001:01;378[' ]| 001:01;378[' ]| <\and the Hungarian Camp\> 001:01;378[' ]| 001:01;378[' ]| <\An Apartment in the Castle.\> 001:01;378[' ]| <\Enter\ CONRAD.> 001:01;378[C ]| So, I am safe emerged from these broils! 001:01;378[C ]| Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole; 001:01;379[C ]| For every crime I have a laurel-wreath, 001:01;379[C ]| For every lie a lordship. Nor yet has 001:01;379[C ]| My ship of fortune furl'd her silken sails, ~~ 001:01;379[C ]| Let her glide on! This danger'd neck is saved, 001:01;379[C ]| By dexterous policy, from the rebel's axe; 001:01;379[C ]| And of my ducal palace not one stone 001:01;379[C ]| Is bruised by the Hungarian petards. 001:01;379[C ]| Toil hard, ye slaves, and from the miser-earth 001:01;379[C ]| Bring forth once more my bullion, treasured deep, 001:01;379[C ]| With all my jewell'd salvers, silver and gold, 001:01;379[C ]| And precious goblets that make rich the wine. 001:01;379[C ]| But why do I stand babbling to myself? 001:01;379[C ]| Where is Auranthe? I have news for her 001:01;379[C ]| Shall ~~ 001:01;379[' ]| <\Enter\ AURANTHE.> 001:01;379[I ]| Conrad! what tidings? Good, if I may guess 001:01;379[I ]| From your alert eyes and high-lifted brows. 001:01;380[I ]| What tidings of the battle? Albert? Ludolph? 001:01;380[I ]| Otho? 001:01;380[C ]| You guess aright. And, sister, slurring o'er 001:01;380[C ]| Our by-gone quarrels, I confess my heart 001:01;380[C ]| Is beating with a child's anxiety, 001:01;380[C ]| To make our golden fortune known to you. 001:01;380[I ]| So serious? 001:01;381[C ]| Yes, so serious, that before 001:01;381[C ]| I utter even the shadow of a hint 001:01;381[C ]| Concerning what will make that sin-worn cheek 001:01;381[C ]| Blush joyous blood through every lineament, 001:01;381[C ]| You must make here a solemn vow to me. 001:01;382[I ]| I pr'ythee, Conrad, do not overact 001:01;382[I ]| The hypocrite. What vow would you impose? 001:01;382[C ]| Trust me for once. That you may be assured 001:01;382[C ]| 'Tis not confiding in a broken reed, 001:01;382[C ]| A poor court-bankrupt, outwitted and lost, 001:01;382[C ]| Revolve these facts in your acutest mood, 001:01;382[C ]| In such a mood as now you listen to me: 001:01;382[C ]| A few days since, I was an open rebel, ~~ 001:01;382[C ]| Against the Emperor had suborn'd his son, ~~ 001:01;382[C ]| Drawn off his nobles to revolt, ~~ and shown 001:01;382[C ]| Contented fools causes for discontent, 001:01;382[C ]| Fresh hatch'd in my ambition's eagle-nest; 001:01;382[C ]| So thrived I as a rebel, ~~ and, behold! 001:01;382[C ]| Now I am Otho's favorite, his dear friend, 001:01;382[C ]| His right hand, his brave Conrad! 001:01;383[I ]| I confess 001:01;383[I ]| You have intrigued with these unsteady times 001:01;383[I ]| To admiration. But to be a favorite ~~ 001:01;383[C ]| I saw my moment. The Hungarians, 001:01;383[C ]| Collected silently in holes and corners, 001:01;383[C ]| Appear'd, a sudden host, in the open day. 001:01;383[C ]| I should have perish'd in our empire's wreck; 001:01;383[C ]| But, calling interest loyalty, swore faith 001:01;383[C ]| To most believing Otho; and so help'd 001:01;383[C ]| His blood-stain'd ensigns to the victory 001:01;383[C ]| In yesterday's hard fight, that it has turn'd 001:01;383[C ]| The edge of his sharp wrath to eager kindness. 001:01;383[I ]| So far yourself. But what is this to me 001:01;383[I ]| More than that I am glad? I gratulate you. 001:01;383[C ]| Yes, sister, but it does regard you greatly, 001:01;383[C ]| Nearly, momentously, ~~ aye, painfully! 001:01;383[C ]| Make me this vow ~~ 001:01;383[I ]| Concerning whom or what? 001:01;383[C ]| Albert! 001:01;383[I ]| I would enquire somewhat of him: 001:01;383[I ]| You had a letter from me touching him? 001:01;383[I ]| No treason 'gainst his head in deed or word! 001:01;383[I ]| Surely you spared him at my earnest prayer? 001:01;383[I ]| Give me the letter ~~ it should not exist! 001:01;383[C ]| At one pernicious charge of the enemy, 001:01;383[C ]| I, for a moment-whiles, was prisoner ta'en 001:01;383[C ]| And rifled, ~~ stuff! the horses' hoofs have minced it! 001:01;383[I ]| He is alive? 001:01;383[C ]| He is! but here make oath 001:01;383[C ]| To alienate him from your scheming brain, 001:01;383[C ]| Divorce him from your solitary thoughts, 001:01;383[C ]| And cloud him in such utter banishment, 001:01;383[C ]| That when his person meets again your eye, 001:01;383[C ]| Your vision shall quite lose its memory, 001:01;383[C ]| And wander past him as through vacancy. 001:01;383[I ]| I'll not be perjured. 001:01;383[C ]| No, nor great, nor mighty; 001:01;384[C ]| You would not wear a crown, or rule a kingdom, 001:01;384[C ]| To you it is indifferent. 001:01;384[I ]| What means this? 001:01;384[C ]| You'll not be perjured! Go to Albert then, 001:01;384[C ]| That camp-mushroom, dishonour of our house; 001:01;384[C ]| Go, page his dusty heels upon a march, 001:01;384[C ]| Furbish his jingling baldric while he sleeps, 001:01;384[C ]| And share his mouldy ratio in a siege. 001:01;384[C ]| Yet stay, ~~ perhaps a charm may call you back, 001:01;384[C ]| And make the widening circlets of your eyes 001:01;384[C ]| Sparkle with healthy fevers, ~~ the Emperor 001:01;384[C ]| Hath given consent that you should marry Ludolph! 001:01;384[I ]| Can it be, brother? For a golden crown 001:01;384[I ]| With a queen's awful lips I doubly thank you! 001:01;384[I ]| This is to wake in Paradise! farewell, 001:01;384[I ]| Thou clod of yesterday ~~ 'twas not myself! 001:01;384[I ]| Not till this moment did I ever feel 001:01;384[I ]| My spirit's faculties! I'll flatter you 001:01;384[I ]| For this, and be you ever proud of it; 001:01;384[I ]| Thou, Jove-like, struck'dst thy forehead, 001:01;384[I ]| And from the teeming marrow of thy brain 001:01;384[I ]| I spring complete Minerva! But the Prince ~~ 001:01;384[I ]| His Highness Ludolph ~~ where is he? 001:01;384[C ]| I know not: 001:01;384[C ]| When, lackeying my counsel at a beck, 001:01;384[C ]| The rebel-lords, on bended knees, received 001:01;384[C ]| The Emperor's pardon, Ludolph kept aloof, 001:01;384[C ]| Sole, ~~ in a stiff, fool-hardy, sulky pride; 001:01;384[C ]| Yet, for all this, I never saw a father 001:01;384[C ]| In such a sickly longing for his son. 001:01;384[C ]| We shall soon see him, ~~ for the Emperor, 001:01;384[C ]| He will be here this morning. 001:01;384[I ]| That I heard 001:01;384[I ]| Among the midnight rumours from the camp. 001:01;384[C ]| You give up Albert to me? 001:01;384[I ]| Harm him not! 001:01;384[I ]| E'en for his Highness Ludolph's sceptry hand, 001:01;384[I ]| I would not Albert suffer any wrong. 001:01;384[C ]| Have I not labour'd, plotted ~~ ? 001:01;384[I ]| See you spare him; 001:01;385[I ]| Nor be pathetic, my kind benefactor, 001:01;385[I ]| On all the many bounties of your hand, ~~ 001:01;385[I ]| 'Twas for yourself you labour'd ~~ not for me! 001:01;385[I ]| Do you not count, when I am queen, to take 001:01;385[I ]| Advantage of your chance discoveries 001:01;385[I ]| Of my poor secrets, and so hold a rod 001:01;385[I ]| Over my life? 001:01;385[C ]| Let not this slave ~~ this villain ~~ 001:01;385[C ]| Be cause of feud between us. See! he comes! 001:01;385[C ]| Look, woman, look, your Albert is quite safe! 001:01;385[C ]| In haste it seems. Now shall I be in the way, 001:01;385[C ]| And wish'd with silent curses in my grave, 001:01;385[C ]| Or side by side with whelmed mariners. 001:01;385[' ]| <\Enter\ ALBERT.> 001:01;385[D ]| Fair on your Graces fall this early morrow! 001:01;385[D ]| So it is like to do, without my prayers, 001:01;385[D ]| For your right noble names, like favorite tunes, 001:01;385[D ]| Have fallen full frequent from our Emperor's lips, 001:01;385[D ]| High commented with smiles. 001:01;385[I ]| Noble Albert! 001:01;385[' ]| <\Conrad (Aside\).> 001:01;385[C ]| Noble! 001:01;385[I ]| Such salutation argues a glad heart 001:01;385[I ]| In our prosperity. We thank you, sir. 001:01;385[D ]| Lady! O would to heaven your poor servant 001:01;385[D ]| Could do you other greeting than mine own 001:01;385[D ]| From no less man than Otho, who has sent 001:01;385[D ]| This ring as pledge of dearest amity; 001:01;385[D ]| 'Tis chosen I heard from Hymen's jewelry, 001:01;385[D ]| And you will prize it, lady, I doubt not, 001:01;385[D ]| Beyond all pleasures past, and all to come: 001:01;385[D ]| To you, great Duke ~~ 001:01;386[C ]| To me! What of me, ha? 001:01;386[D ]| What pleas'd your Grace to say? 001:01;386[C ]| Your message, sir! 001:01;386[D ]| You mean not this to me? 001:01;386[C ]| Sister, this way; 001:01;386[' ]| <(\Aside).\> 001:01;386[C ]| For there shall be no "gentle Alberts" now, 001:01;386[C ]| No "sweet Auranthes"! 001:01;386[' ]| <\Exeunt\ CONRAD \and\ AURANTHE.> 001:01;386[' ]| <\Albert (solus).\> 001:01;386[D ]| The Duke is out of temper; if he knows 001:01;386[D ]| More than a brother of a sister ought, 001:01;386[D ]| I should not quarrel with his peevishness. 001:01;386[D ]| Auranthe ~~ heaven preserve her always fair! ~~ 001:01;386[D ]| Is in the heady, proud, ambitious vein; 001:01;387[D ]| I bicker not with her, ~~ bid her farewell! 001;01;387[D ]| She has taken flight from me, then let her soar, ~~ 001:01;387[D ]| He is a fool who stands at pining gaze! 001:01;387[D ]| But for poor Ludolph, he is food for sorrow; 001:01;387[D ]| No leveling bluster of my licensed thoughts, 001:01;387[D ]| No military swagger of my mind, 001:01;387[D ]| Can smother from myself the wrong I've done him, ~~ 001:01;387[D ]| Without design indeed, ~~ yet it is so, ~~ 001:01;387[D ]| And opiate for the conscience have I none! 001:01;387[' ]| <\Exit.\> 001:02;387[' ]| 001:02;387[' ]| <\Martial music. Enter, from the outer gate,\ OTHO, \Nobles, Knights,\> 001:02;387[' ]| <\and Attendants. The Soldiers halt at the gate, with banners in sight.\> 001:02;387[A ]| Where is my noble herald? 001:02;387[' ]| <\Enter\ CONRAD, \from the Castle, attended by two Knights and Servants.\> 001:02;387[' ]| 001:02;387[A ]| Well! hast told 001:02;387[A ]| Auranthe our intent imperial? 001:02;387[A ]| Lest our rent banners, too o' the sudden shown, 001:02;387[A ]| Should fright her silken casements, and dismay 001:02;387[A ]| Her household to our lack of entertainment. 001:02;387[A ]| A victory! 001:02;387[C ]| God save illustrious Otho! 001:02;387[A ]| Aye, Conrad, it will pluck out all grey hairs; 001:02;387[A ]| It is the best physician for the spleen; 001:02;387[A ]| The courtliest inviter to a feast; 001:02;387[A ]| The subtelest excuser of small faults; 001:02;387[A ]| And a nice judge in the age and smack of wine. 001:02;387[' ]| <\Enter, from the Castle,\ AURANTHE, \followed by Pages holding up\> 001:02;387[' ]| <\her robes, and a train of Women. She kneels.\> 001:02;387[A ]| Hail, my sweet hostess! I do thank the stars, 001:02;387[A ]| Or my good soldiers, or their ladies' eyes, 001:02;387[A ]| That, after such a merry battle fought, 001:02;387[A ]| I can, all safe in body and in soul, 001:02;388[A ]| Kiss your fair hand and lady fortune's too. 001:02;388[A ]| My ring! now, on my life, it doth rejoice 001:02;388[A ]| These lips to feel't on this soft ivory! 001:02;388[A ]| Keep it, my brightest daughter; it may prove 001:02;388[A ]| The little prologue to a line of kings. 001:02;388[A ]| I strove against thee and my hot-blood son, 001:02;388[A ]| Dull blockhead that I was to be so blind, 001:02;388[A ]| But now my sight is clear; forgive me, lady. 001:02;388[I ]| My lord, I was a vassal to your frown, 001:02;388[I ]| And now your favour makes me but more humble; 001:02;388[I ]| In wintry winds the simple snow is safe, 001:02;388[I ]| But fadeth at the greeting of the sun: 001:02;388[I ]| Unto thine anger I might well have spoken, 001:02;388[I ]| Taking on me a woman's privilege, 001:02;388[I ]| But this so sudden kindness makes me dumb. 001:02;388[A ]| What need of this? Enough, if you will be 001:02;388[A ]| A potent tutoress to my wayward boy, 001:02;388[A ]| And teach him, what it seems his nurse could not, 001:02;388[A ]| To say for once I thank you. Sigifred! 001:02;388[D ]| He has not yet return'd, my gracious liege. 001:02;388[A ]| What then! No tidings of my friendly Arab? 001:02;388[C ]| None, mighty Otho. 001:02;388[' ]| <\To one of his Knights, who goes out.\> 001:02;388[C ]| Send forth instantly 001:02;388[C ]| An hundred horsemen from my honoured gates, 001:02;388[C ]| To scour the plains and search the cottages. 001:02;388[C ]| Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring 001:02;388[C ]| News of that vanished Arabian, 001:02;388[C ]| A full-heaped helmet of the purest gold. 001:02;388[A ]| More thanks, good Conrad; for, except my son's, 001:02;388[A ]| There is no face I rather would behold 001:02;388[A ]| Than that same quick-eyed pagan's. By the saints, 001:02;388[A ]| This coming night of banquets must not light 001:02;389[A ]| Her dazzling torches; nor the music breathe 001:02;389[A ]| Smooth, without clashing cymbal, tones of peace 001:02;389[A ]| And in-door melodies; nor the ruddy wine 001:02;389[A ]| Ebb spouting to the lees; ~~ if I pledge not, 001:02;389[A ]| In my first cup, that Arab! 001:02;389[D ]| Mighty monarch, 001:02;389[D ]| I wonder not this stranger's victor-deeds 001:02;389[D ]| So hang upon your spirit. Twice in the fight 001:02;389[D ]| It was my chance to meet his olive brow, 001:02;389[D ]| Triumphant in the enemy's shatter'd rhomb; 001:02;389[D ]| And, to say truth, in any Christian arm 001:02;389[D ]| I never saw such prowess. 001:02;389[A ]| Did you ever? 001:02;389[A ]| O, 'tis a noble boy! ~~ tut! ~~ what do I say? 001:02;389[A ]| I mean a tripple-Saladin, whose eyes, 001:02;389[A ]| When in the glorious scuffle they met mine, 001:02;389[A ]| Seem'd to say ~~ "Sleep, old man, in safety sleep; 001:02;389[A ]| I am the victory!" 001:02;389[C ]| Pity he's not here. 001:02;389[A ]| And my son too, pity he is not here. 001:02;389[A ]| Lady*Auranthe, I would not make you blush, 001:02;389[A ]| But can you give a guess where Ludolph is? 001:02;389[A ]| Know you not of him? 001:02;389[I ]| Indeed, my liege, no secret ~~ 001:02;389[A ]| Nay, nay, without more words, dost know of him? 001:02;389[I ]| I would I were so over-fortunate, 001:02;389[I ]| Both for his sake and mine, and to make glad 001:02;389[I ]| A father's ears with tidings of his son. 001:02;389[A ]| I see 'tis like to be a tedious day. 001:02;389[A ]| Were Theodore and Gonfrid and the rest 001:02;389[A ]| Sent forth with my commands? 001:02;389[D ]| Aye, my lord. 001:02;389[A ]| And no news! No news! 'Faith! 'tis very strange 001:02;389[A ]| He thus avoids us. Lady, is't not strange? 001:02;389[A ]| Will he be truant to you too? It is a shame. 001:02;390[C ]| Will't please your Highness enter, and accept 001:02;390[C ]| The unworthy welcome of your servant's house? 001:02;390[C ]| Leaving your cares to one whose diligence 001:02;390[C ]| May in a few hours make pleasures of them all. 001:02;390[A ]| Not so tedious, Conrad. No, no, no, no, ~~ 001:02;390[A ]| I must see Ludolph or the ~~ What's that shout? 001:02;390[' ]| <\Voices without.\> 001:02;390[X ]| Huzza! Huzza! Long live the Emperor! 001:02;390[' ]| <\Other voices.\> 001:02;390[X ]| Fall back! Away there! 001:02;390[A ]| Say, what noise is that? 001:02;390[' ]| <\Albert (advancing from the back of the stage, whither he had hastened\> 001:02;390[' ]| <\on hearing the cheers of the soldiery).\> 001:02;390[D ]| It is young Gersa, the 001:02;390[D ]| Hungarian prince, 001:02;390[D ]| Pick'd like a red stag from the fallow herd 001:02;390[D ]| Of prisoners. Poor prince, forlorn he steps, 001:02;390[D ]| Slow, and demure, and proud in his despair. 001:02;390[D ]| If I may judge by his so tragic bearing, 001:02;390[D ]| His eye not downcast, and his folded arm, 001:02;390[D ]| He doth this moment wish himself asleep 001:02;390[D ]| Among his fallen captains on yon plains. 001:02;390[' ]| <\Enter\ GERSA, \in chains, and guarded.\> 001:02;390[A ]| Well said, Sir*Albert. 001:02;390[G ]| Not a word of greeting, 001:02;390[G ]| No welcome to a princely visitor, 001:02;390[G ]| Most mighty Otho? Will not my great host 001:02;390[G ]| Vouchsafe a syllable, before he bids 001:02;390[G ]| His gentlemen conduct me with all care 001:02;390[G ]| To some securest lodging ~~ cold perhaps! 001:02;390[A ]| What mood is this? Hath fortune touch'd thy brain? 001:02;390[G ]| O kings and princes of this fevrous world, 001:02;390[G ]| What abject things, what mockeries must ye be, 001:02;390[G ]| What nerveless minions of safe palaces! 001:02;390[G ]| When here, a monarch, whose proud foot is used 001:02;390[G ]| To fallen princes' necks, as to his stirrup, 001:02;391[G ]| Must needs exclaim that I am mad forsooth, 001:02;391[G ]| Because I cannot flatter with bent knees 001:02;391[G ]| My conqueror! 001:02;391[A ]| Gersa, I think you wrong me: 001:02;391[A ]| I think I have a better fame abroad. 001:02;391[G ]| I pr'ythee mock me not with gentle speech, 001:02;391[G ]| But, as a favour, bid me from thy presence; 001:02;391[G ]| Let me no longer be the wondering food 001:02;391[G ]| Of all these eyes; pr'ythee command me hence! 001:02;391[A ]| Do not mistake me, Gersa. That you may not, 001:02;391[A ]| Come, fair Auranthe, try if your soft hands 001:02;391[A ]| Can manage those hard rivets to set free 001:02;391[A ]| So brave a prince and soldier. 001:02;391[' ]| <\Auranthe (sets him free).\> 001:02;391[I ]| Welcome task! 001:02;391[G ]| I am wound up in deep astonishment! 001:02;391[G ]| Thank you, fair lady ~~ Otho! ~~ Emperor! 001:02;391[G ]| You rob me of myself; my dignity 001:02;391[G ]| Is now your infant; ~~ I am a weak child. 001:02;391[A ]| Give me your hand, and let this kindly grasp 001:02;391[A ]| Live in our memories. 001:02;391[G ]| In mine it will. 001:02;391[G ]| I blush to think of my unchasten'd tongue; 001:02;391[G ]| But I was haunted by the monstrous ghost 001:02;391[G ]| Of all our slain battalions. Sire, reflect, 001:02;391[G ]| And pardon you will grant, that, at this hour, 001:02;391[G ]| The bruised remmants of our stricken camp 001:02;391[G ]| Are huddling undistinguish'd, my dear friends 001:02;391[G ]| With common thousands, into shallow graves. 001:02;391[A ]| Enough, most noble Gersa. You are free 001:02;391[A ]| To cheer the brave remainder of your host 001:02;391[A ]| By your own healing presence, and that too, 001:02;391[A ]| Not as their leader merely, but their king; 001:02;391[A ]| For, as I hear, the wily enemy, 001:02;392[A ]| Who eas'd the crownet from your infant brows, 001:02;392[A ]| Bloody Taraxa, is among the dead. 001:02;392[G ]| Then I retire, so generous Otho please, 001:02;392[G ]| Bearing with me a weight of benefits 001:02;392[G ]| Too heavy to be borne. 001:02;392[A ]| It is not so; 001:02;392[A ]| Still understand me, King of Hungary, 001:02;392[A ]| Nor judge my open purposes awry. 001:02;392[A ]| Though I did hold you high in my esteem 001:02;392[A ]| For your self's sake, I do not personate 001:02;392[A ]| The stage-play emperor to entrap applause, 001:02;392[A ]| To set the silly sort o' the world agape, 001:02;392[A ]| And make the politic smile; no, I have heard 001:02;392[A ]| How in the Council you condemn'd this war, 001:02;392[A ]| Urging the perfidy of broken faith, ~~ 001:02;392[A ]| For that I am your friend. 001:02;392[G ]| If ever, sire, 001:02;392[G ]| You are my enemy, I dare here swear 001:02;392[G ]| 'Twill not be Gersa's fault. Otho, farewell! 001:02;392[A ]| Will you return, Prince, to our banquetting? 001:02;392[G ]| As to my father's board I will return. 001:02;392[A ]| Conrad, with all due ceremony, give 001:02;392[A ]| The Prince a regal escort to his camp; 001:02;392[A ]| Albert, go thou and bear him company. 001:02;392[A ]| Gersa, farewell! 001:02;392[G ]| All happiness attend you! 001:02;392[A ]| Return with what good speed you may; for soon 001:02;392[A ]| We must consult upon our terms of peace. 001:02;392[' ]| <\Exeunt\ GERSA \and\ ALBERT, \with others.\> 001:02;392[A ]| And thus a marble column do I build 001:02;392[A ]| To prop my empire's dome. Conrad, in thee 001:02;392[A ]| I have another steadfast one, to uphold 001:02;392[A ]| The portals of my state; and, for my own 001:02;392[A ]| Preeminence and safety, I will strive 001:02;393[A ]| To keep thy strength upon its pedestal. 001:02;393[A ]| For, without thee, this day I might have been 001:02;393[A ]| A show-monster about the streets of Prague, 001:02;393[A ]| In chains, as just now stood that noble Prince: 001:02;393[A ]| And then to me no mercy had been shown, 001:02;393[A ]| For when the conquer'd lion is once dungeoned, 001:02;393[A ]| Who lets him forth again? or dares to give 001:02;393[A ]| An old lion sugar-cates of mild reprieve? 001:02;393[A ]| Not to thine ear alone I make confession, 001:02;393[A ]| But to all here, as, by experience, 001:02;393[A ]| I know how the great basement of all power 001:02;393[A ]| Is frankness, and a true tongue to the world; 001:02;393[A ]| And how intriguing secresy is proof 001:02;393[A ]| Of fear and weakness, and a hollow state. 001:02;393[A ]| Conrad, I owe thee much. 001:02;393[C ]| To kiss that hand, 001:02;393[C ]| My Emperor, is ample recompense 001:02;393[C ]| For a mere act of duty. 001:02;393[A ]| Thou art wrong; 001:02;393[A ]| For what can any man on earth do more? 001:02;393[A ]| We will make trial of your house's welcome, 001:02;393[A ]| My bright Auranthe! 001:02;393[C ]| How is Friedburg honoured! 001:02;393[' ]| <\Enter\ ETHELBERT\ and six Monks.\> 001:02;393[F ]| The benison of heaven on your head, 001:02;393[F ]| Imperial Otho! 001:02;393[A ]| Who stays me? Speak! Quick! 001:02;393[F ]| Pause but one moment, mighty conqueror, 001:02;393[F ]| Upon the threshold of this house of joy ~~ 001:02;393[A ]| Pray do not prose, good Ethelbert, but speak 001:02;393[A ]| What is your purpose. 001:02;393[F ]| The restoration of some captive maids, 001:02;393[F ]| Devoted to heaven's pious ministries, 001:02;393[F ]| Who, driven forth from their religious cells, 001:02;394[F ]| And kept in thraldom by our enemy, 001:02;394[F ]| When late this province was a lawless spoil, 001:02;394[F ]| Still weep amid the wild Hungarian camp, 001:02;394[F ]| Though hemm'd around by thy victorious arms. 001:02;394[A ]| Demand the holy sisterhood in our name 001:02;394[A ]| From Gersa's tents. Farewell, old Ethelbert. 001:02;394[F ]| The saints will bless you for this pious care. 001:02;394[A ]| Daughter, your hand; Ludolph's would fit it best. 001:02;394[C ]| Ho! let the music sound! 001:02;394[' ]| <\Music.\ ETHELBERT \raises his hands, as in benediction of\ OTHO.> 001:02;394[' ]| <\Exeunt severally. The scene closes on them.\> 001:03;394[' ]| 001:03;394[' ]| <\Enter\ LUDOLPH \and\ SIGIFRED.> 001:03;394[B ]| You have my secret, let it not be breath'd. 001:03;394[E ]| Still give me leave to wonder that the Prince*Ludolph 001:03;394[E ]| and the swift Arab are the same; 001:03;394[E ]| Still to rejoice that 'twas a German arm 001:03;394[E ]| Death doing in a turban'd masquerade. 001:03;394[B ]| The Emperor must not know it, Sigifred. 001:03;394[E ]| I pr'ythee why? What happier hour of time 001:03;394[E ]| Could thy pleas'd star point down upon from heaven 001:03;394[E ]| With silver index, bidding thee make peace? 001:03;394[B ]| Still it must not be known, good Sigifred; 001:03;394[B ]| The star may point oblique. 001:03;394[E ]| If Otho knew 001:03;394[E ]| His son to be that unknown Mussleman 001:03;394[E ]| After whose spurring heels he sent me forth, 001:03;394[E ]| With one of his well-pleas'd Olympian oaths, 001:03;394[E ]| The charters of man's greatness, at this hour 001:03;394[E ]| He would be watching round the castle-walls, 001:03;394[E ]| And, like an anxious warder, strain his sight 001:03;395[E ]| For the first glimpse of such a son return'd; 001:03;395[E ]| Ludolph, that blast of the Hungarians, 001:03;395[E ]| That Saracenic meteor of the fight, 001:03;395[E ]| That silent fury, whose fell scymitar 001:03;395[E ]| Kept danger all aloof from Otho's head, 001:03;395[E ]| And left him space for wonder. 001:03;395[B ]| Say no more. 001:03;395[B ]| Not as a swordsman would I pardon claim, 001:03;395[B ]| But as a son. The bronz'd centurion, 001:03;395[B ]| Long toil'd in foreign wars, and whose high deeds 001:03;395[B ]| Are shaded in a forest of tall spears, 001:03;395[B ]| Known only to his troop, hath greater plea 001:03;395[B ]| Of favour with my sire than I can have. 001:03;395[E ]| My lord, forgive me that I cannot see 001:03;395[E ]| How this proud temper with clear reason squares. 001:03;395[E ]| What made you then, with such an anxious love, 001:03;395[E ]| Hover around that life, whose bitter days 001:03;395[E ]| You vext with bad revolt? Was't opium, 001:03;395[E ]| Or the mad-fumed wine ~~ ? Nay, do not frown, 001:03;395[E ]| I rather would grieve with you than upbraid. 001:03;395[B ]| I do believe you. No, 'twas not to make 001:03;395[B ]| A father his son's debtor, or to heal 001:03;395[B ]| His deep heart-sickness for a rebel child. 001:03;395[B ]| 'Twas done in memory of my boyish days, 001:03;395[B ]| Poor cancel for his kindness to my youth, 001:03;395[B ]| For all his calming of my childish griefs, 001:03;395[B ]| And all his smiles upon my merriment. 001:03;395[B ]| No, not a thousand foughten fields could sponge 001:03;395[B ]| Those days paternal from my memory, 001:03;395[B ]| Though now upon my head he heaps disgrace. 001:03;395[E ]| My Prince, you think too harshly ~~ 001:03;395[B ]| Can I so? 001:03;396[B ]| Hath he not gall'd my spirit to the quick? 001:03;396[B ]| And with a sullen rigour obstinate 001:03;396[B ]| Pour'd out a phial of wrath upon my faults? 001:03;396[B ]| Hunted me as a Tartar does the boar, 001:03;396[B ]| Driven me to the very edge o' the world, 001:03;396[B ]| And almost put a price upon my head? 001:03;396[E ]| Remember how he spared the rebel-lords. 001:03;396[B ]| Yes, yes, I know he hath a noble nature 001:03;396[B ]| That cannot trample on the fallen. But his 001:03;396[B ]| Is not the only proud heart in his realm. 001:03;396[B ]| He hath wrong'd me, and I have done him wrong; 001:03;396[B ]| He hath lov'd me, and I have shown him kindness; 001:03;396[B ]| We should be almost equal. 001:03;396[E ]| Yet, for all this, 001:03;396[E ]| I would you had appear'd among those lords, 001:03;396[E ]| And ta'en his favour. 001:03;396[B ]| Ha! till now I thought 001:03;396[B ]| My friend had held poor Ludolph's honour dear. 001:03;396[B ]| What! would you have me sue before his throne, 001:03;396[B ]| And kiss the courtier's missal, its silk steps? 001:03;396[B ]| Or hug the golden housings of his steed, 001:03;396[B ]| Amid a camp, whose steeled swarms I dar'd 001:03;396[B ]| But yesterday? And, at the trumpet sound, 001:03;396[B ]| Bow like some unknown mercenary's flag 001:03;396[B ]| And lick the soiled grass? No, no, my friend, 001:03;396[B ]| I would not, I, be pardon'd in the heap, 001:03;396[B ]| And bless indemnity with all that scum, ~~ 001:03;396[B ]| Those men I mean, who on my shoulders propp'd 001:03;396[B ]| Their weak rebellion, winning me with lies, 001:03;396[B ]| And pitying forsooth my many wrongs; 001:03;396[B ]| Poor self-deceived wretches, who must think 001:03;396[B ]| Each one himself a king in embryo, 001:03;396[B ]| Because some dozen vassals cry'd ~~ my lord! 001:03;396[B ]| Cowards, who never knew their little hearts, 001:03;397[B ]| Till flurried danger held the mirror up, 001:03;397[B ]| And then they own'd themselves without a blush, 001:03;397[B ]| Curling, like spaniels, round my father's feet. 001:03;397[B ]| Such things deserted me and are forgiven, 001:03;397[B ]| While I, least guilty, am an outcast still, 001:03;397[B ]| And will be, for I love such fair disgrace. 001:03;397[E ]| I know the clear truth; so would Otho see, 001:03;397[E ]| For he is just and noble. Fain would I 001:03;397[E ]| Be pleader for you ~~ 001:03;397[B ]| He'll hear none of it; 001:03;397[B ]| You know his temper, hot, proud, obstinate; 001:03;397[B ]| Endanger not yourself so uselessly. 001:03;397[B ]| I will encounter his thwart spleen myself, 001:03;397[B ]| To-day, at the Duke*Conrad's, where he keeps 001:03;397[B ]| His crowded state after the victory. 001:03;397[B ]| There will I be, a most unwelcome guest, 001:03;397[B ]| And parley with him, as a son should do, 001:03;397[B ]| Who doubly loathes a father's tyranny; 001:03;397[B ]| Tell him how feeble is that tyranny, 001:03;397[B ]| How the relationship of father and son 001:03;397[B ]| Is no more valid than a silken leash 001:03;397[B ]| Where lions tug adverse, if love grow not 001:03;397[B ]| From interchanged love through many years. 001:03;397[B ]| Aye, and those turreted Franconian walls, 001:03;397[B ]| Like to a jealous casket, hold my pearl ~~ 001:03;397[B ]| My fair Auranthe! Yes, I will be there. 001:03;397[E ]| Be not so rash; wait till his wrath shall pass, 001:03;397[E ]| Until his royal spirit softly ebbs 001:03;397[E ]| Self-influenced; then, in his morning dreams 001:03;397[E ]| He will forgive thee, and wake in grief 001:03;397[E ]| To have not thy good morrow. 001:03;397[B ]| Yes, to-day 001:03;397[B ]| I must be there, while her young pulses beat 001:03;398[B ]| Among the new-plum'd minions of the war. 001:03;398[B ]| Have you seen her of late? No? Auranthe, 001:03;398[B ]| Franconia's fair sister, 'tis I mean. 001:03;398[B ]| She should be paler for my troublous days ~~ 001:03;398[B ]| And there it is my father's iron lips 001:03;398[B ]| Have sworn divorcement 'twixt me and my right. 001:03;398[' ]| <\Sigifred (aside).\> 001:03;398[E ]| Auranthe! I had hoped this whim had pass'd. 001:03;398[B ]| And, Sigifred, with all his love of justice, 001:03;398[B ]| When will he take that grandchild in his arms, 001:03;398[B ]| That, by my love I swear, shall soon be his? 001:03;398[B ]| This reconcilement is impossible, 001:03;398[B ]| For see ~~ But who are these? 001:03;398[E ]| They are messengers 001:03;398[E ]| From our great Emperor; to you, I doubt not, 001:03;398[E ]| For couriers are abroad to seek you out. 001:03;398[' ]| <\Enter\ THEODORE \and\ GONFRID.> 001:03;398[J ]| Seeing so many vigilant eyes explore 001:03;399[J ]| The province to invite your Highness back 001:03;399[J ]| To your high dignities, we are too happy. 001:03;399[K ]| We have no eloquence to colour justly 001:03;399[K ]| The Emperor's anxious wishes ~~ 001:03;399[B ]| Go ~~ I follow you. 001:03;399[' ]| <\Exeunt\ THEODORE \and\ GONFRID.> 001:03;399[B ]| I play the prude: it is but venturing ~~ 001:03;399[B ]| Why should he be so earnest? Come, my friend, 001:03;399[B ]| Let us to Friedburg castle. 002:01;399[' ]| 002:01;399[' ]| <\Enter\ LUDOLPH \and\ SIGIFRED.> 002:01;399[B ]| No more advices, no more cautioning; 002:01;399[B ]| I leave it all to fate ~~ to any*thing! 002:01;399[B ]| I cannot square my conduct to time, place, 002:01;399[B ]| Or circumstance; to me 'tis all a mist! 002:01;399[E ]| I say no more. 002:01;399[B ]| It seems I am to wait 002:01;399[B ]| Here in the antiroom; ~~ that may be a trifle. 002:01;399[B ]| You see now how I dance attendance here, 002:01;400[B ]| Without that tyrant temper, you so blame, 002:01;400[B ]| Snapping the rein. You have medicin'd me 002:01;400[B ]| With good advices; and I hear remain, 002:01;400[B ]| In this most honourable antiroom, 002:01;400[B ]| Your patient scholar. 002:01;400[E ]| Do not wrong me, Prince. 002:01;400[E ]| By heavens, I'd rather kiss Duke*Conrad's slipper, 002:01;400[E ]| When in the morning he doth yawn with pride, 002:01;400[E ]| Than see you humbled but a half degree! 002:01;400[E ]| Truth is, the Emperor would fain dismiss 002:01;400[E ]| The nobles ere he sees you. 002:01;400[' ]| <\Enter\ GONFRID, \from the Council-room.\> 002:01;400[B ]| Well, sir! What! 002:01;400[K ]| Great honour to the Prince! The Emperor, 002:01;400[K ]| Hearing that his brave son had reappeared, 002:01;400[K ]| Instant dismiss'd the Concil from his sight, 002:01;400[K ]| As Jove fans off the clouds. Even now they pass. 002:01;400[' ]| <\Exit.\> 002:01;400[' ]| <\Enter the Nobles from the Council-room. They cross the stage, bowing\> 002:01;400[' ]| <\with respect to\ LUDOLPH, \he frowning on them.\ CONRAD \follows.\> 002:01;400[' ]| <\Exeunt Nobles.\> 002:01;400[B ]| Not the discoloured poisons of a fen, 002:01;400[B ]| Which he who breathes feels warning of his death, 002:01;400[B ]| Could taste so nauseous to the bodily sense, 002:01;400[B ]| As these prodigious sycophants disgust 002:01;400[B ]| The soul's fine palate. 002:01;400[C ]| Princely Ludolph, hail! 002:01;400[C ]| Welcome, thou younger scepter to the realm! 002:01;400[C ]| Strength to thy virgin crownet's golden buds, 002:01;400[C ]| That they, against the winter of thy sire, 002:01;400[C ]| May burst, and swell, and flourish round thy brows, 002:01;400[C ]| Maturing to a weighty diadem! 002:01;400[C ]| Yet be that hour far off; and may he live, 002:01;401[C ]| Who waits for thee, as the chapp'd earth for rain. 002:01;401[C ]| Set my life's star! I have liv'd long enough, 002:01;401[C ]| Since under my glad roof, propitiously, 002:01;401[C ]| Father and son each other repossess. 002:01;401[B ]| Fine wording, Duke! but words could never yet 002:01;401[B ]| Forestall the fates; have you not learnt that yet? 002:01;401[B ]| Let me look well: your features are the same, 002:01;401[B ]| Your gait the same, your hair of the same shade, 002:01;401[B ]| As one I knew some passed weeks ago, 002:01;401[B ]| Who sung far different notes into mine ears. 002:01;401[B ]| I have mine own particular comments on't; 002:01;401[B ]| You have your own perhaps. 002:01;401[C ]| My gracious Prince, 002:01;401[C ]| All men may err. In truth I was deceived 002:01;401[C ]| In your great father's nature, as you were. 002:01;401[C ]| Had I known that of him I have since known, 002:01;401[C ]| And what you soon will learn, I would have turn'd 002:01;401[C ]| My sword to my own throat, rather than held 002:01;401[C ]| Its threatening edge against a good king's quiet; 002:01;401[C ]| Or with one word fever'd you, gentle Prince, 002:01;401[C ]| Who seem'd to me, as rugged times then went, 002:01;401[C ]| Indeed too much oppress'd. May I be bold 002:01;401[C ]| To tell the Emperor you will haste to him? 002:01;401[B ]| Your dukedom's privilege will grant so much. 002:01;401[' ]| <\Exit\ CONRAD.> 002:01;401[B ]| He's very close to Otho, a tight leach! 002:01;401[B ]| Your hand ~~ I go! Ha! here the thunder comes 002:01;401[B ]| Sullen against the wind! If in two angry brows 002:01;401[B ]| My safety lies, then, Sigifred, I'm safe. 002:01;401[' ]| <\Enter\ OTHO \and\ CONRAD.> 002:01;401[A ]| Will you make Titan play the lackey-page 002:01;401[A ]| To chattering pigmies? I would have you know 002:01;402[A ]| That such neglect of our high Majesty 002:01;402[A ]| Annuls all feel of kindred. What is son, ~~ 002:01;402[A ]| Or friend, ~~ or brother, ~~ or all ties of blood, ~~ 002:01;402[A ]| When the whole kingdom, centred in ourself, 002:01;402[A ]| Is rudely slighted? Who am I to wait? 002:01;402[A ]| By Peter's chair! I have upon my tongue 002:01;402[A ]| A word to fright the proudest spirit here! ~~ 002:01;402[A ]| Death! ~~ and slow tortures to the hardy fool 002:01;402[A ]| Who dares take such large charter from our smiles! 002:01;402[A ]| Conrad, we would be private! Sigifred! 002:01;402[A ]| Off! And none pass this way on pain of death! 002:01;402[' ]| <\Exeunt\ CONRAD \and\ SIGIFRED.> 002:01;402[B ]| This was but half expected, my good sire, 002:01;402[B ]| Yet I am griev'd at it, to the full height, 002:01;402[B ]| As though my hopes of favour had been whole. 002:01;402[A ]| How you indulge yourself: what can you hope for? 002:01;402[B ]| Nothing, my liege; I have to hope for nothing. 002:01;402[B ]| I come to greet you as a loving son, 002:01;402[B ]| And then depart, if I may be so free, 002:01;402[B ]| Seeing that blood of yours in my warm veins 002:01;402[B ]| Has not yet mitigated into milk. 002:01;402[A ]| What would you, sir? 002:01;402[B ]| A lenient banishment; 002:01;402[B ]| So please you let me unmolested pass 002:01;402[B ]| This Conrad's gates, to the wide air again. 002:01;402[B ]| I want no more. A rebel wants no more. 002:01;402[A ]| And shall I let a rebel loose again 002:01;402[A ]| To muster kites and eagles 'gainst my head? 002:01;402[A ]| No, obstinate boy, you shall be kept cag'd up, 002:01;402[A ]| Serv'd with harsh food, with scum for Sunday-drink. 002:01;402[B ]| Indeed! 002:01;402[A ]| And chains too heavy for your life; 002:01;402[A ]| I'll choose a jailor, whose swart monstrous face 002:01;402[A ]| Shall be a hell to look upon, and she ~~ 002:01;403[B ]| Ha! 002:01;403[A ]| Shall be your fair Auranthe. 002:01;403[B ]| Amaze! Amaze! 002:01;403[A ]| To-day you marry her. 002:01;403[B ]| This is a sharp jest! 002:01;403[A ]| No. None at all. When have I said a lie? 002:01;403[B ]| If I sleep not, I am a waking wretch. 002:01;403[A ]| Not a word more. Let me embrace my child. 002:01;403[B ]| I dare not. 'Twould pollute so good a father! 002:01;403[B ]| O heavy crime! that your son's blinded eyes 002:01;403[B ]| Could not see all his parent's love aright, 002:01;403[B ]| As now I see it. Be not kind to me ~~ 002:01;403[B ]| Punish me not with favour. 002:01;403[A ]| Are you sure, 002:01;403[A ]| Ludolph, you have no saving plea in store? 002:01;403[B ]| My father, none! 002:01;403[A ]| Then you astonish me. 002:01;403[B ]| No, I have no plea. Disobedience, 002:01;403[B ]| Rebellion, obstinacy, blasphemy, ~~ 002:01;403[B ]| Are all my counsellors. If they can make 002:01;403[B ]| My crooked deeds show good and plausible, 002:01;403[B ]| Then grant me loving pardon, ~~ but not else, ~~ 002:01;403[B ]| Good gods! not else, in any way, my liege! 002:01;403[A ]| You are a most perplexing noble boy. 002:01;403[B ]| You not less a perplexing noble father. 002:01;403[A ]| Well! you shall have free passport through the gates. 002:01;403[A ]| Farewell! 002:01;403[B ]| Farewell! and by these tears believe, 002:01;403[B ]| And still remember, I repent in pain 002:01;403[B ]| All my misdeeds! 002:01;403[A ]| Ludolph, I will! I will! 002:01;403[A ]| But, Ludolph, ere you go, I would enquire 002:01;403[A ]| If you, in all your wandering, ever met 002:01;404[A ]| A certain Arab haunting in these parts. 002:01;404[B ]| No, my good lord, I cannot say I did. 002:01;404[A ]| Make not your father blind before his time; 002:01;404[A ]| Nor let these arms paternal hunger more 002:01;404[A ]| For an embrace, to dull the appetite 002:01;404[A ]| Of my great love for thee, my supreme child! 002:01;404[A ]| Come close, and let me breathe into thine ear 002:01;404[A ]| I knew you through disguise. You are the Arab! 002:01;404[A ]| You can't deny it. 002:01;404[' ]| <\Embracing him.\> 002:01;404[B ]| Happiest of days! 002:01;404[A ]| We'll make it so. 002:01;404[B ]| 'Stead of one fatted calf, 002:01;404[B ]| Ten hecatombs shall bellow out their last, 002:01;404[B ]| Smote 'twixt the horns by the death-stunning mace 002:01;404[B ]| Of Mars, and all the soldiery shall feast 002:01;404[B ]| Nobly as Nimrod's masons, when the towers 002:01;404[B ]| Of Nineveh new kiss'd the parted clouds! 002:01;404[A ]| Large as a god speak out, where all is thine. 002:01;404[B ]| Aye, father, ~~ but the fire in my sad breast 002:01;404[B ]| Is quench'd with inward tears! I must rejoice 002:01;404[B ]| For you, whose wings so shadow over me 002:01;404[B ]| In tender victory, ~~ but for myself 002:01;404[B ]| I still must mourn. The fair Auranthe mine! 002:01;404[B ]| Too great a boon! I pr'ythee, let me ask 002:01;404[B ]| What more than I know of could so have chang'd 002:01;404[B ]| Your purpose touching her. 002:01;404[A ]| At a word, this: 002:01;404[A ]| In no deed did you give me more offence 002:01;404[A ]| Than your rejection of Erminia. 002:01;404[A ]| To my appalling, I saw too good proof 002:01;404[A ]| Of your keen-eyed suspicion, ~~ she is naught! 002:01;404[B ]| You are convinc'd? 002:01;404[A ]| Aye, spite of her sweet looks. 002:01;404[A ]| O, that my brother's daughter should so fall! 002:01;404[A ]| Her fame has pass'd into the grosser lips 002:01;404[A ]| Of soldiers in their cups. 002:01;404[B ]| 'Tis very sad. 002:01;405[A ]| No more of her. Auranthe ~~ Ludolph, come! 002:01;405[A ]| This marriage be the bond of endless peace! 002:01;405[' ]| <\Exeunt.\> 002:02;405[' ]| 002:02;405[' ]| <\in the Hungarian Camp.\> 002:02;405[' ]| <\Enter\ ERMINIA.> 002:02;405[H ]| Where! Where! Where shall I find a messenger? 002:02;405[H ]| A trusty soul? A good man in the camp? 002:02;405[H ]| Shall I go myself? Monstrous wickeness! 002:02;405[H ]| O cursed Conrad! devilish Auranthe! 002:02;405[H ]| Here is proof palpable as the bright sun! 002:02;405[H ]| O for a voice to reach the Emperor's ears! 002:02;405[' ]| <\Shouts in the Camp.\> 002:02;405[' ]| <\Enter an Hungarian Captain.\> 002:02;405[W ]| Fair prisoner, you hear these joyous shouts? 002:02;405[W ]| The King ~~ aye, now our King, ~~ but still your slave, 002:02;405[W ]| Young Gersa, from a short captivity 002:02;405[W ]| Has just return'd. He bids me say, bright dame, 002:02;405[W ]| That even the homage of his ranged chiefs 002:02;405[W ]| Cures not his keen impatience to behold 002:02;405[W ]| Such beauty once again. ~~ What ails you, lady? 002:02;405[H ]| Say, is not that a German yonder? There! 002:02;405[W ]| Methinks by his stout bearing he should be ~~ 002:02;405[W ]| Yes ~~ it is Albert; a brave German knight, 002:02;405[W ]| And much in the Emperor's favor. 002:02;405[H ]| I would fain 002:02;405[H ]| Enquire of friends, and kinsfolk; how they fared 002:02;405[H ]| In these rough times. Brave soldier, as you pass 002:02;405[H ]| To royal Gersa with my humble thanks, 002:02;405[H ]| Will you send yonder knight to me? 002:02;405[W ]| I will. 002:02;405[' ]| <\Exit.\> 002:02;406[H ]| Yes, he was ever known to be a man 002:02;406[H ]| Frank, open, generous; Albert I may trust. 002:02;406[H ]| O proof! proof! proof! Albert's an honest man; 002:02;406[H ]| Not Ethelbert the monk, if he were here, 002:02;406[H ]| Would I hold more trustworthy. Now! 002:02;406[' ]| <\Enter\ ALBERT.> 002:02;406[D ]| Good gods! 002:02;406[D ]| Lady*Erminia! are you prisoner 002:02;406[D ]| In this beleaguer'd camp? Or are you here 002:02;406[D ]| Of your own will? You pleas'd to send for me. 002:02;406[D ]| By Venus, 'tis a pity I knew not 002:02;406[D ]| Your plight before, and, by her son, I swear 002:02;406[D ]| To do you every service you can ask. 002:02;406[D ]| What would the fairest ~~ ? 002:02;406[H ]| Albert, will you swear? 002:02;406[D ]| I have. Well? 002:02;406[H ]| Albert, you have fame to lose. 002:02;406[H ]| If men, in court and camp, lie not outright, 002:02;406[H ]| You should be, from a thousand, chosen forth 002:02;406[H ]| To do an honest deed. Shall I confide ~~ ? 002:02;406[D ]| Aye, any*thing to me, fair creature. Do, 002:02;406[D ]| Dictate my task. Sweet woman, ~~ 002:02;406[H ]| Truce with that. 002:02;406[H ]| You understand me not; and, in your speech, 002:02;406[H ]| I see how far the slander is abroad. 002:02;406[H ]| Without proof could you think me innocent? 002:02;406[D ]| Lady, I should rejoice to know you so. 002:02;406[H ]| If you have any pity for a maid, 002:02;406[H ]| Suffering a daily death from evil tongues; 002:02;406[H ]| Any compassion for that Emperor's niece, 002:02;406[H ]| Who, for your bright sword and clear honesty, 002:02;406[H ]| Lifted you from the crowd of common men 002:02;407[H ]| Into the lap of honour; ~~ save me, knight! 002:02;407[D ]| How? Make it clear; if it be possible, 002:02;407[D ]| I by the banner of Saint*Maurice swear 002:02;407[D ]| To right you. 002:02;407[H ]| Possible! ~~ Easy! O my heart! 002:02;407[H ]| This letter's not so soil'd but you may read it; ~~ 002:02;407[H ]| Possible! There ~~ that letter! Read ~~ read it! 002:02;407[' ]| <\Gives him a letter.\> 002:02;407[' ]| <\Albert (reads it).\> 002:02;407[X ]| "To the Duke*Conrad. Forget the threat you 002:02;407[X ]| made at parting, and I will forget to send the Emperor letters 002:02;407[X ]| and papers of yours I have become possessed of. His life is no 002:02;407[X ]| trifle to me; his death you shall find none to yourself." 002:02;407[' ]| <(\Aside).\> 002:02;407[D ]| 'Tis me ~~ my life's that's pleaded for! 002:02;407[' ]| <(\Reads).\> 002:02;407[X ]| "He, for his own 002:02;407[X ]| sake, will be dumb as the grave. Erminia has my shame fix'd 002:02;407[X ]| upon her, sure as a wen. We are safe. 002:02;407[X ]| "Auranthe." 002:02;407[D ]| A she devil! A dragon! I her imp! 002:02;407[D ]| Fire of hell! Auranthe ~~ lewd demon! 002:02;407[D ]| Where got you this? Where? When? 002:02;407[H ]| I found it in the tent, among some spoils 002:02;407[H ]| Which, being noble, fell to Gersa's lot. 002:02;407[H ]| Come in, and see. 002:02;407[' ]| <\They go in and return.\> 002:02;407[D ]| Villainy! Villainy! 002:02;407[D ]| Conrad's sword, his corslet, and his helm, 002:02;407[D ]| And this letter. Caitiff, he shall feel ~~ 002:02;407[H ]| I see you are thunderstruck. Haste, haste away! 002:02;407[D ]| O I am tortur'd by this villainy. 002:02;407[H ]| You needs must be. Carry it swift to Otho; 002:02;407[H ]| Tell him, moreover, I am prisoner 002:02;407[H ]| Here in this camp, where all the sisterhood, 002:02;407[H ]| Forc'd from their quiet cells, are parcell'd out 002:02;408[H ]| For slaves among these Huns. Away! Away! 002:02;408[D ]| I am gone. 002:02;408[H ]| Swift be your steed! Within this hour 002:02;408[H ]| The Emperor will see it. 002:02;408[D ]| Ere I sleep: 002:02;408[D ]| That I can swear. 002:02;408[' ]| <\Hurries out.\> 002:02;408[' ]| <\Gersa (without).\> 002:02;408[G ]| Brave captains, thanks! Enough 002:02;408[G ]| Of loyal homage now! 002:02;408[' ]| <\Enter\ GERSA.> 002:02;408[H ]| Hail, royal Hun! 002:02;408[G ]| What means this, fair one? Why in such alarm? 002:02;408[G ]| Who was it hurried by me so distract? 002:02;408[G ]| It seem'd you were in deep discourse together; 002:02;408[G ]| Your doctrine has not been so harsh to him 002:02;408[G ]| As to my poor deserts. Come, come, be plain. 002:02;408[G ]| I am no jealous fool to kill you both, 002:02;408[G ]| Or, for such trifles, rob th' adorned world 002:02;408[G ]| Of such a beauteous vestal. 002:02;408[H ]| I grieve, my lord, 002:02;408[H ]| To hear you condescend to ribbald-phrase. 002:02;408[G ]| This is too much! Hearken, my lady pure, ~~ 002:02;408[H ]| Silence! and hear the magic of a name ~~ 002:02;408[H ]| Erminia! I am she, ~~ the Emperor's niece! 002:02;408[H ]| Prais'd be the heavens, I now dare own myself! 002:02;408[G ]| Erminia! Indeed! I've heard of her ~~ 002:02;408[G ]| Prythee, fair lady, what chance brought you here? 002:02;408[H ]| Ask your own soldiers. 002:02;408[G ]| And you dare own your name. 002:02;408[G ]| For loveliness you may ~~ and for the rest 002:02;409[G ]| My vein is not censorious ~~ 002:02;409[H ]| Alas, poor me! 002:02;409[H ]| 'Tis false indeed. 002:02;409[G ]| Indeed you are too fair: 002:02;409[G ]| The swan, soft leaning on her fledgy breast, 002:02;409[G ]| When to the stream she launches, looks not back 002:02;409[G ]| With such a tender grace; nor are her wings 002:02;409[G ]| So white as your soul is, if that but be 002:02;409[G ]| Twin picture to your face. Erminia! 002:02;409[G ]| To-day, for the first day, I am a king, 002:02;409[G ]| Yet would I give my unworn crown away 002:02;409[G ]| To know you spotless. 002:02;409[H ]| Trust me one day more, 002:02;409[H ]| Generously, without more certain guarantee, 002:02;409[H ]| Than this poor face you deign to praise so much; 002:02;409[H ]| After that, say and do whate'er you please. 002:02;409[H ]| If I have any knowledge of you, sir, 002:02;409[H ]| I think, nay I am sure, you will grieve much 002:02;409[H ]| To hear my story. O be gentle to me, 002:02;409[H ]| For I am sick and faint with many wrongs, 002:02;409[H ]| Tired out, and weary-worn with contumelies. 002:02;409[G ]| Poor lady! 002:02;409[' ]| <\Enter\ ETHELBERT.> 002:02;409[H ]| Gentle Prince, 'tis false indeed. 002:02;409[H ]| Good morrow, holy father! I have had 002:02;409[H ]| Your prayers, though I look'd for you in vain. 002:02;409[F ]| Blessings upon you, daughter! Sure you look 002:02;409[F ]| Too cheerful for these foul pernicious days. 002:02;409[F ]| Young man, you heard this virgin say 'twas false, ~~ 002:02;409[F ]| 'Tis false, I say. What! can you not employ 002:02;409[F ]| Your temper elsewhere, 'mong these burly tents, 002:02;410[F ]| But you must taunt this dove, for she hath lost 002:02;410[F ]| The eagle Otho to beat off assault. 002:02;410[F ]| Fie! Fie! But I will be her guard myself; 002:02;410[F ]| In the Emperor's name, I here demand of you 002:02;410[F ]| Herself, and all her sisterhood. She false! 002:02;410[G ]| Peace! peace, old man! I cannot think she is. 002:02;410[F ]| Whom I have known from her first infancy, 002:02;410[F ]| Baptis'd her in the bosom of the church, 002:02;410[F ]| Watch'd her, as anxious husbandmen the grain, 002:02;410[F ]| From the first shoot till the unripe mid-May, 002:02;410[F ]| Then to the tender ear of her June days, 002:02;410[F ]| Which, lifting sweet abroad its timid green, 002:02;410[F ]| Is blighted by the touch of calumny; 002:02;410[F ]| You cannot credit such a monstrous tale. 002:02;410[G ]| I cannot. Take her. Fair Erminia, 002:02;410[G ]| I follow to Friedburg, ~~ is't not so? 002:02;410[H ]| Aye, so we purpose. 002:02;410[F ]| Daughter, do you so? 002:02;410[F ]| How's this? I marvel! Yet you look not mad. 002:02;410[H ]| I have good news to tell you, Ethelbert. 002:02;410[G ]| Ho! Ho, there! Guards! 002:02;410[G ]| Your blessing, father! Sweet Erminia, 002:02;410[G ]| Believe me, I am well nigh sure ~~ 002:02;410[H ]| Farewell! 002:02;410[H ]| Short time will show. 002:02;410[' ]| <\Enter Chiefs.\> 002:02;410[H ]| Yes, Father*Ethelbert, 002:02;410[H ]| I have news precious as we pass along. 002:02;410[F ]| Dear daughter, you shall guide me. 002:02;410[H ]| To no ill. 002:02;410[G ]| Command an escort to the Friedburg lines. 002:02;410[' ]| <\Exeunt Chiefs.\> 002:02;410[G ]| Pray let me lead. Fair lady, forget not 002:02;411[G ]| Gersa, how he believ'd you innocent. 002:02;411[G ]| I follow you to Friedburg with all speed. 002:02;411[' ]| <\Exeunt.\> 003:01;411[' ]| 003:01;411[' ]| <\Enter\ ALBERT.> 003:01;411[D ]| O that the earth were empty, as when Cain 003:01;411[D ]| Had no perplexity to hide his head! 003:01;411[D ]| Or that the sword of some brave enemy 003:01;411[D ]| Had put a sudden stop to my hot breath, 003:01;411[D ]| And hurl'd me down the illimitable gulph 003:01;411[D ]| Of times past, unremember'd! Better so 003:01;411[D ]| Than thus fast limed in a cursed snare, 003:01;411[D ]| The limbo of a wanton. This the end 003:01;411[D ]| Of an aspiring life! My boyhood past 003:01;411[D ]| In feud with wolves and bears, when no eye saw 003:01;411[D ]| The solitary warfare, fought for love 003:01;411[D ]| Of honour 'mid the growling wilderness. 003:01;411[D ]| My sturdier youth, maturing to the sword, 003:01;411[D ]| Won by the syren-trumpets, and the ring 003:01;411[D ]| Of shields upon the pavement, when bright mail'd 003:01;411[D ]| Henry*the*Fowler pass'd the streets of Prague. 003:01;411[D ]| Was't to this end I louted and became 003:01;411[D ]| The menial of Mars, and held a spear 003:01;411[D ]| Sway'd by command, as corn is by the wind? 003:01;411[D ]| Is it for this, I now am lifted up 003:01;411[D ]| By Europe's throned Emperor, to see 003:01;411[D ]| My honour be my executioner, ~~ 003:01;411[D ]| My love of fame, my prided honesty 003:01;411[D ]| Put to the torture for confessional? 003:01;411[D ]| Then the damn'd crime of blurting to the world 003:01;411[D ]| A woman's secret! ~~ though a fiend she be, 003:01;411[D ]| Too tender of my ignominious life; 003:01;412[D ]| But then to wrong the generous Emperor 003:01;412[D ]| In such a searching point, were to give up 003:01;412[D ]| My soul for foot-ball at hell's holiday! 003:01;412[D ]| I must confess, ~~ and cut my throat, ~~ to-day? 003:01;412[D ]| To-morrow? Ho! some wine! 003:01;412[' ]| <\Enter\ SIGIFRED.> 003:01;412[E ]| A fine humour ~~ 003:01;412[D ]| Who goes there? Count*Sigifred? Ha! ha! 003:01;412[E ]| What, man, do you mistake the hollow sky 003:01;412[E ]| For a throng'd tavern, ~~ and these stubbed trees 003:01;412[E ]| For old serge hangings, ~~ me, your humble friend, 003:01;412[E ]| For a poor waiter? Why, man, how you stare! 003:01;412[E ]| What gipsies have you been carousing with? 003:01;412[E ]| No, no more wine; methinks you've had enough. 003:01;412[D ]| You well may laugh and banter. What a fool 003:01;412[D ]| An injury may make of a staid man! 003:01;412[D ]| You shall know all anon. 003:01;412[E ]| Some tavern-brawl? 003:01;412[D ]| 'Twas with some people out of common reach; 003:01;412[D ]| Revenge is difficult. 003:01;412[E ]| I am your friend; 003:01;412[E ]| We meet again to-day, and can confer 003:01;412[E ]| Upon it. For the present I'm in haste. 003:01;412[D ]| Whither? 003:01;412[E ]| To fetch King*Gersa to the feast. 003:01;412[E ]| The Emperor on this marriage is so hot, 003:01;412[E ]| Pray heaven it end not in apoplexy! 003:01;412[E ]| The very porters, as I pass'd the doors, 003:01;412[E ]| Heard his loud laugh, and answer'd in full choir. 003:01;412[E ]| I marvel, Albert, you delay so long 003:01;412[E ]| From these bright revelries; go, show yourself, 003:01;412[E ]| You may be made a duke. 003:01;412[D ]| Aye, very like. 003:01;413[D ]| Pray what day has his Highness fix'd upon? 003:01;413[E ]| For what? 003:01;413[D ]| The marriage; ~~ what else can I mean? 003:01;413[E ]| To-day! O I forgot you could not know; 003:01;413[E ]| The news is scarce a minute old with me. 003:01;413[D ]| Married to-day! ~~ to-day! You did not say so? 003:01;413[E ]| Now, while I speak to you, their comely heads 003:01;413[E ]| Are bow'd before the mitre. 003:01;413[D ]| Oh! monstrous! 003:01;413[E ]| What is this? 003:01;413[D ]| Nothing, Sigifred. Farewell! 003:01;413[D ]| We'll meet upon our subject. Farewell, Count! 003:01;413[' ]| <\Exit.\> 003:01;413[E ]| Is this clear-headed Albert? He brain-turn'd! 003:01;413[E ]| 'Tis as portentous as a meteor. 003:01;413[' ]| <\Exit.\> 003:02;413[' ]| 003:02;413[' ]| <\Enter, as from the Marriage,\ OTHO, LUDOLPH, AURANTHE,> 003:02;413[' ]| 003:02;413[A ]| Now, Ludolph! Now, Auranthe, daughter fair! 003:02;413[A ]| What can I find to grace your nuptial day 003:02;413[A ]| More than my love, and these wide realms in fee? 003:02;413[B ]| I have too much. 003:02;413[I ]| And I, my liege, by far. 003:02;413[B ]| Auranthe! I have! O, my bride, ~~ my love, ~~ 003:02;413[B ]| Not all the gaze upon us can restrain 003:02;413[B ]| My eyes, too long poor exiles from thy face, 003:02;413[B ]| From adoration, and my foolish tongue 003:02;413[B ]| From uttering soft responses to the love 003:02;414[B ]| I see in thy mute beauty beaming forth! 003:02;414[B ]| Fair creature, bless me with a single word! 003:02;414[B ]| All mine! 003:02;414[I ]| Spare, spare me, my lored; I swoon else. 003:02;414[B ]| Soft beauty! by to-morrow I should die, 003:02;414[B ]| Wert thou not mine. 003:02;414[' ]| <\They talk apart.\> 003:02;414[V ]| How deep she has bewitch'd him! 003:02;414[W ]| Ask you for her receipt for love philtres. 003:02;414[V ]| They hold the Emperor in admiration. 003:02;414[A ]| If ever king was happy, that am I! 003:02;414[A ]| What are the cities 'yond the Alps to me, 003:02;414[A ]| The provinces about the Danube's mouth, 003:02;414[A ]| The promise of fair sail beyond the Rhone, 003:02;414[A ]| Or routing out of Hyperborean hordes, 003:02;414[A ]| To these fair children, stars of a new age? 003:02;414[A ]| Unless perchance I might rejoice to win 003:02;414[A ]| This little ball of earth, and chuck it them 003:02;414[A ]| To play with! 003:02;414[I ]| Nay, my lord, I do not know. 003:02;414[B ]| Let me not famish. 003:02;414[' ]| <\Otho (to Conrad).\> 003:02;414[A ]| Good Franconia, 003:02;414[A ]| You heard what oath I sware, as the sun rose, 003:02;414[A ]| That, unless heaven would send me back my son, 003:02;414[A ]| My Arab, no soft music should enrich 003:02;414[A ]| The cool wine, kiss'd off with a soldier's smack: 003:02;414[A ]| Now all my empire, barter'd for one feast, 003:02;414[A ]| Seems poverty. 003:02;414[C ]| Upon the neighbour-plain 003:02;414[C ]| The heralds have prepared a royal lists; 003:02;414[C ]| Your knights, found war-proof in the bloody field, 003:02;414[C ]| Speed to the game. 003:02;414[A ]| Well, Ludolph, what say you? 003:02;414[B ]| My lord! 003:02;415[A ]| A tourney? 003:02;415[C ]| Or, if't please you best ~~ 003:02;415[B ]| I want no more! 003:02;415[V ]| He soars! 003:02;415[V ]| Past all reason. 003:02;415[B ]| Though heaven's choir 003:02;415[B ]| Should in a vast circumference descend, 003:02;415[B ]| And sing for my delight, I'd stop my ears! 003:02;415[B ]| Though bright Apollo's car stood burning here, 003:02;415[B ]| And he put out an arm to bid me mount, 003:02;415[B ]| His touch an immortality, not I! ~~ 003:02;415[B ]| This earth, ~~ this palace, ~~ this room, ~~ Auranthe! 003:02;415[A ]| This is a little painful; just too much. 003:02;415[A ]| Conrad, if he flames longer in this wise, 003:02;415[A ]| I shall believe in wizard-woven loves 003:02;415[A ]| And old romances; but I'll break the spell. 003:02;415[A ]| Ludolph! 003:02;415[C ]| He will be calm anon. 003:02;415[B ]| You call'd! 003:02;415[B ]| Yes, yes, yes, I offend. You must forgive me; 003:02;415[B ]| Not being quite recover'd from the stun 003:02;415[B ]| Of your large bounties. A tourney, is it not? 003:02;415[' ]| <\A sennet heard faintly.\> 003:02;415[C ]| The trumpets reach us. 003:02;415[' ]| <\Ethelbert (without).\> 003:02;415[F ]| On your peril, sirs, 003:02;415[F ]| Detain us! 003:02;415[' ]| <\First Voice (without).\> 003:02;415[X ]| Let not the abbot pass. 003:02;415[' ]| <\Second Voice (without).\> 003:02;415[X ]| No, 003:02;415[X ]| On your lives! 003:02;415[' ]| <\First Voice (without).\> 003:02;415[X ]| Holy father, you must not. 003:02;415[' ]| <\Ethelbert (without).\> 003:02;415[F ]| Otho! 003:02;415[A ]| Who calls on Otho? 003:02;416[' ]| <\Ethelbert (without).\> 003:02;416[F ]| Ethelbert! 003:02;416[A ]| Let him come in. 003:02;416[' ]| <\Enter\ ETHELBERT, \leading in\ ERMINIA.> 003:02;416[A ]| Thou cursed abbot, why 003:02;416[A ]| Hast brought pollution to our holy rites? 003:02;416[A ]| Hast thou no fear of hangmen, or the faggot? 003:02;416[B ]| What portent ~~ what strange prodigy is this? 003:02;416[C ]| Away! 003:02;416[F ]| You, Duke? 003:02;416[H ]| Albert has surely fail'd me! 003:02;416[H ]| Look at the Emperor's brow upon me bent! 003:02;416[F ]| A sad delay. 003:02;416[C ]| Away, thou guilty thing! 003:02;416[F ]| You again, Duke? Justice, most noble Otho! 003:02;416[F ]| You ~~ go to your sister there and plot again, 003:02;416[F ]| A quick plot, swift as thought to save your heads; 003:02;416[F ]| For lo! the toils are spread around your den, 003:02;416[F ]| The world is all agape to see dragg'd forth 003:02;416[F ]| Two ugly monsters. 003:02;416[B ]| What means he, my lord? 003:02;416[C ]| I cannot guess. 003:02;416[F ]| Best ask your lady sister, 003:02;416[F ]| Whether the riddle puzzles her beyond 003:02;416[F ]| The power of utterance. 003:02;416[C ]| Foul barbarian, cease; 003:02;416[C ]| The Princess faints! 003:02;416[B ]| Stab him! O sweetest wife! 003:02;416[' ]| <\Attendants bear off\ AURANTHE.> 003:02;416[H ]| Alas! 003:02;416[F ]| Your wife! 003:02;416[B ]| Aye, Satan, does that yerk ye? 003:02;416[F ]| Wife! so soon! 003:02;416[B ]| Aye, wife! Oh, impudence! 003:02;416[B ]| Thou bitter mischief! Venemous bad priest! 003:02;416[B ]| How dar'st thou lift those beetle brows at me? 003:02;417[B ]| Me ~~ the Prince*Ludolph, in this presence here, 003:02;417[B ]| Upon my marriage-day, and scandalise 003:02;417[B ]| My joys with such opprobrious surprise? 003:02;417[B ]| Wife! Why dost linger on that syllable, 003:02;417[B ]| As if it were some demon's name pronounc'd 003:02;417[B ]| To summon harmful lightning, and make yawn 003:02;417[B ]| The sleepy thunder? Hast no sense of fear? 003:02;417[B ]| No ounce of man in thy mortality? 003:02;417[B ]| Tremble! for, at my nod, the sharpen'd axe 003:02;417[B ]| Will make thy bold tongue quiver to the roots, 003:02;417[B ]| Those grey lids wink, and thou not know it, monk! 003:02;417[F ]| O, poor deceived Prince, I pity thee! 003:02;417[F ]| Great Otho, I claim justice ~~ 003:02;417[B ]| Thou shalt have't! 003:02;417[B ]| Thine arms from forth a pulpit of hot fire 003:02;417[B ]| Shall sprawl distracted! O that that dull cowl 003:02;417[B ]| Were some most sensitive portion of thy life, 003:02;417[B ]| That I might give it to my hounds to tear! 003:02;417[B ]| Thy girdle some fine zealous-pained nerve 003:02;417[B ]| To girth my saddle! And those devil's beads 003:02;417[B ]| Each one a life, that I might, every day, 003:02;417[B ]| Crush one with Vulcan's hammer! 003:02;417[A ]| Peace, my son; 003:02;417[A ]| You far outstrip my spleen in this affair. 003:02;417[A ]| Let us be calm, and hear the abbot's plea 003:02;417[A ]| For this intrusion. 003:02;417[B ]| I am silent, sire. 003:02;417[A ]| Conrad, see all depart not wanted here. 003:02;417[' ]| <\Exeunt Knights, Ladies, etc%\> 003:02;417[A ]| Ludolph, be calm. Ethelbert, peace awhile. 003:02;417[A ]| This mystery demands an audience 003:02;417[A ]| Of a just judge, and that will Otho be. 003:02;417[B ]| Why has he time to breathe another word? 003:02;417[A ]| Ludolph, old Ethelbert, be sure, comes not 003:02;417[A ]| To beard us for no cause; he's not the man 003:02;417[A ]| To cry himself up an ambassador 003:02;418[A ]| Without credentials. 003:02;418[B ]| I'll chain up myself. 003:02;418[A ]| Old abbot, stand here forth. Lady*Erminia, 003:02;418[A ]| Sit. And now, abbot, what have you to say? 003:02;418[A ]| Our ear is open. First we here denounce 003:02;418[A ]| Hard penalties against thee, if't be found 003:02;418[A ]| The cause for which you have disturb'd us here, 003:02;418[A ]| Making our bright hours muddy, be a thing 003:02;418[A ]| Of little moment. 003:02;418[F ]| See this innocent! 003:02;418[F ]| Otho! thou father of the people call'd, 003:02;418[F ]| Is her life nothing? Her fair honour nothing? 003:02;418[F ]| Her tears from matins until even*song 003:02;418[F ]| Nothing? Her burst heart nothing? Emperor! 003:02;418[F ]| Is this, your gentle niece ~~ the simplest flower 003:02;418[F ]| Of the world's herbal, this fair lily blanch'd 003:02;418[F ]| Still with the dews of piety, this meek lady 003:02;418[F ]| Here sitting like an angel newly-shent, 003:02;418[F ]| Who vails its snowy wings and grows all pale ~~ 003:02;418[F ]| Is she nothing? 003:02;418[A ]| What more to the purpose, abbot? 003:02;418[B ]| Whither, whither is he winding? 003:02;418[C ]| No clue yet! 003:02;418[F ]| You have heard, my liege, and so, no doubt, all 003:02;418[F ]| here, 003:02;418[F ]| Foul, poisonous, malignant whisperings; 003:02;418[F ]| Nay open speech, rude mockery grown common, 003:02;418[F ]| Against the spotless nature and clear fame 003:02;418[F ]| Of the Princess*Erminia, your niece. 003:02;418[F ]| I have intruded here thus suddenly, 003:02;418[F ]| Because I hold those base weeds with tight hand 003:02;419[F ]| Which now disfigure her fair growing stem, 003:02;419[F ]| Waiting but for your sign to pull them up 003:02;419[F ]| By the dark roots, and leave her palpable, 003:02;419[F ]| To all men's sight, a lady innocent. 003:02;419[F ]| The ignominy of that whisper'd tale 003:02;419[F ]| About a midnight-gallant, seen to climb 003:02;419[F ]| A window to her chamber neighbour'd near, 003:02;419[F ]| I will from her turn off, and put the load 003:02;419[F ]| On the right shoulders; on that wretch's head 003:02;419[F ]| Who, by close stratagems, did save herself, 003:02;419[F ]| Chiefly by shifting to this lady's room 003:02;419[F ]| A rope-ladder for false witness. 003:02;419[B ]| Most atrocious! 003:02;419[A ]| Ethelbert, proceed. 003:02;419[F ]| With sad lips I shall; 003:02;419[F ]| For, in the healing of one wound, I fear 003:02;419[F ]| To make a greater. His young Highness here 003:02;419[F ]| To-day was married. 003:02;419[B ]| Good. 003:02;419[F ]| Would it were good! 003:02;419[F ]| Yet why do I delay to spread abroad 003:02;419[F ]| The names of those two vipers, from whose jaws 003:02;419[F ]| A deadly breath went forth to taint and blast 003:02;419[F ]| This guileless lady? 003:02;419[A ]| Abbot, speak their names. 003:02;419[F ]| A minute first. It cannot be ~~ but may 003:02;420[F ]| I ask, great judge, if you to-day have put 003:02;420[F ]| A letter by unread? 003:02;420[A ]| Does't end in this? 003:02;420[C ]| Out with their names! 003:02;420[F ]| Bold sinner, say you so? 003:02;420[B ]| Out, tedious monk! 003:02;420[A ]| Confess, or by the wheel ~~ 003:02;420[F ]| My evidence cannot be far away; 003:02;420[F ]| And, though it never come, be on my head 003:02;420[F ]| The crime of passing an attaint upon 003:02;420[F ]| The slanderers of this virgin. 003:02;420[B ]| Speak aloud! 003:02;420[F ]| Auranthe! and her brother there ~~ 003:02;420[C ]| Amaze! 003:02;420[B ]| Throw them from the windows! 003:02;420[A ]| Do what you will. 003:02;420[B ]| What shall I do with them? 003:02;420[B ]| Something of quick dispatch, for should she hear, 003:02;420[B ]| My soft Auranthe, her sweet mercy would 003:02;420[B ]| Prevail against my fury. Damned priest! 003:02;420[B ]| What swift death wil thou die? As to the lady 003:02;420[B ]| I touch her not. 003:02;420[F ]| Illustrious Otho, stay! 003:02;420[F ]| An ample store of misery thou hast, 003:02;420[F ]| Choak not the granary of thy noble mind 003:02;420[F ]| With more bad bitter grain, too difficult 003:02;420[F ]| A cud for the repentance of a man 003:02;420[F ]| Grey-growing. To thee only I appeal, 003:02;420[F ]| Not to thy noble son, whose yeasting youth 003:02;420[F ]| Will clear itself, and crystal turn again. 003:02;420[F ]| A young man's heart, by heaven's blessing, is 003:02;420[F ]| A wide world, where a thousand new-born hopes 003:02;420[F ]| Empurple fresh the melancholy blood: 003:02;420[F ]| But an old man's is narrow, tenantless 003:02;421[F ]| Of hopes, and stuff'd with many memories, 003:02;421[F ]| Which, being pleasant, ease the heavy pulse, 003:02;421[F ]| Painful, clogg'd up and stagnate. Weigh this matter 003:02;421[F ]| Even as a miser balances his coin; 003:02;421[F ]| And, in the name of mercy, give command 003:02;421[F ]| That your knight Albert be brought here before you. 003:02;421[F ]| He will expound this riddle; he will show 003:02;421[F ]| A noon-day proof of bad Auranthe's guilt. 003:02;421[A ]| Let Albert straight be summon'd. 003:02;421[' ]| <\Exit one of the Nobles.\> 003:02;421[B ]| Impossible! 003:02;421[B ]| I cannot doubt ~~ I will not ~~ no ~~ to doubt 003:02;421[B ]| Is to be ashes! ~~ wither'd up to death! 003:02;421[A ]| My gentle Ludolph, harbour not a fear; 003:02;421[A ]| You do yourself much wrong. 003:02;421[B ]| O, wretched dolt! 003:02;421[B ]| Now, when my foot is almost on thy neck, 003:02;421[B ]| Wilt thou infuriate me? Proof! Thou fool! 003:02;421[B ]| Why wilt thou tease impossibility 003:02;421[B ]| With such a thick skull'd persevering suit? 003:02;421[B ]| Fanatic obstinacy! Prodigy! 003:02;421[B ]| Monster of folly! Ghost of a turn'd brain! 003:02;421[B ]| You puzzle me, ~~ you haunt me, ~~ when I dream 003:02;421[B ]| Of you my brain will split! Bald sorcerer! 003:02;421[B ]| Juggler! May I come near you! On my soul 003:02;421[B ]| I know not whether to pity, curse, or laugh. 003:02;421[' ]| <\Enter\ ALBERT, \and the Nobleman.\> 003:02;421[B ]| Here Albert, this old phantom wants a proof! 003:02;421[B ]| Give him his proof! A camel's load of proofs! 003:02;421[A ]| Albert, I speak to you as to a man 003:02;421[A ]| Whose words once utter'd pass like current gold; 003:02;421[A ]| And therefore fit to calmly put a close 003:02;421[A ]| To this brief tempest. Do you stand possess'd 003:02;422[A ]| Of any proof against the honourableness 003:02;422[A ]| Of Lady*Auranthe, our new-spoused daughter? 003:02;422[D ]| You chill me with astonishment! How's this? 003:02;422[D ]| My liege, what proof should I have 'gainst a fame 003:02;422[D ]| Impossible of slur? 003:02;422[' ]| 003:02;422[H ]| O wickedness! 003:02;422[F ]| Deluded monarch, 'tis a cruel lie. 003:02;422[A ]| Peace, rebel-priest! 003:02;422[C ]| Insult beyond credence! 003:02;422[H ]| Almost a dream! 003:02;422[B ]| We have awaken'd from! 003:02;422[B ]| A foolish dream that from my brow hath wrung 003:02;422[B ]| A wrathful dew. A folly! why did I 003:02;422[B ]| So act the lion with this silly gnat? 003:02;422[B ]| Let them depart. Lady*Erminia, 003:02;422[B ]| I ever griev'd for you, as who did not? 003:02;422[B ]| But now you have, with such a brazen front, 003:02;422[B ]| So most maliciously, so madly striven 003:02;422[B ]| To dazzle the soft moon, when tenderest clouds 003:02;422[B ]| Should be unloop'd around to curtain her; 003:02;422[B ]| I leave you to the desert of the world 003:02;422[B ]| Almost with pleasure. Let them be set free 003:02;422[B ]| For me! I take no personal revenge 003:02;422[B ]| More than against a night-mare, which a man 003:02;422[B ]| Forgets in the new dawn. 003:02;422[' ]| <\Exit\ LUDOLPH.> 003:02;422[A ]| Still in extremes! No, they must not be loose. 003:02;422[F ]| Albert, I must suspect thee of a crime 003:02;422[F ]| So fiendish ~~ 003:02;422[A ]| Fear'st thou not my fury, monk? 003:02;422[A ]| Conrad, be they in your safe custody, 003:02;422[A ]| Till we determine some fit punishment. 003:02;422[A ]| It is so mad a deed, I must reflect 003:02;423[A ]| And question them in private; for perhaps, 003:02;423[A ]| By patient scrutiny, we may discover 003:02;423[A ]| Whether they merit death, or should be plac'd 003:02;423[A ]| In care of the physicians. 003:02;423[' ]| <\Exeunt\ OTHO \and Nobles;\ ALBERT \following.\> 003:02;423[C ]| My guards, ho! 003:02;423[H ]| Albert, wilt thou follow there? 003:02;423[H ]| Wilt thou creep dastardly behind his back, 003:02;423[H ]| And shrink away from a weak woman's eye? 003:02;423[H ]| Turn, thou court-Janus, thou forget'st thyself; 003:02;423[H ]| Here is the Duke, waiting with open arms 003:02;423[' ]| <\Enter Guards.\> 003:02;423[H ]| To thank thee; here congratulate each other; 003:02;423[H ]| Wring hands; embrace; and swear how lucky 'twas 003:02;423[H ]| That I, by happy chance, hit the right man 003:02;423[H ]| Of all the world to trust in. 003:02;423[D ]| Trust! to me! 003:02;423[' ]| <\Conrad (aside).\> 003:02;423[C ]| He is the sole one in this mystery. 003:02;423[H ]| Well, I give up, and save my prayers for heaven! 003:02;423[H ]| You, who could do this deed, would ne'er relent, 003:02;423[H ]| Though, at my words, the hollow prison-vaults 003:02;423[H ]| Would groan for pity. 003:02;423[C ]| Manacle them both! 003:02;423[F ]| I know it ~~ it must be ~~ I see it all! 003:02;423[F ]| Albert, thou art the minion! 003:02;423[H ]| Ah! too plain ~~ 003:02;423[C ]| Silence! Gag up their mouths! I cannot bear 003:02;423[C ]| More of this brawling. That the Emperor 003:02;423[C ]| Had plac'd you in some other custody! 003:02;423[C ]| Bring them away. 003:02;423[' ]| <\Exeunt all but\ ALBERT.> 003:02;423[D ]| Though my name perish from the book of honour, 003:02;423[D ]| Almost before the recent ink is dry, 003:02;424[D ]| And be no more remember'd after death, 003:02;424[D ]| Than any drummer's in the muster-roll; 003:02;424[D ]| Yet shall I season high my sudden fall 003:02;424[D ]| With triumph o'er that evil-witted Duke! 003:02;424[D ]| He shall feel what it is to have the hand 003:02;424[D ]| Of a man drowning on his hateful throat. 003:02;424[' ]| <\Enter\ GERSA \and\ SIGIFRED.> 003:02;424[G ]| What discord is at ferment in this house? 003:02;424[E ]| We are without conjecture; not a soul 003:02;424[E ]| We met could answer any certainty. 003:02;424[G ]| Young Ludolph, like a fiery arrow, shot 003:02;424[G ]| By us. 003:02;424[E ]| The Emperor, with cross'd arms, in thought. 003:02;424[G ]| In one room music, in another sadness, 003:02;424[G ]| Perplexity every*where! 003:02;424[D ]| A trifle mere! 003:02;424[D ]| Follow; ~~ your presences will much avail 003:02;424[D ]| To tune our jarred spirits. I'll explain. 003:02;424[' ]| <\Exeunt.\> 004:01;424[' ]| 004:01;424[' ]| 004:01;424[C ]| Well, well, I know what ugly jeopardy 004:01;424[C ]| We are cag'd in; you need not pester that 004:01;424[C ]| Into my ears. Pr'ythee, let me be spared 004:01;424[C ]| A foolish tongue, that I may bethink me 004:01;424[C ]| Of remedies with some deliberation. 004:01;424[C ]| You cannot doubt but 'tis in Albert's power 004:01;424[C ]| To crush or save us? 004:01;424[I ]| No, I cannot doubt. 004:01;424[I ]| He has, assure yourelf, by some strange means, 004:01;425[I ]| My secret; which I ever hid from him, 004:01;425[I ]| Knowing his mawkish honesty. 004:01;425[C ]| Curs'd slave! 004:01;425[I ]| Aye, I could almost curse him now myself. 004:01;425[I ]| Wretched impediment! evil genius! 004:01;425[I ]| A glue upon my wings, that cannot spread, 004:01;425[I ]| When they should span the provinces! A snake, 004:01;425[I ]| A scorpion, sprawling on the first gold step, 004:01;425[I ]| Conducting to the throne high canopied. 004:01;425[C ]| You would not hear my counsel, when his life 004:01;425[C ]| Might have been trodden out, all sure and hush'd; 004:01;425[C ]| Now the dull animal forsooth must be 004:01;425[C ]| Intreated, managed! When can you contrive 004:01;425[C ]| The interview he demands? 004:01;425[I ]| As speedily 004:01;425[I ]| It must be done as my bribed woman can 004:01;425[I ]| Unseen conduct him to me: but I fear 004:01;425[I ]| 'Twill be impossible, while the broad day 004:01;425[I ]| Comes through the panes with persecuting glare. 004:01;425[I ]| Methinks, if't now were night, I could intrigue 004:01;425[I ]| With darkness, bring the stars to second me, 004:01;425[I ]| And settle all this trouble. 004:01;425[C ]| Nonsense! Child! 004:01;425[C ]| See him immediately; why not now? 004:01;425[I ]| Do you forget that even the senseless door-posts 004:01;425[I ]| Are on the watch and gape through all the house; 004:01;425[I ]| How many whisperers there are about, 004:01;425[I ]| Hungry for evidence to ruin me; 004:01;425[I ]| Men I have spurn'd, and women I have taunted? 004:01;425[I ]| Besides, the foolish Prince sends, minute whiles, 004:01;425[I ]| His pages, ~~ so they tell me, ~~ to enquire 004:01;425[I ]| After my health, intreating, if I please, 004:01;425[I ]| To see me. 004:01;425[C ]| Well, suppose this Albert here; 004:01;425[C ]| What is your power with him? 004:01;426[I ]| He should be 004:01;426[I ]| My echo, my taught parrot! but I fear 004:01;426[I ]| He will be cur enough to bark at me; 004:01;426[I ]| Have his own say; read me some silly creed 004:01;426[I ]| 'Bout shame and pity. 004:01;426[C ]| What will you do then? 004:01;426[I ]| What I shall do, I know not; what I would 004:01;426[I ]| Cannot be done; for see, this chamber-floor 004:01;426[I ]| Will not yield to the pickaxe and the spade, ~~ 004:01;426[I ]| Here is no quiet depth of hollow ground. 004:01;426[C ]| Sister, you have grown sensible and wise, 004:01;426[C ]| Seconding, ere I speak it, what is now, 004:01;426[C ]| I hope, resolv'd between us. 004:01;426[I ]| Say, what is't? 004:01;426[C ]| You need not be his sexton too: a man 004:01;426[C ]| May carry that with him shall make him die 004:01;426[C ]| Elsewhere, ~~ give that to him; pretend the while 004:01;426[C ]| You will to-morrow succumb to his wishes, 004:01;426[C ]| Be what they may, and send him from the castle 004:01;426[C ]| On some fool's errand: let his latest groan 004:01;426[C ]| Frighten the wolves! 004:01;426[I ]| Alas! he must not die! 004:01;426[C ]| Would you were both hears'd up in stifling lead! 004:01;426[C ]| Detested ~~ 004:01;426[I ]| Conrad, hold! I would not bear 004:01;426[I ]| The little thunder of your fretful tongue, 004:01;426[I ]| Though I alone were taken in these toils, 004:01;426[I ]| And you could free me; but remember, sir, 004:01;426[I ]| You live alone in my security: 004:01;426[I ]| So keep your wits at work, for your own sake, 004:01;426[I ]| Not mine, and be more mannerly. 004:01;426[C ]| Thou wasp! 004:01;426[C ]| If my domains were emptied of these folk, 004:01;427[C ]| And I had thee to starve ~~ 004:01;427[I ]| O, marvellous! 004:01;427[I ]| But, Conrad, now be gone; the host is look'd for; 004:01;427[I ]| Cringe to the Emperor, entertain the lords, 004:01;427[I ]| And, do ye mind, above all things, proclaim 004:01;427[I ]| My sickness, with a brother's sadden'd eye, 004:01;427[I ]| Condoling with Prince*Ludolph. In fit time 004:01;427[I ]| Return to me. 004:01;427[C ]| I leave you to your thoughts. 004:01;427[' ]| <\Exit.\> 004:01;427[' ]| <\Auranthe (sola).\> 004:01;427[I ]| Down, down, proud temper! down, Auranthe's pride! 004:01;427[I ]| Why do I anger him when I should kneel? 004:01;427[I ]| Conrad! Albert! help! help! What can I do? 004:01;427[I ]| O wretched woman! lost, wreck'd, swallow'd up, 004:01;427[I ]| Accursed, blasted! O, thou golden crown, 004:01;427[I ]| Orbing along the serene firmament 004:01;427[I ]| Of a wide empire, like a glowing moon; 004:01;427[I ]| And thou, bright sceptre, lustrous in my eyes, ~~ 004:01;427[I ]| There! ~~ as the fabled fair Hesperian tree, 004:01;427[I ]| Bearing a fruit more precious! graceful thing, 004:01;427[I ]| Delicate, godlike, magic! must I leave 004:01;427[I ]| Thee to melt in the visionary air, 004:01;427[I ]| Ere, by one grasp, this common hand is made 004:01;427[I ]| Imperial? I do not know the time 004:01;427[I ]| When I have wept for sorrow; but methinks 004:01;427[I ]| I could now sit upon the ground, and shed 004:01;427[I ]| Tears, tears of misery. O, the heavy day! 004:01;427[I ]| Bring me some mourning weeds, that I may 'tire 004:01;427[I ]| Myself, as fits one wailing her own death, ~~ 004:01;427[I ]| Cut off these curls, and brand this lily hand, 004:01;427[I ]| And throw these jewels from my loathing sight, ~~ 004:01;427[I ]| Fetch me a missal, and a string of beads, ~~ 004:01;427[I ]| A cup of bitter'd water, and a crust, ~~ 004:01;428[I ]| I will confess, O holy abbot! ~~ How! 004:01;428[I ]| What is this? Auranthe, thou fool, dolt, 004:01;428[I ]| Whimpering ideot! up! up! and quell! 004:01;428[I ]| I am safe! Coward! why am I in fear? 004:01;428[I ]| Albert! he cannot stickle, chew the cud 004:01;428[I ]| In such a fine extreme, ~~ impossible! 004:01;428[I ]| Who knocks? 004:01;428[' ]| <\Goes to the door, listens, and opens it. Enter\ ALBERT.> 004:01;428[I ]| Albert, I have been waiting for you here 004:01;428[I ]| With such an aching heart, such swooning throbs 004:01;428[I ]| On my poor brain, such cruel ~~ cruel sorrow, 004:01;428[I ]| That I should claim your pity! Art not well? 004:01;428[D ]| Yes, lady, well. 004:01;428[I ]| You look not so, alas! 004:01;428[I ]| But pale, as if you brought some heavy news. 004:01;428[D ]| You know full well what makes me look so pale. 004:01;428[I ]| No! Do I? Surely I am still to learn 004:01;428[I ]| Some horror; all I know, this present, is 004:01;428[I ]| I am near hustled to a dangerous gulph, 004:01;428[I ]| Which you can save me from, ~~ and therefore safe, 004:01;428[I ]| So trusting in thy love; that should not make 004:01;428[I ]| Thee pale, my Albert. 004:01;428[D ]| It doth make me freeze. 004:01;428[I ]| Why should it, love? 004:01;428[D ]| You should not ask me that, 004:01;428[D ]| But make your own heart monitor, and save 004:01;428[D ]| Me the great pain of telling. You must know. 004:01;428[I ]| Something has vext you, Albert. There are times 004:01;428[I ]| When simplest things put on a sombre cast; 004:01;428[I ]| A melancholy mood will haunt a man, 004:01;428[I ]| Until most easy matters take the shape 004:01;428[I ]| Of unachievable tasks; small rivulets 004:01;428[I ]| Then seem impassable. 004:01;428[D ]| Do not cheat yourself 004:01;429[D ]| With hope that gloss of words, or suppliant action, 004:01;429[D ]| Or tears, or ravings, or self-threatened death, 004:01;429[D ]| Can alter my resolve. 004:01;429[I ]| You make me tremble; 004:01;429[I ]| Not so much at your threats, as at your voice, 004:01;429[I ]| Untun'd, and harsh, and barren of all love. 004:01;429[D ]| You suffocate me! Stop this devil's parley, 004:01;429[D ]| And listen to me; know me once for all. 004:01;429[I ]| I thought I did. Alas! I am deceiv'd. 004:01;429[D ]| No, you are not deceiv'd. You took me for 004:01;429[D ]| A man detesting all inhuman crime; 004:01;429[D ]| And therefore kept from me your demon's plot 004:01;429[D ]| Against Erminia. Silent? Be so still; 004:01;429[D ]| For*ever! Speak no more; but hear my words, 004:01;429[D ]| Thy fate. Your safety I have bought to-day 004:01;429[D ]| By blazoning a lie, which in the dawn 004:01;429[D ]| I'll expiate with truth. 004:01;429[I ]| O cruel traitor! 004:01;429[D ]| For I would not set eyes upon thy shame; 004:01;429[D ]| I would not see thee dragg'd to death by the hair, 004:01;429[D ]| Penanc'd, and taunted on a scaffolding! 004:01;429[D ]| To-night, upon the skirts of the blind wood 004:01;429[D ]| That blackens northward of these horrid towers, 004:01;429[D ]| I wait for you with horses. Choose your fate. 004:01;429[D ]| Farewell! 004:01;429[I ]| Albert, you jest; I'm sure you must. 004:01;429[I ]| You, an ambitious soldier! I, a queen, 004:01;429[I ]| One who could say, ~~ here, rule these provinces! 004:01;429[I ]| Take tribute from those cities for thyself! 004:01;429[I ]| Empty these armouries, these treasuries, 004:01;429[I ]| Muster thy warlike thousands at a nod! 004:01;430[I ]| Go! conquer Italy! 004:01;430[D ]| Auranthe, you have made 004:01;430[D ]| The whole world chaff to me. Your doom is fixed. 004:01;430[I ]| Out, villain! dastard! 004:01;430[D ]| Look there to the door! 004:01;430[D ]| Who is it? 004:01;430[I ]| Conrad, ~~ traitor! 004:01;430[D ]| Let him in. 004:01;430[' ]| <\Enter\ CONRAD.> 004:01;430[D ]| Do not affect amazement, hypocrite, 004:01;430[D ]| At seeing me in this chamber 004:01;430[C ]| Auranthe? 004:01;430[D ]| Talk not with eyes, but speak your curses out 004:01;430[D ]| Against me, who would sooner crush and grind 004:01;430[D ]| A brace of toads, than league with them t'oppress 004:01;430[D ]| An innocent lady, gull an emperor, 004:01;430[D ]| More generous to me than autumn-sun 004:01;430[D ]| To ripening harvests. 004:01;430[I ]| No more insult, sir. 004:01;430[D ]| Aye, clutch your scabbard; but, for prudence' sake, 004:01;430[D ]| Draw not the sword; 'twould make an uproar, Duke, 004:01;430[D ]| You would not hear the end of. At nightfall 004:01;430[D ]| Your lady sister, if I guess aright, 004:01;430[D ]| Will leave this busy castle. You had best 004:01;430[D ]| Take farewell too of worldly vanities. 004:01;430[C ]| Vassal! 004:01;430[D ]| To-morrow, when the Emperor sends 004:01;430[D ]| For loving Conrad, see you fawn on him. 004:01;430[D ]| Good even! 004:01;430[I ]| You'll be seen! 004:01;430[D ]| See the coast clear then. 004:01;430[' ]| <\Auranthe (as he goes).\> 004:01;430[I ]| Remorseless Albert! Cruel, cruel wretch! 004:01;430[' ]| <\She lets him out.\> 004:01;430[C ]| So, we must lick the dust? 004:01;431[I ]| I follow him. 004:01;431[C ]| How? Where? The play of your escape? 004:01;431[I ]| He waits 004:01;431[I ]| For me, with horses by the forest-side 004:01;431[I ]| Northward. 004:01;431[C ]| Good, good; he dies. You go, say you? 004:01;431[I ]| Perforce. 004:01;431[C ]| Be speedy, darkness! Till that comes, 004:01;431[C ]| Fiends keep you company! 004:01;431[' ]| <\Exit.\> 004:01;431[I ]| And you! And you! 004:01;431[I ]| And all men! ~~ Vanish ~~ Oh! Oh! Oh! 004:01;431[' ]| <\Retires to an inner apartment.\> 004:02;431[' ]| 004:02;431[' ]| <\Enter\ LUDOLPH \and Page.\> 004:02;431[W ]| Still very sick, my lord; but now I went, 004:02;431[W ]| And there her women, in a mournful throng, 004:02;431[W ]| Stood in the passage whispering; if any 004:02;431[W ]| Moved, 'twas with careful steps, and hush'd as death: 004:02;431[W ]| They bade me stop. 004:02;431[B ]| Good fellow, once again 004:02;431[B ]| Make soft enquiry; pr'ythee, be not stay'd 004:02;431[B ]| By any hindrance, but with gentlest force 004:02;431[B ]| Break through her weeping servants, till thou com'st 004:02;431[B ]| E'en to her chamber-door, and there, fair boy, ~~ 004:02;431[B ]| If with thy mother's milk thou hast suck'd in 004:02;431[B ]| Any diviner eloquence, ~~ woo her ears 004:02;431[B ]| With plaints for me, more tender than the voice 004:02;432[B ]| Of dying Echo, echoed. 004:02;432[W ]| Kindest master! 004:02;432[W ]| To know thee sad thus, will unloose my tongue 004:02;432[W ]| In mournful syllables. Let but my words reach 004:02;432[W ]| Her ears, and she shall take them coupled with 004:02;432[W ]| Moans from my heart, and sighs not counterfeit. 004:02;432[W ]| May I speed better! 004:02;432[' ]| <\Exit Page.\> 004:02;432[' ]| <\Ludolph (solus).\> 004:02;432[B ]| Auranthe! My life! 004:02;432[B ]| Long have I loved thee, yet till now not loved: 004:02;432[B ]| Remembering, as I do, hard-hearted times 004:02;432[B ]| When I had heard e'en of thy death perhaps, 004:02;432[B ]| And, thoughtless! suffer'd thee to pass alone 004:02;432[B ]| Into Elysium! ~~ now I follow thee, 004:02;432[B ]| A substance or a shadow, wheresoe'er 004:02;432[B ]| Thou leadest me, ~~ whether thy white feet press, 004:02;432[B ]| With pleasant weight, the amorous-aching earth, 004:02;432[B ]| Or through the air thou pioneerest me, 004:02;432[B ]| A shade! Yet sadly I predestinate! 004:02;432[B ]| O, unbenignest Love, why whilt thou let 004:02;432[B ]| Darkness steal out upon the sleepy world 004:02;432[B ]| So wearily, as if night's chariot-wheels 004:02;432[B ]| Were clogg'd in some thick cloud? O, changeful Love, 004:02;432[B ]| Let not her steeds with drowsy-footed pace 004:02;432[B ]| Pass the high stars, before sweet embassage 004:02;432[B ]| Comes from the pillow'd beauty of that fair 004:02;432[B ]| Completion of all delicate nature's wit! 004:02;432[B ]| Pout her faint lips anew with rubious health; 004:02;432[B ]| And, with thine infant fingers, lift the fringe 004:02;432[B ]| Of her sick eye-lids; that those eyes may glow 004:02;432[B ]| With wooing light upon me, ere the morn 004:02;432[B ]| Peers with disrelish, grey, barren, and cold! 004:02;432[' ]| <\Enter\ GERSA \and Courtiers.\> 004:02;433[B ]| Otho calls me his lion, ~~ should I blush 004:02;433[B ]| To be so tamed? so ~~ 004:02;433[G ]| Do me the courtesy, 004:02;433[G ]| Gentlemen, to pass on. 004:02;433[W ]| We are your servants. 004:02;433[' ]| <\Exeunt Courtiers.\> 004:02;433[B ]| It seems then, sir, you have found out the man 004:02;433[B ]| You would confer with; ~~ me? 004:02;433[G ]| If I break not 004:02;433[G ]| Too much upon your thoughtful mood, I will 004:02;433[G ]| Claim a brief while your patience. 004:02;433[B ]| For what cause 004:02;433[B ]| Soe'er, I shall be honour'd. 004:02;433[G ]| I not less. 004:02;433[B ]| What may it be? No trifle can take place 004:02;433[B ]| Of such deliberate prologue, serious 'haviour. 004:02;433[B ]| But, be it what it may, I cannot fail 004:02;433[B ]| To listen with no common interest; 004:02;433[B ]| For though so new your presence is to me, 004:02;433[B ]| I have a soldier's friendship for your fame. 004:02;433[B ]| Please you explain. 004:02;433[G ]| As thus: ~~ for, pardon me, 004:02;433[G ]| I cannot, in plain terms, grossly assault 004:02;433[G ]| A noble nature; and would faintly sketch 004:02;433[G ]| What your quick apprehension will fill up; 004:02;433[G ]| So finely I esteem you. 004:02;433[B ]| I attend. 004:02;433[G ]| Your generous father, most illustrious Otho, 004:02;433[G ]| Sits in the banquet-room among his chiefs; 004:02;433[G ]| His wine is bitter, for you are not there; 004:02;433[G ]| His eyes are fix'd still on the open doors, 004:02;433[G ]| And ev'ry passer in he frowns upon, 004:02;433[G ]| Seeing no Ludolph comes. 004:02;433[B ]| I do neglect. 004:02;433[G ]| And for your absence may I guess the cause? 004:02;433[B ]| Stay there! ~~ No ~~ guess? More princely you must be 004:02;433[B ]| Than to make guesses at me. 'Tis enough. 004:02;433[B ]| I'm sorry I can hear no more.. 004:02;433[G ]| And I 004:02;434[G ]| As griev'd to force it on you so abrupt; 004:02;434[G ]| Yet, one day, you must know a grief, whose sting 004:02;434[G ]| Will sharpen more the longer 'tis conceal'd. 004:02;434[B ]| Say it at once, sir! dead ~~ dead ~~ is she dead? 004:02;434[G ]| Mine is a cruel task: she is not dead, 004:02;434[G ]| And would, for your sake, she were innocent. 004:02;434[B ]| Hungarian! Thou amazest me beyond 004:02;434[B ]| All scope of thought, convulsest my heart's blood 004:02;434[B ]| To deadly churning! Gersa, you are young, 004:02;434[B ]| As I am; let me observe you, face to face: 004:02;434[B ]| Not grey-brow'd like the poisonous Ethelbert, 004:02;434[B ]| No rheumed eyes, no furrowing of age, 004:02;434[B ]| No wrinkles, where all vices nestle in 004:02;434[B ]| Like crannied vermin, ~~ no! but fresh, and young, 004:02;434[B ]| And hopeful featur'd. Ha! by heaven you weep! 004:02;434[B ]| Tears, human tears! Do you repent you then 004:02;434[B ]| Of a curs'd torturer's office? Why shouldst join, ~~ 004:02;434[B ]| Tell me, ~~ the league of devils? Confess ~~ confess ~~ 004:02;434[B ]| The lie! 004:02;434[G ]| Lie! ~~ but begone all ceremonious points 004:02;434[G ]| Of honour battailous! I could not turn 004:02;434[G ]| My wrath against thee for the orbed world. 004:02;434[B ]| Your wrath, weak boy? Tremble at mine, unless 004:02;434[B ]| Retraction follow close upon the heels 004:02;434[B ]| Of that late stounding insult! Why has my sword 004:02;434[B ]| Not done already a sheer judgment on thee? 004:02;434[B ]| Despair, or eat thy words! Why, thou wast nigh 004:02;434[B ]| Whimpering away my reason! hark 'e, sir, ~~ 004:02;434[B ]| It is no secret, that Erminia, 004:02;434[B ]| Erminia, sir, was hidden in your tent, ~~ 004:02;434[B ]| O bless'd asylum! Comfortable home! 004:02;434[B ]| Begone! I pity thee; thou art a gull, 004:02;434[B ]| Erminia's fresh puppet! 004:02;434[G ]| Furious fire! 004:02;434[G ]| Thou mak'st me boil as hot as thou canst flame! 004:02;435[G ]| And in thy teeth I give thee back the lie! 004:02;435[G ]| Thou liest! Thou, Auranthe's fool! A wittol! 004:02;435[B ]| Look! look at this bright sword; 004:02;435[B ]| There is no part of it, to the very hilt, 004:02;435[B ]| But shall indulge itself about thine heart! 004:02;435[B ]| Draw! but remember thou must cower thy plumes, 004:02;435[B ]| As yesterday the Arab made thee stoop. 004:02;435[G ]| Patience! Not here; I would not spill thy blood 004:02;435[G ]| Here, underneath this roof where Otho breathes, ~~ 004:02;435[G ]| Thy father, ~~ almost mine. 004:02;435[B ]| O faltering coward! 004:02;435[' ]| <\Enter Page.\> 004:02;435[B ]| Stay, stay; here is one I have half a word with. 004:02;435[B ]| Well? What ails thee, child? 004:02;435[W ]| My lord! 004:02;435[B ]| What wouldst say? 004:02;435[W ]| They are fled! 004:02;435[B ]| They! Who? 004:02;435[W ]| When anxiously 004:02;435[W ]| I hasten'd back, your grieving messenger, 004:02;435[W ]| I found the stairs all dark, the lamps extinct, 004:02;435[W ]| And not a foot or whisper to be heard. 004:02;435[W ]| I thought her dead, and on the lowest step 004:02;435[W ]| Sat listening; when presently came by 004:02;435[W ]| Two muffled up, ~~ one sighing heavily, 004:02;435[W ]| The other cursing low, whose voice I knew 004:02;435[W ]| For the Duke*Conrad's. Close I follow'd them 004:02;435[W ]| Through the dark ways they chose to the open air; 004:02;435[W ]| And, as I follow'd, heard my lady speak. 004:02;435[B ]| Thy life answer the truth! 004:02;435[W ]| The chamber's empty! 004:02;435[B ]| As I will be of mercy! So, at last, 004:02;435[B ]| This nail is in my temples! 004:02;435[G ]| Be calm in this. 004:02;435[B ]| I am. 004:02;435[G ]| And Albert too has disappear'd; 004:02;435[G ]| Ere I met you, I sought him every*where; 004:02;435[G ]| You would not hearken. 004:02;435[B ]| Which way went they, boy? 004:02;436[G ]| I'll hunt with you. 004:02;436[B ]| No, no, no. My senses are 004:02;436[B ]| Still whole. I have surviv'd. My arm is strong, ~~ 004:02;436[B ]| My appetite sharp ~~ for revenge! I'll no sharer 004:02;436[B ]| In my feast; my injury is all my own, 004:02;436[B ]| And so is my revenge, my lawful chattels! 004:02;436[B ]| Terrier, ferret them out! Burn ~~ burn the witch! 004:02;436[B ]| Trace me their footsteps! Away! 004:02;436[' ]| <\Exeunt.\> 005:01;436[' ]| 005:01;436[' ]| <\Enter\ CONRAD \and\ AURANTHE.> 005:01;436[I ]| Go no further; not a step more. Thou art 005:01;436[I ]| A master-plague in the midst of miseries. 005:01;436[I ]| Go, ~~ I fear thee! I tremble every limb, 005:01;436[I ]| Who never shook before. There's moody death 005:01;436[I ]| In thy resolved looks! Yes, I could kneel 005:01;436[I ]| To pray thee far away! Conrad, go! go! ~~ 005:01;436[I ]| There! yonder underneath the boughs I see 005:01;436[I ]| Our horses! 005:01;436[C ]| Aye, and the man. 005:01;436[I ]| Yes, he is there! 005:01;436[I ]| Go, go, ~~ no blood! no blood! ~~ go, gentle Conrad! 005:01;436[C ]| Farewell! 005:01;436[I ]| Farewell! For this heaven pardon you! 005:01;436[' ]| <\Exit\ AURANTHE.> 005:01;436[C ]| If he survive one hour, then may I die 005:01;436[C ]| In unimagined tortures, or breathe through 005:01;436[C ]| A long life in the foulest sink o' the world! 005:01;437[C ]| He dies! 'Tis well she do not advertise 005:01;437[C ]| The caitiff of the cold steel at his back. 005:01;437[' ]| <\Exit\ CONRAD.> 005:01;437[' ]| <\Enter\ LUDOLPH \and Page.\> 005:01;437[B ]| Miss'd the way, boy? Say not that on your peril! 005:01;437[W ]| Indeed, indeed I cannot trace them further. 005:01;437[B ]| Must I stop here? Here solitary die? 005:01;437[B ]| Stifled beneath the thick oppressive shade 005:01;437[B ]| Of these dull boughs, ~~ this oven of dark thickets, ~~ 005:01;437[B ]| Silent, ~~ without revenge, ~~ pshaw! ~~ bitter end, ~~ 005:01;437[B ]| A bitter death, ~~ a suffocating death, ~~ 005:01;437[B ]| A gnawing ~~ silent ~~ deadly, quiet death! 005:01;437[B ]| Escap'd? ~~ fled? ~~ vanish'd? melted into air? 005:01;437[B ]| She's gone! I cannot clutch her! no revenge! 005:01;437[B ]| A muffled death, ensnared in horrid silence! 005:01;437[B ]| Suck'd to my grave amid a dreary calm! 005:01;438[B ]| O, where is that illustrious noise of war, 005:01;438[B ]| To smother up this sound of labouring breath, 005:01;438[B ]| This rustle of the trees! 005:01;438[' ]| 005:01;438[W ]| My lord, a noise! 005:01;438[W ]| This way ~~ hark! 005:01;438[B ]| Yes, yes! A hope! A music! 005:01;438[B ]| A glorious clamour! Now I live again. 005:01;438[' ]| <\Exeunt.\> 005:02;438[' ]| 005:02;438[' ]| <\Enter\ ALBERT \(wounded).\> 005:02;438[D ]| Oh! for enough life to support me on 005:02;438[D ]| To Otho's feet. 005:02;438[' ]| <\Enter\ LUDOLPH.> 005:02;438[B ]| Thrice villanous, stay there! 005:02;438[B ]| Tell me where that detested woman is, 005:02;438[B ]| Or this is through thee! 005:02;438[D ]| My good Prince, with me 005:02;438[D ]| The sword has done its worst; not without worst 005:02;438[D ]| Done to another, ~~ Conrad has it home! 005:02;438[D ]| I see you know it all! 005:02;438[B ]| Where is his sister? 005:02;438[' ]| <\Enter\ AURANTHE.> 005:02;438[I ]| Albert! 005:02;438[B ]| Ha! There! there! ~~ He is the paramour! ~~ 005:02;439[B ]| There ~~ hug him ~~ dying! O, thou innocence, 005:02;439[B ]| Shrive him and comfort him at his last gasp, 005:02;439[B ]| Kiss down his eyelids! Was he not thy love? 005:02;439[B ]| Wilt thou forsake him at his latest hour? 005:02;439[B ]| Keep fearful and aloof from his last gaze, 005:02;439[B ]| His most uneasy moments, when cold death 005:02;439[B ]| Stands with the door ajar to let him in? 005:02;439[D ]| O that that door with hollow slam would close 005:02;439[D ]| Upon me sudden! for I cannot meet, 005:02;439[D ]| In all the unknown chambers of the dead, 005:02;439[D ]| Such horrors! 005:02;439[B ]| Auranthe! what can he mean? 005:02;439[B ]| What horrors? Is it not a joyous time? 005:02;439[B ]| Am I not married to a paragon 005:02;439[B ]| "Of personal beauty and untainted soul"? 005:02;439[B ]| A blushing fair-eyed purity? A sylph, 005:02;439[B ]| Whose snowy timid hand has never sinn'd 005:02;439[B ]| Beyond a flower pluck'd, white as itself? 005:02;439[B ]| Albert, you do insult my bride ~~ your mistress ~~ 005:02;439[B ]| To talk of horrors on our wedding-night! 005:02;439[D ]| Alas! poor Prince, I would you knew my heart! 005:02;439[D ]| 'Tis not so guilty ~~ 005:02;439[B ]| Hear, he pleads not guilty! 005:02;439[B ]| You are not? or, if so, what matters it? 005:02;439[B ]| You have escap'd me, free as the dusk air, 005:02;439[B ]| Hid in the forest, safe from my revenge, 005:02;439[B ]| I cannot catch you! You should laugh at me, 005:02;439[B ]| Poor cheated Ludolph! Make the forest hiss 005:02;439[B ]| With jeers at me! You tremble ~~ faint at once, 005:02;439[B ]| You will come to again. O cockatrice, 005:02;439[B ]| I have you! Whither wander those fair eyes 005:02;439[B ]| To entice the devil to your help, that he 005:02;439[B ]| May change you to a spider, so to crawl 005:02;439[B ]| Into some cranny to escape my wrath? 005:02;439[D ]| Sometimes the counsel of a dying man 005:02;439[D ]| Doth operate quietly when his breath is gone: 005:02;440[D ]| Disjoin those hands ~~ part ~~ part ~~ do not destroy 005:02;440[D ]| Each other ~~ forget her! ~~ Our miseries 005:02;440[D ]| Are equal shared, and mercy is ~~ 005:02;440[B ]| A boon 005:02;440[B ]| When one can compass it. Auranthe, try 005:02;440[B ]| Your oratory; your breath is not so hitch'd. 005:02;440[B ]| Aye, stare for help! 005:02;440[' ]| 005:02;440[B ]| There goes a spotted soul 005:02;440[B ]| Howling in vain along the hollow night! 005:02;440[B ]| Hear him! He calls you ~~ sweet Auranthe, come! 005:02;440[I ]| Kill me! 005:02;440[B ]| No! What? Upon our marriage-night? 005:02;440[B ]| The earth would shudder at so foul a deed! 005:02;440[B ]| A fair bride! A sweet bride! An innocent bride! 005:02;440[B ]| No! we must revel it, as 'tis in use 005:02;440[B ]| In times of delicate brilliant ceremony: 005:02;440[B ]| Come, let me lead you to our halls again! 005:02;440[B ]| Nay, linger not; make no resistance, sweet; ~~ 005:02;440[B ]| Will you? Ah, wretch, thou canst not, for I have 005:02;440[B ]| The strength of twenty lions 'gainst a lamb! 005:02;440[B ]| Now ~~ one adieu for Albert! ~~ Come away! 005:02;440[' ]| <\Exeunt.\> 005:03;440[' ]| 005:03;440[' ]| <\Enter\ SIGIFRED, GONFRID, \and\ THEODORE, \meeting.\> 005:03;440[J ]| Was ever such a night? 005:03;440[E ]| What horrors more? 005:03;440[E ]| Things unbeliev'd one hour, so strange they are, 005:03;440[E ]| The next hour stamps with credit. 005:03;440[J ]| Your last news? 005:03;440[K ]| After the page's story of the death 005:03;441[K ]| Of Albert and Duke*Conrad? 005:03;441[E ]| And the return 005:03;441[E ]| Of Ludolph with the Princess. 005:03;441[K ]| No more, save 005:03;441[K ]| Prince*Gersa's freeing Abbot*Ethelbert, 005:03;441[K ]| And the sweet lady, fair Erminia, 005:03;441[K ]| From prison. 005:03;441[J ]| Where are they now? Hast yet heard? 005:03;441[K ]| With, the sad Emperor they are closeted; 005:03;441[K ]| I saw the three pass slowly up the stairs, 005:03;441[K ]| The lady weeping, the old abbot cowl'd. 005:03;441[E ]| What next? 005:03;441[J ]| I ache to think on't. 005:03;441[K ]| 'Tis with fate. 005:03;441[J ]| One while these proud towers are hush'd as death. 005:03;441[K ]| The next our poor Prince fills the arched rooms 005:03;441[K ]| With ghastly ravings. 005:03;441[E ]| I do fear his brain. 005:03;441[K ]| I will see more. Bear you so stout a heart? 005:03;441[' ]| <\Exeunt into the Castle.\> 005:04;441[' ]| 005:04;441[' ]| 005:04;441[A ]| O, my poor boy! My son! My son! My Ludolph! 005:04;441[A ]| Have ye no comfort for me, ye physicians 005:04;441[A ]| Of the weak body and soul? 005:04;441[F ]| 'Tis not in medicine, 005:04;441[F ]| Either of heaven or earth, can cure, unless 005:04;441[F ]| Fit time be chosen to administer. 005:04;441[A ]| A kind forebearance, holy abbot. Come, 005:04;441[A ]| Erminia; here sit by me, gentle girl; 005:04;441[A ]| Give me thy hand; hast thou forgiven me? 005:04;441[H ]| Would I were with the saints to pray for you! 005:04;441[A ]| Why will ye keep me from my darling child? 005:04;442[W ]| Forgive me, but he must not see thy face. 005:04;442[A ]| Is then a fathr's countenance a Gorgon? 005:04;442[A ]| Hath it not comfort in it? Would it not 005:04;442[A ]| Console my poor boy, cheer him, heal his spirits? 005:04;442[A ]| Let me embrace him; let me speak to him; 005:04;442[A ]| I will! Who hinders me? Who's Emperor? 005:04;442[W ]| You may not, sire; 'twould overwhelm him quite, 005:04;442[W ]| He is so full of grief and passionate wrath; 005:04;442[W ]| Too heavy a sigh would kill him, or do worse. 005:04;442[W ]| He must be sav'd by fine contrivances; 005:04;442[W ]| And, most especially, we must keep clear 005:04;442[W ]| Out of his sight a father whom he loves; 005:04;442[W ]| His heart is full, it can contain no more, 005:04;442[W ]| And do its ruddy office. 005:04;442[F ]| Sage advice; 005:04;442[F ]| We must endeavour how to ease and slacken 005:04;442[F ]| The tight-wound energies of his despair, 005:04;442[F ]| Not make them tenser. 005:04;442[A ]| Enough! I hear, I hear. 005:04;442[A ]| Yet you were about to advise more, ~~ I listen. 005:04;442[F ]| This learned doctor will agree with me, 005:04;442[F ]| That not in the smallest point should he be thwarted, 005:04;442[F ]| Or gainsaid by one word; his very motions, 005:04;442[F ]| Nods, becks, and hints, should be obey'd with care, 005:04;442[F ]| Even on the moment; so his troubled mind 005:04;442[F ]| May cure itself. 005:04;442[W ]| There are no other means. 005:04;442[A ]| Open the door; let's hear if all is quiet. 005:04;442[W ]| Beseech you, sire, forbear. 005:04;442[H ]| Do, do. 005:04;442[A ]| I command! 005:04;442[A ]| Open it straight; ~~ hush! ~~ quiet! ~~ my lost boy! 005:04;442[A ]| My miserable child! 005:04;442[' ]| <\Ludolph (indistinctly without).\> 005:04;442[B ]| Fill, fill my goblet, ~~ here's a 005:04;442[B ]| health! 005:04;442[H ]| O, close the door! 005:04;442[A ]| Let, let me hear his voice; this cannot last; 005:04;443[A ]| And fain would I catch up his dying words, 005:04;443[A ]| Though my own knell they be! This cannot last! 005:04;443[A ]| O let me catch his voice ~~ for lo! I hear 005:04;443[A ]| A whisper in this silence that he's dead! 005:04;443[A ]| It is so! ~~ Gersa? 005:04;443[' ]| <\Enter\ GERSA.> 005:04;443[W ]| Say, how fares the Prince? 005:04;443[G ]| More calm; his features are less wild and flush'd; 005:04;443[G ]| Once he complain'd of weariness. 005:04;443[W ]| Indeed! 005:04;443[W ]| 'Tis good, ~~ 'tis good; let him but fall asleep, 005:04;443[W ]| That saves him. 005:04;443[A ]| Gersa, watch him like a child; 005:04;443[A ]| Ward him from harm, ~~ and bring me better news! 005:04;443[W ]| Humour him to the height. I fear to go; 005:04;443[W ]| For should he catch a glimpse of my dull garb, 005:04;443[W ]| It might affright him, fill him with suspicion 005:04;443[W ]| That we believe him sick, which must not be. 005:04;443[G ]| I will invent what soothing means I can. 005:04;443[' ]| <\Exit\ GERSA.> 005:04;443[W ]| This should cheer up your Highness; the weariness 005:04;443[W ]| Is a good symptom, and most favourable; 005:04;443[W ]| It gives me pleasant hopes. Please you, walk forth 005:04;443[W ]| Upon the terrace; the refreshing air 005:04;443[W ]| Will blow one half of your sad doubts away. 005:04;443[' ]| <\Exeunt.\> 005:05;444[' ]| 005:05;444[' ]| <\forth with all costly magnificence, with supper-tables, laden with\> 005:05;444[' ]| <\services of gold and silver. A door in the back scene, guarded by two\> 005:05;444[' ]| <\Soldiers. Lords, Ladies, Knights, Gentlemen, etc%, whispering sadly,\> 005:05;444[' ]| <\and ranging themselves; part entering and part discovered.\> 005:05;444[W ]| Grievously are we tantalised, one and all; 005:05;444[W ]| Sway'd here and there, commanded to and fro, 005:05;444[W ]| As though we were the shadows of a sleep, 005:05;444[W ]| And link'd to a dreaming fancy. What do we here? 005:05;444[K ]| I am no seer; you know we must obey 005:05;444[K ]| The Prince from A to Z, though it should be 005:05;444[K ]| To set the place in flames. I pray, hast heard 005:05;444[K ]| Where the most wicked Princess is? 005:05;444[W ]| There, sir, 005:05;444[W ]| In the next room; have you remark'd those two 005:05;444[W ]| Stout soldiers posted at the door? 005:05;444[K ]| For what? 005:05;444[' ]| <\They whisper.\> 005:05;444[V ]| How ghast a train! 005:05;444[V ]| Sure this should be some splendid burial. 005:05;444[V ]| What fearful whispering! ~~ See, see, ~~ Gersa there! 005:05;444[' ]| <\Enter\ GERSA.> 005:05;444[G ]| Put on your brightest looks; smile if you can; 005:05;444[G ]| Behave as all were happy; keep your eyes 005:05;444[G ]| From the least watch upon him; if he speaks 005:05;444[G ]| To any one, answer, collectedly, 005:05;444[G ]| Without surprise, his questions, howe'er strange. 005:05;444[G ]| Do this to the utmost, ~~ though, alas! with me 005:05;444[G ]| The remedy grows hopeless! Here he comes, ~~ 005:05;444[G ]| Observe what I have said, ~~ show no surprise. 005:05;444[' ]| <\Enter\ LUDOLPH, \followed by\ SIGIFRED \and Page.\> 005:05;444[B ]| A splendid company! rare beauties here! 005:05;444[B ]| I should have Orphean lips, and Plato's fancy, 005:05;445[B ]| Amphion's utterance, toned with his lyre, 005:05;445[B ]| Or the deep key of Jove's sonorous mouth, 005:05;445[B ]| To give fit salutation. Methought I heard, 005:05;445[B ]| As I came in, some whispers, ~~ what of that? 005:05;445[B ]| 'Tis natural men should whisper; at the kiss 005:05;445[B ]| Of Psyche given by Love, there was a buzz 005:05;445[B ]| Among the gods! ~~ and silence is as natural. 005:05;445[B ]| These draperies are fine, and, being a mortal, 005:05;445[B ]| I should desire no better; yet, in truth, 005:05;445[B ]| There must be some superior costliness, 005:05;445[B ]| Some wider-domed high magnificence! 005:05;445[B ]| I would have, as a mortal I may not, 005:05;445[B ]| Hangings of heaven's clouds, purple and gold, 005:05;445[B ]| Slung from the spheres; gauzes of silver mist, 005:05;445[B ]| Loop'd up with cords of twisted wreathed light, 005:05;445[B ]| And tassell'd round with weeping meteors! 005:05;445[B ]| These pendent lamps and chandeliers are bright 005:05;445[B ]| As earthly fires from dull dross can be cleans'd; 005:05;445[B ]| Yet could my eyes drink up intenser beams 005:05;445[B ]| Undazzled, ~~ this is darkness, ~~ when I close 005:05;445[B ]| These lids, I see far fiercer brilliances, ~~ 005:05;445[B ]| Skies full of splendid moons, and shooting stars, 005:05;445[B ]| And spouting exhalations, diamond fires, 005:05;445[B ]| And panting fountains quivering with deep glows! 005:05;445[B ]| Yes ~~ this is dark ~~ is it not dark? 005:05;445[E ]| My lord, 005:05;445[E ]| 'Tis late; the lights of festival are ever 005:05;445[E ]| Quench'd in the morn. 005:05;445[B ]| 'Tis not to-morrow then? 005:05;445[E ]| 'Tis early dawn. 005:05;445[G ]| Indeed full time we slept; 005:05;445[G ]| Say you so, Prince? 005:05;445[B ]| I say I quarrell'd with you; 005:05;445[B ]| We did not tilt each other, ~~ that's a blessing, ~~ 005:05;445[B ]| Good gods! no innocent blood upon my head! 005:05;445[E ]| Retire, Gersa! 005:05;445[B ]| There should be three more here: 005:05;445[B ]| For two of them, they stay away perhaps, 005:05;445[B ]| Being gloomy-minded, haters of fair revels, ~~ 005:05;445[B ]| They know their own thoughts best. As for the third, 005:05;446[B ]| We'll have her presently; aye, you shall see her, 005:05;446[B ]| And wonder at her, friends, she is so fair; 005:05;446[B ]| Deep blue eyes, semi-shaded in white lids, 005:05;446[B ]| Finish'd with lashes fine for more soft shade, 005:05;446[B ]| Completed by her twin-arch'd ebon-brows; 005:05;446[B ]| White temples, of exactest elegance, 005:05;446[B ]| Of even mould, felicitous and smooth; 005:05;446[B ]| Cheeks fashion'd tenderly on either side, 005:05;446[B ]| So perfect, so divine, that our poor eyes 005:05;446[B ]| Are dazzled with the sweet proportioning, 005:05;446[B ]| And wonder that 'tis so, ~~ the magic chance! 005:05;446[B ]| Her nostrils, small, fragrant, fairy-delicate; 005:05;446[B ]| Her lips ~~ I swear no human bones e'er wore 005:05;446[B ]| So taking a disguise; ~~ you shall behold her! 005:05;446[B ]| She is the world's chief jewel, and, by heaven, 005:05;446[B ]| She's mine by right of marriage! ~~ she is mine! 005:05;446[B ]| Patience, good people, in fit time I send 005:05;446[B ]| A summoner, ~~ she will obey my call, 005:05;446[B ]| Being a wife most mild and dutiful. 005:05;446[B ]| First I would hear what music is prepared 005:05;446[B ]| To herald and receive her; let me hear! 005:05;446[E ]| Bid the musicians soothe him tenderly. 005:05;446[' ]| <\A soft strain of music.\> 005:05;446[B ]| Ye have none better? No, I am content; 005:05;446[B ]| 'Tis a rich sobbing melody, with reliefs 005:05;446[B ]| Full and majestic; it is well enough, 005:05;446[B ]| And will be sweeter, when ye see her pace 005:05;446[B ]| Sweeping into this presence, glisten'd o'er 005:05;446[B ]| With emptied caskets, and her train upheld 005:05;446[B ]| By ladies, habited in robes of lawn 005:05;446[B ]| Sprinkled with golden crescents, others bright 005:05;446[B ]| In silks with spangles shower'd, and bow'd to 005:05;446[B ]| By duchesses and pearled margravines! 005:05;447[B ]| Sad, that the fairest creature of the earth ~~ 005:05;447[B ]| I pray you mind me not ~~ 'tis sad, I say, 005:05;447[B ]| That the extremest beauty of the world 005:05;447[B ]| Should so entrench herself away from me, 005:05;447[B ]| Behind a barrier of engender'd guilt! 005:05;447[V ]| Ah! what a moan! 005:05;447[W ]| Most piteous indeed! 005:05;447[B ]| She shall be brought before this company, 005:05;447[B ]| And then ~~ then ~~ 005:05;447[V ]| He muses. 005:05;447[G ]| O, Fortune, where will this end! 005:05;447[E ]| I guess his purpose! Indeed he must not have 005:05;447[E ]| That pestilence brought in, ~~ that cannot be, 005:05;447[E ]| There we must stop him. 005:05;447[G ]| I am lost! Hush, hush! 005:05;447[G ]| He is about to rave again. 005:05;447[B ]| A barrier of guilt! I was the fool, 005:05;447[B ]| She was the cheater! Who's the cheater now, 005:05;447[B ]| And who the fool? The entrapp'd, the caged fool, 005:05;447[B ]| The bird-lim'd raven? She shall croak to death! 005:05;447[B ]| Secure! Methinks I have her in my fist, 005:05;447[B ]| To crush her with my heel! Wait; wait! I marvel 005:05;447[B ]| My father keeps away. Good friend ~~ ah! Sigifred? ~~ 005:05;447[B ]| Do bring him to me, ~~ and Erminia 005:05;447[B ]| I fain would see before I sleep, ~~ and Ethelbert, 005:05;447[B ]| That he may bless me, as I know he will, 005:05;447[B ]| Though I have curs'd him. 005:05;447[E ]| Rather suffer me 005:05;447[E ]| To lead you to them. 005:05;447[B ]| No, excuse me, ~~ no! 005:05;447[B ]| The day is not quite done. Go, bring them hither. 005:05;447[' ]| <\Exit\ SIGIFRED.> 005:05;447[B ]| Certes, a father's smile should, like sunlight, 005:05;447[B ]| Slant on my sheeved harvest of ripe bliss. 005:05;447[B ]| Besides, I thirst to pledge my lovely bride 005:05;447[B ]| In a deep goblet: let me see ~~ what wine? 005:05;447[B ]| The strong Iberian juice? or mellow Greek? 005:05;448[B ]| Or pale Calabrian? or the Tuscan grape? 005:05;448[B ]| Or of old A*Etna's pulpy wine-presses, 005:05;448[B ]| Black stain'd with the fat vintage, as it were 005:05;448[B ]| The purple slaughter-house, where Bacchus' self 005:05;448[B ]| Prick'd his own swollen veins! Where is my page? 005:05;448[W ]| Here ~~ here! 005:05;448[B ]| Be ready to obey me; anon thou shalt 005:05;448[B ]| Bear a soft message for me; for the hour 005:05;448[B ]| Draws near when I must make a winding up 005:05;448[B ]| Of bridal-mysteries ~~ a fine-spun vengeance! 005:05;448[B ]| Carve it on my tomb, that, when I rest beneath, 005:05;448[B ]| Men shall confess, ~~ this prince was gull'd and cheated, 005:05;448[B ]| But from the ashes of disgrace he rose 005:05;448[B ]| More than a fiery dragon, and did burn 005:05;448[B ]| His ignominy up in purging fires! 005:05;448[B ]| Did I not send, sir, but a moment past, 005:05;448[B ]| For my father? 005:05;448[G ]| You did. 005:05;448[B ]| Perhaps 'twould be 005:05;448[B ]| Much better he came not. 005:05;448[G ]| He enters now! 005:05;448[' ]| <\Enter\ OTHO, ERMINIA, ETHELBERT, SIGIFRED, \and Physician.\> 005:05;448[B ]| Oh! thou good man, against whose sacred head 005:05;448[B ]| I was a mad conspirator, chiefly too 005:05;448[B ]| For the sake of my fair newly wedded wife, 005:05;449[B ]| Now to be punish'd, ~~ do not look so sad! 005:05;449[B ]| Those charitable eyes will thaw my heart, 005:05;449[B ]| Those tears will wash away a just resolve, 005:05;449[B ]| A verdict ten-times sworn! Awake ~~ awake ~~ 005:05;449[B ]| Put on a judge's brow, and use a tongue 005:05;449[B ]| Made iron-stern by habit! Thou shalt see 005:05;449[B ]| A deed to be applauded, 'scribed in gold! 005:05;449[B ]| Join a loud voice to mine, and so denounce 005:05;449[B ]| What I alone will execute! 005:05;449[A ]| Dear son, 005:05;449[A ]| What is it? By your father's love, I sue 005:05;449[A ]| That it be nothing merciless! 005:05;449[B ]| To that demon! 005:05;449[B ]| Not so! No! She is in temple-stall 005:05;449[B ]| Being garnish'd for the sacrifice, and I, 005:05;449[B ]| The priest of justice, will immolate her 005:05;449[B ]| Upon the altar of wrath! She stings me through! ~~ 005:05;449[B ]| Even as the worm doth feed upon the nut, 005:05;449[B ]| So she, a scorpion, preys upon my brain! 005:05;449[B ]| I feel her gnawing here! ~~ Let her but vanish, 005:05;449[B ]| Then, father, I will lead your legions forth, 005:05;449[B ]| Compact in steeled squares, and speared files, 005:05;449[B ]| And bid our trumpets speak a fell rebuke 005:05;449[B ]| To nations drows'd in peace! 005:05;449[A ]| To-morrow, son, 005:05;449[A ]| Be your word law; forget to-day ~~ 005:05;449[B ]| I will 005:05;449[B ]| When I have finish'd it! Now, ~~ now, I'm pight, 005:05;449[B ]| Tight-footed for the deed! 005:05;449[H ]| Alas! Alas! 005:05;449[B ]| What angel's voice is that? Erminia! 005:05;449[B ]| Ah! gentlest creature, whose sweet innocence 005:05;449[B ]| Was almost murder'd; I am penitent, 005:05;449[B ]| Wilt thou forgive me? And thou, holy man, 005:05;449[B ]| Good Ethelbert, shall I die in peace with you? 005:05;449[H ]| Die, my lord! 005:05;450[B ]| I feel it possible. 005:05;450[A ]| Physician? 005:05;450[W ]| I fear me he is past my skill. 005:05;450[A ]| Not so! 005:05;450[B ]| I see it ~~ I see it ~~ I have been wandering! 005:05;450[B ]| Half mad ~~ not right here ~~ I forget my purpose. 005:05;450[B ]| Bestir ~~ bestir ~~ Auranthe! Ha! ha! ha! 005:05;450[B ]| Youngster! Page! go bid them drag her to me! 005:05;450[B ]| Obey! This shall finish it. 005:05;450[' ]| <\Draws a dagger.\> 005:05;450[A ]| Oh, my son! my son! 005:05;450[E ]| This must not be ~~ stop there! 005:05;450[B ]| Am I obey'd? 005:05;450[B ]| A little talk with her ~~ no harm ~~ haste! haste! 005:05;450[' ]| <\Exit Page.\> 005:05;450[B ]| Set her before me ~~ never fear I can strike. 005:05;450[X ]| My lord! My lord! 005:05;450[G ]| Good Prince! 005:05;450[B ]| Why do ye trouble me? out ~~ out ~~ away! 005:05;450[B ]| There she is! take that! and that! no, no, 005:05;450[B ]| That's not well done. ~~ Where is she? 005:05;450[' ]| <\The doors open. Enter Page. Several women are seen grouped\> 005:05;450[' ]| <\about\ AURANTHE \in the inner-room.\> 005:05;450[W ]| Alas! My lord, my lord! they cannot move her! 005:05;450[W ]| Her arms are stiff, ~~ her fingers clench'd and cold! 005:05;450[B ]| She's dead! 005:05;450[' ]| <\Staggers and falls into their arms.\> 005:05;450[F ]| Take away the dagger. 005:05;450[G ]| Softly! so! 005:05;450[A ]| Thank God for that! 005:05;450[E ]| It could not harm him now. 005:05;451[G ]| No! ~~ brief be his anguish! 005:05;451[B ]| She's gone! I am content ~~ nobles, good night! 005:05;451[B ]| Where is your hand, father? ~~ what sultry air! 005:05;451[B ]| We are all weary ~~ faint ~~ set ope the doors ~~ 005:05;451[B ]| I will to bed! ~~ To-morrow ~~ 005:05;451[' ]| <\Dies.\> 005:05;451[' ]|