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[ "I am tir 'd , Sir , and ne'er shall foot it home .", "Nor can you tax me , Sir , I hope , for want of duty to deserve these favours from you .", "Make me understand , Sir , what ‘ tis you point at .", "And who gave you Commission to deliver your Verdict , Minion ?", "Sir , I know them by publick fame , though yet I never saw them ; and that oppos 'd antipathy between their various dispositions , renders them the general discourse and argument ; one part inclining to the Scholar Charles , the other side preferring Eustace , as a man compleat in Courtship .", "To be plain Sir ,as they are simply themselves , to neither : let a Courtier be never so exact , let him be bless 'd with all parts that yield him to a Virgin gracious ; if he depend on others , and stand not on his own bottoms , though he have the means to bring his Mistris to a Masque , or by conveyance from some great ones lips , to taste such favour from the King : or grant he purchase precedency in the Court , to be sworn a servant Extraordinary to the Queen ; nay , though he live in expectation of some huge preferment in reversion ; if he want a present fortune , at the best those are but glorious dreams , and only yield him a happiness in posse , not in esse ; nor can they fetch him Silks from the Mercer , nor discharge a Tailors Bill , nor in full plentymaintain a Family .", "Trothas of the Courtier , all his Songs and Sonnets , his Anagrams , Acrosticks , Epigrams , his deep and Philosophical Discourse of Nature 's hidden Secrets , makes not up a perfect Husband ; he can hardly borrow the Stars of the Celestial Crown to make me a Tire for my Head , nor Charles 's Wain for a Coach , nor Ganymede for a Page , nor a rich Gown from Juno 's Wardrobe , nor would I lie inunder Heaven 's spangled Canopy , or Banquet my Guests and Gossips with imagin 'd Nectar ; pure Orleans would do better : No , no , Father , though I could be well pleas 'd to have my Husband a Courtier , and a Scholar , young , and valiant ; these are but gawdy nothings , if there be not something to make a substance .", "A full Estate , and that said , I 've said all ; and get me such a one with these Additions , farwel Virginity , and welcome Wedlock .", "I am not so punctual in all Ceremonies , I will ‘ bate two or three of these good parts , before I'le dwell too long upon the choice .", "A Husband 's welcome , and as an humble Wife I'le entertain him ; no Sovereignty I aim at , ‘ tis the man 's , Sir ; for she that seeks it , kills her husbands honour : The Gentleman I have seen , and well observ 'd him , yet find not that grac 'd excellence you promise ; a pretty Gentleman , and he may please too , and some few flashes I have heard come from him , but not to admiration as to others : He 's young , and may be good , yet he must make it , and I may help , and help to thank him also . It is your pleasure I should make him mine , and ‘ t has been still my duty to observe you .", "So I look honestly , I fear no eyes , Sir .", "A mad old Gentleman .", "I would not have a light head , nor one laden with too much learning , as , they say , this Charles is , that makes his Book his Mistris ; Sure there 's something hid in this old man 's anger , that declares him not a meer sot .", "I find no fault , better things well done , than want time to do them . Uncle , why are you sad ?", "Can he speak , Sir ?", "And does he speak well there ?", "He is a man .", "Then conversation me thinks —", "I like thy nobleness .", "And methinks bravely . This the meer Scholar ?", "I wonder ; is he your Brother , Sir ?", "Speak not so softly , Sir , ‘ tis very likely .", "No certain , Sir , I have heard nothing from you but things excellent .", "They have rich linings , Sir . I would your Brother —", "But touch ‘ em inwardly , they smell of Copper .", "And one hand seal the Match , I 'm yours for ever .", "Nay certainly , ‘ tis done , Sir .", "Only conditional , that if he had the Land , he had my love too ; this Gentleman 's the Heir , and he 'll maintain it . Pray be not angry , Sir , at what I say ; or if you be , ‘ tis at your own adventure . You have the out - side of a pretty Gentleman , but by my troth your inside is but barren ; ‘ tis not a face I only am in love with , nor will I say your face is excellent , a reasonable hunting face to court the wind with ; nor they 're not words , unless they be well plac 'd too , nor your sweet Dam-mes , nor your hired Verses , nor telling me of Clothes , nor Coach and Horses , no nor your visits each day in new Suits , nor your black Patches you wear variously , some cut like Stars , some in Half-moons , some Lozenges ,", "Nor your long travels , nor your little knowledge , can make me doat upon you . Faith go study , and glean some goodness , that you may shew manly ; your Brother at my suit I 'm sure will teach you ; or only study how to get a Wife , Sir . Y'are cast far behind , ‘ tis good you should be melancholy , it shews like a Gamester that had lost his mony ; and ‘ tis the fashion to wear your arm in a skarf , Sir , forhave had a shrewd cut o'er the fingers .", "Yes , believe me , Father , you shall ne'er choose for me ; y'are old and dim , Sir , and th ’ shadow of the earth Eclips 'd your judgment . Y'have had your time without control , dear Father , and you must give me leave to take mine now , Sir .", "Must I be gone too ?", "Then this man will ; what Fortune he shall run , Father , be't good or bad , I must partake it with him .", "I 'll wear course Flannel first .", "I 'm worse than e'er I was ; for now I fear , that that I love , that that I only dote on ; he follows me through every room I pass , and with a strong set eye he gazes on me , as if his spark of innocence were blown into a flame of lust . Virtue defend me . His Uncle too is absent , and ‘ tis night ; and what these opportunities may teach him — What fear and endless care ‘ tis to be honest ! to be a Maid what misery , what mischief ! Would I were rid of it , so it were fairly .", "Dare you venture that ?", "He follows still , yet with a sober face ; would I might know the worst , and then I were satisfied .", "I am going to bed , Sir .", "You may have me to bed , Sir , without a scruple , and yet I am chary too who comes about me . Two Innocents should not fear one another .", "I fear he will perswade me to mistake him .", "Pray ye to your bed .", "True , Sir , when ‘ tis lawful : but yet you know —", "I shall be a Heretick if this continue . What would you do a bed ? you make me blush , Sir .", "I am becoming Traitor .", "I 've too much woman in me .", "I must be gone .", "Then we may walk .", "To bed , and pray then , we may have a fair end of our fair loves ; would I were worthy of you , or of such parents that might give you thanks : But I am poor in all but in your love . Once more , good night .", "Let it be ever night when I lose you .", "This is no fit time of night .", "Hold off your hands , unmannerly , rude Sir ; nor I , nor what I have depend on you .", "I cannot love ye , let that satisfie you ; such vanities as you , are to be laugh 'd at .", "But do not kill ‘ em , Sir .", "To borrow me a while , Sir ; but one that never fought yet , has so curri 'd , so bastinado 'd them with manly carriage , they stand like things Gorgon had turn 'd to stone : they watch 'd your being absent , and then thought they might do wonders here , and they have done so ; for by my troth I wonder at their coldness , the nipping North or Frost never came near them ; St George upon a sign would grow more sensible . If the name of Honour were for ever to be lost , these were the most sufficient men to do it in all the world ; and yet they are but young , what will they rise to ? They 're as full of fire as ’ a frozen Glow-worms rattle , and shine as goodly : Nobility and patience are match 'd rarely in these three Gentlemen , they have right use o n't ; they 'll stand still for an hour and be beaten . These are the Anagrams of three great Worthies .", "Pray , Sir , be careful of us .", "Sir , let not passion so far transport you , as to think in reason , this violent course repairs , but ruins it ; that honour you would build up , you destroy ; what you would seem to nourish , if respect of my preferment or my pattern may challenge your paternal love and care , why do you , now good fortune has provided a better Husband for me than your hopes could ever fancy , strive to rob me of him ? In what is my Lord Charles defective , Sir ? unless deep Learning be a blemish in him , or well proportion 'd limbs be mulcts in nature , or , what you only aim 'd at , large Revenues , are , on the sudden , grown distasteful to you . Of what can you accuse him ?", "As I have a Soul , Sir .", "And who gave you Commission to deliver", "Your verdict , Minion ? Syl . I deserve a fee ,", "And not a frown , deare Madam ; I but speak", "Her thoughts , my Lord , and what her modesty", "Refuses to give voyce to ; shew no mercy", "To a Maidenhead of fourteene , but off with't :", "Let her lose no time Sir ; fathers that deny", "Their Daughters lawfull pleasure , when ripe for them ,", "In some kinds edge their appetites to tast of", "The fruit that is forbidden . Lew . Tis well urg 'd ,", "And I approve it ; no more blushing Girle ,", "Thy woman hath spoke truth , and so prevented", "What I meant to move to thee : There dwells neere us", "A Gentleman of blood , Mounsieur Brisac ,", "Of a faire state , sixe thousand Crowns per annum ,", "The happy Father of two hopefull Sons ,", "Of different breeding ; Th ’ elder , a meere Scholar ,", "The younger , a quaint Courtier . Ang . Sir , I know them", "By publique fame , though yet I never saw them ;", "And that oppos 'd antipathy between", "Their various dispositions , renders them", "The general discourse and argument ;", "One part inclining to the Scholar Charles ,", "The other side preferring Eustace , as", "A man compleat in Courtship . Lew . And which", "ay", "Doth your affection sway you ? Ang . to be plaine , Sir ,", "as they are", "Simply themselves , to neither ; Let a Courtier", "Be never so exact , Let him be blest with", "All parts that yeeld him to a Virgin gracious ,", "If he depend on others , and stand not", "On his owne bottomes , though he have the meanes", "To bring his Mistresse to a Masque , or by", "Conveyance from some great ones lips , to taste", "Such favour from the Kings : or grant he purchase ,", "Precedency in the Country , to be sworne", "A servant Extraordinary to the Queen ;", "Nay , though he live in expectation of", "Some huge preferment in reversion ; If", "He Want a present fortune , at the best", "Those are but glorious dreames , and onely yeeld him", "A happiness in posse , not in esse ;", "Nor can they fetch him silkes from th ’ Mercer ; nor", "Discharge a Taylors bill ; nor in full plenty", "Maintaine a family . Lew . Aptly consider 'd ,", "And to my wish ; but what 's thy censure of", "The Schollar ? Ang . Troth", "As of the Courtier ; all his Songs , and Sonnets ,", "His Anagrams , Acrosticks , Epigrammes ,", "His deep and Philosophical discourse", "Of natures hidden secrets , makes not up", "A perfect husband ; He can hardly borrow", "The Starres of the Celestial crown to make me", "A tire for my head ; nor Charles Waine for a Coach ,", "Nor Ganymede for a Page , nor a rich Gowne", "From Juno 's Wardrob , nor would I lye in", "Under heavens spangled Canopy , or banquet", "My guests and Gossips with imagin 'd Nectar ;", "Pure Orleans would doe better ; no , no , father ,", "Though I could be well pleas 'd to have my husband", "A Courtier , and a Schollar , young , and valiant ,", "These are but gawdy nothings , if there be not", "Something to make a substance . Lew . And what is that ?", "A full estate , and that said , I 've said all ,", "And get me such a one with these additions ,", "Farewell Virginity , and welcome wedlock .", "So I looke honestly , I feare no eyes , Sir . Exeunt .", "A mad old Gentleman . Bri . Yes faith sweet daughter ,", "He has been thus his whole age to my knowledge ,", "He has made Charles his heir , I know that certainly ;", "Then why should he grudge Eustace any thing ?", "I would not have a light head , nor one laden", "With too much learning , as they say , this Charles is ,", "That makes his book his Mistress : Sure , there 's something", "Hid in this old mans anger , that declares him", "Not a mere Sot . Bri . Come shall we go and seal brother ?", "All things are readie , and the", "riest is here .", "When Charles has set his hand unto the Writings ,", "As he shall instantly , then to the Wedding ,", "And so to dinner . Lew . Come , let 's seal the book first", "For my daughters Jointure . Bri . Let 's be private i n't Sir . Exeunt .", "Can he speak , Sir ? Mir . Faith yes , but not to women :", "His language is to heaven , and heavenlie wonder ,", "To Nature , and her dark and secret causes .", "And does he speak well there ? Mir . O , admirably ;", "But hee 's to bashful too behold a woman ,", "There 's none that sees him , nor he troubles none .", "He is a man . Mir . Faith Yes , and a cleare sweet spirit .", "Then conversation me thinkes — Mir . So think I", "But it is his rugged fate , and so I leave you .", "I like thy noblenesse . Eust . See my mad Uncle", "Is courting my faire Mistresse . Lew . Let him alone ,", "There 's nothing that allayes an angrie mind", "So soone as a sweet beautie ; hee'l come to us .", "Speake not so softly Sir , tis very likely .", "But touch ‘ em inwardlie , they smell of Copper .", "And one hand scale the match , Ime yours for ever .", "Nor you", "long travailes , not your little knowledge ,", "Can make me doate upon you . Faith goe studie ,", "And gleane some goodness , that you may shew manlie ;", "Your Brother at my suit Ime sure will teach you ;", "Or onely studie how to get a wife Sir ,", "Y'are cast far behind , tis good you should be melancholie ,", "It shewes like a Gamester that had lost his money ,", "And t'is the fashon to weare your arme in a skarfe Sir ,", "For you have had a shrewd cut ore the fingers .", "Must I be gone too ? Lew . I will never know thee .", "Then this man will ; what fortune he shall run , father ,", "Bee't good or bad , I must partake it with him .", "Enter Egremont .", "When shall the Masque begins ? Eust . Tis done alreadie ,", "All , all , is broken off , I am undone friend ,", "My brother 's wise againe , and has spoil 'd all ,", "Will not release the land , has wone the Wench too .", "Dare you venter that ? Syl . Let him consent , and have at ye ;", "I feare him not , he knowes not what a woman is ,", "Nor how to find the mysterie men aime at .", "Are you afraid of your own shadow , Madam ?", "He followes still , yet with a sober face ;", "Would I might know the worst , and then I were satisfied .", "I am going to bed Sir . Cha . And I am come to light ye ;", "I am a maide , and ‘ tis a maidens office .", "You may have me to bed Sir , without a scruple ,", "And yet I am charie too who comes about me .", "Two Innocents should not feare one another .", "I feare he will perswade me to mistake him .", "Pray ye to your bed . Cha . Why not to yours , dear Mistress ,", "One heart and one bed . Ang . True Sir , when ‘ tis lawful ;", "But yet you know — Cha . I would not know , forget it ;", "Those are but sickly loves that hang on Ceremonie ,", "Nurst up with doubts and feares , ours high and healthful ,", "Full of beleefe , and fit to teach the Priest ;", "Love shall seale first , then hands confirme the bargaine .", "I shall be an Heretique if this continue . What would you doe a bed ? you make me blush , Sir .", "I must be gone . Cha . Do not , I will not hurt ye ;", "This is to let you know , my worthiest Lady ,", "Y'have clear 'd my mind , and I can speak of love too ;", "Feare not my manners , though I never knew", "Before these few houres what a beautie was ,", "And such a one that fires all hearts that feele it ;", "Yet I have read of vertuous temperance ,", "And studied it among my other secrets ,", "And sooner would I force a separation", "Betwixt this Spirit and the case of flesh ,", "Than but conceive one rudeness against chastitie .", "An", "Then we may walk . Cha . And talk of any thing ,", "Any thing fit for your eares , and my language ;", "Though I was bred up dull I was ever civil ;", "Tis true , I have found it hard to looke on you ,", "And not desire ; Twil prove a wise mans task ;", "Yet those desires I have so mingled still", "And tempered with the quality of honour ,", "That if you should yeeld , I should hate you for't .", "I am no Courtier of a light condition ,", "Apt to take fire at every beautious face .", "That onely serves his will and wantonness ,", "And lets the serious part run by", "As thin neglected sand . Whitness of name ,", "You must be mine ; why should I robbe my selfe", "Of that that lawfully must make me happy ?", "Why should I seeke to cuckold my delights ,", "And widow all those sweets I aime at in you ?", "We'l loose our selves in Venus groves of mirtle", "Where every little bird shall be a Cupid ,", "And sing of love and youth , each winde that blowes", "And curles the velvet leaves shall breed delights ,", "The wanton springs shall call us to their bankes ,", "And on the perfum 'd flowers wee'l feast our senses ,", "Yet wee'l walk by untainted of their pleasures ,", "And as they were pure Temples wee'l talk in them .", "To bed , and pray then , we may have a faire end", "Of our faire loves ; would I", "ere worthy of you ,", "Or of such parents that might give you thankes ;", "But I am poore in all but in your love .", "Once more , good night . Cha . A good night t'ye , and may", "The dew of sleepe fall gently on you , sweet one ,", "And lock up those faire lights in pleasing slumbers ;", "No dreames but chast and cleare attempt your fancie ,", "And break betimes sweet morne , I 've lost my light else .", "Let it be ever night when I lose you .", "this is no time of night . Cha . Let ‘ em in Mistresse .", "Hold off your hands , unmannerly , rude Sir ;", "Nor I , nor what I have depend on you .", "I cannot love ye , let that satisfie you ;", "Such vanities as you are to be laught at .", "But doe not kill ‘ em Sir . Cha . You speak too late , Deare ,", "It is my first fight , and I must doe bravely ,", "I must not looke with partial eyes on any ;", "I cannot spare a button of these Gentlemen ;", "Did life lye in their heel Achilles like ,", "Ide shoot my anger at those parts and kill ‘ um .", "Who waits within ? Ser . Sir . Cha . View all these , view ‘ em well", "Goe round a bout ‘ em and still view their faces ,", "Round about yet ; See how death waits upon ‘ em ,", "For thou shall never view ‘ em more . Eust . Pray hold , Sir ." ]

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[ "The lamp must be replenished , but even then It will not burn so long as I must watch : My slumbers — if I slumber — 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 — But they avail not : I have done men good , And I have met with good even among men — But this availed not : I have had my foes , And none have baffled , many fallen before me — 20 But this availed not :— Good — or evil — life — Powers , passions — 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 .— Mysterious Agency ! Ye Spirits of the unbounded Universe !Whom I have sought in darkness and in light — 30 Ye , who do compass earth about , and dwell In subtler essence — ye , to whom the tops Of mountains inaccessible are haunts ,And Earth 's and Ocean 's caves familiar things — I call upon ye by the written charmWhich gives me power upon you — Rise ! Appear !— by this sign , Which makes you tremble — by the claims of him Who is undying ,— Rise ! Appear !—— Appear ! 40The thought which is within me and around me , I do compel ye to my will .— 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — and yet ‘ 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 — 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 — Thou worm ! whom I obey and scorn — Forced by a PowerFor this brief moment to descend , Where these weak Spirits round thee bend And parley with a thing like thee — 130 What would'st thou , Child of Clay ! with me ?The SEVEN SPIRITS . Earth — ocean — air — night — mountains — winds — thy Star , Are at thy beck and bidding , Child of Clay ! Before thee at thy quest their Spirits are — What would'st thou with us , Son of mortals — say ?", "Forgetfulness ——", "Of that which is within me ; read it there —", "Ye know it — and I cannot utter it .", "Oblivion — self-oblivion !", "Can ye not wring from out the hidden realms", "Ye offer so profusely — what I ask ?", "Will Death bestow it on me ?", "Ye mock me — but the Power which brought ye here", "Hath made you mine . Slaves , scoff not at my will !", "The Mind — the Spirit — the Promethean spark ,", "The lightning of my being , is as bright ,", "Pervading , and far darting as your own ,", "And shall not yield to yours , though cooped in clay !", "Answer , or I will teach you what I am .", "Why say ye so ? 160", "I then have called ye from your realms in vain ;", "Ye cannot , or ye will not , aid me .", "Accurséd ! what have I to do with days ? They are too long already .— Hence — begone ! 170", "No , none : yet stay — one moment , ere we part ,", "I would behold ye face to face . I hear", "Your voices , sweet and melancholy sounds ,", "As Music on the waters ;", "and I see", "The steady aspect of a clear large Star ;", "But nothing more . Approach me as ye are ,", "Or one — or all — in your accustomed forms . 180", "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 — Come ! Seventh SpiritBehold !", "Oh God ! if it be thus , and thou", "Art not a madness and a mockery ,", "I yet might be most happy . I will clasp thee , 190", "And we again will be ——", "When the Moon is on the wave ,", "And the glow-worm in the grass ,", "And the meteor on the grave ,", "And the wisp on the morass ;", "When the falling stars are shooting ,", "And the answered owls are hooting ,", "And the silent leaves are still", "In the shadow of the hill ,", "Shall my soul be upon thine , 200", "With a power and with a sign .", "Though thy slumber may be deep ,", "Yet thy Spirit shall not sleep ;", "There are shades which will not vanish ,", "There are thoughts thou canst not banish ;", "By a Power to thee unknown ,", "Thou canst never be alone ;", "Thou art wrapt as with a shroud ,", "Thou art gathered in a cloud ;", "And for ever shalt thou dwell 210", "In the spirit of this spell .", "Though thou seest me not pass by ,", "Thou shalt feel me with thine eye", "As a thing that , though unseen ,", "Must be near thee , and hath been ;", "And when in that secret dread", "Thou hast turned around thy head ,", "Thou shalt marvel I am not", "As thy shadow on the spot ,", "And the power which thou dost feel 220", "Shall be what thou must conceal .", "And a magic voice and verse", "Hath baptized thee with a curse ;", "And a Spirit of the air", "Hath begirt thee with a snare ;", "In the wind there is a voice", "Shall forbid thee to rejoice ;", "And to thee shall Night deny", "All the quiet of her sky ;", "And the day shall have a sun , 230", "Which shall make thee wish it done .", "From thy false tears I did distil", "An essence which hath strength to kill ;", "From thy own heart I then did wring", "The black blood in its blackest spring ;", "From thy own smile I snatched the snake ,", "For there it coiled as in a brake ;", "From thy own lip I drew the charm", "Which gave all these their chiefest harm ;", "In proving every poison known , 240", "I found the strongest was thine own .", "By the cold breast and serpent smile ,", "By thy unfathomed gulfs of guile ,", "By that most seeming virtuous eye ,", "By thy shut soul 's hypocrisy ;", "By the perfection of thine art", "Which passed for human thine own heart ;", "By thy delight in others ’ pain ,", "And by thy brotherhood of Cain ,", "I call upon thee ! and compel", "250", "Thyself to be thy proper Hell !", "And on thy head I pour the vial", "Which doth devote thee to this trial ;", "Nor to slumber , nor to die ,", "Shall be in thy destiny ;", "Though thy death shall still seem near", "To thy wish , but as a fear ;", "Lo ! the spell now works around thee ,", "And the clankless chain hath bound thee ;", "O'er thy heart and brain together 260", "Hath the word been passed — now wither !", "The spirits I have raised abandon me ,", "The spells which I have studied baffle me ,", "The remedy I recked of tortured me", "I lean no more on superhuman aid ;", "It hath no power upon the past , and for", "The future , till the past be gulfed in darkness ,", "It is not of my search .— My Mother Earth !", "And thou fresh-breaking Day , and you , ye Mountains ,", "Why are ye beautiful ? I cannot love ye .", "And thou , the bright Eye of the Universe , 10", "That openest over all , and unto all", "Art a delight — thou shin'st not on my heart .", "And you , ye crags , upon whose extreme edge", "I stand , and on the torrent 's brink beneath", "Behold the tall pines dwindled as to shrubs", "In dizziness of distance ; when a leap ,", "A stir , a motion , even a breath , would bring", "My breast upon its rocky bosom 's bed", "To rest for ever — wherefore do I pause ?", "I feel the impulse — yet I do not plunge ; 20", "I see the peril — yet do not recede ;", "And my brain reels — and yet my foot is firm :", "There is a power upon me which withholds ,", "And makes it my fatality to live ,—", "If it be life to wear within myself", "This barrenness of Spirit , and to be", "My own Soul 's sepulchre , for I have ceased", "To justify my deeds unto myself —", "The last infirmity of evil . Aye ,", "Thou winged and cloud-cleaving minister , 30", "How glorious in its action and itself !", "But we , who name ourselves its sovereigns , we ,", "Half dust , half deity , alike unfit 40", "To sink or soar , with our mixed essence make", "A conflict of its elements , and breathe", "The breath of degradation and of pride ,", "Contending with low wants and lofty will ,", "Till our Mortality predominates ,", "And men are — what they name not to themselves ,", "And trust not to each other . Hark ! the note ,", "My soul would drink those echoes . Oh , that I were", "The viewless spirit of a lovely sound ,", "A living voice , a breathing harmony ,", "A bodiless enjoyment", "— born and dying", "With the blest tone which made me !", "To be thus — Grey-haired with anguish , like these blasted pines , Wrecks of a single winter , barkless , branchless ,A blighted trunk upon a curséd root , Which but supplies a feeling to Decay — 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 — hours Which I outlive !— 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 .", "The mists boil up around the glaciers ; clouds", "Rise curling fast beneath me , white and sulphury ,", "Like foam from the roused ocean of deep Hell ,", "Whose every wave breaks on a living shore ,", "Heaped with the damned like pebbles .— I am giddy .", "Mountains have fallen ,", "Leaving a gap in the clouds , and with the shock", "Rocking their Alpine brethren ; filling up", "The ripe green valleys with Destruction 's splinters ;", "Damming the rivers with a sudden dash ,", "Which crushed the waters into mist , and made", "Their fountains find another channel — thus ,", "Thus , in its old age , did Mount Rosenberg —", "Why stood I not beneath it ?", "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 — as thus — thus they shall be — In this one plunge .— Farewell , ye opening Heavens ! Look not upon me thus reproachfully — You were not meant for me — Earth ! take these atoms !", "I am most sick at heart — nay , grasp me not —", "I am all feebleness — the mountains whirl", "Spinning around me —— I grow blind —— What art thou ?", "It imports not : I do know", "My route full well , and need no further guidance .", "No matter .", "Away , away ! there 's blood upon the brim ! Will it then never — never sink in the earth ?", "I say ‘ tis blood — my blood ! the pure warm stream", "Which ran in the veins of my fathers , and in ours", "When we were in our youth , and had one heart ,", "And loved each other as we should not love ,", "And this was shed : but still it rises up ,", "Colouring the clouds , that shut me out from Heaven ,", "Where thou art not — and I shall never be . 30", "Patience — and patience ! Hence — that word was made", "For brutes of burthen , not for birds of prey !", "Preach it to mortals of a dust like thine ,—", "I am not of thine order .", "Do I not bear it ?— Look on me — I live .", "I tell thee , man ! I have lived many years ,", "Many long years , but they are nothing now", "To those which I must number : ages — ages —", "Space and eternity — and consciousness ,", "With the fierce thirst of death — and still unslaked !", "Think'st thou existence doth depend on time ?", "It doth ; but actions are our epochs : mine", "Have made my days and nights imperishable ,", "Endless , and all alike , as sands on the shore ,", "Innumerable atoms ; and one desert ,", "Barren and cold , on which the wild waves break ,", "But nothing rests , save carcasses and wrecks ,", "Rocks , and the salt-surf weeds of bitterness .", "I would I were — for then the things I see 60", "Would be but a distempered dream .", "Myself , and thee — a peasant of the Alps —", "Thy humble virtues , hospitable home ,", "And spirit patient , pious , proud , and free ;", "Thy self-respect , grafted on innocent thoughts ;", "Thy days of health , and nights of sleep ; thy toils ,", "By danger dignified , yet guiltless ; hopes", "Of cheerful old age and a quiet grave ,", "With cross and garland over its green turf , 70", "And thy grandchildren 's love for epitaph !", "This do I see — and then I look within —", "It matters not — my Soul was scorched already !", "No , friend ! I would not wrong thee , nor exchange", "My lot with living being : I can bear —", "However wretchedly , ‘ tis still to bear —", "In life what others could not brook to dream ,", "But perish in their slumber .", "Oh ! no , no , no !", "My injuries came down on those who loved me —", "On those whom I best loved : I never quelled", "An enemy , save in my just defence —", "But my embrace was fatal .", "I need them not ,", "But can endure thy pity . I depart — 90", "‘ Tis time — farewell !— Here 's gold , and thanks for thee —", "No words — it is thy due .— Follow me not —", "I know my path — the mountain peril 's past :", "And once again I charge thee , follow not !", "To look upon thy beauty — nothing further .", "The face of the earth hath maddened me , and I", "Take refuge in her mysteries , and pierce 40", "To the abodes of those who govern her —", "But they can nothing aid me . I have sought", "From them what they could not bestow , and now", "I search no further .", "A boon ;—", "But why should I repeat it ? ‘ twere in vain .", "Well , though it torture me , ‘ tis but the same ;", "My pang shall find a voice . From my youth upwards 50", "My Spirit walked not with the souls of men ,", "Nor looked upon the earth with human eyes ;", "The thirst of their ambition was not mine ,", "The aim of their existence was not mine ;", "My joys — my griefs — my passions — and my powers ,", "Made me a stranger ; though I wore the form ,", "I had no sympathy with breathing flesh ,", "Nor midst the Creatures of Clay that girded me", "Was there but One who — but of her anon .", "I said with men , and with the thoughts of men , 60", "I held but slight communion ; but instead ,", "My joy was in the wilderness ,— to breathe", "The difficult air of the iced mountain 's top ,", "Where the birds dare not build — nor insect 's wing", "Flit o'er the herbless granite ; or to plunge", "Into the torrent , and to roll along", "On the swift whirl of the new-breaking wave", "Of river-stream , or Ocean , in their flow .", "In these my early strength exulted ; or", "To follow through the night the moving moon ,", "70", "The stars and their development ; or catch", "The dazzling lightnings till my eyes grew dim ;", "Or to look , list'ning , on the scattered leaves ,", "While Autumn winds were at their evening song .", "These were my pastimes , and to be alone ;", "For if the beings , of whom I was one ,—", "Hating to be so ,— crossed me in my path ,", "I felt myself degraded back to them ,", "And was all clay again . And then I dived ,", "In my lone wanderings , to the caves of Death , 80", "Searching its cause in its effect ; and drew", "From withered bones , and skulls , and heaped up dust", "Conclusions most forbidden .", "Then I passed —", "The nights of years in sciences untaught ,", "Save in the old-time ; and with time and toil ,", "And terrible ordeal , and such penance", "As in itself hath power upon the air ,", "And spirits that do compass air and earth ,", "Space , and the peopled Infinite , I made", "Mine eyes familiar with Eternity , 90", "Such as , before me , did the Magi , and", "He who from out their fountain-dwellings raised", "Eros and Anteros ,", "at Gadara ,", "As I do thee ;— and with my knowledge grew", "The thirst of knowledge , and the power and joy", "Of this most bright intelligence , until ——", "Oh ! I but thus prolonged my words ,", "Boasting these idle attributes , because", "As I approach the core of my heart 's grief —", "But — to my task . I have not named to thee 100", "Father or mother , mistress , friend , or being ,", "With whom I wore the chain of human ties ;", "If I had such , they seemed not such to me —", "Yet there was One ——", "She was like me in lineaments — her eyes —", "Her hair — her features — all , to the very tone", "Even of her voice , they said were like to mine ;", "But softened all , and tempered into beauty :", "She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings ,", "The quest of hidden knowledge , and a mind 110", "To comprehend the Universe : nor these", "Alone , but with them gentler powers than mine ,", "Pity , and smiles , and tears — which I had not ;", "And tenderness — but that I had for her ;", "Humility — and that I never had .", "Her faults were mine — her virtues were her own —", "I loved her , and destroyed her !", "Not with my hand , but heart , which broke her heart ;", "It gazed on mine , and withered . I have shed", "Blood , but not hers — and yet her blood was shed ; 120", "I saw — and could not stanch it .", "Daughter of Air ! I tell thee , since that hour —", "But words are breath — look on me in my sleep ,", "Or watch my watchings — Come and sit by me !", "My solitude is solitude no more , 130", "But peopled with the Furies ;— I have gnashed", "My teeth in darkness till returning morn ,", "Then cursed myself till sunset ;— I have prayed", "For madness as a blessing — ‘ tis denied me .", "I have affronted Death — but in the war", "Of elements the waters shrunk from me ,", "And fatal things passed harmless ; the cold hand", "Of an all-pitiless Demon held me back ,", "Back by a single hair , which would not break .", "In Fantasy , Imagination , all 140", "The affluence of my soul — which one day was", "A Croesus in creation — I plunged deep ,", "But , like an ebbing wave , it dashed me back", "Into the gulf of my unfathomed thought .", "I plunged amidst Mankind — Forgetfulness", "I sought in all , save where ‘ tis to be found —", "And that I have to learn — my Sciences ,", "My long pursued and superhuman art ,", "Is mortal here : I dwell in my despair —", "And live — and live for ever .", "To do this thy power", "Must wake the dead , or lay me low with them .", "Do so — in any shape — in any hour —", "With any torture — so it be the last .", "I will not swear — Obey ! and whom ? the Spirits", "Whose presence I command , and be the slave", "Of those who served me — Never !", "I have said it .", "Retire !", "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 — This vital weight upon the struggling heart , Which sinks with sorrow , or beats quick with pain , Or joy that ends in agony or faintness — 170 In all the days of past and future — for In life there is no present — we can number How few — how less than few — 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 — 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 — 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 — he slew That which he loved , unknowing what he slew , And died unpardoned — 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 — 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 ?— a sufferer for my sins — A thing I dare not think upon — or nothing . Within few hours I shall not call in vain — Yet in this hour I dread the thing I dare : Until this hour I never shrunk to gaze 200 On spirit , good or evil — 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 .— The night approaches .", "I know it ;", "And yet ye see I kneel not .", "‘ Tis taught already ;— many a night on the earth ,", "On the bare ground , have I bowed down my face ,", "And strewed my head with ashes ; I have known", "The fulness of humiliation — for 40", "I sunk before my vain despair , and knelt", "To my own desolation .", "Bid him bow down to that which is above him ,", "The overruling Infinite — the Maker", "Who made him not for worship — let him kneel ,", "And we will kneel together .", "Ye know what I have known ; and without power", "I could not be amongst ye : but there are", "Powers deeper still beyond — I come in quest", "Of such , to answer unto what I seek .", "Thou canst not reply to me . Call up the dead — my question is for them .", "One without a tomb — call up", "Astarte .", "NEMESIS .", "Shadow ! or Spirit !", "Whatever thou art ,", "Which still doth inherit", "The whole or a part", "Of the form of thy birth ,", "Of the mould of thy clay ,", "Which returned to the earth , 90", "Re-appear to the day !", "Bear what thou borest ,", "The heart and the form ,", "And the aspect thou worest", "Redeem from the worm .", "Appear !— Appear !— Appear !", "Who sent thee there requires thee here !", "Can this be death ? there 's bloom upon her cheek ;", "But now I see it is no living hue ,", "But a strange hectic — like the unnatural red 100", "Which Autumn plants upon the perished leaf .", "It is the same ! Oh , God ! that I should dread", "To look upon the same — Astarte !— No ,", "I cannot speak to her — but bid her speak —", "Forgive me or condemn me .", "NEMESIS .", "By the Power which hath broken", "The grave which enthralled thee ,", "Speak to him who hath spoken .", "Or those who have called thee !", "She is silent ,", "And in that silence I am more than answered . 110", "Hear me , hear me —", "Astarte ! my belovéd ! speak to me :", "I have so much endured — so much endure —", "Look on me ! the grave hath not changed thee more", "Than I am changed for thee . Thou lovedst me 120", "Too much , as I loved thee : we were not made", "To torture thus each other — though it were", "The deadliest sin to love as we have loved .", "Say that thou loath'st me not — that I do bear", "This punishment for both — that thou wilt be", "One of the blesséd — and that I shall die ;", "For hitherto all hateful things conspire", "To bind me in existence — in a life", "Which makes me shrink from Immortality —", "A future like the past . I cannot rest . 130", "I know not what I ask , nor what I seek :", "I feel but what thou art , and what I am ;", "And I would hear yet once before I perish", "The voice which was my music — Speak to me !", "For I have called on thee in the still night ,", "Startled the slumbering birds from the hushed boughs ,", "And woke the mountain wolves , and made the caves", "Acquainted with thy vainly echoed name ,", "Which answered me — many things answered me —", "Spirits and men — but thou wert silent all . 140", "Yet speak to me ! I have outwatched the stars ,", "And gazed o'er heaven in vain in search of thee .", "Speak to me ! I have wandered o'er the earth ,", "And never found thy likeness — Speak to me !", "Look on the fiends around — they feel for me :", "I fear them not , and feel for thee alone .", "Speak to me ! though it be in wrath ;— but say —", "I reck not what — but let me hear thee once —", "This once — once more !", "Phantom of Astarte . Manfred !", "Say on , say on —", "I live but in the sound — it is thy voice ! 150", "Yet one word more — am I forgiven ?", "Say , shall we meet again ?", "One word for mercy ! Say thou lovest me .", "None .", "We meet then ! Where ? On the earth ?—", "Even as thou wilt : and for the grace accorded", "I now depart a debtor . Fare ye well !", "ACT III .", "What is the hour ?", "Say ,", "Are all things so disposed of in the tower", "As I directed ?", "It is well :", "Thou mayst retire .", "There is a calm upon me — 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 “ Kalon , ” 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 .", "Thanks , holy father ! welcome to these walls ;", "Thy presence honours them , and blesseth those", "Who dwell within them .", "Herman , retire .— What would my reverend guest ?", "Proceed ,— I listen .", "And what are they who do avouch these things ?", "Take it .", "I hear thee . This is my reply — whate'er", "I may have been , or am , doth rest between", "Heaven and myself — I shall not choose a mortal", "To be my mediator — Have I sinned", "Against your ordinances ? prove and punish !", "Old man ! there is no power in holy men ,", "Nor charm in prayer , nor purifying form", "Of penitence , nor outward look , nor fast ,", "Nor agony — nor , greater than all these ,", "The innate tortures of that deep Despair , 70", "Which is Remorse without the fear of Hell ,", "But all in all sufficient to itself", "Would make a hell of Heaven — can exorcise", "From out the unbounded spirit the quick sense", "Of its own sins — wrongs — sufferance — and revenge", "Upon itself ; there is no future pang", "Can deal that justice on the self — condemned", "He deals on his own soul .", "When Rome 's sixth Emperor", "was near his last ,", "The victim of a self-inflicted wound ,", "To shun the torments of a public death", "90", "From senates once his slaves , a certain soldier ,", "With show of loyal pity , would have stanched", "The gushing throat with his officious robe ;", "The dying Roman thrust him back , and said —", "Some empire still in his expiring glance —", "“ It is too late — is this fidelity ? ”", "I answer with the Roman —", "“ It is too late ! ”", "Aye — father ! I have had those early visions ,", "And noble aspirations in my youth ,", "To make my own the mind of other men ,", "The enlightener of nations ; and to rise", "I knew not whither — it might be to fall ;", "But fall , even as the mountain-cataract ,", "Which having leapt from its more dazzling height , 110", "Even in the foaming strength of its abyss ,", "Lies low but mighty still .— But this is past ,", "My thoughts mistook themselves .", "I could not tame my nature down ; for he", "Must serve who fain would sway ; and soothe , and sue ,", "And watch all time , and pry into all place ,", "And be a living Lie , who would become", "A mighty thing amongst the mean — and such 120", "The mass are ; I disdained to mingle with", "A herd , though to be leader — and of wolves ,", "The lion is alone , and so am I .", "Because my nature was averse from life ;", "And yet not cruel ; for I would not make ,", "But find a desolation . Like the Wind ,", "The red-hot breath of the most lone Simoom ,", "Which dwells but in the desert , and sweeps o'er", "The barren sands which bear no shrubs to blast , 130", "And revels o'er their wild and arid waves ,", "And seeketh not , so that it is not sought ,", "But being met is deadly ,— such hath been", "The course of my existence ; but there came", "Things in my path which are no more .", "Look on me ! there is an order", "Of mortals on the earth , who do become", "Old in their youth , and die ere middle age ,", "140", "Without the violence of warlike death ;", "Some perishing of pleasure — some of study —", "Some worn with toil , some of mere weariness ,—", "Some of disease — and some insanity —", "And some of withered , or of broken hearts ;", "For this last is a malady which slays", "More than are numbered in the lists of Fate ,", "Taking all shapes , and bearing many names .", "Look upon me ! for even of all these things", "Have I partaken ; and of all these things , 150", "One were enough ; then wonder not that I", "Am what I am , but that I ever was ,", "Or having been , that I am still on earth .", "Old man ! I do respect", "Thine order , and revere thine years ; I deem", "Thy purpose pious , but it is in vain :", "Think me not churlish ; I would spare thyself ,", "Far more than me , in shunning at this time", "All further colloquy — and so — farewell .", "Doth he so ?", "I will look on him .", "Of early nature , and the vigorous race", "Of undiseased mankind , the giant sons", "Of the embrace of Angels , with a sex", "More beautiful than they , which did draw down", "The erring Spirits who can ne'er return .—", "Most glorious Orb ! that wert a worship , ere", "The mystery of thy making was revealed ! 10", "Thou earliest minister of the Almighty ,", "Which gladdened , on their mountain tops , the hearts", "Of the Chaldean shepherds , till they poured", "Themselves in orisons ! Thou material God !", "And representative of the Unknown —", "Who chose thee for his shadow ! Thou chief Star !", "Centre of many stars ! which mak'st our earth", "Endurable and temperest the hues", "And hearts of all who walk within thy rays !", "Sire of the seasons ! Monarch of the climes , 20", "And those who dwell in them ! for near or far ,", "Our inborn spirits have a tint of thee", "Even as our outward aspects ;— thou dost rise ,", "And shine , and set in glory . Fare thee well !", "I ne'er shall see thee more . As my first glance", "Of love and wonder was for thee , then take", "My latest look : thou wilt not beam on one", "To whom the gifts of life and warmth have been", "Of a more fatal nature . He is gone —", "I follow .", "Thou know'st me not ;", "My days are numbered , and my deeds recorded :", "Retire , or ‘ twill be dangerous — Away !", "Not I !", "I simply tell thee peril is at hand ,", "And would preserve thee .", "Look there ! What dost thou see ?", "Look there , I say ,", "And steadfastly ;— now tell me what thou seest ? 60", "Thou hast no cause — he shall not harm thee — but", "His sight may shock thine old limbs into palsy .", "I say to thee — Retire !", "Why — aye — what doth he here ? I did not send for him ,— he is unbidden .", "Pronounce — what is thy mission ?", "I am prepared for all things , but deny", "The Power which summons me . Who sent thee here ?", "I have commanded", "Things of an essence greater far than thine ,", "And striven with thy masters . Get thee hence !", "I knew , and know my hour is come , but not", "To render up my soul to such as thee :", "Away ! I 'll die as I have lived — alone . 90", "I do defy ye ,— though I feel my soul", "Is ebbing from me , yet I do defy ye ; 100", "Nor will I hence , while I have earthly breath", "To breathe my scorn upon ye — earthly strength", "To wrestle , though with spirits ; what ye take", "Shall be ta'en limb by limb .", "Thou false fiend , thou liest !", "My life is in its last hour ,— that I know , 110", "Nor would redeem a moment of that hour ;", "I do not combat against Death , but thee", "And thy surrounding angels ; my past power", "Was purchased by no compact with thy crew ,", "But by superior science — penance , daring ,", "And length of watching , strength of mind , and skill", "In knowledge of our Fathers — when the earth", "Saw men and spirits walking side by side ,", "And gave ye no supremacy : I stand", "Upon my strength — I do defy — deny — 120", "Spurn back , and scorn ye !—", "What are they to such as thee ?", "Must crimes be punished but by other crimes ,", "And greater criminals ?— Back to thy hell !", "Thou hast no power upon me , that I feel ;", "Thou never shalt possess me , that I know :", "What I have done is done ; I bear within", "A torture which could nothing gain from thine :", "The Mind which is immortal makes itself", "Requital for its good or evil thoughts ,— 130", "Is its own origin of ill and end —", "And its own place and time :", "its innate sense ,", "When stripped of this mortality , derives", "No colour from the fleeting things without ,", "But is absorbed in sufferance or in joy ,", "Born from the knowledge of its own desert .", "Thou didst not tempt me , and thou couldst not tempt me ;", "I have not been thy dupe , nor am thy prey —", "But was my own destroyer , and will be", "My own hereafter .— Back , ye baffled fiends ! 140", "The hand of Death is on me — but not yours !", "‘ Tis over — my dull eyes can fix thee not ;", "But all things swim around me , and the earth", "Heaves as it were beneath me . Fare thee well —", "Give me thy hand .", "Old man ! ‘ tis not so difficult to die .", "Charity , most reverend father ,", "Becomes thy lips so much more than this menace ,", "That I would call thee back to it : but say ,", "What would'st thou with me ?", "I understand thee ,— well !", "Stop — There is a gift for thee within this casket . The DEMON ASHTAROTH appears , singing as follows :— The raven sits On the Raven-stone ,And his black wing flits O'er the milk — white bone ; 20 To and fro , as the night — winds blow , The carcass of the assassin swings ; And there alone , on the Raven-stone , The raven flaps his dusky wings . The fetters creak — 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 — Merrily — merrily — cheerily — cheerily — Merrily — merrily — speeds the ball : 30 The dead in their shrouds , and the Demons in clouds , Flock to the Witches ’ Carnival .", "Convey this man to the Shreckhorn — to its peak —", "To its extremest peak — watch with him there", "From now till sunrise ; let him gaze , and know", "He ne'er again will be so near to Heaven .", "But harm him not ; and , when the morrow breaks ,", "Set him down safe in his cell — away with him ! 40", "No , this will serve for the present . Take him up .", "Why would this fool break in on me , and force 50 My art to pranks fantastical ?— no matter , It was not of my seeking . My heart sickens , And weighs a fixed foreboding on my soul . But it is calm — 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 .— What now ? ] 60“ Raven-stone, a translation of the German word for the gibbet , which in Germany and Switzerland is permanent , and made of stone . ”A prodigal son — and a pregnant nun , nun , And a widow re-wedded within the year — And a calf at grass — and a priest at mass . Are things which every day appear .—{ 122 }{ 124 }/ not loss of life , but \\ To shun < > public death —\\ the torments of a /" ]

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[ "Where can my men be ? Up and down I have to walk , lest sleep should overcome me . Five days and nights already in ambush . But when I get thee , Weislingen , I shall make up for it ! You priests may send round your obliging Weislingen to decry me — I am awake . You escaped me , bishop ! So your dear Weislingen may pay the piper . George ! George !Tell Hans to get ready . My scouts may be back any moment . And give me some more wine !", "My horse , quick ! Tell Hans to arm !", "Why ? Pray , be cheerful . You are in my power , and I shall not abuse it . You know my knight 's duty is sacred to me . And now I must go to see my wife .", "Let us drink , until the meal is ready . Come , you are at home .", "It is a long time since we last shared a bottle .", "A gay heart !", "Heaven forbid ! Though merrier days we may not find . If you had only followed me to Brabant , instead of taking to that miserable life at court ! Are you not as free and nobly born as anyone in Germany ? Independent , subject only to the emperor ? And you submit to vassals , who poison the emperor 's ear against me ! They want to get rid of me . And you , Weislingen , are their tool !", "No more of it ! I hate explanations . They only lead to deceiving one or the other , or both .MARIEI come to greet and to invite you in my sister 's name . What is it ? Why are you silent both ? You are host and guest . Be guided by a woman 's voice .", "You remind me of my duty .", "Your page is back . Whatever his news , Adelbert , you are free ! All I ask is your word that you will not aid and abet my enemies .", "May I say “ yes ” for you , Marie ? You need not blush — your eyes have answered clearly . Well , then , Weislingen , take her hand , and I say Amen , friend and brother ! I must call my wife . Elizabeth !Join your hand in theirs and say “ God bless you ! ” They are a pair . Adelbert is going back to Bamberg to detach himself openly from the bishop , and then to his estates to settle his affairs . And now we 'll leave him undisturbed to hear his boy 's report .", "Search the forest ! Let none escape ! GEORGEI 've done some preparatory work . Here they are .", "Welcome , good lad ! Keep them well guarded !And now , what news of Weislingen ?", "Enough ! I shall not forget this infamous treachery . Whoever gets into my power shall feel it .I 'll revel in their agony , deride their fear . And how , Goetz , are you thus changed ? Should other people 's faults and vices make you renounce your chivalry , and abandon yourself to vulgar cruelty ? I 'll drag him back in chains , if I can n't get him any other way . And there 's an end of it , Goetz ; think of your duty !", "So you want to marry a jilted woman ?", "Sickingen , you hear . Take back your offer , and leave me !", "On one condition . You must publicly detach yourself from me . The emperor loves and esteems you , and your intercession may save me in the hour of need .", "That offer I accept .", "To George and Lerse I owe my life ; I was off my horse when they came to the rescue . I have their flag and a few prisoners .", "Good luck , Lerse ! And God bless my George 's first brave deed ! Now back to the castle , and let us gather our scattered men . ACT IV", "Now quickly to the chapel ! I 've thought it all out , and time presses .", "How now , Lerse ? The men had better be distributed over the walls . Let them take any breastplates , helmets , and arms they may want . Are the gates well manned ?", "Sickingen will leave us at once . You will lead him through the lower gate , along the water , and across the ford . Then look around you , and come back .", "May God bless you and send you merry , happy days !", "A pleasant journey ! Lerse will show you the way .", "You must , sister !", "You understand ? Talk to", "Marie ; she is your wife . Take her to safety , and then think of me .", "Have the gate barricaded with beams and stones .", "Look round for lead ! Meanwhile , we must make the crossbows do . LERSEThis lead has rested long enough ; now it may fly for a change .", "They have ceased firing , and offer a truce with all sorts of signs and white rags . They will probably ask me to surrender on knightly parole .", "Come , take the best arms with you , and leave the others here ! Come , Elizabeth ! Through this very gate I led you as a young bride . Who knows when we shall return ?", "What will you give me to forget it ?", "Well , here I am , and await it !", "I am his majesty 's faithful servant . But , before you proceed , where are my men ; what is their fate ?", "‘ Tis false ! I am no rebel ! I refuse to listen any further !", "To prison ? Me ? That cannot be the emperor 's order ! To promise me permission to ward myself on parole , and then again to break your treaty .", "If you were not the representative of my respected sovereign , you should swallow that word , or choke upon it !", "Come on ! I should like to become acquainted with the bravest among you .", "Brave friend !", "That was help from heaven . I asked nothing but knightly ward upon my parole .", "No further ! Another step and I should have broken my oath . What is that dust beyond ? And that wild mob moving towards us ? LERSEThe rebel peasants . Back to the castle ! They have dealt horribly with the noblest men !", "On my own soil I shall not try to evade the rabble .", "What ! Me ? To break my oath ? Stumpf , I thought you were a friend ! Even if I were free , and you wanted to carry on as you did at Weinsberg , raving and burning , and murdering , I 'd rather be killed than be your captain !", "Why consider ? I can decide now as well as later . Will you desist from your misdeeds , and act like decent folk who know what they want ? Then I shall help you with your claims , and be your captain for four weeks . Now , come !", "We have done some good and saved many a convent , many a life .", "That is Miltenberg . Quick , George ! Prevent the burning of the castle . I 'll have nothing further to do with the scoundrels .", "Everybody blames me for the mischief , and nobody gives me credit for having prevented so much evil . Would I were thousands of miles away !", "Who burnt Miltenberg ?", "You threaten ? Scoundrel !", "Almighty God ! How lovely is it beneath Thy heaven ! Farewell , my children ! My roots are cut away , my strength totters to the grave . Let me see George once more , and sun myself in his look . You turn away and weep ? He is dead ! Then die , Goetz ! How did he die ? Alas ! they took him among the incendiaries , and he has been executed ?", "God be praised ! Now release my soul ! My poor wife ! I leave you in a wicked world . Lerse , forsake her not ! Blessings upon Marie and her husband . Selbitz is dead , and the good emperor , and my George . Give me some water ! Heavenly air ! Freedom !" ]

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[ "So you 're getting married , Dill ?", "None whatever , Dill . But why tea at this hour ? It 's only just past lunch .", "For you , Dill , and for my father . I hope you wo n't take it too seriously when I say you 're the living picture of my father .", "My father does not adore you , Dill . He took you for his brother . DILLReally , sir ! Who do you say that I am , sir ? JACKI say you 're the butler , Dill .", "By no means .", "Nor he either .", "None of us , Jane . Dill said that he was getting married .", "And then Dill was telling me about a brother of his , and I was telling him about a brother of my father 's . I have never told you , Jane , but father really came here looking for a brother . Sort of a business journey on his part . That is — none of his business whatever . I tell him fathers should begin at home and stay there . But father feels differently . Have you got a husband , Jane ? I know that nothing short of marriage will ever stop him .", "No need to explain , Jane . They do n't exist . Our men were all killed in the Wars of the Wives . Father says it was they who started that horrible Rebellion in this country , and that it 's going on still . Father does n't believe in matrimony . That 's because you 're the first person I 've had the heart to broach the subject to .I do n't think I shall ever marry . It 's a fine opportunity for a young man .", "Ah ! but if father comes into the estate —", "Yes , you see when my grandfather died he left his entire fortune to his second son , at the same time disinheriting us . Said that when father became a minister he handled enough tainted money without hoarding any of his .", "No , just died and damned us .", "So he might . It does n't make much difference now though . By the terms of the will he had to be found , or to find himself , within one year , or the estate reverted to us .His time 's almost up I fear .", "That or strayed I guess .He was always the black sheep of the family .", "Well — his brother always had an antipathy for Americans . He married an American !", "I did n't know anything was of importance to Kathryn , now that she 's in love with me . GLORIAKathryn in love with you ? Mr. Hargrave , you must be mistaken .", "No — she proposed to me yesterday .", "No , I wanted to surprise Kathryn by refusing , and then to startle her by proposing myself . This afternoon I have chosen for my surprise . Three o'clock I think would be the appropriate hour .", "Again ! May I ask who it is who has been so bold as to be proposed to ?", "The family ?", "Impossible !", "How so ?", "Improbable .", "So I have . But he 's not a real father .", "Oh , mine 's adopted .", "Yes ; father found me ; on a Friday .", "I think I have . I think she 's in the next room .", "Was she alone , Dill ? DILLNo , sir ; no , sir . I think she 's with your father , sir .JACKFoolish father ! foolish father ! Really I cannot begin to account for such conduct on my parent 's part . The sense of family obligation in the old is appallingly on the wane . But perhaps he 's forgotten his glasses . Father 's been wearing glasses for twenty years and performs the most revolting capers whenever he 's without them . He becomes a boy all over again .Have you got a book on fathers , Jane ? Or perhaps I 'll see him from the window .GLORIAI think a book on daughters is what you really need , Jane .I need not say that Kathryn has never been a daughter to you .", "That 's not true , Gloria . There 's only one Convolvulus , and that 's Kathryn . I named her that yesterday . Besides , who ever heard of a Convolvulus Gloria or a Gloria Convolvulus ? It 's absurd . KATHRYNWell , here are some anyway . A flower for you , Jack . And mother , a flower for you , too . A Convolvulus for each of you .", "You are just in time , Kathryn . I have something of importance to tell you .", "I should n't read it at all . I think Gloria wrote it herself .", "I distinctly rebel against your proposing to my father . I was with father most of the morning and took especial pains that he should meet no one . Where did you find him ?", "Yes , father moves very much like a planet at times , does n't he ? But then I 'm not responsible for his defects .", "Oh , I do n't believe in education , Kathryn . What has education done for this country ? One-hundred-million Philistines ?", "It makes no difference what one says , Kathryn , so long as one says something .", "Please do n't call me Jack ! I 'd so much prefer a number .", "Yes , a number . I know Shakespeare was thinking of me when he said there was nothing in a name .", "But seriously , I do wish I had a number .", "I 'm far too futile for that . But I believe in numbers in place of names .", "It 's not nonsense . Numbers are necessary and convenient . Moreover , I for one am entirely in accord with the socialistic idea of the separation of parent and child .A School for Socialism is the one thing most needed today — some place a child may be put and not molested by its parents , adopted or otherwise . Each child should have a number , a perfectly reliable number , one that was all his own and inherited from no one .", "No , but then you must remember that father is a back number .", "No woman ever does . Lack of care is their distinction .", "Then you are no longer my Convolvulus ?", "Gloria said she was named after that flower , and I of course denied it . I said that you were my Convolvulus — my white Convolvulus .", "Well , of all that 's outrageous ! Tea ? At this hour ? It 's three-fifteen , and they 're deep in their dinners in London by now .", "Oh , I 'm not so sure that he 's poor , or lost either — at least not till tomorrow .", "Looking for him ? I should say not ! When people look for things they find them . When they look for children they are successful . And the same rule applies to brothers . Parents are harder to locate and it is their redeeming feature . But father has found his brother ! He found him this morning in the Park — found him with his own eyes , or rather his glasses . Father can see anywhere with his glasses , and nowhere with his eyes . If it were not for his glasses he 'd be like other people .", "And to think that of all days father should have chosen this one to forget his glasses .", "I am not his son , and he is not my father . I consider his presence an intrusion , a disgrace . You shall be unfrocked , sir , at the first opportunity . HARGRAVEHow dare you , sir ! How dare you speak so disrespectfully of your father !", "I know , father , there 's great suffering among the rich in this hot weather . Do you think you 'd still care to marry him , Jane ?", "Ah , in that case you 'd hardly care to repeat the experiment .Goodbye , Kathryn . Come soon and find his glasses .", "No more than mine , Jane . It 's from the Alps .This way , father . You do n't drink tea anyway .KATHRYNDo you think , Dill , do you think that a man could ever be a success in life , I mean a real success like you have , who wore glasses ?", "If it were my own father , he could not have acted in a more gentlemanly manner . Your every movement marks you the gentleman . You have a gentleman 's happy faculty for doing the wrong thing at the right time . I have always feared that some day I should meet a gentleman , but never , never suspected you .Dill said his brother was a gentleman , but no one believes Dill , no one but myself .", "Yes , a menial , father , a form of man . It owes its origin to menus . HARGRAVEI have n't told you before , my boy , and an announcement of this kind should really proceed from the young lady in question , but I believe that I am engaged .", "Of course , you are , father . I 'm attending to that .", "Kathryn ? This is the last straw , father .You shall be unfrocked , sir .I 'll write a brief to the Archbishop to that effect .I had long seen the advisability of such action , and had you been my real father would have attended to it long ago .When would you be unfrocked , father ? In the morning ? I 'll respect any preference you see fit to name . Well , some morning ! Most any morning will do . Letters have to travel like other people . They would not be well read otherwise . HARGRAVEYou shall go to jail , sir .Or maybe there are many charitable organizations only too glad to take you off my hands .", "That remark was cowardly , Mr. Kent . You know very well that I am not rich enough to go to jail , and that both influence and position are required today for a jail career .For the past fortnight a jail has been my prime ambition . I have a genius for jails , and I need not tell you , Mr. Kent , that I need rest and affection .", "Please do n't call me Jack , father . It sounds so unartificial . And to think that I who have always perceived the immense superiority of a number , should have been endowed with a monosyllable like that .", "A number ! Is it true , father , or do my ears deceive me ? HARGRAVEI shall endeavor to spare your feelings as far as possible . A young man tasting too soon of the bitter fruits of life is apt to form a very wrong impression of this world of ours , and the inhabitants above it .", "Oh , people are above everything in this world , father , and in the next too , I guess . But have I got a number ?", "Oh , everyone 's as moral and immoral as he knows how to be , father . HARGRAVEJack ! Jack !", "How often must I tell you not to call me that , sir . Even John were better . HARGRAVEIt was no desire of mine to dig up the past , to unearth that which belonged rightly to the dead . Your conduct , however , has made the telling inevitable .", "A telling speech , father . But tell me , have I got a number ? HARGRAVEYou have , sir ! You have ! Allow me to tell you , sir , that you once were , and I have no doubt still are , undutifully registered at Crapsey Hall , Canterbury , under the charge of an abominable brute by that name , as John — plain John , Disciple No . 1 , in an evil establishment known as a School for Socialism . JACKFather ! I forgive you ! Everything !Turn the other cheek , father . Oh , such luck , such luck ! I 'll return at once . My fortune and future are assured now .And to think that of all numbers , I should have been No . 1 . HARGRAVEYou are surely an odd number , Jack .", "Dear Crapsey ! I wonder how he came to give me that particular number , or if he knew that I thought of no one but myself ?", "Yes , yes , father .", "It 's a man 's malady , father . HARGRAVEJack ! I have a thought !Could it be possible ?", "You slight yourself , father . HARGRAVEHe is not marrying out of love . No ! My brother would never do that . He must be marrying out of his —", "Out of his senses , father . All men do that . HARGRAVEThe will ! the will ! Oh , he must know , he must ! The estate was left to him on condition that he was married , and that 's why he 's marrying now .The will ! Show me the will !", "I knew you had n't lost them . The old rarely lose anything . They have nothing to lose . HARGRAVEThe will ! the will ! JACKYes , father .No , father .", "Yes .You agree to behave in my absence , father ? I am very popular these days , and if Jane or Kathryn should happen in —", "Only her mother .", "Her name 's the same as Kathryn 's , of course . I only ask you to leave the whole family alone hereafter . They did not even know you existed until this afternoon . You were a creation of my fancy and had form , color and expression . And now you have ruined it all . All , father , because you will not wear your glasses .", "Kathryn 's name is Kathryn Gibbs , her aunt 's name is Gloria Gibbs , and her mother 's name is Jane Gibbs . Jane 's a jewel , Gloria 's an idiot , and Kathryn 's mine . Have you learned all that you want now , or must I tell you more ? HARGRAVEJack , this is terrible . I had never expected that . Jane Gibbs !", "The name 's no worse than Jack , father . Too bad Jane 's not a socialist , and could exchange for a number .", "Are not so antiquated as your own , sir ?But come , father , one should always give in to the inevitable , and I have chosen Jane as your most likely spouse .", "Ah , Jane ! So glad to see you ! I 've just been speaking to father about that matter we discussed and he 's quite interested already . Fact is , father 's always interested , though interesting he is not . I 've taken him to task about that blunder , though . Father 's a bull for blunders . In the morning I 've suggested that he be unfrocked . You 'll be there of course ? Great sight .Why do n't you say something , father ! Or should fathers be seen and not heard ? But perhaps you desire an introduction . Jane — my father . My father — Jane Gibbs .The family problem is the most important product of this age , and ranks even higher than the servant question . Of course , fathers were fashionable at one time , or I never should have had one . It 's a great fault , though , I admit . JANEMy faults are my fortune , Jack . Some people are even famous for them .", "Ravishing , Jane , ravishing !", "But perhaps I should go .", "Heaven is filled with good intentions , father .Chesterton says that poets are a trouble to their families . But then Chesterton is always wrong . If the families of real poets are anything like mine , the trouble rests with them .", "My interview will prove a very short one .Before long , father , I shall expect you to have arranged everything . HARGRAVEYou said that her sister was an idiot , did you not ?", "I did , father . HARGRAVEIt may prove of importance .", "Father ! I cannot find it ! The will is lost !GLORIAWhat will , Mr. Hargrave ? You seem extremely nervous . Can there be any relation between your will and ours ?", "You have done this for my sake ?", "I 'm tired of all this moving around , Jane . I have n't sat down for five minutes .", "My dear , you could hardly expect them both to belong to the same class . That is never the way . One is always rich , the other poor . One is always good , the other bad . Ask one of them and see ! But if what I tell you is not convincing , consider the words of Shakespeare , England 's great minor poet , who in a fit of melancholy once exclaimed — “ Some are born with parents , others acquire them . But most of us just have the genus thrust upon us . ”", "I do n't doubt it . But you forget , Kathryn , that I never had a father , and that hereafter my responsibilities are numbered .", "What an extraordinary posture , Dill ! Are you aware of your menial , Miss Gibbs ?He must think it 's a circus . He 's trying to stand on his head . KATHRYNPerhaps he 's praying .", "Arise , sir , in the presence of your superiors !And why these bags and bundles , pray ? Is your man about to start a millinery establishment , Miss Gibbs ? GLORIAMr. Hargrave ! This gentleman is not my servant . This gentleman is soon to be my husband !", "It 's the same thing . KATHRYNOh ! What would mother say ! I do n't think I can ever allow you to become a butler after all , Jack . JACKDill , are you a polygamist , or what ? Define yourself !I have yet to hear of a menial Mormon .", "You are always right , my dear , but see to it at once . Contracts have ceased to be binding , and what you want is a verbal understanding with your mother . GLORIAMy children , I forgive you ! As for Dill — that is settled . DILLMy money !", "I warned you about that , Dill . I said a will was a very unsafe thing to have .", "Positively , my dear , I never dreamed of such a thing ! KATHRYNOf course , I never could have allowed you to . You might have upset us all , and I 'm not going to be drowned for love or any other nonsense .", "But , my dear , if I upset the ship , it would be your duty to get drowned . Any old captain will tell you that . They know absolutely nothing . It 's like any other walk of life . A man wears whiskers , or white hair , or something , and you fancy he 's learned . But he 's not , and never will be . Sea-captains dress as they do , and wear peculiar caps , not that they should look like sea-captains , but that young innocent persons like yourself should be deceived into thinking them philosophers , or good men , or bad men , or some kind of men at least . That explains the old and venerable expression of thinking through your cap . But it 's all wrong . They never think at all .", "That is purely a piscatorial problem . My father is doubtless a proper authority . I know he drinks like a fish , and he eats like a race horse .", "Very few , my dear . You do n't know what debts are . Debts are a man 's constant reminder that even when he 's very , very rich , one-half the money in his pocket , and all the money in his bank , belongs positively to somebody else .", "Surely you would not blame me for that which I never had ?", "I have no habits ; even the good ones are bad enough , and the bad ones are so hard to follow out .", "I never vote .", "And I am proud to say that I have never done even a single stroke of work .", "You do n't understand . Business today is done under very bad principles . The proper way , in truth , the only way that a young man of my temperament could be induced to begin work , would be to start right up at the top and go right down to the bottom . It takes so much less time and trouble than the old way of beginning at the bottom and stealing one 's way up to the top . Besides , one is just that much more likely to land somewhere .", "I 'm not old enough for a messenger boy , Kathryn . Messenger boys are never successful until they become at least fifty and have long white hair . Mine is a very firm yellow . I inherited it from my mother .", "There 's no such thing as an innocent flirtation , Gloria . Naturally I shall have a great deal of trouble convincing you of my love for your daughter . I had expected that . When a man arrives at my age of indiscretion , love is no longer to be thought of .", "What name , dear ?", "And I told you that I had a number too .Did I ever tell you , Gloria , that I had a number ? Such a lovely number ! Hereafter I must be known as John , plain John , Disciple No . 1 , in Crapsey 's School for Socialism .", "In Canterbury , England ! And I hold the unique distinction of being the only pupil that Crapsey ever had .", "I would be if I were n't adopted , Gloria .", "Gloria was asking of my mother , Jane . It is one of those impossible questions to answer , and possibly why she asked .", "Oh , I remember my mother . I was adopted almost before I was born and yet —", "Like no one else in the world , Jane . It 's hard to be sure of course , but I think she must have been just the one woman who never could grow fat .", "Oh , Jane — my mother !", "Father ! Where is your hair ? Have you swallowed it ?", "How degrading drink is ! It 's dangerous too . There are more germs in water than in anything else except whiskey , as scientists will tell you .", "My dear , cousins could hardly afford to marry , and though I do n't believe a word that Gloria said —KATHRYNWell , that 's over .JACKSir ! I have already found my mother .And ever since I can remember I have been told I resembled you . GLORIAYou said that you recognized him at once , dear .JACKAre you my father ?", "Who is my father ?", "Your answers are satisfactory . In the future I do n't wish so distasteful a subject to be broached again .", "I did .HARGRAVEMay I then ask who your mother is , sir ?", "Ah , my mother is an angel .", "You are not sailing in those trunks , Gloria ?", "Would you like a sail across the pond , dear ? I know some capital fish stories , and can show you where they catch the most gigantic fish . Father caught a whale there or something of the sort .", "Well whatever it was we 're quite safe . Whenever they strike a leak or the ship gets too heavy they push all the women off into the little boats .", "You must never own up to thirty , Jane ; I shall feel so very old when you do so .Do n't you think we might get married after all , dear ? It is terrible to have so much money and not know what to do with it .", "I distinctly heard a noise .I am seldom mistaken , Dill , and as you are still the butler", "Belles always are , I believe .", "It sounds painfully reminiscent . You do not ring that way ,", "Father ?", "This is my last broken ideal . And I so young ! What a pity . CRAPSEYAh , I forgot . Jane Gibbs , I believe .", "I 'd rather die than fight for anyone . CRAPSEYYes , for twenty years he has been mine . He has been a dutiful , affectionate son and a help to me in that institution which is destined some day to become known throughout the entire world . But come !There 's little time . I arrived yesterday on the Burgoyne and I sail tonight on the Baltic .", "The Baltic ? CRAPSEYThe Baltic ! But it does not concern you in the least . JACKI assure you , my dear , that all this has reference to me . CRAPSEYYour decision , pray ?", "I will not go .", "I will not go .", "It is easily decided , Jane . I refuse to go . CRAPSEYI did not ask you to go , sir ! Your conduct is an impertinence . JACKI will not live with a lunatic . Surely the law must side with me there . CRAPSEYWho is this offensive young person , may I ask , who insults me in this fashion ? JACKI am John , plain John , Disciple No . 1 , in Crapsey 's School for Socialism . And I hold the dubious distinction of being the only pupil you ever had .HARGRAVEIs he gone ?CRAPSEYI am not gone , sir . And who are you ?", "This is my adopted father , the Rev . Peter Kent , alias Hargrave .", "Fighting always was his forte , Crapsey , especially fighting for the right . If my life was as worthless as yours , father , I 'd be fighting all the time . CRAPSEYShall I run you through and through , sir ?This creature stole you from me years ago . But he is welcome to you — to all of you . I think it is a den of thieves .", "Thank you , Jane . I knew Gloria could never speak the truth .", "I said you 'd be unfrocked , father . HARGRAVEI am glad of it . For twenty years these clothes weighed upon my soul , ruined my digestion , dyed my hair , and made me the man I am .", "Your reformation is complete , Jane .", "I told you , father , that I was going to complete my education ; and perhaps some day I shall have the distinction of a number ." ]

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[ "I can n't understand why an old wheel-horse like Elsworth should kick over the traces that way .", "“ A Resolution to Investigate the High Cost of Living ! ” — old Senator Elsworth introducing a measure like that ! The old buck !—— How are you going to handle it ?", "Yes ?", "And you 're chairman . Poor old Elsworth . This way to the lethal chamber , and the bill 's on its way .", "And it will go to the Committee on Finance and come back for action inside of twenty-four hours .", "Cartwrights never did muck-rake — that is , not the big Interests — only the small independent businesses that did n't advertise .", "And from now on the concealment will be still more deft . I 've gone into it myself . I have a majority of the stock right now .", "We 're still going on muck-raking . We have a splendid series on Aged Paupers , demanding better treatment and more sanitary conditions . Also we are going to run “ Barbarous Venezuela ” and show up thoroughly the rotten political management of that benighted country .", "I have the ins and outs of it pretty well . Everything 's arranged . The boys have their cue , though they do n't know just what 's going to be pulled off ; and this time to-morrow afternoon their dispatches will be singing along the wires .", "It is to laugh . Trust the great American people for that . We 'll make those little Western editors sit up . They 've been swearing by Knox , like a little tin god . Roars of laughter for them .", "Trust me . I have my own article for Cartwright 's blocked out . They 're holding the presses for it . I shall wire it along hot-footed to-morrow evening . Say ——?", "Was n't it a risky thing to give him his chance with that speech ?", "Than a Fairbanks cocktail .", "But there are hooks and crooks by which facts are sometimes obtained .", "And to-morrow Ali Baba gets his .", "That 's what your wife calls him — Knox .", "Oh , by the way , just a little friendly warning , Senator Chalmers . Not so fast and loose up New York way . That certain lady , not to be mentioned — there 's gossip about it in the New York newspaper offices . Of course , all such stories are killed . But be discreet , be discreet If Gherst gets hold of it , he 'll play it up against the Administration in all his papers .{ Mrs. Starkweather }", "I am sure Mr. Starkweather never lost his head in his life .", "He had n't yet taken up the job of running the United States . { Mrs. Starkweather } I 'm sure I do n't know what he is running , but he is a very busy man — business , politics , and madness ; madness , politics , and business .", "A sturdy youngster , I should say .", "Be an Indian , Tommy .", "I am sure Mr. Knox can shed new light on this perplexing problem .", "But any government is representative of its people . No people is worthy of a better government than it possesses . Were it worthier , it would possess a better government .", "A blackmailing device most probably . They will attempt to bleed you —", "But Knox has no money . A Starkweather stenographer comes high .", "Knox never did this .", "Then it is not so grave after all . A yellow journal sensation is the best Gherst can make of it . And , documents or not , the very medium by which it is made public discredits it .", "There is no telling what may happen if Knox makes that speech and delivers the proofs .", "I 'll undertake it .", "And if not ?", "You mean —?", "Thoroughly .", "And so be able to accumulate more motorcars .", "This is Knox 's room all right", "Well , get to work . That must be his bedroom .", "Sh-h. Do n't even breathe his name .", "You 'd better go out in the hall and keep a watch for Knox . He may come in any time .", "I suppose you 've done lots of work for", "Stark —", "Hello — Yes .No , this is not Knox . Some mistake . Wrong number —", "No , I only thought I did .", "What of it ?", "The pay 's all right , is n't it ?", "There is no use beating about the bush with a man like you . I know that . You are direct , and so am I . You know my position well enough to be assured that I am empowered to treat with you .", "What we want is to have you friendly .", "Save that for your speech . We are talking privately . We can make it well worth your while — { Knox }If you think you can bribe me — { Hubbard }Not at all . Not the slightest suspicion of it . The point is this . You are a congressman . A congressman 's career depends on his membership in good committees . At the present you are buried in the dead Committee on Coinage , Weights , and Measures . If you say the word you can be appointed to the livest committee —", "Surely . Else why should I be here ? It can be managed .", "You have not given your answer .", "There is an alternative . You are interested in social problems . You are a student of sociology . Those whom I represent are genuinely interested in you . We are prepared , so that you may pursue your researches more deeply — we are prepared to send you to Europe . There , in that vast sociological laboratory , far from the jangling strife of politics , you will have every opportunity to study . We are prepared to send you for a period of ten years . You will receive ten thousand dollars a year , and , in addition , the day your steamer leaves New York , you will receive a lump sum of one hundred thousand dollars .", "It is purely an educational matter .", "Very well then . What price do you set on yourself ?", "More than that . We want to buy those documents and letters .", "You are beating around the bush in turn . There is no need for an honest man to lie even —", "Even to me . I watched you closely when I mentioned the letters . You gave yourself away . You knew I meant the letters stolen by Gherst from Starkweather 's private files — the letters you intended using to-morrow .", "Precisely . It is the same thing . What is the price ? Set it .", "One moment . Do n't make up your mind hastily . You do n't know with whom you have to deal . Those letters will not appear in your speech to-morrow . Take that from me . It would be far wiser to sell for a fortune than to get nothing for them and at the same time not use them .", "Hush . Do n't . I cannot be seen here .", "Do n't let anybody in . I do n't want to be seen here — with you .", "Besides , my presence will not put you in a good light .", "What the deuce ? Everybody gone ?", "In there . I was in there all the time .", "Honest men are such dubs when they do go wrong .", "There was something familiar about the lady 's voice .", "Oh , nothing , nothing — a murmur of voices — and the woman 's — I could swear I have heard her voice before .", "And yet it was but a moment ago that it seemed I heard you say there was no one whom you would not permit the world to know you saw .", "Good-bye .", "There they are — the complete set . I was fortunate .", "I glanced through them . They were indeed serious . But we have spiked Knox 's guns . Without them , that speech of his this afternoon becomes a farce — a howling farce . Be sure you take good care of them .", "Yes , I understand . I shall be going now . I have to be at the Club in five minutes .", "Mrs. Chalmers .", "You always treated me this way , but the time for it is past . I wo n't stand for your superior goodness any more . You really impressed me with it for a long time , and you made me walk small . But I know better now . A pretty game you 've been playing — you , who are like any other woman . Well , you know where you were last night . So do I .", "I said I knew where you were last night . Mr. Knox also knows where you were . But I 'll wager your husband does n't .", "Why should I ?", "If it will ease your suspense , let me tell you that I have not told him . But I do protest to you that you must treat me with more — more kindness .", "Possibly it would be better to let me retire , Mr. Starkweather .", "Under the circumstances I do n't like to suggest —", "First , I would make sure that she — er — Mrs. Chalmers has taken them .", "I 'd rather not . It is too —", "I 'd — I 'd rather not .", "Last night — I saw — I was in Knox 's rooms —", "Last night —", "Hang it all , Chalmers , I wish I were out of this . I do n't want to testify .", "I protest . I am being dragged into this .", "All right . She — Mrs. Chalmers visited Knox in his rooms last night . { Mrs. Starkweather }", "Look at her . Ask her .", "That is not all . Mrs. Chalmers sent the maid and the boy down to the machine and remained .", "Much longer — much , much longer . I know how long I was kicking my heels and waiting .", "In Knox 's bedroom . The fool had forgotten all about me . He was too delighted with his — er — new visitor .", "The bedroom door was ajar . I opened it .", "I think I have shown the motive .", "I saw them in each other 's arms — several times . Then I found the stolen documents where Knox had thrown them down . So I pocketed them and closed the door .", "Quite a time , quite a long time .", "They were in each other 's arms — quite enthusiastically , I may say , in each other 's arms .", "My evidence is supported . In an adjoining room were two men . I happen to know , because I placed them there . They were your father 's men at that . There is such a thing as seeing through a locked door . They saw .", "I doubt not they will know to what to swear .", "She has them . She has as much as acknowledged that they are not elsewhere in the room . She has not been out of the room . There is nothing to do but search her .", "Allow me to point out , my dear Mrs. Chalmers , that you are not merely stealing from your father . You are playing the traitor to your class .", "That 's not it .", "It is only a photograph — of", "Mrs. Chalmers .", "I 'm all at sea . I had just left the letters with him , when Mrs. Chalmers entered the room . What 's become of them ? She has n't them , that 's certain .", "It seems very clear to me .", "I told you what I saw last night at his rooms . There is no other explanation .", "It is not locked . It moves noiselessly . There 's the explanation .", "Did n't Knox know right away last night that I had taken them ? I took the up-elevator instead of the down when I heard him running along the hall . Trust him to let her know what had happened . She was the only one who could recover them for him . Else why did she come here so immediately this morning ? To steal the package , of course . And she had some one waiting outside . She tossed them out and closed the window —" ]

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[ "Thus , in the triumphs of soft peace , I reign ;", "And , from my walls , defy the powers of Spain ;", "With pomp and sports my love I celebrate ,", "While they keep distance , and attend my state .—", "Parent to her , whose eyes my soul enthral ,", "You praise him like a friend ; and I confess ,", "His brave deportment merited no less .", "I marked him , when alone", "He entered first , and with a graceful pride", "His fiery Arab dextrously did guide ,", "Who , while his rider every stand surveyed ,", "Sprung loose , and flew into an escapade ;", "Not moving forward , yet , with every bound ,", "Pressing , and seeming still to quit his ground .", "What after passed", "Was far from the Ventanna where I sate ,", "But you were near , and can the truth relate .", "The alarm-bell rings from our Alhambra walls ,", "And from the streets sound drums and ataballes .", "Enter a Messenger .", "How now ? from whence proceed these new alarms ?", "Draw up behind the Vivarambla place ; Double my guards ,— these factions I will face ; And try if all the fury they can bring , Be proof against the presence of their king . The Factions appear : At the head of the Abencerrages , OZMYN ; at the head of the Zegrys , ZULEMA , HAMET , GOMEL , and SELIN : ABENAMAR and ABDELMELECH , joined with the Abencerrages .", "On your allegiance , I command you stay ;", "Who passes here , through me must make his way ;", "My life 's the Isthmus ; through this narrow line", "You first must cut , before those seas can join .", "What fury , Zegrys , has possessed your minds ?", "What rage the brave Abencerrages blinds ?", "If of your courage you new proofs would show ,", "Without much travel you may find a foe .", "Those foes are neither so remote nor few ,", "That you should need each other to pursue .", "Lean times and foreign wars should minds unite ;", "When poor , men mutter , but they seldom fight .", "O holy Alha ! that I live to see", "Thy Granadines assist their enemy !", "You fight the christians ’ battles ; every life", "You lavish thus , in this intestine strife ,", "Does from our weak foundations take one prop ,", "Which helped to hold our sinking country up .", "From equal stems their blood both houses draw ,", "They from Morocco , you from Cordova .", "Disarm them both ; if they resist you , kill .", "Kill him ! this insolent unknown shall fall ,", "And be the victim to atone you all .", "It was a traitor 's voice that spoke those words ;", "So are you all , who do not sheath your swords .", "The word which I have given , I 'll not revoke ;", "If he be brave , he 's ready for the stroke .", "Since , then , no power above your own you know ,", "Mankind should use you like a common foe ;", "You should be hunted like a beast of prey :", "By your own law I take your life away .", "I do not want your counsel to direct", "Or aid to help me punish or protect .", "Away , and execute him instantly !", "Brother , you know not yet his insolence .", "Is this the Almanzor whom at Fez you knew ,", "When first their swords the Xeriff brothers drew ?", "Impute your danger to our ignorance ;", "The bravest men are subject most to chance :", "Granada much does to your kindness owe ;", "But towns , expecting sieges , cannot show", "More honour , than to invite you to a foe .", "Lay down your arms , and let me beg you cease Your enmities .", "A king entreats you .", "Attend him ; he shall have his audience here .", "Tell Ferdinand , my right to it appears", "By long possession of eight hundred years :", "When first my ancestors from Afric sailed ,", "In Rodrique 's death your Gothic title failed .", "‘ Tis true from force the noblest title springs ;", "I therefore hold from that , which first made kings .", "I 'll hear no more ; defer what you would say ;", "In private we 'll discourse some other day .", "The force used on me made that contract void .", "Take this for answer , then ,—", "Whate'er your arms have conquered of my land ,", "I will , for peace , resign to Ferdinand .—", "To harder terms my mind I cannot bring ;", "But , as I still have lived , will die a king .", "My mistress gently chides the fault I made :", "But tedious business has my love delayed ,—", "Business which dares the joys of kings invade .", "Approach , my Almahide , my charming fair , Blessing of peace , and recompence of war . This night is yours ; and may your life still be The same in joy , though not solemnity . THE ZAMBRA DANCE . SONG . I . Beneath a myrtle shade , Which love for none , but happy lovers made , I slept ; and straight my love before me brought Phyllis , the object of my waking thought . Undressed she came my flames to meet , While love strewed flowers beneath her feet ; Flowers which , so pressed by her , became more sweet . II . From the bright vision 's head A careless veil of lawn was loosely spread : From her white temples fell her shaded hair Like cloudy sunshine , not too brown nor fair ; Her hands , her lips , did love inspire ; Her every grace my heart did fire : But most her eyes , which languished with desire . III . Ah , charming fair , said I , How long can you my bliss and yours deny ? By nature and by love , this lonely shade Was for revenge of suffering lovers made . Silence and shades with love agree ; Both shelter you and favour me : You cannot blush , because I cannot see . IV . No , let me die , she said , Rather than lose the spotless name of maid !— Faintly , methought , she spoke ; for all the while She bid me not believe her , with a smile . Then die , said I : She still denied ; And is it thus , thus , thus , she cried , You use a harmless maid ?— and so she died ! V .I waked , and straight I knew , I loved so well , it made my dream prove true : Fancy , the kinder mistress of the two , Fancy had done what Phyllis would not do ! Ah , cruel nymph , cease your disdain , While , I can dream you scorn in vain ,— Asleep or waking you must ease my pain . To them OZMYN ; his sword drawn .", "The Christians are dislodged ; what foe is near ?", "I cannot meanly for my life provide ;", "I 'll either perish i n't , or stem this tide .", "To guard the palace , Ozmyn , be your care :", "If they o'ercome , no sword will hurt the fair .", "Advise , or aid , but do not pity me :", "No monarch born can fall to that degree .", "Pity descends from kings to all below ;", "But can , no more than fountains , upward flow .", "Witness , just heaven , my greatest grief has been ,", "I could not make your Almahide a queen .", "In walls we meanly must our hopes inclose ,", "To wait our friends , and weary out our foes :", "While Almahide", "To lawless rebels is exposed a prey ,", "And forced the lustful victor to obey .", "We are betrayed , the enemy is here ;", "We have no farther room to hope or fear .", "That I so long delayed what you desire ,", "Then , Zulema and Hamet , live ; but know ,", "Your lives to Abdelmelech 's suit you owe .", "You , Abdelmelech , haste before ‘ tis night ,", "And close pursue my brother in his flight .", "Enter ALMANZOR , ALMAHIDE , and ESPERANZA .", "But see , with Almahide", "The brave Almanzor comes , whose conquering sword", "The crown , it once took from me , has restored .", "How can I recompence so great desert !", "You can perform , brave warrior , what you please ;", "Fate listens to your voice , and then decrees .", "Now I no longer fear the Spanish powers ;", "Already we are free , and conquerors .", "It is for you , brave man , and only you ,", "Greatly to speak , and yet more greatly do .", "But , if your benefits too far extend ,", "I must be left ungrateful in the end :", "Yet somewhat I would pay ,", "Before my debts above all reckoning grow ,", "To keep me from the shame of what I owe .", "But you", "Are conscious to yourself of such desert ,", "That of your gift I fear to offer part .", "Give wing to your desires , and let ‘ em fly ,", "Secure they cannot mount a pitch too high .", "So bless me , Alha , both in peace and war ,", "As I accord , whate'er your wishes are .", "You ask the only thing I cannot grant .", "The blood , which you have shed in her defence ,", "Shall have in time a fitting recompence :", "Or , if you think your services delayed ,", "Name but your price , and you shall soon be paid .", "Then sure you are some godhead ; and our care", "Must be to come with incense and with prayer .", "You with contempt on meaner gifts look down ;", "And , aiming at my queen , disdain my crown .", "That crown , restored , deserves no recompence .", "Since you would rob the fairest jewel thence .", "Dare not henceforth ungrateful me to call ;", "Whate'er I owed you , this has cancelled all .", "My patience more than pays thy service past ;", "But now this insolence shall be thy last .", "Hence from my sight ! and take it as a grace ,", "Thou liv'st , and art but banished from the place .", "Fall on ; take ; kill the traitor .", "I will at leisure now revenge my wrong ;", "And , traitor , thou shalt feel my vengeance long :", "Thou shalt not die just at thy own desire ,", "But see my nuptials , and with rage expire .", "As some fair tulip , by a storm oppressed ,", "What mystery in this strange behaviour lies ?", "Heaven lent their lustre for a nobler end ;", "A thousand torches must their light attend ,", "To lead you to a temple and a crown .", "Why does my fairest Almahide frown ?", "Am I less pleasing then I was before ,", "Or , is the insolent Almanzor more ?", "I find I must revoke what I decreed :", "Almanzor 's death my nuptials must precede .", "Love is a magic which the lover ties ;", "But charms still end when the magician dies .", "Go ; let me hear my hated rival 's dead ;", "What should I do ! when equally I dread", "Almanzor living and Almanzor dead !—", "Yet , by your promise , you are mine alone .", "That little love I have , I hardly buy ;", "You give my rival all , while you deny :", "Yet , Almahide , to let you see your power ,", "Your loved Almanzor shall be free this hour .", "You are obeyed ; but ‘ tis so great a grace ,", "That I could wish me in my rival 's place .", "With him go all my fears : A guard there wait ,", "And see him safe without the city gate .", "To them ABDELMELECH .", "Now , Abdelmelech , is my brother dead ?", "Haste and reduce it instantly by force .", "We cannot to your suit refuse her grace .", "Let war and vengeance be to-morrow 's care ;", "But let us to the temple now repair .", "A thousand torches make the mosque more bright :", "This must be mine and Almahide 's night .", "Hence , ye importunate affairs of state ,", "You should not tyrannize on love , but wait .", "Had life no love , none would for business live ;", "Yet still from love the largest part we give ;", "And must be forced , in empire 's weary toil ,", "To live long wretched , to be pleased a while .", "EPILOGUE .", "Success , which can no more than beauty last ,", "Makes our sad poet mourn your favours past :", "For , since without desert he got a name ,", "He fears to lose it now with greater shame .", "Fame , like a little mistress of the town ,", "Is gained with ease , but then she 's lost as soon :", "For , as those tawdry misses , soon or late ,", "Jilt such as keep them at the highest rate ;", "And oft the lacquey , or the brawny clown ,", "Gets what is hid in the loose-bodied gown ,—", "So , fame is false to all that keep her long ;", "And turns up to the fop that 's brisk and young .", "Some wiser poet now would leave fame first ;", "But elder wits are , like old lovers , cursed :", "Who , when the vigour of their youth is spent ,", "Still grow more fond , as they grow impotent .", "This , some years hence , our poet 's case may prove ;", "But yet , he hopes , he 's young enough to love .", "When forty comes , if e'er he live to see", "That wretched , fumbling age of poetry ,", "‘ Twill be high time to bid his muse adieu :—", "Well may he please himself , but never you .", "Till then , he 'll do as well as he began ,", "And hopes you will not find him less a man .", "Think him not duller for this year 's delay ;", "He was prepared , the women were away ;", "And men , without their parts , can hardly play .", "If they , through sickness , seldom did appear ,", "Pity the virgins of each theatre :", "For , at both houses , ‘ twas a sickly year !", "And pity us , your servants , to whose cost ,", "In one such sickness , nine whole months are lost .", "Their stay , he fears , has ruined what he writ :", "Long waiting both disables love and wit .", "They thought they gave him leisure to do well ;", "But , when they forced him to attend , he fell !", "Yet , though he much has failed , he begs , to-day ,", "You will excuse his unperforming play :", "Weakness sometimes great passion does express ;", "He had pleased better , had he loved you less .", "ALMANZOR AND ALMAHIDE :", "OR , THE", "CONQUEST OF GRANADA", "BY THE", "SPANIARDS .", "A TRAGEDY .", "THE SECOND PART .", "— Stimulos dedit æmula virtus .", "LUCAN .", "PROLOGUE", "TO THE SECOND PART .", "They , who write ill , and they , who ne'er durst write ,", "Turn critics , out of mere revenge and spite :", "A playhouse gives them fame ; and up there starts ,", "From a mean fifth-rate wit , a man of parts .", "Our author fears those critics as his fate ;", "And those he fears , by consequence must hate ,", "For they the traffic of all wit invade ,", "As scriveners draw away the bankers ’ trade .", "Howe'er , the poet 's safe enough to day ,", "They cannot censure an unfinished play .", "But , as when vizard-mask appears in pit ,", "Straight every man , who thinks himself a wit ,", "Perks up , and , managing his comb with grace ,", "With his white wig sets off his nut-brown face ;", "That done , bears up to th ’ prize , and views each limb ,", "To know her by her rigging and her trim ;", "Then , the whole noise of fops to wagers go ,—", "“ Pox on her , ‘ tmust be she ; ” and — “ damme , no ! ” —", "Just , so , I prophesy , these wits to-day", "Will blindly guess at our imperfect play ;", "With what new plots our Second Part is filled ,", "Who must be kept alive , and who be killed .", "And as those vizard-masks maintain that fashion ,", "To soothe and tickle sweet imagination ;", "So our dull poet keeps you on with masking ,", "To make you think there 's something worth your asking .", "But , when ‘ tis shown , that , which does now delight you ,", "Will prove a dowdy , with a face to fright you .", "ALMANZOR AND ALMAHIDE ,", "OR , THE", "CONQUEST OF GRANADA .", "THE SECOND PART .", "ACT I", "Losses on losses ! as if heaven decreed", "Almanzor 's valour should alone succeed .", "Of all mankind , the heaviest fate he bears ,", "Who the last crown of sinking empire wears .", "No kindly planet of his birth took care :", "Heaven 's outcast , and the dross of every star !", "Enter ABDELMELECH .", "What new misfortunes do these cries presage ?", "See what the many-headed beast demands .—", "But kings , who rule with limited command ,", "Have players ’ sceptres put into their hand .", "Power has no balance , one side still weighs down ,", "And either hoists the commonwealth or crown ;", "And those , who think to set the scale more right ,", "By various turnings but disturb the weight .", "What counsel can this rising storm prevent ?", "I 'll rather call my death .—", "Go and bring up my guards to my defence :", "I 'll punish this outrageous insolence .", "In tumults people reign , and kings obey .—", "Go and appease them with the vow I make ,", "That they shall have their loved Almanzor back .", "We for another tempest must provide .", "To promise his return as I was loth ,", "So I want power now to perform my oath .", "Ere this , for Afric he is sailed from Spain .", "Abenamar , this evening thither haste ;", "Desire him to forget his usage past :", "Use all your rhetoric , promise , flatter , pray .", "To them ALMAHIDE , attended .", "Oh , thou hast roused a thought within my breast ,", "That will for ever rob me of my rest .", "Ah jealousy , how cruel is thy sting !", "I , in Almanzor , a loved rival bring !", "And now , I think , it is an equal strife ,", "If I my crown should hazard , or my wife .", "Where , marriage , is thy cure , which husbands boast ,", "That in possession their desire is lost ?", "Or why have I alone that wretched taste ,", "Which , gorged and glutted , does with hunger last ?", "Custom and duty cannot set me free ,", "Even sin itself has not a charm for me .", "Of married lovers I am sure the first ,", "And nothing but a king could be so curst .", "You guess aright ; I am oppressed with grief , And ‘ tis from you that I must seek relief .", "Since , Almahide , you seem so kind a wife ,", "Suppose your country should in danger be ;", "What would you undertake to set it free ?", "That hand , which would so much for glory do ,", "Must yet do more ; for it must kill me too .", "You must kill me , for that dear country 's sake ;", "Or , what 's all one , must call Almanzor back .", "This , Almahide , would make me cease to mourn ,", "Were that Almanzor never to return :", "But now my fearful people mutiny ;", "Their clamours call Almanzor back , not I .", "Their safety , through my ruin , I pursue ;", "He must return , and must be brought by you .", "To your entreaties he will yield alone .", "And on your doom depend my life and throne .", "No longer , therefore , my desires withstand ;", "Or , if desires prevail not , my command .", "Cursed be that fatal hour when I was born !", "Grant that I did the unjust injunction lay ,", "You should have loved me more than to obey .", "I know you did this mutiny design ;", "But I 'll your love-plot quickly countermine .", "Let my crown go ; he never shall return ;", "I , like a phoenix , in my nest will burn .", "‘ Tis better ; but you wives have still one way :", "Whene'er your husbands are obliged , you pay .", "If I have been suspicious or unkind ,", "Forgive me ; many cares distract my mind :", "Love , and a crown !", "Two such excuses no one man e'er had ;", "And each of them enough to make me mad :", "But now my reason reassumes its throne ,", "And finds no safety when Almanzor 's gone .", "Send for him then ; I 'll be obliged , and sue ;", "‘ Tis a less evil than to part with you .", "I leave you to your thoughts ; but love me still !", "Forgive my passion , and obey my will .", "ALMAHIDE solus .", "My jealous lord will soon to rage return ;", "That fire , his fear rakes up , does inward burn .", "But heaven , which made me great , has chose for me ,", "I must the oblation for my people be .", "I 'll cherish honour , then , and life despise ;", "What is not pure , is not for sacrifice .", "Yet for Almanzor I in secret mourn !", "Can virtue , then , admit of his return ?", "Yes ; for my love I will by virtue square ;", "My heart 's not mine , but all my actions are .", "I 'll like Almanzor act ; and dare to be", "As haughty , and as wretched too , as he .", "What will he think is in my message meant ?", "I scarcely understand my own intent :", "But , silk-worm like , so long within have wrought ,", "That I am lost in my own web of thought .", "ACT II .", "How I disdain this aid ! which I must take ,", "Not for my own , but Almahide 's sake .", "Oh that I had not sent you ! though it cost", "My crown ! though I , and it , and all were lost !", "I can hear no more .", "Thy news does all my faculties surprise ;", "He bears two basilisks in those fierce eyes ;", "And that tame dæmon , which should guard my throne ,", "Shrinks at a genius greater than his own .", "Marriage , thou curse of love , and snare of life ,", "You ! nothing : You ! But let me walk alone .", "Thank ye ; you never fail to cure my grief ! Trouble me not , my grief concerns not you .", "I 'm out of humour now ; you must not stay .", "No , ‘ tis not that ; but speak of it no more :", "Go hence ! I am not what I was before .", "Oh heaven , were she but mine , or mine alone !", "O power of guilt ! how conscience can upbraid !", "It forces her not only to reveal ,", "But to repeat what she would most conceal !", "False woman , you contrived it should be so .", "That public gift in private was designed", "The emblem of the love you meant to bind .", "Hence from my sight , ungrateful as thou art !", "And , when I can , I 'll banish thee my heart .", "To them ALMANZOR wearing the Scarf . He sees her weep .", "O goodness counterfeited to the life !", "O the well-acted virtue of a wife !", "Would you with this my just suspicions blind ?", "You 've given me great occasion to be kind !", "The marks , too , of your spotless love appear ;", "Witness the badge of my dishonour there .", "The succour , which thou bring'st me , makes thee bold :", "But know , without thy aid , my crown I 'll hold ;", "Or , if I cannot , I will fire the place ,", "Of a full city make a naked space .", "Hence , then , and from a rival set me free !", "I 'll do , I 'll suffer any thing but thee .", "Had I but hope I could defend this place", "Three days , thou should'st not live to my disgrace", "So small a time ;", "Might I possess my Almahide alone ,", "I would live ages out ere they were gone .", "I should not be of love or life bereft ;", "All should be spent before , and nothing left .", "How can I think you love me , while I see", "That trophy of a rival 's victory ?", "I 'll tear it from his side .", "Take breath ; my guards shall to the fight succeed .", "To our own valour our success we 'll owe .", "Haste , Hamet , with Abenamar to go ;", "You two draw up , with all the speed you may ,", "Our last reserves , and yet redeem the day .", "What can the cause of all this tumult be ? And what the meaning of that naked sword ?", "O heaven , what do I hear !", "Welcome , my only friends ;— behold in me ,", "O kings , behold the effects of clemency !", "See here the gratitude of pardoned foes !", "That life , I gave them , they for me expose !", "When you , within , the traitor 's voice did hear ,", "What did you then ?", "Go on , go on , my friends , to clear my doubt ;", "I hope I shall have life to hear you out .", "Zul What had been , sir , you may suspect too well ;", "What followed , modesty forbids to tell :", "Seeing what we had thought beyond belief ,", "Our hearts so swelled with anger and with grief ,", "That , by plain force , we strove the door to break .", "He , fearful , and with guilt , or love , grown weak ,", "Just as we entered , ‘ scaped the other way ;", "Nor did the amazed queen behind him stay .", "O proud , ungrateful , faithless womankind ! How changed , and what a monster am I made ! My love , my honour , ruined and betrayed !", "Go ; when the authors of my shame are found ,", "Let them be taken instantly and bound :", "They shall be punished as our laws require :", "‘ Tis just , that flames should be condemned to fire .", "This , with the dawn of morning shall be done .", "A formal process tedious is , and long ;", "Besides , the evidence is full and strong .", "The combat 's yours .— A guard the lists surround ;", "Then raise a scaffold in the encompassed ground ,", "And , by it , piles of wood ; in whose just fire ,", "Her champions slain , the adultress shall expire .", "Choose , then , two equal judges of the field :", "Next morning shall decide the doubtful strife ,", "Condemn the unchaste , or quit the virtuous wife .", "You , judges of the field , first take your place .—", "The accusers and accused bring face to face .", "Set guards , and let the lists be opened wide ;", "And may just heaven assist the juster side !", "‘ Tis pity so much beauty should not live ;", "Before we pay our thanks , or show our joy ,", "Let us our needful charity employ .", "Some skilful surgeon speedily be found ,", "To apply fit remedies to Ozmyn 's wound .", "Some from the place of combat bear the slain .—", "Next Lyndaraxa 's death I should ordain :", "But let her , who this mischief did contrive ,", "For ever banished from Granada live .", "‘ Tis true , Almanzor did her honour save ,", "But yet what private business can they have ?", "Such freedom virtue will not sure allow ;", "I cannot clear my heart , but must my brow .", "I grant they are .", "Love filled my heart even to the brim before ;", "And then , with too much jealousy , boiled o'er .", "Yes ; you will spend your life in prayers for me ,", "And yet this hour my hated rival see .", "She might a husband 's jealousy forgive ;", "But she will only for Almanzor live .", "It is resolved ; I will myself provide", "That vengeance , which my useless laws denied ;", "And , by Almanzor 's death , at once remove", "The rival of my empire , and my love .", "My just revenge no longer I 'll forbear :", "I 've seen too much ; I need not stay to hear .", "This , this , is he , for whom thou didst deny", "To share my bed :— Let them together die .", "Your flattering arts are vain :", "Make haste , and execute what I ordain .", "O mischief , not suspected nor foreseen !", "How hard a fate is mine , still doomed to shame ! 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[ "Welcome , my bride , into the habitation of thy husband . The scruples of the parson ——", "No , she 's busy .", "‘ Know , cruel woman , I have discovered the secret of your marriage ; you shall have all the plague of a jealous husband , without the pleasure of giving him cause . I have this morning counterfeited billetdoux and letters from bawds ; nay , I have sent pimps ; some of which , I hope , are fallen into your old coxcomb 's hands . If you deny me the pleasure of tipping him a real cuckold , at least , I 'll have the resentment to make him an imaginary one . Know that this is not the hundredth part of the revenge that shall be executed upon thee , by R. P . ’", "All gone ! what no more ladies here ? no more ladies !O that I had but a boarding-school , or a middle gallery ! Enter Sarsnet , follow 'd by two porters bearing a chest . Set down the things here : there is no occasion for carrying them up stairs , since they are to be sent into the country to morrow .What have I done ? My marriage , these confounded whimsies , and doctor Lubomirski , have made me quite forget poor lady Hippokekoana . She was in convulsions , and I am afraid dead by this time .", "You have another in your chest much odder . I want to see that .", "Ay , ‘ tis plain she would lure me from the chest ; there I shall find him .", "All this is nothing to the embroider 'd sattin . Prithee , my dear , give me the key .", "This Underplot is a confounded villain , he would make me jealous of an honest civil gentleman , only for an opportunity to cuckold me himself .Come , my dear , forget all that is past . I know —— I have proved thee virtuous . But prithee , love , leave me a moment ; I expect some Egyptian rarities .", "This is all we have for the flying dragon so celebrated by antiquity . A cheap purchase ! It cost me but fifteen guineas . But the Jew made it up in the butterfly and the spider . Enter two porters bearing a Mummy . Oh ! here 's my mummy . Set him down . I am in haste . Tell captain Bantam , I 'll talk with him at the coffee-house .Enter two porters bearing an Alligator . A most stupendous animal ! set him down .Poor lady Hippokekoana 's convulsions ! I believe there is fatality in it , that I can never get to her . Who can I trust my house to in my absence ? Were my wife as chaste as Lucretia , who knows what an unlucky minute may bring forth ! In cuckoldom , the art of attack is prodigiously improved beyond the art of defence . So far it is manifest , Underplot has a design upon my honour . For the ease of my mind , I will lock up my wife in this my musaeum , ‘ till my return . Enter TOWNLEY , and SARSNET . You will find something here , my dear , to divert yourself .", "Let us have no rash dispute , brothers ; but proceed methodically —— Behold the vanity of mankind !Some Ptolemy perhaps !——", "His pyramid , alas ! is now but a wainscot case .", "Pardon me , Dr. Possum : The musaeum of the curious is a lasting monument . And I think it no degradation to a dead person of quality , to bear the rank of an anatomy in the learned world .", "An excellent medicine ! he is hot in the first-degree , and exceeding powerful in some diseases of women .", "What an outragious conceit is this ! had you contented yourself with the metamorphosis of Jupiter , our skill in the classicks might have prevented our terror .", "Dr. Nautilus is an infirm tender gentleman ; I wish the sudden concussion of his animal spirits may not kindle him into a fever . I myself , I must confess , have an extreme palpitation .", "Appollo , for ought I know , may be a very fine person ; but this I am very sure of , that the skill he has given all his physicians is not sufficient to cure the madness of his poets .", "You diabolical performers of my niece 's masquerade , will it please you to follow those gentlemen ?", "Dance ! the devil ! bring me hither a spit , a fire-fork , I 'll try whether the monsters are impenetrable or no .", "Sweetly , Horace . Nunquam satis , and so forth . A man can never be too cautious . Madam , sit down by me . Pray how long is it since you and I have been married ?", "And what anxieties has this time produc 'd ? the dangers of divorce ! calumniatory letters ! lewd fellows introduc 'd by my niece ! groundless jealousies on both sides ! even thy virginity put to the touch-stone ! but this last danger I plung 'd thee in myself ; to leave thee in the room with two such robust young fellows .", "This is the first blest minute of repose that I have enjoy 'd in matrimony . Dost thou know the reason , my dear , why I have chosen thee of all womankind ?", "No .", "No .", "No . But for the natural conformity of our constitutions . Because thou art hot and moist in the third degree , and I myself cold and dry in the first .", "Thou hast nothing to do but to submit thy constitution to my regimen .", "What if I am ?", "Patience , patience , I beseech you . Indeed I have no posterity .", "Passion is but the tempestuous cloud that obscures reason ; be calm and I 'll convince you . Friend , how come you to bring the infant hither ?", "I shall find law for you , sirrah . Call my neighbour Possum , he is a justice of peace , as well as a physician .", "Mr. justice Possum , for now I must so call you , not brother Possum ; here is a troublesome fellow with a child , which he would leave in my house .", "It seemeth to me to be a child unlawfully begotten .", "To our family .", "This is all from the purpose . I was married this morning at seven ; let any man in the least acquainted with the powers of nature , judge whether that human creature could be conceiv 'd and brought to maturity in one forenoon .", "Whither are you going so fast , hussy ? I will examine every thing within these walls .‘ For Richard Plotwell , esq ; ’ This letter unravels the whole affair : As she is an unfortunate relation of mine , I must beg you would act with discretion ." ]

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[ "Of course I 'm hot and strong for conscription . .", "I beg your pardon . If we . . the Army . . say to the country . . Upon our honour conscription is necessary for your safety . . what answer has the country ? What ?There you are . . none !", "Perhaps I will . Perhaps I 'll chuck the Service and go into the House .I 'm not a conceited man . . but I believe that if I speak out upon a subject I understand and only upon that subject the House will listen . . and if others followed my example we should be a far more business-like and go-ahead community . He pauses for breath and MR. BOOTH seizes the opportunity .", "Just one moment . Have you thought of the physical improvement which conscription would bring about in the manhood of the country ? What England wants is Chest !Chest and Discipline . I do n't care how it 's obtained . Why , we suffer from a lack of it in our homes —", "Well , sir , people tell me I 'm a useful man on committees .", "You can n't say I do n't listen to you , sir .", "And would n't you wish me , sir , as eldest son . . . Trenchard not counting . . .", "Ha ! If I were a conceited man , sir , I could trust you to take it out of me .", "If you want a bit of fire , say so , you sucking Lord Chancellor . Because I mean to allow you to be my brother-in-law , you think you can be impertinent . So TREGONING moves to the fire and that changes the conversation .", "Anonymously .", "Why should they mind . . what on earth does Hugh know about war ? He could n't tell a battery horse from a bandsman . I do n't pretend to criticise art . I think the window 'd be very pretty if it was n't so broken up into bits .", "Lack of discipline .", "Well , I 'm not a conceited man , but —", "Shut up . I was going to say when my young cub of a brother-in-law-to-be interrupted me , that = Training =, for which we all have to be thankful to you , Sir , has much to do with it .I say , I 'm scorching ! D'you want another cigar , Denis ?", "I do . And he glances round , but TREGONING sees a box on the table and reaches it . The Vicar gets up .", "No , not those . Where are the Ramon Allones ? What on earth has Honor done with them ?", "My goodness ! . . one can never find anything in this house .", "Here , who 's going to play ?", "No , do n't you bother to look for them .Honor , where are those Ramon Allones ?", "Honor , they are not in the dining-room .", "That 's what you ought to know .", "Oh , Honor , do n't be such a fool . These are what we 've been smoking . I want the Ramon Allones .", "No , you do n't , but you might learn .", "What is it , sir ?", "Where 's Emily ?", "Letting her wear herself to rags over the child . . !", "Why do n't you stop looking for those cigars ?", "I daresay they are in the Library . What a house ! He departs .", "Of course , they were there . Thank you very much ,", "Alice . Now I want a knife .", "I hate ‘ em .Nothing but silver ones . EDWARD hands him a carefully opened pocket knife . Thank you , Edward . And I must take one of the candles . Something 's gone wrong with the library ventilator and you never can see a thing in that room .", "Writing letters . Things are neglected , Edward , unless one is constantly on the look out . The Pater only cares for his garden . I must speak seriously to Honor . He has returned the knife , still open , and now having lit his cigar at the candle he carries this off .", "Edward , I wish you 'd come and have a look at this ventilator , like a good fellow . Then he turns and goes again , obviously with the weight of an important matter on his shoulders . With the ghost of a smile EDWARD gets up and follows him ." ]

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[ "All right , Creature , just wait till I light my pipe and we 'll polish this up .", "Both of you clear out ; I can get this done in no time .", "Now listen , little people , this is my job . I always wash up on Thursday evenings —", "Come on , now , the good old system !", "Right . We make a pretty good team at this , do n't we ?", "I love our little Thursday evening suppers . I think they 're more fun than any other night .", "We get better grub on Thursdays , when Ethel goes out , than we ever do when she 's in .", "It was lovely . I 'm afraid it was hard for you , Creature , to have Mother come just now .Especially when your Mother was here .", "No . I had n't told her . You see your Mother is here so much more often . I did n't know your mother would still be here . I was afraid Mother might be a little hurt —", "Ye Gods , Ethel has cracked the Copenhagen platter .That 's one of the set Mother gave us when we were married .", "I 'll bet that coon did n't empty the icebox pan before she went . I never saw a cook yet who could remember to do that —", "What did I tell you !", "It 's perfectly absurd not having any pantry to keep the icebox in . In here , the heat of the stove melts the ice right away .Of course , she never keeps the doors properly closed .It 's a funny thing .", "Why , that a presumably intelligent coon can n't understand the doors of an icebox are meant to be kept tight shut , to save ice . What does she suppose those little clamps are for ?Well , it 's jolly to have both the grandmothers here together , is n't it ?", "Now , Creature , let me do that . You do n't want to spoil those pretty hands .", "Come on , old man , let me .It does n't take long when there are two of us .", "I guess that kettle 's hot by now .Give it a minute longer .You know , I 'm a little worried about Mother .", "He did ! The little rascal !", "Well , well .What cup is that ? I do n't seem to remember it —", "Where 's that nice old Christening mug of mine ? I think Junior would like to use that once in a while , too .", "I hope Mother is n't feeling poorly . I noticed at supper —", "Now , honey , you 're tired . You go and rest , I 'll finish up here .", "One thing I never can make out is , how to prevent coffee grounds from going down the sink .Perhaps if I could invent some kind of a little coffee-ground strainer I 'd make our fortune . That coffee was delicious , Creature .", "It is a beauty .", "I guess I 'd better attend to the garbage .", "Where 's that plate I put here ? There was a lot of perfectly good stuff I saved —", "My Lord , it 's no wonder we never have any money to spend if we chuck half of it away in waste .Waste ! Look at that piece of cheese , and those potatoes . You could take those things , and some of this meat , and make a nice economical hash for lunch —", "Do you know what the one unforgivable sin is ? The sin against the Holy Ghost ? It 's Waste ! It makes me wild to think of working and working like a dog , and half of what I earn just thrown away by an ignorant coon . Look at this , just look at it !There 's enough meat on that bone to make soup . And ye gods , here 's that jar of anchovy paste !I thought you got that for me as a little treat . I wondered where it had gone to . Why , I had n't eaten more than just the top of it .", "Scrape it off . A little mildew wo n't hurt anybody . There 'll be mildew on my bank account if this kind of thing goes on .Look here , about half a dozen slices of bread . What 's the matter with them , I 'd like to know .", "I guess throwing away good , hard-earned money is my affair , is n't it ?", "Just leave my mother out of it . I guess she did n't spoil me the way yours did you . Of course , I was n't an only daughter —", "I suppose you think that if you 'd married Jack Davis or some other of those profiteers you 'd never have had to see the inside of a kitchen —", "If he gets married , I hope it 'll be to some girl who understands something about economy —", "Well , he wo n't get married ! I 'll put him wise to what marriage means , fussing like this all the time —", "Oh , this is too absurd —", "In handcuffs , I suppose —", "If you 're so down on mothers-in-law , it 's queer you 're anxious to be one yourself . The expectant mother-in-law !", "Great Scott , what did you think marriage was like , anyway ? Did you expect to go through life having everything done for you , without a little hard work to make it interesting ?", "Now let me tell you something . Let 's see if you can ratify it from your extensive observation of life . Is there anything in the world so cruel as bringing up a girl in absolute ignorance of housework , believing that all her days she 's going to be waited on hand and foot , and that marriage is one long swoon of endearments —", "Why , I believe you actually think your life is wrecked if you are n't being petted and praised every minute . You pretend to think marriage is so sacred and yet you 're buffaloed by a few greasy dishes . I like my kind of sacredness better than yours , and that 's the sacredness of common sense . Marriage ought not to be performed before an altar , but before a kitchen sink .", "Now listen —", "I did n't find fault . I found some good food being wasted .", "It 's always the way !", "I 'm sorry , I — I left my pipe in here .", "Now listen , Creature , do n't . You 'll make yourself sick .", "I never heard such rot . They must be mad , both of them .", "Yes . Why , they 're deliberately trying to set us against each other .", "I 'm afraid the law does n't give one much protection against one 's mothers .", "Do n't be silly , darling . That 's crazy stuff . I 'm not overworked , and even if I were I 'd love it , for you —", "Yes , I know , ducky , Gordon understands . Soon we 'll be able to buy that scales you want , and we wo n't have to weigh him on the meat balance .", "It was my fault , dear . I am obstinate and disagreeable —", "Ethel 's all right . We 're lucky to have her .", "I think it 's frightful , the things they said . What are they trying to do , break up a happy home ?", "Well , I should say so . Did you ever hear me complain ?", "Were true ?—", "No , your mother is right . I 've been a brute —", "I suppose you 'll think it an awful anticlimax —", "Suppose we have something to eat ?", "You mean dinner , honey — among refined people !", "Throw out that junk — I was idiotic to save it .", "There , now , this is better .", "No , I suppose not . But it 's hard to forgive that sort of talk .", "We 'll be a bit cold and stand-offish until things blow over .", "Yes , Creature . Do you remember why I call you Creature ?", "There was an adjective omitted , you remember .", "Motto for married men : Do n't run short of adjectives !— You remember what the adjective was ?", "Adorable , It was an abbreviation for Adorable Creature —I love our little Thursday evenings . lauraSssh !Was that the baby ?" ]

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[ "Good day , sir .", "I have not seen you long . How goes the world ?", "Ay , that 's well known ;", "But what particular rarity ? what strange ,", "Which manifold record not matches ? See ,", "Magic of bounty ! all these spirits thy power", "Hath conjur 'd to attend ! I know the merchant .", "When we for recompense have prais 'd the vile ,", "It stains the glory in that happy verse", "Which aptly sings the good .", "A thing slipp 'd idly from me .", "Our poesy is as a gum , which oozes", "From whence ‘ tis nourish 'd : the fire i ’ the flint", "Shows not till it be struck ; our gentle flame", "Provokes itself , and like the current flies", "Each bound it chafes . What have you there ?", "Upon the heels of my presentment , sir . Let 's see your piece .", "So ‘ tis : this comes off well and excellent .", "Admirable ! How this grace", "Speaks his own standing ! what a mental power", "This eye shoots forth ! how big imagination", "Moves in this lip ! to the dumbness of the gesture", "One might interpret .", "I 'll say of it ,", "It tutors nature : artificial strife", "Lives in these touches , livelier than life .", "The senators of Athens : happy man !", "You see this confluence , this great flood of visitors .", "I have , in this rough work , shap 'd out a man", "Whom this beneath world doth embrace and hug", "With amplest entertainment : my free drift", "Halts not particularly , but moves itself", "In a wide sea of wax : no levell 'd malice", "Infects one comma in the course I hold :", "But flies an eagle flight , bold and forth on ,", "Leaving no tract behind .", "I will unbolt to you .", "You see how all conditions , how all minds —", "As well of glib and slipp'ry creatures as", "Of grave and austere quality — tender down", "Their services to Lord Timon : his large fortune ,", "Upon his good and gracious nature hanging ,", "Subdues and properties to his love and tendance", "All sorts of hearts ; yea , from the glass-fac 'd flatterer", "To Apemantus , that few things loves better", "Than to abhor himself : even he drops down", "The knee before him , and returns in peace", "Most rich in Timon 's nod .", "Sir , I have upon a high and pleasant hill", "Feign 'd Fortune to be thron 'd : the base o ’ the mount", "Is rank 'd with all deserts , all kind of natures", "That labour on the bosom of this sphere", "To propagate their states : amongst them all ,", "Whose eyes are on this sovereign lady fix 'd", "One do I personate of Lord Timon 's frame ,", "Whom Fortune with her ivory hand wafts to her ;", "Whose present grace to present slaves and servants", "Translates his rivals .", "Nay , sir , but hear me on .", "All those which were his fellows but of late ,", "Some better than his value , on the moment", "Follow his strides , his lobbies fill with tendance ,", "Rain sacrificial whisperings in his ear ,", "Make sacred even his stirrup , and through him", "Drink the free air .", "When Fortune in her shift and change of mood", "Spurns down her late beloved , all his dependants ,", "Which labour 'd after him to the mountain 's top", "Even on their knees and hands , let him slip down ,", "Not one accompanying his declining foot .", "Vouchsafe my labour , and long live your lordship !", "How now , philosopher !", "Art not one ?", "Then I lie not .", "Yes .", "That 's not feigned ; he is so .", "What 's to be thought of him ? Does the rumour hold for true that he is so full of gold ?", "Then this breaking of his has been but a try for his friends ?", "What have you now to present unto him ?", "I must serve him so too , tell him of an intent that 's coming toward him .", "I am thinking what I shall say I have provided for him . It must be a personating of himself ; a satire against the softness of prosperity , with a discovery of the infinite flatteries that follow youth and opulency .", "Nay , let 's seek him ;", "Then do we sin against our own estate", "When we may profit meet , and come too late .", "Hail , worthy Timon !", "Sir ,", "Having often of your open bounty tasted ,", "Hearing you were retir 'd , your friends fall'n off ,", "Whose thankless natures — O abhorred spirits !", "Not all the whips of heaven are large enough —", "What ! to you ,", "Whose star-like nobleness gave life and influence", "To their whole being ! I am rapt , and cannot cover", "The monstrous bulk of this ingratitude", "With any size of words .", "Nor I ." ]

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[ "Helpe Gransier helpe , my Aunt Lauinia ,", "Followes me euery where I know not why .", "Good Vncle Marcus see how swift she comes ,", "Alas sweet Aunt , I know not what you meane", "I when my father was in Rome she did", "My Lord I know not I , nor can I gesse ,", "Vnlesse some fit or frenzie do possesse her :", "For I haue heard my Gransier say full oft ,", "Extremitie of griefes would make men mad .", "And I haue read that Hecuba of Troy ,", "Ran mad through sorrow , that made me to feare ,", "Although my Lord , I know my noble Aunt ,", "Loues me as deare as ere my mother did ,", "And would not but in fury fright my youth ,", "Which made me downe to throw my bookes , and flie", "Causles perhaps , but pardon me sweet Aunt ,", "And Madam , if my Vncle Marcus goe ,", "I will most willingly attend your Ladyship", "Grandsier ‘ tis Ouids Metamorphosis ,", "My mother gaue it me", "I say my Lord , that if I were a man ,", "Their mothers bed-chamber should not be safe ,", "For these bad bond-men to the yoake of Rome", "And Vncle so will I , and if I liue", "I with my dagger in their bosomes Grandsire :", "My Lords , with all the humblenesse I may ,", "I greete your honours from Andronicus ,", "And pray the Romane Gods confound you both", "O Grandsire , Grandsire : euen with all my heart", "Would I were Dead , so you did Liue againe .", "O Lord , I cannot speake to him for weeping ,", "My teares will choake me , if I ope my mouth" ]

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[ "Charioteer , the deer has led us a long chase . And even now", "His neck in beauty bends", "As backward looks he sends", "At my pursuing car", "That threatens death from far .", "Fear shrinks to half the body small ;", "See how he fears the arrow 's fall !", "The path he takes is strewed", "With blades of grass half-chewed", "From jaws wide with the stress", "Of fevered weariness .", "He leaps so often and so high ,", "He does not seem to run , but fly .", "Then let the reins hang loose .", "Is the hermit father there ? The two hermits . No , he has left his daughter to welcome guests , and has just gone to Somatirtha , to avert an evil fate that threatens her .", "Well , I will see her . She shall feel my devotion , and report it to the sage . The two hermits . Then we will go on our way .", "Charioteer , drive on . A sight of the pious hermitage will purify us .", "She is quite right . Beneath the barken dress Upon the shoulder tied , In maiden loveliness Her young breast seems to hide , As when a flower amid The leaves by autumn tossed — Pale , withered leaves — lies hid , And half its grace is lost . Yet in truth the bark dress is not an enemy to her beauty . It serves as an added ornament . For The meanest vesture glows On beauty that enchants : The lotus lovelier shows Amid dull water-plants ; The moon in added splendour Shines for its spot of dark ; Yet more the maiden slender Charms in her dress of bark . ShakuntalaOh , girls , that mango-tree is trying to tell me something with his branches that move in the wind like fingers . I must go and see him .", "But the flattery is true .", "Her arms are tender shoots ; her lips", "Are blossoms red and warm ;", "Bewitching youth begins to flower", "In beauty on her form .", "May I hope that she is the hermit 's daughter by a mother of a different caste ? But it must be so . Surely , she may become a warrior 's bride ; Else , why these longings in an honest mind ? The motions of a blameless heart decide Of right and wrong , when reason leaves us blind . Yet I will learn the whole truth . ShakuntalaOh , oh ! A bee has left the jasmine-vine and is flying into my face .KingAs the bee about her flies , Swiftly her bewitching eyes Turn to watch his flight . She is practising to-day Coquetry and glances ’ play Not from love , but fright .Eager bee , you lightly skim O'er the eyelid 's trembling rim Toward the cheek aquiver . Gently buzzing round her cheek , Whispering in her ear , you seek Secrets to deliver . While her hands that way and this Strike at you , you steal a kiss , Love 's all , honeymaker . I know nothing but her name , Not her caste , nor whence she came — You , my rival , take her .", "A good opportunity to present myself . Have no —No , they would see that I am the king . I prefer to appear as a guest .", "Your courteous words are enough to make me feel at home .", "You , too , are surely wearied by your pious task . Pray be seated a moment . PriyamvadaMy dear , we must be polite to our guest . Shall we sit down ?ShakuntalaOh , why do I have such feelings when I see this man ? They seem wrong in a hermitage . KingIt is delightful to see your friendship . For you are all young and beautiful . PriyamvadaWho is he , dear ? With his mystery , and his dignity , and his courtesy ? He acts like a king and a gentleman .", "I too would like to ask a question about your friend . The two friends . Sir , your request is a favour to us .", "Father Kanva lives a lifelong hermit . Yet you say that your friend is his daughter . How can that be ?", "Ah , yes . The famous Kaushika .", "You waken my curiosity with the word “ abandoned . ” May I hear the whole story ?", "Yes , the gods feel this jealousy toward the austerities of others . And then —", "The rest is plain . Surely , she is the daughter of the nymph .", "It is as it should be . To beauty such as this No woman could give birth ; The quivering lightning flash Is not a child of earth .KingAh , my wishes become hopes . PriyamvadaSir , it seems as if you had more to say .", "You are right . Your pious life interests me , and I have another question .", "My question is this :", "Does she , till marriage only , keep her vow", "As hermit-maid , that shames the ways of love ?", "Or must her soft eyes ever see , as now ,", "Soft eyes of friendly deer in peaceful grove ?", "It is plain that she is already wearied by watering the trees . See ! Her shoulders droop ; her palms are reddened yet ; Quick breaths are struggling in her bosom fair ; The blossom o'er her ear hangs limply wet ; One hand restrains the loose , dishevelled hair . I therefore remit her debt .", "Make no mistake . This is a present — from the king .", "I have offended sadly against the hermits . I must go back . The two friends . Your Honour , we are frightened by this alarm of the elephant . Permit us to return to the cottage . AnusuyaShakuntala dear , Mother Gautami will be anxious . We must hurry and find her . ShakuntalaOh , oh ! I can hardly walk .", "You must go very slowly . And I will take pains that the hermitage is not disturbed . The two friends . Your honour , we feel as if we knew you very well . Pray pardon our shortcomings as hostesses . May we ask you to seek better entertainment from us another time ?", "You are too modest . I feel honoured by the mere sight of you .", "I do not understand you . Speak plainly .", "The river-current , of course .", "How so ?", "Wait . Hear me out .", "When you are rested , you must be my companion in another task — an easy one .", "I will tell you presently .", "Who stands without ?", "Door-keeper . I await your Majesty 's commands .", "Raivataka , summon the general . Door-keeper . Yes , your Majesty .Follow me , sir . There is his Majesty , listening to our conversation . Draw near , sir . GeneralHunting is declared to be a sin , yet it brings nothing but good to the king . See ! He does not heed the cruel sting Of his recoiling , twanging string ; The mid-day sun , the dripping sweat Affect him not , nor make him fret ; His form , though sinewy and spare , Is most symmetrically fair ; No mountain-elephant could be More filled with vital strength than he .", "Bhadrasena , my enthusiasm is broken . Madhavya has been preaching against hunting . GeneralStick to it , friend Madhavya . I will humour the king a moment .Your Majesty , he is a chattering idiot . Your Majesty may judge by his own case whether hunting is an evil . Consider : The hunter 's form grows sinewy , strong , and light ; He learns , from beasts of prey , how wrath and fright Affect the mind ; his skill he loves to measure With moving targets . ‘ Tis life 's chiefest pleasure . ClownGet out ! Get out with your strenuous life ! The king has come to his senses . But you , you son of a slave-wench , can go chasing from forest to forest , till you fall into the jaws of some old bear that is looking for a deer or a jackal .", "Bhadrasena , I cannot take your advice , because I am in the vicinity of a hermitage . So for to-day The hornèd buffalo may shake The turbid water of the lake ; Shade-seeking deer may chew the cud , Boars trample swamp-grass in the mud ; The bow I bend in hunting , may Enjoy a listless holiday .", "Send back the archers who have gone ahead . And forbid the soldiers to vex the hermitage , or even to approach it . Remember : There lurks a hidden fire in each Religious hermit-bower ; Cool sun-stones kindle if assailed By any foreign power .", "Lead the way .", "Friend Madhavya , you do not know what vision is . You have not seen the fairest of all objects .", "Yes , every one thinks himself beautiful . But I was speaking of Shakuntala , the ornament of the hermitage . ClownI must n't add fuel to the flame .But you can n't have her because she is a hermit-girl . What is the use of seeing her ?", "Fool !", "And is it selfish longing then ,", "That draws our souls on high", "Through eyes that have forgot to wink ,", "As the new moon climbs the sky ?", "Besides , Dushyanta 's thoughts dwell on no forbidden object .", "My friend , you have not seen her , or you could not talk so .", "Oh , my friend , she needs not many words .", "She is God 's vision , of pure thought", "Composed in His creative mind ;", "His reveries of beauty wrought", "The peerless pearl of womankind .", "So plays my fancy when I see", "How great is God , how lovely she .", "This too is in my thought .", "She seems a flower whose fragrance none has tasted ,", "A gem uncut by workman 's tool ,", "A branch no desecrating hands have wasted ,", "Fresh honey , beautifully cool .", "No man on earth deserves to taste her beauty ,", "Her blameless loveliness and worth ,", "Unless he has fulfilled man 's perfect duty —", "And is there such a one on earth ?", "She is dependent on her father , and he is not here .", "But when she went away with her friends , she almost showed that she loved me . When she had hardly left my side , “ I cannot walk , ” the maiden cried , And turned her face , and feigned to free The dress not caught upon the tree .", "My friend , think of some pretext under which we may return to the hermitage .", "What of that ?", "Fool ! It is a very different tax which these hermits pay — one that outweighs heaps of gems . The wealth we take from common men , Wastes while we cherish ; These share with us such holiness As ne'er can perish . Voices behind the scenes . Ah , we have found him . KingThe voices are grave and tranquil . These must be hermits .Door-keeper . Victory , O King . There are two hermit-youths at the gate .", "Bid them enter at once . Door-keeper . Yes , your Majesty .Follow me . First youthA majestic presence , yet it inspires confidence . Nor is this wonderful in a king who is half a saint . For to him The splendid palace serves as hermitage ; His royal government , courageous , sage , Adds daily to his merit ; it is given To him to win applause from choirs of heaven Whose anthems to his glory rise and swell , Proclaiming him a king , and saint as well .", "They command rather . The two youths . The powers of evil disturb our pious life in the absence of the hermit-father . We therefore ask that you will remain a few nights with your charioteer to protect the hermitage .", "I shall be most happy to do so . ClownYou rather seem to like being collared this way .", "Raivataka , tell my charioteer to drive up , and to bring the bow and arrows .", "Pray go before . And I will follow straightway . The two youths . Victory , O King !", "Madhavya , have you no curiosity to see Shakuntala ?", "Do not fear . You will be with me .", "Let him enter . Door-keeperKarabhaka , here is his Majesty . You may draw near . KarabhakaVictory to your Majesty . The queen-mother sends her commands ——", "What are her commands ?", "On the one side is my duty to the hermits , on the other my mother 's command . Neither may be disregarded . What is to be done ? ClownStay half-way between , like Trishanku .", "In truth , I am perplexed .", "Two inconsistent duties sever", "My mind with cruel shock ,", "As when the current of a river", "Is split upon a rock .", "I will send all the soldiers with you , for the pious grove must not be disturbed . ClownAha ! Look at the heir-apparent ! KingThe fellow is a chatterbox . He might betray my longing to the ladies of the palace . Good , then !Friend Madhavya , my reverence for the hermits draws me to the hermitage . Do not think that I am really in love with the hermit-girl . Just think : A king , and a girl of the calm hermit-grove , Bred with the fawns , and a stranger to love ! Then do not imagine a serious quest ; The light words I uttered were spoken in jest .", "She is seriously ill .Is it the heat , or is it as I hope ?It must be so . With salve upon her breast , With loosened lotus-chain , My darling , sore oppressed , Is lovely in her pain . Though love and summer heat May work an equal woe , No maiden seems so sweet When summer lays her low . PriyamvadaAnusuya , since she first saw the good king , she has been greatly troubled . I do not believe her fever has any other cause .", "It is too true . Her lotus-chains that were as white As moonbeams shining in the night , Betray the fever 's awful pain , And fading , show a darker stain . ShakuntalaWell , say whatever you like . Anusuya . Shakuntala dear , you have not told us what is going on in your mind . But I have heard old , romantic stories , and I can n't help thinking that you are in a state like that of a lady in love . Please tell us what hurts you . We have to understand the disease before we can even try to cure it .", "Anusuya expresses my own thoughts .", "Priyamvada is right . See ! Her cheeks grow thin ; her breast and shoulders fail ; Her waist is weary and her face is pale : She fades for love ; oh , pitifully sweet ! As vine-leaves wither in the scorching heat . ShakuntalaI could not tell any one else . But I shall be a burden to you . The two friends . That is why we insist on knowing , dear . Grief must be shared to be endured . King . To friends who share her joy and grief She tells what sorrow laid her here ; She turned to look her love again When first I saw her — yet I fear !", "It is quite true . The hot tears , flowing down my cheek All night on my supporting arm And on its golden bracelet , seek To stain the gems and do them harm . The bracelet slipping o'er the scars Upon the wasted arm , that show My deeds in hunting and in wars , All night is moving to and fro . PriyamvadaWell , she must write him a love-letter . And I will hide it in a bunch of flowers and see that it gets into the king 's hand as if it were a relic of the sacrifice .", "It is only natural that I should forget to wink when I see my darling . For One clinging eyebrow lifted , As fitting words she seeks , Her face reveals her passion For me in glowing cheeks .", "Pray do not hesitate . It always causes pain in the end , to leave unsaid what one longs to say .", "I am all attention .", "There is no text more urgent .", "We cherish the same desire . I feel it a great honour . ShakuntalaOh , do n't detain the good king . He is separated from the court ladies , and he is anxious to go back to them . King . Bewitching eyes that found my heart , You surely see It could no longer live apart , Nor faithless be . I bear Love 's arrows as I can ; Wound not with doubt a wounded man .", "What more can I say ? Though many queens divide my court , But two support the throne ; Your friend will find a rival in The sea-girt earth alone . The two friends . We are content .PriyamvadaLook , Anusuya ! See how the dear girl 's life is coming back moment by moment — just like a peahen in summer when the first rainy breezes come .", "I am rebuked .", "Why accuse a fate that brings what you desire ?", "Why should I not have my way ?", "Do not fear your family , beautiful Shakuntala . Father Kanva knows the holy law . He will not regret it . For many a hermit maiden who By simple , voluntary rite Dispensed with priest and witness , yet Found favour in her father 's sight .Ah , I have come into the open air .ShakuntalaO King , I cannot do as you would have me . You hardly know me after this short talk . But oh , do not forget me . King . When evening comes , the shadow of the tree Is cast far forward , yet does not depart ; Even so , belovèd , wheresoe'er you be , The thought of you can never leave my heart . ShakuntalaOh , oh ! When I hear him speak so , my feet will not move away . I will hide in this amaranth hedge and see how long his love lasts .", "Oh , my belovèd , my love for you is my whole life , yet you leave me and go away without a thought . Your body , soft as siris-flowers , Engages passion 's utmost powers ; How comes it that your heart is hard As stalks that siris-blossoms guard ?", "What have I to do here , where she is not ?Ah , I cannot go . The perfumed lotus-chain That once was worn by her Fetters and keeps my heart A hopeless prisoner .ShakuntalaWhy , I was so weak and ill that when the lotus-bracelet fell off , I did not even notice it . KingAh ! Once , dear , on your sweet arm it lay , And on my heart shall ever stay ; Though you disdain to give me joy , I find it in a lifeless toy .", "I will restore it on one condition .", "That I may myself place it where it belongs . ShakuntalaWhat can I do ?", "Let us sit on this stone bench .KingAh ! When Shiva 's anger burned the tree Of love in quenchless fire , Did heavenly fate preserve a shoot To deck my heart 's desire ? ShakuntalaHasten , my dear , hasten . KingNow I am content . She speaks as a wife to her husband .Beautiful Shakuntala , the clasp of the bracelet is not very firm . May I fasten it in another way ? ShakuntalaIf you like . KingSee , my beautiful girl ! The lotus-chain is dazzling white As is the slender moon at night . Perhaps it was the moon on high That joined her horns and left the sky , Believing that your lovely arm Would , more than heaven , enhance her charm .", "Oh , my bewitching girl , have no fear of me .Her sweetly trembling lip With virgin invitation Provokes my soul to sip Delighted fascination .", "The lotus over your ear is so near your eye , and so like it , that I was confused .", "What more could I ask ?", "It ought to be enough for me", "To hover round your fragrant face ;", "Is not the lotus-haunting bee", "Content with perfume and with grace ?", "This ! This !A voice behind the scenes . O sheldrake bride , bid your mate farewell . The night is come . ShakuntalaOh , my dear , this is Mother Gautami , come to inquire about me . Please hide among the branches .", "Be quiet . I wish to listen . ChamberlainAh , the king is occupied . I must await his leisure .A song behind the scenes . You who kissed the mango-flower , Honey-loving bee , Gave her all your passion 's power , Ah , so tenderly ! How can you be tempted so By the lily , pet ? Fresher honey 's sweet , I know ; But can you forget ?", "What an entrancing song !", "Go . Soothe her like a gentleman .", "Request my chaplain Somarata in my name to receive these hermits in the manner prescribed by Scripture , and to conduct them himself before me . I will await them in a place fit for their reception .", "Enough ! I must not gaze upon another 's wife . ShakuntalaOh , my heart , why tremble so ? Remember his constant love and be brave . ChaplainHail , your Majesty . The hermits have been received as Scripture enjoins . They have a message from their teacher . May you be pleased to hear it . KingI am all attention . The two pupilsVictory , O King . KingI salute you all . The two pupils . All hail .", "Does your pious life proceed without disturbance ?", "The two pupils .", "How could the pious duties fail", "While you defend the right ?", "Or how could darkness ’ power prevail", "O'er sunbeams shining bright ?", "King", "Indeed , my royal title is no empty one .", "Is holy Kanva in health ?", "What are his commands ?", "Speak , mother .", "Gautami .", "Did she with father speak or mother ?", "Did you engage her friends in speech ?", "Your faith was plighted each to other ;", "Let each be faithful now to each .", "You cannot mean that this young woman is my wife . ShakuntalaOh , my heart , you feared it , and now it has come . Sharngarava . O King , A king , and shrink when love is done , Turn coward 's back on truth , and flee !", "What means this dreadful accusation ?", "Sharngarava", "O drunk with power ! We might have known", "That you were steeped in treachery .", "A stinging rebuke ! GautamiForget your shame , my child . I will remove your veil . Then your husband will recognise you .KingAs my heart ponders whether I could ever Have wed this woman that has come to me In tortured loveliness , as I endeavour To bring it back to mind , then like a bee That hovers round a jasmine flower at dawn , While frosty dews of morning still o'erweave it , And hesitates to sip ere they be gone , I cannot taste the sweet , and cannot leave it . PortressWhat a virtuous king he is ! Would any other man hesitate when he saw such a pearl of a woman coming of her own accord ?", "Hermit , I have taken thought . I cannot believe that this woman is my wife . She is plainly with child . How can I take her , confessing myself an adulterer ? ShakuntalaOh , oh , oh ! He even casts doubt on our marriage . The vine of my hope climbed high , but it is broken now .", "An excellent idea ! ShakuntalaOh , oh ! The ring is lost .", "Ready wit , ready wit !", "Let me hear what you have to say .", "I hear you .", "It is just such women , selfish , sweet , false , that entice fools . Gautami . You have no right to say that . She grew up in the pious grove . She does not know how to deceive .", "Old hermit woman , The female 's untaught cunning may be seen In beasts , far more in women selfish-wise ; The cuckoo 's eggs are left to hatch and rear By foster-parents , and away she flies . ShakuntalaWretch ! You judge all this by your own false heart . Would any other man do what you have done ? To hide behind virtue , like a yawning well covered over with grass ! KingBut her anger is free from coquetry , because she has lived in the forest . See ! Her glance is straight ; her eyes are flashing red ; Her speech is harsh , not drawlingly well-bred ; Her whole lip quivers , seems to shake with cold ; Her frown has straightened eyebrows arching bold . No , she saw that I was doubtful , and her anger was feigned . Thus When I refused but now Hard-heartedly , to know Of love or secret vow , Her eyes grew red ; and so , Bending her arching brow , She fiercely snapped Love 's bow .", "Why do you trust this girl , and accuse me of an imaginary crime ? SharngaravaYou have learned your wisdom upside down . It would be monstrous to believe A girl who never lies ; Trust those who study to deceive And think it very wise .", "Aha , my candid friend ! Suppose I were to admit that I am such a man . What would happen if I deceived the girl ?", "It is unthinkable that ruin should fall on Puru 's line .", "Hermit , why deceive this woman ? Remember : Night-blossoms open to the moon , Day-blossoms to the sun ; A man of honour ever strives Another 's wife to shun . Sharngarava . O King , suppose you had forgotten your former actions in the midst of distractions . Should you now desert your wife — you who fear to fail in virtue ?", "I ask you which is the heavier sin :", "Not knowing whether I be mad", "Or falsehood be in her ,", "Shall I desert a faithful wife", "Or turn adulterer ?", "Chaplain", "Now if this were done ——", "Instruct me , my teacher .", "Why this ?", "It is good advice , my teacher . ChaplainFollow me , my daughter .", "What ?", "What then ?", "Chaplain .", "Before our eyes a heavenly light", "In woman 's form , but shining bright ,", "Seized her and vanished straight .", "My teacher , we have already settled the matter . Why speculate in vain ? Let us seek repose . Chaplain . Victory to your Majesty .", "Vetravati , I am bewildered . Conduct me to my apartment .", "Vetravati , tell the minister Pishuna in my name that a sleepless night prevents me from mounting the throne of judgment . He is to investigate the citizens ’ business and send me a memorandum .", "And you , Parvatayana , return to your post of duty .", "It is my only consolation . Lead the way to the bower of spring-creepers .", "My friend , I am quite forlorn . I keep thinking of her pitiful state when I rejected her . Thus : When I denied her , then she tried To join her people . “ Stay , ” one cried , Her father 's representative . She stopped , she turned , she could but give A tear-dimmed glance to heartless me — That arrow burns me poisonously .", "Who else would dare to touch a faithful wife ? Her friends told me that Menaka was her mother . My heart persuades me that it was she , or companions of hers , who carried Shakuntala away .", "How so ?", "My friend ,", "And was it phantom , madness , dream ,", "Or fatal retribution stern ?", "My hopes fell down a precipice", "And never , never will return .", "Listen , my friend . When I left the pious grove for the city , my darling wept and said : “ But how long will you remember us , dear ? ”", "Then I put this engraved ring on her finger , and said to her ——", "While she was worshipping the Ganges at Shachitirtha , it fell .", "Well , I can only reproach this ring . ClownAnd I will reproach this stick of mine . Why are you crooked when I am straight ? KingHow could you fail to linger On her soft , tapering finger , And in the water fall ? And yet Things lifeless know not beauty ; But I — I scorned my duty , The sweetest task of all .", "My friend ,", "What in the picture is not fair ,", "Is badly done ;", "Yet something of her beauty there ,", "I feel , is won .", "Which one do you think ? ClownI think it is this one , leaning against the creeper which she has just sprinkled . Her face is hot and the flowers are dropping from her hair ; for the ribbon is loosened . Her arms droop like weary branches ; she has loosened her girdle , and she seems a little fatigued . This , I think , is the lady Shakuntala , the others are her friends .", "You are good at guessing . Besides , here are proofs of my love .", "See where discolorations faint", "Of loving handling tell ;", "And here the swelling of the paint", "Shows where my sad tears fell .", "Chaturika , I have not finished the background . Go , get the brushes .", "I will hold it .", "Listen , my friend . The stream of Malini , and on its sands The swan-pairs resting ; holy foot-hill lands Of great Himalaya 's sacred ranges , where The yaks are seen ; and under trees that bear Bark hermit-dresses on their branches high , A doe that on the buck 's horn rubs her eye . ClownTo hear him talk , I should think he was going to fill up the picture with heavy-bearded hermits .", "And another ornament that Shakuntala loved I have forgotten to paint .", "Drive him away .", "True . O welcome guest of the flowering vine , why do you waste your time in buzzing here ? Your faithful , loving queen , Perched on a flower , athirst , Is waiting for you still , Nor tastes the honey first .", "Will he not go , though I warn him ?", "A picture ?", "You have done an ill-natured thing .", "When I was happy in the sight ,", "And when my heart was warm ,", "You brought sad memories back , and made", "My love a painted form .", "My friend , how can I endure a grief that has no respite ?", "I cannot sleep at night", "And meet her dreaming ;", "I cannot see the sketch", "While tears are streaming .", "Well ?", "My friend , the queen has come because she feels touched in her honour . You had better take care of this picture .", "Vetravati , did you not meet Queen Vasumati ?", "The queen knows times and seasons . She will not interrupt business .", "Give me the document .King“ Be it known to his Majesty . A seafaring merchant named Dhanavriddhi has been lost in a shipwreck . He is childless , and his property , amounting to several millions , reverts to the crown . Will his Majesty take action ? ”It is dreadful to be childless . Vetravati , he had great riches . There must be several wives . Let inquiry be made . There may be a wife who is with child .", "The child shall receive the inheritance . Go , inform the minister .", "Wait a moment . PortressYes , your Majesty . King . After all , what does it matter whether he have issue or not ? Let King Dushyanta be proclaimed To every sad soul kin That mourns a kinsman loved and lost , Yet did not plunge in sin .", "Alas ! I despised the happiness that offered itself to me .", "Alas ! The ancestors of Dushyanta are in a doubtful case .", "For I am childless , and they do not know ,", "When I am gone , what child of theirs will bring", "The scriptural oblation ; and their tears", "Already mingle with my offering .", "Go , Chaturika . Reprove the queen in my name for not controlling her servants .", "The Brahman 's voice seems really changed by fear . Who waits without ?", "See why poor Madhavya is screaming so .", "Parvatayana , I hope it is nothing very dreadful .", "Then why do you tremble so ? For", "Why should the trembling , born", "Of age , increasing , seize", "Your limbs and bid them shake", "Like fig-leaves in the breeze ?", "From what ?", "Speak plainly , man .", "What has happened there ? Chamberlain . While he was resting on its height , Which palace peacocks in their flight Can hardly reach , he seemed to be Snatched up — by what , we could not see . KingMy very palace is invaded by evil creatures . To be a king , is to be a disappointed man . The moral stumblings of mine own , The daily slips , are scarcely known ; Who then that rules a kingdom , can Guide every deed of every man ?", "I am all attention .", "So Narada has told me . Matali . Heaven 's king is powerless ; you shall smite His foes in battle soon ; Darkness that overcomes the day , Is scattered by the moon . Take your bow at once , enter my heavenly chariot , and set forth for victory .", "I am grateful for the honour which Indra shows me . But why did you act thus toward Madhavya ?", "Matali , though I have done what Indra commanded , I think myself an unprofitable servant , when I remember his most gracious welcome .", "Ah , no ! For the honour given me at parting went far beyond imagination . Before the gods , he seated me beside him on his throne . And then He smiled , because his son Jayanta 's heart Beat quicker , by the self-same wish oppressed , And placed about my neck the heavenly wreath Still fragrant from the sandal on his breast .", "This merely proves Indra 's majesty . Remember :", "All servants owe success in enterprise", "To honour paid before the great deed 's done ;", "Could dawn defeat the darkness otherwise", "Than resting on the chariot of the sun ?", "Matali , when I passed before , I was intent on fighting the demons , and did not observe this region . Tell me . In which path of the winds are we ? Matali . It is the windpath sanctified By holy Vishnu 's second stride ; Which , freed from dust of passion , ever Upholds the threefold heavenly river ; And , driving them with reins of light , Guides the stars in wheeling flight .", "That is why serenity pervades me , body and soul .It seems that we have descended into the region of the clouds .", "In which direction lies the hermitage of Marichi 's son ? MataliSee ! Where stands the hermit , horridly austere , Whom clinging vines are choking , tough and sore ; Half-buried in an ant-hill that has grown About him , standing post-like and alone ; Sun-staring with dim eyes that know no rest , The dead skin of a serpent on his breast : So long he stood unmoved , insensate there That birds build nests within his mat of hair . KingAll honour to one who mortifies the flesh so terribly . MataliWe have entered the hermitage of the ancient sage , whose wife Aditi tends the coral-trees . King . Here is deeper contentment than in heaven . I seem plunged in a pool of nectar . MataliDescend , O King . KingBut how will you fare ?", "I look with amazement both at their simplicity and at what they might enjoy . Their appetites are fed with air Where grows whatever is most fair ; They bathe religiously in pools Which golden lily-pollen cools ; They pray within a jewelled home , Are chaste where nymphs of heaven roam : They mortify desire and sin With things that others fast to win .", "Very well .I dare not hope for what I pray ; Why thrill — in vain ? For heavenly bliss once thrown away Turns into pain . A voice behind the scenes . Do n't ! You must n't be so foolhardy . Oh , you are always the same . KingNo naughtiness could feel at home in this spot . Who draws such a rebuke upon himself ?It is a child , but no child in strength . And two hermit-women are trying to control him . He drags a struggling lion cub , The lioness ’ milk half-sucked , half-missed , Towzles his mane , and tries to drub Him tame with small , imperious fist .", "Why should my heart go out to this boy as if he were my own son ?No doubt my childless state makes me sentimental .", "My heart goes out to this wilful child .They show their little buds of teeth In peals of causeless laughter ; They hide their trustful heads beneath Your heart . And stumbling after Come sweet , unmeaning sounds that sing To you . The father warms And loves the very dirt they bring Upon their little forms . Hermit-womanWo n't you mind me ?Which one of the hermit-boys is here ?Oh , sir , please come here and free this lion cub . The little rascal is tormenting him , and I can n't make him let go .", "Very well .O little son of a great sage ! Your conduct in this place apart , Is most unfit ; ‘ Twould grieve your father 's pious heart And trouble it . To animals he is as good As good can be ; You spoil it , like a black snake 's brood In sandal tree . Hermit-woman . But , sir , he is not the son of a hermit .", "So it would seem , both from his looks and his actions . But in this spot , I had no suspicion of anything else .It makes me thrill to touch the boy , The stranger 's son , to me unknown ; What measureless content must fill The man who calls the child his own ! Hermit-womanWonderful ! wonderful !", "Why do you say that , mother ? Hermit-woman . I am astonished to see how much the boy looks like you , sir . You are not related . Besides , he is a perverse little creature and he does not know you . Yet he takes no dislike to you . KingMother , if he is not the son of a hermit , what is his family ? Hermit-woman . The family of Puru . KingHe is of one family with me ! Then could my thought be true ?But this is the custom of Puru 's line : In glittering palaces they dwell While men , and rule the country well ; Then make the grove their home in age , And die in austere hermitage . But how could human beings , of their own mere motion , attain this spot ? Hermit-woman . You are quite right , sir . But the boy 's mother was related to a nymph , and she bore her son in the pious grove of the father of the gods . KingAh , a second ground for hope .What was the name of the good king whose wife she was ? Hermit-woman . Who would speak his name ? He rejected his true wife . KingThis story points at me . Suppose I ask the boy for his mother 's name .No , it is wrong to concern myself with one who may be another 's wife .", "Do not be anxious , mother . It fell while he was struggling with the lion cub .The two women . Oh , do n't , do n't !He has touched it !", "Why did you try to prevent me ?", "And if another touch it ?", "Did you ever see this happen to any one else ?", "My son , you shall go with me to greet your mother .", "My darling , the cruelty I showed you has turned to happiness . Will you not recognise me ? ShakuntalaOh , my heart , believe it . Fate struck hard , but its envy is gone and pity takes its place . It is my husband . King . Black madness flies ; Comes memory ; Before my eyes My love I see . Eclipse flees far ; Light follows soon ; The loving star Draws to the moon .", "Yes . And when a miracle recovered it , my memory returned .", "Then let the vine receive her flower , as earnest of her union with spring .", "My desires bear sweeter fruit because fulfilled through a friend . Matali , was not this matter known to Indra ? MataliWhat is hidden from the gods ? Come . Marichi 's holy son , Kashyapa , wishes to see you .", "My dear wife , bring our son . I could not appear without you before the holy one .", "It is the custom in times of festival . Come .KashyapaAditi , ‘ Tis King Dushyanta , he who goes before Your son in battle , and who rules the earth , Whose bow makes Indra 's weapon seem no more Than a fine plaything , lacking sterner worth .", "Holy one , your favour shown to us is without parallel . You granted the fulfilment of our wishes before you called us to your presence . For , holy one , The flower comes first , and then the fruit ; The clouds appear before the rain ; Effect comes after cause ; but you First helped , then made your favour plain .", "I am all attention .", "It is most true , holy one .", "Holy one , the hope of my race centres in him .", "I anticipate everything from him , since you have performed the rites for him .", "Yes , holy one .", "Holy one , I will do my best .", "Can there be more than this ? Yet may this prayer be fulfilled .", "May kingship benefit the land ,", "And wisdom grow in scholars ’ band ;", "May Shiva see my faith on earth", "And make me free of all rebirth ." ]

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[ "If music be the food of love , play on ;", "Give me excess of it , that , surfeiting ,", "The appetite may sicken and so die .", "That strain again ! It had a dying fall ;", "O , it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound", "That breathes upon a bank of violets ,", "Stealing and giving odour ! Enough ; no more ;", "‘ T is not so sweet now as it was before .", "O spirit of love , how quick and fresh art thou !", "That , notwithstanding thy capacity", "Receiveth as the sea , nought enters there ,", "Of what validity and pitch soe'er ,", "But falls into abatement and low price ,", "Even in a minute ! so full of shapes is fancy", "That it alone is high fantastical .", "What , Curio ?", "Why , so I do , the noblest that I have .", "O , when mine eyes did see Olivia first ,", "Methought she purg 'd the air of pestilence !", "That instant was I turn 'd into a hart ;", "And my desires , like fell and cruel hounds ,", "E'er since pursue me .", "How now ! what news from her ?", "O , she that hath a heart of that fine frame", "To pay this debt of love but to a brother ,", "How will she love when the rich golden shaft", "Hath kill 'd the flock of all affections else", "That live in her ; when liver , brain , and heart ,", "These sovereign thrones , are all supplied , and fill 'd —", "Her sweet perfections — with one self king !", "Away before me to sweet beds of flow'rs ;", "Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bow'rs .", "Who saw Cesario , ho ?", "Stand you awhile aloof . Cesario ,", "Thou know'st no less but all ; I have unclasp 'd", "To thee the book even of my secret soul .", "Therefore , good youth , address thy gait unto her ;", "Be not denied access , stand at her doors ,", "And tell them , there thy fixed foot shall grow", "Till thou have audience .", "Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds", "Rather than make unprofited return .", "O , then unfold the passion of my love ,", "Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith !", "It shall become thee well to act my woes ;", "She will attend it better in thy youth", "Than in a nuncio 's of more grave aspect .", "Dear lad , believe it ;", "For they shall yet belie thy happy years ,", "That say thou art a man : Diana 's lip", "Is not more smooth and rubious ; thy small pipe", "Is as the maiden 's organ , shrill and sound ,", "And all is semblative a woman 's part .", "I know thy constellation is right apt", "For this affair . Some four or five attend him ;", "All , if you will ; for I myself am best", "When least in company . Prosper well in this ,", "And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord ,", "To call his fortunes thine .", "Give me some music . Now , good morrow , friends .", "Now , good Cesario , but that piece of song ,", "That old and antique song we heard last night ;", "Methought it did relieve my passion much ,", "More than light airs and recollected terms", "Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times .", "Come , but one verse .", "Who was it ?", "Go seek him out , and play the tune the while .", "Come hither , boy . If ever thou shalt love ,", "In the sweet pangs of it remember me ;", "For such as I am all true lovers are ,", "Unstaid and skittish in all motions else ,", "Save in the constant image of the creature", "That is belov 'd . How dost thou like this tune ?", "Thou dost speak masterly :", "My life upon ‘ t , young though thou art , thine eye", "Hath stay 'd upon some favour that it loves ;", "Hath it not , boy ?", "What kind of woman is ‘ t ?", "She is not worth thee , then . What years , i ’ faith ?", "Too old , by heaven ! let still the woman take", "An elder than herself ; so wears she to him ,", "So sways she level in her husband 's heart :", "For , boy , however we do praise ourselves ,", "Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm ,", "More longing , wavering , sooner lost and worn ,", "Than women 's are .", "Then let thy love be younger than thyself ,", "Or thy affection cannot hold the bent ;", "For women are as roses , whose fair flower ,", "Being once display 'd , doth fall that very hour .", "O , fellow , come , the song we had last night .", "Mark it , Cesario , it is old and plain ;", "The spinsters and the knitters in the sun ,", "And the free maids that weave their thread with bones ,", "Do use to chant it : it is silly sooth ,", "And dallies with the innocence of love ,", "Like the old age .", "Ay ; prithee , sing .", "There ‘ s for thy pains .", "I ‘ ll pay thy pleasure , then .", "Give me now leave to leave thee .", "Let all the rest give place .", "Once more , Cesario ,", "Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty .", "Tell her my love , more noble than the world ,", "Prizes not quantity of dirty lands ;", "The parts that fortune hath bestow 'd upon her ,", "Tell her , I hold as giddily as fortune ;", "But ‘ t is that miracle and queen of gems", "That Nature pranks her in attracts my soul .", "I cannot be so answer 'd .", "There is no woman 's sides", "Can bide the beating of so strong a passion", "As love doth give my heart ; no woman 's heart", "So big to hold so much ; they lack retention .", "Alas , their love may be call 'd appetite —", "No motion of the liver , but the palate —", "That suffer surfeit , cloyment , and revolt ;", "But mine is all as hungry as the sea ,", "And can digest as much . Make no compare", "Between that love a woman can bear me", "And that I owe Olivia .", "What dost thou know ?", "And what 's her history ?", "But died thy sister of her love , my boy ?", "Ay , that 's the theme .", "To her in haste ; give her this jewel ; say ,", "My love can give no place , bide no denay .", "Belong you to the Lady Olivia , friends ?", "I know thee well ; how dost thou , my good fellow ?", "Just the contrary ; the better for thy friends .", "How can that be ?", "Why , this is excellent .", "Thou shalt not be the worse for me ; there 's gold .", "O , you give me ill counsel .", "Well , I will be so much a sinner to be a double-dealer ; there 's another .", "You can fool no more money out of me at this throw ; if you will let your lady know I am here to speak with her , and bring her along with you , it may awake my bounty further .", "That face of his I do remember well ;", "Yet , when I saw it last , it was besmear 'd", "As black as Vulcan in the smoke of war .", "A baubling vessel was he captain of ,", "For shallow draught and bulk unprizable ;", "With which such scathful grapple did he make", "With the most noble bottom of our fleet", "That very envy and the tongue of loss", "Cried fame and honour on him . What ‘ s the matter ?", "Notable pirate ! thou salt-water thief !", "What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies ,", "Whom thou , in terms so bloody and so dear ,", "Hast made thine enemies ?", "When came he to this town ?", "Here comes the countess ; now heaven walks on earth .", "But for thee , fellow ,— fellow , thy words are madness ;", "Three months this youth hath tended upon me ;", "But more of that anon . Take him aside .", "Gracious Olivia ,—", "Still so cruel ?", "What , to perverseness ? you uncivil lady ,", "To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars", "My soul the faithfull'st off'rings have breath 'd out", "That e'er devotion tender 'd ! What shall I do ?", "Why should I not , had I the heart to do it ,", "Like to th ’ Egyptian thief at point of death ,", "Kill what I love ?— a savage jealousy", "That sometime savours nobly . But hear me this :", "Since you to non-regardance cast my faith ,", "And that I partly know the instrument", "That screws me from my true place in your favour ,", "Live you the marble-breasted tyrant still ;", "But this your minion , whom I know you love ,", "And whom , by heaven I swear , I tender dearly ,", "Him will I tear out of that cruel eye ,", "Where he sits crowned in his master 's spite .", "Come , boy , with me ; my thoughts are ripe in mischief ;", "I ‘ ll sacrifice the lamb that I do love ,", "To spite a raven 's heart within a dove .", "Come , away !", "Husband !", "Her husband , sirrah !", "O thou dissembling cub ! what wilt thou be", "When time hath sow 'd a grizzle on thy case ?", "Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow", "That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow ?", "Farewell , and take her ; but direct thy feet", "Where thou and I henceforth may never meet .", "My gentleman Cesario ?", "How now , gentleman ! how is ‘ t with you ?", "One face , one voice , one habit , and two persons ,", "A natural perspective , that is and is not !", "Be not amaz 'd ; right noble is his blood .", "If this be so , as yet the glass seems true ,", "I shall have share in this most happy wreck .", "Boy , thou hast said to me a thousand times", "Thou never shouldst love woman like to me .", "Give me thy hand ;", "And let me see thee in thy woman 's weeds .", "This savours not much of distraction .", "Madam , I am most apt t ’ embrace your offer .", "Your master quits you ; and , for your service done him ,", "So much against the mettle of your sex ,", "So far beneath your soft and tender breeding ,", "And since you call 'd me master for so long ,", "Here is my hand ; you shall from this time be", "Your master 's mistress .", "Is this the madman ?", "Pursue him , and entreat him to a peace .", "He hath not told us of the captain yet ;", "When that is known , and golden time convents ,", "A solemn combination shall be made", "Of our dear souls . Meantime , sweet sister ,", "We will not part from hence . Cesario , come ;", "For so you shall be , while you are a man ;", "But , when in other habits you are seen ,", "Orsino 's mistress and his fancy 's queen ." ]

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[ "If music be the food of love , play on ,", "Give me excess of it , that , surfeiting ,", "The appetite may sicken and so die .", "That strain again ! It had a dying fall ;", "O , it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound", "That breathes upon a bank of violets ,", "Stealing and giving odour ! Enough , no more ;", "‘ Tis not so sweet now as it was before .", "O spirit of love , how quick and fresh art thou !", "That , notwithstanding thy capacity", "Receiveth as the sea , nought enters there ,", "Of what validity and pitch soe'er ,", "But falls into abatement and low price", "Even in a minute . So full of shapes is fancy ,", "That it alone is high fantastical .", "What , Curio ?", "Why , so I do , the noblest that I have .", "O , when mine eyes did see Olivia first ,", "Methought she purg 'd the air of pestilence !", "That instant was I turn 'd into a hart ,", "And my desires , like fell and cruel hounds ,", "E'er since pursue me .", "Enter VALENTINE", "How now ! what news from her ?", "O , she that hath a heart of that fine frame", "To pay this debt of love but to a brother ,", "How will she love when the rich golden shaft", "Hath kill 'd the flock of all affections else", "That live in her ; when liver , brain , and heart ,", "These sovereign thrones , are all supplied and fill 'd ,", "Her sweet perfections , with one self king !", "Away before me to sweet beds of flow'rs :", "Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bow'rs .", "Who saw Cesario , ho ?", "Stand you awhile aloof . Cesario ,", "Thou know'st no less but all ; I have unclasp 'd", "To thee the book even of my secret soul .", "Therefore , good youth , address thy gait unto her ;", "Be not denied access , stand at her doors ,", "And tell them there thy fixed foot shall grow", "Till thou have audience .", "Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds ,", "Rather than make unprofited return .", "O , then unfold the passion of my love ,", "Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith !", "It shall become thee well to act my woes :", "She will attend it better in thy youth", "Than in a nuncio 's of more grave aspect .", "Dear lad , believe it ,", "For they shall yet belie thy happy years", "That say thou art a man : Diana 's lip", "Is not more smooth and rubious ; thy small pipe", "Is as the maiden 's organ , shrill and sound ,", "And all is semblative a woman 's part .", "I know thy constellation is right apt", "For this affair . Some four or five attend him-", "All , if you will , for I myself am best", "When least in company . Prosper well in this ,", "And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord", "To call his fortunes thine .", "Give me some music . Now , good morrow , friends .", "Now , good Cesario , but that piece of song ,", "That old and antique song we heard last night ;", "Methought it did relieve my passion much ,", "More than light airs and recollected terms", "Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times .", "Come , but one verse .", "Who was it ?", "Seek him out , and play the tune the while .", "Thou dost speak masterly .", "My life upo n't , young though thou art , thine eye", "Hath stay 'd upon some favour that it loves ;", "Hath it not , boy ?", "What kind of woman is't ?", "She is not worth thee , then . What years , i ’ faith ?", "Too old , by heaven ! Let still the woman take", "An elder than herself ; so wears she to him ,", "So sways she level in her husband 's heart .", "For , boy , however we do praise ourselves ,", "Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm ,", "More longing , wavering , sooner lost and won ,", "Than women 's are .", "Then let thy love be younger than thyself ,", "Or thy affection cannot hold the bent ;", "For women are as roses , whose fair flow'r", "Being once display 'd doth fall that very hour .", "O , fellow , come , the song we had last night .", "Mark it , Cesario ; it is old and plain ;", "The spinsters and the knitters in the sun ,", "And the free maids that weave their thread with bones ,", "Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth ,", "And dallies with the innocence of love ,", "Like the old age .", "Ay ; prithee , sing .", "FESTE 'S SONG", "Come away , come away , death ;", "And in sad cypress let me be laid ;", "Fly away , fly away , breath ,", "I am slain by a fair cruel maid .", "My shroud of white , stuck all with yew ,", "O , prepare it !", "My part of death no one so true", "Did share it .", "Not a flower , not a flower sweet ,", "On my black coffin let there be strown ;", "Not a friend , not a friend greet", "My poor corpse where my bones shall be thrown ;", "A thousand thousand sighs to save ,", "Lay me , O , where", "Sad true lover never find my grave ,", "To weep there !", "There 's for thy pains .", "I 'll pay thy pleasure , then .", "Give me now leave to leave thee .", "Let all the rest give place .", "I cannot be so answer 'd .", "There is no woman 's sides", "Can bide the beating of so strong a passion", "As love doth give my heart ; no woman 's heart", "So big to hold so much ; they lack retention .", "Alas , their love may be call 'd appetite-", "No motion of the liver , but the palate-", "That suffer surfeit , cloyment , and revolt ;", "But mine is all as hungry as the sea ,", "And can digest as much . Make no compare", "Between that love a woman can bear me", "And that I owe Olivia .", "What dost thou know ?", "And what 's her history ?", "But died thy sister of her love , my boy ?", "Ay , that 's the theme .", "To her in haste . Give her this jewel ; say", "My love can give no place , bide no denay . Exeunt", "Belong you to the Lady Olivia , friends ?", "I know thee well . How dost thou , my good fellow ?", "Just the contrary : the better for thy friends .", "How can that be ?", "Why , this is excellent .", "Thou shalt not be the worse for me . There 's gold .", "O , you give me ill counsel .", "Well , I will be so much a sinner to be a double-dealer . There 's another .", "You can fool no more money out of me at this throw ; if you will let your lady know I am here to speak with her , and bring her along with you , it may awake my bounty further .", "That face of his I do remember well ;", "Yet when I saw it last it was besmear 'd", "As black as Vulcan in the smoke of war .", "A baubling vessel was he captain of ,", "For shallow draught and bulk unprizable ,", "With which such scathful grapple did he make", "With the most noble bottom of our fleet", "That very envy and the tongue of los", "Cried fame and honour on him . What 's the matter ?", "Notable pirate , thou salt-water thief !", "What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies", "Whom thou , in terms so bloody and so dear ,", "Hast made thine enemies ?", "When came he to this town ?", "Here comes the Countess ; now heaven walks on earth .", "But for thee , fellow - fellow , thy words are madness .", "Three months this youth hath tended upon me-", "But more of that anon . Take him aside .", "Gracious Olivia-", "Still so cruel ?", "What , to perverseness ? You uncivil lady ,", "To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars", "My soul the faithfull'st off'rings hath breath 'd out", "That e'er devotion tender 'd ! What shall I do ?", "Why should I not , had I the heart to do it ,", "Like to the Egyptian thief at point of death ,", "Kill what I love ? - a savage jealousy", "That sometime savours nobly . But hear me this :", "Since you to non-regardance cast my faith ,", "And that I partly know the instrument", "That screws me from my true place in your favour ,", "Live you the marble-breasted tyrant still ;", "But this your minion , whom I know you love ,", "And whom , by heaven I swear , I tender dearly ,", "Him will I tear out of that cruel eye", "Where he sits crowned in his master 's spite .", "Come , boy , with me ; my thoughts are ripe in mischief :", "I 'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love", "To spite a raven 's heart within a dove .", "Come , away !", "Husband ?", "Her husband , sirrah ?", "O thou dissembling cub ! What wilt thou be ,", "When time hath sow 'd a grizzle on thy case ?", "Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow", "That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow ?", "Farewell , and take her ; but direct thy feet", "Where thou and I henceforth may never meet .", "My gentleman , Cesario ?", "How now , gentleman ? How is't with you ?", "One face , one voice , one habit , and two persons ! A natural perspective , that is and is not .", "Be not amaz 'd ; right noble is his blood .", "If this be so , as yet the glass seems true ,", "I shall have share in this most happy wreck .", "Boy , thou hast said to me a thousand times", "Thou never shouldst love woman like to me .", "Give me thy hand ;", "And let me see thee in thy woman 's weeds .", "This savours not much of distraction .", "Madam , I am most apt t ’ embrace your offer .Your master quits you ; and , for your service done him , So much against the mettle of your sex , So far beneath your soft and tender breeding , And since you call 'd me master for so long , Here is my hand ; you shall from this time be You master 's mistress .", "Is this the madman ?", "Pursue him , and entreat him to a peace ;", "He hath not told us of the captain yet .", "When that is known , and golden time convents ,", "A solemn combination shall be made", "Of our dear souls . Meantime , sweet sister ,", "We will not part from hence . Cesario , come ;", "For so you shall be while you are a man ;", "But when in other habits you are seen ,", "Orsino 's mistress , and his fancy 's queen .", "Exeunt all but the CLOWN", "CLOWN sings", "When that I was and a little tiny boy ,", "With hey , ho , the wind and the rain ,", "A foolish thing was but a toy ,", "For the rain it raineth every day .", "But when I came to man 's estate ,", "With hey , ho , the wind and the rain ,", "‘ Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate ,", "For the rain it raineth every day .", "But when I came , alas ! to wive ,", "With hey , ho , the wind and the rain ,", "By swaggering could I never thrive ,", "For the rain it raineth every day .", "But when I came unto my beds ,", "With hey , ho , the wind and the rain ,", "With toss-pots still had drunken heads ,", "For the rain it raineth every day .", "A great while ago the world begun ,", "With hey , ho , the wind and the rain ,", "But that 's all one , our play is done ,", "And we 'll strive to please you every day ." ]

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[ "Cease to persuade , my loving Proteus :", "Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits .", "Were't not affection chains thy tender days", "To the sweet glances of thy honour 'd love ,", "I rather would entreat thy company 5", "To see the wonders of the world abroad ,", "Than , living dully sluggardized at home ,", "Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness .", "But since thou lovest , love still , and thrive therein ,", "Even as I would , when I to love begin . 10", "And on a love-book pray for my success ?", "That 's on some shallow story of deep love :", "How young Leander cross 'd the Hellespont .", "‘ Tis true ; for you are over boots in love , 25", "And yet you never swum the Hellespont .", "No , I will not , for it boots thee not .", "To be in love , where scorn is bought with groans ;", "Coy looks with heart-sore sighs ; one fading moment 's mirth 30", "With twenty watchful , weary , tedious nights :", "If haply won , perhaps a hapless gain ;", "If lost , why then a grievous labour won ;", "However , but a folly bought with wit ,", "Or else a wit by folly vanquished . 35", "So , by your circumstance , I fear you 'll prove .", "Love is your master , for he masters you :", "And he that is so yoked by a fool , 40", "Methinks , should not be chronicled for wise .", "And writers say , as the most forward bud 45", "Is eaten by the canker ere it blow ,", "Even so by love the young and tender wit", "Is turn 'd to folly ; blasting in the bud ,", "Losing his verdure even in the prime ,", "And all the fair effects of future hopes . 50", "But wherefore waste I time to counsel thee ,", "That art a votary to fond desire ?", "Once more adieu ! my father at the road", "Expects my coming , there to see me shipp 'd .", "Sweet Proteus , no ; now let us take our leave .", "To Milan let me hear from thee by letters", "Of thy success in love , and what news else", "Betideth here in absence of thy friend ;", "And I likewise will visit thee with mine . 60", "As much to you at home ! and so , farewell .", "Not mine ; my gloves are on .", "Ha ! let me see : ay , give it me , it 's mine :", "Sweet ornament that decks a thing divine !", "Ah , Silvia , Silvia ! 5", "How now , sirrah ?", "Why , sir , who bade you call her ?", "Well , you 'll still be too forward .", "Go to , sir : tell me , do you know Madam Silvia ?", "Why , how know you that I am in love ? 15", "Are all these things perceived in me ?", "Without me ? they cannot .", "But tell me , dost thou know my lady Silvia ?", "Hast thou observed that ? even she , I mean .", "Dost thou know her by my gazing on her , and yet knowest her not ?", "Not so fair , boy , as well-favoured .", "What dost thou know ?", "I mean that her beauty is exquisite , but her favour infinite .", "How painted ? and how out of count ?", "How esteemest thou me ? I account of her beauty . 55", "How long hath she been deformed ?", "I have loved her ever since I saw her ; and still I see her beautiful . 60", "Why ?", "What should I see then ?", "Belike , boy , then , you are in love ; for last morning 70 you could not see to wipe my shoes .", "In conclusion , I stand affected to her . 75", "Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to one she loves .", "I have .", "No , boy , but as well as I can do them . Peace ! here she comes .", "Madam and mistress , a thousand good-morrows .", "As you enjoin 'd me , I have writ your letter", "Unto the secret nameless friend of yours ;", "Which I was much unwilling to proceed in , 95", "But for my duty to your ladyship .", "Now trust me , madam , it came hardly off ;", "For , being ignorant to whom it goes ,", "I writ at random , very doubtfully . 100", "No , madam ; so it stead you , I will write ,", "Please you command , a thousand times as much ;", "And yet —", "What means your ladyship ? do you not like it ? 110", "Madam , they are for you .", "Please you , I 'll write your ladyship another .", "If it please me , madam , what then ?", "How now , sir ? what are you reasoning with 130 yourself ?", "To do what ?", "To whom ?", "What figure ?", "Why , she hath not writ to me ? 140", "No , believe me .", "She gave me none , except an angry word .", "That 's the letter I writ to her friend .", "I would it were no worse .", "I have dined .", "Mistress ?", "Ay , boy , it 's for love .", "Of my mistress , then .", "Indeed , madam , I seem so .", "Haply I do .", "So do you .", "Wise . 15", "Your folly .", "I quote it in your jerkin .", "Well , then , I 'll double your folly .", "Give him leave , madam ; he is a kind of chameleon .", "You have said , sir .", "I know it well , sir ; you always end ere you begin .", "‘ Tis indeed , madam ; we thank the giver .", "Yourself , sweet lady ; for you gave the fire . Sir Thurio borrows his wit from your ladyship 's looks , and 35 spends what he borrows kindly in your company .", "I know it well , sir ; you have an exchequer of words , and , I think , no other treasure to give your followers , 40 for it appears , by their bare liveries , that they live by your bare words .", "My lord , I will be thankful", "To any happy messenger from thence .", "Ay , my good lord , I know the gentleman", "To be of worth , and worthy estimation ,", "And not without desert so well reputed .", "Ay , my good lord ; a son that well deserves 55", "The honour and regard of such a father .", "I know him as myself ; for from our infancy", "We have conversed and spent our hours together :", "And though myself have been an idle truant , 60", "Omitting the sweet benefit of time", "To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection ,", "Yet hath Sir Proteus , for that 's his name ,", "Made use and fair advantage of his days ;", "His years but young , but his experience old ; 65", "His head unmellow 'd , but his judgment ripe ;", "And , in a word , for far behind his worth", "Comes all the praises that I now bestow ,", "He is complete in feature and in mind", "With all good grace to grace a gentleman . 70", "Should I have wish 'd a thing , it had been he .", "This is the gentleman I told your ladyship", "Had come along with me , but that his mistress", "Did hold his eyes lock 'd in her crystal looks . 85", "Nay , sure , I think she holds them prisoners still .", "Why , lady , Love hath twenty pair of eyes .", "To see such lovers , Thurio , as yourself :", "Upon a homely object Love can wink .", "Welcome , dear Proteus ! Mistress , I beseech you ,", "Confirm his welcome with some special favour .", "Mistress , it is : sweet lady , entertain him 100", "To be my fellow-servant to your ladyship .", "Leave off discourse of disability : 105", "Sweet lady , entertain him for your servant .", "Now , tell me , how do all from whence you came ?", "And how do yours ?", "How does your lady ? and how thrives your love ?", "Ay , Proteus , but that life is alter 'd now :", "I have done penance for contemning Love , 125", "Whose high imperious thoughts have punish 'd me", "With bitter fasts , with penitential groans ,", "With nightly tears , and daily heart-sore sighs ;", "For , in revenge of my contempt of love ,", "Love hath chased sleep from my enthralled eyes , 130", "And made them watchers of mine own heart 's sorrow .", "O gentle Proteus , Love 's a mighty lord ,", "And hath so humbled me ; as I confess", "There is no woe to his correction ,", "Nor to his service no such joy on earth . 135", "Now no discourse , except it be of love ;", "Now can I break my fast , dine , sup and sleep ,", "Upon the very naked name of love .", "Even she ; and is she not a heavenly saint ?", "Call her divine .", "O , flatter me ; for love delights in praises .", "Then speak the truth by her ; if not divine ,", "Yet let her be a principality ,", "Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth .", "Sweet , except not any ; 150", "Except thou wilt except against my love .", "And I will help thee to prefer her too :", "She shall be dignified with this high honour ,—", "To bear my lady 's train , lest the base earth 155", "Should from her vesture chance to steal a kiss ,", "And , of so great a favour growing proud ,", "Disdain to root the summer-swelling flower ,", "And make rough winter everlastingly .", "Pardon me , Proteus : all I can is nothing", "To her , whose worth makes other worthies nothing ;", "She is alone .", "Not for the world : why , man , she is mine own ;", "And I as rich in having such a jewel 165", "As twenty seas , if all their sand were pearl ,", "The water nectar , and the rocks pure gold .", "Forgive me , that I do not dream on thee ,", "Because thou see'st me dote upon my love .", "My foolish rival , that her father likes 170", "Only for his possessions are so huge ,", "Is gone with her along ; and I must after ,", "For love , thou know'st , is full of jealousy .", "Ay , and we are betroth 'd : nay , more , our marriage-hour , 175", "With all the cunning manner of our flight ,", "Determined of ; how I must climb her window ;", "The ladder made of cords ; and all the means", "Plotted and ‘ greed on for my happiness .", "Good Proteus , go with me to my chamber , 180", "In these affairs to aid me with thy counsel .", "Will you make haste ?", "Please it your grace , there is a messenger", "That stays to bear my letters to my friends ,", "And I am going to deliver them .", "The tenour of them doth but signify", "My health and happy being at your court .", "I know it well , my Lord ; and , sure , the match", "Were rich and honourable ; besides , the gentleman", "Is full of virtue , bounty , worth and qualities 65", "Beseeming such a wife as your fair daughter :", "Cannot your Grace win her to fancy him ?", "What would your Grace have me to do in this ? 80", "Win her with gifts , if she respect not words :", "Dumb jewels often in their silent kind 90", "More than quick words do move a woman 's mind .", "A woman sometimes scorns what best contents her .", "Send her another ; never give her o'er ;", "For scorn at first makes afterlove the more . 95", "If she do frown , ‘ tis not in hate of you ,", "But rather to beget more love in you :", "If she do chide , ‘ tis not to have you gone ;", "For why , the fools are mad , if left alone .", "Take no repulse , whatever she doth say ; 100", "For ‘ get you gone , ’ she doth not mean ‘ away ! ’", "Flatter and praise , commend , extol their graces ;", "Though ne'er so black , say they have angels ’ faces .", "That man that hath a tongue , I say , is no man ,", "If with his tongue he cannot win a woman . 105", "Why , then , I would resort to her by night . 110", "What lets but one may enter at her window ?", "Why , then , a ladder , quaintly made of cords ,", "To cast up , with a pair of anchoring hooks ,", "Would serve to scale another Hero 's tower ,", "So bold Leander would adventure it . 120", "When would you use it ? pray , sir , tell me that .", "By seven o'clock I 'll get you such a ladder .", "It will be light , my lord , that you may bear it", "Under a cloak that is of any length . 130", "Ay , my good lord .", "Why , any cloak will serve the turn , my lord .", "And why not death rather than living torment ? 170", "To die is to be banish 'd from myself ;", "And Silvia is myself : banish 'd from her ,", "Is self from self : a deadly banishment !", "What light is light , if Silvia be not seen ?", "What joy is joy , if Silvia be not by ? 175", "Unless it be to think that she is by ,", "And feed upon the shadow of perfection .", "Except I be by Silvia in the night ,", "There is no music in the nightingale ;", "Unless I look on Silvia in the day , 180", "There is no day for me to look upon :", "She is my essence ; and I leave to be ,", "If I be not by her fair influence", "Foster 'd , illumined , cherish 'd , kept alive .", "I fly not death , to fly his deadly doom : 185", "Tarry I here , I but attend on death :", "But , fly I hence , I fly away from life .", "No .", "Neither .", "Nothing .", "My ears are stopt , and cannot hear good news , 205", "So much of bad already hath possess 'd them .", "Is Silvia dead ?", "No Valentine , indeed , for sacred Silvia . Hath she forsworn me ?", "No Valentine , if Silvia have forsworn me . What is your news ? 215", "O , I have fed upon this woe already ,", "And now excess of it will make me surfeit . 220", "Doth Silvia know that I am banished ?", "No more ; unless the next word that thou speak'st", "Have some malignant power upon my life :", "If so , I pray thee , breathe it in mine ear ,", "As ending anthem of my endless dolour . 240", "I pray thee , Launce , an if thou seest my boy ,", "Bid him make haste , and meet me at the North-gate .", "O my dear Silvia ! Hapless Valentine ! 260", "My friends ,—", "Then know that I have little wealth to lose :", "A man I am cross 'd with adversity ;", "My riches are these poor habiliments ,", "Of which if you should here disfurnish me ,", "You take the sum and substance that I have . 15", "To Verona .", "From Milan .", "Some sixteen months , and longer might have stay 'd ,", "If crooked fortune had not thwarted me .", "I was .", "For that which now torments me to rehearse :", "I kill 'd a man , whose death I much repent ;", "But yet I slew him manfully in fight ,", "Without false vantage or base treachery .", "I was , and held me glad of such a doom .", "My youthful travel therein made me happy ,", "Or else I often had been miserable . 35", "Peace , villain !", "Nothing but my fortune .", "I take your offer , and will live with you , 70", "Provided that you do no outrages", "On silly women or poor passengers .", "How use doth breed a habit in a man !", "This shadowy desert , unfrequented woods ,", "I better brook than flourishing peopled towns :", "Here can I sit alone , unseen of any ,", "And to the nightingale 's complaining notes 5", "Tune my distresses and record my woes .", "O thou that dost inhabit in my breast ,", "Leave not the mansion so long tenantless ,", "Lest , growing ruinous , the building fall ,", "And leave no memory of what it was ! 10", "Repair me with thy presence , Silvia ;", "Thou gentle nymph , cherish thy forlorn swain !", "What halloing and what stir is this to-day ?", "These are my mates , that make their wills their law ,", "Have some unhappy passenger in chase . 15", "They love me well ; yet I have much to do", "To keep them from uncivil outrages .", "Withdraw thee , Valentine : who 's this comes here ?", "How like a dream is this I see and hear ! Love , lend me patience to forbear awhile .", "Ruffian , let go that rude uncivil touch , 60", "Thou friend of an ill fashion !", "Thou common friend , that 's without faith or love ,", "For such is a friend now ; treacherous man !", "Thou hast beguiled my hopes ; nought but mine eye", "Could have persuaded me : now I dare not say 65", "I have one friend alive ; thou wouldst disprove me .", "Who should be trusted now , when one 's right hand", "Is perjured to the bosom ? Proteus ,", "I am sorry I must never trust thee more ,", "But count the world a stranger for thy sake . 70", "The private wound is deepest : O time most accurst ,", "‘ Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst !", "Then I am paid ;", "And once again I do receive thee honest .", "Who by repentance is not satisfied", "Is nor of heaven nor earth , for these are pleased . 80", "By penitence the Eternal 's wrath 's appeased :", "And , that my love may appear plain and free ,", "All that was mine in Silvia I give thee .", "Why , boy ! why , wag ! how now ! what 's the matter ? Look up ; speak .", "Come , come , a hand from either :", "Let me be blest to make this happy close ;", "‘ Twere pity two such friends should be long foes .", "Forbear , forbear , I say ! it is my lord the duke .", "Your Grace is welcome to a man disgraced ,", "Banished Valentine .", "Thurio , give back , or else embrace thy death ;", "Come not within the measure of my wrath ;", "Do not name Silvia thine ; if once again ,", "Verona shall not hold thee . Here she stands :", "Take but possession of her with a touch : 130", "I dare thee but to breathe upon my love .", "I thank your grace ; the gift hath made me happy .", "I now beseech you , for your daughter 's sake ,", "To grant one boon that I shall ask of you . 150", "These banish 'd men that I have kept withal", "Are men endued with worthy qualities :", "Forgive them what they have committed here ,", "And let them be recall 'd from their exile : 155", "They are reformed , civil , full of good ,", "And fit for great employment , worthy lord .", "And , as we walk along , I dare be bold", "With our discourse to make your Grace to smile .", "What think you of this page , my lord ?", "I warrant you , my lord , more grace than boy .", "Please you , I 'll tell you as we pass along ,", "That you will wonder what hath fortuned .", "Come , Proteus ; ‘ tis your penance but to hear 170", "The story of your loves discovered :", "That done , our day of marriage shall be yours ;", "One feast , one house , one mutual happiness .", "Notes : V , 4 ." ]

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[ "Cease to persuade , my loving Proteus :", "Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits .", "Were't not affection chains thy tender days", "To the sweet glances of thy honour 'd love ,", "I rather would entreat thy company", "To see the wonders of the world abroad ,", "Than , living dully sluggardiz 'd at home ,", "Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness .", "But since thou lov'st , love still , and thrive therein ,", "Even as I would , when I to love begin .", "And on a love-book pray for my success ?", "That 's on some shallow story of deep love :", "How young Leander cross 'd the Hellespont .", "‘ Tis true ; for you are over boots in love ,", "And yet you never swum the Hellespont .", "No , I will not , for it boots thee not .", "To be in love - where scorn is bought with groans ,", "Coy looks with heart-sore sighs , one fading moment 's mirth", "With twenty watchful , weary , tedious nights ;", "If haply won , perhaps a hapless gain ;", "If lost , why then a grievous labour won ;", "However , but a folly bought with wit ,", "Or else a wit by folly vanquished .", "So , by your circumstance , I fear you 'll prove .", "Love is your master , for he masters you ;", "And he that is so yoked by a fool ,", "Methinks , should not be chronicled for wise .", "And writers say , as the most forward bud", "Is eaten by the canker ere it blow ,", "Even so by love the young and tender wit", "Is turn 'd to folly , blasting in the bud ,", "Losing his verdure even in the prime ,", "And all the fair effects of future hopes .", "But wherefore waste I time to counsel the", "That art a votary to fond desire ?", "Once more adieu . My father at the road", "Expects my coming , there to see me shipp 'd .", "Sweet Proteus , no ; now let us take our leave .", "To Milan let me hear from thee by letters", "Of thy success in love , and what news else", "Betideth here in absence of thy friend ;", "And I likewise will visit thee with mine .", "As much to you at home ; and so farewell !", "Not mine : my gloves are on .", "Ha ! let me see ; ay , give it me , it 's mine ;", "Sweet ornament that decks a thing divine !", "Ah , Silvia ! Silvia !", "How now , sirrah ?", "Why , sir , who bade you call her ?", "Well , you 'll still be too forward .", "Go to , sir ; tell me , do you know Madam Silvia ?", "Why , how know you that I am in love ?", "Are all these things perceiv 'd in me ?", "Without me ? They cannot .", "But tell me , dost thou know my lady Silvia ?", "Hast thou observ 'd that ? Even she , I mean .", "Dost thou know her by my gazing on her , and yet know'st her not ?", "Not so fair , boy , as well-favour 'd .", "What dost thou know ?", "I mean that her beauty is exquisite , but her favour infinite .", "How painted ? and how out of count ?", "How esteem'st thou me ? I account of her beauty .", "How long hath she been deform 'd ?", "I have lov 'd her ever since I saw her , and still", "I see her beautiful .", "Why ?", "What should I see then ?", "Belike , boy , then you are in love ; for last morning you could not see to wipe my shoes .", "In conclusion , I stand affected to her .", "Last night she enjoin 'd me to write some lines to one she loves .", "I have .", "No , boy , but as well as I can do them .", "Enter SILVIA", "Peace ! here she comes .", "Madam and mistress , a thousand good morrows .", "As you enjoin 'd me , I have writ your letter", "Unto the secret nameless friend of yours ;", "Which I was much unwilling to proceed in ,", "But for my duty to your ladyship .", "Now trust me , madam , it came hardly off ;", "For , being ignorant to whom it goes ,", "I writ at random , very doubtfully .", "No , madam ; so it stead you , I will write ,", "Please you command , a thousand times as much ;", "And yet-", "What means your ladyship ? Do you not like it ?", "Madam , they are for you .", "Please you , I 'll write your ladyship another .", "If it please me , madam , what then ?", "How now , sir ! What are you reasoning with yourself ?", "To do what ?", "To whom ?", "What figure ?", "Why , she hath not writ to me .", "No , believe me .", "She gave me none except an angry word .", "That 's the letter I writ to her friend .", "I would it were no worse .", "I have din 'd .", "Mistress ?", "Ay , boy , it 's for love .", "Of my mistress , then .", "Indeed , madam , I seem so .", "Haply I do .", "So do you .", "Wise .", "Your folly .", "I quote it in your jerkin .", "Well , then , I 'll double your folly .", "Give him leave , madam ; he is a kind of chameleon .", "You have said , sir .", "I know it well , sir ; you always end ere you begin .", "‘ Tis indeed , madam ; we thank the giver .", "Yourself , sweet lady ; for you gave the fire . Sir Thurio borrows his wit from your ladyship 's looks , and spends what he borrows kindly in your company .", "I know it well , sir ; you have an exchequer of words , and , I think , no other treasure to give your followers ; for it appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words .", "My lord , I will be thankful", "To any happy messenger from thence .", "Ay , my good lord , I know the gentleman", "To be of worth and worthy estimation ,", "And not without desert so well reputed .", "Ay , my good lord ; a son that well deserves", "The honour and regard of such a father .", "I knew him as myself ; for from our infancy", "We have convers 'd and spent our hours together ;", "And though myself have been an idle truant ,", "Omitting the sweet benefit of time", "To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection ,", "Yet hath Sir Proteus , for that 's his name ,", "Made use and fair advantage of his days :", "His years but young , but his experience old ;", "His head unmellowed , but his judgment ripe ;", "And , in a word , for far behind his worth", "Comes all the praises that I now bestow ,", "He is complete in feature and in mind ,", "With all good grace to grace a gentleman .", "Should I have wish 'd a thing , it had been he .", "This is the gentleman I told your ladyship", "Had come along with me but that his mistresss", "Did hold his eyes lock 'd in her crystal looks .", "Nay , sure , I think she holds them prisoners still .", "Why , lady , Love hath twenty pair of eyes .", "To see such lovers , Thurio , as yourself ;", "Upon a homely object Love can wink . Exit THURIO", "Welcome , dear Proteus ! Mistress , I beseech you", "Confirm his welcome with some special favour .", "Mistress , it is ; sweet lady , entertain him", "To be my fellow-servant to your ladyship .", "Leave off discourse of disability ;", "Sweet lady , entertain him for your servant .", "Now , tell me , how do all from whence you came ?", "And how do yours ?", "How does your lady , and how thrives your love ?", "Ay , Proteus , but that life is alter 'd now ;", "I have done penance for contemning Love ,", "Whose high imperious thoughts have punish 'd me", "With bitter fasts , with penitential groans ,", "With nightly tears , and daily heart-sore sighs ;", "For , in revenge of my contempt of love ,", "Love hath chas 'd sleep from my enthralled eyes", "And made them watchers of mine own heart 's sorrow .", "O gentle Proteus , Love 's a mighty lord ,", "And hath so humbled me as I confess", "There is no woe to his correction ,", "Nor to his service no such joy on earth .", "Now no discourse , except it be of love ;", "Now can I break my fast , dine , sup , and sleep ,", "Upon the very naked name of love .", "Even she ; and is she not a heavenly saint ?", "Call her divine .", "O , flatter me ; for love delights in praises !", "Then speak the truth by her ; if not divine ,", "Yet let her be a principality ,", "Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth .", "Sweet , except not any ;", "Except thou wilt except against my love .", "And I will help thee to prefer her too :", "She shall be dignified with this high honour-", "To bear my lady 's train , lest the base earth", "Should from her vesture chance to steal a kiss", "And , of so great a favour growing proud ,", "Disdain to root the summer-swelling flow'r", "And make rough winter everlastingly .", "Pardon me , Proteus ; all I can is nothing", "To her , whose worth makes other worthies nothing ;", "She is alone .", "Not for the world ! Why , man , she is mine own ;", "And I as rich in having such a jewel", "As twenty seas , if all their sand were pearl ,", "The water nectar , and the rocks pure gold .", "Forgive me that I do not dream on thee ,", "Because thou seest me dote upon my love .", "My foolish rival , that her father likes", "Only for his possessions are so huge ,", "Is gone with her along ; and I must after ,", "For love , thou know'st , is full of jealousy .", "Ay , and we are betroth 'd ; nay more , our marriage-hour , With all the cunning manner of our flight , Determin 'd of - how I must climb her window , The ladder made of cords , and all the means Plotted and ‘ greed on for my happiness . Good Proteus , go with me to my chamber , In these affairs to aid me with thy counsel .", "Will you make haste ?", "Please it your Grace , there is a messenger", "That stays to bear my letters to my friends ,", "And I am going to deliver them .", "The tenour of them doth but signify", "My health and happy being at your court .", "I know it well , my lord ; and , sure , the match", "Were rich and honourable ; besides , the gentleman", "Is full of virtue , bounty , worth , and qualities", "Beseeming such a wife as your fair daughter .", "Cannot your grace win her to fancy him ?", "What would your Grace have me to do in this ?", "Win her with gifts , if she respect not words :", "Dumb jewels often in their silent kind", "More than quick words do move a woman 's mind .", "A woman sometime scorns what best contents her .", "Send her another ; never give her o'er ,", "For scorn at first makes after-love the more .", "If she do frown , ‘ tis not in hate of you ,", "But rather to beget more love in you ;", "If she do chide , ‘ tis not to have you gone ,", "For why , the fools are mad if left alone .", "Take no repulse , whatever she doth say ;", "For ‘ Get you gone ’ she doth not mean ‘ Away ! ’", "Flatter and praise , commend , extol their graces ;", "Though ne'er so black , say they have angels ’ faces .", "That man that hath a tongue , I say , is no man ,", "If with his tongue he cannot win a woman .", "Why then I would resort to her by night .", "What lets but one may enter at her window ?", "Why then a ladder , quaintly made of cords ,", "To cast up with a pair of anchoring hooks ,", "Would serve to scale another Hero 's tow'r ,", "So bold Leander would adventure it .", "When would you use it ? Pray , sir , tell me that .", "By seven o'clock I 'll get you such a ladder .", "It will be light , my lord , that you may bear it", "Under a cloak that is of any length .", "Ay , my good lord .", "Why , any cloak will serve the turn , my lord .", "And why not death rather than living torment ?", "To die is to be banish 'd from myself ,", "And Silvia is myself ; banish 'd from her", "Is self from self , a deadly banishment .", "What light is light , if Silvia be not seen ?", "What joy is joy , if Silvia be not by ?", "Unless it be to think that she is by ,", "And feed upon the shadow of perfection .", "Except I be by Silvia in the night ,", "There is no music in the nightingale ;", "Unless I look on Silvia in the day ,", "There is no day for me to look upon .", "She is my essence , and I leave to be", "If I be not by her fair influence", "Foster 'd , illumin 'd , cherish 'd , kept alive .", "I fly not death , to fly his deadly doom :", "Tarry I here , I but attend on death ;", "But fly I hence , I fly away from life .", "No .", "Neither .", "Nothing .", "My ears are stopp 'd and cannot hear good news ,", "So much of bad already hath possess 'd them .", "Is Silvia dead ?", "No Valentine , indeed , for sacred Silvia . Hath she forsworn me ?", "No Valentine , if Silvia have forsworn me . What is your news ?", "O , I have fed upon this woe already ,", "And now excess of it will make me surfeit .", "Doth Silvia know that I am banished ?", "No more ; unless the next word that thou speak'st", "Have some malignant power upon my life :", "If so , I pray thee breathe it in mine ear ,", "As ending anthem of my endless dolour .", "I pray thee , Launce , an if thou seest my boy ,", "Bid him make haste and meet me at the Northgate .", "O my dear Silvia ! Hapless Valentine !", "My friends-", "Then know that I have little wealth to lose ;", "A man I am cross 'd with adversity ;", "My riches are these poor habiliments ,", "Of which if you should here disfurnish me ,", "You take the sum and substance that I have .", "To Verona .", "From Milan .", "Some sixteen months , and longer might have stay 'd ,", "If crooked fortune had not thwarted me .", "I was .", "For that which now torments me to rehearse :", "I kill 'd a man , whose death I much repent ;", "But yet I slew him manfully in fight ,", "Without false vantage or base treachery .", "I was , and held me glad of such a doom .", "My youthful travel therein made me happy ,", "Or else I often had been miserable .", "Peace , villain !", "Nothing but my fortune .", "I take your offer , and will live with you ,", "Provided that you do no outrages", "On silly women or poor passengers .", "How use doth breed a habit in a man !", "This shadowy desert , unfrequented woods ,", "I better brook than flourishing peopled towns .", "Here can I sit alone , unseen of any ,", "And to the nightingale 's complaining notes", "Tune my distresses and record my woes .", "O thou that dost inhabit in my breast ,", "Leave not the mansion so long tenantless ,", "Lest , growing ruinous , the building fall", "And leave no memory of what it was !", "Repair me with thy presence , Silvia :", "Thou gentle nymph , cherish thy forlorn swain .", "What halloing and what stir is this to-day ?", "These are my mates , that make their wills their law ,", "Have some unhappy passenger in chase .", "They love me well ; yet I have much to do", "To keep them from uncivil outrages .", "Withdraw thee , Valentine . Who 's this comes here ?", "How like a dream is this I see and hear ! Love , lend me patience to forbear awhile .", "Ruffian ! let go that rude uncivil touch ;", "Thou friend of an ill fashion !", "Thou common friend , that 's without faith or love-", "For such is a friend now ; treacherous man ,", "Thou hast beguil 'd my hopes ; nought but mine eye", "Could have persuaded me . Now I dare not say", "I have one friend alive : thou wouldst disprove me .", "Who should be trusted , when one 's own right hand", "Is perjured to the bosom ? Proteus ,", "I am sorry I must never trust thee more ,", "But count the world a stranger for thy sake .", "The private wound is deepest . O time most accurst !", "‘ Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst !", "Then I am paid ;", "And once again I do receive thee honest .", "Who by repentance is not satisfied", "Is nor of heaven nor earth , for these are pleas 'd ;", "By penitence th ’ Eternal 's wrath 's appeas 'd .", "And , that my love may appear plain and free ,", "All that was mine in Silvia I give thee .", "Why , boy ! why , wag ! how now ! What 's the matter ? Look up ; speak .", "Come , come , a hand from either .", "Let me be blest to make this happy close ;", "‘ Twere pity two such friends should be long foes .", "Forbear , forbear , I say ; it is my lord the Duke .", "Your Grace is welcome to a man disgrac 'd ,", "Banished Valentine .", "Thurio , give back , or else embrace thy death ;", "Come not within the measure of my wrath ;", "Do not name Silvia thine ; if once again ,", "Verona shall not hold thee . Here she stands", "Take but possession of her with a touch-", "I dare thee but to breathe upon my love .", "I thank your Grace ; the gift hath made me happy .", "I now beseech you , for your daughter 's sake ,", "To grant one boon that I shall ask of you .", "These banish 'd men , that I have kept withal ,", "Are men endu 'd with worthy qualities ;", "Forgive them what they have committed here ,", "And let them be recall 'd from their exile :", "They are reformed , civil , full of good ,", "And fit for great employment , worthy lord .", "And , as we walk along , I dare be bold", "With our discourse to make your Grace to smile .", "What think you of this page , my lord ?", "I warrant you , my lord - more grace than boy .", "Please you , I 'll tell you as we pass along ,", "That you will wonder what hath fortuned .", "Come , Proteus , ‘ tis your penance but to hear", "The story of your loves discovered .", "That done , our day of marriage shall be yours ;", "One feast , one house , one mutual happiness ! 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[ "Why does my heart beat so ? Did not a shadow pass ? It passed but a moment ago . Who can have trod in the grass ? What rogue is night-wandering ? Have not old writers said That dizzy dreams can spring From the dry bones of the dead ? And many a night it seems That all the valley fills With those fantastic dreams . They overflow the hills , So passionate is a shade , Like wine that fills to the top A grey-green cup of jade , Or maybe an agate cup .The hour before dawn and the moon covered up . The little village of Abbey is covered up ; The little narrow trodden way that runs From the white road to the Abbey of Corcomroe Is covered up ; and all about the hills Are like a circle of Agate or of Jade . Somewhere among great rocks on the scarce grass Birds cry , they cry their loneliness . Even the sunlight can be lonely here , Even hot noon is lonely . I hear a footfall — A young man with a lantern comes this way . He seems an Aran fisher , for he wears The flannel bawneen and the cow-hide shoe . He stumbles wearily , and stumbling prays .Once more the birds cry in their loneliness , But now they wheel about our heads ; and now They have dropped on the grey stone to the north-east .", "They 've passed the shallow well and the flat stone Fouled by the drinking cattle , the narrow lane Where mourners for five centuries have carried Noble or peasant to his burial . An owl is crying out above their heads .Why should the heart take fright What sets it beating so ? The bitter sweetness of the night Has made it but a lonely thing . Red bird of March , begin to crow , Up with the neck and clap the wing , Red cock , and crow .And now they have climbed through the long grassy field And passed the ragged thorn trees and the gap In the ancient hedge ; and the tomb-nested owl At the foot 's level beats with a vague wing .My head is in a cloud ; I 'd let the whole world go . My rascal heart is proud Remembering and remembering . Red bird of March , begin to crow , Up with the neck and clap the wing Red cock and crow .They are among the stones above the ash Above the briar and thorn and the scarce grass ; Hidden amid the shadow far below them The cat-headed bird is crying out .The dreaming bones cry out Because the night winds blow And heaven 's a cloudy blot ; Calamity can have its fling . Red bird of March begin to crow , Up with the neck and clap the wing Red cock and crow .", "A woman 's beauty is like a white", "Frail bird , like a white sea-bird alone", "At daybreak after stormy night", "Between two furrows upon the ploughed land :", "A sudden storm and it was thrown", "Between dark furrows upon the ploughed land .", "How many centuries spent", "The sedentary soul", "In toils of measurement", "Beyond eagle or mole ,", "Beyond hearing or seeing ,", "Or Archimedes guess ,", "To raise into being", "That loveliness ?", "A strange unserviceable thing ,", "A fragile , exquisite , pale shell ,", "That the vast troubled waters bring", "To the loud sands before day has broken .", "The storm arose and suddenly fell", "Amid the dark before day had broken .", "What death ? what discipline ?", "What bonds no man could unbind", "Being imagined within", "The labyrinth of the mind ?", "What pursuing or fleeing ?", "What wounds , what bloody press ?", "Dragged into being", "This loveliness ." ]

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[ "Ah , there you are ! I 'm very glad to meet you . Let 's take the opportunity to have a little serious conversation , Miss Lucy .", "You know perfectly well that I am displeased with the behavior of my niece .", "My age ! You 're a model of moderation !", "My disordered imagination ! What impudence .It 's the disorder of your actions which make me speak out — and there is nothing worse than the life you are living .", "What ? Is there anything more scandalous than the expenditures Belinda is constantly making — a girl without a penny in income .", "Just what she needs to maintain a large house and extravagant tastes .", "And how is she to make her fortune ?", "And meanwhile her reputation evaporates . She 'll learn . She wo n't have a penny of mine . My brother , who wanted her to be a nun will disinherit her . Patience , patience , she wo n't always be young .", "Oh , very well — and all the profit you will get from that will be to die in a charity ward : both dishonored .", "A successful marriage . She 's going to get married ?", "Just in time ! But I wo n't be a party to it . I wo n't help her make anyone think she 's either respectable or rich . I renounce her as my niece , and I will not aid her to deceive anyone ; goodbye .", "I believe this will be some grand alliance !", "What a shame — the poor man !", "There 's something strange and distracted about his manner .", "Well — it 's Mr. Richly . You 've come back to England , eh ?", "I 'm very distressed about the misfortune you 've suffered .", "I do n't think anybody , Mr. Richly , has ever seen me otherwise .", "Locked up — me — have me locked up ?", "But if you are not ordinarily more crazy than at present , I think it 's very wrong you should be put away .", "They sold my house ?", "My poor Mr. Richly . My house has n't been sold , and it 's not for sale .", "What do you mean as if I was still in good mental health ! Go away , you 're an old madman , an old madman who should n't be allowed out of Bedlam — of Bedlam , my friend .", "Just try . I 'll be waiting for you . Back to your padded cell you lunatic ! Hurry and lock him up , he 's becoming dangerous , I 'm warning you .", "Ah , truly , I have just been warned of some nice business , Mr. Richly . They say your son is marrying my niece .", "It 's that bitch of a Lucy and my niece .", "Belinda is my niece — and if your son has married her , I 'll give her a dowry which will satisfy you ." ]

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[ "No more ! I 'll hear no more ! Begone and leave me !", "Have you not wronged me ?", "Yes , wronged me ! In the nicest point ,", "The honour of my house , you 've done me wrong .", "You may remember", "when you first came borne", "From travel , with such hopes as made you looked on", "By all men 's eyes , a youth of expectation ;", "Pleased with your growing virtue , I received you ;", "Courted , and sought to raise you to your merits ;", "My house , my table , nay , my fortune too ,", "My very self was yours ; you might have used me", "To your best service ; like an open friend ,", "I treated , trusted you , and thought you mine :", "When , in requital of my best endeavours ,", "You treacherously practised to undo me ;", "Seduced the weakness of my age 's darling ,", "My only child , and stole her from my bosom .", "Oh ! Belvidera !", "You stole her from me ; like a thief you stole her ,", "At dead of night ; that cursed hour you chose", "To rifle me of all my heart held dear .", "May all your joys in her prove false , like mine !", "A sterile fortune , and a barren bed ,", "Attend you both : continual discord make", "Your days and nights bitter and grievous still :", "May the hard hand of a vexatious need", "Oppress and grind you ; till at last you find", "The curse of disobedience all your portion .", "Rather live", "To bait thee for his bread , and din your ears", "With hungry cries ; whilst his unhappy mother", "Sits down and weeps in bitterness of want .", "‘ T would , by heaven !", "And she , too , with thee :", "For , living here , you 're but my cursed remembrances ,", "I once was happy !", "You dare not do't .", "No more .", "Home , and be humble ; study to retrench ;", "Discharge the lazy vermin of thy hall ,", "Those pageants of thy folly :", "Reduce the glitt'ring trappings of thy wife", "To humble weeds , fit for thy little state :", "Could words express the story I 've to tell you ,", "Fathers , these tears were useless , these sad tears", "That fall from my old eyes ; but there is cause", "We all should weep , tear off these purple robes ,", "And wrap ourselves , in sackcloth , sitting down", "On the sad earth , and cry aloud to heaven :", "Heav'n knows , if yet there be an hour to come ,", "Ere Venice be no more .", "Nay , we stand", "Upon the very brink of gaping ruin .", "Within this city 's formed a dark conspiracy", "To massacre us all , our wives and children ,", "Kindred and friends ; our palaces and temples", "To lay in ashes : nay , the hour , too , fixed ;", "The swords , for aught I know , drawn ev'n this moment ,", "And the wild waste begun . From unknown hands", "I had this warning : but , if we are men ,", "Let 's not be tamely butchered , but do something", "That may inform the world in after ages ,", "Our virtue was not ruined , though we were .", "Why , cruel Heav'n , have my unhappy days", "Been lengthened to this sad one ? Oh ! dishonour ,", "And deathless infamy have fall'n upon me .", "Was it my fault ? Am I a traitor ? No .", "But then , my only child , my daughter wedded ;", "There my best blood runs foul , and a disease", "Incurable has seized upon my memory .", "What child of sorrow", "Art thou , that com'st , wrapt up in weeds of sadness ,", "And mov'st as if thy steps were towards a grave ?", "What wouldst thou beg for ?", "My daughter !", "Do n't talk thus .", "Damn him !", "Ah ! what means my child ?", "Kill thee !", "Heavens !", "Oh , my heart 's comfort !", "By Heav'n , I will !", "Not one of them but what shall be immortal !", "Canst thou forgive me all my follies past ?", "I 'll henceforth be indeed a father ! never ,", "Never more , thus expose , but cherish thee ,", "Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life :", "Dear as these eyes , that weep in fondness o'er thee :", "Peace to thy heart . Farewell !", "Strengthen her heart with patience , pitying Heav'n !", "News ! what news ?", "Oh ! lead me to some place “ that 's fit for mourning ; “ Where the free air , light , and the cheerful sun , “ May never enter ; hang it round with black , “ Set up one taper that may last a day , “ As long as I 've to live ; and there all leave me : “ Sparing no tears when you this tale relate , “ But bid all cruel fathers dread my fate . ”" ]

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[ "The answer ?", "What hour is it ?", "What day ?", "What year ?", "How many are we in number ?", "The Galilæan had less to conquer the world ; but what is our mission ?", "Our creed ?", "Our duty ?", "Brothers , the questions have been answered well . There are none but Nihilists present . Let us see each other 's faces .Michael , recite the oath .", "Are we all agreed ?", "‘ Tis after the hour , Michael , and she is not yet here .", "If those dogs have caught her ,the red flag of the people will float on a barricade inevery street till we find her ! It was foolish of her to go to the Grand Duke 's ball . I told her so , but she said she wanted to see the Czar and all his cursed brood face to face once .", "Since he came back from abroad a year ago his father has kept him in close prison in his palace .", "A council is to be held to-morrow , at four o'clock , on some secret business the spies cannot find out .", "In the yellow tapestry room called after the Empress Catherine .", "I cannot tell , Michael . I know more about the insides of prisons than of palaces .", "Professor , we have read the proofs of your last article ; it is very good indeed .", "Peace , Michael , peace ! He is the bravest heart among us .", "Welcome , Vera , welcome !We have been sick at heart till we saw you ; but now methinks the star of freedom has come to wake us from the night .", "We can suffer at least .", "Up to this the people have borne everything .", "It is the death warrant of liberty in Russia .", "It must be about this that the council meet to-morrow . It has not yet been signed .", "Ay ! or lose one 's own head .", "But you will be seized , Michael .", "Shall I tell the brethren ?", "Is this true , Michael ?", "Let the doors be locked , then .Alexis Ivanacievitch entered on our roll of the brothers as a Student of the School of Medicine at Moscow . Why did you not tell us of this bloody schemeof martial law ?", "Vera , did you not hear what Michael said of him ? He stayed all night in the Czar 's palace . He has a password and a private key . What else should he be but a spy ?", "Why are you here , traitor ?", "Michael , we dare not lose Vera . It is her whim to let this boy live . We can keep him here to-night . Up to this he has not betrayed us .", "Come , Michael , come . We have no time to cut one another 's throats while we have our own heads to save .", "Brothers , be masked all of you .Michael , open the door . It is our only chance .", "O God ! if he sees it is Vera , we are all lost !", "What day ?", "In what month ?", "What is our duty ?", "Our creed ?", "Let the doors be shut . There are others but Nihilists present .", "What have you to gain , then , by a revolution ?", "Then you have a right to be one of us .We also meet daily for revenge .", "Ay , if he had wanted to spy on us , Vera , he would n't have come himself . PRINCE PAULNo ; I should have sent my best friend .", "Besides , Vera , he is just the man to give us the information we want about some business we have in hand to-night .", "Brothers , is it your will that Prince Paul Maraloffski be admitted , and take the oath of the Nihilist ?", "Prince Paul , the dagger or the oath ? PRINCE PAULI would sooner annihilate than be annihilated .", "Remember :Betray us , and as long as the earth holds poison or steel , as long as men can strike or woman betray , you shall not escape vengeance .The Nihilists never forget their friends , or forgive their enemies .", "Sign .You said you thought we had no creed . You were wrong . Read it !", "We can use him .", "Strangle him . PRINCE PAUL“ The rights of humanity ! ” In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived , but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself .“ Nature is not a temple , but a workshop : we demand the right to labour . ” Ah , I shall surrender my own rights in that respect . VERAOh , will he never come ? will he never come ?", "Michael , the regicide ! Brothers , let us do honour to a man who has killed a king .", "Michael , you have saved Russia .", "The dread night of tyranny is not yet past for Russia .", "But how did you escape , Michael ? They said you had been seized .", "What a chance his coming out on the balcony was !", "And where have you been these three days ?", "Nicholas is an honest man .", "Prince Paul has just taken the oath .", "This must be a new atmosphere for you , Prince Paul . We speak the truth to one another here .", "You recognise a good many friends , I dare say ?", "But you are here yourself ?", "Prince , this is most valuable information . Michael , you were right . If it is not to-night it will be too late . Read that .", "Prince , we are in your debt . PRINCE PAULThe normal condition of the Nihilists .", "Brothers , it is full time . Which of us is absent ?", "Michael , read Rule 7 .", "Is there anything against our brother Alexis ?", "Michael , read Article 7 of the Code of Revolution .", "Brothers , what say you ? Is Alexis , the Czar , guilty or not ?", "What shall the penalty be ?", "Let the lots be prepared ; it shall be to-night .", "Brothers , are you ready ? VERANot yet ! Not yet ! I have a word to say .", "Ay ! under a false name .He lied to us at the beginning . He lies to us now at the end .", "We know him too ; he is a traitor .", "Every nation is fit for a Republic .", "Vera pleading for a king ! VERAI plead not for a king , but for a brother .", "You bade us try you once ; we have tried you , and you are found wanting .", "So he would play the citizen-king , would he , while we starve ?Would flatter us with sweet speeches , would cheat us with promises like his father , would lie to us as his whole race have lied .", "We will have none of you ! Begone from us to this boy you love .", "Are you ready . Michael , you have the right to draw first ; you are a Regicide .", "Open your lots . VERAThe lot is mine ! see the bloody sign upon it ! Dmitri , my brother , you shall have your revenge now .", "Vera Sabouroff , you are chosen to be a regicide . God has been good to you . The dagger or the poison ?", "Ay , Prince Paul , that is the best way . Vera , the Czarsleeps to-night in his own room in the north wing of the palace . Here is the key of the private door in the street . The passwords of the guards will be given to you . His own servants will be drugged . You will find him alone .", "We will wait outside in the Place St. Isaac , under the window . As the clock strikes twelve from the tower of St. Nicholas you will give us the sign that the dog is dead .", "You are to throw us out the bloody dagger .", "Else we shall know that you have been seized , and we will burst our way in , drag you from his guards .", "Michael , you will head us ?", "At twelve o'clock , the bloody dagger ." ]

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[ "No — ought I to have ? I never even heard of it !", "Oh , I shall insist on having it . And he wrote it ? Really , Phil , now I come to look at him , there 's something rather striking about his face . Did you say Sabrina 's Niece 's Other Aunt — or what ?", "Oh , but I always attach the greatest importance to names , myself . And do you know him ?", "I do n't mind that when a man is clever — do you think you could bring him up and introduce him ?", "I have never been disappointed in any genius yet — perhaps , because I do n't expect too much — so go , dear boy ; he may be surrounded unless you get hold of him soon . PHILWell , Tablett , old fellow , how are things going with you ? Sabrina flourishing ?", "I 'm so delighted to make your acquaintance . When my brother-in-law told me who you were , I positively very nearly shrieked . I am such an admirer of your —— your delightful Sabrina !", "Such a hopeful sign — when one was beginning quite to despair of the public taste !", "Ah , but you can feel independent of criticism now , can n't you ?", "Ah , you mean certain critics are so thin-skinned — they are : indeed !", "How gratifying that must be . But that is the magic of all truly great work , it is such an anodyne — it takes people so completely out of themselves — does n't it ?", "Oh , but I like to hear you . I 'm so tired of hearing people pretending to disparage what they have done , it 's such a pose , and I hate posing . Real genius is never modest .I wish you would come and see me on one of my Tuesdays , MR. TABLETT , I should feel so honoured , and I think you would meet some congenial spirits — do look in some evening — I will send you a card if I may — let me see — could you come and lunch next Sunday ? I 've got a little man coming who was very nearly eaten up by cannibals . I think he would interest you .", "How witty you are ! That 's quite worthy of — er — Sabrina , really ! Then you will come ? So glad . And now I must n't keep you from your other admirers any longer . LATER .", "How could you say that dear Mr. Tablett was dull , Phil ? I found him perfectly charming — so original and unconventional ! He 's promised to come to me . By the way , what did you say the name of his book was ?", "Phil — you did !— Sabrina 's Other — Something . Why , I 've been praising it to him , entirely on your recommendation .", "How abominable of you ! But surely he 's famous for something ? He talks like it .", "But he has n't even done that yet ! PHIL , I 'll never forgive you for letting me make such an idiot of myself . What am I to do now ? I can n't have him coming to me — he 's really too impossible !" ]

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[ "A girl", "GEORGE COXEY . A conductor", "MR. BRAITHEWAITE . A financier", "JARVIS . A butler", "Why , my dear man , sit down .", "Oh ! Excuse me . I forgot . You 're a car conductor . Naturally you 're polite .", "An apt pupil , too . Let me teach you then that the ruder you are to a woman , the more she 'll hate you — or love you .Sit down .", "But you must grow tired of standing .", "You have already . Sit down .", "You 're splendid . Now !", "Is n't that better than ringing up fares ?", "No ! You must n't do that . That 's vulgar .", "Sit down . You must n't jump up when I do .Well , there !You punned ! You must n't . We all like puns , but it 's good form to call them bad taste .", "Yes . Please tell my father that I 'd like to see him at once .", "Do you know the reason that you are here ?", "No ——", "I suppose not . But I mean , do you know why I brought you here ?", "I wonder if you 'll like it .", "No . Dad 's a dear . That is , he is when he sees you mean business .", "Oh , Daddy ! I 'm so glad you were in .Keep your seat . Draw up a chair , Dad — I 've done it .", "Do sit down , Dad . He 's so delicious . He wo n't sit down till we do — and you know how much they have to stand .", "Selected a husband .", "Him !Do sit down . We 're all sitting now , you see .", "Now do n't say a word until you hear the whole story . You read that article by Shaw in the Metropolitan , did n't you ? I did . You remember what he wrote ? “ The best eugenic guide is the sex attraction — the Voice of Nature . ” He thinks the trouble is at present that we dare not marry out of our own sphere . But I 'll show you exactly what he says .I always carry the article with me . It 's so stimulating .", "It 's a Shaw article , not a Shaw preface . However , I 'll only read the passage I 've marked . Listen .“ I do not believe you will ever have any improvement in the human race until you greatly widen the area of possible sexual selection ; until you make it as wide as the numbers of the community make it . Just consider what occurs at the present time . I walk down Oxford Street , let me say , as a young man . ” He might just as well have said , “ young woman , ” you know .", ", “ I see a woman who takes my fancy . ” With me it would be a man , of course .", "“ I fall in love with her . It would seem very sensible in an intelligent community that I should take off my hat and say to this lady : ‘ Will you excuse me ; but you attract me strongly , and if you are not already engaged , would you mind taking my name and address and considering whether you would care to marry me ? ’Now I have no such chance at present . ”", "Yes , but why should n't I have the chance ? That set me thinking . I decided he was right . I am intelligent , am I not ?", "Well , I decided I 'd make the chance . You see , I — I 've been led to think recently that I ought to be getting married .", "Yes , dear , but I 'd rather not answer .", "And when I looked about me for the possibilities in my own set ,", "I —", "— well , I was n't attracted .", "Exactly . And I knew you wanted to be a proud grandfather .", "Well , I have ...given the subject a good deal of thought . I 've spent days buying second-hand clothing to give away at the missions and lodging houses in order to have a look .", "Yes . You see I did n't want charity to have to begin at my home . Self-preservation is the first law of Nature .", "Well — the missions were no good . They were all so starved and pinched-looking there I could n't tell what they 'd be like if they got proper nourishment . And I did n't want to take a chance . So I went to some coal yards .", "Blacker ! I could n't see what they looked like . Of course if I could have asked them to wash their faces .", "I did ask one , but he made some vulgar remark about black dirt and red paint . So I left him .", "I spent all to-day riding up and down town in street cars . It 's very fascinating , Dad . All you can see for a nickel ! I never realized what a public benefactor you were .", "Dad 's the president of your traction company , you know .Oh , that 's all right . I 've lost you your job , but I 'll get you a better one as I promised . Do n't be afraid of Dad — in the parlor . Sit down .", "Yes . “ Joy-riding , ” you know . Then I saw him — and decided . I knew he would n't dare to propose to me — under existing conditions .", "Certainly not . I 've too much consideration for you , dear .", "I decided to bring him home to get your consent first .I knew you 'd approve when you saw him . But I wanted to be sure I had n't overlooked anything . And if I had , I did n't want to have raised his hopes for nothing .Would you mind standing a moment , now , until Dad looks you over ?", "“ Gentleman ! ” Oh , yes , I forgot . I need n't have been so clumsy .I apologize .", "So do I. I 've never even introduced you . Father , this is — this is ——By the way — I forgot to ask — what is your name ?", "Coxey . What 's the first name ? I can n't call my husband “ Coxey , ” you know .", "George ! There 's a fine virile name for you . George Coxey ! How strong that sounds ! One of those names that would go equally well in the blue book or the police blotter .", "Do n't disclaim . I know you 've never been arrested . One can see your goodness in your face .", "I know . But he 's not rich and thank heaven he 's not a fanatic . Is n't he good-looking ? And I 'm sure he 's strong . See those hands of his — a little rough , of course , but I like that , and so firm and , for his job , wonderfully clean . Do n't hide them , George . They attracted me from the start .", "I got off with him at the car barn when he finished his run and asked him .", "A beseeching look . Just one . I did n't use more than was necessary .You see , George , I have learnt economy from father . He hates me to be extravagant .", "Please do n't call it an “ episode , ” father .", "In England , lords always marry chorus girls .", "As hard working as chorus girls — only . Do n't be snobbish , George . Of course a conductor is more unusual , I admit . I can n't help that though ——You should n't have called me “ Una , ” if you did n't want me to be unique .", "Oh ! Was that why ——? Well , no matter . I 've always thought it meant individuality and I 've done my best to live up to it .That statue ought to be on the other side of the room .", "I 'd like to see the effect now .", "Oh ! If you would !", "I 'll take that .", "Look at him . He 's as fine as the statue , is n't he ? And you know what you think of that . See the strength he has ?", "Thank you so much . You may put it back again . That was all I wanted .I hope I did n't overtax you .", "You see !", "Many of the best people use “ ai n't ” now , dear .", "What was yours like when you were a railroad signalman ?", "George has our children 's future before him . All the others I know have only their parents ’ past behind . You could give him a job suitable for my husband . I 'll make my husband suitable for the job .", "I do n't know myself for that matter . If I do n't like him , it 's easy enough to go to Reno .", "I 'm tremendously eager . It 's so unusual .", "Do n't be silly . Sue an Englishman with German sympathies ! Where 's your neutrality ?", "Then it 's settled , dear . We 're going to marry .", "“ Are n't , ” dear — I mean , we are .", "Why not ?", "How annoying !", "Oh , please !", "Sh ! Be quiet , father . Do n't lose your head .", "I have it . Of course . How stupid of me not to think . George .", "George , you must divorce your wife .", "That 's unfortunate .Then I 'll have to run away with you and let her get the divorce .", "What , Dad ? Have you something better to suggest ?", "Father , dear , why will you sometimes talk to me as though I were the Public Service Commission ? There 's going to be no scandal . You can keep it out of the newspapers .", "You do n't ? Why ?", "And you 're the unusual man I 'm to marry .", "How can you love your wife ? Some simple , economizing , prosaic , hausfrau who ——", "What ?", "She ——?", "Your wife ——?", "Then she — Naomi — has done everything unusual that I wanted to do , before I did ?", "How is it I never heard this story , if her father 's so well known ?", "Oh ! And I wanted to be unique .", "Oh !", "And I thought I could be unusual .", "That 's it . I 'll write it . I 'll write a play showing it 's useless trying to escape the usual .That will be unusual , wo n't it , Dad ?", "Here it is .", "I suppose I was too daring ." ]

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[ "Oh , let the solid ground Not fail beneath my feet , Before my life has found What some have found so sweet .ALICKWhat 's that you 're saying , David ? DAVIDThe thing I 'm speaking about is Love . JAMESDo you stand there and say you 're in love , David Wylie ?", "Me ; what would I do with the thing ? JAMESI see no necessity for calling it a thing .DAVIDOho , has she got you , James ? JAMESNobody has got me .", "They 'll catch you yet , lad .", "That 's so . JAMESAnd fear of that wink is what has kept the two of us single men . And yet what 's the glory of being single ?", "There 's no particular glory in it , but it 's safe . JAMESYes , it 's lonely , but it 's safe . But who did you mean the poetry for , then ?", "For Maggie , of course .", "Love . There 's no doubt as that 's what Maggie has set her heart on . And not merely love , but one of those grand noble loves ; for though Maggie is undersized she has a passion for romance . JAMESIt 's terrible not to be able to give Maggie what her heart is set on .ALICKThose idiots of men .", "Father , did you tell her who had got the minister of Galashiels ? ALICKI had to tell her . And then I — I — bought her a sealskin muff , and I just slipped it into her hands and came away . JAMESOf course , to be fair to the man , he never pretended he wanted her .", "None of them wants her ; that 's what depresses her . I was thinking , father , I would buy her that gold watch and chain in Snibby 's window . She hankers after it . JAMESYou 're too late , David ; I 've got them for her .", "It 's ill done of the minister . Many a pound of steak has that man had in this house .", "It would be very like you . And there 's that other matter : say not a syllable about our having a reason for sitting up late to - night . When she says it 's bed-time , just all pretend we 're not sleepy .", "Fairish .That young John Shand WOULD make a speech .", "The same . It 's true he 's a student at Glasgow University in the winter months , but in summer he 's just the railway porter here ; and I think it 's very presumptuous of a young lad like that to make a speech when he has n't a penny to bless himself with .", "He mimicked me , and said , ‘ Will our worthy chairman come for to go for to answer my questions ? ’ and so on ; and they roared . JAMESThe sacket .", "I did feel bitterly , father , the want of education .MAGGIEDavid .", "Havering idiot .", "Maggie , would you like a silk ?", "You stupid whelp .", "We had n't meant for to tell you till we nabbed them ; but they 've been in this room twice of late . We sat up last night waiting for them , and we 're to sit up again to-night .", "It 's all safe as yet . That makes us think that they were either frightened away these other times , or that they are coming back for to make a clean sweep .", "It was on Tuesday that the polissman called at the quarry with a very queer story . He had seen a man climbing out at this window at ten past two .", "It was so dark he lost sight of him at once .", "We 've found out that the catch of the window has been pushed back by slipping the blade of a knife between the woodwork .", "No , no . We were thinking that very likely he has bunches of keys in the bag .", "As for that , we have some pretty stout weapons ourselves in the umbrella stand . So , if you 'll go to your bed , Maggie —", "And they say she has no charm !", "That 's him .", "We have him . Out with the light .", "You can n't think of anything clever for to go for to say now ,", "John .", "Explain away , my billie .", "It 's siller , then ? JOHNMy first year at college I lived on a barrel of potatoes , and we had just a sofa-bed between two of us ; when the one lay down the other had to get up . Do you think it was hardship ? It was sublime . But this year I can n't afford it . I 'll have to stay on here , collecting the tickets of the illiterate , such as you , when I might be with Romulus and Remus among the stars . JAMESHavers . DAVIDWhist , James . I must say , young lad , I like your spirit . Now tell me , what 's your professors ’ opinion of your future .", "You have a name here for high moral character .", "Are you serious-minded ?", "Who do you sit under in Glasgow ?", "Are you a Sabbath-school teacher ?", "One more question . Are you promised ?", "Yes .", "So .JAMESDo you want me too ?", "So are we . How do you take it ? Is there any hot water , Maggie ?", "You 'll take it hot , James ?", "JAMES", "No , I —", "DAVID", "I think you 'll take it hot , James .", "JAMES", "I 'll take it hot .", "The kettle , Maggie .", "Mr. Shand , we have an offer to make you . JOHNNo patronage .", "Leave it to me , father . It 's this —Maggie , do n't you see that you 're not wanted ? MAGGIEI do , David .", "I have a proposition to put before Mr. Shand , and women are out of place in business transactions .ALICKWe 'll have to let her bide , David . DAVIDWoman .Very well then , sit there , but do n't interfere , mind . Mr. Shand , we 're willing , the three of us , to lay out L300 on your education if —", "That 's no reason why we should n't have his friendly opinion . Your objections , Mr. Shand ?", "The position is that without the three hundred you can n't soar .", "It 's a good arrangement for you , Mr. Shand . The chances are you 'll never have to go on with it , for in all probability she 'll marry soon .", "You have to risk that .", "You can take it or leave it .", "That 's how I like to hear you speak . A young Scotsman of your ability let loose upon the world with L300 , what could he not do ? It 's almost appalling to think of ; especially if he went among the English .", "She 's twenty-five .", "Well , Mr. Shand ? JOHNI 'm willing if she 's willing .", "Maggie ?", "Come , come , Mr. Shand , it 's just a form . JOHNMiss Maggie , will you ? MAGGIEIs it an offer ? JOHNYes . MAGGIEBefore I answer I want first to give you a chance of drawing back .", "Maggie . MAGGIEWhen they said that I have been run after they were misleading you . I 'm without charm ; nobody has ever been after me .", "Should we do that , or should we just trust to one another 's honour ? ALICKLet Maggie decide .", "We 'll have it drawn up to-morrow . I was thinking the best way would be for to pay the money in five yearly instalments .", "Well , good-night to you , Mr. Shand .", "I 'll have the document ready for you .I think , Maggie , you might see Mr. Shand to the door .", "He 's a fine frank fellow ; and you saw how cleverly he got the better of me about banking the money .I tell you , father , he has a grand business head .", "Ten forty-two .", "Havers .", "Not at all . You 'll be the making of him .Are you taking the books to your bed , Maggie ?", "Hold her down .JAMESJohn Shand 's the man for you . John Shand 's the man for you . John Shand 's the man for you . DAVIDHave you heard anything ?", "MaggieIt was mad of him to dare .", "Maggie , Maggie , my lamb , best be prepared for the worst . MAGGIEI am prepared .", "They 're terrible still ; what can make them so still ?", "I think he 's coming .", "Fling yourself at the door , father , and bar them out . Maggie , what keeps you so quiet now ? MAGGIEYou 're sure you 're in , John ?", "Certainly , Mr. Shand .", "Him that was speaking for you ?", "Not for to say a relation . She 's my sister . Our name is Wylie .", "No , just friends . COMTESSEAha ! I know you . Next , please ! Sybil , do you weigh yourself , or are you asleep ?", "The pin ?", "It was n't a pin he picked up , my lady ; it was L300 . ALICKAnd his rise was n't so rapid , just at first , David !", "He had his fight . His original intention was to become a minister ; he 's university-educated , you know ; he 's not a working-man member . ALICKHe 's an M. A . But while he was a student he got a place in an iron-cementer 's business . COMTESSEIron-cementer ?", "They scrape boilers .", "No , a gift — of a sort — from some well-wishers . But they would n't hear of his paying it off , father !", "But his ambition was n't satisfied . Soon he had public life in his eye . As a heckler he was something fearsome ; they had to seat him on the platform for to keep him quiet . Next they had to let him into the Chair . After that he did all the speaking ; he cleared all roads before him like a fire-engine ; and when this vacancy occurred , you could hardly say it did occur , so quickly did he step into it . My lady , there are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make .", "James , father , have you grip of her ?", "Then hoist her up .", "Very fine imitation . It 's a capital house , Maggie .", "James !You will be yet , my lady .", "Fine would we like to see all the house as well as the sleeping accommodation . But first —", "The second anniversary of your marriage . We came purposely for the day . JAMESIt 's a lace shawl , Maggie , from the three of us , a pure Tobermory ; you would never dare wear it if you knew the cost .", "Havers .", "Well said , Mr. Shand . MAGGIEAnd now , if you 'll come with me , I think John has something he wants to talk over with Lady Sybil .Or would you prefer , John , to say it before us all ? SYBILNo ! JOHNYes , I prefer to say it before you all . MAGGIEThen sit down again .", "She 'll leave it for us to do .", "No , by God !Have you nothing to say to her , man ?", "There 's a devil in you , John Shand . JOHNI dare say there is . But do you think he had a walk over , Mr. David ?", "It 's him that 's deserting you .", "I suppose you understand that you 'll have to resign your seat . JOHNThere are hundreds of seats , but there 's only one John Shand . MAGGIEThat 's how I like to hear him speak . DAVIDThink , man , I 'm old by you , and for long I 've had a pride in you . It will be beginning the world again with more against you than there was eight years ago .", "I dare say it is , but it 's something big .", "HER charm ! JAMESYes , HER charm .", "Put on your things , Maggie , and we 'll leave his house . MAGGIENot me , David .", "You have n't given in !", "Does he deserve to be saved after the way he has treated you ?" ]

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[ "Paul , are you coming in to lunch ?", "You might as well come in . You have been clipping at that old hedge long enough .", "What is that creature you are clipping at now ? I can n't make it out .", "I do n't see any likeness to anyone .", "Yes , I 'm coming ; but Paul wo n't come .", "He seems to have no friend he cares for but that", "Father Jerome .", "I wish he would join something . Joyce wants him to join the Masonic Lodge . It is not a right life for him to keep hanging about the place and doing nothing .", "Well , the donkey belongs to him , and for the matter of that so does the house and the place . It would be rather hard on him not to be able to use things as he likes .", "For goodness ’ sake , Paul , do n't make such a fool of yourself .", "Where are you going to ? I wish you would tell me what you are at .", "I can n't make head or tail of what you are at .", "Here are the children ,", "Georgina . Do n't say anything before the nurse .", "Wo n't you come home , Paul ? The children have been asking for you , and we do n't know what to say .", "Oh , Paul , why have you upset the place like this ?", "Oh , Paul , do n't make such a fool of yourself .", "You have nothing against me , have you , Paul ?", "What is it ?" ]

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[ "What it is to have an inky present ! Suffer with me , Mary !", "Coming with me to the British Museum ? I want to have a look at the Assyrian reliefs .", "I have .", "I 've always found your mother extremely good at seeming not to notice things , Mary .", "The glad eye , Mary . I got it that first morning .", "No , no ! Johnny got it , and I got him getting it .", "What does one do with a glad eye that belongs to some one else ?", "Mr Bly 's eyes are not glad .", "The girl 's past makes it impossible to say anything to her .", "Come ! Get your hat on , Mary , or we sha n't make the Tube before the next shower .", "As you say , something — Ah ! Mr Bly ! MR BLY , in precisely the same case as a fortnight ago , with his pail and cloths , is coming in .", "Not at all . MR BLY crosses to the windows .", "Ah !", "Er — in her work , I believe , coming on well . But the question is , Mr Bly , do — er — any of us ever really give satisfaction except to ourselves ?", "By George ! Just hits the mark .", "Perhaps in giving rein he did n't strike you .", "And the moral of that is —?", "We were talking of your daughter — I — I —", "But , apropos of your daughter , Mr Bly . I suppose none of us ever change our natures .", "But that 's what they 're paid for , Mr Bly .", "“ The man that hath not speculation in his soul . ”", "A deuced good one . Shake — He checks himself , but MR BLY has wiped his hand and extended it . While the shake is in progress MARY returns , and , having seen it to a safe conclusion , speaks .", "Excuse me , Mr Bly , I must away . He goes towards the door , and BLY dips his sponge .", "Mr Bly is like all the greater men I know — he can n't listen .", "Yes ; it 's a weakness we have — every three minutes .", "Very ! As they go out MR BLY pauses in his labours to catch , as it were , a philosophical reflection . He resumes the wiping of a pane , while quietly , behind him , FAITH comes in with a tray . She is dressed now in lilac-coloured linen , without a cap , and looks prettier than ever . She puts the tray down on the sideboard with a clap that attracts her father 's attention , and stands contemplating the debris on the table .", "Women 's shoes ! We could have made the Tube but for your shoes .", "Nasty spring weather , Faith .", "“ In the spring a young man 's fancy . ” I — I wanted to say something to you in a friendly way . FAITH regards him as he struggles on . Because I feel very friendly towards you .", "So you wo n't take what I say in bad part ?", "After what you 've been through , any man with a sense of chivalry — FAITH gives a little shrug . Yes , I know — but we do n't all support the Government .", "Ah I forgot . You saw no newspapers . But you ought to pick up the threads now . What paper does Cook take ? FAITH . “ COSY . ”", "“ Cosy ” ? I do n't seem — What are its politics ?", "What does Cook want with corsets ?", "By George ! Cook an idealist ! Let 's see !— er — I was speaking of chivalry . My son , you know — er — my son has got it .", "I started by being sorry for you .", "Look here , my child ! FAITH looks up at him .We want to do our best for you . Now , do n't spoil it by — Well , you know !", "Just what your father said . The more I see of Mr Bly , the more wise I think him .", "What sort of bringing up did he give you ? FAITH smiles wryly and shrugs her shoulders .", "H 'm ! Here comes the sun again !", "Of Course . You can always take what flowers you like — that is — if — er —", "I meant , if it does n't spoil the look of the table . We must all be artists in our professions , must n't we ?", "You might n't think it , but I 'm talking to you seriously .", "Well ! I got wet ; I must go and change . FAITH follows him with her eyes as he goes out , and resumes the clearing of the table . She has paused and is again smelling at the flower when she hears the door , and quickly resumes her work . It is MRS MARCH , who comes in and goes to the writing table , Left Back , without looking at FAITH . She sits there writing a cheque , while FAITH goes on clearing .", "I met Johnny using the most poetic language . What 's happened ?", "Is n't that rather coercive , Joan ?", "No . I was only saying to Mary —", "But I can quite see why Johnny —", "Certainly .", "Where 's the girl ?", "We must devise means —", "MRS MARCH smiles .", "The first thing is to see into them — and find out exactly —", "They may have heart trouble . It 's no good being hasty , Joan .", "Mary , go and see where Johnny is .", "Yes .", "Of course not . We must reason with him .", "One can n't always resist a kindly impulse , Joan . What does Mr Bly say to it ?", "The man 's a philosopher .", "Nonsense !", "Good Lord ! Direct action !", "My hat ! Johnny 's made a joke . This is serious .", "I wonder if Cook could do anything with him ?", "I Say ! And what did Cook —?", "Tt ! tt ! This is very awkward . COOK enters through the door which MARY has left open .", "Ah , Cook ! You 're back , then ? What 's to be done ?", "Gad ! It wants it !", "We always seem to be eating .", "It 's humiliating to think we can n't exist without .", "He 's been there six hours ; even he can n't live on faith .", "I never in my life knew anything so ridiculous .", "Good ! That 's the first step towards seeing reason . He pours brandy into a liqueur glass from the decanter which stands between them . MRS MARCH puts the brandy to her lips and makes a little face , then swallows it down manfully . MARY gets up with the walnuts and goes . Silence . Gloom .", "Have n't you begun to see that your policy 's hopeless , Joan ? Come ! Tell the girl she can stay . If we make Johnny feel victorious — we can deal with him . It 's just personal pride — the curse of this world . Both you and Johnny are as stubborn as mules .", "Well ! This goes further than you think . It involves Johnny 's affection and respect for you . MRS MARCH nervously refills the little brandy glass , and again empties it , with a grimacing shudder .", "That 's better ! You 'll begin to see things presently . MARY re-enters .", "There you are !", "I say !", "Are you going to leave him up there with the girl and that inflammatory literature , all night ? Where 's your common sense , Joan ? MRS MARCH starts up , presses her hand over her brow , and sits down again . She is stumped .", "Good ! I 'll go myself .", "That 's not the way to go to work , Johnny . You must n't ask people to eat their words raw — like that .", "Great Scott ! You two have n't the faintest idea of how to conduct a parley . We have — to — er — explore every path to — find a way to peace .", "Joan , really !", "Johnny , I know you have the best intentions , but really the proper people to help the young are the old — like — FAITH suddenly turns her eyes on him , and he goes on rather hurriedly — your mother . I 'm sure that she and I will be ready to stand by Faith .", "No , no ! But I hope —", "Of course , if nobody will modify their attitude — Johnny , you ought to be ashamed of yourself , andso ought you , Joan .", "Johnny , the terms of the Armistice did n't include this sort of thing . It was to be all open and above-board .", "Nonsense , Johnny ! Do n't carry a good thing too far !", "Good Lord !Let her stay till Johnny 's in his right mind .", "He can have her — he can have her !", "Let him come and take his daughter away . But MR BLY has entered behind him . He has a fixed expression , and speaks with a too perfect accuracy .", "If you want your daughter , you can take her .", "We have a certain sympathy with you , Mr Bly .", "Very well , Mr Bly ! See her home , carefully . Good-night !", "Now , take her away ! Cook , go and open the front door for Mr", "Bly and his daughter .", "Now then , Mr Bly , take her along !", "I came on this — er — friend of yours outside ; he 's been waiting for you some time , he says .", "Johnny !", "I really can n't have this sort of thing in my house . Johnny , go upstairs ; and you two , please go away .", "For God 's sake , Johnny , stop this vulgar brawl !", "God knows we do n't want to —", "I knew it .", "What now , Cook ?", "From the police ? He goes out , followed by COOK . A moment 's suspense .", "I should like you to say that in front of her .", "Soo —?", "Have you actual proof ?", "Inexpressibly painful !", "Johnny !", "Joan ! But MRS MARCH does not vary her smiling immobility ; FAITH draws a little nearer to the YOUNG MAN . MARY turns to the fire .", "I think you 'd better tell her anything you know .", "My goodness ! Now , Faith , consider ! This is the turning-point . I 've told you we 'll stand by you .", "Good God ! He stares in suspense at FAITH , whose face is a curious blend of fascination and live feeling .", "Not at all , not at all !", "Joan !", "Joan , what 's happened to you ?", "Your mother 's not well .", "Mary ! MARY throws open the French windows .", "Is this the Millennium , Cook ?", "Ah ! Neither up — nor down — but straight in the face ! Quite a thought , Cook ! Quite a thought !" ]

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[ "How can he live by snatches from such people ? he bore a worthy mind .", "That 's strange .", "This is something dangerous .", "That 's most certain .", "Why let him marry , and that way rise again .", "Is he so strange to Women ?", "He might be one , he carries as much promise ; they are wondrous merry .", "This Widow seems a Gallant .", "O ’ that condition , he had his Mortgage in again .", "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 .", "What are these ?", "It is well prepared , be earnest , honest friends , and loud upon him , he is deaf to his own good .", "Do , and do it home , and in what my care may help , or my perswasions when we meet next .", "Y'are most honest , you shall find me no less , and so I leave you , prosper your business my friends .", "I am glad to hear it : but wherefore do they not pursue this fortune to some fair end ?", "The Widow sure , why does she stir so early ?", "Good morrow , Madam .", "Much joy I hope you'l find , we came to gratulate your new knit marriage-band .", "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 .", "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 ’ your heart Lady , we are so bound to honour you , in all your service so devoted to you .", "You are in a miserable estate in the worlds account else , I would not for your wealth it come to doubting .", "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 .", "You'l find him noble , this may beget —", "Good morrow .", "I come to tell you , your latest hour is come .", "The sentence of your state .", "Have you no feeling , Sir ?", "What then , Sir ?", "What say you to this ?", "Will you redeem your state , speak to the point , Sir ?", "Then I must take an order ?", "He 's mad sure .", "Yes , if he did it handsomely , but he 's so harsh and strange .", "Cannibals ? if ever I come to view his Regiment , if fair terms may be had .", "As long as you will , Sir , before I buy a bargain of such", "Runts , I'le buy a Colledge for Bears , and live among ‘ em .", "Well met again , and what good news yet ?", "No fruits of what we sowed ?", "No turning in this tide yet ?", "Is not this his younger Brother ?", "Lance , carrie this before him ." ]

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