 490", "On Cain , so that he may go forth in safety .", "The fratricide might well engender parricides .\u2014", "Thou hast slain thy brother ,", "And mine commandeth me to set his seal", "To mark upon thy brow", "Go forth ! fulfil thy days ! and be thy deeds", "It must not be .", "Thou slew'st was gentle as the flocks he tended .", "Unlike the last !", "Stern hast thou been and stubborn from the womb ,", "And who shall warrant thee against thy son ?", "As the ground thou must henceforth till ; but he"], "true_target": ["Be from this day , and vagabond on earth !", "Yield thee her strength ; a fugitive shalt thou", "Be taken on his head . Come hither !", "Henceforth , when thou shalt till the ground , it shall not", "Who slayeth Cain , a sevenfold vengeance shall", "To drink thy brother 's blood from thy rash hand .", "Even from the ground , unto the Lord !\u2014 Now art thou", "Cain ! what hast thou done ?", "The voice of thy slain brother 's blood cries out , 470", "But it shall not be so \u2014 the Lord thy God", "Where is thy brother Abel ?", "Who shall heal murder ? what is done , is done ;", "To him thou now seest so besmeared with blood ?", "Then he would but be what his father is .", "Cursed from the earth , which opened late her mouth"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 214}, {"query": ["How my heart beats !", "My sister , though", "Subsides soon after he again hath dashed", "Sister ! sister ! I view them winging", "Of the poor child of clay", "Which the Leviathan hath lashed", "And he the perishable .", "This cannot be of good ; and though I know not", "Returned to night , as rippling foam ,", "When sporting on the face of the calm deep ,", "They come ! he comes !\u2014 Azaziel !", "As he adores the Highest , death becomes", "What was I going to say ? my heart grows impious .", "And when I think that his immortal wings", "But if our father see the sight !", "Now shines ! and now , behold ! it hath", "The remnant of their flashing path ,", "Through the deep clouds o'er rocky Ararat :\u2014", "I love our God less since his angel loved me :", "From his unfathomable home ,", "Which are not ominous of right .", "I love Azaziel more than \u2014\u2014 oh , too much !"], "true_target": ["That I do wrong , I feel a thousand fears", "Mine would be such for him , were I the Seraph ,", "On Ararat 's late secret crest", "Down , down , to where the Ocean 's fountains sleep .", "which so adored him ,", "Lo ! they have kindled all the west ,", "But the stars are hidden . I tremble .", "I should have loved", "Better thus than that he should weep for me .", "His grief will be of ages , or at least", "Will one day hover o'er the sepulchre", "OUR father sleeps : it is the hour when they", "But , Aholibamah ,", "Less terrible ; but yet I pity him :", "And if it should be so , and she loved him ,", "A mild and many-coloured bow , 150", "Who love us are accustomed to descend", "My Azaziel !", "Like a returning sunset ;\u2014 lo !", "I am glad he is not . I cannot outlive him . 20", "Their bright way through the parted night .", "Azaziel not less were he mortal ; yet"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 214}, {"query": ["With love more warm than mine", "Or joining with the inferior cherubim , 90", "But if it be in joy", "And shall I shrink from thine eternity ?", "Whose tenants dying , while their world is falling ,", "Though sometimes with our visions blent .", "He would but deem it was the moon 140", "The clouds from off their pinions flinging ,", "Descend and share my lot !", "Change us he may , but not o'erwhelm ; we are 120", "More joy than thou canst give and take , remain !", "Yet think that thou art all to her .", "My spirit , while they hover there ,", "Unto some son of clay , and toil and spin !", "My love . There is a ray", "Forgive , my Seraph ! that such thoughts appear , 70", "So do I , but not with fear", "To Samiasa 's breast !", "Rising unto some sorcerer 's tune", "On Eden 's streams , 100", "The face of him who made thee great ,", "Some wandering star , which shoots through the abyss ,", "Thine immortality can not repay", "No ! though the serpent 's sting should pierce me thorough ,", "From thy sphere !", "Oh hear !", "If that thy spirit down to mine may move thee ,", "As he hath made me of the least", "Thou canst not tell ,\u2014 and never be", "For sorrow is our element ;", "A mortal 's love", "But thee and me he never can destroy ;", "Appear ! Appear !", "Aho .", "Which tells me we are not abandoned quite .\u2014", "An hour too soon .", "Unborn , undying beauty in thine eyes ;", "Her whose heart Death could not keep from o'er-flowing", "Samiasa !", "Until I know what I must die in knowing ,", "My own Azaziel ! be but here ,", "Seraph !", "Though through space infinite and hoary", "Albeit thou watchest with \u201c the seven , \u201d", "Delight", "In me , which , though forbidden yet to shine ,", "I call thee , I await thee , and I love thee .", "Share the dim destiny of clay in this ;", "Thou deignest to partake their hymn \u2014", "With him if he will war with us ; with thee", "Of as eternal essence , and must war", "Dispute with him", "In the eternal depths of heaven", "Is that a cause for thee and me to part ?", "As \u2014\u2014 but descend , and prove", "It may be hidden long : death and decay", "A war unworthy : to an Adamite", "Eternity is in thine years , 50", "Around me still ! and I will smile ,", "I can share all things , even immortal sorrow ;", "That secret rests with the Almighty giver ,", "Our invocation .", "But to our invocation !\u2014 \u2018 Tis the hour .", "Defies it : though this life must pass away ,"], "true_target": ["Many may worship thee , that will I not :", "I know not , nor would know ;", "Yet , Seraph dear ! 60", "Marry , and bring forth dust !", "Let us proceed upon", "With me thou canst not sympathise ,", "Though I be formed of clay ,", "There 's Japhet loves thee well , hath loved thee long :", "They have touched earth ! Samiasa !", "And curse thee not ; but hold", "Samiasa !", "Thou walk'st thy many worlds , thou see'st", "All Seraph as he is , I 'd spurn him from me .", "Thee in as warm a fold 130", "To meet them ! Oh ! for wings to bear", "If I thought thus of Samiasa 's love ,", "As though they bore to-morrow 's light .", "Like the eternal thunders of the deep ,", "Whatever star contain thy glory ;", "More bright than those of day", "Of those cast out from Eden 's gate :", "Who folds in clouds the fonts of bliss and woe .", "For thee , immortal essence as thou art !", "And thou of beams", "Anah .", "Our mother Eve bequeathed us \u2014 but my heart", "Who made all empires , empire ; or recalling", "And such , I feel , are waging in my heart", "Of earth , and love her as he once loved Anah . 30", "Except in love , and there thou must", "For thou hast loved me , and I would not die", "Or warring with the spirits who may dare", "Acknowledge that more loving dust", "Into my ears this truth \u2014 \u201c Thou liv'st for ever ! \u201d", "Celestial natures ?", "Rather say ,", "The hour is near", "Thou rulest in the upper air \u2014", "40", "All pains , all tears , all fears , and peal ,", "Ne'er wept beneath the skies .", "For thou hast ventured to share life with me ,", "For an immortal . If the skies contain", "The bitterness of tears .", "Then wed thee", "And where is the impiety of loving 10", "And leave the stars to their own light ! 80", "That he will single forth some other daughter", "And though she nothing is to thee ,", "I feel was lighted at thy God 's and thine .", "Seraph !", "An Eden kept afar from sight ,", "Oh ! think of her who holds thee dear !", "Great is their love who love in sin and fear ;", "Wheresoe'er", "Thou art immortal \u2014 so am I : I feel \u2014 110", "Before thy bright wings worlds be driven ,", "Such pangs decreed to aught save me ,\u2014", "Yet hear !", "I feel my immortality o'ersweep", "And thou thyself wert like the serpent , coil", "Of aught save their delay .", "Haste", "That thou forget'st in thine eternity"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 214}, {"query": ["Less terrible ; but yet I pity him :", "When sporting on the face of the calm deep ,", "Azaziel not less were he mortal ; yet", "Now shines ! and now , behold ! it hath", "And when I think that his immortal wings", "I love Azaziel more than \u2014\u2014 oh , too much !", "Lo ! they have kindled all the west ,", "And if it should be so , and she loved him ,", "But , Aholibamah ,", "How my heart beats !", "But the stars are hidden . I tremble .", "Of the poor child of clay", "Who love us are accustomed to descend", "Will one day hover o'er the sepulchre", "I love our God less since his angel loved me :", "As he adores the Highest , death becomes", "Which are not ominous of right .", "They come ! he comes !\u2014 Azaziel !", "Sister ! sister ! I view them winging", "I am glad he is not . I cannot outlive him . 20", "On Ararat 's late secret crest", "And he the perishable ."], "true_target": ["Better thus than that he should weep for me .", "His grief will be of ages , or at least", "Through the deep clouds o'er rocky Ararat :\u2014", "What was I going to say ? my heart grows impious .", "This cannot be of good ; and though I know not", "A mild and many-coloured bow , 150", "Down , down , to where the Ocean 's fountains sleep .", "OUR father sleeps : it is the hour when they", "Returned to night , as rippling foam ,", "Mine would be such for him , were I the Seraph ,", "The remnant of their flashing path ,", "That I do wrong , I feel a thousand fears", "Their bright way through the parted night .", "Like a returning sunset ;\u2014 lo !", "My sister , though", "I should have loved", "Which the Leviathan hath lashed", "which so adored him ,", "But if our father see the sight !", "My Azaziel !", "Subsides soon after he again hath dashed", "From his unfathomable home ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 215}, {"query": ["Albeit thou watchest with \u201c the seven , \u201d", "I call thee , I await thee , and I love thee .", "Thine immortality can not repay", "Her whose heart Death could not keep from o'er-flowing", "Aho .", "Thou rulest in the upper air \u2014", "Then wed thee", "Marry , and bring forth dust !", "If I thought thus of Samiasa 's love ,", "More joy than thou canst give and take , remain !", "But thee and me he never can destroy ;", "As though they bore to-morrow 's light .", "Our invocation .", "Let us proceed upon", "Some wandering star , which shoots through the abyss ,", "I feel was lighted at thy God 's and thine .", "As \u2014\u2014 but descend , and prove", "Rather say ,", "And where is the impiety of loving 10", "Seraph !", "Thou deignest to partake their hymn \u2014", "Seraph !", "Unborn , undying beauty in thine eyes ;", "My spirit , while they hover there ,", "Or joining with the inferior cherubim , 90", "Into my ears this truth \u2014 \u201c Thou liv'st for ever ! \u201d", "If that thy spirit down to mine may move thee ,", "But if it be in joy", "Change us he may , but not o'erwhelm ; we are 120", "So do I , but not with fear", "Of as eternal essence , and must war", "And shall I shrink from thine eternity ?", "Which tells me we are not abandoned quite .\u2014", "Acknowledge that more loving dust", "That secret rests with the Almighty giver ,", "Oh ! think of her who holds thee dear !", "40", "Until I know what I must die in knowing ,", "Yet think that thou art all to her .", "Samiasa !", "Forgive , my Seraph ! that such thoughts appear , 70", "And thou thyself wert like the serpent , coil", "And leave the stars to their own light ! 80", "A war unworthy : to an Adamite", "With love more warm than mine", "Yet , Seraph dear ! 60", "And though she nothing is to thee ,", "Of earth , and love her as he once loved Anah . 30", "Haste", "They have touched earth ! Samiasa !", "Around me still ! and I will smile ,", "In the eternal depths of heaven", "Dispute with him", "All Seraph as he is , I 'd spurn him from me .", "Though sometimes with our visions blent .", "Whatever star contain thy glory ;", "Share the dim destiny of clay in this ;", "There 's Japhet loves thee well , hath loved thee long :", "With me thou canst not sympathise ,", "No ! though the serpent 's sting should pierce me thorough ,", "An hour too soon .", "For an immortal . If the skies contain", "Who made all empires , empire ; or recalling", "Many may worship thee , that will I not :"], "true_target": ["He would but deem it was the moon 140", "But to our invocation !\u2014 \u2018 Tis the hour .", "Such pangs decreed to aught save me ,\u2014", "Unto some son of clay , and toil and spin !", "My love . There is a ray", "Is that a cause for thee and me to part ?", "Great is their love who love in sin and fear ;", "My own Azaziel ! be but here ,", "To Samiasa 's breast !", "Who folds in clouds the fonts of bliss and woe .", "From thy sphere !", "And such , I feel , are waging in my heart", "I feel my immortality o'ersweep", "Of those cast out from Eden 's gate :", "Though through space infinite and hoary", "For thee , immortal essence as thou art !", "Ne'er wept beneath the skies .", "And curse thee not ; but hold", "Appear ! Appear !", "Oh hear !", "As he hath made me of the least", "Rising unto some sorcerer 's tune", "That he will single forth some other daughter", "Thee in as warm a fold 130", "Delight", "Or warring with the spirits who may dare", "The bitterness of tears .", "Though I be formed of clay ,", "More bright than those of day", "Defies it : though this life must pass away ,", "Whose tenants dying , while their world is falling ,", "It may be hidden long : death and decay", "Wheresoe'er", "Descend and share my lot !", "For thou hast ventured to share life with me ,", "All pains , all tears , all fears , and peal ,", "The clouds from off their pinions flinging ,", "Thou canst not tell ,\u2014 and never be", "Anah .", "An Eden kept afar from sight ,", "Thou walk'st thy many worlds , thou see'st", "For sorrow is our element ;", "With him if he will war with us ; with thee", "And thou of beams", "The hour is near", "To meet them ! Oh ! for wings to bear", "I know not , nor would know ;", "Yet hear !", "Of aught save their delay .", "The face of him who made thee great ,", "I can share all things , even immortal sorrow ;", "That thou forget'st in thine eternity", "Celestial natures ?", "Before thy bright wings worlds be driven ,", "Like the eternal thunders of the deep ,", "Except in love , and there thou must", "In me , which , though forbidden yet to shine ,", "Thou art immortal \u2014 so am I : I feel \u2014 110", "On Eden 's streams , 100", "Our mother Eve bequeathed us \u2014 but my heart", "A mortal 's love", "For thou hast loved me , and I would not die", "Samiasa !", "Eternity is in thine years , 50"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 215}, {"query": ["Despond not : wherefore wilt thou wander thus", "Then peace be with thee !", "I must go with thee .", "And would not feel as thou dost for more shekels 30", "And proud Aholibamah spurns me also . 10", "Wherefore so ? What wouldst thou there ?", "It may be , time too will avenge it .", "As not being of them : turn thy steps aside ,", "I take thy taunt as part of thy distemper ,", "To brighter destinies , if so she deems them .", "As if such useless and discoloured trash ,", "Me ! why ?", "For milk , and wool , and flesh , and fruits , and all", "Nor joy nor sorrow .", "But evil things will be thy foe the more", "That I know not ; but her air , 20", "I must back to my rest .", "If not her words , tells me she loves another .", "What can it profit thee ?", "Our flocks and wilderness afford .\u2014 Go , Japhet ,", "Than all our father 's herds would bring , if weighed"], "true_target": ["And lift thy tearful eye unto the stars ?", "I have some cause to think", "And so did I .", "To add thy silence to the silent night ,", "But \u2018 tis dangerous ;", "Whate'er she loveth , so she loves thee not ,", "The refuse of the earth , could be received", "Mine hath enabled me to bear her scorn :", "Let her keep her pride ,", "They cannot aid thee .", "Had love been met with love : as \u2018 tis , I leave her", "Thou wilt not to our tents then ? 40", "But she loves thee not .", "Sigh to the stars , as wolves howl to the moon \u2014", "Strange sounds and sights have peopled it with terrors .", "Against the metal of the sons of Cain \u2014", "No ; her sister .", "She loves another .", "Yes .", "The yellow dust they try to barter with us ,", "Or let mine be with thine .", "I loved her well ; I would have loved her better ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 216}, {"query": ["What destinies ?", "What other ?", "Soothe further my sad spirit", "To let the inner spirits of the earth", "Anah !", "Becometh more so as it looks on beauty ,", "Deprived of that which makes my misery .", "And so would I", "No , Irad ; I will to the cavern ,", "True , nothing ; but", "Mouth they say opens from the internal world ,", "I feel no evil thought , and fear no evil . 50", "Aye , but not Anah : she but loves her God .", "For being happy ,", "Perhaps she looks upon them as I look .", "I love .", "Or think'st thou lov'st not , art thou happier ?", "No , neither , Irad ;"], "true_target": ["And now thou lov'st not ,", "If I could rest .", "But they soothe me \u2014 now", "Find joy in such a thought ?", "whose", "And I am hopeless .", "Methinks a being that is beautiful", "I pity thee .", "I must proceed alone .", "With gloom as sad : it is a hopeless spot ,", "The eternal beauty of undying things .", "Alas !", "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 .", "I feel for thee too .", "Canst thou", "Forth when they walk its surface .", "Irad , no ; believe me", "Oh , Anah !"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 216}, {"query": ["Of men ! that one of my blood , knowing well", "Do not fear for me :", "Upon an earth all evil ; for things worse", "Although he could not wed her if she loved him ,", "The destiny and evil of these days ,", "In such forbidden yearnings ! Lead the way ; 100", "And that the hour approacheth , should indulge", "All evil things are powerless on the man"], "true_target": ["What doth he there ? It is an evil spot", "Selected by Jehovah .\u2014 Let us on .", "Than even wicked men resort there : he", "Where is thy brother Japhet ?", "And that she doth not . Oh , the unhappy hearts", "No ; to the cavern of the Caucasus .", "He must be sought for !", "Still loves this daughter of a fated race ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 216}, {"query": ["According to his wont , to meet with Irad ,", "I will seek Japhet .", "Towards Anah 's tents , round which he hovers nightly ,", "Or else he walks the wild up to the cavern", "Like a dove round and round its pillaged nest ;"], "true_target": ["He said ; but , as I fear , to bend his steps", "Go not forward , father :", "He went forth ,", "To the tents of the father of the sisters ?", "Which opens to the heart of Ararat . 90"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 216}, {"query": ["Survived in thee , so much unlike thou art", "That by exchanging my own life for hers ,", "Save him , thou seed of Seth !", "It is even so .", "Shall they drop off . Behold their last to-morrow !", "Not I .", "To see him to my bosom clinging so .", "Why should they wake to meet it ? What are here ,", "The clouds return into the hues of night ,", "My boy ,", "Can rage and justice join in the same path ?", "For the expected ebb which cometh not :", "Yet quivers every leaf , and drops each blossom :", "Abolish Hell !", "Where man no more can fall as once he fell ,", "He whose one word produced them .", "How the earth sleeps ! and all that in it is 70", "Let me die with this , and them !", "And the Omnipotent who makes and crushes !", "And roll the waters o'er his placid breath ?", "Albeit thou art not ; \u2018 tis a word I cannot", "Children of dust be quenched ; and of each hue", "Thou art , or must be soon , hast thou the power", "Angels shall tire their wings , but find no spot :", "On which the sun shall rise and warm no life !", "Yet awful Thing of Shadows , speak to me !", "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", "The sun ! the sun", "But all good angels have forsaken earth ,", "Ha ! ha ! ha !", "Shall nought remain", "Anah unto these eyes .", "Didst seem to glory in him , nor to shrink", "Too much of the forefather whom thou vauntest", "Unchanged , or of the level plain ;", "From what he had done .", "The verge where brighter morns were wont to break .", "To save this beautiful \u2014 these beautiful 350", "And no breath ,", "May'st know me better ; and thy sister know", "The Highest : but if he can save thee , soon", "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", "All merged within the universal fountain ,", "Angel ! what", "Not even a rock from out the liquid grave", "Oh , father ! say it not .", "They are none .", "To move Jehovah 's wrath or scorn ?", "To life before it . Ah ! smilest thou still in scorn ?", "While safe amidst the elemental strife , 830", "Thou sitt'st within thy guarded ark ?", "Chorus of Mortals .", "Thou speakest well : his God hath judged him , and", "What ! wilt thou leave us all \u2014 all \u2014 all behind ?", "Or curs\u00e9d be \u2014 with him who made", "Me still the same which I have ever been .", "Of good and evil ; and redeem", "And to the expiated Earth", "And of the variegated mountain 100", "The heaven which will convert her clouds to seas ,", "Of the Most High , what art thou ?", "What is there in this milk of mine , that Death 840", "By all that earth holds holiest , speak ! SpiritHa ! ha !", "Man , earth , and fire , shall die ,", "The ark which shall receive a remnant of", "Deserve her . Farewell , Anah ! I have said", "A Mother", "Hark , hark ! Deep sounds , and deeper still ,", "Should stir all Heaven and Earth up to destroy", "His power was greater of redemption ! or", "Why walk'st thou with this Spirit , in those hours", "Partake his punishment ; or , at the least ,", "Be happy or be hallowed . We are sent", "I did not speak to thee , Aholibamah !", "These are not of the sinful , since they have", "Cedar and pine shall lift their tops in vain :", "But thou , my Anah ! let me call thee mine , 400", "Of earth nought left but the unbroken blue ;", "Above its first and best inhabitants .", "For earth and all her children .", "His glaring disk around ,", "Nor years , nor heart-break , nor Time 's sapping motion ,", "Have shared man 's sin , and , it may be , now must", "The abhorr\u00e9d race", "And is it so ,", "He riseth , but his better light is gone ;", "Destroyed !", "The rest of the stem Cainites , save in beauty ,", "How the fiend mocks the tortures of a world ,", "I grieve not for myself , nor fear .", "Upon the foam", "Has come down in that haughty blood which springs", "After long looking o'er the ocean wide", "Earth groans as if beneath a heavy load .", "Turn to thy Seraphs : if they attest it not ,", "What hath he done \u2014", "The last and loveliest of Cain 's race , could share", "Her Eden in an endless paradise ,", "Hast left me ! That is nothing , if thou hast not", "Anah ! and thou ?\u2014\u2014", "Of life , and the abhorred", "Shall deign to expound this dream", "Who could alone have made mine happy , she ,", "My sire and race but glory in their God ,"], "true_target": ["Why dost thou laugh that horrid laugh ?", "From him who shed the first , and that a brother 's !", "That word so often ! but now say it , ne'er", "When the Redeemer cometh ; first in pain ,", "Thee and thy race , for which we are betrayed !", "Some clouds sweep on as vultures for their prey ,", "Between a mortal and an immortal , cannot 370", "When no good Spirit longer lights below ?", "He who made earth in love had soon to grieve", "May the Heaven , which soon no more", "The hour may come when thou", "Unto himself all times , all things ;", "It is for him , then ! for the Seraph thou", "Of knowledge without power ,", "Now near its last , can aught restore", "Of the forsaken world ; and never more ,", "Of a well-doing sire , who hath been found", "And , gathered under his almighty wings ,", "Shall lift its point to save , 90", "Thou who dost rather make me dream that Abel", "Hath wound itself around the dying air .", "There 's not a breath of wind upon the hill ,", "Offspring of Cain , thy father did so !", "!", "Spirit .", "The coming desolation of an orb ,", "Wrong ! the greatest of all wrongs ! but , thou", "All shall be void ,", "Alas ! what else is Love but Sorrow ? Even", "No azure more shall robe the firmament ,", "Say'st well , though she be dust \u2014 I did not , could not ,", "The seed of Seth !", "Upon the earth to toil and die ; and they", "Dost thou on earth when thou should'st be on high ?", "But listened to the voice", "The approaching chaos . Anah ! Anah ! my", "Left thy God too ! for unions like to these ,", "Which will be strangled by the ocean ! by", "Save where their brazen-coloured edges streak", "Another element shall be the lord", "Are made to minister on high unto", "Which look like death in life , and speak like things", "Whether they live , or die with all Earth 's life ,", "Earth shall be Ocean !", "Of Death !", "Sleep too upon the very eve of death !", "Had left a daughter , whose pure pious race", "And even the very demons shall do well !", "Spirit", "Not slow , not single , not by sword , nor sorrow ,", "I brought him forth in woe ,", "That ye too know not ? Angels ! angels ! ye", "They are gone ! They have disappeared amidst the roar", "The deep which will lay open all her fountains ! 60", "Children of Cain ?", "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", "They are numbered .", "The fellowship of angels .", "I had not named his deed , but that thyself", "The eternal Will", "Thou unknown , terrible , and indistinct ,", "Or show the place where strong Despair hath died ,", "Born ere this dying world ? They come like clouds !", "At which their wrathful vials shall be poured .", "Oh son of Noah ! mercy on thy kind !", "I am safe , not for my own deserts , but those 380", "Which could not keep in Eden their high place ,", "To save an earth-born being ; and behold ,", "The universe , which leaped", "My sorrow .", "Rejoice !", "Righteous enough to save his children . Would", "Which is condemned ; nay , even the evil fly", "In the name", "In the Sun 's place a pale and ghastly glare", "And then in glory .", "Father , it cannot be a sin to seek", "My unweaned son \u2014", "And a black circle , bound 740", "Are howling from the mountain 's bosom :", "Oh , let this child embark !", "And sea and sky", "And hath not the Most High expounded them ? Then ye are lost as they are lost .", "Why was he born ?", "The hour will come in which celestial aid", "Alas ! where shall they dwell ?", "For all of them are fairest in their favour \u2014\u2014", "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", "To be repeated . Angel ! or whate'er", "Who shall erect a home ?", "Will pardon , do so ! for thou art greatly tempted .", "Alone can do so .", "But thought it joy", "Part with , although I must from thee . My Anah !", "While others , fixed as rocks , await the word", "Proclaims Earth 's last of summer days hath shone !", "In vain , and long , and still to be , beloved ! 330", "Look vast and lifeless in the eternal eye .", "Are nigh the hour , 80", "Restore the beauty of her birth , 200", "Oh , father , stay ! Leave not my Anah to the swallowing tides !", "Nor spangled stars be glorious : Death hath risen : 810", "By the approaching deluge ! by the earth", "Save of the winds , be on the unbounded wave !"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 217}, {"query": ["Save to the Spirit 's all-pervading eye .", "Shall be amongst your race in different forms ;", "The seed of Seth ,", "The wave shall break upon your cliffs ; and shells ,", "New times , new climes , new arts , new men ; but still ,", "Of growing Ocean 's gloomy swell ;", "In a few hours the glorious giants \u2019 graves", "The winds , too , plume their piercing wings ;", "Till Earth wax hoary ;", "Where could he rest them , while the whole space brings", "The Ocean 's overflow !", "And loudly lift each superhuman voice \u2014", "The clouds have nearly filled their springs ;", "Brethren , rejoice !", "Must lie beneath the desolating waters ;", "Mortal , farewell !", "They fall !", "Yet undisplayed ,", "Nought to his eye beyond the deep , his grave ?", "Brethren , rejoice !", "Tremble , ye mountains , soon to shrink below", "Howl ! howl ! oh Earth !", "None shall remain ;", "War with yourselves , and Hell , and Heaven , in vain ,", "And heaven set wide her windows", "Save the slight remnant of Seth 's seed \u2014", "So perish all 270", "Along the wave , the cruel heaven upbraid ,", "Beings even in death so fair .", "But still rejoice !", "These petty foes of Heaven who shrink from Hell !", "Yet a few hours their coming is delayed ; 230", "The universal silence shall succeed !", "But the same moral storms", "; while mankind"], "true_target": ["All die !", "Shall oversweep the future , as the waves", "Unanswered , save by the encroaching swell ;\u2014", "Still , as they were from the beginning , blind .", "Their flashing banners , folded still on high ,", "The fountains of the great deep shall be broken ,", "But of the sons of Cain", "Hark ! hark ! already we can hear the voice 220", "The same old tears , old crimes , and oldest ill ,", "While man shall long in vain for his broad wings ,", "Exempt for future sorrow 's sake from death .", "And to the universal human cry", "\u2014 240", "We hear the sound they cannot hear ,", "Chorus of Spirits .", "Deposed where now the eagle 's offspring dwells", "Meantime still struggle in the mortal chain ,", "And all his goodly daughters", "And call his nestlings up with fruitless yell ,", "Why weep'st thou ?", "Ha ! ha ! ha !", "Fly , brethren , fly !", "With the blood reeking from each battle-plain ;", "Until the clouds look gory 210", "How shall he shriek o'er the remorseless sea !", "The little shells , of ocean 's least things be", "Thy death is nearer than thy recent birth ;", "The mustering thunders of the threatening sphere ;", "Or , floating upward , with their long hair laid", "We fell !", "All die , 250", "Which would not spare 260", "View , unacknowledged , each tremendous token \u2014", "The wings which could not save :\u2014", "It is decreed ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 217}, {"query": ["I would resign the greater remnant of", "Ah ! he speaks of Death .", "The God of Seth as Cain , I must obey ,", "And will endeavour patiently to obey .", "Forgive me \u2014\u2014", "Oh ! if there should be mercy \u2014 seek it , find it : 440", "Sister ! sister ! speak not", "Japhet !", "It would not be to live , alone exempt", "The things which sprang up with me , like the stars ,", "Who shall dry up my tears ?", "Yes , for thee :", "Japhet , I cannot answer thee ; yet , yet", "Oh ! my dear father 's tents , my place of birth ,"], "true_target": [",", "Of universal vengeance", "Of thine eternity should know a pang .", "I abhor Death , because that thou must die .", "This little life of mine , before one hour", "Of all my house . My sister ! oh , my sister !", "And mountains , land , and woods ! when ye are not , 780", "Thus .", "Soft lights which were not mine ? Aholibamah !", "Making my dim existence radiant with", "What were the world , or other worlds , or all", "But could I dare to pray in his dread hour 430", "The brightest future , without the sweet past \u2014", "Thy love , my father 's , all the life , and all", "Whate'er our God decrees ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 217}, {"query": ["To some untroubled star ,", "And why him and thee , 500", "More than what he , thy son , prefers to both ?", "But that the man seems full of sorrow , I", "Was not man made in high Jehovah 's image ?", "Wrong ?", "And if thou dost not weep for thy lost earth ,", "Our forfeit Heaven shall also be forgot .", "Do we but imitate and emulate", "Upright before his God , whate'er thy gifts ,", "Son of the patriarch , who hath ever been 340", "And thy words seem of sorrow , mixed with wrath ,"], "true_target": ["To hear an Adamite speak riddles to me .", "Aholibamah , own thy God !", "It may not be :", "Sorrow ! I ne'er thought till now", "We have chosen , and will endure .", "How have Azaziel , or myself , brought on thee", "Of death to us ! and those who are with us !", "Could smile .", "Lo ! A son of Adam !", "Where thou , and Anah , shalt partake our lot :", "His love unto created love ?", "But ours is with thee ; we will bear ye far", "Did God not love what he had made ? And what"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 217}, {"query": ["And aliens from your God ,", "As was the eagle 's nestling once within", "It cannot slay us : threaten dust with death ,", "Shorn as ye are of all celestial power ,", "Fearest thou , my Anah ?", "Of our great function is to guard thine earth ?", "Thy spirit-lord .", "Farewell !", "A brighter world than this , where thou shalt breathe 820", "The shelter of these wings thou shall be safe ,", "Again !", "What doth the earth-born here ,", "While all his race are slumbering ?", "Yet much is ours , whence we can not be driven .", "And talk of weapons unto that which bleeds ."], "true_target": ["Then from this hour , 720", "Come , Anah ! quit this chaos-founded prison ,", "What are thy swords in our immortal eyes ? 790", "What ! though it were to save ?", "To turn it into what it was : beneath", "Ethereal life , will we explore :", "Raph .", "These darkened clouds are not the only skies .", "He hath said it , and I say , Amen !", "With all its elements ! Heed not their din !", "Know'st thou not , or forget'st thou , that a part", "Fear not ; though we are shut from Heaven ,", "Patriarch ! Thou hast said it .", "To which the elements again repair ,", "From what ?", "Its mother 's .\u2014 Let the coming chaos chafe"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 217}, {"query": ["An immortality of agonies", "If they love as they are loved , they will not shrink", "Distinct from that which we and all our sires", "Back to thy tents , insulting son of Noah ! We know thee not .", "Have seen them wear on their eternal way ?", "In Paradise", "But", "Seth , the last offspring of old Adam 's dotage ?", "The tempest cometh ; heaven and earth unite 770", ",\u2014 would mingle with Seth 's children ?", "So be it !", "And most enduring :\u2014 Shall I blush for him 420", "Between our strength and the Eternal Might !", "I have ever hailed our Maker , Samiasa ,", "Of Seraphs ? and if we were not , must we", "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 .", "Unequal is the strife", "With Samiasa !", "\u2018 Tis said so .", "With Cain 's , the eldest born of Adam 's , blood", "What , hath this dreamer , with his father 's ark ,", "And bid those clouds and waters take a shape", "Their courage , strength , and length of days \u2014\u2014", "Who heard that word ?"], "true_target": ["Who shall do this ?", "As thine , and mine : a God of Love , not Sorrow . 460", "Cling to a son of Noah for our lives ?", "And dost thou think that we ,", "No , not to save all Earth , were Earth in peril !", "Shaken my sister ? Are we not the loved", "From the beginning , and shall do so ever .", "The eldest born of man , the strongest , bravest ,", "Be it so ! but while yet their hours endure ,", "He slew not Seth : and what hast thou to do", "Warm in our veins ,\u2014 strong Cain ! who was begotten 390", "The worst of dreams , the fantasies engendered", "More to be mortal , than I would to dare 360", "From whom we had our being ? Look upon", "He was our father 's father ;", "Shall shake these solid mountains , this firm earth , 450", "The bugbear he hath built to scare the world ,", "Our race hath always dwelt apart from thine", "With other deeds between his God and him ?", "By hopeless love and heated vigils . Who", "Our race ; behold their stature and their beauty ,", "For the annihilation of all life .", "Rather than thus \u2014\u2014 But the enthusiast dreams", "I glory in my brethren and our fathers ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 217}, {"query": ["Raphael !", "In vain would be implored", "Long must I war", "But to the Spirits who have not disdained", "Can we in Desolation 's peace have rest ?", "Dost thou here with these children of the wicked ?", "But which is best , a dead Eternity ,", "Who midst the cherubim", "?\u2014 world ,", "Such would it be", "While from below", "Survive in mortal or immortal thrall ,", "The snake but vanquished dust ; but she will draw", "Farewell ! Now rise , inexorable deep !", "Thou shall not suffer woe", "A part of sin ;", "Adore and burn ,", "I hear the voice which says that all must die ,", "The first who taught us knowledge hath been hurled", "Obey him , as we shall obey ;", "But ye who still are pure !", "And must we die ? 650", "In glorious homage with the elected \u201c Seven . \u201d", "Raph .", "And beautiful they are , but not the less", "Not ye in all your glory can redeem", "Who seek Earth 's daughters for their beauty ?", "What do ye here ?", "Whose drops shall be less thick than would their graves , 710", "Let them not meet this sea without a shore ,", "What he who made you glorious hath condemned . 490", "Shall pass away ,", "In the decree 550", "The world he loved , and made", "For the remission of one hour of woe ,", "For Heaven desired too late ?", "It seems ; and , of that few , the race of Cain", "And Heaven , and limited each , kind to kind ?", "Renew not Adam 's fall :", "I came to call ye back to your fit sphere ,", "the Archangel .", "Who can , redeems thee .", "Hence to where our all-hallowed ark uprears 750", "With your pure equals . Hence ! away ! away !", "But they", "Live as he wills it \u2014 die , when he ordains ,", "And the tremendous rain ,", "In their immeasurable forfeiture .", "And yet thou wert so happy too !", "Oh , my heart ! my heart !", "Fly , Seraphs ! to your own eternal shore ,", "From out the race of Cain ; the sons of Heaven ,", "When Earth must be alone ?", "And much which she inherits : but oh ! why", "I am 480", "And lo ! yon flash of light ,", "But man hath listened to his voice ,", "Mankind were then but twain ,", "And wherefore speak'st thou of destruction near ? 530", "His frequent mission with delighted pinions :", "To be created , and to acknowledge him", "And hover round the mountain , where before", "Dear , dearest in themselves , and scarce less dear \u2014", "And meet the wave , as we would meet the sword ,", "Raph .", "Too much already hast thou deigned", "Even had their days been left to toil their path", "Woe , woe , woe to such communion !", "The deep shall rise to meet Heaven 's overflow \u2014", "In clouds they overspread the lurid sky ,", "And ye to woman 's \u2014 beautiful she is , 590", "And even the Spirits \u2019 knowledge shall grow less", "True , Earth must die !", "Has deigned to commune with me , and reveal", "But ignorance must ever be", "And think if tempting man can compensate", "And that on high", "Our portion is to die ,", "With them !", "Rather than longer worship dared endure !", "Born to be ploughed with years , and sown with cares ,", "Think that my love still mounts with thee on high ,", "Earth ! which oft saw 520", "Nor see ye lose a portion of his grace , 640", "Must we not leave all life to such ? Begone !", "Who leave the throne of God , to take them wives", "I would not keep this life of mine in clay", "A second host from heaven , to break Heaven 's law .", "Whose memory in your immortality 600", "Aye , father ! but when they are gone ,", "And seek to save what all things now condemn ,", "Leave to the elements their evil prey !", "With just Jehovah 's wrath !", "When all good angels left the world , ye stayed ,", "Condemned .", "Surely celestial mercy lurks below 680", "The agony to which they must be heirs \u2014", "Yet dared to soar ,", "How darest thou look on that prophetic sky ,", "How long hath this been law ,", "The serpent 's voice less subtle than her kiss .", "Aho .", "Ah ! why ?", "Father ! and thou , archangel , thou !", "Thy prophecies were true !", "Few shall be spared ,", "And not enquired their Maker 's breath of me :", "Dost thou not err as we", "The angels , from his further snares exempt :", "Seraphs ! less mighty than that mightiest one ,\u2014", "Ye cannot die ;", "The blow , though not unlocked for , falls as new :", "Being gone , \u2018 twill be less difficult to die .", "Thou shouldst for such a thought , but shalt not : he", "The distant thunder 's harbinger , appears !", "Be general , not for two , though beautiful ;", "Yet let me not retain thee \u2014 fly !", "And if I look up with a tearless eye ,", "Sister ! since it is so , 620", "Return !", "Or stay ,", "Or living , is but known to the great Giver .", "Then die", "Thou canst not weep ; but yet", "With him , or with his God , is in your choice :", "Your place is Heaven .", "Almightiness . And lo ! his mildest and", "Had Samiasa and Azaziel been", "And thou ! if Earth be thus forbidden", "Were graves permitted to the seed of Cain .", "And then , no more !", "Has not God made a barrier between Earth", "Let them fly ! 610", "Sam .", "Our brother Satan fell ; his burning will", "To us until this moment hidden ,", "Leaving the archangels at his right hand dim .", "Japh .", "By mortal feelings for a mortal maid :", "An ocean is prepared ,"], "true_target": ["Now that the hour is near 510", "Who , who , our tears , our shrieks , shall then command ?", "Peace , child of passion , peace !", "But ye are pardoned thus far , and replaced", "Save his who made , what beauty and what power", "Save in our ark , or let me be no more !", "Adoring him in his least works displayed ;", "Is thus a Seraph 's duty to be shown ,", "Hark , hark ! the sea-birds cry ! 730", "Written in fire", "Let us still walk the stars", "The depth beneath us hides our own dear land ,", "Yet , yet , oh fly !", "May'st suffer more , not weeping : then forget", "Cannot be good .", "Her race , returned into her womb , must wither , 560", "Wouldst thou have God commit a sin for thee ?", "But they are numerous now as are the waves", "And we are all alone ,", "And wailing less for us than those who shall", "And better .", "It cometh ! hence , away !", "If that thou wouldst avoid their doom , forget", "Soon it shall be their only shore ,", "Spirits !", "Fly !", "If not unmoved , yet undismayed ,", "For love ; and oft have we obeyed", "Far less the sons of God ; but as our God", "Think how your essence differeth from theirs", "The wish is impious : but , oh ye !", "\u2018 Tis that an angel 's bride disdains to weep ,\u2014", "And yours to live for ever :", "Never a white wing , wetted by the wave ,", "Aza .", "Were your immortal mission safety , \u2018 twould", "Where winds nor howl , nor waters roar .", "That which I came to do", "And , as the latest birth of his great word ,", "Even when the waters waxed too fierce to brave .", "He hath not tempted you ; he cannot tempt", "In being here ?", "Why is thy brow severe ?", "Made him as suns to a dependent star ,", "Can bring no pang like this . Fly ! fly !", "Blasphemer ! darest thou murmur even now !", "While ye shall fill with shrieks the upper sky", "Still they are Evil 's prey , and Sorrow 's spoil .", "Yet undestroyed , be warned ! Eternity", "Samiasa !", "Watching this youngest star of his dominions ;", "Her , whom the surges of the all-strangling deep", "In the immortal ranks ? immortal still", "till now we trod", "Stung with strange passions , and debased", "A righteous death , unlike the seed of Cain 's .", "That pure severe serenity of brow :", "Silence , vain boy ! each word of thine 's a crime . Angel ! forgive this stripling 's fond despair .", "In overwhelming unison 760", "Enter RAPHAEL", "Eager to keep it worthy of our Lord .", "Anah .", "Noah .", "An hour beyond his will ;", "For perishable clay ,", "Long have I warred ,", "Of Seraphs from their everlasting seat", "Must lift their eyes to Adam 's God in vain .", "Weep for the myriads who can weep no more . 630", "As they wax proud within ; 540", "For Blindness is the first-born of Excess .", "Cease , or be sorrowful in silence ; cease", "Azaziel ?", "Oh God ! be thou a God , and spare", "That Earth by angels must be left untrod ?", "And mine , but not less subject to his own", "For all the mercy which Seth 's race", "For a mere mortal sorrow . Be a man !", "Whose seat is near the throne ,", "In all but suffering ! why partake", "Into some unknown world :", "Was ever like to Satan 's ! Would the hour", "But yet depart !", "Eternal , if repulsed from Heaven for me .", "But man , and was not made to judge mankind ,", "Buried in its immeasurable breast ,", "Find still .", "Through time to dust , unshortened by God 's wrath ,", "And must I lose thee too ,", "Together the eternal space ; together", "Shall long outlast the Sun which gave them day .", "Least to be tempted messenger appears !", "And lose Eternity by that delay !", "In which he fell could ever be forgiven !", "And , when the fatal waters are allayed ,", "Think how he was undone ! 570", "Its safe and wreckless sides !", "Japhet ! What", "Oh say not so !", "In their true place , with the angelic choir ,", "And reaped by Death , lord of the human soil ?", "And dearer , silent friends and brethren , all 700", "That they exist : they soon shall cease to be ,", "Cannot this Earth be made , or be destroyed ,", "Ask him who made thee greater than myself", "And as your pinions bear ye back to Heaven ,", "Raph .", "Jehovah 's late decree ,", "Son ! son !", "Dread'st thou not to partake their coming doom ?", "These are they , then , 470", "And thou , Azaziel ! No \u2014 670", "With him who deemed it hard", "Yet while \u2018 tis time !", "To alter his intent", "If not within thy heart , yet with thy tongue", "The first and fairest of the sons of God ,", "In the great name and at the word of God ,", "Sooner than our white-bearded patriarchs died ;", "Jehovah 's footsteps not disdain her sod !", "To weary Heaven 's ear with thy selfish plaint . 690", "And the eternal Lord", "Our doom is sorrow : not to us alone ,", "Floating upon the azure desert , and", "Do God no wrong !", "My pangs can be but brief ; but thine would be 660", "Japh .", "While thou shalt be the sire of a new world ,", "His judgments , I reply , that the descent", "Let us resign even what we have adored ,", "I loved him \u2014 beautiful he was : oh , Heaven ! 580", "From his once archangelic throne", "For me . Away ! nor weep !", "They would have seen", "Unto a perishable and perishing ,", "To love us , cometh anguish with disgrace .", "And bear what Adam 's race must bear , and can .", "Even on the very eve of perishing", "To one of Adam 's race !", "Without involving ever some vast void"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 217}, {"query": ["Shall henceforth be but weak : the flaming sword ,", "The heavens and earth are mingling \u2014 God ! oh God !", "Yet , yet , Jehovah ! yet withdraw thy rod", "How vain to war with what thy God commands :", "And the birds scream their agony through air . 800", "Rebel ! thy words are wicked , as thy deeds", "He knows not what he says , yet shall not drink", "But be , when passion passeth , good as thou ,", "Patriarch , be still a father ! smooth thy brow :", "What have we done ? Yet spare !", "Hear not man only but all nature plead !", "Thy former force was in thy faith .", "Farewell , thou earth ! ye wretched sons of clay ,", "Chorus of Mortals .", "Enter Mortals , flying for refuge ."], "true_target": ["Nor perish like Heaven 's children with man 's daughters .", "Hark ! even the forest beasts howl forth their prayer !", "The dragon crawls from out his den ,", "Thy son , despite his folly , shall not sink :", "Still flashes in the angelic hands .", "Say'st thou ?", "And learn at length", "Of wrath , and pity thine own world 's despair !", "With sobs the salt foam of the swelling waters ;", "May now return with me .", "Who are , or should be , passionless and pure ,", "The moment cometh to approve thy strength ;", "Which chased the first-born out of Paradise ,", "Seraphs ! these mortals speak in passion : Ye !", "To herd , in terror , innocent with men ;", "I cannot , must not , aid you . \u2018 Tis decreed !"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 217}, {"query": ["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 ."], "true_target": ["viii .", "vi ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 217}, {"query": ["My heart 's first choice ;\u2014 which chose thee , knowing neither", "It would be", "Or , if it were so , how 650", "How should we ?", "Millions of myriads feel it \u2014 cheerfully ;", "And art thou not now sheltered from them all ? Wer . Yes . And from these alone .", "Come you to stir yourself in his behalf ,", "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 !", "Have it a healthful current .", "Here , I thought : I left him", "I would", "That to our sorrow for these five days ; since", "To see thee happy \u2014\u2014", "Has done in our behalf ,\u2014 nothing .", "My Werner ! when you deigned to choose for bride", "We are not baffled .", "Ah , no !", "Alas !", "Baffled the long pursuit of Stralenheim . 100", "With steps like thine , when his heart is at rest .", "None hold us here for aught save what we seem .", "The foreign daughter of a wandering exile .", "Poor creatures ! are you sure ?", "Which hath no chamber for them save beneath", "And stepping with the bee from flower to flower ;", "Patience , dear Werner !", "To accompany the Intendant .", "Thou mightst have earned thy bread , as thousands earn it ;", "Our unexpected journey , and this change", "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 ?", "To see thee well is much \u2014", "It keeps us here .", "Beneath the biting wind and heavy rain ,", "I dare not think thee guilty of dishonour .", "Comfort ! We have struggled long ; and they who strive", "Your father did not think so , though \u2018 twas noble ;", "Cannot you humour the dull gossip till", "Hark !", "Or worse ; for it has been a canker in", "What can there be in common with the proud", "Should the nobly born", "What no state high or low can ever change ,", "How many in this hour of tempest shiver", "Oh , yes ; we are , but distantly .", "So that they find the goal or cease to feel", "Of fortune leaves them on the shoals of life ?", "Thy heart from the beginning : but for this ,", "Made him what you beheld .", "We had not felt our poverty but as", "Few visitors .", "And no one walks a chamber like to ours ,", "When they end \u2014 let mine end with them , or thee !", "Lonely ! my dear husband ?", "Or , if that seem too humble , tried by commerce , 140", "Were it a garden , I should deem thee happy ,", "We learn his purpose ?", "Of name , leaves all discovery far behind : 110", "May have returned back to his grandsire , and"], "true_target": ["Needful than to the peasant , when the ebb", "Be thankless for that refuge which their habits", "Who can it be at this lone hour ? We have", "I must hope better still ,\u2014 at least we have yet", "My love , be calmer !", "While they last , let me comfort or divide them :", "I have said it .", "Who so long watched thee , have been left at Hamburgh .", "In this lone spot of wintry desolation :\u2014", "Will to the door . It cannot be of import 170", "And where will you receive him ? here , I hope ,", "I hope he will , with all my heart .", "Your good intentions .", "Not easy to persuade my consort of 660", "Her surface .", "The very desert saves man from mankind .", "If we can be of service \u2014 say the word . 230", "Alas that I should doubt of thee ! 750", "Poor gentleman ! 240", "With thee , I should have deemed it what it is .", "But whence comest thou ? 740", "And that is something .", "And wealthy Baron , and the unknown Werner ?", "To me \u2014", "And how obtained ?\u2014 that knife !", "You 120", "Then canst thou wish for that which must break mine ?", "Whose every drop bows them down nearer earth ,", "Alas ! we have known 210", "With Fortune win or weary her at last , 70", "We ne'er were wealthy .", "Yes , but not to thyself : thy pace is hurried ,", "Not long since in his chamber . But these rooms", "But think", "All which it", "And am I nothing in thy heart ?", "Further . Take comfort ,\u2014 we shall find our boy .", "Thy birth , thy hopes , thy pride ; nought , save thy sorrows :", "Well ?", "Rather than that of him whose life you saved ?", "He was not once ; but time and troubles have", "Have many outlets , and he may be gone", "But here !", "He does not know thy person ; and his spies ,", "Or other civic means , to amend thy fortunes .", "But had my birth been all my claim to match 130", "And not the worst , I hope .", "Who knows ? our son", "Oh ! do not look so . I", "Of early delicacy render more 40", "What rest ? My God ! What doth this mean ?", "Alas ! That bitter laugh !", "Pondered not thus upon these worldly things ,", "Even now uphold thy rights for thee ?", "Yet one question \u2014", "Whate'er thou mightest have been , to me thou art", "And I had not outlived thee ; but pray take", "What hast thou done ?", "But for these phantoms of thy feudal fathers ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 218}, {"query": ["Who", "This \u2014 this will make us way \u2014", "Who , in this garb , the heir of princely lands ?", "I am calm .", "In my o'erhYpppHeNfervent youth : but for the abuse 80", "\u2018 Tis bloodless \u2014 yet . Away \u2014 we must to our chamber .", "Even to our very hopes .\u2014 Ha ! ha !", "Chastened , subdued , out-worn , and taught to know", "Nothing : but we are strangers to each other .", "And all been over in a nameless grave .", "Sir !", "To claim her stern prerogative , and visit", "And worthy by its birth to match with ours .", "But I was born to wealth , and rank , and power ;", "Why ! wouldst thou have it so ?", "He wishes to remain so to the man", "I will requite \u2014 that is , reply \u2014 in unison .", "I was .", "Then forgive", "Let us hence :", "Tis he !", "And leaves us \u2014 no ! this is beyond me !\u2014 but", "All \u2014 all .", "The promise that his anger would stop short", "And been an Hanseatic burgher ? Excellent !", "Few can obtain by asking . Pardon me .", "My faults deserved-exclusion ; although then", "And I \u2014 nothing .", "And then I 'll satisfy yourself , or me . 550", "Those whom I know not .", "\u2018 Tis hopeless . 90", "Are you", "My father barred me from my father 's house ,", "And famine-hollowed brow , the Lord of halls", "Have borne all this , I 'll not say patiently ,", "Excluded in their innocence from what", "Very true . 320", "Save what we seem ! save what we are \u2014 sick beggars ,", "Sick , poor , and lonely .", "\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", "Of him who was the first to offer what", "The same unknown and humble stranger , if", "Designed for him you rescued will be found", "You know me not .", "Else it were yours : but this you know , or should know :", "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 .", "Of rank and ancestry ? In this worn cheek", "Thou didst not mar my fortunes : my own nature", "The fluttering bird , hath ere this time outstept me ,", "I parted with him to his grandsire , on", "When I know it such", "An exile 's daughter with an outcast son ,", "Become the master of my rights , and lord", "How ,\u2014 nothing ?", "Some hours ago , and I some days : henceforth 540", "Together . You diverged from that dread path", "A knocking !", "And forfeited them by my father 's wrath ,", "Many have such :\u2014 Have you none ?", "For this I had been happy \u2014 thou been happy \u2014", "The dull and dropping rain saps in their bones", "What is that ?", "Both from the walls . I am not used to answer", "Thou namest \u2014 aye , the wind howls round them , and", "True \u2014 to a peasant .", "I am a beggar in all save his trade ;", "In youth was such as to unmake an empire ,", "A hunter , and a traveller , and am", "By the snares of this avaricious fiend :\u2014", ", it hurt me less 160", "You appear to have drunk enough already ;", "In fitter order for a sickly guest .", "Left one thing undone , which Had made all well : let me not think of it ! Away !", "Dominion and domain .", "And if you have not , I 've no wine to offer ,", "Yes \u2014 you ! You know me not , and question me ,", "Kept his eye on me , as the snake upon", "And when I beg of any one , it shall be", "We were in sight of him , of every thing", "Himself , no tidings have revealed his course .", "Hath stung me oft , and , more than ever , now .", "Discovered ! then I 'll stab \u2014Ah ! Josephine Why art thou not at rest ?", "Requite a soldier 's greeting .", "Of that which lifts him up to princes in", "Intendant ,", "This cold and creeping kinsman , who so long", "\u2018 Tis well that it is not beneath it ,", "Are we not penniless ?", "I heard a noise of wheels and voices . How All sounds now jar me !", "Which daily feast a thousand vassals ?", "Upon my boy his father 's faults and follies .", "Here 's gold \u2014 gold , Josephine , Will rescue us from this detested dungeon .", "Myself ,\u2014 to lose this for our son and thee !", "And to be baffled thus !", "Or worse \u2014 involving all I love , in this", "You have left", "Though scarcely prudent ; but no less I thank you ."], "true_target": ["Were a fit marriage : but I still had hopes", "Retire : I 'll sift this fool .", "My name is Werner", "Since his strange disappearance from my father 's ,", "Your father 's house was noble , though decayed ;", "As sometimes happens to the better clad .", "Pray , pardon me ; my health \u2014\u2014", "Long ?", "Where hast thou seen such ? Let me be wretched with the rest !", "Far worse than solitude . Alone , I had died ,", "Left the path open , yet not without snares .", "A beggar , and should know the thing thou talk'st of .", "Except in thee \u2014 but we have borne it .", "My Josephine ,", "It is not that , thou know'st it is not : we", "I am not journeying the same way !", "Ne'er raised a thought to injure thee or thine .", "And that 's not the worst : who cares", "And not unkind as to an unknown stranger ,", "And wonder that I answer not \u2014 not knowing", "How do I know he hath not tracked us here ?", "Ask not ! but let us think where we shall go \u2014", "Is it ?", "Dishonour !", "My inquisitor . Explain what you would have ,", "Enjoyed them , loved them , and , alas ! abused them ,", "and", "Than to behold my boy and my boy 's mother", "Who , in this sunken , sickly eye , the pride", "Our roads must lie asunder , though they tend", "The chase of Fortune ; now she hath o'ertaken", "This rashness , or this weakness of my temper , 150", "My passions were all living serpents ,", "But one way that the rich and poor must tread", "Had such been my inheritance ; but now ,", "Well \u2014 I am prepared .", "Sir , I thank you . 360", "\u2018 Tis the last night , I trust , that we need pass here .", "That which will send you hence .", "Your offer 's noble were it to a friend ,", "When , but for this untoward sickness , which", "But , in a word , what would you with me ?", "My spirit where it cannot turn at bay ,\u2014", "Sir !", "My better angel ! Such I have ever found thee ;", "\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 .", "I have also served , and can", "To yours ?", "Hope ! I make sure . But let us to our chamber .", "My father 's name \u2014 been still upheld ; and , more", "All to one home .", "Because it takes not life , but life 's sole solace :", "True , true , I did so : you say well and wisely .", "Not afraid to demand it ?", "And poverty hath none ,", "\u2018 Tis chill ; the tapestry lets through", "Even now I feel my spirit girt about", "Long-sufferings have atoned . My father 's death", "Told you I was a beggar ?", "Which could bring compensation for past sorrow \u2014", "We should have done , but for this fatal sickness ;\u2014", "Seized me upon this desolate frontier , and 50", "To lift thee to the state we both were born for .", "Have you not learned his name ?", "The wind to which it waves : my blood is frozen .", "Your noble guest right quickly .", "Twined like the Gorgon 's round me .", "Entailing , as it were , my sins upon", "Hath wasted , not alone my strength , but means ,", "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 .", "Than those \u2014\u2014", "The last sole scion of a thousand sires", "You may seek", "Something beyond our outward sufferings", "Save those who come to make it poorer still .", "\u2014 I 'll fit them now .", "Because there is", "Who would read in this form", "The high soul of the son of a long line ?", "And what is that in thine eyes ?", "That I would be alone ; but to your business !", "For chambers ? rest is all . The wretches whom 30", "Of the third generation ; but Heaven seems", "Let it flow 10", "The apartment 310", "I have been full oft", "The splendour of my rank sustained \u2014 my name \u2014", "You see I am poor , and sick , and will not see", "Better , sir !", "The creeping marrow . I have been a soldier ,", "More fatal than a mortal malady ,", "I know not , though I think that I could guess", "What brings you here ?", "Until \u2018 tis spilt or checked \u2014 how soon , I care not .", "Who can have nought in common with him .", "Who says that ?", "Trust me , when , in my two-and-twentieth spring ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 218}, {"query": ["Not afraid ?", "Here ? no ; but in the Prince 's own apartment ,", "Plague take it ! he 'll be here , and I not there !", "Better or worse , like matrimony : what", "I thought so all along , such natural yearnings", "As it is fit that men in office should be ;", "Well , that 's strange ,", "to have burst two peasants ;", "Some days ago that looked the likeliest journey", "Oh , no intrusion ! 250", "In a most miserable old caleche ,", "In case he should survive .", "Cannot be worse off than they are , and may 670", "Pray ,", "Good friend , and who may you be ?", "She has some of its properties which might", "And so I thought they might as well be lodged", "To say the truth , they are marvellous scant of this", "When had you half the sum ?", "As e'er was gilt upon a trader 's board :", "Be better .", "Well , I 'm glad of that ;", "Their lives , despatch them o'er the river towards", "Out upon your avarice !", "I doubt not .", "Here as at the small tavern , and I gave them", "The Prince 's chamber is prepared , with all 510", "From their scant pallets , and , at peril of", "Without there , Herman , Weilburg , Peter , Conrad !", "His heir 's upon his epitaph . Methought", "Ho ! a chair ! 460 Instantly , knaves .", "Yourself ; I pray you make yourself at home :", "What ho , there ! bustle !", "Absence , I am sovereign ; and the Baron is", "Why , what should bring me here ?", "A lodging , or a grave , according as", "Perhaps you are related to my relative ?", "Are you there , Mynheer Werner ?", "Your Lordship seems", "And that", "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 ?", "Against the stream and three postilions \u2019 wishes ,", "Still liable to cold \u2014 and if not , why", "But what is certain is , that he has swallowed", "Friends .", "Now , as he one day will for ever lie .", "Somewhat tattered ,", "Refractory vassals , who can not effect", "Here is a packet for the Commandant", "\u2014", "He 'll be worse lodged to-morrow : ne'ertheless ,", "Of yours be stretched as parchment on a drum ,", "\u2018 Tis time enough to ask it when he 's able", "Which is called ?", "Be sprinkled by the Oder \u2014 look to it !", "I cringe !\u2014 but I shall lose the opportunity \u2014", "To help him from his carriage , and present", "He !\u2014 no , my Lord ! he rather wants for rescue", "Played round my heart :\u2014 blood is not water , cousin ;", "And seems to like that none should sleep besides .", "But hark ! a noise of wheels and voices , and", "Oh ! Heaven knows where , unless to Heaven itself .", "\u2018 Tis here ! the supernaculum !", "Aye ,", "But where 's his Excellency ? and how fares he ?", "That 's true : but pity , as you know , does make", "Fell sick , almost to death . He should have died .", "To save a man 's life whom you do not know .", "And devilish damp , but fine enough by torch-light ;", "The river has o'erflowed .", "Except his name", "Within the palace precincts , since his Highness", "Here in the prince 's palace \u2014", "I must be at my post ; will you not join me ,", "It may turn out with the live or dead body .", "Why , you will be well paid for \u2018 t ,", "In the Prince 's body-guard \u2014 if you succeed :", "From whence he never dreamed to rise .", "By the face you put on it .", "Nevertheless .", "The run of some of the oldest palace rooms .", "His Excellency \u2014\u2014 But his name : what is it ?", "To such a presence .", "A blaze of torches from without . As sure", "About a month since , and immediately", "Please you , my good Lord ,", "Who knows if he hath now a name or no ?", "And so , you villains ! troop \u2014 march \u2014 march , I say ;", "But then he comes from a much damper place ,", "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 !", "I would she were ! 390", "Think all things made for them . Now here must I", "Why , what is life", "So let their bearer sleep \u2018 neath something like one", "As fits a noble guest :\u2014 \u2018 tis damp , no doubt ,", "That a great personage , who fain would cross", "At least in beauty : as for majesty ,", "Than can afford it . \u2018 Tis a poor sick man ,", "to beat alarm to all", "Whose vassal you were born , knave ?", "Or no ; your noblemen are hard to drown , 220", "That 's right . A gallant carle , and fit to be", "twenty years", "Of age , if \u2018 tis a day .", "As destiny , his Excellency 's come . 430", "For Werner .", "As they could pay for firewood ."], "true_target": ["I will do what I can .", "We know not if his Excellency 's dead", "Rouse up some half a dozen shivering vassals", "And if a single dog 's ear of this packet 690", "This is the palace ; this a stranger like", "Of Hamburgh , who has got a wife who bore", "And now a Saxon and Hungarian traveller ,", "I asked for something better than your name ,", "To give an answer ; or if not , to put", "Who he may be , or what , or aught of him ,", "Before", "I tell you , \u2018 tis impossible .", "He hath not been accustomed to admission", "His name ? oh Lord !", "Why , no one spoke of you , or to you !\u2014 but", "But I must not lose time : Good night !", "His Lordship , or his Excellency ? Pray ,", "The Baron is retired to rest ?", "Our better acquaintance : relatives should be 200", "Can that low vice alloy so much ambition ?", "I have a cousin in the lazaretto", "No doubt you 'll have a swingeing sum as recompense .", "I tell thee , fellow , that two thalers in", "Sir ! Lord \u2014 oh Lord ! Why do n't you say", "Is drowned below the ford , with five post-horses ,", "Yes , of the monkey ,", "We do not know your name .", "Surgeon 's assistant", "Impossibilities .\u2014 Away , ye earth-worms !", "A goodly name , a very worthy name ,", "An hour is past I 'll do my best to serve him . 600", "Exceeding poor .", "Like Ziska 's skin ,", "He 's poor as Job , and not so patient ; but", "Like enough !", "Yes \u2014 he 's dozing , 610", "Risk lives and souls for the tithe of one thaler ?", "The very furniture the Prince used when", "His Excellency will sup , doubtless ?", "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 .", "But what you do n't know is ,", "You do n't know what has happened , then ?", "To recognise .", "Enough of the Oder", "I say you have been our lodger , and as yet", "Have you forgot", "But you 're mistaken :\u2014 that 's the stranger 's wife .", "Two thalers .", "Some hours ago might teach him fellow-feeling :", "Shall furnish forth the bed-apparel ; for ,", "Without a living ? He has not a stiver .", "They had some valuables left at that time ,", "Frankfort . Methinks the Baron 's own experience", "And the valet , and the cattle ; but as yet", "Who , at their proper peril , snatched him from", "And worthy \u2014\u2014 What 's your name , my friend ?", "The same . He is an officer of trust , 190", "Pensive . Will it not please you to pass on ?", "Left it some dozen years ago . And then", "My Lord , excuse this poor man 's want of breeding :", "Sirrah ! in the Prince 's", "Of Frankfort , at all risks and all expenses ;", "Not having been inhabited these twelve years ;", "The whirling river , have sent on to crave", "And that 's enough for your right noble blood", "To that you show for beauty ; but I pledge you", "Egad ! I am afraid . You look as if", "Fair !\u2014 Well , I trust your taste in wine is equal", "Here 's one his Excellency may be pleased", "Of twenty quarterings upon a hatchment ;", "And have risked more than drowning for as much ,", "Just now you chid me for demanding names ?", "The devil take these great men ! they", "you 'll order out a dozen villains . \u201d", ", I know not .", "A soldier . I 'll promote you to the ranks", "A fair good evening to my fair hostess", "But are you sure", "And you shall have besides , in sparkling coin ,", ",", "Which paid their way up to the present hour ;", "How many ?", "Travel-tired , and lately risen from a bed", "Shall I say more ? You have been a guest this month 180", "One says he is no stranger .", "Your humble duty at the door ?", "Do not five hundred thousand heroes daily 680", "Last here , in its full splendour .", "My intimate connection ;\u2014 \u201c Cousin Idenstein !", "Well , what would I give to save a great man ! 290", "Be spared \u2014 but never mind !", "I have ordered fire and all appliances", "Re-enter WERNER .", "So scarcely will catch cold i n't , if he be", "To be got ready for the worst \u2014 that is ,", "Now , how much do you reckon on ?", "And yet you saved his life .", "They served to air them , at the least as long 420", "And so let 's have some wine , and drink unto", "For every page of paper , shall a hide", "Is more than I can say for Madame Idenstein ,", "A monkey , and a mastiff \u2014 and a valet", "Small change will subdivide into a treasure .", "One 's heart commit these follies ; and besides ,", "But no , \u201c it must \u201d and there 's an end . How now ?", "Oh ! I am dumb .", "There I differ . 400", "And has done miracles i \u2019 the way of business ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 218}, {"query": ["Unto a nobler principal .", "Has turned some thousand gallant hearts adrift", "Who will do honour to your good cheer with", "Of two such excellent things , increase of years ,", "Some take the shortest .", "A wave the less may roll above your head .", "Travel for your rich Count or full-blown Baron .", "I have not yet put up myself to sale :", "And yet unused to poverty ,", "I met in the adjacent hall , who , with", "Which epoch makes", "I did not count them .", "You are poor and sickly \u2014 I am not rich , but healthy ;", "You look one still . All soldiers are", "Myself : how should I then know one I ne'er", "Of your apparent prudence should admit", "I 'm sorry for it .", "I find them practising against the weak :\u2014", "His soaking in your river : but for fear", "Wetly and wearily , but out of peril :", "I 'll pull you out for nothing . Quick , my friend ,", "Is not the same your spouse ?", "He paused to change his garments in a cottage", "And youth outstripped me ; therefore do not waste", "To live as they best may : and , to say truth ,", "I have proved them ; and my spirit boils up when", "Perhaps .", "Whate'er", "Is not the lovely woman", "There were , in company ;", "In what service ? The Imperial ?", ", for whom this desolate village and", "I seek not to disturb", "I have been a soldier , and perhaps am blunt", "He has valets now enough : they stood aloof then ,", "Or should be comrades , even though enemies .", "300", "You seem devoid of this \u2014 wilt share it ?", "Even as you please .", "I want for nothing which I cannot want ;", "In bearing .", "A traveller 's appetite .", "Is he so suspicious ?", "\u2014 I did mine then , 440", "Werner ! I have heard the name . But it may be a feigned one .", "His barony or county to repel", "Wreathed with rich grapes and Bacchanal devices ,", "I have my doubts if he means well .", "His noble memory .", "A truce , a peace , or what you will , remits 350", "In the mean time , my best reward would be", "I needs must say but one , and he is absent .", "Of me and my companions .", "Much beauty , and more majesty .", "It may be , may again encounter , why ,", "Not so ; for there are some I know so well , 280", "O'erflowing with the oldest of your vintage :", "That you know best .", "Its lone inhabitants show more respect", "Now do yours . Hence , and bow and cringe him here !", "Then , as we never met before , and never ,", "If I mistake not . Whither were they going ?", "Put many questions to the Intendant on", "Would please him better than the table , after 270", "Above his outward fortunes .", "I attend you . Stral ,Friend !", "And think , for every bumper I shall quaff ,", "And that 's the reason I would have us less so :", "We came up by mere accident , and just", "Sufficient .", "Lusatia 's woods are tenanted by bands", "My comfort is that , wander where I may ,", "Poor souls !", "That 's harder still . You say you were a soldier .", "I thought our bustling guest without had said", "I thought to cheer up this old dungeon here", "Suspicion is a heavy armour , and", "Their thousand modes of trampling on the poor .", "And yet the time is not akin to thought . 450", "So much . My comrade may speak for himself . 490", "Hungarian ."], "true_target": ["I dragged him", "And by her aspect she might be a Prince 's ;", "Excuse me : have I said aught to offend you ?", "Re-enter IDENSTEIN and some Peasants .", "Was his : it was his fortune to be first . 480", "For you seem delicate in health .", "Or count", "The fare of my companions and myself .", "These old walls will be noisy soon . The baron ,", "In that case , I much wonder that a person 410", "A glass of your", "Their castle walls \u2014 beyond them \u2018 tis but doubtful", "Shaking their dripping ears upon the shore ,", "I helped to save him , as in peril ; but", "In saying you were a soldier during peace-time .", "I scarce should give myself the trouble .", "They lay their hands on . All Silesia and", "Though time hath touched her too , she still retains", "The steel into its scabbard , and lets sleep", "I 've little left to lose now .", "To sup myself , and have a friend without", "Guests so forlorn into this noble mansion .", "An air , and port , and eye , which would have better", "Where is your husband ?", "May be this stranger ? He too hath a bearing", "Young women and old wine ; and \u2018 tis great pity ,", "at each other 's hearts ; but when", "I seek no more , and scarce deserve", "Sir , you seem rapt ;", "Well , that 's over now , and peace", "All roaring \u201c Help ! \u201d but offering none ; and as", "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 .", "I do not know .", "Your thanks on me . I was but a glad second", "The subject of your lord , and , to be plain ,", "My will was not inferior , but his strength", "You were a chance and passing guest , the counterpart", "This master of the ceremonies is The intendant of the palace , I presume : \u2018 Tis a fine building , but decayed .", "I know no man , not even", "Of the late troops , who levy on the country", "The rushing river from his gurgling throat .", "The chief part of whatever aid was rendered", "This is my only motive .", "Our swords when drawn must cross , our engines aim", "But , in the service rendered to your Lordship ,", "Their maintenance : the Chatelains must keep 340", "Fill full \u2014 Here 's to our hostess !\u2014 your fair wife !", "Oppression . I know well these nobles , and", "It matters little .", "Hockcheimer \u2014 a green glass ,", "I cannot tell ; but I should think the pillow", "But how came he here ?", "For which I promise you , in case you e'er", "Good night ! I trust to meet with him at day-break .", "Which still improves the one , should spoil the other . 380", "I did not pledge myself to serve him in", ", returned my salutation \u2014", "by asking you to share", "I do n't . But who", "You yourself ,", "JOSEPHINE retires up the Hall .", "Beheld till half an hour since ?", "For duty", "Baron Stralenheim", "He will be here anon .", "With its own weight impedes more than protects .", ",", "By my family ,", "Your viands should be thrown away , I mean", "I helped my friend to do so .", "Tender and true !\u2014 but why ?", "Faith !", "Pray", "Run hazard of being drowned ,", "If I intrude , I crave \u2014\u2014", "The spark which lights the matchlock , we are brethren .", "In time to drag him through his carriage window .", "And has almost recovered from his drenching .", "Beseemed this palace in its brightest days", "I wonder then you occupied it not ,", "Than did the elements , is come .", "From out that carriage when he would have given"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 218}, {"query": ["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", "If I could aid you \u2014 journeying the same way ?", "And then \u2014\u2014", "I only meant you service \u2014 but good night !", "I knew not that you had reasons for reserve .", "Where is he ?", "Indeed ! Ne'er the less , 530", "Sir ,", "Or , at least , beyond", "An answer , not an echo .", "\u2018 Tis past fatigue , which gives my weighed-down spirit", "Is asked in kindness .", "Peace , intendant !", "Your station .", "The intendant said , you had been detained by sickness \u2014", "How know ye", "I ?", "Your garb .", "You might reply with courtesy to what"], "true_target": ["I 'm better now . Who are these strangers ?", "I will not balk your humour , though untoward :", "Interest a mere stranger .", "That , ere you know my route ?", "I apprehend", "Have you been long here ?", "I 'll rest here a moment .", "Methought", "Your language is above", "Till", "I owe my rescue . Is not that the other ?", "That hour arrives , I can but offer thanks ,", "I sought", "Intendant , show the way !", "This is one of the strangers to whose aid", "That there were two .", "An outward show of thought . I will to rest .", "None which can", "Sir , you will with me ?", "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 ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 218}, {"query": ["My Lord , he tarried in the cottage where"], "true_target": ["And said he would be here to-morrow .", "Your Excellency rested for an hour ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 218}, {"query": ["Fail , you must send on others , till the answer", "Arrives from Frankfort , from the commandant .", "He may not be disturbed until eleven ,", "Be tried , however ; and if one express 590", "Immediately .", "Tenfold ."], "true_target": ["And recollect", "Remember !", "To spare no trouble ; you will be repaid", "He hath thrown himself into an easy chair", "When he will take himself to bed .", "Beside the fire , and slumbers ; and has ordered", "It must"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 218}, {"query": ["No more !", "No \u2014 the Prince 's ,", "Never \u2014 but ne'er"], "true_target": ["The less I must have three .", "And not the stranger 's .", "I have neither , and will venture ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 218}, {"query": ["Right little speed , and \u2014\u2014", "The devil he did !", "At least he shall have the full satisfaction", "Exactly like the rest , or rather better :", "Certain . I have lived and served here since my birth ,", "Unlikely . But , hold \u2014 might it not have been 30", "That", "The baron 's chamber , that it can n't be he .", "Has disappeared :\u2014 the door unbolted , with", "He 's fortunate .", "; and set by my clerk", "There is some sense in that \u2014\u2014", "Of melting twice its substance in the raising", "Suspect ! all people", "Poor as a miser", "Humph !\u2014 not exactly .", "And for the Baron 's gold \u2014 if \u2018 tis not found ,", "And so", "But some of the inferior knaves . You say", "That cannot be .", "The ghost of this rouleau . Here 's alchemy", "Was there", "The Hungarian ?", "Besides , I bade him \u201c good night \u201d in the hall ,", "And if there were such , must have heard of such ,", "To read them", "And my principles , I hope .", "Your Lordship , being robbed , do n't recognise", "By which there 's no communication with", "Than does your Excellency .", "To his own apartment , about the same time", "But \u2014\u2014", "The velvet chair \u2014 in his embroidered night-gown ;", "Why , do n't you know , my Lord ? 200", "If he 's a lad of mettle , he may yet", "Whether he be found criminal or no ,", "No heir ?", "And the police", "His face shall be so .", "Prisoners we 'll have at least , if not the culprit ;", "But so much haste bodes", "Was I \u2014 and that 's the cause I know no more", "The Baron was asleep in the great chair \u2014", "Appears to have been committed .", "Several rouleaux of gold ; of which one only"], "true_target": ["Soldiers and desperadoes !", "And so am I . 10", "No difficult access to any .", "But I 'll engage , that if seen there but once ,", "A cabinet with letters , papers , and", "Was there no cause assigned ?", "Why , if", "Doubtless .", "Dispute your claim , and weave a web that may", "Where ?", "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 .", "How so ?", "Without \u2014 within \u2014 above \u2014 below \u2014 Heaven help me !", "One of the suite ?", "Almost a mile off , and which only leads", "We 'll send out villains to strip beggars , and", "Puzzle your Baron to unravel .", "None whatsoever .", "Indifferent well , your Excellency .", "To risk his life and honours with disbanded", "Not", "Nothing \u2014 but there 's a good deal to be said .", "Most willingly . You see \u2014\u2014", "His toilet spread before him , and upon it", "For your Lord 's losses !", "That wise men know your felon by his features ; 210", "Or seen it .", "\u2018 Tis only at the bar and in the dungeon ,", "The thief among so many ? In the crowd ,", "Oh ! that I e'er should live to see this day ! The honour of our city 's gone for ever .", "The rogue ; how should I , not being robbed , identify", "A young heir , bred to wealth and luxury , 130", "You do n't mean me ?", "All gipsies , and ill-clothed and sallow people .", "But lodged so far off , in the other wing , 20", "No \u2014 not you ,", "When this burglarious , larcenous felony", "True ;", "Can only be approved by proofs . You see \u2014\u2014", "Search empty pockets ; also , to arrest 70", "Oh ! for that matter , very much suspected .", "; post notices in manuscript", "If there were aught to carry off , my Lord .", "May it please your Excellency , your thief looks", "We 'll offer a reward ; move heaven and earth ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 219}, {"query": ["Also the cabinet , if portable .", "An hour so critical as was the eve", ", 140", "This sum without a search .", ";", "Your Wallenstein , your Tilly and Gustavus ,", "With an Italian exile 's dark-eyed daughter :", "The mice of a few shreds of tapestry .", "He who helped", "No , Sir , be sure", "It was to seek his parents ; some because", "He had joined the black bands", "And all against mankind .", "Unto the savage love of enterprise ,", "Your Bannier , and your Torstenson and Weimar", "He might have since returned , were that the motive ; 120", "The Baron would find means to silence him ,", "His sire made", "Heaven best knows !", "A prodigal son , beneath his father 's ban", "I will , sir , with his Excellency 's leave .", "The honest trades who furnish noble masters", "Hence !", "But did not leave the cottage by the Oder", "\u2018 Tis true , there is a grandson ,", "Are you sure of that ?", "Had one of our folks done it , he would not", "Long from the world 's eye , and , perhaps , the world .", "He forms a happy mixture of his sire", "Is there no other entrance to the chamber ?", "A left-hand , love , imprudent sort of marriage ,", "Of course . But to the point : What 's to be done ?", "The strangest is , that he too disappeared", "A third believed he wished to serve in war ,", "Could brook the alliance ; and could ne'er be brought", "Were but the same thing upon a grand scale ;", "Noble , they say , too ; but no match for such", "Plenty , no doubt ,", "Oh , yes ; but he has disappeared", "Of the old man 's death , whose heart was broken by it .", "The stranger \u2014\u2014", "The former , and deep as the latter ; but", "Your talents \u2014\u2014", "Some months ago .", "Of bandit-warfare ; each troop with its chief ,", "To see the parents , though he took the son . 100", "A house as Siegendorf 's . The grandsire ill", "In a most immense inheritance .", "We scorn it as we do board wages . Then 50", "But , peace being made soon after his departure ,", "A kind of general condottiero system", "Refused to kill the fatted calf ; and , therefore ,", "Purveying feasts , and understanding with", "The mountains of Bohemia and Silesia ,", "How ? We , sir !", "The Baron is determined not to lose", "\u2018 Twas none of our corps ; but some petty , trivial", "Is dead near Prague , in his castle , and my Lord 80"], "true_target": ["To fish the baron from the Oder .", "Postage of letters , gathering of rents ,", "Or tame the tiger , though their infancy", "The only question is \u2014 Who else could have", "But for your petty , picking , downright thievery ,", "Whom the late Count reclaimed from his son 's hands ,", "His neck for one rouleau , but have swooped all ;", "Were he to re-appear : he 's politic ,", "Until this morning .", ";", "The man called Werner 's poor !", "Be not so quick ; the honour of the corps 40", "Faith ! My Lord , not much as yet , except conjecture .", "And educated as his heir ; but , then ,", "Were fed on milk and honey . After all ,", ", who lay waste Lusatia ,", "Is on his way to take possession .", "A fourth set charitably have surmised ,", "That in the wild exuberance of his nature", "Weights , measures , larder , cellar , buttery ,", "Well , but now to discover the delinquent :", "And none , perhaps , the true one . Some averred", "Why , yes :", "Had access to the antechamber .", "Picker and stealer , without art or genius .", "Then it must be some one who", "Where all men take their prey ; as also in", "No , sir ; I honour more 60", "I 've heard that nothing can reclaim your Indian ,", "It hardly could , unless the rats despoiled", "He hath found a better .", "For the last twenty years ; for whom his sire", "From steward to scullion , save in the fair way", "For mettle , he has quite enough : they say ,", "And grandsire 's qualities ,\u2014 impetuous as", "The Baron , and the Saxon stranger , who", "If living , he must chew the husks still . But", "As there was something strange and mystic in him ,", "His birth is doubtful .", "Why ,", "Access , save the Hungarian and yourself ?", "Which forms the Baron 's household 's unimpeached", "They who would follow the same pastime must", "Pursue it on their own account . Here comes", "But whom do you suspect ?", "Since the last years of war had dwindled into", "But there are human natures so allied", "It must have been at his suggestion , at 110", "Of peculation ; such as in accompts ,", "The old man held his spirit in so strictly", "And now that they are gone , and peace proclaimed ,", "The late Count Siegendorf , his distant kinsman ,", "And has much influence with a certain court . 90", "Was his chief aid in yesterday 's escape ,", "That they will seek for peril as a pleasure .", "Good sir ,", "There 's another ,", "Have been so poor a spirit as to hazard"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 219}, {"query": ["Besides the loss", "Do so , and take yon old ass with you .", "That mould which throws out heroes ; fair in favour ;", "And blush at my own barren gratitude ,", "Have rank by birth and soldiership , and friends ,", "And lighted chambers , on my rest , and snatch", "War will reclaim his own ; and , in the meantime ,", "And have not heard that I was robbed last night .", "I bow beneath them .", "An obscure death to save an unknown stranger ,", "You joined us but this morning ,", "You might obtain a post , which would ensure", "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 ?", "Brave , I know , by my living now to say so ;", "Defer your tale , Till certain of the hearer 's patience .", "I stand well with the Elector", "Well , sir , since you will not \u2014", "I must see to it :", "But \u2018 twill not last , men 's spirits are too stirring ;", "Your house 's ?", "You are made for the service : I have served ;", "The Intendant can inform you of the facts . 230", "Dolt !", "Your actions show it . Might I ask your name ?", "As ardently for glory as you dared", "Can I not serve you ? You are young , and of", "Is but a petty war , as the time shows us 170", "How should I ? I was fast asleep .", "Who may he be ?", "In an as perilous , but opposite , element .", "The acquittance of the interest of the debt ,", "The gold before my scarce-closed eyes , would soon", "Or , at least , suspected ?", "Through my attendants , and so many peopled 220", "Your courteous courage did in my behalf \u2014\u2014", "Were the loss yours ."], "true_target": ["Would look into the fiery eyes of War , 160", "So dexterous a spoiler , who could creep", "In every forest , or a mere armed truce .", "You are nobly born ?", "Who shall be yours . \u2018 Tis true this pause of peace", "They seem so niggardly , compared with what", "Would the dogs were in it ! Why did they not , at least , attempt the passage ? I ordered this at all risks .", "; in Bohemia ,", "Making me feel the worthlessness of words ,", "Then", "Upon its frontier .", "You would hardly think so ,", "The villain out of public motives ; for", "To heap more obligations on me , till", "Like you , I am a stranger , and we are now", "But", "Leave bare your borough , Sir Intendant !", "Favours such views at present scantily ;", "To rise . I speak of Brandenburgh , wherein", "It is a strange business :", "Mine inn is like to cost me dear .", "And , doubtlessly , with such a form and heart ,", "Inadequate thanks , you almost check even them , 150", "Better in rest than purse :", "Why , this is mere usury !", ", I needs would find", "A higher soon , and , by my influence , fail not", "The knaves ! the slaves !\u2014 but they shall smart for this .", "All compensation , gentle stranger , save", "You !\u2014 Why ?", "I am to deem the plunderer is caught ?", "I owe my life to you , and you refuse", "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 ?", "Since you have refused", "Prithee , Fritz , inform me What hath been done to trace the fellow ?", "And , after thirty years of conflict , peace", "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 ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 219}, {"query": ["I know no further .", "Some rumour of it reached me as I passed", "I pray you press the theme no further .", "Come on , old oracle , expound thy riddle !", "Come hither , mynheer !", "I claim the payment .", "None ; so let 's march : we 'll talk as we go on .", "You perceive my garb", "I have heard my kinsmen say so .", "I 'll answer you .", "Show the spot , and then I 'll answer you . 250"], "true_target": ["What is all this ?", "The outer chambers of the palace , but", "Is Saxon , and , of course , my service due", "To my own Sovereign . If I must decline 180", "Your offer , \u2018 tis with the same feeling which", "When I 'm worthy of it , 190", "Induced it .", "Most willingly , and without loss of time \u2014", "Ulric .", "Standing motionless", "You shall say so when"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 219}, {"query": ["And , seeing the case hopeless , I await", "Your couriers are turned back \u2014 I have outstripped them ,", "Could you order", "Have supped and slumbered , no great matter how \u2014", "I went at daybreak , 310", "Fit to decide . But I came here to seek you .", "Your messengers were all checked like myself ;", "The current 's pleasure .", "One of your order .", "As those who fare well everywhere , when they 300", "I never had so much"], "true_target": ["The Oder to divide , as Moses did", ", and be obeyed , perhaps 320", "As being anxious to resume my journey .", "And you , my Lord ?", "In my return .", "They might have ventured .", "in my whole life , and therefore am not", "I heard", "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 !", "To watch for the abatement of the river ,", "The Red Sea", "Of your late loss ; but \u2018 tis a trifle to"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 219}, {"query": ["If I e'er felt it , \u2018 tis so dazzled from", "Yes !", "You are the latest stranger , and command", "Not so :", "Follow him not , until this storm of passion Abates . Think'st thou , that were it well for him , I had not followed ?", "After twelve years ?", "He faints !", "All places here .", "And that the depth is rich in better things .", "Stand back , and let me look on thee again !", "Can you ask that question ? Is he not here ?", "That this is but the surface of his soul , 160", "My memory by this oblivious transport !\u2014", "Aye ! Hadst thou but done so !", "But cannot think of sorrow now , and doubt", "Oh ! glorious Heaven ! He 's safe !", "No ! Look upon him ! What do you see ?", "Condemn him not from his own mouth , but trust"], "true_target": ["My dream is realised \u2014 how beautiful !\u2014", "Oh , my son ! Believe him not \u2014 and yet !\u2014", "My \u2014\u2014", "My Ulric !\u2014 my belov\u00e9d !\u2014 can it be \u2014", "How more than all I sighed for ! Heaven receive", "Who seeks him ?", "I know it ,", "O Ulric ! have a care \u2014", "Have made him sometimes thus .", "My son !", "A mother 's thanks ! a mother 's tears of joy !", "Think as he speaks . Alas ! long years of grief", "This is indeed thy work !\u2014 At such an hour , too ,", "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 .", "To me , who have borne so much with him , and for him ,", "Nor doth he", "Oh ! he is good !", "He comes not only as a son , but saviour .", "Remember what depends on a rash word !"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 220}, {"query": ["Have not forgotten aught ; and oft-times in", "By our experience , never plunder till", "Is harmless , let it not disturb you .\u2014 Gabor !", "To doubt it .", "Amidst the elements , whilst younger trees", "A poor man almost in his grasp \u2014 a child", "And shrink you from a few sharp sneers and words ? 280", "His life but yesterday : he 's here .", "Of doubtful birth \u2014 can startle a grandee !", "Indeed , spoke sometimes of a kinsman , who ,", "If such a joy await me , it must double", "Of your sire 's feudal mansion , I looked back", "Your own reason , with a moment 's", "\u2014", "My own whole treasure \u2014 you , my parents !", "It is abating .", "That , when I see the subject in its bearings ,", "For twelve long years , my father !", "I had arrived a few hours sooner !", "Oh , Heavens ! I left him in a green old age ,", "More noble name belongs to common thieves ? 90", "Not thieves . The dead , who feel nought , can lose nothing ,", "Let it not be against your friends .", "Not even by a scratch .", "Which brought me here was chiefly that :", "With all my heart !", "I think you wrong him", "Unriddle this vile wrangling , or \u2014\u2014", "How can this be ?", "And looking like the oak , worn , but still steady", "Say on .", "You are not guilty .", "What do you mean ?", "Of love", "Things which had made this silkworm", "Both ! 290 Here 's no great harm done .", "And wept to see another day go down 40", "And this sole , sick , and miserable wretch \u2014", "Explain to me", "You may be sure", "Sickness sits caverned in his hollow eye", "I named a villain . What is there in common", "To extricate you from your present perils .", "But stay !", "But I trust better , and that all is yours .", "His right must yield to ours .", "My father , Siegendorf !", "It seems , then ,", "I have pledged myself to do so ; and the business", "And you avow it ?", "; but Stralenheim", "More clearly , then , these claims of Stralenheim ,", "Riddles : what is this Stralenheim to us ?", "You , Baron , I believe ; but as the effect", "And they , my Lord , we know", "Is not what you prejudge him , or , if so ,", "I have helped you .", "And what have I to do with this ?", "To the Bohemian mountains many a sunset ,", "but I", "Doth he personally know you ?", "You yourself could not watch him more than I", "The man is helpless .", "They are childless , then ?", "Is sick , a stranger , and as such not now", "cast his skin \u2014", "I may prepare to face him , or at least", "Nor the lowest his vicegerents upon earth .", "They knock the brains out first \u2014 which makes them heirs ,", "Of his broad lands as to make mine the foremost ,", "Or rather yours ; for I waive all , unless", "\u2018 Tis his name .", "So that I must prefer my claim for form :"], "true_target": ["At your vain fears :", "What", "Be one of disobedience .", "I merely asked a simple question .", "Who ? Gabor , the Hungarian ?", "All shall be bettered . What we have to do", "I never heard his name till now . The Count ,", "Pshaw ! we all must bear", "I obey you , mother ,", "Such is my intention .", "Hath he no right ?", "If his own line should fail , might be remotely", "Your father has disposed in such a sort", "Fell fast around him . \u2018 Twas scarce three months since .", "Involved in the succession ; but his titles", "Nay , no violence : He 's old , unarmed \u2014 be temperate , Gabor !", "They shall not part us more .", "But \u2014\u2014", "He owes me something both for past and present . 80", "\u2014 forgive me !", "Able to trace the villain who hath robbed him :", "You describe it faithfully .", "No more .", "I accept the omen . 380", "What then ?", "I saved", "He hath been plundered too , since he came hither :", "Not a step .", "Fear not !\u2014", "\u2018 Twere too late", "The proud and princely halls of \u2014", "Thought .", ":", "Is she not so ?", "These then are but my father 's principles? My mother thinks not with him ?", "True ; and aught done to save or to obtain it . 410", "\u2014 but i \u2019 the pomp", "You speak 60", "With such a being and my father ?", "There is your sword ; and when you bare it next ,", "This way-worn stranger \u2014 stands between you and", "My dearest mother !", "Proceed \u2014 proceed !", "Is to proceed , and to assert our rights ,", "I pledge myself to accomplish this \u2014 but would 170", "My memory served me far more fondly : I", "Were never named before me \u2014 and what then ?", "But how", "And yet you knew me not ! 30", "My own feelings", "Why so ?", "This long delay was not my fault .", "Am I concerned ?", "I 've seen you brave the elements , and bear", "Ourselves \u2014 the highest cannot temper Satan ,", "Have found , in searching for another 's dross ,", "He has a wife , then ?", "Taught me to name a ruffian from his deeds .", "This Paradise ?\u2014", "Will be his sentinel .", "How Fare you ?", "Baron , I do beseech you !", "A part of the long debt of duty , not", "Nor e'er be robbed : their spoils are a bequest \u2014", "O'er thee and me , with those huge hills between us .", "What I now feel , and lighten from my heart 10", "I hope so .", "He is the poorest of the poor \u2014 and yellow", "Although reluctantly . My first act shall not", "The arrogance of something higher than", "My mother !", "I saved his life , he therefore trusts in me .", "I will retire with you ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 220}, {"query": ["Why , then \u2014", "Father and son , and stand alone .", "Ah ! I thought so : you have now 150", "till", "Even to your deadliest foe ; and he as \u2018 twere", "But , had I seen that form amid ten thousand", "I must be known here but as Werner . Come !", "Lands , life itself , lies at your mercy , with", "I know not that . Are you aware my father is no more ?", "Inviting death , by looking like it , while 120", "I should have been , and was not . Josephine !", "The bare knife in your hand , and earth asleep ,", "Which makes me look on all men with an eye", "If then , like me , content with petty plunder ,", "Chance your conductor \u2014 midnight for your mantle \u2014", "Made venial by the occasion , and temptations", "Of you and yours , lie slumbering in your path ,", "No \u2014 I am better now \u2014 20", "Ulric , before you dare despise your father , 100", "Who taught you thus to brand an unknown being", "True ; he hath sought his parents ,", "And hunted through each change of time \u2014 name \u2014 fortune \u2014", "Learn to divine and judge his actions . Young ,", "Why did you leave him ?", "Should you see then the Serpent , who hath coiled", "Youth of the choicest , my heart would have chosen", "A stripling ,", "When he , who lives but to tear from you name ,", "More patient ? Ulric !\u2014 Ulric !\u2014 there are crimes", "From sleep , and judge ! Should that day e'er arrive \u2014 110", "He hath escaped them , is by fortune , not", "Every thing . One who claims our father 's lands :", "Aye , if at Prague :", "Alas ! I have had that upon my soul", "But we will talk of that anon . Remember ,", "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 ?", "The serpent who will sting us all !", "Have you not heard of Stralenheim ?", "He wound snares round me ; flung along my path", "No ; but he guesses shrewdly at my person ,", "Which nature cannot master or forbear ."], "true_target": ["As he betrayed last night ; and I , perhaps ,", "You saved", "And found them ; but , oh ! how , and in what state ! 50", "Who taught you , long-sought and ill-found boy ! that", "Reptiles , whom , in my youth , I would have spurned", "Hush ! boy \u2014 The walls may hear that name !", "Oh , God !", "Fill only with fresh venom . Will you be", "Sure \u2018 tis no father 's fondness dazzles me ;", "Ulric !", "It would be safe for my own son to insult me ?", "This for my son !", "Rash , new to life , and reared in Luxury 's lap ,", "Only one parent . I have lost alike", "Is it for you to measure Passion 's force ,", "\u2014 Wait !\u2014", "Wait till , like me , your hopes are blighted", "Even from my presence ; but , in spurning now ,", "But owe my temporary liberty", "Sorrow and Shame are handmaids of your cabin \u2014", "Snares for thy father , which , if hitherto", "Despair your bed-fellow \u2014 then rise , but not", "His death alone can save you :\u2014 Thank your God !", "For the first time \u2014", "With an infernal stigma ?", "You turn aside \u2014\u2014 I did so .", "But here he is all-powerful ; and has spread 70", "Himself around all that is dear and noble", "Who Taught you to mouth that name of \u201c villain ? \u201d", "To his uncertainty .", "Every thing ! That ruffian is thy father !", "That only knows the evil at first glance .", "And why not you ? Are you more versed in men ?", "Famine and Poverty your guests at table ;", "By favour .", "Or Misery 's temptation ? Wait \u2014", "Come to my arms again ! Why , thou look'st all", "Me he hath ever known , 140", "Our distant kinsman , and our nearest foe .", "What have we here ,\u2014 more strangers ?\u2014", "With but his folds between your steps and happiness ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 220}, {"query": ["Not with your gold .", "Are practising your power on me \u2014 because", "If the judge asked me , I would answer \u201c No \u201d \u2014", "Must I turn an icicle", "As you accuse . You hint the basest injury ,", "Then next time let him go sink", "You owe to the unknown , who asks no more ,", "And circumstance , and proof : I know enough", "Aught that you know , superior ; but proceed \u2014", "Not so much", "My Lord , my Lord , this is mere cozenage", "Own brief connection led me , honour .", "by choking you myself .", "Oppose me ?", "Ulr . I", "Oppressed here by these menials , and I look", "Your gold . I also know , that were I even", "Does he abet you in your accusation ?", "You know best , if yesterday 's", "Who shall", "The worms ! You hound of malice !", "Should know whom not to suspect . I am insulted \u2014", "At once , then ,", "Before the breath of menials , and their master", "And never thought to have asked so much .", "Of what I have done for you , and what you owe me ,", ",", "From the Ravenstone", "Worthy to be so of a man like me .", "Your looks a voice \u2014 your frowns a sentence ; you", "\u2018 Sdeath ! have I lived to these years , and for this !But for your age and folly , I would \u2014\u2014", "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 .", "To look for thieves at home were part of it ,", "But this is nothing : I demand of you 230", "I thank you", "I am your equal .", "But here he comes !", "Do not think", "I do not ask for hints , and surmises , 220", "If duly taught ; but , in one word , if I", "I have sought you , comrade . So this is my reward !", "Till yester evening .", "If he avouches not my honour .", "Or chamber :\u2014 is the charge your own or his ?", "I 'll honour you so much as save your throat", "Again ! Am I accused or no ?", "Ere I go hang for snatching him from drowning .", "From your own lips a disavowal of", "You shall"], "true_target": ["Your doubts are certainties to all around you \u2014 260", "Except such villains as ne'er had it ?", "His kind suspicions \u2014 me ! whom he ne'er saw", "But you at least 210", "Keep the best shortly , and the last for all men ,", "There 's something daring in it :\u2014 but to steal", "We found you in the Oder ;", "The villain I am deemed , the service rendered", "To you for remedy \u2014 teach them their duty !", "Have you aught with me ?", "Aye , sir ; and , for", "Can vouch your courage , and , as far as my", "My noble Lord , I 'm here ! 200", "This worthy personage has deigned to fix", "The Baron has been robbed , and upon me", "Intendant , of the pillage of your person", "Would we had left you there !", "Must I bear this ?", "Less for my life than for your counsel .", "True : 190 I am a fool to lose myself because Fools deem me knave : it is their homage .", "I 'll after him and \u2014\u2014", "You strive to tread on .", "Right easily , methinks . What is the spell in his asseveration 250 More than in mine ?", "Then you acquit me , Baron ?", "Than paid myself , had I been eager of", "A bandit of the woods , I could have borne it \u2014", "All sanction of their insolence : thus much", "Pursue me to the death , except through shame ,", "But that 's a trifle . I stand here accused ,", "So recently would not permit you to", "Flood has not washed away your memory ;", "No more than you do", "Perchance , if I had left you to your fate .", "I am calm \u2014 live on !", "Do I hear aright ? You too !", "In phrases not equivocal , by yon", "To you I answer thus .", "To have at least waited your payment rather", "?", "You have it ; but beware ! you know not whom", "And I retort it with an open warning .", "Have an accuser , let it be a man", "Such as would leave your scutcheon but a blank .", "I 've earned them ; but might have earned more from others ,", "\u2018 Sdeath ! who dare doubt it ,", "Must I bear to be deemed a thief ? If \u2018 twere", "Justice upon your unjust servants , and", "The moneys of a slumbering man !\u2014", "A vile equivocation ; you well know"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 220}, {"query": ["Secure him ! He hath got his sword again \u2014\u2014", "Wouldst have me suspect", "Help ! Hands off ! Touch an Intendant !", "That I keep better company .", "In Germany . The Baron shall decide !", "I like that article of war .", "Those who have greater need of it than me . 180", "March , vassals ! I 'm your leader , and will bring", "Belike ;\u2014 I 'm a civilian .", "Does he not ?"], "true_target": ["Than you shall do , if there be judge or judgment", "Help !", "And seems to know the use o n't ; \u2018 tis his trade , 320", "Well , if it must be so \u2014", "Kill him ! then", "I 'll say so .", "Expose his precious life \u2014 on which all rests .", "My own acquaintances ? You have to learn", "That 's more", "I thank you for the respite : but there are", "The rear up : a wise general never should"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 220}, {"query": ["You have harped the very string next to my heartI may depend upon you ?", "To deem he would descend to such an act :", "And let me know his slightest movement towards 430", "Ulric ! you know this man ; I found him in 240", "Oh ! could you see it ! But you shall .", "As it went chilly downward to the grave :", "It is the richest of the rich Bohemia ,", "took to warm his bosom ,", "Confronted with whole realms far and near", "Aye \u2014 could you see it , you would say so \u2014 but ,", "That is well .", "This man obnoxious \u2014 perhaps fatal to me .", "As one who did so much", "Let no foolish pity shake", "For a fit escort \u2014 but this curs\u00e9d flood", "What should I", "Than he 's your father :\u2014 an Italian girl ,", "Fool ! are not", "Yours , and for ever .", "Call such your mother . You have seen the woman", "I may be sure you 'll keep an eye on this man ,", "For which you seem disposed to pay yourself .", "No more ! This outrage following upon his insults , 310", "I know not whom to accuse , or to acquit ,", "Decline all question of your guilt or innocence ?", "Mysterious", "He is \u2014 \u2018 tis no matter ;\u2014 350", "Its own exuberance , it bears double value", "Yon score of vassals dogging at your heels", "And living amidst commerce-fetching burghers ,", "Well , sir !", "Threat'st thou ?", "Then", "\u2014 he is a wretch , as likely", "That which is of more import to me than", "This tone", "His claims alone were too contemptible", "I will brook", "Go to !", "Whom they name \u201c Werner . \u201d", "I must be", "Ulric , you are not hurt ?\u2014", "Who 's safe !", "By this you make me", "These", "I merely said that I", "You wax too insolent . If circumstance", "Such as both may make worthy your acceptance", "I 'm satisfied .", "Aid which he added to your abler succour .", "Ulric , I think that I may trust you ; 340", "He doth .", "I fain would parley , Ulric , with yourself", "In all his acts \u2014 but chiefly by his marriage , 390", "Made deserts .", "For me , you cannot be indifferent to", "I give you thanks , sir .", "Like him he must be speared .", "But the imp stands not in my path \u2014 he has fled ,", "Your company .", "The daughter of a banished man , who lives", "You saved my life \u2014 and acts like these beget", "He stands", "Are hot , sir .", "The man avoids me , knows that I now know him .\u2014", "Your bosom"], "true_target": ["You !", "The strongest city , Prague , that fire and sword", "I have sent", "May be of innocence .", "Enough to seize a dozen such ? Hence ! after him !", "All 's to be feared , where all is to be gained .", "He calls his wife .", "Besides , he was a soldier , and a brave one", "Come hither ,", "No \u2014 this \u201c Werner \u201d \u2014", "But if he be the man I deem", "No one \u2014 for the present : but", "Have skimmed it lightly : so that now , besides", "I think too well of blood allied to mine , 420", "To stand .\u2014 Why do you smile ?", "have made", "Was satisfied \u2014 not that you are absolved .", "No one knows whither ; and if he had not ,", ",", "Brawls must end here .", "You", "With the false name and habit .", "Is the fault mine ? Is't not enough that I", "To have robbed me as the fellow more suspected ,", "And general suspicion be against you ,", "Unbounded confidence .", "Whom the old man \u2014 the grandsire", "Between me and a brave inheritance ! 370", "Right ! none . A disinherited prodigal ,", "Without approach to mine ; and , to say truth ,", "There is or was a bastard ,", "And services to me and mine for ever .", "Unscathed by scorching war . It lies so near", "Then claim a recompense from it and me ,", "Obeyed . No words !", "Or scarcely to suspect .", "He makes against you in the hunter 's gap \u2014", "Indeed ! Is not your husband visible , fair dame ?\u2014", "I recognise her , \u2018 tis the stranger 's wife", "The life you rescued .\u2014 Keep your eye on him !", "And long-engendered circumstances", "He being lodged far off , and in a chamber", "And dabbling merchants , in a mart of Jews .", "What hath caused all this ?", "Concealment or escape .", "As you have said , \u2018 tis true I owe you something ,", "Alone .", "With bootless insolence .", "Once \u2014 though too rash .", "He must be made secure ere twelve hours further .", "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 .", "I accuse no man .", "On love and poverty with this same Werner .", "Ulric ; what does that woman here ? Oh ! now 330", "Have with you ?", "Ulric ! you know this man ?", "You 'd be sorry to", "Bars all access , and may do for some hours . 360", "To Frankfort , to the Governor , my friend ,", "Perhaps his guilt , has cancelled all the little", "Except that circumstance is less against him ;", "No more", "Go to ! you are a wag . But say", "As I have said , you shall .", "Who for these twenty years disgraced his lineage", "Watch him !\u2014 as you would watch the wild boar when", "I owed him heretofore for the so-vaunted"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 220}, {"query": ["To give me refuge for a few hours , well \u2014", "Scarce honestly , to say the truth o n't , 60", "Disgraced \u2014\u2014", "I said I was so \u2014 and would add , with truth ,", "What ?", "I may live to requite it .", "That I know by long practice . Will you not", "The wholesome bitterness of life , know well ,", "If there be faith in man , I am most guiltless :", "No \u2014 you do n't look a leech for that disorder ;", "Not I ! and if", "Or", "Although I almost wish you had the Baron 's .", "If it be so , being much disposed to do 10", "I were well paid . But you , who seem to have proved", "Promise to make mine less ?", ",", "Sir , I have told my tale : if it so please you", "A Gothic labyrinth of unknown windings ?", "No ; and I am not used", "It is unecessary :", "Upon his heart o \u2019 nights .", "I care not", "Or any other honest man .", "All \u2014 all suspected me ; and why ? because", "It is but a night 's lodging which I crave ;", "Therefore I 'll stick by this \u2014 as being both", "The priests say", "But I will . A thousand thanks !", "I rendered him , I am his enemy :", "If not , I 'll try my fortune elsewhere .", "I see you 're moved ; and it shows well in you :", "You rather look like one would turn at bay ,", "By sympathy , that all the outspread gold", "I meant my peril only : you 've a roof ,", "Weighed at its proper value in the balance ,", "Open it ,", "There was", "Of the New World the Spaniard boasts about", "What the devil would you have ? You do n't believe me", "My soul might brook to open it more widely", "You 're right : I ask for shelter at the hand", "You are no thief \u2014 nor I \u2014 and , as true men ,", "Than theirs : but thus it is \u2014 you poor and helpless \u2014", "as may leave no nightmare", "Both still more than myself ."], "true_target": ["Guilty of this base theft ?", "But show me any place . I do assure you ,", "I am his deadliest foe .", "I am oppressed like you \u2014 and poor like you \u2014", "Could never tempt the man who knows its worth ,", "Your poverty my likeness ended ; but", "Greatly to care .", "The same myself . But will you shelter me ?", "Just what I say ; I thought my speech was plain : 40", "But hark ! they come !", "I were , what is there to espy in you ?", "At noontide .", "An epitaph as larceny upon my tomb .", "I 'll in \u2014 farewell !", "Your miserly Intendant and dense noble \u2014", "In peril ?", "Which I call helpless ; if you now deny it , 30", "The dove did \u2014 trusting that they have abated . 50", "And I will use it for the same .", "Why that 's my heart of honour ! yon young gallant \u2014", "To suffer martyrdom , at least with such", "To-morrow I will try the waters , as", "No one ; nor did I say you were so : with", "Although , were Momus \u2019", "Save in such guise", "A treatment for the service which in part 80", "And I have none ; I merely seek a covert .", "The wounded lion his cool cave . Methinks", "Should aid each other .", "Are you", "As undeservedly as you .", "I am the worst clothed , and least named amongst them ;", "About you and your spouse might lead to some", "If you are not his friend you will assist me .", "I 'd face them \u2014 but it were in vain to expect", "Think if it were your own case !", "Although , I recollect , his frequent question", "The Intendant and his man-hounds after me :", "So is the nearest of the two next , as", "And rip the hunter 's entrails .", "But how ?", "Suspicion ; but you best know \u2014 what \u2014 and why .", "After such", "lattice in your breasts ,", "Justice at hands like theirs . Where shall I go ?", "How should I make my way in darkness through"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 221}, {"query": ["I 'll not answer", "So strangely were contrived these galleries", "You had best begin", "How know you that ?", "The only one ,", "I found it ,", "On the other side ; and , when you would return ,", "Who ?", "My present seeming .", "Situate as we are now ; although the first", "The best and sweetest feeling of our hearts ;", "To swoop the sire and son at once .", "Further \u2014 that you despise me .", "Scorpions 230", "Than his next neighbour . You must not advance", "In what", "A spy of Stralenheim 's ?", "Why need you come so far , then ?", "Come , I 'll trust you : 310", "There is a secret spring : Remember , I discovered it by chance , And used it but for safety .", "Let me embrace thee !", "I understand you not .", "At thrice its value to redeem it : \u2018 tis", "Who come ?", "Are you sure", "Thou busy devil , rising in my heart !", "No , no \u2014 I cannot . 20", "To spare both that I would avoid all bustle .", "I do not apprehend you .", "I am not ;", "How", "Must I repeat my humiliation ?", "This overpays the past . But how wilt thou 220", "And I embrace it , as I did my son ,", "I perceived it , and applaud", "Ah !", "To many men the blackest .", "In all things your direction .", "My boy ! My friend ! my only child , and sole preserver ! Oh , do not hate me !", "Are you not", "I cannot .", "Again ! As I ?", "As e'er the hunted deer a covert \u2014\u2014", "Who told you that I was disgraced ?", "For motto , not the mintage of the state ;", "With hissing snakes , which curl around my temples ,", "The leaving undone one far greater . Down ,", "Methinks it wears upon its face my guilt", "I know not whither ; you must not advance :", "Beyond the two first windings ; if you do", "His just discernment and your own .", "Fare in our absence ?", "To part no more !", "Rightly ; for how should such a wretch as I", "\u2014 but who knows it might not", "An hour ere daybreak , with all means to quit", "So much embarrassment to me just now ,", "Aye ,", "Is't not dangerous ?", "What do you mean ?", "Can I , so wretched , give to Misery", "Show me how ?", "I know not \u2014", "My noble boy !", "Give me your word .", "You may yet know me by a loftier title .", "By our Teutonic fathers in old days ,", "But being taken for him might conduct", "That hereafter you permit me", "Be he who is the stifling cause which smothers", "To whom you speak ?"], "true_target": ["Have gold ?", "My father hated me . Why not my son ?", "A maze hath my dim destiny involved me !", "You must also furnish me ,", "And leave you ,", "I dare not use it , show it , scarce look on it . 180", "For what you may be led to .", "This place .", "You ?", "My journey hence .", "And , for the sovereign 's head , my own begirt", "\u2018 Tis your own on one condition .", "Dare you insinuate ?", "Oh , just God ! 70 Thy hell is not hereafter ! Am I dust still ?", "When man built less against the elements 100", "Yes , but who knows to what place it may lead ?", "Accursed", "And to the Baron 's self hereafter \u2014 \u2018 tis 320", "Abated ? Is there hope of that ?", "\u2018 Tis of our safety .", "And cry to all beholders , Lo ! a villain !", "And hollow cells , and obscure niches , to 90", "Thou canst not know me , I am not myself ;", "Yet", "Would this assist your knowledge ?", "You see he is not here .", "And one base sin hath done me less ill than", "Poverty is ever so .", "Especially the next in blood .", "Your inquisition now : I may not be", "Are you aware", "Thou art too late ! I 'll nought to do with blood . 150", "Gaze on it freely ;", "So patient always .", "It is a damned world , sir .", "Are in thy words ! Thou know me ? in this guise", "Who showed himself and father 's safety in", "Your poverty ?", "You mean to pursue it , as", "I will follow", "Possessor might , as usual , prove the strongest \u2014", "It yields to the least touch .", "I see it , and I feel it ; yet I feel", "You have divined the man ?", "I deal plainly ,", "A family ring .", "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 !", "By means of this accurs\u00e9d gold ; but now", "At day-dawn it is yours .", "And now your remedy ! I thought to escape", "I will .", "As I have said : it leads through winding walls ,", "I will be soon .", "Lead even into the chamber of your foe ?", "Call me Werner still ;", "At such an hour too !", "A gem ! It was my father 's !", "You have guessed , no doubt , that I was born above", "I cannot think it :", "Whom do you seek ?", "Assuredly ,", "Insolent ! 140", "A shelter ?\u2014 wanting such myself as much", "I have important reasons", "My guardian angel !", "You 'll find the spring more obvious", "For wishing to continue privily", "Then we may be safe .", "\u2018 Tis but a snare he winds about us both ,", "One day .", "Said you not that he was not here ?", "So lately found , in peril too ?"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 221}, {"query": ["Carats may it weigh ?\u2014 Come , Werner , I will wing thee .", "Precedence !", "Thou bright eye of the Mine ! thou loadstar of", "And gilded crosiers , and crossed arms , and cowls ,", "I can n't say I did ,", "He we sought .", "Thou more than stone of the philosopher !", "More worship than the majesty who sweats", "A wise magician , who has bound the devil", "Be you the man or no , \u2018 tis not my business ;", "As frail as any other life or glory .", "And yet we traced him 130", "Thou shalt be furnished , Werner , with such means 350", "Of crystal , which each rattling wind proclaims", "Though this looks like it : this is the true breeding", "In the search", "That 's very well . You also know your place , too ; 300", "Who was he ?", "Of gentle blood !", "It may be", "But this !\u2014 another look !", "A gipsy or Bohemian , \u2018 tis the same ,", "Hereafter ; but we must continue now", "But there 's another whom he tracks more keenly ,", "And never offer a precise reward \u2014", "A well-spoken , pretty-faced young man !", "Likeness and fame alike rest in some panes", "But come , I 'll serve thee ; thou shalt be as free", "I have a foster-brother in the mart", "Diamond , by all that 's glorious !", "The soul ! the true magnetic Pole to which", "And helms , and twisted armour , and long swords ,", "That Stralenheim 's in quest of .", "Our search for t'other .", "All the fantastic furniture of windows 120", "I 'll show thee I am honest \u2014", "Shalt thou be mine ? I am , methinks , already", "High on the Monarch 's Diadem , attractest", "The country for some missing bits of coin ,", "And soon , it may be , with authority", "Besides , I never could obtain the half", "Should overtake thee .\u2014 Let me gaze again !", "Thou flaming Spirit of the Earth ! which , sitting", "As air , despite the waters ; let us hence :", "Millions of hearts which bleed to lend it lustre !"], "true_target": ["Casements , through which the sunset streams like sunrise", "You see , sir : how he gave to each his due", "And now I think o n't , asking after you", "No , faith !", "All hearts point duly north , like trembling needles !", "In good sooth , if you really are the man", "On long pearl-coloured beards and crimson crosses .", "And prettily behaved ! He knows his station ,", "I do believe in thee ! thou art the spirit", "I have a question or two for yourself", "Dim with brave knights and holy hermits , whose", "How !\u2014 What !\u2014 Eh ! A jewel !", "Stand there : but where 's he gone ?", "So then you are the man", "Oh , thou sweet sparkler !", "Yes , one ;", "I should like to know ,", "Bustle , my boys ! we are at fault .", "Beneath the crown which makes his head ache , like", "Or deal you in the black art ?", "Of whom I long have dreamed in a low garb .\u2014", "Of him who robbed the Baron .", "Werner , or what else ?", "Thou touch-stone of Philosophy herself ! 330", "With nobly-born impatience .", "Both paramount to his and mine . But come !", "A little king , a lucky alchymist !\u2014 340", "A family !\u2014 yours !\u2014 a gem ! I 'm breathless !", "From this proud , niggardly noble , who would raise", "Whom Stralenheim 's in quest of ?", "Without the forfeit of his soul . But come ,", "And yet I do n't know that I know your place .", "He 's gone , however .", "Mine !\u2014 Name it !", "That 's well \u2014", "Is he not here ? He must have vanished then", "Up to this hall . Are you accomplices ?", "But is it real ? Let me look on it :", "Through the dim Gothic glass by pious aid", "Of pictured saints upon the red and yellow", "Gone back to his chamber :", "For they pass by both names . And was he one ?", "Of Hamburgh skilled in precious stones . How many", "A villain .", "As sure as you", "Of flight , that if thou wert a snail , not birds"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 221}, {"query": ["An old Bohemian \u2014 an imperial gipsy . 290", "In the same thicket where he hewed for bread .", "Your servant !\u2014 Werner", "I see the subject now more clearly , and", "Will serve to warn our vessels through these shoals .", "A double purpose . Stralenheim lost gold \u2014", "I cannot", "And horses to pursue your route at sunrise , 190", "That may be \u2014", "Of me as aught of kindred with yourself .", "Wherefore should I ?", "I sought you , father .", "I would have", "The freight is rich , so heave the line in time ! 270", "Is not impassable ; and when you gain", "I have fathomed it and you . But let us talk", "Your great men", "As such is now your own . With this you must", "This ring to more than Stralenheim has lost", "The doubts that rise like briers in our path ,", "Blood ! \u2018 tis", "The waters are abating ; a few hours", "You and my mother must away to-night .", "Of this same Baron to make way for him .", "Keep off from me as from your foe !", "By his last night 's slumber . Be not over timid", "Nets are for thrushes , eagles are not caught so :", "And Idenstein will serve you .", "And should , perhaps \u2014 and yet \u2014 but get ye ready ;", "How fare you in your purpose ? Have you caught", "Of this no more . Or , if it must be ever , 240", "The waters only lie in flood between", "I fear that men must draw their chariots , as", "A word of many meanings ; in the veins ,", "Disturb your right , or mine , if once we were 250", "Must be answered on the instant , as the bound", "Our general situation in its bearings .", "The frontier , and you 're safe .", "The only fear were if we fled together ,", "And then the man who was possest of this", "Would , though with naked limbs , were the wolf rustling", "Stralenheim knows nothing", "We 'll overfly or rend them .", "By dabbling with a jewel in your favour ,", "You may have better luck another chase .", "Master Idenstein ,", "Not now . Your error has redoubled all", "\u2018 Tis well they have horses , too ; for if they had not ,", "We may be", "No ; Stralenheim is ignorant of all", "Would Stralenheim 's appearance in Bohemia", "The route on to Bohemia , though encumbered ,", "In Castle Siegendorf ! Display no gold :", "I 'll wait !", "My father !\u2014\u2014", "Can do for parents shall be done for mine .", "To lull all doubts , and then rejoin my father .", "Show Idenstein the gem", "No jewel : therefore it could not be his ;", "And out of them , it is a different thing \u2014", "In your address , nor yet too arrogant ,", "Into the deep , and bring up slime and mud ,", "Yours ."], "true_target": ["You shall be safe ; let that suffice .", "He sends me here a spy upon your actions ,", "Can hardly be suspected of abstracting", "Farewell ! I scarce have time , but yet your hand ,", "Deeming me wholly his .", "but no less", "Well , there are plenty more : 280", "No !", "Right ; I stand corrected . 170", "When you will be a prisoner , perhaps worse ,", "The topic \u2014\u2014", "Will bring his summoned myrmidons from Frankfort ,", "For that would make our ties beyond all doubt .", "You must not use it , at least now ; but take", "Admitted to our lands ?", ": it will answer thus", "All had been known at once .", "The least we 'll meet again once more .", "when a part is bad ,", "The present difficulties of our house", "And", "Like Theban brethren :", "Observed : subdue your nature to the hour !", "Here comes the Intendant : sound him with the gem ;", "\u2018 Twill sink into his venal soul like lead", "Where is the Baron ?", "At secret war with that of Stralenheim :", "With its greased understratum ;", "I will but wait a day or two with him", "That is strange . Came the thought ne'er into your mind last night ?", "Pause in each petty fear , and stumble at", "This burgh and Frankfort : so far 's in our favour", "Bribe the Intendant for his old caleche", "To take an interest in you , and still more", "But must break through them , as an unarmed carle 160", "Can you not guess ?", "Hush ! hush ! no transports : we 'll indulge in them", "Then we shall never", "Yes , curse \u2014 it will ease you ! Here is the Intendant .", "The Baron 's coin , when he could thus convert 210", "They say kings did Sesostris", "And I an outcast , bastardised by practice", "Hate my father !", "A few hours \u2019 start , the difficulties will be", "Spared you the trouble ; but had I appeared", "HIM . I have shown one way .", "are aliens to each other ,", "I know not that ; but at", "And so it should be , when the same in blood", "Your father knew you not as I do .", "Together with my mother .", "In the mean time be sure that all a son", "And ooze , too , from the bottom , as the lead doth", "A few spilt ounces purify the rest . 260", "I 've heard so ; but I must take leave . Intendant ,", "This ring .", "Fear nothing !", "Of the stung steed replies unto the spur :", "All we have now to think of is to baffle", "The same to your pursuers . Once beyond 200", "More understand each other . But to change", ", if that be your name ,", "Or any of the ties between us : more \u2014", "The rogue ?"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 221}, {"query": ["To renovated strength and temper .", "I trust to-morrow will restore your Lordship", "According to your order , and beneath", "Certainly ,", "And wherefore fear ?"], "true_target": ["All 's ready , my good Lord !", "The inspection of myself and the young Saxon", "May you rest there well ! 10", "Who saved your life . I think they call him \u201c Ulric . \u201d", "Good night !"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 222}, {"query": ["Which will not let the sunbeams through , nor yet", "Too dull for wakefulness , too quick for slumber ,", "Howling and dripping on the bank , whilst I", "Changed , to-day , of this chamber ? for last night 's", "All folly . Were the locks as I desired", "Quick , proud , and happy to retain the name", "And man , an everlasting mist :\u2014 I will", "Of him who saved your master , as a litany", "Can recollect his name ! I will not waste 30", "\u2018 Twixt earth and heaven , like envy between man", "I feel , and fear , I shall .", "Descend in rain and end , but spreads itself", "Get hence ; \u201c You think \u201d indeed ! you , who stood still", "You think ! you supercilious slave ! what right 20"], "true_target": ["Have you to tax your memory , which should be", "Whose daily repetition marks your duty .\u2014", "To rest , but something heavy on my spirit ,", "Lay dying , and the stranger dashed aside", "Because an undescribable \u2014\u2014 but \u2018 tis", "Thank him \u2014 and despise you . \u201c You think ! \u201d and scarce", "I am not sleepy ,", "And yet I must to bed : I fain would say", "More words on you . Call me betimes .", "Unto my pillow .", "I know not why , and therefore do fear more ,", "The roaring torrent , and restored me to", "Sits on me as a cloud along the sky ,", "Adventure makes it needful ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 222}, {"query": ["The abyss of crime", "Upon the forest 's edge , the vehicle", "Dogging him yester-even .", "If I e'er , in heart or mind ,", "From yonder terrace .", "Why look you so ?", "Yes ; and not without reproach", "Such as when \u2014\u2014 Hark ! what noise is that ? Again !", "Who seems the culprit , and \u2014\u2014", "Awaits us . Now the dwindling stars begin", "The very wretch who was the cause he needed", ", with gorgeous curtains", "To what must I", "As from mine eyes !", "It is too late : he had left the palace ere", "It must be done , however ; and I 'll pause", "May doubt even of the guilty 's guilt . Your heart", "Have in such circumstances thrust him forth .", "To bear the brand of bloodshed ?", "Of a discovery .", "What ?", "Some means of restitution , which would ease", "Great God ! 40", "Insane or insolent !", "My spirit , though he would grasp all of mine ;", "Look on these horrible walls . Oh ! never , never", "Proceed .", "Is free , and quick with virtuous wrath to accuse", "But what have I to do with this ?", "My soul in part : but how , without discovery ?\u2014", "Perhaps , as infancy", "Open , and the doors which lead from that hall", "All 's ready . Idenstein has kept his word ;", "For my own crime : a victim to my safety ,", "You , my son !\u2014 doubted \u2014\u2014", "Thou wouldst say : I must bear it , and deserve it ;", "The madness of my misery led to this", "At his dull heedlessness , in leaving thus", "The irritation of my oppressed spirit \u2014", "Suspicion : two new victims in the lieu", "Base infamy ; repentance must retrieve it : 20", "I quitted it . I found the secret panel 70", "Engraved in crimson in men 's memories ,", "Imploring a few hours \u2019 concealment from 90", "A man pursued by my chief foe ; disgraced", "I never was as yet", "The myrmidons of Idenstein , who were", "Which masks it : I but thought he had snatched the silent", "Such thoughts \u2014 if e'er they glared a moment through"], "true_target": ["I will have nought of Stralenheim 's upon", "But rather strove to trample back to hell", "Which all the coming splendour of the lands ,", "In Innocence 's shadow , it may be , 110", "Appearances ; and views a criminal", "Of dark fatality , like clouds , are gathering", "Because \u2018 tis dusky .", "\u2018 Tis horrible ! \u2018 tis hideous , as \u2018 tis hateful !\u2014 50", "A stain ,\u2014 if not upon my name , yet in 10", "The murderer of any man . What mean you ?", "The branches shake ; and some loose stones have fallen", "His shelterer 's asylum to the risk", "Not I , though just now you doubted \u2014", "But this my sudden flight will give the Moloch", "Shall I forget them . Here I came most poor ,", "But not dishonoured : and I leave them with", "Can scarcely lull a moment . I must find", "Boy ! since I fell into", ", I ,", "And rights , and sovereignty of Siegendorf", "Of one , if I remain . The fled Hungarian , 100", "Upon the method the first hour of safety .", "Besides , the search \u2014\u2014", "And stationed in the outskirts of the town ,", "My heart !\u2014 a never-dying canker-worm ,", "Conceived deliberately such a thought ,", "Oh , my boy ! what unknown woes", "Above our house !", "Such refuge . Had he been a wolf , I could not", "Answer ?", "Most true : but still I would not have it", "Having seen the innocent oppressed for me ,", "Concealed and fatal gallery .", "May Heaven be shut for ever from my hopes ,", "And favourable moment to escape", "Fly ! and leave my name", "But not \u2014\u2014", "Certain .", "Thieves !", "Though in this most obscure abode of men \u2014\u2014", "Ah ! The Hungarian ?", "I could not sleep \u2014 and now the hour 's at hand !", "To pale in heaven ; and for the last time I", "Lands , freedom , life ,\u2014 and yet he sleeps as soundly", "Could I shun it ?", "Linked with the Hungarian 's , or , preferred as poorest ,", "No ! I 'll face it . Who shall dare suspect me ?", "Spread for his canopy , o'er silken pillows ,", "This counsel 's safe \u2014 but is it honourable ?", "No ; I hid him in that very"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 223}, {"query": ["Have been alarmed ; but as the Intendant is", "As regards you , and that is the chief point ,", "May howl above his ashes", "Save on his body . Part of his own household", "Absent , I took upon myself the care", "Trace the murderer , if \u2018 tis possible .", "Retrace the secret passage ? Did you not", "Is all he 'll have , or wants . If I discover", "A week beyond their funeral rites their sway 140", "That 's well ; but had been better , if", "As heir of Siegendorf : if Idenstein", "For which you have so long panted , and in vain !", "Why would you shelter this man ?", "There I 'll find him .", "Alone , and leave all other thoughts to me ,", "But Stralenheim is dead .", "Away !\u2014 I 'll make all easy . Idenstein", "The fugitive ?", "We 'll meet in Castle Siegendorf \u2014 once more", "Obscure as his deserts , without a scutcheon ,", "Past doubt , been entered secretly . Excuse me ,", "Behold my father , or \u2014\u2014", "You prize your life , or mine !", "But to prevent the consequence of great ones .", "A fool : his folly shall have such employment , 130", "But will the world do so ? will even the judge ,", "To which the march of armies trampled them .", "To save a father is a child 's chief honour .", "Softly and swiftly step , and leave the rest", "And do you doubt of him", "Whose youth may better battle with them \u2014 Hence !", "If \u2014 but you must away this instant .", "Or crushed , or rising slowly from the dust ,", "Who seems ? Who else", "As my first duty , which shall be observed . 160", "Set out ere dawn . I will remain here to", "Begins to grizzle the black hair of night .", "Yet say so .", "Hence ! hence ! I must not hear your answer .\u2014 Look !", "Is feigned .", "No , father ; do not speak of this :", "Again revisit Stralenheim 's chamber ? and \u2014\u2014", "His peace \u2014 he also is a partner in", "Am peremptory : \u2018 tis your son that speaks ,", "This is no hour to think of petty crimes ,", "The panel ?", "You are innocent , then ! my father 's innocent !", "To me : I 'll answer for the event as far", "And like the wolf he hath repaid you . But", "Too , that the unknown Werner shall give way", "Are you or are you not the assassin", "Suspects , \u2018 tis but suspicion , and he is"], "true_target": ["To nearer thoughts of self . The laws", "Embrace me ! Yes ,\u2014 your tone \u2014 your look \u2014 yes , yes ,\u2014", "Your long-lost , late-found son .\u2014 Let 's call my mother !", "Breathing around you , save my mother 's ?", "Ere sunset .", "We approach , tell me \u2014\u2014", "Our banners shall be glorious ! Think of that", "And if I do so ,", "Stop ! before", ",", "If nature \u2014\u2014", "And may your age be happy !\u2014 I will kiss", "Save what hath perished with him . Few prolong", "Pshaw ! leave any thing", "Did not you this night", "are all in abeyance", "Here , save as such \u2014 without lands , influence ,", "Of mustering the police . His chamber has ,", "Do I 30", "Aught that can touch you . No one knows you here", "My father ! I acquit you ! 60", "It is too late to ponder thus :\u2014 you must", "Is roused : such is not here the case ; he died", "I will provide against", "You reclosed", "Stralenheim , although noble , is unheeded", "An assassin ?", "But to oppress ? You must not stand the hazard .", "You had no guests \u2014 no visitors \u2014 no life", "You shall not answer :\u2014 Pardon me that I", "My mother once more , then Heaven 's speed be with you !", "The stars are almost faded , and the grey", "Can be so ?", "Is forced ; no violence can be detected ,", "Of Stralenheim ?", "The assassin , \u2018 twill be well \u2014 if not , believe me ,", "He is gone ! he disappeared", "You ne'er had turned it to a den for \u2014\u2014", "Alone , unknown ,\u2014 a solitary grave ,", "Will no more stir a finger now than then . 150", "What name ? You have no name , since that you bear", "Died he not by your hand ?", "O'er men , unless by relatives , whose interest", "None else ; though all the full-fed train of menials", "Yet", "You are sure you closed it ? 80", "Your flight \u2014 moreover \u2014\u2014", "Except our fathers \u2019 sovereignty and castles , 120", "With the late general war of thirty years ,", "What will mankind , who know you not , or knew", "No bolt", "Reply , sir , as", "Will for his own sake and his jewel 's hold"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 223}, {"query": ["Who backs a horse , or bears a hawk , or wears", "As yet he hath been courteous as he 's bounteous ,", "The dogs are ordered", "What courser will you please to mount ?", "The howling hounds , the boar makes for the thicket ?", "That 's not a faithful vassal 's likeness .", "His tusks , and ripping up , from right to left ,", "What do you mean ?", "To beat the bushes , and the day looks promising .", "You speared four with your own hand .", "So , better times are come at last ; to these", "Count Ulric for a well-supported pride ,", "A long desideratum .", "Nonsense ! they are all brave iron-visaged fellows ,", "I fear he scarcely has recovered 80", "Escort you ?", "Shall I call forth your Excellency 's suite ?", "The wars are over : in the hall , who like", "Even of the narrowest .", "What has all this to do with him ?", "Why do you turn so pale ?", "Pity the wars are o'er !", "Such as old Tilly loved ."], "true_target": ["What ?", "Which awes , but yet offends not ? in the field ,", "Who like him with his spear in hand , when gnashing 30", "Pity , as I said ,", "Down to the forest , and the vassals out", "But Count Ulric \u2014", "And here he comes !", "Why", "Old walls new masters and high wassail \u2014 both", "And we all love him .", "For the mere cup and trencher , we no doubt", "Look on him ! And answer that yourself .", "Then his brave son , Count Ulric \u2014 there 's a knight !", "A sword like him ? Whose plume nods knightlier ?", "And sport , without which salt and sauces season", "Rest ! But what beyond \u2018 tis not ours to pronounce .", "He shall be straight caparisoned . How many", "Of your immediate retainers shall", "Pray Heaven he keep the present ! 20", "You 'd better ask himself .", "I will , upon what you have said .", "The toils of Monday : \u2018 twas a noble chase :", "Fared passing well ; but as for merriment 10", "The cheer but scantily , our sizings were"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 224}, {"query": ["With him !", "Yes , for masters ,", "The warleaves living . Like other parents , she spoils her worst children .", "Of war , why makes he it not on those marauders ?", "Perhaps a true one .", "Good morrow , count .", "Why so ?", "As \u2014\u2014", "Be silent .", "By night , and disappear with sunrise ; but", "With blood even at their baptism . Prithee , peace", "Anon , we shall perceive his real sway", "50", "Ida of Stralenheim , the late Baron 's heiress ;", "Than the most open warfare .", "He \u2014\u2014 might prevent it . As you say he 's fond", "And who loved Tilly ?", "You can n't deny his train of followers", "Is over-run with \u2014 God knows who : they fly", "Wallenstein either ;\u2014 they are gone to \u2014\u2014", "For your commands , my Lord . 90", "No one 's , I grant you . Do not fear , if war", "And the first year of sovereigns is bridal :", "are such a sort of knaves", "Have given all natures , and most unto those", "Ask the lion why he laps not milk .", "Of fierceness the late long intestine wars", "Of words , no more ; besides , had it been otherwise ,", "And strong and beautiful as a young tiger ."], "true_target": ["The country", "Already done as much .", "His feudal hospitality as high", "The devil ! you 'll hold your tongue ? 60", "Be long in coming , he is of that kind", "Hardly a year o'erpast its honeymoon ,", "On all that I have said !", "Methinks the old Count Siegendorf maintained", "\u2018 Tis nothing \u2014 but", "He 's very youthful ,", "He is to espouse the gentle Baroness", "Who were born in them , and bred up upon 70", "I wish they had left us something of their rest :", "It might be unto those who long for novelty ,", "Though made by a new grave : but , as for wassail ,", "As e'er another Prince of the empire .", "\u2014 or , for that matter ,", "The knees of Homicide ; sprinkled , as it were ,", "The roar of revel ; are you sure that this does ?", "Enter ULRIC and RODOLPH .", "The old count loved not", "His reign is as yet", "But", "Will make it for himself , if he hath not", "Ask that at Magdebourg", "And moods of mind .", "And she , no doubt , will soften whatsoever", "Leave us no less desolation , nay , even more ,", "I assure you I meant nothing ,\u2014 a mere sport", "I would as soon"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 224}, {"query": ["To pick up gloves , and fans , and knitting-needles ,", "I will obey your orders , were they to", "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", "Where ?", "Then grew between them .", "You have mine \u2014 you have me .", "The eagle loves .", "I mean it \u2014 and indeed it could not well", "So they will do of most men . Even the monarch", "True , good Eric ;", "And I obey ; you bid me turn a chamberer ,", "But you do not see his face ?", "I 'll be led by no man .", "With whom , you know , the lady Ida is .\u2014", "Say !", "By those he rules and those he ranks with .", "We have to do ere long . Speed ! speed ! good Rodolph !", "The stars receding early to our wish", "And I love her , and therefore would think twice .", "Ida", "If they were near him ,", "Ida , you scarcely", "Good morrow , worthy Henrick . Eric , is", "Whom Wolffe leads \u2014 keep the forests on your route :", "Perhaps : my father wishes it , and , sooth , 130", "Why ,", "You , Count , 240", "I have said", "And , certes , courteous , to leave that to the lady .", "\u2018 Tis rumoured that the column sent against them", "Master of the horse .", "Had never been but for this love-match .", "Is awkward from the \u2014\u2014", "Yet hold \u2014 we had better keep together", "I leave that to Weilburgh , our", "In favour of such unions .", "He could not die neglected or alone .", "Will bring you six boars \u2019 heads for trophies home .", ", and", "I had forgotten \u2014 let it be the grey , then ,", "My Lord , he is", "Is to be strengthened . I must join them soon .", "What matters it , if I am ready to", "Aye ! doth it ?", "Are we not so ?", "With such brief greeting .\u2014 You have heard our bugle ;", "Unites the future and destroys the past .", "Who says that ?", "The last bud of the rival branch at once", "So brief and burning , with a lady 's zone ,", "No ! Oh , my God ! do you ?", "Great and ungrateful .", "So be it of your wooing ; but to please you ,", "I fain would see unshaken , when she gives", "Have fallen out at a time more opposite", "Lord of a Prince 's appanage , and honoured 320", "Wondrous kind ! 140", "The world ?", "The Saxon or Silesian frontier .", "Indeed !", "You know it well ?", "The dun ,", "As I directed : and by his best speed", "Then \u2018 tis time", "It was so .", "You jest .", "Upon these gewgaws of the heart . Great things", "The prosperous and belov\u00e9d Siegendorf ,", "A lover of these pageantries .", "All ready for the chase ?", "your feasts 220", "Noble by birth , of one of the first houses", "All dreams are false .", "In high Silesia will permit and cover", "The sneer of the last courtier whom he has made", "Against your own example ?", "And when you have joined , give Rosenberg this letter . 110", "For manly sports beyond the castle walls ,", "I do so \u2014 but it follows not from that", "Old Tilly 's ?", "Sir , you wed for love . 360", "Until the chase begins ; then draw thou off ,", "Would we never had !", "Why do you ask ?", "And smile at pretty prattle , and look into", "Especially as little kindness till"], "true_target": ["Rodolph , hence ! and do", "All \u2014 all \u2014\u2014", "Walstein .", "My spirit \u2014 I 'm a forester and breather", "Old Ziska : he has not been out this fortnight .", "And learn if he would aught with me before", "His eyes , and look before he leaps ; till now 390", "What can a son or man do more ?", "And list to songs and tunes , and watch for smiles ,", "I will now pay my duty to my mother , 400", "To outward fondling : how should it be so , 330", "\u2018 Tis nothing ; but if \u2018 twere , the air", "Although \u2018 twere that of Venus :\u2014 but I love her ,", "And will you believe", "We will not speak of that until", "That he died alone .", "I must not now 210", "Will well supply the place of both \u2014 I am not", "So cannot say .", "Will make a soldier 's wife .", "Unite with Hecate \u2014 can a son say more ?", "Shall !", "Just now I am not violently transported", "The vassals wait .", "And live but on the atmosphere ;", "Yes , but the unsettled state of our domain", "The daughter of dead Stralenheim , your foe :", "In any case ,", "Would soon restore me . I 'm the true cameleon ,", "So will not I", "where I love all", "We can repeat the same with like success :", "For any woman : and as what I fix ,", "I would bind in my youth and glorious years , 120", "He should begin , and take the bandage from", "Who dare say that ?", "My father , I salute you , and it grieves me", "I thought you knew it better than to take", "You shall be 170", "Go to my father , and present my duty ,", "Is not fenced from his chamberlain 's slander , or", "You are early , my sweet cousin !", "By and by .", "Her answer , I 'll give mine .", "What would you have ? You have forbid my stirring", "And readiest means let Rosenberg reply . 280", "Devout , too ! Well , sir , I obey at once .Ludwig , dismiss the train without !", "Of the steep mountain-tops ,", "And if it fled , It only was because your presence sent it 160 Back to my heart , which beats for you , sweet Cousin !", "In Saxony .", "Nay , then , I 'll call you sister .", "And do as I have said .", "How should I know ?", "After twelve years \u2019 divorcement from my parents ?", "You err . My nature is not given", "To all my plans .", "The eyes of feminine , as though they were", "I think so ; for I love", "My journey . In the mean time , when we are", "Count , \u2018 tis a marriage of your making ,", "Engaged in the chase , draw off the eighty men", "Nought else .\u2014 But I have not the time to pause", "An accusation for a sentence .", "I did , and do .", "I am neither confessor nor notary ,", "\u2018 Tis no bad policy : this union with", "Dear Ida !", "Blood !", "I behold", "Tis usual ,", "To Hamburgh .That Word will , I think , put a firm padlock on His further inquisition .", "Obey you in espousing her ?", "Upon the dawn of a world-winning battle \u2014 410", "Did you not warn me", "He hath ta'en a jump i \u2019 the dark .", "My time 's your vassal .\u2014", "Dearest Ida ! Did I not echo your own wish ?", "As woman should be loved \u2014 fairly and solely .", "In castle halls , and social banquets , nurse not", "Sweet Ida , wish me a fair chase , and I", "Forgo it .", "I 'll wed her , ne'ertheless ; though , to say truth ,", "And why not", "Some obscure village on", "Which miseries", "I mount .", "The news"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 224}, {"query": ["About his death \u2014 and even the place of it", "Hark , my Lord , the bugle !", "For this fair orphan of the Baron , and", "On my return , however , I shall find", "Count , to Hamburgh .", "The Baroness Ida lost in Countess Siegendorf ?", "Why need you tell him that ? Can he not hear it", "Truly ,", "Without your echo ?", "I thought you loved the lady Ida ?", "To excuse your absence to the Count your father .", "My Lord , within this quarter of an hour", "Adieu .", "Best wait for further and more sure advices .", "Is scarcely known .", "Your father to send up to Konigsberg", "Fare ye well , Count Siegendorf !", "To hail her as his daughter .", "It will be difficult 100", "Of a fever , did he not ?", "When we \u2014\u2014"], "true_target": ["I will . But to", "Has left no testament \u2014 no farewell words ?", "The late Baron died", "\u2014 Where shall I say ?", "My Lord !", "And constantly ?", "The Silesian , on", "In years .", "I have heard it whispered there was something strange", "You have changed more than e'er I saw you change", "Pardon me , fair Baroness !", "Ah ! here 's the lady Ida . 150", "You will not ,", "He", "Count Siegendorf , command you aught ? I am bound", "Ida", "Return \u2014 \u2018 twas a most kind act in the count", "Lady , need aid of mine .", "As well as on that night", "Upon a journey past the frontier .", "My way \u2014"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 224}, {"query": ["Oh , heavens ! and can you wish that ?", "By aiding me in my dissuasion of", "Indeed I do not :\u2014 ask of Rodolph .", "Why do you call me \u201c Cousin ? \u201d", "And you will live in peace on your domains .", "Which wants but this !", "It doth \u2014 but no ! it rushes like a torrent", "It loves ?\u2014 They say he died of a fever .", "In sleep \u2014 I see him lie", "And will you not stay , then ? You shall not go ! Come ! I will sing to you .", "But I can wait .", "Have ne'er returned : that fever was most deadly", "I like that name still worse .\u2014 Would we had ne'er", "In this , for this one day : the day looks heavy ,", "Full fifteen summers !", "Count Ulric from the chase to-day .", "Child , indeed ! I have", "Not too early ,", "Our pedigree , and only weighed our blood .", "And scarce knew what I said ; but let me be", "Proud", "I 'll play you King Gustavus \u2019 march .", "His last and lonely moments .", "And you are turned so pale and ill .", "; but under 180", "When the dim eye rolls vainly round for what", "He had not died without a friend to soothe", "He you ; for the brave ever love each other :", "Because you look as if you saw a murderer !", "Your Ida , for I would be yours , none else 's \u2014", "And disappearance of his servants , who", "Could aught of his sound on it :\u2014 but come quickly ;", "Yes , Ulric ,", "My harp-strings rang with groans , and not with music ,", "My father could but view my happiness ,", "But then I wished it not with such a glance ,", "Then pray you be as punctual to its notes :", "Your mother will be eager to receive you ."], "true_target": ["Yes , or be", "But I should like to govern now .", "I will not pardon you , unless you earn it", "Dear Ulric , if I do not interrupt you .", "Sister , or cousin , what you will , so that", "Then good morrow , my kind kinsmen ! Ulric , you 'll come and hear me ?", "Not that monster 's ! I should think", "Alas ! what is a menial to a death-bed , 190", "Be sure I 'll sound it better than your bugles ; 270", "But you shall !", "In aspect and demeanour .", "The general rumour ,", "You would have loved him ,", "I still to you am something .", "Indeed I have none else left , since my poor father \u2014", "\u201c Cousin \u201d again .", "Pale , bleeding , and a man with a raised knife", "Except his prey , I hope .", "Why does yours start from your cheeks ?", "No true knight .\u2014 Come , dear Ulric ! yield to me", "What ?", "Even to your brow again .", "Had such as you been near him on his journey ,", "And you to me are so already ;", "I do not wish", "It sounds so cold , as if you thought upon", "I sometimes dream otherwise .", "And yet I see him as", "His manner was a little cold , his spirit", "Call me Ida ,", "To be so ; for I trust these wars are over , 230", "Which swept them all away .", "Been aught of kindred !", "Dear Ulric , how I wish", "I see you .", "Beside him .", "Yes , but I do not like the name ; methinks", "And far the noblest", "This grave exterior \u2014\u2014 Would you had known each other !"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 224}, {"query": ["Hereafter", "Why wilt thou call me prosperous , while I fear", "Welcome , welcome , holy father ! 450", "So let them .\u2014 You forget", "Ah !\u2014 Where ? on what frontier ?", "Alas ! He did .", "\u2018 Tis yours , or theirs .", "He says too much in saying this . It is not", "I feel it is not .", "Than would your adversary , who dared say so ,", "Quenched them not \u2014 twenty thousand more , perchance ,", "May not obliterate or expiate", "If I must be plain ,", "For , as I said , though I be innocent ,", "But she loves you .", "I never saw the man who was suspected .", "To woo .", "For pious purposes .", "And haughty spirit , I have thought it well", "Your harp , which by the way awaits you with", "To wean thee from the perils of thy youth", "And could \u2014 aye , perhaps , should", "Be leader of such , I would hope : at once 340", "A little in return . I would not have her", "And may thy prayer be heard !\u2014 all men have need", "Though the schismatic Swede , Gustavus , is", "Or wither on her stalk like some pale rose 380", "The nobles in our marshalled ranks .", ",", "And giving so much happiness , deserves", "I will engage for her .", "You shall ,", "The wound .", "Son !", "Ulric , this man , who has just departed , is 290", "I did , and it has been my only refuge", "The truth , and nought but truth , if not the whole ;", "But \u2018 tis your office", "The world speaks more than lightly of this Rodolph : 300", ": some strong bias ,", "In this case \u2014 yes .", ", with whom thou consortest ,", "None else but I , who see it \u2014 feel it \u2014 keener", "Returned , too much fatigued to join to-morrow", "I understand you : you refer to \u2014\u2014 but", "In Prague", "But calmness is not", "His death was fathomlessly deep in blood .", "But he who 's gone was not my friend , but foe ,", "But I did not 490", "That these young violent nobles of high name ,", "Permit you to return to-day , or if", "For \u2014 for \u2014 the dead .", "Our young nobility \u2014\u2014", "E'er answered thus till now ?", "My destiny has so involved about me", "She 's young \u2014 all-beautiful \u2014 adores you \u2014 is", "As far", "Boyish sophist ! In a word , do you love , or love not , Ida ?", "Always the attribute of innocence .", "Yet died without its last and dearest offices ,", "Against your age and nature ! Who at twenty", "I talk not of his birth ,", "For which Philosophy might barter Wisdom ;", "Died , I scarce know \u2014 but \u2014 he was stabbed i \u2019 the dark ,", "That you are a sad truant to your music :", "It were not well that you alone of all", "I did not !\u2014 nay , once spared it , when I might", "Let 's change the theme . I wish you to consider", "As unemployed . Except by one day 's knowledge ,", "Father ! I have spoken 520", "By a cut-throat !\u2014 Aye !\u2014 you may look upon me ! 510", "No ; but there 's worse than blood \u2014 eternal shame !", "Ulric , be warned by a father !\u2014 I was not", "Forgive this man . I loathed him to the last ,", "Of something which your poets cannot paint ,", "Which smooth the soul through purgatorial pains ,", "Will wed her ; \u201d or , \u201c I love her not , and all", "Ah !", "Thou'dst say at once \u2014 \u201c I love young Ida , and", "No , Ulric ;", "No ! by the God who sees and strikes !", "Father ! I have prayed myself in vain .", "For thee ? Belov\u00e9d , when thou lovest me not !", "True , father : and to avert those pangs from one ,", "The chase with such an ardour as will scarce", "According to the Orient tale ."], "true_target": ["Hamburgh ! No , I have nought to do there , nor Am aught connected with that city . Then God speed you !", "And he to me a stranger , unconnected ,", "Such as rounds common life into a dream", "The Countess in her chamber . She complains", "Nor of thy temperament , to talk so coolly ,", "They say he is leagued with the \u201c black bands \u201d who still", "I know not why , a like remorse is on me ,", "Of this man weighs on me , as if I shed it ,", "All hearts but one may beat in kindness for me \u2014", "\u2018 Tis from a soul , and not a name ,", "Some master fiend is in thy service , to", ":", "Who , though of our most faultless holy Church ,", "No , not bequeath \u2014 but I bestow this sum", "Misrule the mortal who believes him slave ,", "Ravage the frontier .", "And now you have it \u2014 perished on his pillow", "And", "As I can one day God 's .", "Ulric , I wish to speak with you alone .", "In masses for his spirit .", "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 .", "And makes his every thought subservient ; else", "The deadliest and the stanchest .", "The madness and dishonour of an instant .", "Would I have answered .", "In many miseries .", "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 .", "Nature was never called back by remonstrance .", "In these dim days of heresies and blood ,", "To-morrow is the appointed festival", "Will lead thee \u2014\u2014", "Might have one ; or , in short , he did bequeath \u2014", "As if he had fallen by me or mine . Pray for me ,", "Deserted by the bird she thought a nightingale ,", "As thou appear'st to love her .", "She is \u2014\u2014", "Twenty long years of misery and famine", "But of his bearing . Men speak lightly of him .", "But dark deeds", "As he did me . I do not love him now ,", "Though , by the Power who abhorreth human blood ,", "Yet say I am not guilty ! for the blood", "Then fix the day .", "Like the poor fly , but break it not . Take heed ,", "That thou shouldst wed the lady Ida \u2014 more", "But \u2014\u2014", ",", "Endowed with qualities to give happiness ,", "Yes , good father ;", "Break her heart with a man who has none to break !", "I am not the man . I 'll meet your eye on that point ,", "Gone home .", "Nor", "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 .", "Continue daily orisons for us", "The bloom or blight of all men 's happiness ,", "As you feel , nothing \u2014 but all life for her . 370", "Her spider web , that I can only flutter", "In a like absence ? But \u2018 tis vain to urge you \u2014", "Your sabre in his heart ! But mine survives", "for peace restored . You are apt to follow", "Alas ! Love never did so .", "The nature of thine age , nor of thy blood ,", "He", "Secret ! I have none : but , father , he who 's gone", "Ulric ; you have seen to what the passions led me : 310", "But pray for him , for me , and all my house ;", "No matter whose \u2014 of this be sure , that he", "I have to offer humbly this donation", "Oh ! am I ?\u2014 say !", "The powers on earth shall never make me . \u201d \u2014 So", "Still", "In that which it may purchase from your altars : 500", "Or act so carelessly , in that which is 350", "I could only guess at one ,", "One of those strange companions whom I fain", "Would reason with you on .", "I would avert perdition .", "But if my son 's is cold !\u2014\u2014", "Who owned it never more will need it , save", "Of such , and I \u2014\u2014", "By mine , and you behold me !", "And did not I too pass those twelve torn years", "But you consent ?", "Father , \u2018 tis not my gold .", "She attends you ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 224}, {"query": ["Upon you ."], "true_target": ["The abbot , if it please", "Your Excellency , whom you sent for , waits"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 224}, {"query": ["A proper deed", "Be calm as innocence .", "Gnashing of teeth , and tears of blood , and fire", "Is there no blood upon it ?", "Best of all ! for this is pure religion !", "Nor know you", "Who can forgive them living .", "For one unknown , the same as for the proudest . 480", "To pry into your secret . We will pray", "But it will be so ,", "Did he who owned it die in his bed ?", "And yours in all meet things \u2018 tis fit we obey .", "To employ our means to obtain Heaven for the souls", "Too sensitive . Take comfort , and forget", "Have the first claim to all", "An evangelical compassion \u2014 with", "And every mass no less sung for the dead .", "Which has of old endowed it ; but from you", "Remember the great festival to-morrow ,", "For bloodshed stopt , let blood you shed not rise ,", "Such things , and leave remorse unto the guilty .", "The prayers of our community . Our convent ,", "Better still !", "Receive it , \u2018 tis because I know too well", "Your own gold too !", "Count , if I", "Eternal and the worm which dieth not !", "Refusal would offend you . Be assured 470", "Who slew him ?"], "true_target": ["Then you are free from guilt .", "Protected by their children .", "A cloud , upon your thoughts . This were to be", "Our House needs no donations , thanks to yours ,", "By means , or men , or instrument of yours ?", "Erected by your ancestors , is still", "You have said so , and know best .", "Whose , then ? You said it was no legacy .", "If you regret your enemy 's bloodless death .", "Peace be with these walls , and all", "Within them !", "Of our dead enemies is worthy those", "His name ?", "To the endless home of unbelievers ,", "As well as your brave son ; and smooth your aspect ,", "Be comforted ! You are innocent , and should", "You said he died in his bed , not battle .", "You fain would rescue him you hate from hell \u2014", "Son ! you relapse into revenge ,", "When the mind gathers up its truth within it .", "I meant not", "Nor did he die", "The largess shall be only dealt in alms ,", "In which you rank amidst our chiefest nobles ,", "Nor in the general orison of thanks", "For whom shall mass be said ?", "I will .", "In the behalf of our departed friends .", "Where there is everlasting wail and woe , 460"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 224}, {"query": ["Begone ! and rail", "Go to ! my Lady Countess comes .", "Be quick ! the Count will soon return : the ladies"], "true_target": ["Already are at the portal . Have you sent", "The messengers in search of him he seeks for ?", "Within ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 225}, {"query": ["These revels and processions ! All the pleasure", "In these dull pageantries .", "Than follow in the train of a great man ,", "As far as the man 's dress and figure could", "I 'd rather 10"], "true_target": ["I have , in all directions , over Prague ,", "must fall to the spectators ,\u2014", "Ride a day 's hunting on an outworn jade ,", "I 'm sure none doth to us who make the show .", "By your description track him . The devil take"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 225}, {"query": ["How so ?", "Yet there are other men ,", "Why so ? he loves you well .", "See aught save Heaven , to which my eyes were raised ,", "No : I but envy ,", "I could not", "His eyes from yours to-day .", "Aside these nodding plumes and dragging trains . 70", "The young Count Waldorf , who scarce once withdrew", "And that in sorrow , not in the world 's sense", "Especially in these dark troublous times ,", "More general than another .", "Come ,", "Poor child !"], "true_target": ["Yet he says nothing .", "Expectant of the banquet . We will lay", "It is nothing : all men ,", "If he should hear you .", "Of the universal vice , if one vice be", "Well , Heaven be praised ! the show is over .", "It does , my love ; and never may it throb 30", "Let us retire ! they will be here anon ,", "In the world 's eye , as goodly . There 's , for instance ,", "Have much to think of .", "Ida . A cloud comes o'er his blue eyes suddenly ,", "My belov\u00e9d child ! For such , I trust , thou shalt be shortly .", "With aught more bitter .", "Together with the people 's .", "You will spoil him , little flatterer ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 225}, {"query": ["But he never will . I dare not say so much to him \u2014 I fear him .", "I dare be sworn that they grow still , nor e'er", "Rolling on high like an harmonious thunder ;", "Oh ! I am so already . Feel how my heart beats !", "The coursers , and the incense , and the sun", "How all eyes followed him ! The flowers fell faster \u2014", "Than before all the rest ; and where he trod", "Dear mother , I am with you .", "Of Heaven , although I looked on Ulric .", "Aught like him ? How he towered amongst them all !", "Beneath their glitter o'er my brow and zone .", "When all knelt , and I wept ? and yet , methought ,", "Than mounted there \u2014 the bursting organ 's peal", "Rained from each lattice at his feet , methought ,", "Never shall it do so !", "Of aught so beautiful . The flowers , the boughs ,", "The gems , the robes , the plumes , the happy faces ,", "I 'll not hear", "But I cannot think", "Through my fast tears , though they were thick and warm ,", "Oh , my sweet mother !", "To hear of sorrow : how can we be sad ,", "But Ulric . Did you not see at the moment"], "true_target": ["Streaming through the stained windows , even the tombs , 20", "At peace ! and all at peace with one another !", "How should it ? What should make us grieve ? I hate", "Which looked so calm , and the celestial hymns ,", "How can you say so ? Never have I dreamt", "Of aught save him .", "The Count , and Ulric , and your daughter Ida .", "Which seemed as if they rather came from Heaven", "The white robes and the lifted eyes ; the world", "Shape my thoughts of him into words to him :", "A word against a world which still contains 40", "But I can never 50", "Will wither .", "I saw him smiling on me .", "The banners , and the nobles , and the knights ,", "And , above all , these stiff and heavy jewels ,", "I did not see him , 60", "Besides , he sometimes frightens me .", "I thought too", "Which make my head and heart ache , as both throb", "Do you pity me ?", "You and my Ulric . Did you ever see", "Who love each other so entirely ? You ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 225}, {"query": ["Seeing my faintness , ignorant of the cause :", "These hints , as vague as vain , attach no less", "With all the nobles , and as I looked down", "But he was all alone !", "And without quibbling , to my charge .", "True , monster !", "Was over , and we marched back in procession .", "The roar of rushing thousands ,\u2014 all \u2014 all could not", "Upon your dancing crest ; the loftiest .", "And with the other half , could he and thou", "Of shouting , I heard in a deep , low voice ,", "Werner ! \u2018 twas mine .", "Deliberation ?", "But it may lead me there .", "Name him .", ", what struck me sightless", "I have sought you , and have found you : you are charged", "From choirs , in one great cry of \u201c God be praised \u201d", "HIM ! I turned \u2014 and saw \u2014 and fell .", "And every speck of circumstance unite", "I know not that .", "The officious care", "Of those around me dragged me from the spot ,", "Who says so ? Gab . I .", "Indeed !", "No longer held him palpable .", "Our bannered and escutcheoned gallery , I 100", "I pledge my life for yours . Withdraw into", "I have seen the murderer .", "Asleep ! And yet", "Go on , sir .", "Unsay this villany .", "Is he not found ?", "When just as the artillery ceased , and paused 130", "And how disprove it ?", "For your accomplice ?", "The standards o'er me , and the tramplings round ,", "with such", "You , too , were too remote in the procession", "Or thought of mine , could make you deem me fit", "Which shot along the glancing tide below ,", "Further than justice asks . Answer at once ,", "All things ,", "The value of your secret .", "But still I saw him not ; but in his stead \u2014\u2014", "Sick ; and when I recovered from the mist", "Your utmost .", "Parricide ! no less", "To fix the blot on you .", "Chase this man from my mind , although my senses", "I hear thee . My God ! you look \u2014\u2014", "I must do so \u2014", "The same you knew , sir , by that name ; and you ! 150", "Each bloodier than the former : I arose ,", "Whom and whose house you arraign , reviving viper !", "Where 's Ulric ?", "When we reached the Muldau 's bridge ,", "It rose the highest of the stream of plumes ,", "Of far artillery , which seemed to bid", "This tower .", "And ours , seem intertwisted ! nor can be", "Why didst thou spare me ? I dreamt of my father \u2014", "As on that dread night ,", "Had almost then forgot him in my son ;", "Much ! for I", "As on the loftiest and the loveliest head ,", "Unless \u2014\u2014", "These walls are mine , and you are safe within them .", "It will not be engraved upon my tomb ,", "Than the late cannon 's volume , this word \u2014 \u201c Werner ! \u201d", "And did you so ?", "Which curled about my senses , and again", "Distinct and keener far upon my ear", "When we met in the garden .", "And now my dream is out !"], "true_target": ["You merciful ?\u2014", "The Hungarian , who slew Stralenheim .", "My son , I know my own innocence , and doubt not Of yours \u2014 but I have promised this man patience ; 220 Let him continue .", "To aid me .", "Within these walls , but it extends no further .", "I concealed you \u2014 I ,", "Then , my boy ! thou art guiltless still \u2014 Thou bad'st me say I was so once .\u2014 Oh ! now Do thou as much .", "You slew him !\u2014 Wretch !", "To me than to my son .", "Unravelled , till \u2014\u2014", "My word is sacred and irrevocable", "My own presence on the spot \u2014 the place \u2014 the time \u2014 160", "Till he is found . His fate , and Stralenheim 's ,", "Oh ! my dead father 's curse ! \u2018 tis working now .", "Or I have heard too much .", "In what ?", "And yet I had horrid dreams ! and such brief sleep ,", "I looked , as a dying soldier 120", "Listen !\u2014 The church was thronged : the hymn was raised ;", "A long and loud farewell to its great doings ,", "Who ?", "Barks manned with revellers in their best garbs , 110", "See they cease not Their quest of him I have described .", "Saw , like a flash of lightning", "Yes .", "Liar and fiend ! but you shall not be slain ;", "Take also that \u2014 I saw you eye it eagerly , and him Distrustfully .", "How so ?", "Now , Count Ulric ! For son I dare not call thee \u2014 What say'st thou ? 400", "My destinies were woven in that name : 90", "Admit him , ne'ertheless .", "The clashing music , and the thundering", "If not all men : the universal rumour \u2014", "To all else \u2014 the Hungarian 's face ! I grew", "I will be so .\u2014", "\u2018 Gainst whom thy breath would blow thy bloody slander .", "Which overflowed the glittering streets of Prague .", "My eye for ever fell", "You saw none else ? You did not see the \u2014\u2014", "For one day 's peace , after thrice ten dread years ,", "Where is he ?", "Oh ! God of fathers !", "A crime as \u2014\u2014", "I live ! and as I live , I saw him \u2014", "Because I cannot rest", "Neither \u2014 I was weighing", "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", "But I will talk no further with a wretch ,", "I have done with life !", "The music , and the crowd embraced in lieu", "Never ! never ! all", "Looks at a draught of water , for this man ;", "Trifling villain !", "Along the lines of lifted faces ,\u2014 from", "The joyous crowd above , the numberless", "Heard him ! he dared to utter even my name .", "Who play'st with thine own guilt ! Of all that breathe", "Than common stabber ! What deed of my life ,", "The stars had not gone down when I awoke .", "And was not the first so ?", "If you mean me , I dare", "You shall do so \u2014", "Aye , with half of my domains ;", "And may not be right now .", "Looked down , I saw him not . The thanksgiving", "And what is this to Ulric ?", "\u201c Te Deum \u201d pealed from nations rather than", "Thou best dost know the innocence of him", "The decorated street , the long array ,", "This is so \u2014", "140", "That thus you urge it ?", "Doth my refusal make a debt to you ,", "Dare you await the event of a few minutes \u2019", "Ulric , repel this calumny , as I", "You ! Base calumniator !"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 225}, {"query": ["With some young nobles ; but he left them soon ;", "Gallop o'er the west drawbridge .", "Strict search is making every where ; and if"], "true_target": ["He rode round the other way", "The man be in Prague , be sure he will be found .", "And , if I err not , not a minute since", "I heard his Excellency , with his train , 80"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 225}, {"query": ["No more : forget it .", "Whom ? Where ?", "The torch \u2014 you showed the path ; now trace me that", "That there were crimes made venial by the occasion ?", "For whom or what else did you ever teach it ?", "Familiar feuds and vain recriminations", "Uttered by \u2014\u2014", "What in his stead ?", "He , you , and I stood o'er a gulf wherein", "Let it work on ! the grave will keep it down !", "In searching for this man , or \u2014\u2014 When he 's found ,", "Keep your own secret , keep a steady eye ,", "It is no time", "Whose life I saved from impulse , as unknown ,", "To listen to him ! Who proclaimed to me", "Let us have done with that which cankers life \u2014", "When we met in the garden , what except", "Is time for union and for action , not", "What shall we do with him ?", "At times your weakness .", "bastardy on me , and on", "You saw him", "Have loitered on the way ? Or could you , Werner ,", "Will not excite her too great curiosity :", "Then wherefore seek ?", "Doubting if you were false or feeble : I 420", "Your wish is granted \u2014", "Proceed . The tale is doubtless worthy the relater . But is it of my father to hear further ?", "For family disputes . While you were tortured ,", "His tale is true .", "Perceived you were the latter : and yet so", "We must have no third babblers thrust between us .", "Who showed me his humanity secured", "We know , we can provide against . He must", "That I should act what you could think ? We have done", "Could I be calm ? Think you that I have heard 430", "Yet hear me still !\u2014 If you condemn me , yet ,", "Ashes are feeble foes : it is more easy", "Which winds its blind but living path beneath you .", "It \u2014 or some Such other weapon in my hand \u2014 spared yours Once , when disarmed and at my mercy .", "But I 'll aid you now .", "The tale sounds well .", "Have taught me feeling for you and myself ;", "And wherefore ? Were you seen ?", "What 's this to the Hungarian ?", "You stand high with the state ; what passes here", "All power to vindicate myself and race", "Suspicion woke ? I sought and fathomed you ,", "Upon effects , not causes . Stralenheim ,", "Of Heaven waited on the goods of fortune ?"], "true_target": ["And have within these very walls men who", "Then summoned , would the cry for the police", "Was a rock in our way which I cut through ,", "Stir not , and speak not ;\u2014 leave the rest to me :", "This fellow 's tale without some feeling ?\u2014 You", "In open day ? By his disgrace which stamped", "His story 's true ; and he too must be silenced .", "You dream .", "Confiding have I found you , that I doubted", "What name ?", "As never to have hit on this before ? 410", "It is nothing .", "Discovery in the act could make me know", "No more , then ?", "He longs to do , but dare not . Is it strange", "Himself \u2014 a felon 's brand ! The man who is 450", "Continue .", "And you did well to listen to it : what", "Let the man go on !", "To the point \u2014\u2014 the Hungarian ?", "Have fled , unless by many an hour before", "As doth the bolt , because it stood between us 460", "It must be so", "That passion was our nature ? that the goods", "His death ? Or had the Prince 's household been", "Most true , father !", "For trifling or dissembling . I have said", "With right and wrong ; and now must only ponder", "Remember who hath taught me once too often 440", "Be silenced .", "And our true destination \u2014 but not idly .", "How ?", "By his nerves only ? Who deprived me of", "The devil you cannot lay between us . This", "I would have saved a peasant 's or a dog 's , I slew", "The object of the Baron 's hate and fears ,", "As Stralenheim is . Are you so dull", "At once both warm and weak invites to deeds", "Been left to such a stranger ? Or should I", "Behold me !", "Known as our foe \u2014 but not from vengeance . He", "Father , do not raise", "No more to learn or hide : I know no fear ,", "Of safety \u2014 or let me !", "Take it .", "dare venture all things .", "Of things which cannot be undone . We have 470", "His life : when due , I but resumed the debt .", "As stranger I preserved him , and he owed me", "I have plunged our enemy . 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When I knelt down", "If not , your son does ,\u2014 that the locks were changed", "First , who accuses me ?", "Together \u2014 and together we arrived 280", "The Baron lost in that last outrage neither", "Not quite . You think me venal , and scarce true :", "The moment my eye met his , I exclaimed , 260", "And show them as they are \u2014 even in their faces :", "Marauders from the hostile camp .\u2014 They proved ,", "A man who washed his bloody hands , and oft", "Life early \u2014 and am what the world has made me .", "\u201c This is the man ! \u201d though he was then , as since ,", "Such was his influence :\u2014 I have no great faith 250", "Portal \u2014 which opened to the chamber , where ,", "With stern and anxious glance gazed back upon \u2014", "Count , you are bound to hear me . I came hither", "My purse , though slender , with you \u2014 you refused it .", "Amidst the people in the church , I dreamed not", "My secret , and may weigh its worth .", "With you : you are wealthy , noble , trusted by", "At Frankfort on the Oder , where I passed", "Which led to this same night : how he had entered", "To find the beggared Werner in the seat", "A winter in obscurity , it was", "I noted down his form \u2014 his gesture \u2014 features ,", "Beside you !", "Jewels nor gold ; his life alone was sought .\u2014", "As she doth to the daring \u2014 and on whom", "The fates of others oft depend ; besides ,", "Youth , strength , and beauty , almost superhuman ,", "I 'll take it for so much .", "But ere I can proceed \u2014 dare you protect me ?", "Many amongst them were reported of", "Be brief in your decision !", "The imperial powers \u2014 you understand me ?", "I know not that even now \u2014 but will approve", "You shall know it 370", "Have made me both at present . You shall aid me :", "\u2018 Tis not my fault , 360", "Inhabited the palace of a sovereign !", "Secured a band of desperate men , supposed", "Be patient ! I can not", "If I should do so ?", "Stature , and bearing \u2014 and amidst them all ,", "Rich enough to relieve such poverty", "You , Count , have made yourself accuser \u2014 judge : 300", "Was roused with various feelings to seek out", "Give it utterance , and then", "Drew crowds together \u2014 it was one of those", "Some tongues without will wag in my behalf .", "In the poor town where Werner was concealed ,", "I therefore deemed him wealthy .\u2014 But my soul", "With the nobles of the city . I felt sure", "As might have envied mine , I offered you", "Scarce dare to recollect , was not then in", "By", "I did not enter Prague alone ; and should I 390", "Near to this man , as if my point of fortune", "You 'll hear . Chance favoured me :", "I saw in you", "I can n't help that . 200", "He", "And on me only ?", "Recede now , though it shake the very walls", "May have more names than one . Your Lordship had so", "\u2018 Tis false ! 170", "A man above his station \u2014 and if not", "To honours and estates scarce less than princely .", "Once on a time .", "\u2018 Tis no less true , however , that my fortunes", "Is not now what it then was !\u2014 but it was so", "Of the free town of Frankfort . Of their fate", "Whom either accident or enterprise", "Ere I do so ,"], "true_target": ["He was already slain ,", "And courage as unrivalled , were proclaimed", "In the most high of worldly rank ; you were", "Of Stralenheim pursued me on the grounds", "Your own especial purpose \u2014 to sustain", "Not only over his associates , but", "I followed him ,", "One of those beings to whom Fortune bends , 270", "Conceptions , \u2018 twas that I had rarely seen", "Blood than came there in battle .", "Is it revenge or justice which inspires", "Distinct as I beheld them , though the expression", "Was to be fixed by him .\u2014 There I was wrong .", "Of wonderful endowments :\u2014 birth and fortune ,", "True \u2014", "The second . I have still a further shield .\u2014", "I could discern , methought , the assassin 's eye", "To leave the city privately \u2014 we left it", "To wear a steel which may be stained with more 210", "\u2018 Tis then Werner !", "Blood became ice .", "Of Senators and Princes ; but you have called me , 190", "By Stralenheim 's death ? Was't I \u2014 as poor as ever ;", "So high , as now I find you , in my then", "Though not for that ; and I owed you my safety ,", "Though not his friendship :\u2014 it was his intention", "Sent by the state , had , after strong resistance , 230", "His judges , was attributed to witchcraft ,", "A popular affray in the public square", "His sabre .", "Which frown above us . You remember ,\u2014 or", "As I see yours \u2014 but yours they were not , though", "His by the public rumour ; and his sway ,", "Amongst them there was said to be one man", "However , not to be so \u2014 but banditti ,", "I had not erred , and watched him long and nearly ;", "He , whom you dare not name , nor even I 320", "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 .", "The chamber .", "If I have read it .\u2014 Well ! I fled and hid me \u2014", "High rank \u2014 and martial law slept for a time .", "The door of which was half ajar , I saw", "No , sir , \u2018 tis enough", "Through distant crannies , of a twinkling light :", "This prodigy , if only to behold him .", "You sought me and have found me \u2014 now you know", "I have not forgotten it : you spared me for", "With me at last to be so . You concealed me \u2014", "At least my seeming safety , when the slaves", "The presence of the murderer .", "Dare you command me ?", "To hear related a strange circumstance", "And poorer by suspicion on my name !", "And may sound better .\u2014 He appeared to me", "Werner , whom I had sought in huts in vain ,", "I followed it , and reached a door \u2014 a secret 310", "You may do so , and in safety ;", "Poor , even to all save rags : I would have shared 290", "I speak to you , Count Siegendorf , because", "This is the second safe asylum You have offered me .", "I accuse no man \u2014 save in my defence .", "I know no more .", "But let the consequence alight on him", "Men such as you appeared in height of mind ,", "I know you innocent , and deem you just .", "The bleeding body \u2014 but it moved no more .", "Had carried from their usual haunt \u2014 the forests", "And Stralenheim was succoured \u2014\u2014 Now we are on", "Your hall 's my court , your heart is my tribunal .", "Your meditation ?", "At once :\u2014 When you were poor , and I , though poor ,", "I would have aided you \u2014 and also have 380", "A life which stood between the claims of others", "And on it Stralenheim !\u2014", "In any magic save that of the mine \u2014", "You said , and to none else . At dead of night ,", "Still you owe me something ,", "I know the assassin .", "\u2018 Midst every natural and acquired distinction ,", "I am unarmed , Count , bid your son lay down", "Yours and your son 's . Weigh well what I have said .", "I . \u2018 Twill rest", "I 'll meet the consequences .", "When I first charged him with the crime \u2014 so lately . 340", "Who feels himself the guilty one amongst us .", "He best knows \u2014 but within an antechamber , 330", "In February last . A martial force ,", "Chance led me here after so many moons \u2014", "That we are both unarmed \u2014 I would not choose", "And bleeding like a sacrifice . My own", "I looked through and beheld a purple bed ,", "And we have met .", "I will ; and so provide To sell my life \u2014 not cheaply .", "My purse \u2014 you would not share it :\u2014 I 'll be franker", "An indescribable sensation drew me", "My chance at several places of resort", "Resembling them \u2014 behold them in Count Ulric 's !", "An ignominy not my own .", "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 .", "Beneath his chief inspection on the morn"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 225}, {"query": ["Who calls ?", "By the same path I entered ?", "You pledged your honour for my safety !", "What am I to do", "And knew it ere yourself , unhappy Sire !"], "true_target": ["With these ?", "Farewell , then ! Recollect , however , Count ,", "I know too well \u2014", "You sought this fatal interview !", "Farewell !", "Is it even so ? 10"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 226}, {"query": ["Ida , beware ! there 's blood upon that hand . IdaI 'd kiss it off , though it were mine .", "To a demon !", "I did :", "Are you in quest of ?", "The foresters ! With whom the Hungarian found you first at Frankfort !", "I never had one ; 40", "But loiter not in Prague ;\u2014 you do not know", "And", "There are two , sir : which", "And prosper ; but delay not , or you are lost !", "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 .", "Let it not be more fatal still !\u2014 Begone !", "It is so !", "Who shall dare say this of Ulric ?", "No , no ; I have no children : never more", "Stop ! I command \u2014 entreat \u2014 implore ! Oh , Ulric ! Will you then leave me ?", "Yes ; that 's safe still ;", "Ida"], "true_target": ["He 's gone .", "And would you ne'er had borne the useless name !", "Retainers \u2014 nay , even of these very walls ,", "Or I would bid them fall and crush me ! Fly !", "Call me by that worst name of parent .", "Whate'er you will : sell them , or hoard ,", "With", "My fullest , freest aid .", "That you have given birth", "It seems , of my own castle \u2014 of my own", "I \u2014 Siegendorf ! Take these and fly ! Lose not a moment !", "Safe !", "Yes : if you want another victim , strike !", "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", "Where will you go ? I would not send you forth", "Without protection .", "Must thus redeem it . Fly ! I am not master ,", "Or you will be slain by \u2014\u2014", "With whom you have to deal ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 226}, {"query": ["Selfish remorse , and temporizing pity ,", "You here , sir !", "By your inherent weakness , half-humanity ,", "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 .", "There are more spirits abroad than have been laid", "Leave that unto me .", "With your connivance ?", "With Wallenstein !", "Away ! it is your father 's !", "I am not alone ; nor merely the vain heir", "Then fare you well !", "Let us hear no more"], "true_target": ["Of your domains ; a thousand , aye , ten thousand", "Despatch !\u2014 he 's there !", "Escape ?", "Denounced \u2014 dragged , it may be , in chains ; and all", "Your Senators that they look well to Prague ;", "What ! remain to be", "A wretch to profit by our ruin ! No , Count ,", "Of this : he must be found . You have not let him 30", "Their Feast of Peace was early for the times ; 50", "Henceforth you have no son !", "Yes \u2014 men \u2014 who are worthy of the name ! Go tell", "That sacrifices your whole race to save", "Swords , hearts , and hands are mine ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 226}, {"query": ["What"], "true_target": ["Means my good Lord ?", "What is't we hear ? My Siegendorf ! Thank Heaven , I see you safe !"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 226}, {"query": ["Yes , dear father !"], "true_target": ["Oh , great God ! 60", "And I have loved this man !"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 226}, {"query": ["Tomorrow 's dawn I trust will find thee healthful ;", "Have left his native land \u2014 thou dost not know ,", "Should seem officious and ill timed :\u2014 \u2018 tis early \u2014", "Yet say \u2014 why , through long years , from me withheld ,", "Forfeit in me forever . Since that hour ,", "The offer of a scanty stipend which", "Yet rest were as a healing balm to thee \u2014", "I would thou wert , indeed , the peasant Werner ;", "The time when thy Josepha 's smile could turn 30", "Oh banish these discomfortable thoughts", "Werner", "What fearful words are these ! what may they mean ?", "Dear Werner ,", "Till the last year , the wretched pittance came \u2014", "And , then , our Ulric may perchance \u2014", "Fool that I was \u2014 I thought this quick compliance ,", "So we have ever been \u2014 but I remember", "So let it now \u2014 alas ! you hear me not .", "To live \u2014 and unforgiving died \u2014 Oh God !", "Dare greet thee as I would , lest that my love", "What words ,", "Though it looks strangely , thy Sire and he", "I do entreat thee to thy rest .", "I will prepare a potion :\u2014 peace be with thee \u2014", "But Ulric \u2014 wherefore didst thou let him leave", "The haught name of my house would soften him \u2014 120", "And marred alike the present and the future .", "In anger parted \u2014 Hope is left us still .", "Thy heart to hers \u2014 despite of every ill .", "Thou dids't deceive me then \u2014 he went not forth"], "true_target": ["Then once again \u2014 Good night !", "I needs must earn by rendering up my son \u2014", "And never more assuming in myself", "That thus contend within you : we are poor ,", "My heart is rent in twain for thee \u2014 I scarce 150", "Yet there 's comfort .", "Then ceased with every tidings of my son", "And I would share thy sorrow : lay it open .", "I must not leave thee thus \u2014 my husband \u2014 friend \u2014", "My heart \u2014 my will \u2014 my love are linked with thine ,", "Since I have been a blight upon thy hope , 100", "His home and us ? tis now three weary years .", "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 for our child secure the heritage", "Thy mystery may tend to , but my fate \u2014", "This fearful secret that hath gnawed thy soul ?", "Yet tell the rest \u2014 or , if thou wilt not , say \u2014", "Then get thee to thy couch . I do perceive", "Would thou never hadst !", "To join the legions of Count Tilly 's war ?", "Since my hard father , half-relenting , sent", "A strange distemperature \u2014 nay , as a boon ,", "In thy pale cheek and in thy bloodshot eye", "I know not what", "And Sire \u2014 till late I heard the last had ceased", "Thy hand is burning ;", "And suited to thy lot \u2014\u2014", "Was it for this our Ulric left us so ?", "For then thy soul had been of calmer mould ,", "Restrain thy wandering Spirit \u2014 Ulric cannot", "Oh , I could weep \u2014 but that were little solace :"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 227}, {"query": ["Proclaimed the last and worst \u2014 and , from that hour ,", "Too justly fixed upon me , had compelled", ",", "My brain is hot and busy \u2014 long fatigue", "To tell thee what thou shouldst have been \u2014 the wife", "A wayward son \u2014\u2014 tis a long tale \u2014 too long \u2014", "The best hope that I ever held in youth , 140", "Since it deceived the world , myself , and thee :", "I will not be a dreamer in mine age \u2014", "My bowed down spirit to assume too well \u2014", "The ties of being \u2014 the high soul of man \u2014", "Ulric has left us ! all , save thou , have left me !", "Curse on his father and his father 's Sire !", "In bitter silence \u2014 but the hour is come ,", "Till now I 've borne it patiently , at least ,", "Look on me \u2014 thou hast known me , hitherto ,", "And ought again to be \u2014", "For patience and for pity \u2014 to awake 80", "And by my father 's unrelenting pride , 50", "Too much his Sire resembled \u2014\u2014", "My youthful riot and a father 's frown , 90", "Some months before his death \u2014 but why ?\u2014 but why ?", "Even as I love thee still \u2014 but these late crosses ,", "As an oppressed , but yet a humble creature ;", "And I am heartsick of the heavy thought .", "Our Ulric by his father 's fault or folly ,", "All save the long remorse \u2014 the consciousness ,", "Ere I beheld thee \u2014", "I know not \u2014 he had left my father 's castle , 130", "That fault of many faults a father 's pride 70", "And I am wild and wayward as in youth ,", "Think me not churlish , Sweet , I am not well .", "I were a lonely and self-loathing thing .", "My rest ! 40", "Thy sin and mine \u2014 Thy child and mine atones \u2014", "hath lured and left me .", "Beneath a humble name and garb \u2014 the which"], "true_target": ["The hunter of a shadow \u2014 let boys hope :", "I 've wearied thee \u2014 Good night \u2014 my patient Love !", "What said you ?\u2014 let it pass \u2014 no matter what \u2014", "That shelters us may shower it 's wrath on him \u2014", "The thirst of grandeur in thy gentle spirit \u2014", "Thou see'st the son of Count \u2014 but let it pass \u2014", "Is at this hour , perchance , undone . This night", "Our Ulric \u2014 Woman !\u2014 I 'll to no bed to-night \u2014", "Well \u2014 be it so \u2014 Good Night !", "Yet say not so \u2014 for all that I have known", "I linked my lot irrevocably with thine \u2014", "Left it as I did ere his birth , perchance ,", "When every pulse was life , each thought a joy ,", "That should and shall behold me as I was ,", "A homeless beggar for his parent 's sin \u2014", "Of one , in power \u2014 birth \u2014 wealth , preeminent \u2014", "By birth predestined to the yoke I 've borne . 60", "Like me an outcast . Old age had not made", "While others soared \u2014 Away , I 'll think no more .", "Father and son \u2014 Fortune \u2014 Fame \u2014 Power \u2014 Ambition \u2014", "I forfeited the name in wedding thee :", "He disavowed , disherited , debased", "To bid thee soothe thy husband \u2014 peasant Werner ?", "And last night 's watching have oppressed me much .", "Of Hope I now know nothing but the name \u2014", "Why ? had it not been base to call on thee", "And that 's a sound which jars upon my heart .", "Was it not so ?", "There is no pillow for my thoughts .", "Our Ulric \u2014 thine and mine \u2014 our only boy \u2014", "My father meeker \u2014 and my son , Alas !", "And I have loved thee deeply \u2014 long and dearly \u2014", "And most of all the last ,\u2014 have maddened me ;", "Mispent in miserably gazing upward ,", "Has been with thee and from thee : wert thou not ,", "The curse of living on , regretting life 110", "Then , sudden quailing in that lofty tone ,", "Of true and calm content \u2014 of love \u2014 of peace \u2014"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 227}, {"query": ["His cheek is tanned , his frame more firmly knit !", "Werner", "That scar , too , dearest Ulric \u2014 I do fear me \u2014", "Whence come you Sir ?", "And that 's a Swedish token on thy brow .", "I 've lived too long to trust the frankest aspect .", "Not for their actions \u2014 had he Adam 's brow , 20", "For Hospitality 's more cordial welcome :", "Thou hast been battling with these heretics ,", "Who long has tracked me , have approached at last :", "The single voice of some lone traveller .", "Werner", "At once such hearty greeting to a stranger ?", "Werner", "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 .", "It may be that the bloodhounds of the villain ,", "At such a lonely hour , too \u2014"], "true_target": ["\u2018 Tis his \u2014 I knew it \u2014 Ulric !\u2014 Ulric !\u2014 Ulric !", "Josepha", "Open and goodly as before the fall ,", "You shall have it , 10", "Tis spacious , but too cold and crazy now", "\u2018 Twas the voice ,", "But as it is \u2018 tis yours .", "Nay \u2014 he 's honest .", "I 'll to the door .", "I 'll not be taken tamely .", "There is trust-worthiness in his blunt looks .", "Why say ye so ?", "I look into men 's faces for their age ,", "Such as this ruinous mansion may afford :", "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 .", "Aye , \u2018 tis dear Ulric \u2014 yet , methinks , he 's changed , too :", "\u201c Trustworthiness in looks ! \u201d I 'll trust no looks !", "What noise is that ? \u2018 tis nearer \u2014 hush ! they knock ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 228}, {"query": ["Where is he ?", "Would that the wine were come ! my doublet 's wet ,", "Know you the name of him you saved ?", "The name endeared to him by native thoughts ,", "And does not care to tell his name and station . 100", "Wild , churlish , angry \u2014 why , I know not , seek not .", "\u2018 Tis strange \u2014 this peasant 's tone is wondrous high , 210", "And then it did elude me \u2014 then \u2014 and now .", "Oh , that long wished for voice !\u2014 I dreamed of it \u2014", "There is the very lip \u2014 short curling lip \u2014", "Here 's a strange fellow !", "My father , Sir , was born not far from Prague ,", "And , yet , \u2018 tis my companion 's : he 's like you ,", "You will excuse his plain blunt mode of question .", "Although I murmured \u2014 tis \u2014 it is my Son ! 120", "And thou ?\u2014 well \u2014 be it so \u2014", "No \u2014 stay thou here \u2014 again !", "Who stands alone between me and a power , 220", "And the peculiar wild variety", "The chamber 's ready , which your rest demands .", "That voice \u2014 that voice \u2014 Hark !", "\u2014", "Oh God ! forgive , for thou dids't not forget me .", "But my throat dry as Summer 's drought in desarts .", "This way , Sir .", "Josepha \u2014 where is Ulric ?", "His garb befits him not \u2014 why , he may be", "Carl"], "true_target": ["As wont to look command with a quick glance \u2014", "Enter ULRIC and JOSEPHA . WERNER falls on his neck .", "What \u2014 who I am \u2014 or whence \u2014 you are welcome \u2014 sit \u2014", "Of feature , even unto the Viper 's eye ,", "I turn a spy \u2014 no \u2014 not for Mansfeldt Castle ,", "Stralenheim", "Whate'er I know , there is no bribe of thine", "You shall Sir \u2014 but \u2014 to Mansfeldt !\u2014", "Two more :", "The man I look for ! now , I look again ,", "What imports it ? 90", "Of that detested race , and it 's descendant", "Carl", "Whose is it ? faith , I know not \u2014", "For Prague \u2014 Sir \u2014 Say you ?\u2014", "You shall have cheer anon .", "He would ask of it , and it 's habitants \u2014 170", "Tomorrow shall secure him and unfold .", "Can swerve me to the crooked path thou pointest .", "His air imperious \u2014 and his eye shines out", "This is no peasant \u2014 but , whate'er he be ,", "And all the broad domain it frowns upon .", "And the oerjutting eye-brow dark and large ,", "Whose is it \u2014 speak \u2014", "Which Princes gaze at with unquiet eyes !", "No \u2014 no \u2014 tis silent \u2014 Sir \u2014 I say \u2014 that voice \u2014", "And knows it 's environs \u2014 and , when he hears ,", "Ah \u2014 here it sparkles !"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 228}, {"query": ["You 've room enough , methinks \u2014 and this vast ruin", "Worthy Sir , your mercy !", "And full of these strange starts and causeless jarrings .", "Perhaps my own superior \u2014", "Werner", "And I am bound to you ; and had you been", "A curse upon thee , stranger !", "Werner", "Hitherward on his way , even like myself \u2014", "Where dids't thou learn a tone so like my boy 's ? 110", "If counted over by the noble wearer . 50", "From Frankfort , on my way", "Not I !", "He tarries now behind :\u2014 an hour ago ,", "Dislodged and saved him : he 'll be here anon .", "We found it swoln by storms \u2014 a stranger 's carriage ,", "I 'll taste for them , if it please you , courteous host !", "A silent and unsocial travelling mate .", "Fared ill enough :\u2014 worse still he might have suffered ,", "Will not be worse for three more guests .", "To my own country \u2014 I 've a companion too \u2014", "From acts alone . You bid me share your shelter ,", "I 'm weary , wet , and wayworn \u2014 without shelter ,", "On reaching that same river on your frontier ,", "We 'll sup within \u2014", "And with main strength and some good luck beside ,", "My pleasure , for to-night , depends on yours \u2014", "We saw the light and made for the nearest shelter : 40", "My comrade waited to escort the Baron :", "Men 's station from their seeming \u2014 but themselves", "You may suppose the worthy Lord within", "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", "Despite the current , drawn by sturdy mules ,", "Confound the voice ! I say \u2014 would he were dumb !", "Out ! Out ! I say . Thou shalt not harbour here ."], "true_target": ["Has't any wine ? I 'm wet , stung to the marrow \u2014", "I left it floating that way .", "And I will with my son .", "Come take the lamp , and we 'll explore together .", "Noble Sir !", "Nay \u2014 that 's hopeless . 140", "Thanks most worthy Sir !", "And I to mine : pray , where are we to rest ? 230", "Thou mock bird of my hopes \u2014 a curse upon thee !", "You know they are sometimes tedious in the reckoning ,", "And blunt in apprehension , I do judge", "You 'll not deny us for a single night ?", "One kicked me as I would have helped him on .", "I would , indeed !", "But was too chill to stay and hear his titles :", "I would fain see my way through this vast ruin ;", "Enter STRALENHEIM .", "His equipage by this time is at Dresden \u2014", "But that my comrade and myself rushed in ,", "I think I heard him called a Baron Something \u2014", "They will be here , anon \u2014 they , too , want cheering :", "Yes \u2014 it must be so \u2014 there is no such voice", "Unless you please to grant it .", "The mules are drowned \u2014 a murrain on them both !", "Essayed to pass , and nearly reached the middle", "The lowliest vassal had not thanked you less ,", "When down came driver , carriage , mules , and all \u2014", "They must not only mend but draw it too .", "And I am \u2014", "Josepha", "The flask 's unhurt \u2014 but every drop is spilt .", "If it be he \u2014 I cannot move to meet him .", "Pray heed him not \u2014 he 's Phrenzy 's next door neighbour ,", "That so could sound and shake me : he is here ,", "And faith ! to me , he has been nearly so \u2014", "I meant not to offend you \u2014 plain of speech ,", "Than I do now , believing you his better ,"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 228}, {"query": ["He is a villain \u2014 and an enemy", ",", "Aye !", "Will double in it 's strength and it 's requital .", "Has led me to near knowledge of the man .", "In the mean time \u2014 to my chamber \u2014 so \u2014 Good Night !", "If it be so \u2014 my gratitude for aid ,", "Werner and Ulric . Mansfeldt Castle !\u2014", "Mine host I would be stirring \u2014 think of that !", "And let me find my couch of rest at present .", "I will reward him doubly too .", "But there we lost him ; he who can disclose", "Will benefit his country and himself :", "Of crimes against the State \u2014 league with Swedes \u2014", "Were all my people housed within the hamlet ,", "Advantage in revealing it .", "And rescue of my life from the wild waters , 200", "A fresh clue to his lurking spot is nigh .", "Indeed , perchance , then , he may aid my search .", "Yes , my host ! for Prague .", "It is most irksome to me \u2014 this delay . I was for Prague on business of great moment .", "I must be on my journey \u2014 and betimes .", "Mansfeldt again !\u2014 you know it then ? perchance ,", "And these vile floods and villainous cross roads", "For thither tends my progress \u2014 so , betimes ,"], "true_target": ["Where do they shelter ?", "Into Silesia \u2014 and not far from hence \u2014", "And other evil acts of moment :\u2014 he", "To Mansfeldt Castle .", "Pray , know you aught of one named Werner ? who", "He dares address this language ?", "He never met my eyes \u2014 but Circumstance", "He shall be found and fettered : I have hopes , 190", "There are strong reasons to suspect this man 180", "Nay \u2014 I do not say so \u2014 there is no haste .", "Steal my time from it 's uses \u2014 but \u2014 my people ?", "Perhaps until the floods abate \u2014 we 'll see \u2014", "To all men \u2014 most to me ! If earth contain him ,", "Lived long in Hamburgh \u2014 and has thence been traced", "What means the peasant ? knows he unto whom", "By traces which tomorrow will unravel ,", "Or can they follow ?", "I have much need of rest : no more refreshment !", "You also know the story of it 's lords ?", "And tomorrow", "And now I think again \u2014 I 'll tarry here \u2014", "It is not more than three days travel , hence , 160", "Your father , too , perhaps can help our search ?", "Who shall deliver him , bound hand and foot ,", "Aught of him , or his hiding-place , will find"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 228}, {"query": ["Who never would have parted :\u2014 of the past", "Nay ! tarry here by the blaze of the bright hearth :\u2014", "My agony of mother-feelings curdled 250", "In the boatman 's shed ,", "My heart is glad with yours \u2014 we meet like those", "Fling a rough paleness o'er thy delicate cheek \u2014", "I will return anon \u2014 and we have much 240", "They staid in hope the damaged Cabriole", "You 'd help him to escape \u2014 is it not so ?", "JOSEPHA goes out here .", "The greater greenhorn you ! I would secure him \u2014 nay \u2014 I will do so .", "Back on my full heart with a dancing tide :", "The body wears to ruin , and the struggle , 270", "At once in gathered rapture \u2014 which did change", "Yet they can play with sorrow \u2014 and live on .", "Which since have almost driven him into phrenzy :\u2014", "That mantles o'er the couch of some dead Countess .", "And which , it seems , I cannot give and have .", "However long , is deadly \u2014\u2014 He is lost ,", "As Sunshine glittering o'er unburied bones \u2014\u2014", "That asks a gentle welcome . Noble Baron ,", "With us beyond tomorrow ?", "From hospitable greeting \u2014 you 'll be seated \u2014", "Is swansdown to a seasoned traveller :", "Some gorgeous canopy , and , thence , unroost", "It 's present bedfellows the bats \u2014 and thou", "My father 's silence looks discourtesy : 130", "As circumstance admits of .", "These chilly damps and the cold rush of winds", "And show not how they shake me :\u2014 when alone ,", "You shall know more anon \u2014 but , here 's a guest", "Will be but rough \u2014 but \u2018 tis a single night ,", "His very laughter moves me oft to tears ,", "And though that I would soothe , not share , such passions ,", "Tis higher to the right :\u2014 their entertainment", "And want the very solace I bestowed ;", "Of most transparent beauty :\u2014 but it grieves me ."], "true_target": ["Ulric must be my comforter \u2014 his father 's", "And thou seem'st lovely in thy sickliness", "My cheek into the hue of fainting Nature .", "I should have said \u2014 which sent my gush of blood", "What matter where \u2014 there 's room .", "And , Father , we will sup like famished hunters .", "And , better , had he leapt into it 's gulph :", "Late deep distemperature of mind and fortunes ,", "And they had best be guardians of the baggage .", "And I have turned to hide them \u2014 for , in him ,", "It was my joy to see him \u2014 nothing more", "It was my weary hope 's unthought fulfilment ,", "That ever hovered o'er the verge of Madness :", "The shed will hold the weather from their sleep ,", "Of a long truant that has rapt him , thus ,", "But with the mind of consciousness and care", "I should have answered thus \u2014 and yet I could not :", "Hath long been the most melancholy soul", "For though \u2018 twas true \u2014 it was not all the truth .", "Soft \u2014 he is here .\u2014\u2014", "Though to the Mad thoughts are realities ,", "It will not please you , Sir , then to remain", "Shalt slumber underneath a velvet cloud", "It has been mine for many a moon , and may", "And all around him tasteless :\u2014 in his mirth", "You know him ?", "Tonight , for aught it recks me .", "Nay \u2014 stay \u2014 dear mother !", "To listen and impart . Come , Carl , we 'll find", "Not to night I fear .", "I have much suffered in the thought of Werner 's", "Josepha", "Near to the ferry : you mistook the ford \u2014 150", "Might , with the dawn of day , have such repairs ,", "Yet must I plead his pardon \u2014 \u2018 tis his love", "Why so \u2014 Sir ?", "I feel them prey upon me by reflection , 260", "The woodfire warm them \u2014 and , for beds , a cloak"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 228}, {"query": ["That back of thine may bear its burthen ; \u2018 tis", "Out , Hunchback !", "Yes \u2014 I nursed thee ,", "More high , if not so broad as that of others .", "Thou incubus ! Thou nightmare ! Of seven sons ,", "And gather wood !", "Call not thy brothers brethren ! Call me not", "Of the young bull , until the milkmaid finds", "Mother ; for if I brought thee forth , it was", "If there would be another unlike thee ,"], "true_target": ["As is the hedgehog 's , 20", "Which sucks at midnight from the wholesome dam", "But as thou hast \u2014 hence , hence \u2014 and do thy best !", "As foolish hens at times hatch vipers , by", "The sole abortion !", "I would so , too !", "That monstrous sport of Nature . But get hence ,", "Out ,", "Because thou wert my first-born , and I knew not", "Sitting upon strange eggs . Out , urchin , out !", "The nipple , next day , sore , and udder dry ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 229}, {"query": ["for he looks", "And can it", "But be wing\u00e8d as a Griffin ,", "What wilt thou do for me ?", "And these", "Emanation of a thing more glorious still .", "The helmless dromedary !\u2014 and I 'll bear", "I knew the passionate part of life , I had", "Shall be plain Arnold still .", "I will : but when I bring it ,", "What would you ? Speak ! Spirit or man ?", "Let him fleet on .", "Than the sad purger of the infernal world ,", "As if he knew the worthlessness of those", "And will look well upon a billet-doux .", "In all that nameless bearing of his limbs , 250", "If not more high than mortal , yet immortal", "Which he wears as the Sun his rays \u2014 a something", "I trust .", "Who bears the golden horn , and wears such bright", "With the wide nostrils and Silenus \u2019 aspect ,", "Shall we proceed ?", "Nought else would wittingly wear mine .", "I had better 220", "Inherit but his fame with his defects !", "Thou lately worest ?", "Who can command all forms will choose the highest ,", "You may be devil .", "And manly aspect look like Hercules ,", "\u201c Count Arnold : \u201d it hath no ungracious sound ,", "As if I were his soul , whose form shall soon", "I love , and I shall be beloved ! Oh , life ! At last I feel thee ! Glorious Spirit !", "And sweeter to my heart . As I am now ,", "No . I was not born for philosophy ,", "Not of love , but despair ; nor sought to win ,", "Only flying with his feet :", "What ! that low , swarthy , short-nosed , round-eyed satyr ,", "Of the same mould as mine . You lately saw me", "I have heard great things of Rome .", "For Valour , since Deformity is daring .", "Our milk has been the same .", "Aye , the superior of the rest . There is", "Of all save those next to me , of whom I", "A spur in its halt movements , to become", "And he who is so is the master of", "win them .", "Whose statue turns a harper once a day .", "As the free chase they follow , do not spurn me :", "Round common steeds towards sunset .", "Who was this glory of mankind ?", "Save You , in nature , can love aught like me .", "And never seen the light !", "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", "What 's here ? whose broad brow and whose curly beard", "Oh ! horrible !", "Shall our bonny black horses skim over the ground !", "Do as thou wilt .", "Who truly looketh like a demigod ,", "C\u00e6sar thou shalt be . For myself , my name", "Well , then ,", "Which makes me lonely . Nay , I could have borne", "The eyes of happier men . I would have looked", "And will not such a voyage be sweet ?", "On the plain be overtaken ;", "In the marsh he will not slacken ,", "Would be belov\u00e9d . As thou showest me", "Remain that which I am .", "Let us but leave it there ;", "Thy fiendish sarcasm with a saintly patience .", "Then let it be as thou deem'st best .", "Belongs to Empire , and has been but borne", "And oft , like Timour the lame Tartar ,", ", from the Ethiop king", "Around their manes , as common insects swarm", "Was like one .", "Why not ?", "And perseverance could have done , perchance", "Had no power presented me", "For stepdame Nature 's avarice at first .", "I gaze upon him", "Than what I am . But even thus \u2014 the lowest ,", "Would that I had", "His aspect may be fair , but suits me not .", "Dusky , but not uncomely .", "Which shines from him , and yet is but the flashing", "But not as a mock C\u00e6sar . Let him pass :", "Speak to me kindly . Though my brothers are", "What do I see ?", "In the wave he will not sink ,", "Sustain that which you lay upon it , Mother ?", "Merrily ! merrily ! never unsound ,", "I merely shudder . Where is fled the shape", "No ; I will not . I must not compromise my soul .", "I take thee at thy word .", "Take it all .", "If his form could bring me", "In the race he will not pant ,", "Give me the strength then of the buffalo 's foot ,", "Beyond the world they brighten , with a sigh \u2014", "Who would do so ?", "Come ! Be quick ! I am impatient .", "Have done the best which spirit may to make 330", "For whom he had fought .", "I will fight , too ,", "Master of my own life , and quick to quit it ;", "To horse ! to horse ! my coal-black steed", "Not so \u2014", "Must I wait ?", "From their proud nostrils , burns the very air ;", "You have opened brighter prospects to my eyes ,", "You nursed me \u2014 do not kill me !", "Time nor toil shall make him humble ;", "But looks as serious though serene as night ,", "Though to a heart all love , what could not love me 340", "I might be feared \u2014 admired \u2014 respected \u2014 loved 360", "No . As you leave me choice , I am difficult .", "Who is this ?", "Yet one shadow more . 260", "They woo with fearless deeds the smiles of fortune ,", "From the Alps to the Caucasus , ride we , or fly !", "Pelides now before us . Perhaps his", "C\u00e6s .", "By the World 's lords ."], "true_target": ["Its workings .", "Content ! I will fix here .", "Ugliest , and meanest of mankind \u2014 what courage 350", "Been born with it ! But since I may choose further ,", "On what condition ?", "\u2014", "That which redeemed it \u2014 no .", "Or in an order for a battle-field .", "Blooming and bright , with golden hair , and stature ,", "Be , that the man who shook the earth is gone ,", "How", "Who slew him , that of Paris : or \u2014 still higher \u2014", "Had she exposed me , like the Spartan , ere", "Save that his jocund eye hath more of Bacchus", "More knows whom he must bear ;", "Since I have risked my soul because I find not", "I said not", "He shall be Memnon", "Thou mockest me .", "Where the World", "My betters !", "Why , that name", "In the combat he 'll not faint ;", "It bears its burthen ;\u2014 but , my heart ! Will it", "Something superior even to that which was", "The Poet 's God , clothed in such limbs as are", "The possibility of change , I would", "What ! in holy water ?", "Surely , he", "Leaning dejected on his club of conquest ,", "Haste ! haste !", "It all , had not my mother spurned me from her .", "On the stones he will not stumble , 560", "I will look further .", "Themselves a poetry .", "Must it be signed in blood ?", "And patient swiftness of the desert-ship ,", "You !", "Of all we know or dream of beautiful ,", "C\u00e6s . We 'll add a title", "When he spurns high the dust , beholding his", "To taunt me with my born deformity ?", "I love , or , at the least , I loved you : nothing 10", "He is", "Oh ! then you are indeed the Demon , for", "And never found till now . And for the other", "And vultures take it , if they will .", "Do you \u2014 dare you", "Aye , as the dunghill may conceal a gem", "Have seen else , on this side of the dim shore ,", "More lovely than the last . How beautiful !", "Thou canst ?", "I ask not", "Nor pause at the brook 's side to drink ;", "And blooming aspect , Huon ;", "I 'll call him", "Our dark-eyed pages \u2014 what may be their names ? 520", "Envelope mine .", "Which is now set in gold , as jewels should be .", "You have interrupted me .", "True . I forget all things in the new joy", "I would be spared this .", "As still are free to both , to compensate 320", "So beautiful and lusty , and as free", "Whence they float back before us .", "I have done so .", "Like to the lovely boy lost in the forest ,", "For what ?", "They are beautiful , and cannot , sure , be demons .", "And darker , and more thoughtful , who smiles not , 530", "Though I have that about me which has need o n't .", "Paws the ground and snuffs the air !", "Of this immortal change .", "Is thickest , that I may behold it in", "A hateful and unsightly molehill to", "In turn , because of this vile crook\u00e9d clog ,", "In which it is mislodged . But name your compact :", "The she-bear licks her cubs into a sort", "A choice of forms , I take the one I view .", "Who cares ? Let wolves", "Your form is man 's , and yet", "There 's not a foal of Arab 's breed 550", "A noble sight !", "On the hill he will not tire ,", "Would that I had been so ,", "If but to see the heroes I should ne'er", "Discouraging weight upon me , like a mountain ,", "And left no footstep ?", "I cannot blame him ,", "The phantom 's bald ; my quest is beauty . Could I", "All that the others cannot , in such things", "The mighty steam , which volumes high", "Swifter as it waxes higher ;", "In the stall he will not stiffen ,", "Mine !", "Whose blood then ?", "The splay feet and low stature !", "Been a clod of the valley ,\u2014 happier nothing", "You were the Demon , but that your approach", "Despatch ! despatch !", "I was born so , Mother !", "Its way with all Deformity 's dull , deadly ,", "Who is he ? 210", "That which he exchanged the earth for .", "For we 'll leave them behind in the glance of an eye .", "On Beauty in that sex which is the type", "It is its essence to o'ertake mankind", "No matter what becomes o n't .", "More human than the shape", "In feeling , on my heart as on my shoulders \u2014", "And you ?", "Of shape ;\u2014 my Dam beheld my shape was hopeless .", "Whatever dreads to die .", "Then waste not 130", "Was he e'er human only ?", "Near enemy ; or let me have the long", "\u2018 Tis an aspiring one , whate'er the tenement", "Had made me something \u2014 as it has made heroes", "By heart and soul , and make itself the equal \u2014", "And sparks of flame , like dancing fire-flies wheel", "Your aspect is", "Thy time on me : I seek thee not .", "Must thou be my companion ?"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 229}, {"query": ["To mingle with the magic of the waters ,", "Such was the curled son of Clinias ;\u2014 wouldst thou", "You seem congenial , will you wear his features ?", "His own Goliath down to a slight David :", "Glorious ambition !", "Beheld a conqueror , or looked along", "But your own will , no contract save your deeds .", "His stature is twelve cubits ; would you so far", "Which is so called or thought , that you may add me", "To the world of shadows . But let us thread the present . Whither wilt thou ?", "Of Anak ?", "It hath sustained your soul full many a day .", "In Styx .", "True ; the devil 's always ugly : and your beauty", "The brightest which the world e'er bore , and give thee", "But dream it is what must be .", "As many attributes ; but as I wear", "Your choice . The godlike son of the sea-goddess ,", "Of the old Vandals , are at play along", "As beautiful and clear as the amber waves", "Softened by intervening crystal , and", "So many men are that", "Less will content me ; 370", "With him", "And you are old in the World 's ways already .", "Some one must be found to assume the shape", "Like gallants , on good coursers .", "To petty burghers , who leave once a year", "You have done well . The greatest", "And strong as what it was , and \u2014\u2014", "Such scullion prey . The meanest gibe at thee ,\u2014", "Their walls , to fill their household cauldrons with", "Get thee to Lamia 's lap !", "Worth naming so , would dwell in such a carcase ?", "Not I . Why should I mock", "Yourself for ever by you , as your shadow .", "That 's ungracious ; 430", "And scarce a better to be found on earth ,", "The eagle 's beak between those eyes which ne'er", "But thou , my manikin , wouldst soar a show 300", "Easier in such a form \u2014 or in your own .", "For now the Frank , and Hun , and Spanish scion", "Trembled in his who slew her brother . So 280", "Or form you to your wish in any shape .", "I love thee most in dwarfs ! A mortal of", "Must be long sought and fought for .", "But it cannot be . 450", "Deformity should only barter with", "Invest thee with his form ?", "Your mother 's offspring . People have their tastes ;", "Not make them ,\u2014 though he reap the benefit 440", "Is never diabolical .", "Which Thetis had forgotten to baptize 310", "Good service .", "Ere Paris \u2019 arrow flew .", "What all are mocking ? That 's poor sport , methinks .", "Or your Kochlini race of Araby", "More than enough to track his memory ;", "Can neither blush with shame nor pale with fear ;", "Formed as thou art . I may dismiss the mould", "But you reject him ?", "And personification of all virtue .", "To look like other men , and now you pause", "Change", ", the forester", "What is that resolution which can e'er 90", "Your purpose .", "you can n't tell how he approaches ;", "That I know not ,", "Which late you wore , or were ?", "In figure , thou canst sway them more ; for all", "As man is both , why not", "A little less removed from present men", "But I 'll be moderate with you , for I see 150", "You have quitted .", "And if", "Of the more solid gold that formed his urn .", "Or wolf , or lion \u2014 leaving paltry game", "I will .", "And make the charm effective .", "Decide between", "Then you are far more difficult to please", "His , and all theirs who heired his very name . 190", "What ! tremblest thou ?", "Be interrupted ? If I be the devil", "His brow was girt with laurels more than hairs .", "You see his aspect \u2014 choose it , or reject .", "Unless you call me Pope instead .", "He was the fairest and the bravest of", "Now I can mock the mightiest .", "Of Greece in peace , her thunderbolt in war \u2014", "I have ten thousand names , and twice", "Except a little longer and less crooked", "There you err . His substance", "Well spoken ! And thou doubtless wilt remain", "Afric with all its Moors . In very truth ,", "The altar , gazing on his Trojan bride ,", "I might be whiter ; but I have a penchant", "They do , and are not scared by it , you 'll say", "That 's to say , where there is War", "Are you content ?", "Stop !", "With sanctioned and with softened love , before", "Oh ! you wax proud , I see , of your new form :", "And then on me , and judge which of us twain 100", "Nature 's mistaken largess to bestow", "Without it .", "The ancient world for love .", "To which you please , without much wrong to either .", "\u2014", "I \u2019 the sun . Behold another !", "To promise that ; but you may try , and find it", "And him \u2014 as he stood by Polixena ,", "If I chose ,", "Now then !\u2014", "Would revel in the compliment . And yet", "Had patents for the same , and do not love", "And yet he was", "Were I to taunt a buffalo with this", "What , ho ! my chargers ! Never yet were better ,", "This daring soul , which could achieve no less", "But be it so ! Shadow , pass on !", "If such be thy desire ; and , yet , by being", "What you have been , or will be .", "And therefore I must .", "wax a son", ",", "You inhabited your present dome of beauty .", "Thy Cleopatra 's waiting .", "All vowed to Sperchius", "Or Cleopatra at sixteen", "It was the man who lost"], "true_target": ["Since Sodom was put out . The field is wide too ;", "Since Phaeton was upset into the Po", "Greece looked her last upon her best , the instant", "Both beings are more swift , more strong , more mighty", "You have yours \u2014 I mine .", "Mount , my lord :", "For the sweet downcast virgin , whose young hand", "Be air , thou Hemlock-drinker ! 230", "Cloven foot of thine , or the swift dromedary", "The land he made not Rome 's , while Rome became", "The black-eyed Roman ,", "Not in your own .", "Shapes with you , if you will , since yours so irks you ;", "Hence , Triumvir ,", "I can but promise you his form ; his fame", "Their cloven-footed terror .", "Outstep these times , and be a Titan ? Or", "And all the fierce and fair of the same kind 110", "Looks likest what the boors believe to be", "To talk to thee in human language", "A goodly choice \u2014", "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 !", "What ! shrink already , being what you are ,", "Who make men without women 's aid have long", "Lo ! behold again !", "It must be peace-time , and no better fare", "Spain \u2014 Italy \u2014 the new Atlantic world", "I have no power", "And yet my coming saves you .", "There 's a question ! 140", "With thee . Thy form is natural : \u2018 twas only", "By fair exchange , not robbery . For they", "And now I 'll take your figure .", "But bear with me : indeed you 'll find me useful", "Through our friend 's armour there , with greater ease", "A nobler breed . Match me in Barbary ,", "Philistine stature would have gladly pared", "Let the earth speak ,", "Are not far from me . Do not send me back :", "From seeing what you were ?", "A little of your blood .", "Demetrius the Macedonian , and", "And of", "I must commend", "A human shape , will take a human name .", "Abroad i \u2019 the fields .", "Upon your pilgrimage . But come , pronounce", "There is small choice : the whole race are just now 500", "Rippled like flowing waters by the wind ,", "And Priam weeping , mingled with deep passion", "Unless you keep company", "But if I give another form , it must be", "Of the original workmanship :\u2014 and therefore", "Thou shalt be beauteous as the thing thou seest ,", "With some remorse within for Hector slain", "If not ungrateful . Whatsoe'er it be ,", "He stood i \u2019 the temple ! Look upon him as", "Than Cato 's sister , or than Brutus 's mother , 200", "Of rich Pactolus , rolled o'er sands of gold , 270", "The gifts which are of others upon man .", "I 'll show thee", "Athenians .", "No ; that were a pity . But a word or two :", "In action and endurance than thyself ,", "And what shall I wear ?", "Say both in one ?", "They and I are your servitors .", "Yon hump , and lump , and clod of ugliness ,", "Hunts not the wretched coney , but the boar ,", "An hour ago you would have given your soul", "But come : you wish to kill yourself ;\u2014 pursue", "I will be as you were , and you shall see", "Left graves enough , and woes enough , and fame", "Thy choice .", "with", "The Devil in disguise \u2014 since so you deem me ,", "Great things within you . You shall have no bond", "Wherefore not ? Your betters keep worse company .", "If there be atoms of him left , or even", "When love is not less in the eye than heart .", "To wear the form of heroes .", "And Woman in activity . Let 's see !", "Mine , and for ever , by your suicide ;", "What shall become of your abandoned garment ,", "I 'm glad of that . Ungrateful too ! That 's well ;", "510", "The extremest beauty \u2014 if the proverb 's true", "Perhaps . Would you aught else ? 120", "Before her glass . You both see what is not , 290", "Where shall we now be errant ?", "as they were \u2014 behold them !", "I said it ere", "Since so far 240", "As a youthful beauty", "Shall change with Thetis \u2019 son , and I with Bertha ,", "Look upon him well .", "But I have worn it long enough of late ,", "The shame", "You shall baptize them .", "What soul ,", "Your thoughts", "Why not ? The deeper sinner , better saint .", "And for his aspect , look upon the fountain ,", "And therefore fittest for 540", "Of mortals , that Extremes meet .", "Would rise against thee now , as if to hunt", "You deem , a single moment would have made you", "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 !", "I 'm not so easily recalled to do", "For black \u2014 it is so honest , and , besides ,", "We will talk of that hereafter .", "You improve apace ;\u2014 two changes in an instant , 490", "The sunny shores of the World 's garden .", "\u2014 an age", "A new-found Mammoth ; and their curs\u00e9d engines ,", "But for his shadow \u2014 \u2018 tis no more than yours ,", "The earth 's perfection of all mental beauty ,", "With these !", "Then call me C\u00e6sar .", "Yes . You", "The unshorn boy of Peleus , with his locks", "Your Interlopers . The Devil may take men ,", "Our pages too !", "Tugging as usual at each other 's hearts .", "Of shadow , which must turn to flesh , to incase", "Taker of cities .", "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", "In a few moments", "Rather than hero . Thou shalt be indulged ,", "For I , too , love a change .", "With thy Sublime of Humps , the animals", "Their culverins , and so forth , would find way", "Than the Adulterer 's arrow through his heel"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 229}, {"query": ["C\u00e6s . The Bourbon hath given orders for the assault ,", "More Babels , without new dispersion , than", "C\u00e6s . Which , if it end with", "They passed the broad Po .", "Sans country or home ,", "By its rich harvests , new disease , and gold ;", "As e'er \u2018 twas yellow , it will never wear", "A goodly rebel .", "; and Rome 's earliest cement", "The stars , goes out . The poor worm winds its way ,", "Could make their hieroglyphics plainer than", "I saw your Romulus", "The general with his chiefs and men of trust", "Because you know no better than the dull", "On the day Remus leapt her wall .", "To a new gladiator ! \u201d \u2014 Must it fall ?", "Oh , at peace \u2014 in peace !", "For ages .", "Yes , if they keep to their chorus . But here comes", "A comet , and destroying as it sweeps", "Here 's the Bourbon for ever !", "As mounts each firm foot", "Also some culverins upon the walls ,", "As Dacia men to die the eternal death 60", "Song of the Soldiers within .", "Thus", "And her temples so hoary", "Has been o'er carcasses : mine eyes are full", "Piety ?", "The deep hue of the Ocean and the Earth ,", "Their Shibboleth \u2014 their Koran \u2014 Talmud \u2014 their", "Your alphabet .", "And Italy 's lances", "For a sole instant 's pastime , and \u201c Pass on", "They are wiser now , and will not separate", "With the Bourbon we 'll mount o'er", "Prince ! my service", "For those within the walls , methinks , to hear .", "You must obey what all obey , the rule", "The spoils of each dome ?", "And harquebusses , and what not ; besides", "The walls of old Rome ,", "The black bands came over", "Of life . The planet wheels till it becomes", "I have heard as much , my Lord .", "Lady of the old world", "At day-dawn before", "To plunder old Rome . 170", "C\u00e6s . Then wipe them , and see clearly . Why !", "But our leader from France is ,", "The stammering young ones of the flood 's dull ooze , 110", "And once I was well versed in the forgotten", "Our shout shall grow gladder ,", "I see , too ?", "Because he leapt a ditch", "Was brother 's blood ; and if its native blood", "To-morrow sounds the assault", "Not sceptre , an Hermaphrodite of Empire \u2014", "With Spain for the vanguard ,", "C\u00e6s . And what had they done , whom the old", "Beat Germany 's drums ;", ",", "The evening 's first nightingale , will be", "Her Tiber all red ,", "Oh , the Bourbon ! the Bourbon !", "Say master rather . Thou hast lured me on ,", "And wood \u2014 the lion and his tusky rebels", "The Alps and their snow ;", "They are black ones , to be sure .", "We 'll follow the Bourbon ,", "Dog ! C\u00e6s . Man !", "The wall : on the ladder ,", "With the first cock-crow .", "And loved his laurels better as a wig", "Pile above pile of everlasting wall , 50", "I love all music .", "From one half of the world named a whole new one ,", "Romans o'erswept ?\u2014 Hark !", "We have beaten all foemen ,", "Have made their never-ceasing scene of slaughter ,", "The men who are to kindle them to death", "C\u00e6s . \u2018 Tis no rebellion .", "Of joy", "Devil ! C\u00e6s . Your obedient humble servant .", "That sky whence Christ ascended from the cross , 40", "C\u00e6s . Do ! They will deceive you sweetly ,", "What ?", "And Death only be mute", "Of blood .", "Slay his own twin , quick-born of the same womb ,", "Up ! up with the Lily !", "And who then shall count o'er", "Our varied host comes ; 160", "Abode of the true God , and his true saint ,", "Since I must not lead .", "Of many deaths , it may be of their own .", "Who warred with his brother .", "And that is better than the bitter truth .", "The sun goes down as calmly , and perhaps 70", "Of something which has made it live and die . 30", "Her streets shall be gory ,", "Be spilt till the choked Tiber be as red", "But what have these done , their far 90", "We 'll revel at ease . 150"], "true_target": ["They are soldiers singing", "Etruscan letters , and \u2014 were I so minded \u2014", "Back into hieroglyphics . Like your statesman ,", "Above , and many altar shrines below .", "C\u00e6s . And why should they not sing as well as swans ?", "Now . Well ! the first of C\u00e6sars was a bald-head ,", "C\u00e6s . To you . You 'll find there are such shortly ,", "And free companion of the gallant Bourbon ,", "Philosopher , and what not , they have built", "And shall the city yield ? I see the giant", "And those scarce mortal arches ,", "And down with the Keys !", "And next to the Spaniard", "In life commotion is the extremest point", "The Bourbon for aye !", "More beautifully , than he did on Rome", "Saint Peter , rear its dome and cross into", "When they had left no human foe unconquered \u2014", "And by the dawn there will be work .", "Alas !", "God and God 's Son , man 's sole and only refuge !", "C\u00e6s . And where wouldst thou be ?", "C\u00e6s . It answers better to resolve the alphabet", "Because no man could understand his neighbour .", "But still , like them , must live and die , the subject", "In the arena \u2014 as right well they might ,", "And demons howl .", "Was educated for a monk of all times , 100", "How old ? What ! are there 10", "The theatre where Emperors and their subjects", "And a worse name . I 'm C\u00e6sar and a hunch-back", "And fire , fire away !", "For men must have their prey after long toil .", "Though penniless all ,", "Remote descendants , who have lived in peace ,", "For nonsense . Nay , it is their brotherhood ,", "C\u00e6s . \u2018 Tis there , and shall be .", "You !", "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 .", "Both them and me .", "Will it prosper now ?", "The peace of Heaven , and in her sunshine of", "At yonder old wall .", "The battles of the monarchs of the wild", "Of our song bear the burden !", "New worlds ?", "We 'll have one more endeavour", "Of fixed Necessity : against her edict", "Which his blood made a badge of glory and", "C\u00e6s . In my grammar , certes . I", "Cabala \u2014 their best brick-work , wherewithal", "Under its emperors , and \u2014 changing sex ,", "And dubious notice of your eyes and ears .", "C\u00e6s . Yes , Sir ! You forget I am or was", "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", "Made even the forest pay its tribute of", "Rebellion prospers not .", "Or break or climb o'er", "A reckless roundelay , upon the eve", "!", "To the winding worm , all life is motion ; and", "than as a glory .", "Thou art a conqueror ; the chosen knight", ", 140", "They build more \u2014\u2014", "So , you are learned ,", "And prophet , pontiff , doctor , alchymist ,", "And wherefore do you not ?", "We have captured a King", "C\u00e6s . The city , or the amphitheatre ?", "C\u00e6s . And where is that which is so ? From the star", "Is yours , as in the field .", "Who failed and fled each other . Why ? why , marry ,", "And so let us sing ! 130", "Late constable of France", "C\u00e6s . And man , too . Let us listen :", "Shall clang with our tread .", "; and now to be", "Living upon the death of other things ,", "With the Bourbon we 'll gather", "Oh , the Bourbon ! the Bourbon", "And when it prospers \u2014\u2014", "We have turned back on no men ,", "Life to their amphitheatre , as well", "Spirit , till I took up with your cast shape ,", "stood at gaze upon", "The church , or one , or all ? for you confound", "Which the great robber sons of fratricide", "Lord of the city which hath been Earth 's Lord", "80", "The gates , and together", "I 'll trust them .", "Something new in the annals of great sieges ;", "Of other men .", "The world runs on , but we 'll be merry still .", "C\u00e6s . The Crucifix", "In old Rome , the seven-hilly ,", ",\u2014", "Through scenes of blood and lust , till I am here . 20", "Of the then untamed desert , brought to joust", "Aye ; but my path", "Are couched at their mother ;", "C\u00e6s . An indifferent song", "With Bourbon , the rover ,", "C\u00e6s . I saw him ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 230}, {"query": ["They are but men who war with mortals .", "Of a buffoon .", "Then conquer", "More swiftly , not less surely .", "You are not cheerful ?", "Be so .", "So let them ! Wilt thou", "I look upon 200", "Practise in the cool twilight .", "C\u00e6s . One half", "The noon of this same ever-scorching glory ?", "Sheltered by the grey parapet from some", "C\u00e6s . You mean I speak the truth .", "Most men would be so .", "The dawn of an eternal day , than death .", "If seeing nothing more than may be seen", "How now , fellow !", "Doubt not our soldiers . Were the walls of adamant ,"], "true_target": ["Thou waxest insolent , beyond the privilege", "Of your brave bands of their own bold accord", "In such an enterprise to die is rather", "Why so ?", "What means the audacious prater ? C\u00e6s . To prate , like other prophets .", "How now , noble Prince ,", "Upon the eve of conquest , such as ours ,", "They 'd crack them . Hunger is a sharp artillery . 180", "Not even", "For calling you a hero .", "You can not .", "A guard in sight ; they wisely keep below ,", "Stray bullet of our lansquenets , who might", "C\u00e6s . And the mere men \u2014 do they , too , sweat beneath", "The walls for which he conquered and be greater !", "A lofty battlement .", "Turn back from shadowy menaces of shadows ?", "Will go to him , the other half be sent ,", "I 'll lie \u2014 it is as easy : then you 'll praise me"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 230}, {"query": ["With which he deems him rich .", "Their chief , and all their kindled appetites", "C\u00e6s . Upon its topmost , let us hope :", "True : so I will , or perish .", "To be more pensive : we adventurers", "Our tutelar Deity , in a leader 's shape ,", "Of the old fables , I would trust my Titans ;\u2014", "Pay I have taken in your Highness \u2019 service .", "So shall he have his full deserts .", "The toil of coming here .", "Through every change the seven-hilled city hath", "That they will falter is my least of fears .", "C\u00e6s . You will find ,", "What would you make of Rome ?", "\u2018 Tis lucky for you that you fight no worse for \u2018 t .", "You have few to speak .", "C\u00e6s . Aye , but not idle . Work yourself with words !", "That they will be repulsed , with Bourbon for", "To crack those walls alone .", "To marshal them on \u2014 were those hoary walls", "If I were secure !", "The liberty of that I would enslave . 210", "Retained her sway o'er nations , and the C\u00e6sars", "In that fierce rattlesnake thy tongue . Wilt never", "Is peopled with those warriors ; and methinks", "\u2018 Tis a great name for blood-hounds .", "And for my deeds , I only sting when stung . 240", "Of a mere famished sullen grumbling slave ,", "There 's a demon", "\u2018 Tis necessary for the further daring", "From battlement to battlement .", "If the earth 's princes asked no more .", "And sent forth mighty spirits . The past earth", "190", "That we will fight as well , and rule much better .", "Why should I be so ?", "Whose name you bear like other curs \u2014\u2014", "I am not alone the soldier , but the soldiers \u2019", "stands", "C\u00e6s . And if I were , I might have saved myself", "Be serious ?", "C\u00e6s . Your Highness much mistakes me .", "But , Philibert , we 'll in to council . Arnold ,", "And the first Cassar with his triumphs flits", "Philibert ! 250", "They do not menace me . I could have faced ,", "For you have seen that back \u2014 as general ,", "Placed in the rear in action \u2014 but your foes", "And with their thin aspen faces and fixed eyes", "C\u00e6s . And mine ?", "In speech as sharp in action \u2014 and that 's more .", "Must be more cheerful . Wherefore should we think ?", "For I provoked it :\u2014 but the Bourbon 's breast", "C\u00e6s . You may well say so ,", "And for his tongue , the camp is full of licence ,", "Whom nothing can convince save a full meal ,", "Well , sir , to-morrow you shall pay yourself .", "And worse even for their friends than foes , as being", "Welcome the bitter Hunchback ! and his master ,", "C\u00e6s . I thank you for the freedom ; \u2018 tis the only 300", "Of our too needy army , that their chief", "More permanent acquaintance .", "A thousand years have manned the walls", "In both we prize it ,", "Unto the pontiffs . Roman , Goth , or priest .", "Is , to my mind , far preferable to"], "true_target": ["Be silent !", "True : but those walls have girded in great ages ,", "In danger 's face as yours , were you the devil .", "Let him alone ; he 's brave , and ever has", "They flit along the eternal City 's rampart ,", "Work for you both ere morning .", "The world 's", "And the sharp stinging of a lively rogue", "Philibert !", "And raise , and wring their dim and deathlike hands ,", "Mountains , and those who guard them like the gods", "And generous as lovely . We shall find", "And stretch their glorious , gory , shadowy hands ,", "And wine , and sleep , and a few Maravedis , 260", "And if I do , there will not be a labourer", "And there !", "C\u00e6s . And kings !", "That 's a fair retort ,", "That were not soldier-like . \u2018 Tis for the general", "Why will you vex him ? Have we not enough", "Ah !", "Great capital perchance is ours to-morrow .", "C\u00e6s . On the eve of battle , no ;\u2014", "You may sneer , since", "Have been the circus of an Empire . Well !", "And tears his bowels , rather than survive", "So please your Highness , no less for yourself .", "Still the world 's masters ! Civilised , barbarian ,", "Or saintly , still the walls of Romulus", "We would request your presence .", "To-morrow .", "If the knaves take to thinking , you will have", "Have never seen it .", "The first snake was a flatterer \u2014 I am none ;", "More forward , Hunchback !", "Methinks , a Sylla 's menace ; but they clasp ,", "Takes care of us . Keep thought aloof from hosts !", "But now \u2014\u2014", "Plant the first foot upon the foremost ladder 's", "Slight crooked friend 's as snake-like in his words", "To follow glory with the Bourbon . Good night !", "And yours will be a post of trust at daybreak .", "The gross , dull , heavy , gloomy execration", "Look on those towers ; they hold my treasury :", "Fascinate mine . Look there !", "C\u00e6s . It would be well", "And present phantom of imperious Rome", "Comrade .", "To think on ? Arnold ! I will lead the attack", "With all their heroes ,\u2014 the last Cato", "No , slave ! in the first C\u00e6sar 's ,", "\u2018 Twas their turn \u2014 now \u2018 tis ours ; and let us hope", "Been first , with that swart face and mountain shoulder ,", "As his deeds .", "And you will follow ?", "And beckon me away !", "You are brave , and that 's enough for me ; and quick", "C\u00e6s . They are but bad company , your Highness ;", "You are blind .", "First step .", "C\u00e6s . No doubt , the camp 's the school of civic rights .", "In field or storm , and patient in starvation ;", "Has been , and ever shall be , far advanced 230", "That which it was . C\u00e6s . In Alaric 's time ?", "But yielded to the Alarics , the Alarics", "Arnold , your", "The beauty of our host , and brave as beauteous , 220"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 230}, {"query": ["You must \u2014 farewell \u2014 Up ! up ! the world is winning . C\u00e6s .Come , Count , to business .", "No , my gallant boy !", "Till they are conquerors \u2014 then do as you may .", "Hold , sir , I charge you ! Follow ! I am proud", "Death is upon me . But what is one life ?", "Not so ; I 'll lead them still 150", "That I have ceased to breathe . Away ! and be", "Keep them yet ignorant that I am but clay ,", "Of such a follower , but will brook no leader .", "Arnold , shouldst thou see", "To die within the wall ! Hence , Arnold , hence !", "C\u00e6s . And off !"], "true_target": ["But I deserve it .", "Victorious .", "The Bourbon 's spirit shall command them still .", "May serve instead :\u2014 it did the same for Bayard", "We have no priest here , but the hilt of sword", "Hold , Arnold ! I am first .", "\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 .", "In spirit . Cover up my dust , and breathe not", "You lose time \u2014 they will conquer Rome without thee .", "Thou bitter slave ! to name him at this time ! 140", "C\u00e6s . Would not your Highness choose to kiss the cross ?", "For but an hour , a minute more of life ,", "France \u2014\u2014 But hark ! hark ! the assault grows warmer \u2014 Oh !"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 231}, {"query": ["And saw no equal .", "You must be", "But I must not leave thee thus .", "The first bird of the covey ! he has fallen", "As though it were an altar ; now his foot", "Is on it , and \u2014\u2014 What have we here ?\u2014 a Roman ?", "And without thee .", "C\u00e6s . A rare blood-hound , when his own is heated !", "Those eyes are glazing which o'erlooked the world ,"], "true_target": ["And \u2018 tis no boy 's play . Now he strikes them down ! 160", "Silence ! Oh !", "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 ?", "Not so , my Lord .", "His hand is on the battlement \u2014 he grasps it", "Removed ; the aid of \u2014\u2014", "Villain , hold your peace ! C\u00e6s . What , when a Christian dies ? Shall I not offer A Christian \u201c Vade in pace? \u201d", "Eternal powers ! The host will be appalled ,\u2014 but vengeance ! vengeance !", "No ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 231}, {"query": ["But I must after my young charge . He is 170", "A drop of water !", "Nearer than Tiber .", "By this time i \u2019 the Forum . Charge ! charge !"], "true_target": ["C\u00e6s . And so did Bourbon , in another sense .", "C\u00e6s . Blood 's the only liquid", "Oh , these immortal men ! and their great motives !", "I have died for Rome ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 231}, {"query": ["I 'll find a way to quench it .", "In the shoulder , not the sword arm \u2014", "A fiend !", "Thou art still", "Which is just now to gaze , since all these labourers", "A helm of water !", "And my thirst increases ;\u2014 but 50", "The Olympic games . When I behold a prize", "The chance is even ; we will throw", "Invulnerable ? That were pretty sport .", "Meantime , pursue thy sport as I do mine ;", "Think'st thou I beat for hares when lions roar ?", "Will reap my harvest gratis .", "I would not warrant thy chivalric heart", "Aye , did he so ? Then he hath carved his monument .", "The dice thereon . But I lose time in prating ;", "C\u00e6s . I tell thee , be not rash ; a golden bridge", "And know thyself a mortal still .", "Why , such I fain would show me .", "C\u00e6s . Or be quenched", "\u2018 Twill serve to curb his fever .", "C\u00e6s . That 's a liquid now", "And what is that ? C\u00e6s . Thou feelest and thou see'st .", "Well , his blood 's up ; and , if a little 's shed ,", "Worth wrestling for , I may be found a Milo .", "\u2018 Tis a scratch . Lend me thy scarf . He shall not \u2018 scape me thus . C\u00e6s . Where is it ?"], "true_target": ["More than Pelides \u2019 heel ; why , then , be cautious ,", "Aye , \u2018 gainst an oak .", "Prithee be quick .", "A form of beauty , and an", "Is for a flying enemy . I gave thee", "And that 's enough . I am thirsty : would I had", "And who", "But though I gave the form of Thetis \u2019 son ,", "I dipped thee not in Styx ; and \u2018 gainst a foe 20", "In requisition , but by no means easiest", "Exemption from some maladies of body ,", "To come at .", "Yield thee , slave ! I promise quarter .", "Away ! they must not rally .", "But not of mind , which is not mine to give .", "C\u00e6s . Your old philosophers", "C\u00e6s . A precious sample of humanity !", "Beheld mankind , as mere spectators of", "Thyself .", "C\u00e6s . True \u2014 as men are .", "I combat with a mass , or not at all . 60", "And done \u2014\u2014 30", "With aught of soul would combat if he were", "C\u00e6s . A forest , when it suits me :", "C\u00e6s . And thou \u2014 a man .", "My word is known ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 232}, {"query": ["That 's soon said .", "A famous artisan , a cunning sculptor ;", "So shall be my deeds .", "The Bourbon from the wall ."], "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 .", "C\u00e6s . Why , Arnold ! hold thine own : thou hast in hand", "Also a dealer in the sword and dagger .", "Not so , my musqueteer ; \u2018 twas he who slew"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 232}, {"query": ["How now , schismatic ?", "What wouldst thou ?", "Plunder hereafter , but for vengeance now \u2014"], "true_target": ["Revenge ! revenge !", "C\u00e6s .", "Yonder stands Anti-Christ !"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 233}, {"query": ["And take thy servant to thy mercy . \u2018 Tis", "Sold . In the holy name of Christ ,", "Now , priest ! now , soldier ! the two great professions , 30", "The Devil , or the Devil 's vicar upon earth .", "C\u00e6s . And that 's the reason : would you make a quarrel", "Took Jewry . But the Romans had the best then ;", "Seen a more comic pantomime since Titus", "No more ; the Harlot of the Seven Hills", "Lest he should recognise you for his own .", "With your best friends ? You had far best be quiet ;", "C\u00e6s . Yes , thine own amidst the rest .", "Had I but slain him , I had gone on high ,", "Sold .", "C\u00e6s . Ha ! right nobly battled !", "You see he loves no interlopers .", "C\u00e6s . Yea , a disciple that would make the founder", "C\u00e6s . Not I ! You know that \u201c Vengeance is the Lord 's : \u201d", "His hour is not yet come ."], "true_target": ["Hath changed her scarlet raiment for sackcloth", "Destroy proud Anti-Christ .", "Crowned with eternal glory ! Heaven , forgive", "Oh ! 20", "Sold . That shall be seen !C\u00e6s .I told you so .", "And ashes !", "Sold . I say he is the Devil .", "Together by the ears and hearts ! I have not", "Now they must take their turn .", "Well done , old Babel !", "I am a Christian .", "Such proselytes . Best stint thyself to plunder . 10", "My feebleness of arm that reached him not ,", "Sold . Why would you save him ? I repeat he is", "A glorious triumph still ; proud Babylon 's", "Sold . And will you not avenge me ?", "C\u00e6s . Hush ! keep that secret ,", "Of your belief renounce it , could he see"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 233}, {"query": ["Of what these creatures call Eternity ,", "That foam is their foundation . So , another !", "Mercy ! mercy !", "Assist in their conversion .", "The conquest which you led to .", "By holy Peter !", "C\u00e6s . And that were shame ! Go to !", "Deeming themselves the breakers of the Ocean ,"], "true_target": ["C\u00e6s . They are gone ,", "A moment 's error in the heat of conquest \u2014", "He hath escaped ! Follow !", "Count , she hath slain our comrade .", "The best away .", "He speaks the truth ; the heretics will bear 50", "While they are but its bubbles , ignorant", "And others come : so flows the wave on wave", "We saw it , and we know it ; yet forgive"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 233}, {"query": ["C\u00e6s . I am glad he hath escaped : he may thank me for't", "They have barred the narrow passage up ,", "Of his infallibility .", "Demand some in return ; no , no , he must not 40", "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 ."], "true_target": ["A future miracle , in future proof", "\u2018 Twere worth one half our empire : his indulgences", "In part . I would not have his bulls abolished \u2014", "And it is clogged with dead even to the door .", "Fall ;\u2014 and besides , his now escape may furnish"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 233}, {"query": ["She 's mine !", "The cross , beneath which he is crushed ; behold him"], "true_target": ["Upon his head .", "Lie there , more like a worm than man ; she cast it"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 233}, {"query": ["I see thee purple with the blood of Rome ;", "Welcome such a death !", "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 .", "Take mine , \u2018 tis all thou e'er shalt have of me ,", "No injury !\u2014 and made my father 's house", "I would approach thee , worthy her , and him , and thee !", "Respect your God ! 3d Sold . Yes , when he shines in gold . Girl , you but grasp your dowry .3d Sold . Oh , great God !", "And here , upon the marble of this temple ,", "Would take . Great God ! through thy redeeming Son ,", "I offer him a blood less holy", "Even at the altar foot , whence I look down", "No ! Thou hast only sacked my native land ,\u2014", "In my father 's 100 House !", "Infernal slave ! 60 You touch me not alive . 3d Sold . Alive or dead !", "A den of thieves ! No injury !\u2014 this temple \u2014", "than the holy water 130", "I judge thee by thy mates ;"], "true_target": ["It is for God to judge thee as thou art .", "The saints have sanctified !", "Had I a knife even ; but it matters not \u2014", "Death hath a thousand gates ; and on the marble ,", "A perjury for which even Hell would loathe thee . 120", "You have no life to give , which the worst slave", "Ere thou ascend it . God forgive thee , man ! 110", "No injury ! And now thou wouldst preserve me ,", "To be \u2014\u2014 but that shall never be !", "Slippery with Roman and with holy gore !", "I know thee .", "Spare thine already forfeit soul", "Where the baptismal font baptized me God 's ,", "But not less pure", "I should be so ,", "Upon destruction , shall my head be dashed ,", "And thy Son 's Mother , now receive me as 70"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 233}, {"query": ["Such as you think so , such as you now are ;", "How you should be commanded , and who led you 90", "Hold ! hold ! I swear .", "I am employed in such ; but you perceive", "Thine own , although I have not injured thee .", "She breathes ! But no , \u2018 twas nothing , or the last", "Of these men , though \u2014\u2014", "Colonna , as I told you !", "On earth you have often only fiends for friends ;", "C\u00e6s . The Spirit of her life", "The resurrection is beyond me .", "with his form it seems", "To the palace", "I am almost enamoured of her , as", "C\u00e6s . Oh ! I know 190", "Prithee , peace !", "Now onward , onward ! Gently ! PART III .", "Of gaining , or \u2014 what is more difficult \u2014", "Alive or dead , thou Essence of all Beauty ,", "How pale ! how beautiful ! how lifeless !", "No , thou know'st me not ; I am not", "For your existence . Had you touched a hair", "C\u00e6s . She breathes .", "Lady , you are safe .", "The rub ! at least to mortals .", "Your ranks more than the enemy . Away !", "But doth she live indeed ? C\u00e6s . Nay , never fear ! But , if you rue it after , blame not me .", "In Rome .", "And do not know it . She will come to life \u2014", "What do I see ? Accurs\u00e9d jackals ! Forbear !", "Of those dishevelled locks , I would have thinned", "Oh ! she is lifeless !", "I love but thee !", ",", "Ye jackals ! gnaw the bones the lion leaves ,", "Where I have pitched my banner .", "Convey her unto the Colonna palace ,", "Of that same holy water may be useful . 140", "Ye would have honoured her . But get ye hence , 80", "Rival !", "Then learn to grant it . Have I taught you who", "And thank your meanness , other God you have none ,", "Count ! count ! I am your servant in all things ,", "As you are bold within it .", "Mutineer ! Rebel in hell \u2014 you shall obey on earth !", "Then she is dead !", "Come on ! I 'm glad o n't ! I will show you , slaves ,", "Let her but live !", "Ha ! ha ! here 's equity ! The dogs", "I have laid", "C\u00e6s . Like stars , no doubt ; for that 's a metaphor", "C\u00e6s . Bah ! bah ! You are so ,", "We will 160", "C\u00e6s . There is no cleaner now"], "true_target": ["Hence to your quarters ! you will find them fixed", "Words !\u2014 Canst thou aid her ?", "Even so : there is a woman", "C\u00e6s . Aye , slave or master , \u2018 tis all one : methinks", "She be so , I have nought to do with that :", "How staunch a friend is what you call a fiend .", "C\u00e6s . If", "Softly !", "Tobias \u2019 future bride", "Led you o'er Rome 's eternal battlements ?", "The Devil speaks truth much oftener than he 's deemed : 150", "Now I desert not mine . Soft ! bear her hence ,", "C\u00e6s . I will try . A sprinkling", "And will she live ?", "Until I waved my banners from its height ,", "\u2018 Tis mixed with blood .", "Softly ! methinks her lips move , her eyes open !", "Thou ! C\u00e6s . I ! But fear not . I 'll not be your rival .", "And this is a new office :\u2014 \u2018 tis not oft 170", "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 !", "Get you hence !", "C\u00e6s . Come then ! raise her up !", "With what weapon ?", "Of old the Angels of her earliest sex .", "C\u00e6s . Even so Achilles loved", "Eternal God ! I feel thee now ! Help ! help ! she 's gone . C\u00e6s .I am here .", "The beautiful half-clay , and nearly spirit !", "Worthy a brave man 's liking . Were ye such ,", "C\u00e6s . As softly as they bear the dead ,", "Penthesilea ;", "First o'er the wall you were so shy to scale ,", "But since I slew the seven husbands of 180", "Thou say'st it ? Then \u2018 tis truth .", "For Lucifer and Venus .", "But not even these till he permits .", "He hath an ignorant audience .", "C\u00e6s .", "I wish to merit his forgiveness , and", "Good words , however , are as well at times .", "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 .", "Slave !", "You have his heart , and yet it was no soft one .", "In the Colonna palace .", "Getting rid of your prize again ; for there 's", "C\u00e6s . I could be one right formidable ;", "Perhaps because they cannot feel the jolting .", "Have as much right as he . But to the issue !", "Thou ! but oh , save her ! C\u00e6s .She hath done it well ! The leap was serious .", "Is yet within her breast , and may revive .", "Faint flutter Life disputes with Death .", "My way through Rome .", "Aside intrigue : \u2018 tis rarely worth the trouble", "But we must work by human means .", "C\u00e6s . You do me right \u2014"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 233}, {"query": ["As much"], "true_target": ["As dust can ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 233}, {"query": ["Were once my avocation .", "You are merry , Sir \u2014 what ? singing too ?"], "true_target": ["C\u00e6sar . It is", "The land of Song \u2014 and Canticles you know"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 234}, {"query": ["These are the wishes of a moderate lover \u2014", "What I desire to know ! and will not waste", "The smallest cloud \u2014 the slightest vapour of", "You are beautiful and brave ! the first is much", "C\u00e6s . Oh , yes ! when atoms jostle ,", "Your humid earth enables you to look", "All are a lie \u2014 for all to them are much !", "What is it ?", "Ah ! could I be beloved ,", "My unrequited love , for all that 's happy .", "Can smile .", "Nor wealth , nor youth , nor power , nor rank , nor beauty \u2014", "for Jealousy 70", "The System is in peril . But I speak", "No one \u2014 but \u2014", "Endures my Love \u2014 not meets it .", "No , she is calm , and meek , and silent with me , 50", "And of whom ?", "This marvellous Virgin , is a marble maid \u2014", "Nothing moves you ;", "There is a cause at times .", "Now Love in you is as the Sun \u2014 a thing 80", "In the fair form I wear , to please you ?", "C\u00e6s . No doubt ! for if you did , the remedy", "C\u00e6s . Doth she rebel ?", "To thankfulness what you desire from Passion ? 60", "I thought she had loved me .", "C\u00e6s . These are nothing .", "You seek for Gratitude \u2014 the Philosopher 's stone .", "And they themselves alone the real \u201c Nothings . \u201d", "If you seek aid from me \u2014 or else be silent . 40", "Son of the Morning ! and yet Lucifer", "You scoff even at your own calamity \u2014", "Of things you know not . Well , to earth again !", "A cloud of your own raising .", "Slave !", "Self-loved \u2014 loved for yourself \u2014 for neither health ,", "C\u00e6s . You have possessed the woman \u2014 still possess .", "And Father 's house from ashes .", "C\u00e6s . In the victor 's Chariot , when Rome triumphed , 90", "Is mighty \u2014 as you mortals deem \u2014 and to", "Nothing can blind a mortal like to light .", "And find it not .", "Upon a Sky which you revile as dull ;", "Is as a shadow of the Sun . The Orb", "C\u00e6s . You cannot find what is not .", "Beyond you \u2014 and your Jealousy 's of Earth \u2014", "C\u00e6s . It may be of yourself ,", "Your present Nothing , too , is something to you \u2014", "What a good Christian you were found to be !"], "true_target": ["C\u00e6s . That seems strange .", "You are a Conqueror \u2014 command your Slave .", "The answer \u2014 You are jealous .", "\u201c Nothing \u201d \u2014 an outshone Beauty what has made", "Her smooth brow crisp \u2014 \u201c Oh , Nothing ! \u201d \u2014 a young heir", "As an abstraction \u2014 for \u2014 you know not what !", "And coldly dutiful , and proudly patient \u2014", "This precious thing of dust \u2014 this bright Olimpia \u2014", "There was a Slave of yore to tell him truth !", "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 ,", "What need you more ?", "Not so always !", "What ails him ? \u201c Nothing ! \u201d or a Monarch who 30", "The body of your Credence ?", "An Idol , but a cold one to your heat", "And such calamity ! how wert thou fallen 20", "All wretched as I am , I would not quit", "Though your eyes dare not gaze on it when cloudless .", "Teach me the way to win the woman 's love . C\u00e6s . Leave her .", "And more she loves me not \u2014", "Where that the path \u2014 I 'd not pursue it .", "C\u00e6s . Yes ! and not believe", "C\u00e6s . I only know", "For these you may be stript of \u2014 but beloved", "Nothing .", "No ! No ! you would be loved \u2014 what you call loved \u2014", "But , great as He appears , and is to you ,", "Omniscience upon phantoms . Out with it !", "And transubstantiated to crumbs again", "Ah ! C\u00e6s . You are grave \u2014 what have you on your spirit !", "And eat your thoughts \u2014 till they breed snakes within you .", "Olimpia ! C\u00e6s . I thought as much \u2014 go on .", "Would be for a disease already cured .", "For passion \u2014 and the rest for Vanity .", "And so you love .", "Your little Universe seems universal ;", "When his Sire has recovered from the Gout ,", "C\u00e6s . His shape can \u2014 would you have me weep ,", "What clouds his royal aspect ? \u201c Nothing , \u201d \u201c Nothing ! \u201d", "C\u00e6s . How mortals lie by instinct ! If you ask", "C\u00e6s . Blessings on your Creed !", "But what cold Sceptic hath appalled your faith", "A disappointed courtier \u2014 What 's the matter ?", "Each day \u2014 each hour \u2014 each minute shows me more", "Has heard the truth , and looks imperial on it \u2014", "I saved her life , too ; and her Father 's life ,", "Promethean , and unkindled by your torch .", "Nothing \u2014 eternal nothing \u2014 of these nothings", "Would I ask wherefore ?", "But found would it content you ? would you owe", "Know you not ?"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 234}, {"query": ["Not since the Horse-race , he 's taken up with those that woo the Widow .", "A goodly Woman , and to her handsomness she bears her state , reserved , and great Fortune has made her Mistress of a full means , and well she knows to use it . Mr. I would Valentine had her .", "I would he had .", "Alas , he 's sunk , his means are gone , he wants , and which is worse , Takes a delight in doing so .", "No Gentleman that has estate to use it in keeping house , or followers , for those wayes he cries against , for Eating sins , dull Surfeits , cramming of Serving-men , mustering of Beggars , maintaining Hospitals for Kites , and Curs , grounding their fat faiths upon old Country proverbs , God bless the Founders ; these he would have ventured into more manly uses , Wit , and carriage , and never thinks of state , or means , the ground-works : holding it monstrous , men should feed their bodies , and starve their understandings ."], "true_target": ["There 's no hope of that , Sir .", "I know not what it is , a foolish glory he has got , I know not where , to balk those benefits , and yet he will converse and flatter \u2018 em , make \u2018 em , or fair , or foul , rugged , or smooth , as his impression serves , for he affirms , they are only lumps , and undigested pieces , lickt over to a form by our affections , and then they show . The Lovers let \u2018 em pass .", "O their hopes are high , Sir .", "Yes , if he could stay there .", "It 's most impossible , he will not look with any handsomeness upon a Woman .", "Yes Sir , more miserable than he , for he has eat him , and drunk him up , a handsome Gentleman , and fine Scholar ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 235}, {"query": ["Seek means , and see what I'le do , however let the Money be paid in , I never sought a Gentlemans undoing , nor eat the bread of other mens vexations , you told me of another Brother .", "O \u2019 that condition , he had his Mortgage in again .", "This is something dangerous .", "Is he so strange to Women ?", "Do , and do it home , and in what my care may help , or my perswasions when we meet next .", "Why let him marry , and that way rise again .", "Y'are most honest , you shall find me no less , and so I leave you , prosper your business my friends ."], "true_target": ["How can he live by snatches from such people ? he bore a worthy mind .", "It is well prepared , be earnest , honest friends , and loud upon him , he is deaf to his own good .", "What are these ?", "That 's most certain .", "That 's strange .", "He might be one , he carries as much promise ; they are wondrous merry .", "This Widow seems a Gallant ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 235}, {"query": ["Do but perswade him fairly ; and for your money , mine , and these mens thanks too , and what we can be able .", "I would you knew your self , but since you are grown such a strange enemy to all that fits you , give me leave to make your Brothers fortune .", "To your state then .", "And when his friends fall off then bend his will .", "He comes ,e diligent , but not too rugged , start him , but affright him not .", "From your mortgage , which yet you may recover , I'le find the means .", "What think you of a wife yet to restore you , and tell me seriously without these trifles .", "This is madness to be a wilful begger .", "But say these means were honest , will they last , Sir ?", "My last offer , and then I am gone .", "You pose me Cousin .", "Pray Heaven it may , Sir ."], "true_target": ["No sure , \u2018 tis your worth , Sir .", "You must be milder to him .", "Fie Cousin .", "We come to see you Nephew , be not angry .", "Runs Lunatick , if you but talk of states , he cannot be broughtto think there 's inheritance , or means , but all a common riches , all men bound to be his Bailiffs .", "Yes there may be .", "You are disposed to trifle , well , fare you well Sir , when you want me next , you'l seek me out a better sence .", "It shall not trouble you , I'le watch him still ,", "This is uncivil .", "And from means too .", "Intreat him lovingly , and make him feel .", "The Tenants , they 'll do what they can .", "Speak your Woman ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 235}, {"query": ["We miss him monstrously in our directions , for this Widow is as stately , and as crafty , and stands I warrant you \u2014"], "true_target": ["Is Valentine come to Town ?"], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 235}, {"query": ["Left you no means to study ?", "Had you Land , Sir , and honest men to serve your purposes , honest and faithful , and will you run away from \u2018 em , betray your self , and your poor Tribe to misery ; mortgage all us , like old Cloaks ; where will you hunt next ? you had a thousand Acres , fair and open : The Kings-Bench is enclos 'd , there 's no good riding , the Counter is full of thorns and brakes , take heed Sir , and boggs , you'l quickly find what broth they 're made of .", "I'le pinch him to the bones else .", "Nay if he will be mad , I'le be mad with him , and tell him that I'le not spare him , his Father kept good Meat , good Drink , good Fellows , good Hawks , good Hounds , and bid his Neighbours welcome ; kept him too , and supplied his prodigality , yet kept his state still ; must we turn Tenants now , after we have lived under the race of Gentry , and maintained good Yeomantry , to some of the City , to a great shoulder of Mutton and a Custard , and have our state turned into Cabbidge Gardens , must it be so ?", "Sweet Sir , thou lyest , thou shalt , and so good morrow .", "Hey , hey boys , old Valentine i'faith , the old boy still .", "We will go , but it is like Rams , to come again the stronger , and you shall keep your state ."], "true_target": ["Has he devour 'd you too ?", "Come Sir , I'le see you lodg 'd , you have tied my tongue fast , I'le steal before you want , \u2018 tis but a hanging .", "We mean to tell him part of our minds a n't please you .", "You ought to maintain us , we have maintained you , and when you slept provided for you ; who bought the Silk you wear ? I think our labours ; reckon , you 'll find it so : who found your Horses perpetual pots of Ale , maintain 'd your Taverns , and who extol 'd you in the Half-crown-boxes , where you might sit and muster all the Beauties ? we had no hand in these ; no , we are all puppies ? Your Tenants base vexations .", "They say y'are a fine Gentleman , and of excellent judgement , they report you have a wit ; keep your self out o'th \u2019 Rain , and take your Cloak with you , which by interpretation is your State , Sir , or I shall think your fame belied you , you have money , and may have means .", "You'l want Cloaths , I hope .", "That 's as he makes his game ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 235}, {"query": ["Why do you dog me thus , with these strange people ? why , all the world shall never make me rich more , nor master of these troubles .", "Thou lyest , I will not .", "This was my man , and of a noble breeding : now to your business Uncle .", "What 's my knowledge Uncle , is't not worth mony ? what 's my understanding , travel , reading , wit , all these digested , my daily making men , some to speak , that too much flegm had frozen up , some that spoke too much , to hold their peace , and put their tongues to pensions , some to wear their cloaths , and some to keep \u2018 em , these are nothing Uncle ; besides these wayes , to teach the way of nature , a manly love , community to all that are deservers , not examining how much , or what 's done for them , \u2018 tis wicked , and such a one like you , chews his thoughts, making \u2018 em only food for his repentance .", "And you can find one , that can please my fancy , you shall not find me stubborn .", "Far longer than your jerkin , and wear fairer , should I take ought of you , \u2018 tis true , I beg 'd now , or which is worse than that , I stole a kindness , and which is worst of all , I lost my way i n't ; your mind 's enclosed , nothing lies open nobly , your very thoughts are Hinds that work on nothing but daily sweat and trouble : were my way so full of dirt as this , \u2018 tis true I 'd shift it ; are my acquaintance Grasiers ? but Sir , know , no man that I am allied to , in my living , but makes it equal , whether his own use , or my necessity pull first , nor is this forc 'd , but the meer quality and poisure of goodness , and do you think I venture nothing equal ?", "And without state too .", "Very well , Sir .", "Phew , are you there ?", "What is't , and then I'le answer .", "Give it me , drink that and commend me to thy Master ; look you Uncle , do I beg these ?", "I am mad then , and so I mean to be , will that content you ? How bravely now I live , how jocund , how near the first inheritance , without fears , how free from title-troubles !", "Bid the young Courtier repair to me anon , I'le read to him .", "I prethee leave prating , does my good lye within thy brain to further , or my undoing in thy pity ? go , go , get you home , there whistle to your Horses , and let them edifie ; away , sow Hemp to hang your selves withal : what am I to you , or you to me ; am I your Landlord , puppies ?"], "true_target": ["I do not think of these things .", "Farewell Uncle , and as you love your estate , let not me hear o n't .", "My Fathers Worship was a Fool .", "\u2018 Tis gone , and I am glad o n't , name it no more , \u2018 tis that I pray against , and Heaven has heard me , I tell you , Sir , I am more fearful of it , I mean , of thinking of more lands , or livings , than sickly men are travelling o \u2019 Sundays , for being quell 'd with Carriers ; out upo n't , caveat emptor , let the fool out-sweat it , that thinks he has got a catch o n't .", "Y'are short and pithy .", "\u2018 Tis like enough , but pray satisfie me , are not these ways as honest as persecuting the starved inheritance , with musty Corn , the very rats were fain to run away from , or felling rotten wood by the pound , like spices , which Gentlemen do after burn by th \u2019 ounces ? do not I know your way of feeding beasts with grains , and windy stuff , to blow up Butchers ? your racking Pastures , that have eaten up as many singing Shepherds , and their issues , as Andeluzia breeds ? these are authentique , I tell you Sir , I would not change ways with you , unless it were to sell your state that hour , and if it were possible to spend it then too , for all your Beans in Rumnillo , now you know me .", "More unmerciful you , to vex me with these Bacon Broth and Puddings , they are the walking shapes of all my sorrows .", "I mean besotted to his state , he had never left me the misery of so much means else , which till I sold , was a meer meagrim to me : If you will talk , turn out these Tenants , they are as killing to my nature Uncle , as water to a Feaver .", "Commend 's to thy Master , and take that , and leave \u2018 em at my lodging .", "Means ? why all good men 's my means ; my wit 's my Plow , the Town 's my stock , Tavern 's my standing-house , and all the world knows there 's no want ; all Gentlemen that love Society , love me ; all Purses that wit and pleasure opens , are my Tenants ; every mans Cloaths fit me , the next fair lodging is but my next remove , and when I please to be more eminent , and take the Air , a piece is levied , and a Coach prepared , and I go I care not whither , what need state here ?", "How ?", "Who bid you get \u2018 em ? have you not threshing work enough , but Children must be bang 'd out o'th \u2019 sheaf too ? other men with all their delicates , and healthful diets , can get but wind eggs : you with a clove of Garlick , a piece of Cheese would break a Saw , and sowre Milk , can mount like Stallions , and I must maintain these tumblers .", "One without eyes , that is , self commendations , for when they find they are handsom , they are unwholsome ; one without ears , not giving time to flatterers , for she that hears her self commended , wavers , and points men out a way to make \u2018 em wicked ; one without substance of her self ; that woman without the pleasure of her life , that 's wanton ; though she be young , forgetting it , though fair , making her glass the eyes of honest men , not her own admiration , all her ends obedience , all her hours new blessings , if there may be such a woman .", "Pray save your labour Sir , my Brother and my self will run one fortune , and I think what I hold a meer vexation , cannot be safe for him , I love him better , he has wit at will , the world has means , he shall live without this trick of state , we are heirs both , and all the world before us ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 235}, {"query": ["This cloak and hat Sir , and my Masters love ."], "true_target": ["I shall do it Sir ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 235}, {"query": ["Her colour changes strangely .", "\u2018 Tis charitable .", "\u2018 Is a handsom man .", "How she changes ! ten thousand more than he , as handsom men too .", "You are so bashfull .", "I know the cause of all this sadness now , your sister has ingrost all the brave Lovers .", "And yet she 's old ."], "true_target": ["No , Mistress .", "Fear not , we are safe , we may see all that pass , hear all , and make our selves merry with their language , and yet stand undiscovered , be not melancholy , you are as fair as she .", "But poorly thatcht .", "Is the wind there ? that makes for me .", "You cannot hide it .", "I know not , nor I care not .", "But a tight one .", "What 's that to you ?"], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 235}, {"query": ["A noble nature ! dost thou know him Luce ?", "Thou shouldest ever know such good men , what a fair body and mind are married ! did he not say he wanted ?", "It is not at first word up and ride , thou art cozen 'd , that would shew mad i \u2019 faith : besides , we lose the main part of our politick government : if we become provokers , then we are fair , and fit for mens imbraces , when like towns , they lie before us ages , yet not carried , hold out their strongest batteries , then compound too without the loss of honour , and march off with our fair wedding , Colours flying . Who are these ?", "Who I ? I thank you , I am as haste ordain 'd me , a thing slubber 'd , my sister is a goodly portly Lady , a woman of a presence , she spreads sattens , as the Kings ships do canvas every where , she may spare me her misen , and her bonnets , strike her main Petticoat , and yet outsail me , I am a Carvel to her .", "An honest fellow .", "Come , I forgot a business .", "\u2018 Tis true , but \u2018 tis great pity .", "She is excellent , well built too ."], "true_target": ["I would he had what I can spare .", "She has wherewithall , much good may't do her , prethee speak softly , we are open to mens ears .", "A gratefull fellow .", "This man was made , to mark his wants to waken us ; alas poor Gentleman , but will that keep him from cold and hunger , believe me he is well bred , and cannot be but of a noble linage , mark him , mark him well .", "That 's a good fellow too , an honest fellow , why , this would move a stone , I must needs know ; but that some other time .", "She never saw above one voyage Luce , and credit me after another , her Hull will serve again , a right good Merchant : she plaies , and sings too , dances and discourses , comes very near Essays , a pretty Poet , begins to piddle with Philosophic , a subtil Chymick Wench , and can extract the Spirit of mens Estates , she has the light before her , and cannot miss her choice for me , \u2018 tis reason I wait my mean fortune .", "\u2018 Tis like enough , but as I live , this Gentleman among ten thousand thousand ! is there no knowing him ? why should he want ? fellows of no merit , slight and puft souls , that walk like shadows , by leaving no print of what they are , or poise , let them complain .", "Prethee peace then , a well built Gentleman .", "The sweetness of his sufferance sets him off , O Luce , but whither go I ?"], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 235}, {"query": ["I am fit , but who'le take me thus ? mens miseries are now accounted stains in their natures . I have travelled , and I have studied long , observed all Kingdoms , know all the promises of Art and manners , yet that I am not bold , nor cannot flatter , I shall not thrive , all these are but vain Studies , art thou so rich as to get me a lodging Lance ?", "H'as gulp 'd me down Lance ."], "true_target": ["Peace , I know you are angry Lance , but I must not hear with whom , he is my Brother , and though you hold him slight , my most dear Brother : A Gentleman , excepting some few rubs , he were too excellent to live here else , fraughted as deep with noble and brave parts , the issues of a noble and manly Spirit , as any he alive . I must not hear you ; though I am miserable , and he made me so , yet still he is my Brother , still I love him , and to that tye of blood link my affections .", "Not a farthing : dispatcht my poor annuity I thank him , here 's all the hope I have left , one bare ten shillings ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 235}, {"query": ["You are fit for great mens services .", "I'le sell the titles of my house else , my Horse , my Hawk , nay 's death I'le pawn my wife : Oh Mr. Francis , that I should see your Fathers house fall thus !"], "true_target": ["And fall by \u2014", "Your Fathers house , that fed me , that bred up all my name !"], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 235}, {"query": ["Was he young ?", "What could she see ?", "And looked he like a Gentleman ?", "Did she change much ?", "O that 's a precious Knave : keep all this private , but still be near her lodging : Luce , what you can gather by any means , let me understand : I'le stop her heat , and turn her charity another way , to bless her self first ; be still close to her counsels ; a begger and a stranger ! there 's a bless'dness ! I'le none of that ; I have a toy yet , sister , shall tell you this is foul , and make you find it , and for your pains take you the last gown I wore ; this makes me mad , but I shall force a remedy ."], "true_target": ["Why where I say ?", "Is she so hot , or such a want of lovers , that she must doat upon afflictions ? why does she not go romage all the prisons , and there bestow her youth , bewray her wantonness , and flie her honour , common both to beggery : did she speak to him ?", "Poor ?", "My sister , and a woman of so base a pity ! what was the fellow ? Luce , Why , an ordinary man , Madam .", "My sister , and sink basely ! this must not be , does she use means to know him ?"], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 236}, {"query": ["Poor enough , and no man knows from whence neither .", "But Shorthose , where thy heart is ?", "But say now , Shorthose , my Lady should remove into the Country .", "Only his misery , for else she might behold a hundred handsomer .", "What ?", "She has put them off a month , thy dare not see her , believe me Mistris , what I hear I tell you .", "It seems he did .", "Extreamly , when he spoke , and then her pity , like an Orator , I fear her love framed such a commendation , and followed it so far , as made me wonder .", "No surer than I heard ."], "true_target": ["No , he saw us not , but ever since , she hath been mainly troubled .", "Like such a Gentleman , that would pawn ten oaths for twelve pence .", "No fiddles , nor no lusty noise of drawer , carry this pottle to my Father Shorthose .", "Yes Madam , and has employed a Squire called Shorthose .", "Yes , young enough .", "You have glean 'd since you came to London : in the Country , Shorthose , you were an arrant fool , a dull cold coxcombe , here every Tavern teaches you , the pint pot has so belaboured you with wit , your brave acquaintance that gives you Ale , so fortified your mazard , that now there 's no talking to you .", "Yes , Shorthose told me so .", "By this hand Mistris \u2018 tis a noise , a loud one too , and from her own mouth , presently to be gone too , but why , or to what end ?", "Where no old Charnico is , nor no Anchoves , nor Master such-a-one , to meet at the Rose , and bring my Lady , such-a-ones chief Chamber-maid ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 236}, {"query": ["We cannot come to speak with her .", "Yet all this cannot sink us .", "If I may , and me thinks , however you are pleased to dispute these dangers , such a warm match , and for you , Sir , were not hurtfull .", "This is malice .", "Hare . Now , now , now , good Val ."], "true_target": ["Well , go forward . Val An Innocent , a knave fool , a fool politick : the last of which are lovers , widow lovers .", "O Valentine !", "For my part yes , for any doubt I feel yet .", "Sirra , we have so lookt for thee , and long 'd for thee ; this widow is the strangest thing , the stateliest , and stands so much upon her excellencies .", "We gave you reasons , why \u2018 twas needful for us ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 236}, {"query": ["She will be gone within this hour , either now Val ."], "true_target": ["Grant it be so .", "She hath put us off , this month now , for an answer ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 236}, {"query": ["And these are trifles .", "This was our meaning Valentine .", "Nothing but the woman .", "She 's going out o'th \u2019 Town ."], "true_target": ["That it was that flouting fellows Brother ?", "If we had \u2018 em .", "No man must visit her , nor look upon her , no , not say , good morrow , nor good even , till that 's past .", "He did searcout the truth ?", "Why to lie with her , and to enjoy her wealth ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 236}, {"query": ["Which way to live ! how darest thou come to town , to ask such an idle question ?", "There 's the way Frank , and in the tail of these , fright me the Kingdom with a sharp Prognostication , that shall scowr them , Dearth upon Dearth , like leven Taffaties , predictions of Sea-breaches , Wars , and want of Herrings on our Coast , with bloudy Noses .", "Why let her go , man .", "Now you see , Frank , there are more wayes than certainties , now you believe : What Plough brought you this Harvest , what sale of Timber , Coals , or what Annuities ? These feed no Hinds , nor wait the expectation of Quarterdaies , you see it showers in to you , you are an Ass , lie plodding , and lie fooling , about this Blazing Star , and that bo-peep , whining , and fasting , to find the natural reason why a Dog turns twice about before he lie down , what use of these , or what joy in Annuities , where every man 's thy study , and thy Tenant , I am ashamed on thee .", "No jealousie ; for when I marry , the Devil must be wiser than I take him ; and the flesh foolisher : come let 's to dinner , and when I am well whetted with wine , have at her .", "You are my friends , and all my loving friends , I spend your mony , yet I deserve it too , you are my friends still , I ride your horses , when I want I sell \u2018 em ; I eat your meat , help to wear her linnen , sometimes I make you drunk , and then you seal , for which I'le do you this commodity , be ruled , and let me try her , I will discover her , the truth is , I will never leave to trouble her , till I see through her , then if I find her worthy .", "\u2018 Slife how do I live ? why , what dull fool would ask that question ? three hundred three pilds more , I and live bravely : the better half o'th \u2019 Town live most gloriously , and ask them what states they have , or what Annuities , or when they pray for seasonable Harvests : thou hast a handsome Wit , stir into the world , Frank , stir , stir for shame , thou art a pretty Scholar : ask how to live ? write , write , write any thing , the World 's a fine believing World , write News .", "Not so merry as you suppose , Sir .", "She has found what dough you are made of , and so kneads you : are you good at nothing , but these after-games ? I have told you often enough what things they are , what precious things , these widows \u2014", "Where hast thou been , and how brought up Francisco , that thou talkest thus out of France ? thou wert a pretty fellow , and of a handsom knowledge ; who has spoiled thee ?", "Why , wilt thou muster us ?", "Why there you are fools still , crafty to catch your selves , pure politick fools , I lookt for such an answer ; once more hear me , it is , to wed a widow , to be doubted mainly , whether the state you have be yours or no , or those old boots you ride in . Mark me , widows are long extents in Law upon news , livings upon their bodies winding-sheets , they that enjoy \u2018 em , lie but with dead mens monuments , and beget only their own ill Epitaphs : Is not this plain now ?", "No such blind one .", "As you are those fools , I did allow those reasons , but as my Scholars and companions damn 'd \u2018 em : do you know what it is to wooe a widow ? answer me coolely now , and understandingly .", "And plain truth ; but if you'le needs do things of danger , do but lose your selves , not any part concerns your understandings , for then you are Meacocks , fools , and miserable march off amain , within an inch of a Fircug , turn me o'th \u2019 toe like a Weather-cock , kill every day a Sergeant for a twelve month , rob the Exchequer , and burn all the Rolls , and these will make a shew .", "Then chuse the tamer evil , take a maid , a maid not worth a penny ; make her yours , knead her , and mould her yours , a maid worth nothing , there 's a vertuous spell in that word nothing ; a maid makes conscience of half a Crown a week for pins and puppits , a maid will be content with one Coach and two Horses , not falling out because they are not matches ; with one man satisfied , with one rein guided , with one faith , one content , one bed , aged she makes the wise , preserves the fame and issue ; a widow is a Christmas-box that sweeps all .", "Frank , you shall lye with me soon .", "When she lies with your land , and not with you , grows great with joyntures , and is brought to bed with all the state you have , you'le find this certain ; but is it come to pass you must marry , is there no buff will hold you ?", "dost thou know what thou hast said Boy ?"], "true_target": ["I had rather march i'th \u2019 mouth o'th \u2019 Cannon , but adiew , if she be above ground , go , away to your prayers , away I say , away , she shall be spoken withall .", "How ?", "And this same widow ?", "Not half so killing as for you , for me she cannot with all the Art she has , make me more miserable , or much more fortunate , I have no state left , a benefit that none of you can brag of , and there 's the Antidote against a Widow , nothing to lose , but that my soul inherits , which she can neither law nor claw away ; to that , but little flesh , it were too much else ; and that unwholsom too , it were too rich else ; and to all this contempt of what she do 's I can laugh at her tears , neglect her angers , hear her without a faith , so pity her as if she were a Traytour , moan her person , but deadly hate her pride ; if you could do these , and had but this discretion , and like fortune , it were but an equal venture .", "Not to speak to her ?", "How ?", "Probatum est , thou canst not want a pension , go switch me up a Covey of young Scholars , there 's twenty nobles , and two loads of Coals , are not these ready wayes ? Cosmography thou art deeply read in , draw me a Map from the Mermaid , I mean a midnight Map to scape the Watches , and such long sensless examinations , and Gentlemen shall feed thee , right good Gentlemen , I cannot stay long .", "\u2018 Tis done then , I must want nothing .", "Yes marry is there .", "Meet me at the Mermaid , and thou shalt see what things \u2014", "Thou hast said more than any man can justifie , believe it : procure a hundred pounds ! I say to thee there 's no such sum in nature , forty shillings there may be now i'th \u2019 Mint and that 's a Treasure , I have seen five pound , but let me tell it , and \u2018 tis as wonderful as Calves with five Legs ; here 's five shillings , Frank , the harvest of five weeks , and a good crop too , take it , and pay thy first fruits , I'le come down and eat it out .", "Considered to a Widow , empty nothings , for here you venture but your persons , there the varnish of your persons , your discretions ; why \u2018 tis a monstrous thing to marry at all , especially as now \u2018 tis made ; me thinks a man , an understanding man , is more wise to me , and of a nobler tie , than all these trinkets ; what do we get by women , but our senses , which is the rankest part about us , satisfied , and when that 's done , what are we ? Crest-fallen Cowards . What benefit can children be , but charges and disobedience ? What 's the love they render at one and twenty years ? I pray die Father : when they are young , they are like bells rung backwards , nothing but noise and giddiness ; and come to years once , there drops a son by th \u2019 sword in his Mistresses quarrel , a great joy to his parents : A Daughter ripe too , grows high and lusty in her blood , must have a heating , runs away with a supple ham 'd Servingman : his twenty Nobles spent , takes to a trade , and learns to spin mens hair off ; there 's another , and most are of this nature , will you marry ?", "E'ne as well as I use my self , what would'st thou have Frank ?", "Why the Devil has not craft enough to wooe \u2018 em , there be three kinds of fools , mark this note Gentlemen , mark it , and understand it .", "You have no more such bags ?", "Thou art passionate , hast thou been brought up with Girls ?", "Leave thy prating , thou thinkest thou art a notable wise fellow , thou and thy rotten Sparrow Hawk ; two of the reverent .", "Well said , old Copihold .", "The Town 's the happier , I would they were all gone .", "How now , why do you look so ?"], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 236}, {"query": ["Plain spoken ."], "true_target": ["Will you allow no fortune ?"], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 236}, {"query": ["Gone o'th \u2019 sudden ? thou dost but jest , she must not mock the Gentlemen .", "Leave your fooling .", "I mean the Gentleman , fool .", "How does he live ?", "You must needs play the fool .", "What 's his calling ?", "How is he a man , and no man ?", "\u2018 Is much improved , a fellow , a fine discourser .", "What may his name be ?", "No plays , nor gaily foists , no strange Embassadors to run and wonder at , till thou beest oyl , and then come home again , and lye byth \u2019 Legend .", "But art thou sure ?"], "true_target": ["Do not fright him .", "Shorthose , nor down o'th \u2019 knees to that illustrious Lady .", "Yes , the same Sir .", "His worth ?", "Once more tell me his name directly .", "Why , my Worship would know his name , and what he is .", "What ?", "What 's his kindred ?", "Where lies this learning , Sir ?", "Is this true , wench ? gone on so short a warning ! what trick is this ? she never told me of it , it must not be , sirra , attend me presently , you know I have been a carefull friend unto you , attend me in the Hall , and next be faithful , cry not , we shall not go .", "No bouncing healths to this brave Lad , dear", "Is Valentine his Brother ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 236}, {"query": ["Beggers .", "And she may break his neck , and save the journy . Oh", "Who can help it Roger ?", "I heartily pray the malt be musty , and then we must come up again .", "Yes sure , and the best friend , Sir , it seems you spake withal this twelve-month , Gentleman , there 's money for you .", "It does not please me , tell over your money , and be not mad , Boy .", "Well .", "Will it not rain , no conjuring abroad , nor no devices to stop this journey ?", "For my part , if I be brought , as I know it will be aimed at , to carry any durty dairy Cream-pot , or any gentle Lady of the Laundry , Chambring , or wantonness behind my Gelding , with all her Streamers , Knapsacks , Glasses , Gugawes , as if I were a running flippery , I'le give \u2018 em leave to cut my girts , and slay me . I'le not be troubled with their Distibations , at every half miles end , I understand my self , and am resolved .", "Such another word , and you shall have none o n't .", "\u2018 Is nothing , he is a man , and yet he is no man .", "Shall I ride with one Boot ?", "Well , Sir , then buy you better Cloaths , and get your Hat drest , and your Laundress to wash your Boots white .", "O for a tickling storm , to last but ten days .", "Francisco .", "Rest you merry , Gentlemen .", "Then hold it fast , \u2018 tis not fly-blown , you may pay for the poundage , you forget your self , I have not seen a Gentleman so backward , a wanting Gentleman .", "If I say , I'le be hang 'd , or if I thought she would go .", "They call him begger .", "No , you are not he , you are a thought too handsome .", "I hope so , I have not waited at the tail of wit so long to be an Ass .", "Friend , you have mercy , a whole bag full of mercy , be merry with it , and be wise .", "May not a man die first ? she'l give him so much time .", "I'le be hang 'd first , unless I heard him Christned , but I can tell what foolish people call him .", "There 's none for you , Sir , be not so brief , not a penny ; law how he itches at it , stand off , you stir my colour ."], "true_target": ["Be quiet then , it may Thunder a hundred times , before such stones fall : do you not need it ?", "Her Coach may crack .", "You are too quick too , first be sure you have it , you seem to be a Faulkoner , but a foolish one .", "O that fool , he lies in loose sheets every where , that 's no where .", "More such there are , Sir , but few I fear for you , I have cast your water , you have wit , you need no money .", "Hark in your ear , is not your name Francisco ?", "These griefs like to another Tale of Troy , would mollifie the hearts of barbarous people , and Tom Butcher weep , Aeneas enters , and now the town 's lost .", "In Pauls Church yard forsooth .", "London how I love thee !", "I'th \u2019 torn black ?", "I would go with her .", "A learned begger , a poor Scholar .", "Orson .", "I would she were in Bedlam .", "\u2018 Tis my profession .", "I had as lieve she should remove to Heaven , and as soon I would undertake to follow her .", "You are cozen 'd too , \u2018 tis take it , and spend it .", "You had as good say , leave your living .", "What would your Worship with him ?", "Like worms , he eats old Books .", "He 's a begger , only the sign of a man , the bush pull 'd down , which shows the house stands emptie .", "And \u2018 tis thought you have it .", "I think I am , give me the money again , come quick , quick , quick .", "Pray stay a while , and let me take a view of you , I may put my Spoon into the wrong Pottage-pot else .", "His begging Brother .", "I am looking birds nests , I can find none in your bush beard , I would speak with you , black Gentleman ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 236}, {"query": ["I thank my money .", "I think I have .", "I would fain , if it please you , but know \u2014", "I am glad o n't .", "Yes .", "\u2018 Tis patience must meet with you Sir , not love .", "With me , my friend ?", "I am gladder .", "Annuitie you have tipled up in Taverns .", "I am gladder of all , Sir .", "Can you procure me a hundred pound ?"], "true_target": ["He named me , and he gave it me , but from whom .", "Your mercy , Sir .", "Pray stay Sir , may you not be mistaken .", "I would be loth to render , till I am sure it be so .", "Yes .", "And I'le forget all wrongs , you see my state , and to what wretchedness your will has brought me ; but what it may be , by this benefit , if timely done , and like a noble Brother , both you and I may feel , and to our comforts .", "I thank you , Sir , I doubly thank you .", "Me thinks \u2018 tis necessary , unless you could restore that", "From whom came it , Sir ?", "I said a hundred pound .", "Being a stranger , of whom can I deserve this ?", "Well , I will leave you , I see my wants are grown ridiculous , yours may be so , I will not curse you neither ; you may think , when these wanton fits are over , who bred me , and who ruined me , look to your self , Sir , a providence I wait on ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 236}, {"query": ["Hark what he saies to you , O try your wits , they say you are excellent at it , for your Land has lain long bedrid , and unsensible .", "Preface .", "City for their sins .", "Megera 's , did you begin with Ballads ?", "Yes , I have seen this fellow , there 's a wealthy Widow hard by .", "Steeple , and clap it on Pauls , and after these , a Lenvoy to the", "You have read learnedly , and would you have him follow these", "She 's a good Woman .", "Dragons in Sussex , Sir , or fiery Battels seen in the", "He that has spoil 'd himself , to make him sport , and by Copie , will spoil all comes near him : buy but a Glass , if you be yet so wealthy , and look there who ?", "Let \u2018 em send more , and then examine it , this can be but a"], "true_target": ["Air at Aspurge .", "Who wouldst thou speak withal , why dost thou peep so ?", "Whirl-winds , that shall take off the top of Grantham", "Take it , \u2018 tis money .", "And young enough believe .", "Be not amazed , Sir , \u2018 tis good gold , good old gold , this is restorative , and in good time , it comes to do you good , keep it and use it , let honest fingers feel it , yours be too quick Sir .", "Trust to your self Sir .", "My heart 's good Freehold Sir , and so you'l find it , this Gentleman 's your Brother , your hopeful Brother , for there is no hope of you , use him thereafter .", "Sir , of any man that has but eyes , and manly understanding to find mens wants , good men are bound to do so .", "Take it , and say nothing .", "I think he 's her servant , or I am couzen 'd else , I am sure o n't .", "His money shall lie with me , three in a Bed , Sir , will be too much this weather ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 236}, {"query": ["I think you are mad , or if you be not , will be , with the next moon , what would you have him do ?"], "true_target": ["Deal roundly , and leave these fiddle faddles .", "To get money first , that 's to live , you have shewed him how to want ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 236}, {"query": ["The well brew 'd stand of Ale , we should have met at !", "He 's at 's wits end , for some four hours since , out of his haste and providence , he mistook the Millars mangie mare , for his own nagge .", "Why go now , why now , why o'th \u2019 sudden now ? what preparation , what horses have we ready , what provision laid in i'th \u2019 Country ?"], "true_target": ["She will go , Shorthose .", "No nor one drop of good drink boyes , there 's the devil .", "By and by Raph . I am making up o'th \u2019 trunks here ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 236}, {"query": ["Coach cushions .", "Help down with the hangings .", "The carts are come , no hands to help to load \u2018 em ? the stuff lies in the hall , the plate .Why knaves there , where be these idle fellows ?", "Who looks to my Ladys wardrobe ? Humphrey ."], "true_target": ["Well whither run you , my Lady is mad .", "Down with the boxes in the gallery , and bring away the", "Away , away , it must be so .", "Shorthose ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 236}, {"query": ["I would venture my ability , before a Cloak-Bag , men are men .", "To morrow night at Olivers ! who shall be there boys , who shall meet the wenches ?", "Not an egge I hope ."], "true_target": ["Here .", "I have no boots nor none I'le buy : or if I had , refuse me if", "What sayes the Steward ?"], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 236}, {"query": ["It may be so , but Luce , you have a tongue , a dish of meat in your mouth , which if it were minced Luce , would do a great deal better .", "I could burst now .", "Faith , he is a pretty Gentleman .", "As you have made my sister jealous of me , and foolishly , and childishly pursued it , I have found out your haunt , and traced your purposes ; for which mine honour suffers ; your best waies must be applied to bring her back again , and seriously and suddenly , that so I may have a means to clear my self , and she a fair opinion of me , else you peevish \u2014", "What 's the matter ?", "I know your reason .", "Lay my hat ready , my fan and cloak , you are so full of providence ; and Walter , tuck up my little box behind the Coach , and bid my maid make ready , my sweet service to your good Lady Mistress ; and my dog , good let the Coachman carry him .", "You have had rare intelligence , I see , sister .", "I have sent for a few trifles , when those are come ; And now", "I am in love sweet Luce , and you are so skilfull , that I must needs undo my self ; and hear me , let Oliver pack up my Glass discreetly , and see my Curles well carried . O sweet Luce , you have a tongue , and open tongues have open you know what , Luce ."], "true_target": ["Art sure she loves him ?", "I had rather go , but \u2014", "It will be your own one time or other : Walter . WalterAnon forsooth .", "Yes and contented too , before I leave you : there 's a Roger , which some call a Butcher , I speak of certainties , I do not fish Luce , nay do not stare , I have a tongue can talk too : and a Green Chamber Luce , a back door opens to a long Gallerie ; there was a night Luce , do you perceive , do you perceive me yet ? O do you blush Luce ? a Friday night I saw your Saint , Luce : for t'other box of Marmalade , all 's thine sweet Roger , this I heard and kept too .", "Is the wind come thither , and Coward like , do you lose your Colours to \u2018 em ? are you sick o'th \u2019 Valentine ? sweet Sister , come let 's away , the Country will so quicken you , and we shall live so sweetly : Luce , my Ladies Cloak ; nay , you have put me into such a gog of going , I would not stay for all the world ; if I live here , you have so knock 'd this love into my head , that I shall love any body , and I find my body , I know not how , so apt \u2014 pray let 's be gone , Sister , I stand on thorns .", "You search nearly .", "You are better read in my affairs than I am , that 's all I have to answer , I'le go with you , and willingly , and what you think most dangerous , I'le sit laugh at . For sister \u2018 tis not folly but good discretion governs our main fortunes .", "This I allow as good and Physical sometime , these meetings , and for the cheering of the heart ; but Luce , to have your own turn served , and to your friend to be a dog-bolt .", "To abuse me , you shall not find new dreams , and new suspicions , to horse withal .", "And this you quit the town for ?"], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 237}, {"query": ["\u2018 Tis he .", "I confess it Mistress .", "Bears it well , as if she cared not , but a man may see with half an eye through all her forced behaviour , and find who is her Valentine .", "My power and prayers Mistress .", "Am I sure I live ? and I have clapt on such a commendation on your revenge .", "Pray you be satisfied ."], "true_target": ["E'ne as you are a woman Mistress .", "H'as the right way .", "I protest Mistress .", "But hear me .", "Handsome enough , and that her eye has found out .", "By no means Mistress , let her take better hold first ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 237}, {"query": ["A Jubile , a Jubile , we stay , Boys .", "And those so crammed with Warrens of starved Fleas that bite like Bandogs ; let Mims be angry at their S. Bel-Swagger , and we pass in the heat o n't and be beaten , beaten abominably , beaten horse and man , and all my Ladies linnen sprinkled with suds and dish-water .", "Not a Fiddle , but all preach't down with Puritans ; no meat but Legs of Beef .", "May he anger her into a feather .", "\u2018 Tis very good ."], "true_target": ["Better still .", "Not a wheel but out of joynt .", "Where , where ?", "I have been with the Gentleman , he has it , much good may do him with it .", "I am gaul 'd already , yet I will pray , may London wayes from henceforth be full of holes , and Coaches crack their wheels , may zealous Smiths so housel all our Hackneys , that they may feel compunction in their feet , and tire at High-gate , may it rain above all Almanacks till Carriers sail , and the Kings Fish-monger ride like Bike Arion upon a Trout to London ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 237}, {"query": ["Or say the man had vertue , is vertue in this age a full inheritance ? what Joynture can he make you , Plutarchs Morals , or so much penny rent in the small Poets ? this is not well , \u2018 tis weak , and I grieve to know it .", "No by my troth , and yet I could say more too , for when men make me angry , I am miserable .", "I am glad to hear you say so .", "It has a name sure ?", "You are a strange Gentleman , if I were proud now , I should be monstrous angry , which I am not , and shew the effects of pride ; I should despise you , but you are welcom Sir : To think well of our selves , if we deserve it , it is a lustre in us , and every good we have , strives to shew gracious , what use is it else ? old age like Seer-trees , is seldom seen affected , stirs sometimes at rehearsal of such acts as his daring youth endeavour 'd .", "Pray stay , a little proud .", "Let us have it all for Heavens sake , \u2018 tis good mirth , Sir .", "I pray tell me , who sent you hither ? for I imagine it is not your condition , you look so temperately , and like a Gentleman , to ask me these milde questions .", "Lord , how little will vex these poor blind people ! if my cloaths be sometimes gay and glorious , does it follow , my mind must be my Mercers too ? or say my beauty please some weak eyes , must it please them to think , that blows me up , that every hour blows off ? this is an Infants anger .", "On with your story .", "If it be our own , why are we set here with distinction else , degrees , and orders given us ? In you men , \u2018 tis held a coolness , if you lose your right , affronts and loss of honour : streets , and walls , and upper ends of tables , had they tongues could tell what blood has followed , and what feud about your ranks ; are we so much below you , that till you have us , are the tops of nature , to be accounted drones without a difference ? you will make us beasts indeed .", "No sure , not drunk , Sir ; yet I love good Wine , as I love health and joy of heart , but temperately , why do you ask that question ?", "Prethee be quiet , I am not well .", "As I live a fine fellow , this manly handsome bluntness shews him honest ; what is he , or from whence ? bless me , four Husbands ! how prettily he fooled me into Vices , to stir my jealousie , and find my nature ; a proper Gentleman : I am not well o'th \u2019 sudden , such a companion I could live and dye with , his angers are meer mirth .", "Is't not time ?", "Are not we gaily blest then , and much beholding to you for your substance ? you may do what you list , we what beseems us , and narrowly do that too , and precisely , our names are served in else at Ordinaries , and belcht abroad in Taverns .", "Four Husbands ! should not I be blest , Sir , for example ? Lord , what should I do with them ? turn a Malt-mill , or Tithe them out like Town-bulls to my Tenants , you come to make me angry , but you cannot .", "Come , are you ready ? you love so to delay time , the day grows on .", "Pray stay a little , I love your company now you are so pleasant , and to my disposition set so even .", "You are very credulous , and somewhat desperate , to deliver this Sir , to her you know not , but you shall confess me , and find I will not start ; in us all meetings lie open to these lewd reports , and our thoughts at Church , our very meditations some will swear , which all should fear to judge , at least uncharitably , are mingled with your memories , cannot sleep , but this sweet Gentleman swims in our fancies , that scarlet man of war , and that smooth senior ; not dress our heads without new ambushes , how to surprize that greatness , or that glorie ; our very smiles are subject to constructions ; nay Sir , it 's come to this we cannot pish , but \u2018 tis a favour for some fool or other : should we examine you thus , wer't not possible to take you without Perspectives ?"], "true_target": ["Nor yours force no truth Sir , what deadly tongues you have , and to those tongues what hearts , and what inventions ? O \u2019 my conscience , and \u2018 twere not for sharp justice , you would venture to aim at your own mothers , and account it glorie to say you had done so : all you think are counsels , and cannot erre , \u2018 tis we still that shew double , giddy , or gorg 'd with passion ; we that build Babels for mens conclusions , we that scatter , as day does his warm light ; our killing curses over Gods creatures , next to the devils malice : lets intreat your good words .", "You have not knowme sure ?", "Are you so ?", "What reason have you then to be so tender of my credit , you are no kinsman ?", "Be still and mark him .", "Know your own honour then , about your business , see the Coach ready presently , I'le tell you more then .And understand it well , you must not think your sister so tender eyed as not to see your follies , alas I know your heart , and must imagine , and truly too ; \u2018 tis not your charitie can coin such sums to give away as you have done , in that you have no wisdom Isabel , no nor modesty , where nobler uses are at home ; I tell you , I am ashamed to find this in your years , far more in your discretion , none to chuse but things for pity , none to seal your thoughts on , but one of no abiding , of no name ; nothing to bring you to but this , cold and hunger : A jolly Joynture sister , you are happy , no mony , no not ten shillings .", "What , Sir , what ?", "Because they are monstrous foolish , and know not how to use that should try me .", "I have a little business .", "It seems so , your commendations are so studied for .", "I prethee Isabella , i'faith I have some business that concerns me , I will suspect no more , here , wear that for me , and I'le pay the hundred pound you owe your Taylor .", "Come walk in with me , we 'll go to Cards , unsaddle the", "Where I find no truth , Sir .", "I know it as I know your folly , one that knows not where he shall eat his next meal , take his rest , unless it be i'th \u2019 stocks ; what kindred has he , but a more wanting Brother , or what vertues .", "Is not that he ?", "You are no Whoremasters ? Alas , no , Gentlemen , it were an impudence to think you vicious : you are so holy , handsome Ladies fright you , you are the cool things of the time , the temperance , meer Emblems of the Law , and veils of Vertue , you are not daily mending like Dutch Watches , and plastering like old Walls ; they are not Gentlemen , that with their secret sins increase our Surgeons , and lie in Foraign Countries , for new sores ; Women are all these Vices ; you are not envious , false , covetous , vain-glorious , irreligious , drunken , revengeful , giddie-eyed like Parrots , eaters of others honours .", "Some I have , I were too near the nature o \u2019 God else .", "Not at all , Sir , I am content at this time you should trouble me .", "Horses .", "Lord who made you a Commander ! hey ho , my heart ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 237}, {"query": ["How is she ?", "What ails she ? the Coach stales , and the people , the day goes on , I am as ready now as you desire , Sister : fie , who stays now , why do you sit and pout thus ?", "For Heav'us sake let 's not ride staggering in the night , come , pray you take some Sweet-meats in your pocket , if your stomach \u2014"], "true_target": ["He talks the best they say , and yet the maddest .", "Come , come , I am ready .", "I am for you .", "Come let 's go see her , I long to prosecute ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 237}, {"query": ["Why dost thou laugh ?", "The Devil cannot stay her , she'l o n't , eat an egg now , and then we must away ."], "true_target": ["At S. Albanes , let all the Inns be drunk , not an Host sober to bid her worship welcom .", "No beds but Wool-Packs .", "My Lady in a rage with the Gentleman ?"], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 237}, {"query": ["There 's a Gentleman , and the rarest Gentleman , and makes the rarest sport .", "Within here , h'as made the gayest sport with Tom the"], "true_target": ["And talks and laughs , and sings the rarest songs , and Shorthose , he has so maul 'd the Red Deer pies , made such an alms i'th \u2019 butterie .", "Malmsie for his Mares .", "Coachman , so tewed him up with Sack that he lies lashing a But of"], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 237}, {"query": ["Come , come , you are full of passion .", "Well , this woman has a brave soul .", "And that I have no more in this poor Pannier , to raise me up again above your rents , Uncle .", "I can no longer .", "I came to see you and sift you into Flowr to know your pureness , and I have found you excellent , I thank you ; continue so , and shew men how to tread , and women how to follow : get an Husband , an honest man , you are a good woman , and live hedg 'd in from scandal , let him be too an understanding man , and to that stedfast ; \u2018 tis pity your fair Figure should miscarry , and thenare fixt : farewel .", "You are monstrous peevish .", "And take heed how you pity me , \u2018 tis dangerous , exceeding dangerous , to prate of pity ; which are the poorer ? you are now puppies ; I without you , or you without my knowledge ? be Rogues , and so be gone , be Rogues and reply not , for if you do \u2014", "Nay worse than this too , proud of your cloaths , they swear a Mercers Lucifer , a tumour tackt together by a Taylour , nay yet worse , proud of red and white , a varnish that butter-milk can better .", "Sure \u2018 tis a man , she could not bear it thus bravely else , it may be I am tedious .", "For that sin that they most charge you with , is this sin 's servant , they say you are monstrous \u2014", "You are angry .", "Upbraid me with your benefits , you Pilchers , you shotten , sold , slight fellows ? was't not I that undertook you first from empty barrels , and brought those barking mouths that gaped like bung-holes to utter sence ? where got you understanding ? who taught you manners and apt carriage to rank your selves ? who filled you in fit Taverns ? were those born with your worships when you came hither ? what brought you from the Universities of moment matter to allow you , besides your small base sentences ?", "Only the thirteen shillings in these Breeches , and the odd groat , I take it , shall be yours , Sir , a mark to know a Knave by , pray preserve it , do not displease more , but take it presently , now help me off with my Boots .", "I was never answered thus ; were you never drunk Lady ?", "You have no mind to better me .", "If you take it so , the honest office that I came to do you , is not so heavy but I can return it : now I perceive you are too proud , not worth my visit .", "Taunt my integrity you Whelps ?", "Not much .", "They say you will have four now , and those four stuck in four quarters , like four winds to cool you : will she not cry nor curse ?", "No such relique , nor the least rag of such a sordid weakness shall keep me warm , these Breeches are mine own , purchased , and paid for , without your compassion , a Christian Breeches founded in Black-Friers , and so I'le maintain \u2018 em .", "Gentlemen , you have spoken long and level , I beseech you take breath a while and hear me ; you imagine now , by the twirling of your strings , that I am at the last , as also that my friends are flown like Swallows after Summer ."], "true_target": ["Monstrous proud , I griev 'd to hear a woman of your value , and your abundant parts stung by the people , but now I see \u2018 tis true , you look upon me as if I were a rude and saucie fellow that borrowed all my breeding from a dunghil , or such a one , as should now fall and worship you in hope of pardon : you are cozen 'd Lady , I came to prove opinion a loud liar , to see a woman only great in goodness , and Mistress of a greater fame than fortune , but \u2014", "How miserable will these poor wretches be when I forsake \u2018 em ! but things have their necessities , I am sorry , to what a vomit must they turn again , now to their own dear Dunghil breeding ; never hope after I cast you off , you men of Motley , you most undone things below pity , any that has a soul and six-pence dares relieve you , my name shall bar that blessing , there 's your Cloak , Sir , keep it close to you , it may yet preserve you a fortnight longer from the fool ; your Hat , pray be covered , and there 's the Sattin that your Worship sent me , will serve you at a Sizes yet .", "As you see , Sir , in a hot fit , I thank my friends .", "And that you are forcing out of dispensations with sums of money to that purpose .", "Would I sweat too , I am monstrous vext , and cold too ; and these are but thin pumps to walk the streets in ; clothes I must get , this fashion will not fadge with me ; besides , \u2018 tis an ill winter wear ,\u2014 What art thou ? yes , they are clothes , and rich ones , some fool has left \u2018 em : and if I should utter \u2014 what 's this paper here ? Let these be only worn by the most noble and deserving Gentleman Valentine ,\u2014 dropt out o'th \u2019 clouds ! I think they are full of gold too ; well , I'le leave my wonder , and be warm again , in the next house I'le shift .", "Yes Hog-hounds , more than you can have of your wits ; \u2018 tis cold , and I am very sensible , extreamly cold too , yet I will not off , till I have shamed these Rascals ; I have indured as ill heats as another , and every way if one could perish my body , you 'll bear the blame o n't ; I am colder here , not a poor penny left .", "You are distrustful .", "Do you think I use to walk of errands , gentle Lady , or deal with women out of dreams from others ?", "Not much followed , I must confess ; yet Uncle I determine to try what may be done next Term .", "Without daring , when you are drunk , to relish of revilings , to which you are prone in Sack , Uncle .", "Long Cloaks with two-hand-rapiers , boot-hoses with penny-poses , and twenty fools opinions , who looked on you but piping rites that knew you would be prizing , and Prentices in Paul 's Church-yard , that scented your want of Britains Books .", "And on it write , that you are pleased to give this , as due unto my merit , without caution of land redeeming , tedious thanks , or thrift hereafter to be hoped for .", "Hang friends , and even reckonings that make friends .", "Rags , toys and trifles , fit only for those fools that first possessed \u2018 em , ad to those Knaves they are rendred . Freemen , Uncle , ought to appear like innocents , old Adam , a fair Fig-leaf sufficient .", "O most brave Wench , and able to redeem an age of women .", "For once you shall be , do it willingly , or by this hand I'le make you .", "Thus they say too , what though you have a Coach lined through with velvet , and four fair Flanders mares , why should the streets be troubled continually with you , till Carmen curse you ? can there be ought in this but pride of shew Lady , and pride of bum-beating , till the learned lawyers with their fat bags , are thrust against the bulks till all their causes crack ? why should this Lady , and t'other Lady , and the third sweet Lady , and Madam at Mile-end , be daily visited , and your poorer neighbours , with course napfes neglected , fashions conferr 'd about , pouncings , and paintings , and young mens bodies read on like Anatomies .", "I'le make you merry then , you are a brave Woman , and in despite of envy a right one , go thy wayes , truth thou art as good a Woman , as any Lord of them all can lay his Leg over , I do not often commend your Sex .", "A match then , lay me down fifty pounds there .", "This is well , and now you speak to the purpose , you please me , but to be place proud ?", "There 's your Hangers , you may deserve a strong pair , and a girdle will hold you without buckles ; now I am perfect , and now the proudest of your worships tell me I am beholding to you ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 237}, {"query": ["Infinitely lustful , without all bounds , they swear you kill 'd your Husband ."], "true_target": ["Most strangely ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 237}, {"query": ["He has deceived me .", "We are upon a business , pray excuse us , they have it home .", "How ?", "Why how now , Cousin , sunning your self this weather ?", "For his own sake do you think ?", "I thank you , Sir .", "Take me with you , were these your friends , that clear 'd you thus ?", "There it is , Sir .", "I am glad my Nephew has so much discretion , at length to find his wants : did she entertain him ?", "Are they behind us ?"], "true_target": ["But Cousin , where are your Cloaths man ? those are no inheritance , your scruple may compound with those I take it , this is no fashion , Cousin .", "I wonder they would put him \u2014", "Yes , Sir .", "I thought till now , there had been no such living , no such purchase , for all the rest is labour , as a list of honourable friends ; do such men as you , Sir , in lieu of all your understandings , travels , and those great gifts of nature , aim at no more than casting off your Coats ? I am strangely cozen 'd .", "He deals not well with his friends .", "\u2018 Thas taken rarely , and now he 's flead he will be ruled .", "All this I do believe .", "Yes , Cousin , and to that end I come , and once more offer you all that my power is master of .", "Farewel , Sir .", "\u2018 Twas not well done , because they trusted him , yet ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 237}, {"query": ["You are in the right o n't , a man that must raise himself , I knew he would couzen \u2018 em , and glad I am he has : he watched occasion , and found it i'th \u2019 nick .", "Close , close , speak aloud , Sir ."], "true_target": ["I told you howsoever he wheel 'd about , he would charge home at length : how I could laugh now , to think of these tame fools !", "To him , tew him , abuse him , and nip him close ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 237}, {"query": ["Most certain , Sir , and in his own cause bestir 'd himself too , and wan such liking from her , she dotes on him , h'as the command of all the house already .", "Should not the Town shake at the cold you feel now , and all the Gentry suffer interdiction , no more sense spoken , all things Goth and Vandal , till you be summed again , Velvets and Scarlets , anointed with gold Lace , and Cloth of silver turned into Spanish Cottens for a penance , wits blasted with your Bulls and Taverns withered , as though the Term lay at St. Albans ?", "Let him deal on , and be his own friend , he has most need of her ."], "true_target": ["Come , come away , let the young wanton play a while , away I say , Sir , let him go forward with his naked fashion , he will seek you too morrow ; goodly weather , sultry hot , sultry , how I sweat !", "Most bravely , nobly , and gave him such a welcome !", "How came you thus , Sir , for you are strangely moved ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 237}, {"query": ["\u2018 Tis true , he is a knave , I ever thought it ."], "true_target": ["This cannot save you ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 237}, {"query": ["So they seem , Sir .", "We are no Grooms , Sir ."], "true_target": ["Pray have a care , Sir , of your health .", "And we are fools , tame fools ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 237}, {"query": ["You may talk the stock we gave you out , but see no further .", "Only thus much , and then we 'll leave you : the Air is far sharper than our anger , Sir , and these you may reserve to rail in warmer ."], "true_target": ["To our own , Sir , we may apply our hands .", "\u2018 Tis well , Sir .", "Come let 's go seek him , he shall be hang 'd before he colt us basely ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 237}, {"query": ["No such matter ."], "true_target": ["Nay , faith Sir , you may e'ne rub these out now ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 237}, {"query": ["Will you go with me , for I would fain find out this piece of bountie , it was the Widows man , that I am certain of .", "Why do you deal thus with him ? \u2018 tis unnobly .", "Gentle Lady , I were a base receiver of a courtesie , and you a worse disposer , were my nature unfurnished of these fore-sights . Ladies honours were ever in my thoughts , unspotted Crimes , their good deeds holy Temples , where the incense burns not ; to common eyes your fears are vertuous , and so I shall preserve \u2018 em .", "I do love her , and were I rich , would give two thousand pound to wed her wit but one hour , oh \u2018 tis a Dragon , and such a spritely way of pleasure , ha Lance .", "I vow .", "Then such courtesies , who ever does \u2018 em sir , saving your own wisdom , must be more lookt into , and better answered , than with deserving slights , or what we ought to have conferred upon us , men may starve else , means are not gotten now with crying out I am a gallant fellow , a good Souldier , a man of learning , or fit to be employed , immediate blessings cease like miracles , and we must grow by second means , I pray go with me , even as you love me Sir .", "Is this man naked , forsaken of his friends ?", "Well , gentle Lady , yours is the first money I ever took upon a forced ill manners .", "How her face alters on me !", "You amaze me , this Ring is none of mine , nor did I drop it .", "Some leaden landed Rogue will have this wench now , when all 's done , some such youth will carry her , and wear her , greasie out like stuff , some Dunce that knows no more but Markets , and admires nothing but a long charge at Sizes : O the fortunes !", "Good morrow Uncle , I must needs go with him .", "I thank you , and will look for you .", "I wonder my Brother comes not .", "This Woman is a founder , and cites Statutes to all her benefits .", "How may I do , and your way to be thought a grateful taker ?", "I would I were so happy .", "But good Lady .", "I do acknowledge \u2014"], "true_target": ["To give thanks .", "How do you gentle Lady ?", "Will you both teach , and tie my tongue up Lady ?", "To commend my self , were more officious than you think my thanks are , to doubt I may be worth your gift a treason , both to mine own good and understanding , I know my mind clear , and though modesty tells me , he that intreats intrudes ; yet I must think something , and of some season , met with your better taste , this had not been else .", "Your fair self , or your Sister as it seems , for what desert I dare not know , unless a handsome subject for your charities , or aptness in your noble will to do it , have showred upon my wants a timely bounty , which makes me rich in thanks , my best inheritance .", "But gentle Lady , \u2018 twill be necessary .", "Such base discourteous Dog-whelps .", "You are a strange man , but do you think it was a woman ?", "I am of his faith .", "You will not fail me .", "Thou putst me in much comfort .", "I hope you will go .", "I rise upon his ruines ! fie , fie , Uncle , fie honest Lance . Those Gentlemen were base people , that could so soon take fire to his destruction .", "Then to you , dear Lady ?", "Nor will you not be seen by \u2018 em ?", "They that know me call me Francisco , Lady , one not so proud to scorn so timely a benefit , nor so wretched to hide a gratitude .", "Which way went he ?", "Never , ne 're saw it afore , Lance .", "Did you not see \u2018 em since ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 238}, {"query": ["Peace Cousin peace , you are too tender of him , he must be dealt thus with , he must be cured thus , the violence of his disease Francisco , must not be jested with , \u2018 tis grown infectious , and now strong Corrosives must cure him .", "You are Valentine .", "It must needs greedily , for all his friends have flung him off , he is naked , and where to skin himself again , if I know , or can devise how he should get himself lodging , his Spirit must be bowed , and now we have him , have him at that we hoped for .", "\u2018 Tis not he , imagination cannot work this miracle .", "I do believe him .", "You are a fool , you are a fool , a young man ."], "true_target": ["Let him play a while then , and let 's search out what hand :\u2014", "I am confounded .", "And let it search him to the bones , \u2018 tis better , \u2018 twill make him feel it .", "I am amazed .", "New and rich ! \u2018 tis most impossible he should recover .", "Besides some good to you now , from this miserie .", "How ?"], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 238}, {"query": ["Next time we meet him cracking of nuts , with half a cloak about him , for all means are cut off , or borrowing sixpence , to shew his bounty in the pottage Ordinary ?", "Pox , why should you ask after him , you have been trimm 'd already , let him take his fortune ,spun it out himself , Sir , there 's no pitie ."], "true_target": ["Where be his noble friends now ? will his fantastical opinions cloath him , or the learned Art of having nothing feed him ?", "Sure he can conjure , and has the Devil for his Tailor .", "H'as had a stinger , has eaten off his clothes , the next his skin comes ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 238}, {"query": ["Walk by his careless kinsman , and turn again and walk , and look thus Uncle , taking some one by the hand , he loves best , leave them to the mercy of the hog-market , come Frank , Fortune is now my friend , let me instruct thee .", "I shall dog \u2018 em , and double dog \u2018 em , ere I have done .", "Yes I know \u2018 em , and will be more familiar .", "Yes , yes , \u2018 tis he , I will assure you Uncle , the very he , the he your wisdom plaid withall , I thank you for't , neighed at his nakednesse , and made his cold and poverty your pastime ; you see I live , and the best can do no more Uncle , and though I have no state , I keep the streets still , and take my pleasure in the Town , like a poor Gentleman , wear clothes to keep me warm , poor things they serve me , can make a shew too if I list , yes uncle , and ring a peal in my pockets , ding dong , uncle , these are mad foolish wayes , but who can help \u2018 em ?", "Good morrow noble Lady .", "You shall stay till I talk with you , and not dine neither , but fastingly my fury , you think you have undone me , think so still , and swallow that belief , till you be company for Court-hand Clarks , and starved Atturnies , till you break in at playes like Prentices for three a groat , and crack Nuts with the Scholars in peny Rooms again , and fight for Apples , till you return to what I found you , people betrai 'd into the hands of Fencers , Challengers , Tooth-drawers Bills , and tedious Proclamations in Meal-markets , with throngings to see Cutpurses : stir not , but hear , and mark , I'le cut your throats else , till Water works , and rumours of New Rivers rid you again and run you into questions who built Thames , till you run mad for Lotteries , and stand there with your Tables to glean the golden Sentences , and cite \u2018 em secrely to Servingmen for sound Essayes , till Taverns allow you but a Towel room to Tipple Wine in , that the Bell hath gone for twice , and Glasses that look like broken promises , tied up with wicker protestations , English Tobacco with half Pipes , nor in half a year once burnt , and Bisket that Bawds have rubb 'd their gums upon like Corals to bring the mark again , tell these hour Rascals so , this most fatal hour will come again , think I sit down the looser .", "Morrow Uncle , morrow Frank , sweet Frank , and how , and how d'ee , think now , how shew matters ? morrow Bandog .", "I come to look a young man I call Brother .", "Some two hours hence expect me .", "Th'art handsom , Frank , a pretty Gentleman , i'faith thou lookest well , and yet here may be those that look as handsom .", "Flay me , and turn me out where none inhabits , within two hours I shall be thus again , now wonder on , and laugh at your own ignorance ."], "true_target": ["No not in ceremony , and to a woman , with mine own Father , were he living Frank ; I would toth \u2019 Court with Bears first , if it be that wench , I think it is , for t'other ' s wiser , I would not be so lookt upon , and laught at , so made a ladder for her wit , to climb upon , for \u2018 tis the tartest tit in Christendom , I know her well Frank , and have buckled with her , so lickt , and stroaked , flear 'd upon , and flouted , and shown to Chambermaids , like a strange beast , she had purchased with her penny .", "What do you here ? why do ye vex a woman of her goodness , her state and worth ? can you bring a fair certificate that you deserve to be her footmen ? husbands , you puppies ? husbands for Whores and Bawds , away you wind suckers ; do not look big , nor prate , nor stay , nor grumble and when you are gone , seem to laugh at my fury , and slight this Lady , I shall hear , and know this : and though I am not bound to fight for women , as far they are good I dare preserve \u2018 em : be not too bold , for if you be , I'le swinge you monstrously without all pity , your honours now goe , avoid me mainly .", "Hang giving thanks , hast not thou parts deserve it ? it includes a further will to be beholding , beggars can do no more at door , if you will go , there lies your way .", "I will come to thee , but Frank , I will not stay to hear your fopperies , dispatch those e 're I come .", "Let \u2018 em alone Frank , I'le make \u2018 em their own justice , and a jerker .", "Where are these Gentlemen ?", "To what end would you go ?", "I think so , I cannot tell , I have been call 'd so , and some say Christened , why do you wonder at me , and swell , as if you had met a Sergeant fasting , did you ever know desert want ? y'are fools , a little stoop there may be to allay him , he would grow too rank else , a small eclipse to shadow him , but out he must break , glowingly again , and with a great lustre , look you uncle , motion and majesty .", "No hang \u2018 em , hang \u2018 em .", "Good ee'n then .", "There 's no doubt o n't , who can be there to do it else ? besides the manner of the circumstances ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 238}, {"query": ["This , Madam .", "So do I , and heartily upon my conscience , burie him stark naked , he would rise again , within two hours imbroidered : sow mustard-seeds , and they cannot come up so thick as his new sattens do , and clothes of silver , there 's no striving .", "Put your self in good comfort , if she do not point you out the way , drop no more Rings , she'l drop her self into you .", "Now , what 's the matter ? stand fast , and like your self .", "Let him alone , and feed your self on your own fortunes ; come be frolick , and let 's be monstrous wise and full of counsel , drop no more Rings .", "This is a Saint sure .", "Comfort your self .", "You Lady , or your fair Sister there , here 's a Gentleman that has received a benefit .", "I'le sell my Copyhold , for since there are such excellent new nothings , why should I labour ? is there no Fairy haunts him , no Rat , nor no old woman ?", "And of so great a goodness , that he dares not , without the tender of his thanks and service , pass by the house .", "Give him this luck , and fling him into the Sea ."], "true_target": ["Ring , did you drop it ?", "Sir , what courage ?", "From one of you , as he supposes , Madam , your man delivered it .", "At the door , Madam .", "Your ha Lance broken once , you would cry , ho , ho ,", "Lance .", "Maids are Clocks , the greatest Wheel they show , goes slowest to us , and make 's hang on tedious hopes ; the lesser , which are concealed , being often oyl 'd with wishes , flee like desires , and never leave that motion , till the tongue strikes ; she is flesh , blood and marrow , young as her purpose , and soft as pity ; no Monument to worship , but a mould to make men in , a neat one , and I know how e 're she appears now , which is near enough , you are stark blind if you hit not soon at night ; she would venture forty pounds more but to feel a Flea in your shape bite her : drop no more Rings forsooth , this was the prettiest thing to know her heart by .", "Thereby hangs a tail then : what slight she makes to catch her self ! look up Sir , you cannot lose her if you would , how daintily she flies upon the Lure , and cunningly she makes her stops ! whistle and she'l come to you .", "Grow wiser if you can ? she has put it to you , \u2018 tis a rich", "I never knew yet , so few years and so cunning , yet believe me she has an itch , but how to make her confess it , for it is a crafty Tit , and plays about you , will not bite home , she would fain , but she dares not ; carry your self but so discreetly , Sir , that want or wantonness seem not to search you , and you shall see her open .", "I , there the game lies ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 238}, {"query": ["We'l walk after you and view the pleasure of the place .", "It is all one Gentlemen , \u2018 thas rid us of a fair incumbrance , and makes us look about to our own fortunes . Who are these ?", "Much good may do her with him , no civil wars .", "\u2018 Tis her sister ."], "true_target": ["Come , let 's speak for our selves , we have lodg 'd him sure enough , his nakedness dare nopeep out to cross us .", "How hansomly this little piece of anger shews upon her ! well Madam well , you know not how to grace your self .", "You have shewed us one way , do but lead the tother .", "We'l pray with you , and help your meditations .", "\u2018 Tis our business ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 238}, {"query": ["Physick , you must purge this anger , it burns you and decays you .", "Nay every thing she does breeds a new sweetness .", "Save you Ladies .", "It is the very he , does it rain fortunes , or has he a familiar ?", "Morrow Madam .", "So suddenly before meat will be dangerous , we know your dinner 's ready Lady , you will not sleep .", "Nay if we do not tire her .\u2014"], "true_target": ["And for all this will have a better answer from you .", "Steal off , the Devil is in his anger .", "We come to be merry Madam , and very merry , men love to laugh heartily , and now and then Lady a little of our old plea .", "By no means , now do I wonder in what old tod Ivie he lies whistling for means , nor clothes he hath none , nor none will trust him , we have made that side sure , teach him a new wooing .", "We dare to pretend no . Since you are churlish , we'l give you", "We can have no admittance .", "She speaks bravely ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 238}, {"query": ["Let 's in boldly , and use our best arts , who she deigns to favour , we are all content .", "Will nothing make him miserable ?", "We'l wait on you , and then your meat after a quickned stomach .", "Nay , we'l go with you , we never saw your chambers yet .", "Air ."], "true_target": ["Say it is his Uncles spite .", "We are no strangers .", "We can stay Madam , and will stay and dwell here , \u2018 tis good", "We would fain bless our eyes .", "There is a time for all , you may be busie , but when your friends come , you have as much power Madam .", "How doggedly he looks too ?"], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 238}, {"query": ["I'le make her well , or kill her , and take no idle answer , you are fools then , nor stand off for her state , she'I scorn you all then , but urge her still , and though she fret , still follow her , a widow must be won so .", "It is that face .", "Not see this man yet ! well , I shall be wiser : but Luce , didst ever know a woman melt so ? she is finely hurt to hunt .", "I shall burst with the sport o n't .", "Behold and welcom , you would see her ?", "I know you stand o'thorns , come I'le dispatch you .", "Hold there boyes .", "Ha , ha , ha .", "I have lost my aim .", "You have three fine ones .", "It does me much good to see her chafe thus .", "I'le make her frt a thousand , nay now I have found the sab , I will so scratch her .", "What have you done with \u2018 em ?", "I would fain have a Brother in law , I love mens company , and if she call for dinner to avoid you , be sure you stay ; follow her into her chamber , if she retire to Pray , pray with her , and boldly , like honest lovers .", "This in me had been high treason , three at a time , and private in her Orchard ! I hope she'l cast her reckonings right now .", "I pray no more , Sir , if I may perswade you , your only aptness to do this is recompence , and more than I expected .", "I am sorry he comes now .", "Why did you not answer \u2018 em ?", "Let her not rest , for if you give her breath , she'l scorn and flout you , seem how she will , this is the way to win her , be bold and prosper ."], "true_target": ["Then I beseech you Sir , what could \u2018 see ,in my behaviour of such easiness that you durst venture to do this ?", "I am glad o n't .", "They are somewhat saucy , but yet I'le let \u2018 em out , and once more sound \u2018 em , why were they not beaten out ?", "Long may they do so , I'le teach her to declaim against my pities , why is she not gone out o'th \u2019 town , but gives occasion for men to run mad after her ?", "I could so titter now and laugh , I was lost Luce , and I must love , I know not what ; O Cupid , what pretty gins thou hast to halter Woodcocks ! and we must into the Country in all haste , Luce .", "Fie leave you , they have some business .", "Now to her Sir , fear nothing .", "You shall see her , and you shall talk with her .", "She loves \u2018 em but too dearly , come follow me , I'le bring you toth \u2019 party Gentlemen , then make your own conditions .", "And for me further to be acquainted with it besides the imputation of vain glory , were greedy thankings of my self , I did it not to be more affected to ; I did it , and if it happened where I thought it fitted , I have my end ; more to enquire is curious in either of us , more than that suspicious .", "Much ashamed Sir ,to find such vanitie , nay almost impudence , where I believ 'd a worth : is this your thanks , the gratitude you were so mad to make me , your trim counsel Gentlemen ?", "About the right way nothing , do not fright it , being to pious use and tender sighted , with the blown face of Complements , it blasts it ; had you not come at all , but thought thanks , it had been too much , \u2018 twas not to see your person .", "I took it up too , still looking when your modesty should miss it , why , what a childish part was this ?", "Take your device again , it will not serve Sir , the woman will not bite , you are finely cozened , drop it no more for shame .", "Vow me no vowes , he that dares do this , has bred himself to boldness , to forswear too ; there take your gew-gaw , you are too much pampered , and I repent my part , as you grow older grow wiser if you can , and so farewel Sir .", "Forward with the meat now .", "Nay , I have done , I must laugh though ; but Scholar , I shall teach you .", "I'le teach you to worm me , good Lady sister , and peep into my privacies to suspect me , I'le torture you , with that you hate , most daintily , and when I have done that , laugh at that you love most .", "For so I carried it , my end 's too glorious in mine eyes , and bettered the goodness I propounded with opinion ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 238}, {"query": ["Or misery , or say he had been i'th \u2019 Cage , was there no mercy to look abroad but yours ?", "If you live after this .", "For Heaven 's sake , Mistris .", "Nay , you are served but too well , here he staies yet , yet as I live .", "What was his want to you ?", "Do you think you are here Sir amongst your wast-coateers , your base wenches that scratch at such occasions ? you are deluded : This is a Gentlewoman of a noble house , born to a better fame than you can build her , and eyes above your pitch .", "She cannot endure \u2018 em .", "This is the Gentleman ."], "true_target": ["What have you done , she chafes and fumes outragiously , and still they persecute her .", "This will kill her .", "Out of a confidence I hope .", "She is sick you know .", "The same .", "Peace , the three Suitors .", "I saw you drop it , Sir .", "She will not see \u2018 em , nor spend a word .", "They are here yet , and alone too , boldly upo n't ; nay , Mistress , I still told you , how \u2018 twould find your trust , this \u2018 tis to venture your charity upon a boy ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 238}, {"query": ["Good morrow Sir . How sweetly now he looks , and how full manly ! what slaves were these to use him so !", "Nay stay and dine .", "What 's your name , Sir ?", "Do any thing , so I be eased .", "I am sorry \u2018 twas not mine , this is the Gentlewoman , fie , do not blush , go roundly to the matter , the man is a pretty man .", "Well , I shall find who brought \u2018 em .", "Who let in these puppies ? you blind rascals , you drunken", "If I had you out once , I would be at the charge of a portcullis for you .", "Which is the Gentleman ?", "I pray go forward .", "Nay I am sure you will not leave me so discourteously , now I have provided for you .", "She sent the money to ?", "Sprecious , you blown Pudding , bawling Rogue .", "It is well bestowed then .", "Lockt \u2018 em i'th \u2019 Orchard , there I'le make \u2018 em dance and caper too , before they get their liberty , unmannerly rude puppies .", "You shall never , neither have an answer nor dinner , unless you use me with a more staid respect , and stay your time too .", "This is a tedious torment .", "I am busie , and very busie too , will none deliver me .", "What ward for that , wench ?", "Get \u2018 em out rascal , out with \u2018 em , out , I sweat to have \u2018 em near me .", "O Sister will you bar thankfulness ?", "Nay , you shall stay , Sister , they are strangers both to me ; how her face alters !", "This is boysterous , or say I go to sleep , will you go to sleep with me ?", "A brave dissembling Rogue , and how she carries it !"], "true_target": ["Say I go to my prayers ?", "Who bid you bring the meat yet ? away you knaves , I will not dine these two hours : how am I vext and chafed ! go carry it back and tell the Cook , he 's an arrant Rascal , to send before I called .", "Let it alone , and call my Steward to me , and bid him bring his reckonings into the Orchard , these unmannerly rude puppies \u2014", "Gentlemen ?", "I was about it , but because they came as suiters .", "Give me my Coach , I will take the air .", "Fear not , the Woman will be thanked , I do not doubt it . Are you so crafty , carry it so precisely ? this is to wake my fears , or to abuse me , I shall look narrowly : despair not Gentlemen , there is an hour to catch a Woman in , if you be wise , so , I must leave you too ; Now will I go laugh at my Suitors .", "Fear her not , Sir .", "Well Sir , you have delivered me , I thank you , and with your nobleness prevented danger , their tongues might utter , we 'll all go and eat Sir .", "They are so impudent they will receive none : More yet ! how came these in ?", "You want a little .", "Will you stay Gentlemen , a piece of Beef and a cold Capon , that 's all , you know you are welcom .", "If you will needs be foolish you must be used so : who sent for you ? who entertained you Gentlemen ? who bid you welcom hither ? you came crowding , and impudently bold ; press on my patience , as if I kept a house for all Companions , and of all sorts : will \u2018 have your wills , will vex me and force my liking from you I ne 're ow 'd you ?", "I must go up , I must go up , I have a business waits upon me , some wine for the Gentlemen .", "You must not so soon Sir , here be some Gentlemen , it may be you are acquainted with \u2018 em .", "Why do you laugh sister ? I fear me \u2018 tis your trick , \u2018 twas neatly done of you , and well becomes your pleasure .", "Well go thy ways , thou art a noble fellow , and some means I must work to have thee know it .", "From whom , Sir ?", "I am glad he is here now though . Who would you speak with ,", "A plaguie cunning quean .", "You are merry , Gentlemen .", "Knaves several .", "Here .", "Such a one was here Sir , as I remember your own Brother , but gone almost an hour agoe ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 238}, {"query": ["I bawl as loud as I can , would you have me fetch \u2018 em upon my back .", "Roger , you are a weak Serving-man , your white broath runs from you ; fie , how I sweat under this Pile of Beef ; an Elephant can do more ! Oh for such a back now , and in these times , what might a man arrive at ! Goose , grase you up , and Woodcock march behinde thee , I am almost foundred .", "Face about Gentlemen , beat a mournfull march then , and give some supporters , or else I perish \u2014"], "true_target": ["Shall we get \u2018 em into th \u2019 butterie , and make'em drunk ?", "I should sweat more to carry \u2018 em out .", "Away to tables then .", "Yes forsooth , I'le let \u2018 em in presently ,\u2014 Gentlemen ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 238}, {"query": ["Slip aside boy , I know she loves \u2018 em , howsoever she carries it , and has invited \u2018 em , my young Mistress told me so ."], "true_target": ["Come Gentlemen , march fairly ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 238}, {"query": ["You are too curious Madam , too full of preparation , we expect it not .", "How glorious !", "I know you have beds enough , and meat you never want ."], "true_target": ["What though we come e 're you expected us , do not we know your entertainments Madam are free , and full at all times ?", "I am beyond my faith , pray let 's be going .", "For all this we will dine with you ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 238}, {"query": ["I am paid for fooling .", "Alas , it never touched me .", "And if you be not such a one , restore it .", "Spend it , and say nothing , your modesty may deserve more .", "You cannot catch me , Sister .", "Prethee no more Wench ."], "true_target": ["Dogs dance for meat , would ye have men do worse ? for they can speak , cry out like Wood-mongers , good deeds by the hundreds , I did it that my best friend should not know it , wine and vain glory does as much as I else , if you will force my merit , against my meaning , use it in well bestowing it , in shewing it came to be a benefit , and was so ; and not examining a Woman did it , or to what end , in not believing sometimes your self , when drink and stirring conversation may ripen strange perswasions .", "The last of me , if ever you use other .", "Let it suffice you have it , it was never mine , whilest good men wanted it .", "Keep but this way , and from this place to tell me so , you have paid me ; and so I wish you see all fortune .", "\u2018 Tis true .", "Though I believe few handsomer ; or hear you , though I affect a good tongue well ; or try you , though my years desire a friend , that I relieved you ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 238}, {"query": ["Here 's a new matter ."], "true_target": ["What , Lady ?"], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 238}, {"query": ["\u2018 Tis he .", "Now to our purposes .", "Good joy and fortune .", "It must needs work upon her .", "I dare not say , nor think neither .", "A gracious resolution .", "You have made your Brother a fine man , we met him .", "Yes Lady , now I may say so , \u2018 tis no shame to you , I say a Gentleman , and winking at some light fancies , which you most happily may affect him for , as bravely carried , as nobly bred and managed .", "Yes , yes Sir .", "Carrie it in state .", "And we consider for some private reasons , you would have it private , yet take your own pleasure ; and so good morrow , my best Niece , my sweetest .", "With a Gentlewoman the widow 's sister , as I live he smiles , he has got good hold , why well said Frank i'faith , let 's stay and mark .", "He tells you true , Sir , they are a bunch of the most boisterous Rascals disorder ever made , let \u2018 em be mad once , the power of the whole Country cannot cool \u2018 em , be patient but a while .", "I'le tell plainly , you are my Niece , and Valentine the Gentleman has made you so by marriage .", "Afore , afore ."], "true_target": ["Nothing I hear of .", "Most certain \u2018 tis her hands that hold him up , and her sister relieves Frank .", "Faith nothing .", "God a Mercy , Frank .", "He 's half drunk sure : and yet I like this unwillingness to lose it , this looking back .", "Believe it \u2018 tis his drink , Sir , and I am glad his drink has thrust it out .", "Yes Lady , and \u2018 twas a noble and vertuous part , to take a falling man to your protection , and buoy him up again to all his glories .", "The women are too craftie , Valentine too coy , and Frank too bashfull , had any wise man hold of such a blessing , they would strike it out o'th \u2019 flint but they would form it .", "\u2018 Tis all flood , and till that fall away , there 's no expecting .", "Do not look so strange Widow , it must be known , better a general joy ; no stirring here yet , come , come , you cannot hide \u2018 em .", "He 's a Gentleman , although he be my kinsman , my fair Niece .", "I ever thought he would do well .", "No , great they say not , but \u2018 tis a full opinion you are with child , and great joy among the Gentlemen , your husband hath bestirred himself fairly .", "I know you would be with him , love him , and love him well .", "Now it works ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 239}, {"query": ["Well met again , and what good news yet ?", "What then , Sir ?", "I am glad to hear it : but wherefore do they not pursue this fortune to some fair end ?", "Good morrow , Madam .", "Will you redeem your state , speak to the point , Sir ?", "Yes , if he did it handsomely , but he 's so harsh and strange .", "Good morrow .", "What say you to this ?", "You are in a miserable estate in the worlds account else , I would not for your wealth it come to doubting .", "I come to tell you , your latest hour is come .", "Much joy I hope you'l find , we came to gratulate your new knit marriage-band .", "You'l find him noble , this may beget \u2014", "Nay , I knew how ever he wheel 'd about like a loose Cabine , he would charge home at length , like a brave Gentleman ; Heavens blessing o \u2019 your heart Lady , we are so bound to honour you , in all your service so devoted to you ."], "true_target": ["He 's mad sure .", "Then I must take an order ?", "Have you no feeling , Sir ?", "Cannibals ? if ever I come to view his Regiment , if fair terms may be had .", "Runts , I'le buy a Colledge for Bears , and live among \u2018 em .", "The Widow sure , why does she stir so early ?", "What though he wanted these outward things , that flie away like shadows , was not his mind a full one , and a brave one ? You have wealth enough to give him gloss and outside , and he wit enough to give way to love a Lady .", "No turning in this tide yet ?", "Is not this his younger Brother ?", "The sentence of your state .", "As long as you will , Sir , before I buy a bargain of such", "Alas , we know his private hours of entrance , how long , and when he stayed , could name the bed too , where he paid down his first-fruits .", "No fruits of what we sowed ?", "Lance , carrie this before him ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 239}, {"query": ["How ?", "Are you mad ?", "Get you ready quickly , and when she is ready wait upon her handsomely ; no more , be gone .", "Marriage ?", "You drousie slave , nothing but sleep and swilling !", "Niece , Sir ?", "These are good things , and worth my thanks , I thank you Sir .", "O you have used me kindly , and like a Gentleman , this is to trust to you .", "I pray speak softly .", "What 's all this ? I understand you not , what Niece , what marriage-knot ?", "And half an eye may see .", "I think so .", "Married , and got with child in a dream ! \u2018 tis fine i'faith , sure he that did this , would do better waking .", "If you will , go with me Sir .", "I think so .", "Because I said in jest once , you were a handsom man , one I could like well , and fooling , made you believe I loved you , and might be brought to marrie .", "I shall believe anon .", "You n'er said truer , I must confess I did a little favour you , and with some labour might have been perswaded , but when I found I must be hourly troubled , with making broths , and dawbing your decayes with swadling , and with stitching up your ruines , for the world so reports ."], "true_target": ["And I am great with child ?", "With an Ale-pot .", "These are fine bobs i'faith , married , and with child too ! how long has this been , I trow ? they seem grave fellows , they should not come to flout ; married , and bedded , the world takes notice too ! where lies this May-game ? I could be vext extreamly now , and rail too , but \u2018 tis to no end , though I itch a little , must I be scratcht I know not how , who waits there ?", "\u2018 Tis strange , I cannot force him to understand me , and make a benefit of what I would bring him : tell my sister I'le use my devotions at home this morning , she may if she please go to Church .", "Have not you married me , and for this main cause , now as you report it , to be your Nurse ?", "Whither ?", "You lazie Knave .", "You are disposed Sir .", "And do you wait upon her with a torch Sir .", "Good morrow , Gentlemen .", "Make ready my Coach quickly , and wait you only , and hark you", "The men are mad .", "You out of this , which is a fine discretion , give out the matter 's done , you have won and wed me , and that you have put , fairly put for an heir too , these are fine rumours to advance my credit : i'th \u2019 name of mischief what did you mean ?", "Sir , be secret and speedy , inquire out where he lies .", "Pray be not impudent , these are the finest toyes , belike I am married then ?", "No , no , pray stay .", "I did but jest with you .", "O you 're a noble Gallant , send off your Servant pray .", "\u2018 Twas a fine trick too , to tell the world though you had enjoyed your first wish you wished , the wealth you aimed at , that I was poor , which is most true , I am , have sold my lands , because I love not those vexations , yet for mine honours sake , if you must be prating , and for my credits sake in the Town ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 239}, {"query": ["Here 's nothing but a stall , and a Butcher 's Dog asleep i n't , where did you see the voice ?", "If I do snore my part out \u2014", "Hey ho .", "Had you been bitten with Bandog fleas , as I have been , and haunted with the night Mare .", "You would have little list to morning Prayers , pray take my fellow Ralph , he has a Psalm Book , I am an ingrum man ."], "true_target": ["Yes forsooth , I was dreamt , I was going to Church .", "Shall I put out the Torch forsooth ?", "I see nothing , I am asleep still , when you have done tell me , and then I'le wake Mistris .", "Hey ho .", "Here is such a tinkle tanklings that we can ne 're lie quiet , and sleep our prayers out . Ralph , pray emptie my right shooe that you made your Chamber-pot , and burn a little Rosemarie i n't , I must wait upon my Lady . This morning Prayer has brought me into a consumption , I have nothing left but flesh and bones about me ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 239}, {"query": ["I shall do it , Madam ."], "true_target": ["Madam ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 239}, {"query": ["A shrewd dog , Frank , will bite abundantly .", "Wilt thou go eat ?", "Any whither . The fit 's upon me now , the fit 's upon me now , Come quickly gentle Ladie , the fit 's upon me now , The world shall know they 're fools , And so shalt thou do too , Let the Cobler meddle with his tools , The fit 's upon me now . Take me quickly , while I am in this vein , away with me , for if I have but two hours to consider , all the widows in the world cannot recover me .", "Let it be hang 'd then , and let it be hang 'd high enough , I may not see it .", "Come .", "I made him a fine Gentleman , he was a fool before , brought up amongst the midst of Small-Beer-Brew-houses , what would you have with me ?", "And let him not be long , we have much business :", "Yes marrie will I , but \u2018 tis in anger yet , and I will marrie thee , do not cross me ; yes , and I will lie with thee , and get a whole bundle of babies , and I will kiss thee , stand still and kiss me handsomely , but do not provoke me , stir neither hand nor foot , for I am dangerous , I drunk sack yesternight , do not allure me : Thou art no widow of this world , come in pitie , and in spite I'le marrie thee , not a word more , and I may be brought to love thee .", "What would you have else with me , will you go drink , and let the world slide , Uncle ? Ha , ha , ha , boyes , drink Sack like Whey , boyes .", "And now confess , and know , Wit without Money , sometimes gives the blow .", "A Gentlewoman ? what Gentlewoman , what have I to do with", "And keep your ranks .", "I'le handle you in earnest , and so handle you : Nay , when my credit calls .", "Now thou art arrived , go bravely to the matter , and do something of worth , Frank .", "Well said Black-brows , advance your torches Gentlemen .", "Malllgo , lace on thy Helmet of inchanted Sack , and charge again .", "Do not provoke me .", "Take this Nelson , and now rise , thou Maiden Knight of", "Welcom , now we are all friends , go get the Priest ready ,", "Then bring thy Wife along , and thy fair Sisters , thy Neighbours and their Wives , and all their trinkets , let me have forty Trumpets , and such Wine , we 'll laugh at all the miseries of Mortgage , and then in state I'le render thee an answer .", "What are you , Musicians ? I know your coming , and what are those behind you ?", "Come hither Merchant : make me a supper , thou most reverent", "Are you my sentence ?", "She will not ravish me ? by this light she looks as sharp set as a Sparrow hawk , what wouldst thou woman ?", "That you loved me , and that you might be brought to marrie me ? why , what a Devil do you mean , widow ?", "This Rogue , if he had been sober , sure had beaten me , is the most tettish Knave .", "Thou hast been at it , Frank .", "Lance .", "And such proof you shall have .", "I tell thee widow , I like thee ten times better , now thou hast no Lands , for now thy hopes and cares lye on thy husband , if e 're thou marryest more ."], "true_target": ["I'le speak it out Widow , yes and you shall confess too , I am no Nurse-child , I went for a man , a good one , if you can beat me out o'th \u2019 pit .", "Nurse .", "I am mad , I am mad .", "Yes marry am I Widow , and you shall feel it , nay and they touch my freehold , I am a Tiger .", "Do you so , do you so , Sir ? I shall tail you presently .", "My Nurse ? why , what am I grown to , give me the Glass , my", "My follies and my fancies have an end here ,", "Fling up the bed and let her in , I'le try how gentle she is \u2014 This Sack has fill 'd my head so full of babies , I am almost mad ; what Gentlewoman should this be ? I hope she has brought me no butter print along with her to lay to my charge , if she have \u2018 tis all one , I'le forswear it .", "O I know them , come boy sing the song I taught you ,", "Wilt thou sleep ?", "Display the morgage Lance , Merchant I'le pay you ,", "The widow is drunk too .", "Hold thy Torch handsomely : how dost thou Frank ? Peter Bassel , bear up .", "And sing it lustily , come forward Gentlemen , you 're welcom ,", "Do not provoke me , the world 's a lying world , and thou shalt find it , have a good heart , and take a strong faith to thee , and mark what follows , my Nurse , yes , you shall rock me : Widow I'le keep you waking .", "And here do I S \u2019 George , bestride the Dragon , thus with my", "With me , thou man of Memphis ?", "Trust to me , for what ?", "But I'le so tumble after , come my friends lead ,", "Come Frank , rejoyce with me , thou hast got the start boy ,", "No arms , nor arms , good Lancelot , dear Lance , no fighting here , we will have Lands boy , Livings , and Titles , thou shalt be a Vice-Roy , hang fighting , hang't \u2018 tis out of fashion .", "Gentlewomen ?", "Whose that that knocks and bounces , what a Devil ails you , is hell broke loose , or do you keep an Iron mill ?", "Why , Sir , good morrow to you too , and you be so lusty .", "And every thing shall be in joynt again .", "Nay , you shall know I am a man .", "Come , thou shalt beat me .", "Lead cheerfully , and let your Fiddles ring boyes ,", "Land-catcher , a supper of forty pounds .", "Along with me then , never hang an arse , widow .", "Take a thousand , I will not keep it , nor thou shalt not have it , because thou camest i'th \u2019 nick , thou shalt not have it , go take possession , and be sure you hold it , hold fast with both hands , for there be those hounds uncoupled , will ring you such a knell , go down in glory , and march upon my land , and cry , All 's mine ; cry as the Devil did , and be the Devil , mark what an Echo follows , build fine March-panes , to entertain Sir Silk-worm and his Lady , and pull the Chappel down , and raise a Chamber for Mistress Silver-pin , to lay her belly in , mark what an Earthquake comes . Then foolish Merchant my Tenants are no Subjects , they obey nothing , and they are people too never Christened , they know no Law nor Conscience , they 'll devour thee ; and thou mortal , the stopple , they 'll confound thee within three days ; no bit nor memory of what thou wert , no not the Wart upon thy Nose there , shall be e 're heard of more ; go take possession , and bring thy Children down , to rost like Rabbets , they love young Toasts and Butter , Bow-bell Suckers ; as they love mischief , and hate Law , they are Cannibals ; bring down thy kindred too , that be not fruitful , there be those Mandrakes that will mollifie \u2018 em , go take possession . I'le go to my Chamber , afore Boy go ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 239}, {"query": ["Thou wert cruelly paid .", "Good morrow , Sir , I like your preparation .", "As sure as wedlock .", "You have fried me soundly , Sack do you call this drink ?", "\u2018 Twas all but sport , I'le tell thee what I mean now , I mean to see this Wench .", "Ha , \u2018 tis a light , take her by the hand and court her .", "Dost thou hear the Bell ring ?", "Then she comes to prayers , early each morning thither : Now if I could but meet her , for I am of another mettle now .", "Mistress ?", "Fie Lance , fie .", "I'le tell you , and I'le instruct ye too , have I caught you ,", "By no means , do not hurt him .", "It was my meaning , and such a husband , so loving , and so carefull , my youth , and all my fortunes shall arrive at \u2014 Hark you ?", "She looks still angry .", "If I do not , hang me .", "Yes Lady , never bless your self , I am but a man , and like an honest man , now I will thank you \u2014"], "true_target": ["But I will Lady .", "And I will wait upon you .", "No by no means , that were a weak trick Lady , I'le kiss , and stop your mouth .", "That 's known already , and no man living shall now carry you from me .", "It shall be better .", "\u2018 Tis she : fortune I kiss thy hand \u2014 Good morrow Lady .", "How dost thou now ?", "It shall be ten times finer .", "That 's it I look for .", "Yes faith , \u2018 tis done Sir .", "Yes indeed will I , and get such black ey 'd boyes .", "Yes by my troth Lady in these fair Tresses .", "I'le bid you good morrow , Brother , for sleep I cannot , I have a thousand fancies .", "A thousand kisses more .", "\u2018 Twas my purpose .", "Do you like that better ? I can ravish you an hundred times , and never hurt you ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 239}, {"query": ["Sack , when would small Beer have done this ?", "I'le play no more , you abuse me , will you go ?", "I sting , I sting with my tail .", "I scorn meat , I come for rompering , I come to wait upon my charge discreetly ; for look you , if you will not take your Mortgage again , here do I lie S \u2019 George , and so forth .", "I may live to requite it , put a Snaffle of Sack in my mouth and then ride me very well .", "Afore thou dream .", "Yes , yes .", "To her and meet Sir .", "I scorn sleep .", "\u2018 Tis all thine own boy , an \u2018 twere a million , god a mercy", "Now could I fight , and fight with thee ."], "true_target": ["She sees you as plain as I do .", "You shall hear from us .", "Yes marry shall he Lady , forward my friend .", "I must beat some body , and why not my Master , before a stranger ? charity and beating begins at home .", "Where a Devil is she ? and there were two , \u2018 twere better .", "Take her below the girdle , you'l never speed else , it comes on this way still , oh that I had but such an opportunity in a Saw-pit , how it comes on , comes on ! \u2018 tis here .", "What light 's yon ?", "I will not be compel 'd , and you were two Masters , I scorn the motion .", "Better than I was , and straighter , but my head 's a Hogshead still , it rowls and tumbles .", "I would fain labour you into your lands again , go to , it is behoveful .", "But that thou art mine own natural master , yet my sack says thou art no man , thou art a Pagan , and pawnest thy land , which a noble cause ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 239}, {"query": ["What voice is that , Sirra , do you sleep as you go , \u2018 tis he ,"], "true_target": ["I am glad o n't . Why , Shorthose ?"], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 239}, {"query": ["Are you in earnest Sir , do you long to be hang 'd ?", "This is a pretty Riot , it may grow to a rape .", "Well , you are the prettiest youth , and so you have handled me , think you ha \u2019 me sure .", "\u2018 Tis to no purpose , sister .", "Why , what an impudence is this ! you had best , being so near the Church , provide a Priest , and perswade me to marry you .", "You'l answer all these ?", "Here , here .", "Well , and it were not for pure pity , I would give you the slip yet , but being as it is .", "I was never abused thus , you had best give out too , that you found me willing , and say I doted on you ?", "This is a merrie world , poor simple Gentlewomen that think no harm , cannot walk about their business , but they must be catcht up I know not how .", "What do you mean , who sent for you , who desired you ?"], "true_target": ["Shall I call out for help ?", "Well , seeing you are so valiant , keep your way , I will to", "Church .", "And it is most likely there 's a Priest , if you dare venture as you profess , I would wish you look about you , to do these rude tricks , for you know the recompences , and trust not to my mercy .", "Hold the torch up .", "Go on Sir , and follow if you dare .", "This is fine i'faith .", "My sister , as I live , your Brother with her ! sure , I think you are the Kings takers .", "For I'le so handle you .", "You had best lie with me too .", "\u2018 Tis strange you should be thus unmannerly , turn home again sirra , you had best now force my man to lead your way .", "Can I not go about my private meditations , Ha , but such companions as you must ruffle me ? you had best go with me Sir ?"], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 239}, {"query": ["She will not be answered Sir ."], "true_target": ["\u2018 Tis a Gentlewoman Sir that must needs speak with you ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 239}]