001:01;519[' ]| <\The sea shore on the coast of Granada.\> 001:01;519[' ]| 001:01;519[E ]| I hold Osorio dear: he is your son, 001:01;519[E ]| And Albert's brother. 001:01;519[B ]| Love him for himself, 001:01;519[B ]| Nor make the living wretched for the dead. 001:01;519[E ]| I mourn that you should plead in vain, Lord*Velez! 001:01;519[E ]| But Heaven hath heard my vow, and I remain 001:01;519[E ]| Faithful to Albert, be he dead or living. 001:01;519[B ]| Heaven knows with what delight I saw your loves; 001:01;519[B ]| And could my heart's blood give him back to thee 001:01;519[B ]| I would die smiling. But these are idle thoughts! 001:01;519[B ]| Thy dying father comes upon my soul 001:01;519[B ]| With that same look, with which he gave thee to me: 001:01;520[B ]| I held thee in mine arms, a powerless babe, 001:01;520[B ]| While thy poor mother with a mute entreaty 001:01;520[B ]| Fix'd her faint eyes on mine: ah, not for this, 001:01;520[B ]| That I should let thee feed thy soul with gloom, 001:01;520[B ]| And with slow anguish wear away thy life, 001:01;520[B ]| The victim of a useless constancy. 001:01;520[B ]| I must not see thee wretched. 001:01;520[E ]| There are woes 001:01;520[E ]| Ill-barter'd for the garishness of joy! 001:01;520[E ]| If it be wretched with an untired eye 001:01;520[E ]| To watch those skiey tints, and this green ocean; 001:01;520[E ]| Or in the sultry hour beneath some rock, 001:01;520[E ]| My hair dishevell'd by the pleasant sea-breeze, 001:01;520[E ]| To shape sweet visions, and live o'er again 001:01;520[E ]| All past hours of delight; if it be wretched 001:01;520[E ]| To watch some bark, and fancy Albert there; 001:01;520[E ]| To go through each minutest circumstance 001:01;520[E ]| Of the bless'd meeting, and to frame adventures 001:01;520[E ]| Most terrible and strange, and hear \him\ tell them: 001:01;520[E ]| (As once I knew a crazy Moorish maid, 001:01;520[E ]| Who dress'd her in her buried lover's cloaths, 001:01;520[E ]| And o'er the smooth spring in the mountain cleft 001:01;520[E ]| Hung with her lute, and play'd the selfsame tune 001:01;520[E ]| He used to play, and listen'd to the shadow 001:01;520[E ]| Herself had made); if this be wretchedness, 001:01;520[E ]| And if indeed it be a wretched thing 001:01;520[E ]| To trick out mine own death-bed, and imagine 001:01;520[E ]| That I had died ~~ died, just ere his return; 001:01;520[E ]| Then see him listening to my constancy; 001:01;520[E ]| And hover round, as he at midnight ever 001:01;520[E ]| Sits on my grave and gazes at the moon; 001:01;520[E ]| Or haply in some more fantastic mood 001:01;520[E ]| To be in Paradise, and with choice flowers 001:01;520[E ]| Build up a bower where he and I might dwell, 001:01;520[E ]| And there to wait his coming! O my sire! 001:01;520[E ]| My Albert's sire! if this be wretchedness 001:01;520[E ]| That eats away the life, what were it, think you, 001:01;520[E ]| If in a most assur'd reality 001:01;520[E ]| He should return, and see a brother's infant 001:01;520[E ]| Smile at him from \my\ arms? 001:01;520[' ]| <\Clasping her forehead.\> 001:01;521[E ]| O what a thought! 001:01;521[E ]| 'Twas horrible, it pass'd my brain like lightning. 001:01;521[B ]| 'Twere horrible, if but one doubt remain'd 001:01;521[B ]| The very week he promised his return. 001:01;521[E ]| Ah, what a busy joy was ours ~~ to see him 001:01;521[E ]| After his three years' travels! tho' that absence 001:01;521[E ]| His still-expected, never-failing letters 001:01;521[E ]| Almost endear'd to me! Even then what tumult! 001:01;521[B ]| O power of youth to feed on pleasant thoughts 001:01;521[B ]| Spite of conviction! I am old and heartless! 001:01;521[B ]| Yes, I am old ~~ I have no pleasant dreams ~~ 001:01;521[B ]| Hectic and unrefresh'd with rest. 001:01;521[' ]| <\Maria (with great tenderness).\> 001:01;521[E ]| My father! 001:01;521[B ]| Aye, 'twas the morning thou didst try to cheer me 001:01;521[B ]| With a fond gaiety. My heart was bursting, 001:01;521[B ]| And yet I could not tell me, how my sleep 001:01;521[B ]| Was throng'd with swarthy faces, and I saw 001:01;521[B ]| The merchant-ship in which my son was captured ~~ 001:01;521[B ]| Well, well, enough ~~ captured in sight of land ~~ 001:01;521[B ]| We might almost have seen it from our house-top! 001:01;522[' ]| <\Maria (abruptly).\> 001:01;522[E ]| He did not perish there! 001:01;522[' ]| <\Velez (impatiently).\> 001:01;522[B ]| Nay, nay ~~ how aptly thou forgett'st a tale 001:01;522[B ]| Thou ne'er didst wish to learn ~~ my brave Osorio 001:01;522[B ]| Saw them both founder in the storm that parted 001:01;522[B ]| Him and the pirate: both the vessels founder'd. 001:01;522[B ]| Gallant Osorio! 001:01;522[' ]| <\Pauses, then tenderly.\> 001:01;522[B ]| O belov'd Maria, 001:01;522[B ]| Would'st thou best prove thy faith to generous Albert 001:01;522[B ]| And most delight his spirit, go and make 001:01;522[B ]| His brother happy, make his aged father 001:01;522[B ]| Sink to the grave with joy! 001:01;522[E ]| For mercy's sake 001:01;522[E ]| Press me no more. I have no power to love him! 001:01;522[E ]| His proud forbidding eye, and his dark brow 001:01;522[E ]| Chill me, like dew-damps of the unwholesome night. 001:01;522[E ]| My love, a timorous and tender flower, 001:01;522[E ]| Closes beneath his touch. 001:01;522[B ]| You wrong him, maiden. 001:01;522[B ]| You wrong him, by my soul! Nor was it well 001:01;522[B ]| To character by such unkindly phrases 001:01;522[B ]| The stir and workings of that love for you 001:01;522[B ]| Which he has toil'd to smother. 'Twas not well ~~ 001:01;522[B ]| Nor is it grateful in you to forget 001:01;522[B ]| His wounds and perilous voyages, and how 001:01;522[B ]| With an heroic fearlessness of danger 001:01;522[B ]| He roamed the coast of Afric for your Albert. 001:01;522[B ]| It was not well ~~ you have moved me even to tears. 001:01;522[E ]| O pardon me, my father! pardon me. 001:01;522[E ]| It was a foolish and ungrateful speech, 001:01;522[E ]| A most ungrateful speech! But I am hurried 001:01;522[E ]| Beyond myself, if I but dream of one 001:01;522[E ]| Who aims to rival Albert. Were we not 001:01;522[E ]| Born on one day, like twins of the same parent? 001:01;522[E ]| Nursed in one cradle? Pardon me, my father! 001:01;522[E ]| A six years' absence is an heavy thing; 001:01;522[E ]| Yet still the hope survives ~~ 001:01;522[' ]| <\Velez (looking forwards).\> 001:01;522[B ]| Hush ~~ hush! Maria. 001:01;523[E ]| It is Francesco, our Inquisitor; 001:01;523[E ]| That busy man, gross, ignorant, and cruel! 001:01;523[' ]| <\Enter\ FRANCESCO \and\ ALHADRA.> 001:01;523[' ]| <\Francesco (to Velez).\> 001:01;523[D ]| Where is your son, my lord? Oh! here he comes. 001:01;523[' ]| <\Enter\ OSORIO.> 001:01;523[D ]| My Lord*Osorio! this Moresco woman 001:01;523[D ]| (Alhadra is her name) asks audience of you. 001:01;523[A ]| Hail, reverend father! What may be the business? 001:01;523[D ]| O the old business ~~ a Mohammedan! 001:01;523[D ]| The officers are in her husband's house, 001:01;523[D ]| And would have taken him, but that he mention'd 001:01;523[D ]| Your name, asserting that you were his friend, 001:01;524[D ]| Aye, and would warrant him a Catholic. 001:01;524[D ]| But I know well these children of perdition, 001:01;524[D ]| And all their idle falshoods to gain time; 001:01;524[D ]| So should have made the officers proceed, 001:01;524[D ]| But that this woman with most passionate outcries, 001:01;524[D ]| (Kneeling and holding forth her infants to me) 001:01;524[D ]| So work'd upon me, who (you know, my lord!) 001:01;524[D ]| Have human frailties, and am tender-hearted, 001:01;524[D ]| That I came with her. 001:01;524[A ]| You are merciful. 001:01;524[' ]| <\Looking at\ ALHADRA.> 001:01;524[A ]| I would that I could serve you; but in truth 001:01;524[A ]| Your face is new to me. 001:01;524[' ]| 001:01;524[' ]| <\Francesco.\> 001:01;524[D ]| Aye, aye ~~ I thought so; 001:01;524[D ]| And so I said to one of the familiars. 001:01;524[D ]| A likely story, said I, that Osorio, 001:01;524[D ]| The gallant nobleman, who fought so bravely 001:01;524[D ]| Some four years past against these rebel Moors; 001:01;524[D ]| Working so hard from out the garden of faith 001:01;524[D ]| To eradicate these weeds detestable; 001:01;524[D ]| That he should countenance this vile Moresco, 001:01;524[D ]| Nay, be his friend ~~ and warrant him, forsooth! 001:01;524[D ]| Well, well, my lord! it is a warning to me; 001:01;524[D ]| Now I return. 001:01;524[F ]| My lord, my husband's name 001:01;524[F ]| Is Ferdinand: you may remember it. 001:01;524[F ]| Three years ago ~~ three years this very week ~~ 001:01;524[F ]| You left him at Almeria. 001:01;524[' ]| <\Francesco (triumphantly).\> 001:01;524[D ]| Palpably false! 001:01;524[D ]| This very week, three years ago, my lord! 001:01;524[D ]| (You needs must recollect it by your wound) 001:01;524[D ]| You were at sea, and fought the Moorish fiends 001:01;524[D ]| Who took and murder'd your poor brother Albert. 001:01;524[' ]| 001:01;524[' ]| 001:01;524[' ]| <\speech that follows.\> 001:01;525[' ]| <\Francesco (to Velez and pointing to Osorio).\> 001:01;525[D ]| What? is he, my lord? How strange he looks! 001:01;525[' ]| <\Velez (angrily).\> 001:01;525[B ]| You started on him too abruptly, father! 001:01;525[B ]| The fate of one, on whom you know he doted. 001:01;525[' ]| <\Osorio (starting as in a sudden agitation).\> 001:01;525[A ]| O heavens! I doted! 001:01;525[' ]| <\Then, as if recovering himself.\> 001:01;525[A ]| Yes! I DOTED on him! 001:01;525[' ]| <\Osorio walks to the end of the stage.\ VELEZ> 001:01;525[' ]| <\follows soothing him.\> 001:01;525[' ]| <\Maria (her eye following them).\> 001:01;525[E ]| I do not, cannot love him. 001:01;525[E ]| Is my heart hard? 001:01;525[E ]| Is my heart hard? that even now the thought 001:01;525[E ]| Should force itself upon me ~~ yet I feel it! 001:01;525[D ]| The drops did start and stand upon his forehead! 001:01;525[D ]| I will return ~~ in very truth I grieve 001:01;525[D ]| To have been the occasion. Ho! attend me, woman! 001:01;525[' ]| <\Alhadra (to Maria).\> 001:01;525[F ]| O gentle lady, make the father stay 001:01;525[F ]| Till that my lord recover. I am sure 001:01;525[F ]| That he will say he is my husband's friend. 001:01;525[E ]| Stay, father, stay ~~ my lord will soon recover. 001:01;525[' ]| 001:01;525[' ]| <\Osorio (to Velez as they return).\> 001:01;525[A ]| Strange! that this Francesco 001:01;525[A ]| Should have the power so to distemper me. 001:01;525[B ]| Nay, 'twas an amiable weakness, son! 001:01;525[' ]| <\Francesco (to Osorio).\> 001:01;525[D ]| My lord, I truly grieve ~~ 001:01;525[A ]| Tut! name it not. 001:01;525[A ]| A sudden seizure, father! think not of it. 001:01;525[A ]| As to this woman's husband, I \do\ know him: 001:01;525[A ]| I know him well, and that he is a Christian. 001:01;525[D ]| I hope, my lord, your sensibility 001:01;525[D ]| Doth not prevail. 001:01;525[A ]| Nay, nay ~~ you know me better. 001:01;525[A ]| You hear what I have said. But 'tis a trifle. 001:01;525[A ]| I had something here of more importance. 001:01;525[' ]| <\Touching his forehead as if in the act of recollection.\> 001:01;526[A ]| Hah! 001:01;526[A ]| The Count*Mondejar, our great general, 001:01;526[A ]| Writes, that the bishop we were talking of 001:01;526[A ]| Has sicken'd dangerously. 001:01;526[D ]| Even so. 001:01;526[A ]| I must return my answer. 001:01;526[D ]| When, my lord? 001:01;526[A ]| To-morrow morning, and shall not forget 001:01;526[A ]| How bright and strong your zeal for the Catholic faith. 001:01;526[D ]| You are too kind, my lord! You overwhelm me. 001:01;526[A ]| Nay, say not so. As for this Ferdinand, 001:01;526[A ]| 'Tis certain that he \was\ a Catholic. 001:01;526[A ]| What changes may have happen'd in three years, 001:01;526[A ]| I cannot say, but grant me this, good father! 001:01;526[A ]| I'll go and sift him: if I find him sound, 001:01;526[A ]| You'll grant me your authority and name 001:01;526[A ]| To liberate his house. 001:01;526[D ]| My lord you have it. 001:01;526[' ]| <\Osorio (to Alhadra).\> 001:01;526[A ]| I will attend you home within an hour. 001:01;526[A ]| Meantime return with us, and take refreshment. 001:01;526[F ]| Not till my husband's free, I may not do it. 001:01;526[F ]| I will stay here. 001:01;526[' ]| <\Maria (aside).\> 001:01;526[E ]| Who is this Ferdinand? 001:01;526[B ]| Daughter! 001:01;526[E ]| With your permission, my dear lord, 001:01;526[E ]| I'll loiter a few minutes, and then join you. 001:01;526[' ]| <\Exeunt\ VELEZ, FRANCESCO, \and\ OSORIO.> 001:01;526[F ]| Hah! there he goes. A bitter curse go with him. 001:01;526[F ]| A scathing curse! 001:01;526[' ]| 001:01;526[' ]| <\feelings into an imprudence. She checks herself,\> 001:01;526[' ]| <\yet recollecting\ MARIA'S \manner towards\ FRANCESCO,> 001:01;526[' ]| <\says in a shy and distrustful manner\> 001:01;526[F ]| You hate him, don't you, lady! 001:01;527[E ]| Nay, fear me not! my heart is sad for you. 001:01;527[F ]| These fell Inquisitors, these sons of blood! 001:01;527[F ]| As I came on, his face so madden'd me 001:01;527[F ]| That ever and anon I clutch'd my dagger 001:01;527[F ]| And half unsheathed it. 001:01;527[E ]| Be more calm, I pray you. 001:01;527[F ]| And as he stalk'd along the narrow path 001:01;527[F ]| Close on the mountain's edge, my soul grew eager. 001:01;527[F ]| 'Twas with hard toil I made myself remember 001:01;527[F ]| That his foul officers held my babes and husband. 001:01;527[F ]| To have leapt upon him with a Tyger's plunge 001:01;527[F ]| And hurl'd him down the ragged precipice, 001:01;527[F ]| O ~~ it had been most sweet! 001:01;527[E ]| Hush, hush! for shame. 001:01;527[E ]| Where is your woman's heart? 001:01;527[F ]| O gentle lady! 001:01;527[F ]| You have no skill to guess my many wrongs, 001:01;527[F ]| Many and strange. Besides I am a Christian, 001:01;527[F ]| And they do never pardon, 'tis their faith! 001:01;527[E ]| Shame fall on those who so have shown it to thee! 001:01;527[F ]| I know that man; 'tis well he knows not me! 001:01;527[F ]| Five years ago, and he was the prime agent. 001:01;527[F ]| Five years ago the Holy*Brethren seized me. 001:01;527[E ]| What might your crime be? 001:01;527[F ]| Solely my complexion. 001:01;527[F ]| They cast me, then a young and nursing mother, 001:01;527[F ]| Into a dungeon of their prison house. 001:01;527[F ]| There was no bed, no fire, no ray of light, 001:01;527[F ]| No touch, no sound of comfort! The black air, 001:01;528[F ]| It was a toil to breathe it! I have seen 001:01;528[F ]| The gaoler's lamp, the moment that he enter'd, 001:01;528[F ]| How the flame sunk at once down to the socket. 001:01;528[F ]| O miserable, by that lamp to see 001:01;528[F ]| My infant quarrelling with the coarse hard bread 001:01;528[F ]| Brought daily: for the little wretch was sickly ~~ 001:01;528[F ]| My rage had dry'd away its natural food! 001:01;528[F ]| In darkness I remain'd, counting the clocks 001:01;528[F ]| Which haply told me that the blessed sun 001:01;528[F ]| Was rising on my garden. When I dozed, 001:01;528[F ]| My infant's moanings mingled with my dreams 001:01;528[F ]| And wak'd me. If you were a mother, Lady, 001:01;528[F ]| I should scarce dare to tell you, that its noises 001:01;528[F ]| And peevish cries so fretted on my brain 001:01;528[F ]| That I have struck the innocent babe in anger! 001:01;528[E ]| O God! it is too horrible to hear! 001:01;528[F ]| What was it then to suffer? 'Tis most right 001:01;528[F ]| That such as you should hear it. Know you not 001:01;528[F ]| What Nature makes you mourn, she bids you heal? 001:01;528[F ]| Great evils ask great passions to redress them, 001:01;528[F ]| And whirlwinds fitliest scatter pestilence. 001:01;528[E ]| You were at length deliver'd? 001:01;528[F ]| Yes, at length 001:01;528[F ]| I saw the blessed arch of the whole heaven. 001:01;528[F ]| 'Twas the first time my infant smiled! No more. 001:01;528[F ]| For if I dwell upon that moment, lady, 001:01;528[F ]| A fit comes on, which makes me o'er again 001:01;528[F ]| All I then was, my knees hang loose and drag, 001:01;528[F ]| And my lip falls with such an ideot laugh 001:01;528[F ]| That you would start and shudder! 001:01;528[E ]| But your husband? 001:01;528[F ]| A month's imprisonment would kill him, lady! 001:01;528[E ]| Alas, poor man! 001:01;528[F ]| He hath a lion's courage, 001:01;529[F ]| But is not stern enough for fortitude. 001:01;529[F ]| Unfit for boisterous times, with gentle heart 001:01;529[F ]| He worships Nature in the hill and valley, 001:01;529[F ]| Not knowing what he loves, but loves it all! 001:01;529[' ]| <\Enter\ ALBERT \disguised as a Moresco, and in\> 001:01;529[' ]| <\Moorish garments.\> 001:01;529[' ]| <\Albert (not observing Maria and Alhadra).\> 001:01;529[C ]| Three weeks have 001:01;529[C ]| I been loitering here, nor ever 001:01;529[C ]| Have summon'd up my heart to ask one question, 001:01;529[C ]| Or stop one peasant passing on this way. 001:01;529[E ]| Know you that man? 001:01;529[F ]| His person, not his name. 001:01;529[F ]| I doubt not, he is some Moresco chieftain 001:01;529[F ]| Who hides himself among the Alpuxarras. 001:01;529[F ]| A week has scarcely pass'd since first I saw him; 001:01;529[F ]| He has new-roof'd the desolate old cottage 001:01;529[F ]| Where Zagri lived ~~ who dared avow the prophet 001:01;529[F ]| And died like one of the faithful! There he lives, 001:01;529[F ]| And a friend with him. 001:01;529[E ]| Does he know his danger 001:01;529[E ]| So near this seat? 001:01;529[F ]| He wears the Moorish robes too, 001:01;530[F ]| As in defiance of the royal edict. 001:01;530[' ]| 001:01;530[' ]| <\to the back of the stage near the rocks.\ MARIA> 001:01;530[' ]| <\drops her veil.\> 001:01;530[F ]| Gallant Moresco! you are near the castle 001:01;530[F ]| Of the Lord*Velez, and hard by does dwell 001:01;530[F ]| A priest, the creature of the Inquisition. 001:01;530[' ]| <\Albert (retiring).\> 001:01;530[C ]| You have mistaken me ~~ I am a Christian. 001:01;530[' ]| <\Alhadra (to Maria).\> 001:01;530[F ]| He deems that we are plotting to 001:01;530[F ]| ensnare him. 001:01;530[F ]| Speak to him, lady! none can hear you speak 001:01;530[F ]| And not believe you innocent of guile. 001:01;530[' ]| 001:01;530[E ]| If aught enforce you to concealment, sir! 001:01;530[F ]| He trembles strangely. 001:01;530[' ]| 001:01;530[' ]| <\garment.\> 001:01;530[E ]| See ~~ we have disturb'd him. 001:01;530[' ]| <\Approaches nearer to him.\> 001:01;530[E ]| I pray you, think us friends ~~ uncowl your face, 001:01;530[E ]| For you seem faint, and the night-breeze blows healing. 001:01;530[E ]| I pray you, think us friends! 001:01;530[' ]| <\Albert (raising his head).\> 001:01;530[C ]| Calm ~~ very calm; 001:01;530[C ]| 'Tis all too tranquil for reality! 001:01;530[C ]| And she spoke to me with her innocent voice. 001:01;530[C ]| That voice! that innocent voice! She is no traitress! 001:01;530[C ]| It was a dream, a phantom of my sleep, 001:01;530[C ]| A lying dream. 001:01;530[' ]| <\He starts up, and abruptly addresses her.\> 001:01;530[C ]| Maria! you are not wedded? 001:01;530[' ]| <\Maria (haughtily to Alhadra).\> 001:01;530[E ]| Let us retire. 001:01;530[' ]| <\They advance to the front of the stage.\> 001:01;530[F ]| He is indeed a Christian. 001:01;531[F ]| Some stray Sir*Knight that falls in love of a sudden. 001:01;531[E ]| What can this mean? How should he know my name? 001:01;531[E ]| It seems all shadowy. 001:01;531[F ]| Here he comes again. 001:01;531[' ]| <\Albert (aside).\> 001:01;531[C ]| She deems me dead, and yet no mourning garment! 001:01;531[C ]| Why should my brother's wife wear mourning garments? 001:01;531[C ]| God of all mercy, make me, make me quiet! 001:01;531[' ]| <\To\ MARIA.> 001:01;531[C ]| Your pardon, gentle maid! that I disturb'd you. 001:01;531[C ]| I had just started from a frightful dream. 001:01;531[F ]| These renegado Moors ~~ how soon they learn 001:01;531[F ]| The crimes and follies of their Christian tyrants! 001:01;531[C ]| I dreamt I had a friend, on whom I lean'd 001:01;531[C ]| With blindest trust, and a betrothed maid 001:01;531[C ]| Whom I was wont to call not mine, but me, 001:01;531[C ]| For mine own self seem'd nothing, lacking her! 001:01;531[C ]| This maid so idoliz'd, that trusted friend, 001:01;531[C ]| Polluted in my absence soul and body! 001:01;531[C ]| And she with him and he with her conspired 001:01;532[C ]| To have me murder'd in a wood of the mountains: 001:01;532[C ]| But by my looks and most impassion'd words 001:01;532[C ]| I roused the virtues, that are dead in no man, 001:01;532[C ]| Even in the assassins' hearts. They made their terms, 001:01;532[C ]| And thank'd me for redeeming them from murder. 001:01;532[' ]| <\Alhadra (to Maria).\> 001:01;532[F ]| You are lost in thought. Hear him no more, sweet lady! 001:01;532[E ]| From morn to night I am myself a dreamer, 001:01;532[E ]| And slight things bring on me the idle mood. 001:01;532[E ]| Well, sir, what happen'd then? 001:01;532[C ]| On a rude rock, 001:01;532[C ]| A rock, methought, fast by a grove of firs 001:01;532[C ]| Whose threaddy leaves to the low breathing gale 001:01;532[C ]| Made a soft sound most like the distant ocean, 001:01;532[C ]| I stay'd as tho' the hour of death were past, 001:01;532[C ]| And I were sitting in the world of spirits, 001:01;532[C ]| For all things seem'd unreal! There I sate. 001:01;532[C ]| The dews fell clammy, and the night descended, 001:01;532[C ]| Black, sultry, close! and ere the midnight hour 001:01;532[C ]| A storm came on, mingling all sounds of fear 001:01;532[C ]| That woods and sky and mountains seem'd one havock! 001:01;532[C ]| The second flash of lightning show'd a tree 001:01;532[C ]| Hard by me, newly-scathed. I rose tumultuous: 001:01;532[C ]| My soul work'd high: I bared my head to the storm, 001:01;532[C ]| And with loud voice and clamorous agony 001:01;532[C ]| Kneeling I pray'd to the great Spirit that made me, 001:01;532[C ]| Pray'd that Remorse might fasten on their hearts, 001:01;532[C ]| And cling, with poisonous tooth, inextricable 001:01;532[C ]| As the gored lion's bite! 001:01;532[E ]| A fearful curse! 001:01;532[F ]| But dreamt you not that you return'd and kill'd him? 001:01;532[F ]| Dreamt you of no revenge? 001:01;532[' ]| <\Albert (his voice trembling, and in tones of deep distress).\> 001:01;532[C ]| She would have died, 001:01;532[C ]| Died in her sins ~~ perchance, by her own hands! 001:01;533[C ]| And bending o'er her self-inflicted wounds 001:01;533[C ]| I might have met the evil glance of frenzy 001:01;533[C ]| And leapt myself into an unblest grave! 001:01;533[C ]| I pray'd for the punishment that cleanses hearts, 001:01;533[C ]| For still I loved her! 001:01;533[F ]| And you dreamt all this? 001:01;533[E ]| My soul is full of visions, all is wild! 001:01;533[F ]| There is no room in this heart for puling love-tales. 001:01;533[F ]| 001:01;533[F ]| Lady! your servants there seem seeking us. 001:01;533[' ]| <\Maria (lifts up her veil and advances to Albert).\> 001:01;533[E ]| Stranger, farewell! I guess not who you are, 001:01;533[E ]| Nor why you so address'd your tale to me. 001:01;533[E ]| Your mien is noble, and, I own, perplex'd me 001:01;533[E ]| With obscure memory of something past, 001:01;533[E ]| Which still escap'd my efforts, or presented 001:01;533[E ]| Tricks of a fancy pamper'd with long-wishing. 001:01;533[E ]| If (as it sometimes happens) our rude startling, 001:01;533[E ]| While your full heart was shaping out its dream, 001:01;533[E ]| Drove you to this, your not ungentle wildness, 001:01;533[E ]| You have my sympathy, and so farewell! 001:01;533[E ]| But if some undiscover'd wrongs oppress you, 001:01;533[E ]| And you need strength to drag them into light, 001:01;533[E ]| The generous Velez, and my Lord*Osorio 001:01;533[E ]| Have arm and will to aid a noble sufferer, 001:01;533[E ]| Nor shall you want my favourable pleading. 001:01;533[' ]| <\Exeunt\ MARIA \and\ ALHADRA.> 001:01;533[' ]| <\Albert (alone).\> 001:01;533[C ]| 'Tis strange! it cannot be! my Lord*Osorio! 001:01;533[C ]| Her Lord*Osorio! Nay, I will not do it. 001:01;533[C ]| I curs'd him once, and one curse is enough. 001:01;534[C ]| How sad she look'd and pale! but not like guilt, 001:01;534[C ]| And her calm tones ~~ sweet as a song of mercy! 001:01;534[C ]| If the bad spirit retain'd his angel's voice, 001:01;534[C ]| Hell scarce were hell. And why not innocent? 001:01;534[C ]| Who meant to murder me might well cheat her. 001:01;534[C ]| But ere she married him, he had stain'd her honour. 001:01;534[C ]| Ah! there I am hamper'd. What if this were a lie 001:01;534[C ]| Fram'd by the assassin? who should tell it him 001:01;534[C ]| If it were truth? Osorio would not tell him. 001:01;534[C ]| Yet why one lie? All else, I know, was truth. 001:01;534[C ]| No start! no jealousy of stirring conscience! 001:01;534[C ]| And she referr'd to me ~~ fondly, methought! 001:01;534[C ]| Could she walk here, if that she were a traitress? 001:01;534[C ]| Here where we play'd together in our childhood? 001:01;534[C ]| Here where we plighted vows? where her cold cheek 001:01;534[C ]| Received my last kiss, when with suppress'd feelings 001:01;534[C ]| She had fainted in my arms? It cannot be! 001:01;534[C ]| 'Tis not in nature! I will die, believing 001:01;534[C ]| That I shall meet her where no evil is, 001:01;534[C ]| No treachery, no cup dash'd from the lips! 001:01;534[C ]| I'll haunt this scene no more ~~ live she in peace! 001:01;534[C ]| Her husband ~~ ay, her husband! May this Angel 001:01;534[C ]| New-mould his canker'd heart! Assist me, Heaven! 001:01;534[C ]| That I may pray for my poor guilty brother! 002:01;535[' ]| <\SCENE THE FIRST. ~~ A wild and mountainous country.\ OSORIO> 002:01;535[' ]| <\and\ FERDINAND \are discovered at a little distance from a\> 002:01;535[' ]| <\house, which stands under the brow of a slate rock, the rock\> 002:01;535[' ]| <\covered with vines.\> 002:01;535[' ]| 002:01;535[H ]| Thrice you have sav'd my life. Once in the battle 002:01;535[H ]| You gave it me, next rescued me from suicide, 002:01;535[H ]| When for my follies I was made to wander 002:01;535[H ]| With mouths to feed, and not a morsel for them. 002:01;535[H ]| Now, but for you, a dungeon's slimy stones 002:01;535[H ]| Had pillow'd my snapt joints. 002:01;535[A ]| Good Ferdinand! 002:01;535[A ]| Why this to me? It is enough you know it. 002:01;535[H ]| A common trick of gratitude, my lord! 002:01;535[H ]| Seeking to ease her own full heart. 002:01;535[A ]| Enough. 002:01;535[A ]| A debt repay'd ceases to be a debt. 002:01;535[A ]| You have it in your power to serve me greatly. 002:01;535[H ]| As how, my lord? I pray you name the thing! 002:01;535[H ]| I would climb up an ice-glaz'd precipice 002:01;535[H ]| To pluck a weed you fancied. 002:01;535[' ]| <\Osorio (with embarrassment and hesitation).\> 002:01;535[A ]| Why ~~ that ~~ lady ~~ 002:01;535[H ]| 'Tis now three years, my lord! since last I saw you. 002:01;535[H ]| Have you a son, my lord? 002:01;535[A ]| O miserable! 002:01;535[' ]| <\Aside.\> 002:01;535[A ]| Ferdinand! you are a man, and know this world. 002:01;536[A ]| I told you what I wish'd ~~ now for the truth! 002:01;536[A ]| She lov'd the man you kill'd! 002:01;536[' ]| <\Ferdinand (looking as suddenly alarmed).\> 002:01;536[H ]| You jest, my lord? 002:01;536[A ]| And till his death is proved, she will not wed me. 002:01;536[H ]| You sport with me, my lord? 002:01;536[A ]| Come, come, this foolery 002:01;536[A ]| Lives only in thy looks ~~ thy heart disowns it. 002:01;536[H ]| I can bear this, and anything more grievous 002:01;536[H ]| From you, my lord! ~~ but how can I serve you here? 002:01;536[A ]| Why, you can mouth set speeches solemnly, 002:01;536[A ]| Wear a quaint garment, make mysterious antics. 002:01;536[' ]| 002:01;536[' ]| 002:01;536[A ]| You can play the sorcerer. 002:01;536[A ]| She has no faith in Holy*Church, 'tis true. 002:01;536[A ]| Her lover school'd her in some newer nonsense: 002:01;536[A ]| Yet still a tale of spirits works on her. 002:01;536[A ]| She is a lone enthusiast, sensitive, 002:01;536[A ]| Shivers, and cannot keep the tears in her eye. 002:01;536[A ]| Such ones do love the marvellous too well 002:01;536[A ]| Not to believe it. We will wind her up 002:01;536[A ]| With a strange music, that she knows not of, 002:01;536[A ]| With fumes of frankincense, and mummery ~~ 002:01;536[A ]| Then leave, as one sure token of his death, 002:01;536[A ]| That portrait, which from off the dead man's neck 002:01;536[A ]| I bade thee take, the trophy of thy conquest. 002:01;537[' ]| <\Ferdinand (with hesitation).\> 002:01;537[H ]| Just now I should have cursed the man who told me 002:01;537[H ]| You could ask aught, my lord! and I refuse. 002:01;537[H ]| But this I cannot do. 002:01;537[A ]| Where lies your scruple? 002:01;537[H ]| That shark Francesco. 002:01;537[A ]| O! an o'ersiz'd gudgeon! 002:01;537[A ]| I baited, sir, my hook with a painted mitre, 002:01;537[A ]| And now I play with him at the end of the line. 002:01;537[A ]| Well ~~ and what next? 002:01;537[' ]| <\Ferdinand (stammering).\> 002:01;537[H ]| Next, next ~~ my lord! 002:01;537[H ]| You know you told me that the lady loved you, 002:01;537[H ]| Had loved you with incautious tenderness. 002:01;537[H ]| That if the young man, her betrothed husband, 002:01;537[H ]| Return'd, yourself, and she, and an unborn babe, 002:01;537[H ]| Must perish. Now, my lord! to be a man! 002:01;537[' ]| <\Osorio (aloud, though to express his contempt he speaks in the\> 002:01;537[' ]| <\third person).\> 002:01;537[A ]| This fellow is a man! he kill'd for hire 002:01;537[A ]| One whom he knew not ~~ yet has tender scruples. 002:01;537[' ]| <\Then turning to\ FERDINAND.> 002:01;537[A ]| Thy hums and ha's, thy whine and stammering. 002:01;537[A ]| Pish ~~ fool! thou blunder'st through the devil's book, 002:01;537[A ]| Spelling thy villany! 002:01;537[H ]| My lord ~~ my lord! 002:01;537[H ]| I can bear much, yes, very much from you. 002:01;537[H ]| But there's a point where sufferance is meanness! 002:01;537[H ]| I am no villain, never kill'd for hire. 002:01;537[H ]| My gratitude ~~ 002:01;537[A ]| O! aye, your gratitude! 002:01;537[A ]| 'Twas a well-sounding word ~~ what have you done with it? 002:01;537[H ]| Who proffers his past favours for my virtue 002:01;537[H ]| Tries to o'erreach me, is a very sharper, 002:01;538[H ]| And should not speak of gratitude, my lord! 002:01;538[H ]| I knew not 'twas your brother! 002:01;538[' ]| <\Osorio (evidently alarmed).\> 002:01;538[A ]| And who told you? 002:01;538[H ]| He himself told me. 002:01;538[A ]| Ha! you talk'd with him? 002:01;538[A ]| And those, the two Morescoes, that went with you? 002:01;538[H ]| Both fell in a night-brawl at Malaga. 002:01;538[' ]| <\Osorio (in a low voice).\> 002:01;538[A ]| My brother! 002:01;538[H ]| Yes, my lord! I could not tell you: 002:01;538[H ]| I thrust away the thought, it drove me wild. 002:01;538[H ]| But listen to me now. I pray you, listen! 002:01;538[A ]| Villain! no more! I'll hear no more of it. 002:01;538[H ]| My lord! it much imports your future safety 002:01;538[H ]| That you should hear it. 002:01;538[' ]| <\Osorio (turning off from Ferdinand).\> 002:01;538[A ]| Am I not a man? 002:01;538[A ]| 'Tis as it should be! Tut ~~ the deed itself 002:01;538[A ]| Was idle ~~ and these after-pangs still idler! 002:01;538[H ]| We met him in the very place you mention'd, 002:01;538[H ]| Hard by a grove of firs. 002:01;538[A ]| Enough! enough! 002:01;538[H ]| He fought us valiantly, and wounded all; 002:01;538[H ]| In fine, compell'd a parley! 002:01;538[' ]| <\Osorio (sighing as if lost in thought).\> 002:01;538[A ]| Albert! Brother! 002:01;538[H ]| He offer'd me his purse. 002:01;538[A ]| Yes? 002:01;538[H ]| Yes! I spurn'd it. 002:01;538[H ]| He promis'd us I know not what ~~ in vain! 002:01;538[H ]| Then with a look and voice which overaw'd me, 002:01;538[H ]| He said ~~ What mean you, friends? My life is dear. 002:01;538[H ]| I have a brother and a promised wife 002:01;538[H ]| Who make life dear to me, and if I fall 002:01;538[H ]| That brother will roam earth and hell for vengeance. 002:01;538[H ]| There was a likeness in his face to yours. 002:01;538[H ]| I ask'd his brother's name; he said, Osorio, 002:01;538[H ]| Son of Lord*Velez! I had well-nigh fainted! 002:01;538[H ]| At length I said (if that indeed I said it, 002:01;538[H ]| And that no spirit made my tongue his organ), 002:01;538[H ]| That woman is now pregnant by that brother, 002:01;538[H ]| And he the man who sent us to destroy you, 002:01;539[H ]| He drove a thrust at me in rage. I told him, 002:01;539[H ]| He wore her portrait round his neck ~~ he look'd 002:01;539[H ]| As he had been made of the rock that propp'd him back' 002:01;539[H ]| Ay, just as you look now ~~ only less ghastly! 002:01;539[H ]| At last recovering from his trance, he threw 002:01;539[H ]| His sword away, and bade us take his life ~~ 002:01;539[H ]| It was not worth his keeping. 002:01;539[A ]| And you kill'd him? 002:01;539[A ]| O blood-hounds! may eternal wrath flame round you! 002:01;539[A ]| He was the image of the Deity. 002:01;539[' ]| <\A pause.\> 002:01;539[A ]| It seizes me ~~ by Hell! I will go on! 002:01;539[A ]| What? would'st thou stop, man? thy pale looks won't save thee! 002:01;539[' ]| <\Then suddenly pressing his forehead.\> 002:01;539[A ]| Oh! cold, cold, cold ~~ shot thro' with icy cold! 002:01;539[' ]| <\Ferdinand (aside).\> 002:01;539[H ]| Were he alive, he had return'd ere now. 002:01;539[H ]| The consequence the same, dead thro' his plotting! 002:01;539[A ]| O this unutterable dying away here, 002:01;539[A ]| This sickness of the heart! 002:01;539[' ]| <\A pause.\> 002:01;539[A ]| What if I went 002:01;539[A ]| And liv'd in a hollow tomb, and fed on weeds? 002:01;539[A ]| Ay! that's the road to heaven! O fool! fool! fool! 002:01;539[' ]| <\A pause.\> 002:01;539[A ]| What have I done but that which nature destin'd 002:01;539[A ]| Or the blind elements stirr'd up within me? 002:01;539[A ]| If good were meant, why were we made these beings? 002:01;539[A ]| And if not meant ~~ 002:01;539[H ]| How feel you now, my lord? 002:01;539[' ]| <\OSORIO starts, looks at him wildly, then, after a\> 002:01;539[' ]| <\pause, during which his features are forced\> 002:01;539[' ]| <\into a smile.\> 002:01;539[A ]| A gust of the soul! i'faith, it overset me. 002:01;539[A ]| O 'twas all folly ~~ all! idle as laughter! 002:01;539[A ]| Now, Ferdinand, I swear that thou shalt aid me. 002:01;539[' ]| <\Ferdinand (in a low voice).\> 002:01;539[H ]| I'll perish first! Shame on my coward heart, 002:01;539[H ]| That I must slink away from wickedness 002:01;539[H ]| Like a cow'd dog! 002:01;539[A ]| What dost thou mutter of? 002:01;540[H ]| Some of your servants know me, I am certain. 002:01;540[A ]| There's some sense in that scruple; but we'll mask you. 002:01;540[H ]| They'll know my gait. But stay! of late I have watch'd 002:01;540[H ]| A stranger that lives nigh, still picking weeds, 002:01;540[H ]| Now in the swamp, now on the walls of the ruin, 002:01;540[H ]| Now clamb'ring, like a runaway lunatic, 002:01;540[H ]| Up to the summit of our highest mount. 002:01;540[H ]| I have watch'd him at it morning-tide and noon, 002:01;540[H ]| Once in the moonlight. Then I stood so near, 002:01;540[H ]| I heard him mutt'ring o'er the plant. A wizard! 002:01;540[H ]| Some gaunt slave, prowling out for dark employments. 002:01;540[A ]| What may his name be? 002:01;540[H ]| That I cannot tell you. 002:01;540[H ]| Only Francesco bade an officer 002:01;540[H ]| Speak in your name, as lord of this domain. 002:01;540[H ]| So he was question'd, who and what he was. 002:01;540[H ]| This was his answer: Say to the Lord*Osorio, 002:01;540[H ]| ""He that can bring the dead to life again."" 002:01;540[A ]| A strange reply! 002:01;540[H ]| Aye ~~ all of him is strange. 002:01;541[H ]| He call'd himself a Christian ~~ yet he wears 002:01;541[H ]| The Moorish robe, as if he courted death. 002:01;541[A ]| Where does this wizard live? 002:01;541[' ]| <\Ferdinand (pointing to a distance).\> 002:01;541[H ]| You see that brooklet? 002:01;541[H ]| Trace its course backward thro' a narrow opening 002:01;541[H ]| It leads you to the place. 002:01;541[A ]| How shall I know it? 002:01;541[H ]| You can't mistake. It is a small green dale 002:01;541[H ]| Built all around with high off-sloping hills, 002:01;541[H ]| And from its shape our peasants aptly call it 002:01;541[H ]| The Giant's*Cradle. There's a lake in the midst, 002:01;541[H ]| And round its banks tall wood, that branches over 002:01;541[H ]| And makes a kind of faery forest grow 002:01;541[H ]| Down in the water. At the further end 002:01;541[H ]| A puny cataract falls on the lake; 002:01;541[H ]| And there (a curious sight) you see its shadow 002:01;541[H ]| For*ever curling, like a wreath of smoke, 002:01;541[H ]| Up through the foliage of those faery trees. 002:01;541[H ]| His cot stands opposite ~~ you cannot miss it. 002:01;542[H ]| Some three yards up the hill a mountain ash 002:01;542[H ]| Stretches its lower boughs and scarlet clusters 002:01;543[H ]| O'er the new thatch. 002:01;543[A ]| I shall not fail to find it. 002:01;543[' ]| <\Exit OSORIO.\ FERDINAND \goes into his house.\> 002:02;543[' ]| <\Scene changes.\> 002:02;543[' ]| <\The inside of a cottage, around which flowers and plants\> 002:02;543[' ]| <\of various kinds are seen.\> 002:02;543[' ]| 002:02;543[C ]| He doth believe himself an iron soul, 002:02;543[C ]| And therefore puts he on an iron outward 002:02;543[C ]| And those same mock habiliments of strength 002:02;543[C ]| Hide his own weakness from himself. 002:02;543[G ]| His weakness! 002:02;543[G ]| Come, come, speak out! Your brother is a villain! 002:02;543[G ]| Yet all the wealth, power, influence, which is yours 002:02;543[G ]| You suffer him to hold! 002:02;543[C ]| Maurice! dear Maurice! 002:02;543[C ]| That my return involved Osorio's death 002:02;543[C ]| I trust would give me an unmingl'd pang ~~ 002:02;543[C ]| Yet bearable. But when I see my father 002:02;543[C ]| Strewing his scant grey hairs even on the ground 002:02;543[C ]| Which soon must be his grave; and my Maria, 002:02;543[C ]| Her husband proved a monster, and her infants 002:02;544[C ]| His infants ~~ poor Maria! ~~ all would perish, 002:02;544[C ]| All perish ~~ all! ~~ and I (nay bear with me!) 002:02;544[C ]| Could not survive the complicated ruin! 002:02;544[' ]| <\Maurice (much affected).\> 002:02;544[G ]| Nay, now, if I have distress'd you ~~ you well know, 002:02;544[G ]| I ne'er will quit your fortunes! true, 'tis tiresome. 002:02;544[G ]| You are a painter ~~ one of many fancies ~~ 002:02;544[G ]| You can call up past deeds, and make them live 002:02;544[G ]| On the blank canvas, and each little herb, 002:02;544[G ]| That grows on mountain bleak, or tangled forest, 002:02;544[G ]| You've learnt to name ~~ but \I\ ~~ 002:02;544[C ]| Well, to the Netherlands 002:02;544[C ]| We will return, the heroic Prince*of*Orange 002:02;544[C ]| Will grant us an asylum, in remembrancee 002:02;544[C ]| Of our past service. 002:02;544[G ]| Heard you not some steps? 002:02;544[C ]| What if it were my brother, coming onward! 002:02;544[C ]| Not very wisely (but his creature teiz'd me) 002:02;544[C ]| I sent a most mysterious message to him. 002:02;544[G ]| Would he not know you? 002:02;544[C ]| I unfearingly 002:02;544[C ]| Trust this disguise. Besides, he thinks me dead; 002:02;544[C ]| And what the mind believes impossible, 002:02;544[C ]| The bodily sense is slow to recognize. 002:02;544[C ]| Add too my youth, when last we saw each other; 002:02;544[C ]| Manhood has swell'd my chest, and taught my voice 002:02;544[C ]| A hoarser note. 002:02;544[G ]| Most true! And Alva's Duke 002:02;544[G ]| Did not improve it by the unwholesome viands 002:02;544[G ]| He gave so scantily in that foul dungeon, 002:02;544[G ]| During our long imprisonment. 002:02;544[' ]| <\Enter\ OSORIO.> 002:02;544[C ]| It is he! 002:02;544[G ]| Make yourself talk; you'll feel the less. Come, speak. 002:02;545[G ]| How do you find yourself? Speak to me, Albert. 002:02;545[' ]| <\Albert (placing his hand on his heart).\> 002:02;545[C ]| A little fluttering here; but more of sorrow! 002:02;545[A ]| You know my name, perhaps, better than me. 002:02;545[A ]| I am Osorio, son of the Lord*Velez. 002:02;545[' ]| <\Albert (groaning aloud).\> 002:02;545[C ]| The son of Velez! 002:02;545[' ]| <\OSORIO walks leisurely round the room, and looks\> 002:02;545[' ]| <\attentively at the plants.\> 002:02;545[G ]| Why, what ails you now? 002:02;545[' ]| 002:02;545[G ]| How your hand trembles, Albert! Speak! what wish you? 002:02;545[C ]| To fall upon his neck and weep in anguish! 002:02;545[' ]| <\Osorio (returning).\> 002:02;545[A ]| All very curious! from a ruin'd abbey 002:02;545[A ]| Pluck'd in the moonlight. There's a strange power in weeds 002:02;545[A ]| When a few odd prayers have been mutter'd o'er them. 002:02;545[A ]| Then they work miracles! I warrant you, 002:02;545[A ]| There's not a leaf, but underneath it lurks 002:02;545[A ]| Some serviceable imp. There's one of you, 002:02;545[A ]| Who sent me a strange message. 002:02;545[C ]| I am he! 002:02;545[A ]| I will speak with you, and by yourself. 002:02;545[' ]| <\Exit\ MAURICE.> 002:02;545[A ]| ""He that can bring the dead to life again."" 002:02;545[A ]| Such was your message, Sir! You are no dullard, 002:02;545[A ]| But one that strips the outward rind of things! 002:02;545[C ]| 'Tis fabled there are fruits with tempting rinds 002:02;545[C ]| That are all dust and rottenness within. 002:02;545[C ]| Would'st thou I should strip such? 002:02;545[A ]| Thou quibbling fool, 002:02;545[A ]| What dost thou mean? Think'st thou I journey'd hither 002:02;545[A ]| To sport with thee? 002:02;545[C ]| No, no! my lord! to sport 002:02;546[C ]| Best fits the gaiety of innocence! 002:02;546[' ]| <\Osorio (draws back as if stung and embarrassed, then folding\> 002:02;546[' ]| <\his arms).\> 002:02;546[A ]| O what a thing is Man! the wisest heart 002:02;546[A ]| A fool ~~ a fool, that laughs at its own folly, 002:02;546[A ]| Yet still a fool! 002:02;546[' ]| <\Looks round the cottage.\> 002:02;546[A ]| It strikes me you are poor! 002:02;546[C ]| What follows thence? 002:02;546[A ]| That you would fain be richer. 002:02;546[A ]| Besides, you do not love the rack, perhaps, 002:02;546[A ]| Nor a black dungeon, nor a fire of faggots. 002:02;546[A ]| The Inquisition ~~ hey? You understand me, 002:02;546[A ]| And you are poor. Now I have wealth and power, 002:02;546[A ]| Can quench the flames, and cure your poverty. 002:02;546[A ]| And for this service, all I ask you is 002:02;546[A ]| That you should serve me ~~ once ~~ for a few hours. 002:02;546[' ]| <\Albert (solemnly).\> 002:02;546[C ]| Thou art the son of Velez! Would to 002:02;546[C ]| Heaven 002:02;546[C ]| That I could truly and for*ever serve thee! 002:02;546[A ]| The canting scoundrel softens. 002:02;546[' ]| <\Aside.\> 002:02;546[A ]| You are a friend! 002:02;546[A ]| ""He that can bring the dead to life again."" 002:02;546[A ]| Nay, no defence to me. The holy brethren 002:02;546[A ]| Believe these calumnies. I know thee better. 002:02;546[' ]| <\Then with great bitterness.\> 002:02;546[A ]| Thou art a man, and as a man I'll trust thee! 002:02;546[C ]| Alas, this hollow mirth! Declare your business! 002:02;546[A ]| I love a lady, and she would love me 002:02;546[A ]| But for an idle and fantastic scruple. 002:02;546[A ]| Have you no servants round the house? no listeners? 002:02;546[' ]| 002:02;546[C ]| What! faithless too? false to his angel wife? 002:02;546[C ]| To such a wife? Well might'st thou look so wan, 002:02;546[C ]| Ill-starr'd Maria! Wretch! my softer soul 002:02;546[C ]| Is pass'd away! and I will probe his conscience. 002:02;547[' ]| <\Osorio (returned).\> 002:02;547[A ]| In truth this lady loved another man, 002:02;547[A ]| But he has perish'd. 002:02;547[C ]| What? you kill'd him? hey? 002:02;547[A ]| I'll dash thee to the earth, if thou but think'st it, 002:02;547[A ]| Thou slave! thou galley-slave! thou mountebank! 002:02;547[A ]| I leave thee to the hangman! 002:02;547[C ]| Fare you well! 002:02;547[C ]| I pity you, Osorio! even to anguish! 002:02;547[' ]| 002:02;547[' ]| <\Osorio (recovering himself).\> 002:02;547[A ]| 'Twas ideotcy! I'll tie myself to an aspen, 002:02;547[A ]| And wear a Fool's Cap. Ho! 002:02;547[' ]| <\Calling after\ ALBERT.> 002:02;547[' ]| <\Albert (returning).\> 002:02;547[C ]| Be brief, what wish you? 002:02;547[A ]| You are deep at bartering ~~ you charge yourself 002:02;547[A ]| At a round sum. Come, come, I spake unwisely. 002:02;547[C ]| I listen to you. 002:02;547[A ]| In a sudden tempest 002:02;547[A ]| Did Albert perish ~~ he, I mean, the lover ~~ 002:02;547[A ]| The fellow ~~ 002:02;547[C ]| Nay, speak out, 'twill ease your heart 002:02;547[C ]| To call him villain! Why stand'st thou aghast? 002:02;547[C ]| Men think it natural to hate their rivals! 002:02;547[' ]| <\Osorio (hesitating and half doubting whether he should proceed).\> 002:02;547[A ]| Now till she knows him dead she will not wed me! 002:02;547[' ]| <\Albert (with eager vehemence).\> 002:02;547[C ]| Are you not wedded, then? 002:02;547[C ]| Merciful God! 002:02;547[C ]| Not wedded to Maria? 002:02;547[A ]| Why, what ails thee? 002:02;547[A ]| Art mad or drunk? Why look'st thou upward so? 002:02;547[A ]| Dost pray to Lucifer, prince of the air? 002:02;548[C ]| Proceed. I shall be silent. 002:02;548[' ]| 002:02;548[A ]| To Maria! 002:02;548[A ]| Politic wizard! ere you sent that message, 002:02;548[A ]| You had conn'd your lesson, made yourself proficient 002:02;548[A ]| In all my fortunes! Hah! you prophesied 002:02;548[A ]| A golden crop! ~~ well, you have not mistaken ~~ 002:02;548[A ]| Be faithful to me, and I'll pay thee nobly. 002:02;548[' ]| <\Albert (lifting up his head).\> 002:02;548[C ]| Well ~~ and this lady! 002:02;548[A ]| If we could make her certain of his death, 002:02;548[A ]| She needs must wed me. Ere her lover left her, 002:02;548[A ]| She tied a little portrait round his neck 002:02;548[A ]| Entreating him to wear it. 002:02;548[' ]| <\Albert (sighing).\> 002:02;548[C ]| Yes! he did so! 002:02;548[A ]| Why, no! he was afraid of accidents, 002:02;548[A ]| Of robberies and shipwrecks, and the like. 002:02;548[A ]| In secrecy he gave it me to keep 002:02;548[A ]| Till his return. 002:02;548[C ]| What, he was your friend then? 002:02;548[' ]| <\Osorio (wounded and embarrassed).\> 002:02;548[A ]| I was his friend. 002:02;548[' ]| <\A pause.\> 002:02;548[A ]| Now that he gave it me 002:02;548[A ]| This lady knows not. You are a mighty wizard ~~ 002:02;548[A ]| Can call this dead man up ~~ he will not come ~~ 002:02;548[A ]| He is in heaven then! ~~ there you have no influence ~~ 002:02;548[A ]| Still there are tokens; and your imps may bring you 002:02;548[A ]| Something he wore about him when he died. 002:02;548[A ]| And when the smoke of the incense on the altar 002:02;548[A ]| Is pass'd, your spirits will have left this picture. 002:02;548[A ]| What say you now? 002:02;548[' ]| <\Albert (after a long pause).\> 002:02;548[C ]| Osorio, I will do it. 002:02;548[A ]| Delays are dangerous. It shall be to-morrow 002:02;548[A ]| In the early evening. Ask for the Lord*Velez. 002:02;548[A ]| I will prepare him. Music, too, and incense, 002:02;548[A ]| All shall be ready. Here is this same picture ~~ 002:02;548[A ]| And here what you will value more, a purse. 002:02;548[A ]| Before the dusk ~~ 002:02;548[C ]| I will not fail to meet you. 002:02;549[A ]| Till next we meet, farewell! 002:02;549[' ]| <\Albert (alone, gazes passionately at the portrait).\> 002:02;549[C ]| And I did curse thee? 002:02;549[C ]| At midnight? on my knees? And I believed 002:02;549[C ]| \Thee\ perjured, \thee\ polluted, thee a murderess? 002:02;549[C ]| O blind and credulous fool! O guilt of folly! 002:02;549[C ]| Should not thy inarticulate fondnesses, 002:02;549[C ]| Thy infant loves ~~ should not thy maiden vows, 002:02;549[C ]| Have come upon my heart? And this sweet image 002:02;549[C ]| Tied round my neck with many a chaste endearment 002:02;549[C ]| And thrilling hands, that made me weep and tremble. 002:02;549[C ]| Ah, coward dupe! to yield it to the miscreant 002:02;549[C ]| Who spake pollutions of thee! 002:02;549[C ]| I am unworthy of thy love, Maria! 002:02;549[C ]| Of that unearthly smile upon those lips, 002:02;549[C ]| Which ever smil'd on me! Yet do not scorn me. 002:02;549[C ]| I lisp'd thy name ere I had learnt my mother's! 002:02;549[' ]| <\Enter\ MAURICE.> 002:02;549[C ]| Maurice! that picture, which I painted for thee, 002:02;549[C ]| Of my assassination. 002:02;549[G ]| I'll go fetch it. 002:02;549[C ]| Haste! for I yearn to tell thee what has pass'd. 002:02;549[' ]| 002:02;549[' ]| <\Albert (gazing at the portrait).\> 002:02;549[C ]| Dear image! rescued from a traitor's keeping, 002:02;549[C ]| I will not now prophane thee, holy image! 002:02;549[C ]| To a dark trick! That worst bad man shall find 002:02;549[C ]| A picture which shall wake the hell within him, 002:02;549[C ]| And rouse a fiery whirlwind in his conscience! 003:01;550[' ]| 003;01;550[' ]| <\part farthest from the stage.\> 003;01;550[' ]| 003;01;550[E ]| Lord*Velez! you have ask'd my presence here, 003;01;550[E ]| And I submit; but (Heaven bear witness for me!) 003;01;550[E ]| My heart approves it not! 'tis mockery! 003;01;550[' ]| <\Here\ ALBERT \enters in a sorcerer's robe.\> 003;01;550[' ]| <\Maria (to Albert).\> 003;01;550[E ]| Stranger! I mourn and blush to see \you\ here 003:01;551[E ]| On such employments! With far other thoughts 003:01;551[E ]| I left you. 003:01;551[' ]| <\Osorio (aside).\> 003:01;551[A ]| Ha! he has been tampering with her! 003:01;551[C ]| O high-soul'd maiden, and more dear to me 003:01;551[C ]| Than suits the stranger's name, I swear to thee, 003:01;551[C ]| I will uncover all concealed things! 003:01;551[C ]| Doubt, but decide not! 003:01;551[C ]| Stand from off the altar. 003:01;551[' ]| <\Here a strain of music is heard from behind the\> 003:01;551[' ]| <\scenes, from an instrument of glass or steel ~~ \> 003:01;551[' ]| <\the harmonica or Celestina stop, or Clagget's\> 003:01;551[' ]| <\metallic organ.\> 003:01;551[C ]| With no irreverent voice or uncouth charm 003:01;551[C ]| I call up the departed. Soul of Albert! 003:01;551[C ]| Hear our soft suit, and heed my milder spells: 003:01;551[C ]| So may the gates of Paradise unbarr'd 003:01;551[C ]| Cease thy swift toils, since haply thou art one 003:01;551[C ]| Of that innumerable company, 003:01;551[C ]| Who in broad circle, lovelier than the rainbow, 003:01;551[C ]| Girdle this round earth in a dizzy motion, 003:01;551[C ]| With noise too vast and constant to be heard ~~ 003:01;551[C ]| Fitliest unheard! For, O ye numberless 003:01;551[C ]| And rapid travellers! what ear unstun'd, 003:01;551[C ]| What sense unmadden'd, might bear up against 003:01;551[C ]| The rushing of your congregated wings? 003:01;551[C ]| Even now your living wheel turns o'er my head! 003:01;551[C ]| Ye, as ye pass, toss high the desart sands, 003:01;551[C ]| That roar and whiten, like a burst of waters, 003:01;551[C ]| A sweet appearance, but a dread illusion, 003:01;551[C ]| To the parch'd caravan that roams by night. 003:01;551[C ]| And ye build up on the becalmed waves 003:01;551[C ]| That whirling pillar, which from earth to heaven 003:01;551[C ]| Stands vast, and moves in blackness. Ye too split 003:01;551[C ]| The ice-mount, and with fragments many and huge, 003:01;551[C ]| Tempest the new-thaw'd sea, whose sudden gulphs 003:01;551[C ]| Suck in, perchance, some Lapland wizard's skiff. 003:01;551[C ]| Then round and round the whirlpool's marge ye dance, 003:01;551[C ]| Till from the blue-swoln corse the soul toils out, 003:01;551[C ]| And joins your mighty army. 003:01;551[C ]| Soul of Albert! 003:01;552[C ]| Hear the mild spell and tempt no blacker charm. 003:01;552[C ]| By sighs unquiet and the sickly pang 003:01;552[C ]| Of an half dead yet still undying hope, 003:01;552[C ]| Pass visible before our mortal sense; 003:01;552[C ]| So shall the Church's cleansing rites be thine, 003:01;552[C ]| Her knells and masses that redeem the dead. 003:01;552[' ]| 003:01;552[' ]| <\Sung behind the scenes, accompanied by the same\> 003:01;552[' ]| <\instrument as before.\> 003:01;552[X ]| Hear, sweet spirit! hear the spell 003:01;552[X ]| Lest a blacker charm compel! 003:01;552[X ]| So shall the midnight breezes swell 003:01;552[X ]| With thy deep long-lingering knell. 003:01;552[X ]| And at evening evermore 003:01;552[X ]| In a chapel on the shore 003:01;552[X ]| Shall the chanters sad and saintly, 003:01;552[X ]| Yellow tapers burning faintly, 003:01;552[X ]| Doleful masses chant for thee, 003:01;552[X ]| 7Miserere, 7Domine! 003:01;552[X ]| Hark! the cadence dies away 003:01;552[X ]| On the quiet moonlight sea, 003:01;552[X ]| The boatmen rest their oars, and say, 003:01;552[X ]| 7Miserere, 7Domine! 003:01;552[' ]| <\A long pause.\> 003:01;552[A ]| This was too melancholy, father! 003:01;552[B ]| Nay! 003:01;552[B ]| My Albert lov'd sad music from a child. 003:01;552[B ]| Once he was lost; and after weary search 003:01;552[B ]| We found him in an open place of the wood, 003:01;552[B ]| To which spot he had follow'd a blind boy 003:01;552[B ]| Who breathed into a pipe of sycamore 003:01;552[B ]| Some strangely-moving notes, and these, he said, 003:01;552[B ]| Were taught him in a dream; him we first saw 003:01;552[B ]| Stretch'd on the broad top of a sunny heath-bank; 003:01;552[B ]| And, lower down, poor Albert fast asleep, 003:01;552[B ]| His head upon the blind boy's dog ~~ it pleased me 003:01;552[B ]| To mark, how he had fasten'd round the pipe 003:01;552[B ]| A silver toy, his grandmother had given him. 003:01;553[B ]| Methinks I see him now, as he then look'd. 003:01;553[B ]| His infant dress was grown too short for him, 003:01;553[B ]| Yet still he wore it. 003:01;553[' ]| <\Albert (aside).\> 003:01;553[C ]| My tears must not flow ~~ 003:01;553[C ]| I must not clasp his knees, and cry, my father! 003:01;553[A ]| The innocent obey nor charm nor spell. 003:01;553[A ]| My brother is in heaven. Thou sainted spirit 003:01;553[A ]| Burst on our sight, a passing visitant! 003:01;553[A ]| Once more to hear thy voice, once more to see thee, 003:01;553[A ]| O 'twere a joy to me. 003:01;553[' ]| <\Albert (abruptly).\> 003:01;553[C ]| A joy to thee! 003:01;553[C ]| What if thou heard'st him now? What if his spirit 003:01;553[C ]| Re-enter'd its cold corse, and came upon thee, 003:01;553[C ]| With many a stab from many a murderer's poniard? 003:01;553[C ]| What if, his steadfast eye still beaming pity 003:01;553[C ]| And brother's love, he turn'd his head aside, 003:01;553[C ]| Lest he should look at thee, and with one look 003:01;553[C ]| Hurl thee beyond all power of penitence? 003:01;553[B ]| These are unholy fancies! 003:01;553[' ]| <\Osorio (struggling with his feelings).\> 003:01;553[A ]| Yes, my father! 003:01;553[A ]| He is in heaven! 003:01;553[' ]| <\Albert (still to Osorio).\> 003:01;553[C ]| But what if this same brother 003:01;553[C ]| Had lived even so, that at his dying hour 003:01;553[C ]| The name of heaven would have convuls'd his face 003:01;553[C ]| More than the death-pang? 003:01;553[E ]| Idly-prating man! 003:01;553[E ]| He was most virtuous. 003:01;553[' ]| <\Albert (still to Osorio).\> 003:01;553[C ]| What if his very virtues 003:01;553[C ]| Had pamper'd his swoln heart, and made him proud? 003:01;553[C ]| And what if pride had duped him into guilt, 003:01;553[C ]| Yet still he stalk'd, a self-created God, 003:01;553[C ]| Not very bold, but excellently cunning; 003:01;553[C ]| And one that at his mother's looking-glass, 003:01;553[C ]| Would force his features to a frowning sternness? 003:01;553[C ]| Young lord! I tell thee, that there are such beings, ~~ 003:01;554[C ]| Yea, and it gives fierce merriment to the damn'd, 003:01;554[C ]| To see these most proud men, that loathe mankind, 003:01;554[C ]| At every stir and buz of coward conscience, 003:01;554[C ]| Trick, cant, and lie, most whining hypocrites! 003:01;554[C ]| Away! away! Now let me hear more music. 003:01;554[' ]| <\Music as before.\> 003:01;554[C ]| The spell is mutter'd ~~ come, thou wandering shape, 003:01;554[C ]| Who own'st no master in an eye of flesh, 003:01;554[C ]| Whate'er be this man's doom, fair be it or foul, 003:01;554[C ]| If he be dead, come quick, and bring with thee 003:01;554[C ]| That which he grasp'd in death; and if he lives, 003:01;554[C ]| Some token of his obscure perilous life. 003:01;554[' ]| <\The whole orchestra crashes into one chorus.\> 003:01;554[X ]| Wandering demon! hear the spell 003:01;554[X ]| Lest a blacker charm compel! 003:01;554[' ]| <\A thunder-clap. The incense on the altar takes\> 003:01;554[' ]| <\fire suddenly.\> 003:01;554[E ]| This is some trick ~~ I know, it is a trick. 003:01;555[E ]| Yet my weak fancy, and these bodily creepings, 003:01;555[E ]| Would fain give substance to the shadow. 003:01;555[' ]| <\Velez (advancing to the altar).\> 003:01;555[B ]| Hah! 003:01;555[B ]| A picture! 003:01;555[E ]| O God! \my\ picture? 003:01;555[' ]| <\Albert (gazing at Maria with wild impatient distressfulness).\> 003:01;555[C ]| Pale ~~ pale ~~ deadly pale! 003:01;555[E ]| He grasp'd it when he died. 003:01;555[' ]| <\She swoons.\ ALBERT \rushes to her and supports her.\> 003:01;555[C ]| My love! my wife! Maria! 003:01;555[C ]| Pale ~~ pale, and cold! My love! my wife! Maria! 003:01;555[' ]| 003:01;555[' ]| <\in a state of stupor.\> 003:01;555[' ]| <\Osorio (rousing himself).\> 003:01;555[A ]| Where am I? 'Twas a lazy chilliness. 003:01;555[' ]| <\Velez (takes and conceals the picture in his robe).\> 003:01;555[B ]| This way, my son! She must not see this picture. 003:01;555[B ]| Go, call the attendants! Life will soon ebb back! 003:01;555[' ]| 003:01;555[C ]| Her pulse doth flutter. Maria! my Maria! 003:01;555[' ]| <\Maria (recovering ~~ looks round).\> 003:01;555[E ]| I heard a voice ~~ but often in my dreams, 003:01;555[E ]| I hear that voice, and wake; and try, and try, 003:01;555[E ]| To hear it waking ~~ but I never could! 003:01;555[E ]| And 'tis so now ~~ even so! Well, he is dead, 003:01;555[E ]| Murder'd perhaps! and I am faint, and feel 003:01;555[E ]| As if it were no painful thing to die! 003:01;555[' ]| <\Albert (eagerly).\> 003:01;555[C ]| Believe it not, sweet maid! believe it not, 003:01;555[C ]| Beloved woman! 'Twas a low imposture 003:01;555[C ]| Framed by a guilty wretch. 003:01;555[E ]| Ha! who art thou? 003:01;555[' ]| <\Albert (exceedingly agitated).\> 003:01;555[C ]| My heart bursts over thee! 003:01;555[E ]| Didst \thou\ murder him? 003:01;556[E ]| And dost thou now repent? Poor troubled man! 003:01;556[E ]| I do forgive thee, and may Heaven forgive thee! 003:01;556[' ]| <\Albert (aside).\> 003:01;556[C ]| Let me be gone. 003:01;556[E ]| If thou didst murder him, 003:01;556[E ]| His spirit ever, at the throne of God, 003:01;556[E ]| Asks mercy for thee, prays for mercy for thee, 003:01;556[E ]| With tears in heaven! 003:01;556[C ]| Albert was not murder'd. 003:01;556[C ]| Your foster-mother ~~ 003:01;556[E ]| And doth she know aught? 003:01;556[C ]| She knows not aught ~~ but haste thou to her cottage 003:01;556[C ]| To-morrow early ~~ bring Lord*Velez with thee. 003:01;556[C ]| There ye must meet me ~~ but your servants come. 003:01;556[' ]| <\Maria (wildly).\> 003:01;556[E ]| Nay ~~ nay ~~ but tell me! 003:01;556[' ]| <\A pause ~~ then presses her forehead.\> 003:01;556[E ]| Ah! 'tis lost again! 003:01;556[E ]| This dead confused pain! 003:01;556[' ]| <\A pause ~~ she gazes at\ ALBERT.> 003:01;556[E ]| Mysterious man! 003:01;556[E ]| Methinks, I cannot fear thee ~~ for thine eye 003:01;556[E ]| Doth swim with pity ~~ I will lean on thee. 003:01;556[' ]| <\Exeunt\ ALBERT \and\ MARIA.> 003:01;556[' ]| <\Re-enter\ VELEZ \and\ OSORIO.> 003:01;556[' ]| <\Velez (sportively).\> 003:01;556[B ]| You shall not see the picture, till you own it. 003:01;556[A ]| This mirth and raillery, sir! beseem your age. 003:01;556[A ]| I am content to be more serious. 003:01;557[B ]| Do you think I did not scent it from the first? 003:01;557[B ]| An excellent scheme, and excellently managed. 003:01;557[B ]| 'Twill blow away her doubts, and now she'll wed you, 003:01;557[B ]| I'faith, the likeness is most admirable. 003:01;557[B ]| I saw the trick ~~ yet these old eyes grew dimmer 003:01;557[B ]| With very foolish tears, it look'd so like him! 003:01;557[A ]| Where should I get her portrait? 003:01;557[B ]| Get her portrait? 003:01;557[B ]| Portrait? You mean the picture! At the painter's ~~ 003:01;557[B ]| No difficulty then ~~ but that you lit upon 003:01;557[B ]| A fellow that could play the sorcerer, 003:01;557[B ]| With such a grace and terrible majesty, 003:01;557[B ]| It was most rare good fortune. And how deeply 003:01;557[B ]| He seem'd to suffer when Maria swoon'd, 003:01;557[B ]| And half made love to her! I suppose you'll ask me 003:01;557[B ]| Why did he so? 003:01;557[' ]| <\Osorio (with deep tones of suppressed agitation).\> 003:01;557[A ]| Ay, wherefore did he so? 003:01;557[B ]| Because you bade him ~~ and an excellent thought! 003:01;557[B ]| A mighty man, and gentle as he is mighty. 003:01;557[B ]| He'll wind into her confidence, and rout 003:01;557[B ]| A host of scruples ~~ come, confess, Osorio! 003:01;557[A ]| You pierce through mysteries with a lynx's eye, 003:01;557[A ]| In this, your merry mood! you see it all! 003:01;557[B ]| Why, no! ~~ not all. I have not yet discover'd, 003:01;557[B ]| At least, not wholly, what his speeches meant. 003:01;557[B ]| Pride and hypocrisy, and guilt and cunning ~~ 003:01;557[B ]| Then when he fix'd his obstinate eye on you, 003:01;557[B ]| And you pretended to look strange and tremble. 003:01;557[B ]| Why ~~ why ~~ what ails you now? 003:01;557[' ]| <\Osorio (with a stupid stare).\> 003:01;557[A ]| Me? why? what ails me? 003:01;557[A ]| A pricking of the blood ~~ it might have happen'd 003:01;557[A ]| At any other time. Why scan you me? 003:01;557[' ]| <\Velez (clapping him on the shoulder).\> 003:01;557[B ]| 'Twon't do ~~ 'twon't do ~~ 003:01;557[B ]| I have lived too long in the world. 003:01;557[B ]| His speech about the corse and stabs and murderers, 003:01;557[B ]| Had reference to the assassins in the picture: 003:01;557[B ]| That I made out. 003:01;557[' ]| <\Osorio (with a frantic eagerness).\> 003:01;557[A ]| Assassins! what assassins! 003:01;557[B ]| Well-acted, on my life! Your curiosity 003:01;557[B ]| Runs open-mouth'd, ravenous as winter wolf. 003:01;557[B ]| I dare not stand in its way. 003:01;557[' ]| <\He shows\ OSORIO \the picture).\> 003:01;557[A ]| Dup'd ~~ dup'd ~~ dup'd! 003:01;558[A ]| That villain Ferdinand! 003:01;558[' ]| <(\aside).\> 003:01;558[B ]| Dup'd ~~ dup'd ~~ not I. 003:01;558[B ]| As he swept by me ~~ 003:01;558[A ]| Ha! \what\ did he say? 003:01;558[B ]| He caught his garment up and hid his face. 003:01;558[B ]| It seem'd as he were struggling to suppress ~~ 003:01;558[A ]| A laugh! a laugh! O hell! he laughs at me! 003:01;558[B ]| It heaved his chest more like a violent sob. 003:01;558[A ]| A choking laugh! 003:01;558[' ]| <\A pause ~~ then very wildly.\> 003:01;558[A ]| I tell thee, my dear father! 003:01;558[A ]| I am most glad of this! 003:01;558[B ]| Glad! ~~ aye ~~ to be sure. 003:01;558[A ]| I was benumb'd, and stagger'd up and down 003:01;558[A ]| Thro' darkness without light ~~ dark ~~ dark ~~ dark ~~ 003:01;558[A ]| And every inch of this my flesh did feel 003:01;558[A ]| As if a cold toad touch'd it! Now 'tis sunshine, 003:01;558[A ]| And the blood dances freely thro' its channels! 003:01;558[' ]| <\He turns off ~~ then (to himself) mimicking\ FERDINAND's> 003:01;558[' ]| <\manner.\> 003:01;558[A ]| ""A common trick of gratitude, my lord! 003:01;558[A ]| Old Gratitude! a dagger would dissect 003:01;558[A ]| His own full heart,"" 'twere good to see its colour! 003:01;558[' ]| <\Velez (looking intently at the picture).\> 003:01;558[B ]| Calm, yet commanding! 003:01;558[B ]| how he bares his breast, 003:01;558[B ]| Yet still they stand with dim uncertain looks, 003:01;558[B ]| As penitence had run before their crime. 003:01;558[B ]| A crime too black for aught to follow it 003:01;558[B ]| Save blasphemous despair! See \this\ man's face ~~ 003:01;558[B ]| With what a difficult toil he drags his soul 003:01;558[B ]| To do the deed. 003:01;558[' ]| <\Then to\ OSORIO.> 003:01;558[B ]| O this was delicate flattery 003:01;558[B ]| To poor Maria, and I love thee for it! 003:01;558[' ]| <\Osorio (in a slow voice with a reasoning laugh).\> 003:01;558[A ]| Love ~~ love ~~ and then we hate ~~ and what? and wherefore? 003:01;558[A ]| Hatred and love. Strange things! both strange alike! 003:01;558[A ]| What if one reptile sting another reptile, 003:01;558[A ]| Where is the crime? The goodly face of Nature 003:01;558[A ]| Hath one trail less of slimy filth upon it. 003:01;559[A ]| Are we not all predestined rottenness 003:01;559[A ]| And cold dishonor? Grant it that this hand 003:01;559[A ]| Had given a morsel to the hungry worms 003:01;559[A ]| Somewhat too early. Where's the guilt of this? 003:01;559[A ]| That this must needs bring on the idiotcy 003:01;559[A ]| Of moist-eyed penitence ~~ 'tis like a dream! 003:01;559[B ]| Wild talk, my child! but thy excess of feeling 003:01;559[' ]| <\Turns off from\ OSORIO.> 003:01;559[B ]| Sometimes, I fear, it will unhinge his brain! 003:01;559[A ]| I kill a man and lay him in the sun, 003:01;559[A ]| And in a month there swarm from his dead body 003:01;559[A ]| A thousand ~~ nay, ten thousand sentient beings 003:01;559[A ]| In place of that one man whom I had kill'd. 003:01;559[A ]| Now who shall tell me, that each one and all, 003:01;559[A ]| Of these ten thousand lives, is not as happy 003:01;559[A ]| As that one life, which being shov'd aside 003:01;559[A ]| Made room for these ten thousand? 003:01;559[B ]| Wild as madness! 003:01;559[A ]| Come, father! you have taught me to be merry, 003:01;559[A ]| And merrily we'll pore upon this picture. 003:01;559[' ]| <\Velez (holding the picture before Osorio).\> 003:01;559[B ]| That Moor, who points his sword at Albert's breast ~~ 003:01;559[' ]| <\Osorio (abruptly).\> 003:01;559[A ]| A tender-hearted, scrupulous, grateful villain, 003:01;559[A ]| Whom I will strangle! 003:01;559[B ]| And these other two ~~ 003:01;559[A ]| Dead ~~ dead already! ~~ what care I for the dead? 003:01;559[B ]| The heat of brain and your too strong affection 003:01;559[B ]| For Albert, fighting with your other passion, 003:01;559[B ]| Unsettle you, and give reality 003:01;559[B ]| To these your own contrivings. 003:01;559[A ]| Is it so? 003:01;559[A ]| You see through all things with \your\ penetration. 003:01;560[A ]| Now I am calm. How fares it with Maria? 003:01;560[A ]| My heart doth ache to see her. 003:01;560[B ]| Nay ~~ defer it! 003:01;560[B ]| Defer it, dear Osorio! I will go. 003:01;560[' ]| <\Exit\ VELEZ.> 003:01;560[A ]| A rim of the sun lies yet upon the sea ~~ 003:01;560[A ]| And now 'tis gone! all may be done this night! 003:01;560[' ]| <\Enter a\ Servant.> 003:01;560[A ]| There is a man, once a Moresco chieftain, 003:01;560[A ]| One Ferdinand. 003:01;560[W ]| He lives in the Alpuxarras, 003:01;560[W ]| Beneath a slate rock. 003:01;560[A ]| Slate rock? 003:01;560[W ]| Yes, my lord! 003:01;560[W ]| If you had seen it, you must have remember'd 003:01;560[W ]| The flight of steps his children had worn up it 003:01;560[W ]| With often clambering. 003:01;560[A ]| Well, it may be so. 003:01;560[W ]| Why, now I think on't, at this time of the year 003:01;560[W ]| 'Tis hid by vines. 003:01;560[' ]| <\Osorio (in a muttering voice).\> 003:01;560[A ]| The cavern ~~ aye ~~ the cavern. 003:01;560[A ]| He cannot fail to find it. 003:01;560[' ]| <\To the\ Servant.> 003:01;560[A ]| Where art going? 003:01;560[A ]| You must deliver to this Ferdinand 003:01;560[A ]| A letter. Stay till I have written it. 003:01;560[' ]| <\Exit the\ Servant.> 003:01;560[' ]| <\Osorio (alone).\> 003:01;560[A ]| The tongue can't stir when the mouth is fill'd with mould. 003:01;560[A ]| A little earth stops up most eloquent mouths, 003:01;560[A ]| And a square stone with a few pious texts 003:01;560[A ]| Cut neatly on it, keeps the earth down tight. 003:02;560[' ]| <\Scene changes to the space before the castle.\> 003:02;560[' ]| 003:02;560[D ]| Yes! yes! I have the key of all their lives. 003:02;560[D ]| If a man fears me, he is forced to love me. 003:02;560[D ]| And if I can, and do not ruin him, 003:02;560[D ]| He is fast bound to serve and honour me! 003:02;560[' ]| 003:02;560[' ]| <\the stage.\> 003:02;560[W ]| There ~~ there ~~ your Reverence! That is the sorcerer. 003:02;560[' ]| 003:02;560[' ]| 003:02;560[' ]| 003:02;560[' ]| <\and the servants rush from out the castle.\> 003:02;561[D ]| Seize, seize and gag him! or the Church curses you! 003:02;561[' ]| <\The servants seize and gag\ ALBERT.> 003:02;561[' ]| <\Enter\ VELEZ \and\ OSORIO.> 003:02;561[' ]| <\Osorio (aside).\> 003:02;561[A ]| This is most lucky! 003:02;561[' ]| <\Francesco (inarticulate with rage).\> 003:02;561[D ]| See you this, Lord*Velez? 003:02;561[D ]| Good evidence have I of most foul sorcery, 003:02;561[D ]| And in the name of Holy*Church command you 003:02;561[D ]| To give me up the keys ~~ the keys, my lord! 003:02;561[D ]| Of that same dungeon-hole beneath your castle. 003:02;561[D ]| This imp of hell ~~ but we delay enquiry 003:02;561[D ]| Till to Granada we have convoy'd him. 003:02;561[' ]| <\Osorio (to the Servants).\> 003:02;561[A ]| Why haste you not? Go, fly and dungeon him! 003:02;561[A ]| Then bring the keys and give them to his Reverence. 003:02;561[' ]| <\The\ Servants \hurry off\ ALBERT. OSORIO \goes\> 003:02;561[' ]| <\up to\ FRANCESCO, \and pointing at\ ALBERT.> 003:02;561[' ]| <\Osorio (with a laugh).\> 003:02;561[A ]| ""He that can bring the dead to life again."" 003:02;561[D ]| Why? did \you\ hear it? 003:02;561[A ]| Yes, and plann'd this scheme 003:02;561[A ]| To bring conviction on him. Ho! a wizard, 003:02;561[A ]| Thought I ~~ but where's the proof! I plann'd this scheme 003:02;561[A ]| The scheme has answer'd ~~ we have proof enough. 003:02;561[D ]| My lord, your pious policy astounds me. 003:02;561[D ]| I trust my honest zeal ~~ 003:02;561[A ]| Nay, reverend father! 003:02;561[A ]| It has but raised my veneration for you. 003:02;561[A ]| But 'twould be well to stop all intertalk 003:02;561[A ]| Between my servants and this child of darkness. 003:02;561[D ]| My lord! with speed I'll go, make swift return, 003:02;561[D ]| And humbly redeliver you the keys. 003:02;561[' ]| <\Exit\ FRANCESCO.> 003:02;561[' ]| <\Osorio (alone).\> 003:02;561[A ]| ""The stranger, that lives nigh, still picking weeds."" 003:02;561[A ]| And this was his friend, his crony, his twin-brother! 003:02;561[A ]| O! I am green, a very simple stripling ~~ 003:02;561[A ]| The wise men of this world make nothing of me. 003:02;561[A ]| By Heaven, 'twas well contrived! And I, forsooth, 003:02;561[A ]| I was to cut my throat in honour of conscience. 003:02;561[A ]| And this tall wizard ~~ ho! ~~ he was to pass 003:02;561[A ]| For Albert's friend! He \hath\ a trick of his manner. 003:02;561[A ]| He was to tune his voice to honey'd sadness, 003:02;562[A ]| And win her to a transfer of her love 003:02;562[A ]| By lamentable tales of her dear Albert, 003:02;562[A ]| And his dear Albert! Yea, she would have lov'd him. 003:02;562[A ]| He, that can sigh out in a woman's ear 003:02;562[A ]| Sad recollections of her perish'd lover, 003:02;562[A ]| And sob and smile with veering sympathy, 003:02;562[A ]| And, now and then, as if by accident, 003:02;562[A ]| Pass his mouth close enough to touch her cheek 003:02;562[A ]| With timid lip, he takes the lover's place, 003:02;562[A ]| He takes his place, for certain! Dusky rogue, 003:02;562[A ]| Were it not sport to whimper with thy mistress, 003:02;562[A ]| Then steal away and roll upon my grave, 003:02;562[A ]| Till thy sides shook with laughter? Blood! blood! blood! 003:02;562[A ]| They want thy blood! thy blood, Osorio! 004:01;562[' ]| 004:01;562[' ]| <\is seen on one side of the further end of it, supposed to be\> 004:01;562[' ]| <\cast on it from a cranny in a part of the\> 004:01;562[' ]| <\cavern out of sight.\> 004:01;562[' ]| 004:01;562[' ]| <\hand.\> 004:01;562[H ]| Drip! drip! drip! drip! ~~ in such a place as this 004:01;562[H ]| It has nothing else to do but drip! drip! drip! 004:01;562[H ]| I wish it had not dripp'd upon my torch. 004:01;562[H ]| Faith 'twas a moving letter ~~ very moving! 004:01;562[H ]| His life in danger ~~ no place safe but this. 004:01;562[H ]| 'Twas his turn now to talk of gratitude! 004:01;562[H ]| And yet ~~ but no! there can't be such a villain. 004:01;562[H ]| It cannot be! 004:01;562[H ]| Thanks to that little cranny 004:01;563[H ]| Which lets the moonlight in! I'll go and sit by it. 004:01;563[H ]| To peep at a tree, or see a he-goat's beard, 004:01;563[H ]| Or hear a cow or two breathe loud in their sleep, 004:01;563[H ]| 'Twere better than this dreary noise of water-drops! 004:01;563[' ]| <\He goes out of sight, opposite to the patch of moonlight,\> 004:01;563[' ]| <\returns after a\> 004:01;563[' ]| <\minute's elapse in an ecstasy of fear.\> 004:01;563[H ]| A hellish pit! O God ~~ 'tis like my night-mair! 004:01;563[H ]| I was just in! ~~ and those damn'd fingers of ice 004:01;563[H ]| Which clutch'd my hair up! Ha! what's that? it moved! 004:01;563[' ]| 004:01;563[' ]| <\staring at another recess in the cavern. In\> 004:01;563[' ]| <\the mean*time\ OSORIO \enters with a torch and\> 004:01;563[' ]| <\hollas to him.\> 004:01;563[H ]| I swear, I saw a something moving there! 004:01;563[H ]| The moonshine came and went, like a flash of lightning. 004:01;563[H ]| I swear, I saw it move! 004:01;563[' ]| 004:01;563[' ]| <\great scorn.\> 004:01;563[A ]| A jutting clay-stone 004:01;563[A ]| Drips on the long lank weed that grows beneath; 004:01;564[A ]| And the weed nods and drips. 004:01;564[' ]| <\Ferdinand forcing a faint laugh).\> 004:01;564[H ]| A joke to laugh at! 004:01;564[H ]| It was not that which frighten'd me, my lord! 004:01;564[A ]| What frighten'd you? 004:01;564[H ]| You see that little cranny? 004:01;564[H ]| But first permit me, 004:01;564[' ]| <\Lights his torch at\ OSORIO'S, \and while lighting it.\> 004:01;564[H ]| (A lighted torch in the hand 004:01;564[H ]| Is no unpleasant object here ~~ one's breath 004:01;564[H ]| Floats round the flame, and makes as many colours 004:01;564[H ]| As the thin clouds that travel near the moon.) 004:01;564[H ]| You see that cranny there? 004:01;564[A ]| Well, what of that? 004:01;564[H ]| I walk'd up to it, meaning to sit there. 004:01;565[H ]| When I had reach'd it within twenty paces ~~ 004:01;565[' ]| 004:01;565[H ]| Merciful Heaven! Do go, my lord! and look. 004:01;565[' ]| 004:01;565[A ]| It must have shot some pleasant feelings thro' you? 004:01;565[H ]| If every atom of a dead man's flesh 004:01;565[H ]| Should move, each one with a particular life, 004:01;565[H ]| Yet all as cold as ever ~~ 'twas just so! 004:01;565[H ]| Or if it drizzled needle-points of frost 004:01;565[H ]| Upon a feverish head made suddenly bald ~~ 004:01;565[' ]| <\Osorio (interrupting him).\> 004:01;565[A ]| Why, Ferdinand! I blush for thy cowardice. 004:01;565[A ]| It would have startled any man, I grant thee. 004:01;565[A ]| But such a panic. 004:01;565[H ]| When a boy, my lord! 004:01;565[H ]| I could have sat whole hours beside that chasm, 004:01;565[H ]| Push'd in huge stones and heard them thump and rattle 004:01;565[H ]| Against its horrid sides; and hung my head 004:01;565[H ]| Low down, and listen'd till the heavy fragments 004:01;565[H ]| Sunk, with faint crash, in that still groaning well, 004:01;565[H ]| Which never thirsty pilgrim blest, which never 004:01;565[H ]| A living thing came near; unless, perchance, 004:01;565[H ]| Some blind-worm battens on the ropy mould, 004:01;565[H ]| Close at its edge. 004:01;565[A ]| Art thou more coward now? 004:01;565[H ]| Call him that fears his fellow-men a coward. 004:01;565[H ]| I fear not man. But this inhuman cavern 004:01;565[H ]| It were too bad a prison-house for goblins. 004:01;565[H ]| Besides (you'll laugh, my lord!) but true it is, 004:01;565[H ]| My last night's sleep was very sorely haunted 004:01;566[H ]| By what had pass'd between us in the morning. 004:01;566[H ]| I saw you in a thousand hideous ways, 004:01;566[H ]| And doz'd and started, doz'd again and started. 004:01;566[H ]| I do entreat your lordship to believe me, 004:01;566[H ]| In my last dream ~~ 004:01;566[A ]| Well? 004:01;566[H ]| I was in the act 004:01;566[H ]| Of falling down that chasm, when Alhadra 004:01;566[H ]| Waked me. She heard my heart beat! 004:01;566[A ]| Strange enough! 004:01;566[A ]| Had you been here before? 004:01;566[H ]| Never, my lord! 004:01;566[H ]| But my eyes do not see it now more clearly 004:01;566[H ]| Than in my dream I saw that very chasm. 004:01;566[' ]| 004:01;566[' ]| <\pause.\> 004:01;566[A ]| There is no reason why it should be so. 004:01;566[A ]| And yet it is. 004:01;566[H ]| What is, my lord? 004:01;566[A ]| Unpleasant 004:01;566[A ]| To kill a man! 004:01;566[H ]| Except in self-defence. 004:01;567[A ]| Why that's my case: and yet 'tis still unpleasant. 004:01;567[A ]| At least I find it so! But you, perhaps, 004:01;567[A ]| Have stronger nerves? 004:01;567[H ]| Something doth trouble you. 004:01;567[H ]| How can I serve you? By the life you gave me, 004:01;567[H ]| By all that makes that life of value to me, 004:01;567[H ]| My wife, my babes, my honour, I swear to you, 004:01;567[H ]| Name it, and I will toil to do the thing, 004:01;567[H ]| If it be innocent! But this, my lord! 004:01;567[H ]| Is not a place where you could perpetrate, 004:01;567[H ]| No, nor propose a wicked thing. The darkness 004:01;567[H ]| (When ten yards off, we know, 'tis chearful moonlight) 004:01;567[H ]| Collects the guilt and crowds it round the heart. 004:01;567[H ]| It must be innocent. 004:01;567[A ]| Thyself be judge. 004:01;567[' ]| 004:01;567[' ]| <\round it.)\> 004:01;567[A ]| One of our family knew this place well. 004:01;567[H ]| Who? when? my lord. 004:01;567[A ]| What boots it who or when? 004:01;567[A ]| Hang up the torch. I'll tell his tale to thee. 004:01;567[' ]| <\They hang their torches in some shelf of\> 004:01;567[' ]| <\the cavern.\> 004:01;567[A ]| He was a man different from other men, 004:01;567[A ]| And he despised them, yet revered himself. 004:01;567[H ]| What? he was mad? 004:01;567[A ]| All men seem'd mad to him, 004:01;568[A ]| Their actions noisome folly, and their talk ~~ 004:01;568[A ]| A goose's gabble was more musical. 004:01;568[A ]| Nature had made him for some other planet, 004:01;568[A ]| And press'd his soul into a human shape 004:01;568[A ]| By accident or malice. In this world 004:01;568[A ]| He found no fit companion! 004:01;568[H ]| Ah, poor wretch! 004:01;568[H ]| Madmen are mostly proud. 004:01;568[A ]| He walk'd alone, 004:01;568[A ]| And phantasies, unsought for, troubled him. 004:01;568[A ]| Something within would still be shadowing out 004:01;568[A ]| All possibilities, and with these shadows 004:01;568[A ]| His mind held dalliance. Once, as so it happen'd, 004:01;568[A ]| A fancy cross'd him wilder than the rest: 004:01;568[A ]| To this in moody murmur, and low voice, 004:01;568[A ]| He yielded utterance as some talk in sleep. 004:01;568[A ]| The man who heard him ~~ 004:01;568[A ]| Why didst thou look round? 004:01;568[H ]| I have a prattler three years old, my lord! 004:01;568[H ]| In truth he is my darling. As I went 004:01;568[H ]| From forth my door, he made a moan in sleep ~~ 004:01;568[H ]| But I am talking idly ~~ pray go on! 004:01;568[H ]| And what did this man? 004:01;568[A ]| With his human hand 004:01;568[A ]| He gave a being and reality 004:01;568[A ]| To that wild fancy of a possible thing. 004:01;568[A ]| Well it was done. 004:01;568[' ]| <\Then very wildly.\> 004:01;568[A ]| Why babblest thou of guilt? 004:01;568[A ]| The deed was done, and it pass'd fairly off. 004:01;568[A ]| And he, whose tale I tell thee ~~ dost thou listen? 004:01;568[H ]| I would, my lord, you were by \my\ fireside! 004:01;568[H ]| I'd listen to you with an eager eye, 004:01;568[H ]| Tho' you began this cloudy tale at midnight. 004:01;568[H ]| But I do listen ~~ pray proceed, my lord! 004:01;568[A ]| Where was I? 004:01;568[H ]| He of whom you tell the tale ~~ 004:01;568[A ]| Surveying all things with a quiet scorn 004:01;569[A ]| Tamed himself down to living purposes, 004:01;569[A ]| The occupations and the semblances 004:01;569[A ]| Of ordinary men ~~ and such he seem'd. 004:01;569[A ]| But that some over-ready agent ~~ he ~~ 004:01;569[H ]| Ah! what of him, my lord? 004:01;569[A ]| He proved a villain; 004:01;569[A ]| Betray'd the mystery to a brother villain; 004:01;569[A ]| And they between them hatch'd a damned plot 004:01;569[A ]| To hunt him down to infamy and death 004:01;569[A ]| To share the wealth of a most noble family, 004:01;569[A ]| And stain the honour of an orphan lady 004:01;569[A ]| With barbarous mixture and unnatural union. 004:01;569[A ]| What did the Velez? I am proud of the name, 004:01;569[A ]| Since he dared do it. 004:01;569[' ]| 004:01;569[' ]| <\then, after a pause, returns.\> 004:01;569[A ]| Our links burn dimly. 004:01;569[H ]| A dark tale darkly finish'd! Nay, my lord! 004:01;569[H ]| Tell what he did. 004:01;569[' ]| <\Osorio (fiercely).\> 004:01;569[A ]| That which his wisdom prompted. 004:01;569[A ]| He made the traitor meet him in this cavern, 004:01;569[A ]| And here he kill'd the traitor. 004:01;569[H ]| No! ~~ the fool. 004:01;569[H ]| He had not wit enough to be a traitor. 004:01;569[H ]| Poor thick-eyed beetle! not to have foreseen 004:01;569[H ]| That he, who gull'd thee with a whimper'd lie 004:01;569[H ]| To murder \his own brother,\ would not scruple 004:01;569[H ]| To murder \thee,\ if e'er his guilt grew jealous 004:01;569[H ]| And he could steal upon thee in the dark! 004:01;569[A ]| Thou would'st not then have come, if ~~ 004:01;569[H ]| O yes, my lord! 004:01;569[H ]| I would have met him arm'd, and scared the coward! 004:01;569[' ]| 004:01;569[' ]| <\armed, and draws his sword.\> 004:01;569[A ]| Now this is excellent, and warms the blood! 004:01;569[A ]| My heart was drawing back, drawing me back 004:01;570[A ]| With womanish pulls of pity. Dusky slave, 004:01;570[A ]| Now I will kill thee pleasantly, and count it 004:01;570[A ]| Among my comfortable thoughts hereafter. 004:01;570[H ]| And all my little ones fatherless! Die thou 004:01;570[H ]| first. 004:01;570[' ]| <\They fight.\ OSORIO \disarms\ FERDINAND, \and in\> 004:01;570[' ]| <\disarming him, throws his sword up that recess,\> 004:01;570[' ]| <\opposite to which they were standing.\> 004:01;570[' ]| <\Ferdinand (springing wildly towards Osorio).\> 004:01;570[H ]| Still I can 004:01;570[H ]| strangle thee! 004:01;570[A ]| Nay, fool! stand off. 004:01;570[A ]| I'll kill thee ~~ but not so! Go fetch thy sword. 004:01;570[' ]| 004:01;570[' ]| 004:01;570[' ]| <\alone.\> 004:01;570[A ]| Now ~~ this was luck! No bloodstains, no dead body! 004:01;570[A ]| His dream, too, is made out. Now for his friend. 004:01;570[' ]| <\Exit.\> 004:02;571[' ]| <\SCENE changes to the court before the Castle\> 004:02;571[' ]| <\of\ VELEZ.> 004:02;571[' ]| 004:02;571[E ]| And when I heard that you desired to see me, 004:02;571[E ]| I thought your business was to tell me of him. 004:02;571[V ]| I never saw the Moor, whom you describe. 004:02;571[E ]| 'Tis strange! he spake of you familiarly 004:02;572[E ]| As mine and Albert's common foster-mother. 004:02;572[V ]| Now blessings on the man, whoe'er he be, 004:02;572[V ]| That join'd your names with mine! O my sweet lady, 004:02;572[V ]| As often as I think of those dear times 004:02;572[V ]| When you two little ones would stand at eve, 004:02;572[V ]| On each side of my chair, and make me learn 004:02;572[V ]| All you had learnt in the day; and how to talk 004:02;572[V ]| In gentle phrase, then bid me sing to you, 004:02;572[V ]| 'Tis more like heaven to come, that what \has\ been! 004:02;572[E ]| O my dear mother! this strange man has left me 004:02;572[E ]| Wilder'd with wilder fancies than yon moon 004:02;572[E ]| Breeds in the love-sick maid ~~ who gazes at it 004:02;572[E ]| Till lost in inward vision, with wet eye 004:02;572[E ]| She gazes idly! But that entrance, mother! 004:02;572[V ]| Can no*one hear? It is a perilous tale! 004:02;572[E ]| No*one. 004:02;572[V ]| My husband's father told it me, 004:02;572[V ]| Poor old Leoni. Angels rest his soul! 004:02;572[V ]| He was a woodman, and could fell and saw 004:02;572[V ]| With lusty arm. You know that huge round beam 004:02;572[V ]| Which props the hanging wall of the old chapel? 004:02;572[V ]| Beneath that tree, while yet it was a tree, 004:02;572[V ]| He found a baby wrapt in mosses, lined 004:02;572[V ]| With thistle-beards, and such small locks of wool 004:02;572[V ]| As hang on brambles. Well, he brought him home, 004:02;572[V ]| And rear'd him at the then Lord*Velez's cost. 004:02;572[V ]| And so the babe grew up a pretty boy. 004:02;572[V ]| A pretty boy, but most unteachable ~~ 004:02;572[V ]| And never learnt a prayer, nor told a bead, 004:02;572[V ]| But knew the names of birds, and mock'd their notes, 004:02;572[V ]| And whistled, as he were a bird himself. 004:02;572[V ]| And all the autumn 'twas his only play 004:02;572[V ]| To get the seeds of wild flowers, and to plant them 004:02;572[V ]| With earth and water on the stumps of trees. 004:02;572[V ]| A friar who gather'd simples in the wood, 004:02;572[V ]| A grey-hair'd man ~~ he loved this little boy, 004:02;573[V ]| The boy loved him ~~ and, when the friar taught him, 004:02;573[V ]| He soon could write with the pen; and from that time 004:02;573[V ]| Lived chiefly at the convent or the castle. 004:02;573[V ]| So he became a very learned youth. 004:02;573[V ]| But O! poor wretch ~~ he read, and read, and read, 004:02;573[V ]| Till his brain turn'd ~~ and ere his twentieth year, 004:02;573[V ]| He had unlawful thoughts of many things. 004:02;573[V ]| And though he pray'd, he never loved to pray 004:02;573[V ]| With holy men, nor in a holy place. 004:02;573[V ]| But yet his speech, it was so soft and sweet, 004:02;573[V ]| The late Lord*Velez ne'er was wearied with him, 004:02;573[V ]| And once as by the north side of the chapel 004:02;573[V ]| They stood together, chain'd in deep discourse, 004:02;573[V ]| The earth heav'd under them with such a groan, 004:02;573[V ]| That the wall totter'd, and had well-nigh fall'n 004:02;573[V ]| Right on their heads. My lord was sorely frighten'd; 004:02;573[V ]| A fever seiz'd him; and he made confession 004:02;573[V ]| Of all the heretical and lawless talk 004:02;573[V ]| Which brought this judgment: so the youth was seiz'd 004:02;573[V ]| And cast into that hole. My husband's father 004:02;573[V ]| Sobb'd like a child ~~ it almost broke his heart. 004:02;573[V ]| And once as he was working in the cellar, 004:02;573[V ]| He heard a voice distinctly; 'twas the youth's, 004:02;573[V ]| Who sung a doleful song about green fields, 004:02;573[V ]| How sweet it were on lake or wild savannah 004:02;573[V ]| To hunt for food, and be a naked man, 004:02;573[V ]| And wander up and down at liberty. 004:02;573[V ]| He always doted on the youth, and now 004:02;573[V ]| His love grew desperate! and defying death, 004:02;573[V ]| He made that cunning entrance I described: 004:02;573[V ]| And the young man escaped. 004:02;573[E ]| 'Tis a sweet tale: 004:02;573[E ]| Such as would lull a list'ning child to sleep, 004:02;573[E ]| His rosy face besoil'd with unwiped tears. 004:02;573[E ]| And what became of him? 004:02;573[V ]| He went on shipboard 004:02;573[V ]| With those bold voyagers, who made discovery 004:02;573[V ]| Of golden lands; Leoni's younger brother 004:02;573[V ]| Went likewise, and when he return'd to Spain, 004:02;573[V ]| He told Leoni that the poor mad youth, 004:02;574[V ]| Soon after they arrived in that new world, 004:02;574[V ]| In spite of his dissuasion seized a boat, 004:02;574[V ]| And all alone set sail by silent moonlight, 004:02;574[V ]| Up a great river, great as any sea, 004:02;574[V ]| And ne'er was heard of more; but 'tis supposed 004:02;574[V ]| He liv'd and died among the savage men. 004:02;574[' ]| <\Enter\ VELEZ.> 004:02;574[B ]| Still sad, Maria? This same wizard haunts you. 004:02;574[E ]| O Christ! the tortures that hang o'er his head, 004:02;574[E ]| If ye betray him to these holy brethren! 004:02;574[' ]| <\Velez (with a kind of sneer).\> 004:02;574[B ]| A portly man, and eloquent, and tender! 004:02;574[B ]| In truth, I shall not wonder if you mourn 004:02;574[B ]| That their rude grasp should seize on \such\ a victim. 004:02;574[E ]| The horror of their ghastly punishments 004:02;574[E ]| Doth so o'ertop the height of sympathy, 004:02;574[E ]| That I should feel too little for mine enemy ~~ 004:02;574[E ]| Ah! far too little ~~ if 'twere possible, 004:02;574[E ]| I could feel more, even tho' my child or husband 004:02;574[E ]| Were doom'd to suffer them! That such things are ~~ 004:02;574[B ]| Hush! thoughtless woman! 004:02;574[E ]| Nay ~~ it wakes within me 004:02;574[E ]| More than a woman's spirit. 004:02;574[' ]| <\Velez (angrily).\> 004:02;574[B ]| No more of this ~~ 004:02;574[B ]| I can endure no more. 004:02;574[V ]| My honour'd master! 004:02;574[V ]| Lord*Albert used to talk so. 004:02;574[E ]| Yes! my mother! 004:02;574[E ]| These are my Albert's lessons, and I con them 004:02;574[E ]| With more delight than, in my fondest hour, 004:02;574[E ]| I bend me o'er his portrait. 004:02;574[' ]| <\Velez (to the Foster-Mother).\> 004:02;574[B ]| My good woman, 004:02;574[B ]| You may retire. 004:02;574[' ]| <\Exit the\ FOSTER-MOTHER.> 004:02;574[B ]| We have mourn'd for Albert. 004:02;575[B ]| Have I no living son? 004:02;575[E ]| Speak not of him! 004:02;575[E ]| That low imposture ~~ my heart sickens at it, 004:02;575[E ]| If it be madness, must I wed a madman? 004:02;575[E ]| And if not madness, there is mystery, 004:02;575[E ]| And guilt doth lurk behind it! 004:02;575[B ]| Is this well? 004:02;575[E ]| Yes! it is truth. Saw you his countenance? 004:02;575[E ]| How rage, remorse, and scorn, and stupid fear, 004:02;575[E ]| Displac'd each other with swift interchanges? 004:02;575[E ]| If this were all assumed, as you believe, 004:02;575[E ]| He must needs be a most consummate actor; 004:02;575[E ]| And hath so vast a power to deceive me, 004:02;575[E ]| I never could be safe. And why assume 004:02;575[E ]| The semblance of such execrable feelings? 004:02;575[B ]| Ungrateful woman! I have tried to stifle 004:02;575[B ]| An old man's passion! Was it not enough 004:02;575[B ]| That thou hast made my son a restless man, 004:02;576[B ]| Banish'd his health and half-unhinged his reason, 004:02;576[B ]| But that thou wilt insult him with suspicion, 004:02;576[B ]| And toil to blast his honour? I am old ~~ 004:02;576[B ]| A comfortless old man! Thou shalt not stay 004:02;576[B ]| Beneath my roof! 004:02;576[' ]| 004:02;576[B ]| Repent and marry him ~~ 004:02;576[B ]| Or to the convent. 004:02;576[' ]| <\Francesco (muttering).\> 004:02;576[D ]| Good! good! very good! 004:02;576[E ]| Nay, grant me some small pittance of my fortune, 004:02;576[E ]| And I will live a solitary woman, 004:02;576[E ]| Or my poor foster-mother and her grandsons 004:02;576[E ]| May be my household. 004:02;576[' ]| <\Francesco (advancing).\> 004:02;576[D ]| I abhor a listener; 004:02;576[D ]| But you spoke so, I could not choose but hear you. 004:02;576[D ]| I pray, my lord! will you embolden me 004:02;576[D ]| To ask you why this lady doth prefer 004:02;576[D ]| To live in lonely sort, without a friend 004:02;576[D ]| Or fit companion? 004:02;576[B ]| Bid her answer you. 004:02;576[E ]| Nature will be my friend and fit companion. 004:02;576[' ]| <\Turns off from them.\> 004:02;577[E ]| O Albert! Albert! that they could return, 004:02;577[E ]| Those blessed days, that imitated heaven! 004:02;577[E ]| When we two wont to walk at evening-tide; 004:02;577[E ]| When we saw nought but beauty; when we heard 004:02;577[E ]| The voice of that Almighty*One, who lov'd us, 004:02;577[E ]| In every gale that breath'd, and wave that murmur'd! 004:02;577[E ]| O we have listen'd, even till high-wrought pleasure 004:02;577[E ]| Hath half-assumed the countenance of grief, 004:02;577[E ]| And the deep sigh seem'd to heave up a weight 004:02;577[E ]| Of bliss, that press'd too heavy on the heart. 004:02;578[D ]| But in the convent, lady, you would have 004:02;578[D ]| Such aids as might preserve you from perdition. 004:02;578[D ]| There you might dwell. 004:02;578[E ]| With tame and credulous faith, 004:02;578[E ]| Mad melancholy, antic merriment, 004:02;578[E ]| Leanness, disquietude, and secret pangs! 004:02;578[E ]| O God! it is a horrid thing to know 004:02;578[E ]| That each pale wretch, who sits and drops her beads 004:02;578[E ]| Had once a mind, which might have given her wings 004:02;578[E ]| Such as the angels wear! 004:02;578[' ]| <\Francesco (stifling his rage).\> 004:02;578[D ]| Where is your son, my lord? 004:02;578[B ]| I have not seen him, father, since he left you. 004:02;578[D ]| His lordship's generous nature hath deceiv'd him! 004:02;578[D ]| \That\ Ferdinand (or if not he his wife) 004:02;578[D ]| I have fresh evidence ~~ are infidels. 004:02;578[D ]| We are not safe until they are rooted out. 004:02;578[E ]| Thou man, who call'st thyself the minister 004:02;578[E ]| Of Him whose law was love unutterable! 004:02;578[E ]| Why is thy soul so parch'd with cruelty, 004:02;578[E ]| That still thou thirstest for thy brother's blood? 004:02;578[' ]| <\Velez (rapidly).\> 004:02;578[B ]| Father! I have long suspected it ~~ her brain ~~ 004:02;578[B ]| Heed it not, father! 004:02;578[D ]| Nay ~~ but I \must\ heed it. 004:02;578[E ]| Thou miserable man! I fear thee not, 004:02;578[E ]| Nor prize a life which soon may weary me. 004:02;578[E ]| Bear witness, Heav'n! I neither scorn nor hate him ~~ 004:02;578[E ]| But O! 'tis wearisome to mourn for evils, 004:02;578[E ]| Still mourn, and have no power to remedy! 004:02;578[' ]| <\Exit\ MARIA.> 004:02;578[D ]| My lord! I shall presume to wait on you 004:02;578[D ]| To-morrow early. 004:02;578[B ]| Be it so, good father! 004:02;578[' ]| <\Exit\ FRANCESCO.> 004:02;578[' ]| <\Velez (alone).\> 004:02;578[B ]| I do want solace, but not such as thine! 004:02;578[B ]| The moon is high in heaven, and my eyes ache, 004:02;578[B ]| But not with sleep. Well ~~ it is ever so. 004:02;578[B ]| A child, a child is born! and the fond heart 004:02;578[B ]| Dances! and yet the childless are most happy. 004:03;579[' ]| 004:03;579[' ]| 004:03;579[' ]| <\fixed on the earth. Then drop in one after\> 004:03;579[' ]| <\another, from different parts of the stage, a\> 004:03;579[' ]| <\considerable number of\ Morescoes, \all in their\> 004:03;579[' ]| <\Moorish garments. They form a circle at a\> 004:03;579[' ]| <\distance round\ ALHADRA. \After a pause one\> 004:03;579[' ]| <\of the\ Morescoes \to the man who stands next\> 004:03;579[' ]| <\to him.\> 004:03;579[W ]| The law which forced these Christian dresses on us, 004:03;579[W ]| 'Twere pleasant to cleave down the wretch who framed it. 004:03;579[W ]| Yet 'tis not well to trample on it idly. 004:03;579[W ]| Our country robes are dear. 004:03;579[W ]| And like dear friends, 004:03;579[W ]| May chance to prove most perilous informers. 004:03;579[' ]| <\A third Moresco,\ NAOMI, \advances from out the circle.\> 004:03;579[I ]| Woman! may Alla and the prophet bless thee! 004:03;579[I ]| We have obey'd thy call. Where is our chief? 004:03;579[I ]| And why didst thou enjoin the Moorish garments? 004:03;579[' ]| <\Alhadra (lifting up her eyes, and looking\> 004:03;579[' ]| <\round on the circle).\> 004:03;579[F ]| Warriors of Mahomet, faithful in the battle, 004:03;579[F ]| My countrymen! Come ye prepared to work 004:03;579[F ]| An honourable deed? And would ye work it 004:03;579[F ]| In the slave's garb? Curse on those Christian robes! 004:03;579[F ]| They are \spell-blasted\; and whoever wears them, 004:03;579[F ]| His arm shrinks wither'd, his heart melts away, 004:03;579[F ]| And his bones soften! 004:03;579[I ]| Where is Ferdinand? 004:03;579[' ]| <\Alhadra (in a deep low voice).\> 004:03;579[F ]| This night I went from forth my house, and left 004:03;579[F ]| His children all asleep; and he was living! 004:03;579[F ]| And I return'd, and found them still asleep ~~ 004:03;579[F ]| But he had perish'd. 004:03;579[X ]| Perished? 004:03;579[F ]| He had perish'd! 004:03;579[F ]| Sleep on, poor babes! not one of you doth know 004:03;579[F ]| That he is fatherless, a desolate orphan! 004:03;579[F ]| Why should we wake them? Can an infant's arm 004:03;580[F ]| Revenge his murder? 004:03;580[' ]| <\One to another.\> 004:03;580[X ]| Did she say his murder? 004:03;580[I ]| Murder'd? Not murder'd? 004:03;580[F ]| Murder'd by a Christian! 004:03;580[' ]| <\They all, at once, draw their sabres.\> 004:03;580[' ]| <\Alhadra (To Naomi, who on being addressed again advances\> 004:03;580[' ]| <\from the circle).\> 004:03;580[F ]| Brother of Zagri! fling away thy sword: 004:03;580[F ]| This is thy chieftain's! 004:03;580[' ]| <\He steps forward to take it.\> 004:03;580[F ]| Dost thou dare receive it? 004:03;580[F ]| For I have sworn by Alla and the prophet, 004:03;580[F ]| No tear shall dim these eyes, this woman's heart 004:03;580[F ]| Shall heave no groan, till I have seen that sword 004:03;580[F ]| Wet with the blood of all the house of Velez! 004:03;580[' ]| <\Enter\ MAURICE.> 004:03;580[X ]| A spy! a spy! 004:03;580[' ]| <\They seize him.\> 004:03;580[G ]| Off! off! unhand me, slaves! 004:03;580[' ]| <\After much struggling he disengages himself and\> 004:03;580[' ]| <\draws his sword.\> 004:03;580[' ]| <\Naomi (to Alhadra).\> 004:03;580[I ]| Speak! shall we kill him? 004:03;580[G ]| Yes! ye can kill a man, 004:03;580[G ]| Some twenty of you! But ye are Spanish slaves! 004:03;580[G ]| And slaves are always cruel, always cowards. 004:03;580[F ]| That man has spoken truth. Whence and who art thou? 004:03;580[G ]| I seek a dear friend, whom for aught I know 004:03;580[G ]| The son of Velez hath hired one of you 004:03;580[G ]| To murder! Say, do ye know aught of Albert? 004:03;580[' ]| <\Alhadra (starting.\)> 004:03;580[F ]| Albert? ~~ three years ago I heard that name 004:03;580[F ]| Murmur'd in sleep! High-minded foreigner! 004:03;580[F ]| Mix thy revenge with mine, and stand among us. 004:03;580[' ]| 004:03;580[F ]| Was not Osorio my husband's friend? 004:03;580[W ]| He kill'd my son in battle; yet our chieftain 004:03;580[W ]| Forced me to sheathe my dagger. See ~~ the point 004:03;580[W ]| Is bright, unrusted with the villain's blood! 004:03;580[F ]| He is your chieftain's murderer! 004:03;581[I ]| He dies by Alla! 004:03;581[' ]| <\All (dropping on one knee).\> 004:03;581[X ]| By Alla! 004:03;581[F ]| This night a reeking slave came with loud pant, 004:03;581[F ]| Gave Ferdinand a letter, and departed, 004:03;581[F ]| Swift as he came. Pale, with unquiet looks, 004:03;581[F ]| He read the scroll. 004:03;581[G ]| Its purport? 004:03;581[F ]| Yes, I ask'd it. 004:03;581[F ]| He answer'd me, ""Alhadra! thou art worthy 004:03;581[F ]| A nobler secret; but I have been faithful 004:03;581[F ]| To this bad man, and faithful I will be."" 004:03;581[F ]| He said, and arm'd himself, and lit a torch; 004:03;581[F ]| Then kiss'd his children, each one on its pillow, 004:03;581[F ]| And hurried from me. But I follow'd him 004:03;581[F ]| At distance, till I saw him enter \there.\ 004:03;581[I ]| The cavern? 004:03;581[F ]| Yes ~~ the mouth of yonder cavern. 004:03;581[F ]| After a pause I saw the son of Velez 004:03;581[F ]| Rush by with flaring torch; he likewise enter'd ~~ 004:03;581[F ]| There was another and a longer pause ~~ 004:03;581[F ]| And once, methought, I heard the clash of swords, 004:03;581[F ]| And soon the son of Velez reappear'd. 004:03;581[F ]| He flung his torch towards the moon in sport, 004:03;581[F ]| And seem'd as he were mirthful! I stood listening 004:03;581[F ]| Impatient for the footsteps of my husband! 004:03;581[G ]| Thou called'st him? 004:03;581[F ]| I crept into the cavern: 004:03;582[F ]| 'Twas dark and very silent. 004:03;582[' ]| <\Then wildly.\> 004:03;582[F ]| No, no! I did not dare call, Ferdinand! 004:03;582[F ]| Lest I should hear no answer. A brief while, 004:03;582[F ]| Belike, I lost all thought and memory 004:03;582[F ]| Of that for which I came! After that pause, 004:03;582[F ]| O God! I heard a groan! ~~ and follow'd it. 004:03;582[F ]| And yet another groan ~~ which guided me 004:03;582[F ]| Into a strange recess ~~ and there was \light,\ 004:03;582[F ]| A \hideous\ light! his torch lay on the ground ~~ 004:03;582[F ]| Its flame burnt dimly o'er a chasm's brink. 004:03;582[F ]| I spake ~~ and while I spake, a feeble groan 004:03;582[F ]| Came from that chasm! It was his last! his death groan! 004:03;582[G ]| Comfort her, comfort her, Almighty Father! 004:03;582[F ]| I stood in unimaginable trance 004:03;582[F ]| And agony, that cannot be remember'd, 004:03;582[F ]| Listening with horrid hope to hear a groan! 004:03;582[F ]| But I had heard his last ~~ my husband's death-groan! 004:03;582[I ]| Haste! let us go! 004:03;582[F ]| I look'd far down the pit. 004:03;582[F ]| My sight was bounded by a jutting fragment, 004:03;582[F ]| And it was stain'd with blood! Then first I shriek'd! 004:03;582[F ]| My eyeballs burnt! my brain grew hot as fire! 004:03;582[F ]| And all the hanging drops of the wet roof 004:03;582[F ]| Turn'd into blood. I saw them turn to blood! 004:03;582[F ]| And I was leaping wildly down the chasm 004:03;582[F ]| When on the further brink I saw his sword, 004:03;582[F ]| And it said, Vengeance! Curses on my tongue! 004:03;582[F ]| The moon hath moved in heaven, and I am here, 004:03;582[F ]| And he hath not had vengeance! Ferdinand! 004:03;582[F ]| Spirit of Ferdinand! thy murderer lives! 004:03;582[F ]| Away! away! 004:03;582[' ]| <\She rushes off, all following.\> 005:01;583[' ]| 005:01;583[' ]| 005:01;583[W ]| This was no time for freaks of useless vengeance. 005:01;583[I ]| True! but Francesco, the Inquisitor, 005:01;583[I ]| Thou know'st the bloodhound ~~ 'twas a strong temptation. 005:01;583[I ]| And when they pass'd within a mile of his house, 005:01;583[I ]| We could not curb them in. They swore by Mahomet, 005:01;583[I ]| It were a deed of treachery to their brethren 005:01;583[I ]| To sail from Spain and leave that man alive. 005:01;583[W ]| Where is Alhadra? 005:01;583[I ]| She moved steadily on 005:01;583[I ]| Unswerving from the path of her resolve. 005:01;583[I ]| Yet each strange object fix'd her eye: for grief 005:01;583[I ]| Doth love to dally with fantastic shapes, 005:01;583[I ]| And smiling, like a sickly moralist, 005:01;583[I ]| Gives some resemblance of her own concerns 005:01;583[I ]| To the straws of chance, and things inanimate. 005:01;583[I ]| I see her here; stand thou upon the watch. 005:01;583[' ]| <\Exit\ Moresco.> 005:01;583[' ]| <\Naomi (looking wistfully to the distance).\> 005:01;583[I ]| Stretch'd on the rock! It must be she ~~ Alhadra! 005:01;583[' ]| 005:01;583[' ]| <\as if musing.\> 005:01;583[I ]| Once more, well met! what ponder'st thou so deeply? 005:01;583[F ]| I scarce can tell thee! For my many thoughts 005:01;583[F ]| Troubled me, till with blank and naked mind 005:01;583[F ]| I only listen'd to the dashing billows. 005:01;583[F ]| It seems to me, I could have closed my eyes 005:01;583[F ]| And wak'd without a dream of what has pass'd; 005:01;583[F ]| So well it counterfeited quietness, 005:01;583[F ]| This wearied heart of mine! 005:01;583[I ]| 'Tis thus by nature 005:01;583[I ]| Wisely ordain'd, that so excess of sorrow 005:01;583[I ]| Might bring its own cure with it. 005:01;583[F ]| Would to Heaven 005:01;584[F ]| That it had brought its last and certain cure! 005:01;584[F ]| That ruin in the wood. 005:01;584[I ]| It is a place 005:01;584[I ]| Of ominous fame; but 'twas the shortest road, 005:01;584[I ]| Nor could we else have kept clear of the village. 005:01;584[I ]| Yet some among us, as they scal'd the wall, 005:01;584[I ]| Mutter'd old rhyming prayers. 005:01;584[F ]| On that broad wall 005:01;584[F ]| I saw a skull; a poppy grew beside it, 005:01;584[F ]| There was a ghastly solace in the sight! 005:01;584[I ]| I mark'd it not, and in good truth the night-bird 005:01;584[I ]| Curdled my blood, even till it prick'd the heart. 005:01;584[I ]| Its note comes dreariest in the fall of the year: 005:01;584[' ]| <\Looking round impatiently.\> 005:01;584[I ]| Why don't they come? I will go forth and meet them. 005:01;584[' ]| <\Exit\ NAOMI.> 005:01;584[' ]| <\Alhadra (alone).\> 005:01;584[F ]| The hanging woods, that touch'd by autumn seem'd 005:01;584[F ]| As they were blossoming hues of fire and gold, 005:01;584[F ]| The hanging woods, most lovely in decay, 005:01;584[F ]| The many clouds, the sea, the rock, the sands, 005:01;584[F ]| Lay in the silent moonshine; and the owl, 005:01;584[F ]| (Strange! very strange!) the scritch owl only wak'd, 005:01;584[F ]| Sole voice, sole eye of all that world of beauty! 005:01;584[F ]| Why such a thing am I! Where are these men? 005:01;584[F ]| I need the sympathy of human faces 005:01;584[F ]| To beat away this deep contempt for all things 005:01;584[F ]| Which quenches my revenge. Oh! ~~ would to Alla 005:01;584[F ]| The raven and the sea-mew were appointed 005:01;584[F ]| To bring me food, or rather that my soul 005:01;584[F ]| Could drink in life from the universal air! 005:01;584[F ]| It were a lot divine in some small skiff, 005:01;584[F ]| Along some ocean's boundless solitude, 005:01;584[F ]| To float for*ever with a careless course, 005:01;584[F ]| And think myself the only being alive! 005:01;584[' ]| 005:01;584[I ]| Thy children ~~ 005:01;584[F ]| Children? \Whose\ children? 005:01;584[' ]| <\A pause ~~ then fiercely.\> 005:01;584[F ]| Son of Velez, 005:01;585[F ]| This hath new-strung my arm! Thou coward tyrant, 005:01;585[F ]| To stupify a woman's heart with anguish, 005:01;585[F ]| Till she forgot even that she was a mother! 005:01;585[' ]| <\A noise ~~ enter a part of the\ Morescoes; \and\> 005:01;585[' ]| <\from the opposite side of the stage a\ Moorish> 005:01;585[' ]| 005:01;585[W ]| The boat is on the shore, the vessel waits. 005:01;585[W ]| Your wives and children are already stow'd; 005:01;585[W ]| I left them prattling of the Barbary coast, 005:01;585[W ]| Of Mosks, and minarets, and golden crescents. 005:01;585[W ]| Each had her separate dream; but all were gay, 005:01;585[W ]| Dancing, in thought, to finger-beaten timbrels! 005:01;585[' ]| <\Enter\ MAURICE \and the rest of the\ Morescoes> 005:01;585[' ]| <\dragging in\ FRANCESCO.> 005:01;585[D ]| O spare me, spare me! only spare my life! 005:01;585[W ]| All hail, Alhadra! O that thou hadst heard him 005:01;585[W ]| When first we dragg'd him forth! 005:01;585[' ]| <\Then turning to the band.\> 005:01;585[W ]| Here! in her presence ~~ 005:01;585[' ]| <\He advances with his sword as about to kill him.\> 005:01;585[' ]| 005:01;585[' ]| <\sword between\ FRANCESCO \and the\ Morescoes.> 005:01;585[G ]| Nay, but ye shall not! 005:01;585[W ]| Shall not? Hah? Shall not? 005:01;585[G ]| What, an unarm'd man? 005:01;585[G ]| A man that never wore a sword? A priest? 005:01;585[G ]| It is unsoldierly! I say, ye shall not! 005:01;585[' ]| <\Old Man (turning to the bands).\> 005:01;585[W ]| He bears himself most like an insolent Spaniard! 005:01;585[G ]| And ye like slaves, that have destroy'd their master, 005:01;585[G ]| But know not yet what freedom means; how holy 005:01;585[G ]| And just a thing it is! He's a fall'n foe! 005:01;585[G ]| Come, come, forgive him! 005:01;585[X ]| No, by Mahomet! 005:01;585[D ]| O mercy, mercy! talk to them of mercy! 005:01;585[W ]| Mercy to thee! No, no, by Mahomet! 005:01;585[G ]| Nay, Mahomet taught mercy and forgiveness. 005:01;585[G ]| I am sure he did! 005:01;585[W ]| Ha! Ha! Forgiveness! Mercy! 005:01;585[G ]| If he did not, he needs it for himself! 005:01;586[F ]| Blaspheming fool! the law of Mahomet 005:01;586[F ]| Was given by him, who framed the soul of man. 005:01;586[F ]| This the best proof ~~ it fits the soul of man! 005:01;586[F ]| Ambition, glory, thirst of enterprize, 005:01;586[F ]| The deep and stubborn purpose of revenge, 005:01;586[F ]| With all the boiling revelries of pleasure ~~ 005:01;586[F ]| These grow in the heart, yea, intertwine their roots 005:01;586[F ]| With its minutest fibres! And that Being 005:01;586[F ]| Who made us, laughs to scorn the lying faith, 005:01;586[F ]| Whose puny precepts, like a wall of sand, 005:01;586[F ]| Would stem the full tide of predestined Nature! 005:01;586[' ]| <\Naomi (who turns toward Francesco with his sword).\> 005:01;586[I ]| Speak! 005:01;586[' ]| <\All (to Alhadra).\> 005:01;586[X ]| Speak! 005:01;586[F ]| Is the murderer of your chieftain dead? 005:01;586[F ]| Now as God liveth, who hath suffer'd him 005:01;586[F ]| To make my children orphans, none shall die 005:01;586[F ]| Till I have seen his blood! 005:01;586[F ]| Off with him to the vessel! 005:01;586[' ]| <\A part of the\ Morescoes \hurry him off.\> 005:01;586[F ]| The Tyger, that with unquench'd cruelty, 005:01;586[F ]| Still thirsts for blood, leaps on the hunter's spear 005:01;586[F ]| With prodigal courage. 'Tis not so with man. 005:01;586[G ]| It is not so, remember that, my friends! 005:01;586[G ]| Cowards are cruel, and the cruel cowards. 005:01;586[F ]| Scatter yourselves, take each a separate way, 005:01;586[F ]| And move in silence to the house of Velez. 005:01;586[' ]| <\Exeunt.\> 005:02;586[' ]| 005:02;586[' ]| 005:02;586[C ]| And this place my forefathers made for men! 005:02;586[C ]| This is the process of our love and wisdom 005:02;586[C ]| To each poor brother who offends against us ~~ 005:02;586[C ]| Most innocent, perhaps ~~ and what if guilty? 005:02;586[C ]| Is this the only cure? Merciful God! 005:02;586[C ]| Each pore and natural outlet shrivell'd up 005:02;586[C ]| By ignorance and parching poverty, 005:02;586[C ]| His energies roll back upon his heart, 005:02;586[C ]| And stagnate and corrupt till changed to poison, 005:02;587[C ]| They break out on him like a loathsome plague-spot! 005:02;587[C ]| Then we call in our pamper'd mountebanks ~~ 005:02;587[C ]| And this is their best cure! uncomforted 005:02;587[C ]| And friendless solitude, groaning and tears, 005:02;587[C ]| And savage faces at the clanking hour 005:02;587[C ]| Seen thro' the steaming vapours of his dungeon 005:02;587[C ]| By the lamp's dismal twilight! So he lies 005:02;587[C ]| Circled with evil, till his very soul 005:02;587[C ]| Unmoulds its essence, hopelessly deform'd 005:02;587[C ]| By sights of ever more deformity! 005:02;587[C ]| With other ministrations thou, O Nature! 005:02;587[C ]| Healest thy wandering and distemper'd child: 005:02;587[C ]| Thou pourest on him thy soft influences, 005:02;587[C ]| Thy sunny hues, fair forms, and breathing sweets, 005:02;587[C ]| Thy melodies of woods, and winds, and waters, 005:02;587[C ]| Till he relent, and can no more endure 005:02;587[C ]| To be a jarring and a dissonant thing 005:02;587[C ]| Amid this general dance and minstrelsy; 005:02;587[C ]| But bursting into tears wins back his way, 005:02;587[C ]| His angry spirit heal'd and harmoniz'd 005:02;587[C ]| By the benignant touch of love and beauty. 005:02;587[' ]| <\A noise at the dungeon-door. It opens, and\> 005:02;587[' ]| 005:02;588[A ]| Hail, potent wizard! In my gayer mood 005:02;588[A ]| I pour'd forth a libation to old Plato; 005:02;589[A ]| And as I brimm'd the bowl, I thought of thee! 005:02;589[' ]| <\Albert (in a low voice).\> 005:02;589[C ]| I have not summon'd up my heart to give 005:02;589[C ]| That pang, which I must give thee, son of Velez! 005:02;589[' ]| <\Osorio (with affected levity).\> 005:02;589[A ]| Thou hast conspired against my life and honour, 005:02;589[A ]| Hast trick'd me foully; yet I hate thee not! 005:02;589[A ]| Why should I hate thee? This same world of ours ~~ 005:02;589[A ]| It is a puddle in a storm of rain, 005:02;589[A ]| And we the air-bladders, that course up and down, 005:02;589[A ]| And joust and tilt in merry tournament, 005:02;589[A ]| And when one bubble runs foul of another, 005:02;589[' ]| <\Waving his hand at\ ALBERT.> 005:02;589[A ]| The lesser must needs break! 005:02;589[C ]| I see thy heart! 005:02;589[C ]| There is a frightful glitter in thine eye, 005:02;590[C ]| Which doth betray thee. Crazy-conscienc'd man, 005:02;590[C ]| This is the gaiety of drunken anguish, 005:02;590[C ]| Which fain would scoff away the pang of guilt, 005:02;590[C ]| And quell each human feeling! 005:02;590[A ]| Feeling! feeling! 005:02;590[A ]| The death of a man ~~ the breaking of a bubble. 005:02;590[A ]| 'Tis true, I cannot sob for such misfortunes! 005:02;590[A ]| But faintness, cold, and hunger ~~ curses on me 005:02;590[A ]| If willingly I e'er inflicted them! 005:02;590[A ]| Come, share the beverage ~~ this chill place demands it. 005:02;590[A ]| Friendship and wine! 005:02;590[' ]| 005:02;590[C ]| Yon insect on the wall, 005:02;590[C ]| Which moves this way and that its hundred legs, 005:02;590[C ]| Were it a toy of mere mechanic craft, 005:02;590[C ]| It were an infinitely curious thing! 005:02;590[C ]| But it has life, Osorio! life and thought; 005:02;590[C ]| And by the power of its miraculous will 005:02;590[C ]| Wields all the complex movements of its frame 005:02;590[C ]| Unerringly, to pleasurable ends! 005:02;590[C ]| Saw I that insect on this goblet's brink, 005:02;590[C ]| I would remove it with an eager terror. 005:02;590[A ]| What meanest thou? 005:02;590[C ]| There's poison in the wine. 005:02;590[A ]| Thou hast guess'd well. There's poison in the wine. 005:02;590[A ]| Shall we throw dice, which of us two shall drink it? 005:02;590[A ]| For one of us must die! 005:02;590[C ]| Whom dost thou think me? 005:02;590[A ]| The accomplice and sworn friend of Ferdinand. 005:02;590[C ]| Ferdinand! Ferdinand! 'tis a name I know not. 005:02;590[A ]| Good! good! that lie! by Heaven! it has restor'd me. 005:02;591[A ]| Now I am thy master! Villain, thou shalt drink it, 005:02;591[A ]| Or die a bitterer death. 005:02;591[C ]| What strange solution 005:02;591[C ]| Hast thou found out to satisfy thy fears, 005:02;591[C ]| And drug them to unnatural sleep? 005:02;591[' ]| 005:02;591[' ]| <\on the ground.\> 005:02;591[C ]| \My\ master! 005:02;591[A ]| Thou mountebank! 005:02;591[C ]| Mountebank and villain! 005:02;591[C ]| What then art thou? For shame, put up thy sword! 005:02;591[C ]| What boots a weapon in a wither'd arm? 005:02;591[C ]| I fix mine eye upon thee, and thou tremblest! 005:02;591[C ]| I speak ~~ and fear and wonder crush thy rage, 005:02;591[C ]| And turn it to a motionless distraction! 005:02;591[C ]| Thou blind self-worshipper! thy pride, thy cunning, 005:02;591[C ]| Thy faith in universal villainy, 005:02;591[C ]| Thy shallow sophisms, thy pretended scorn 005:02;591[C ]| For all thy human brethren ~~ out upon them! 005:02;591[C ]| What have they done for thee? Have they given thee peace? 005:02;591[C ]| Cured thee of starting in thy sleep? or made 005:02;591[C ]| The darkness pleasant, when thou wakest at midnight? 005:02;591[C ]| Art happy when alone? can'st walk by thyself 005:02;591[C ]| With even step, and quiet cheerfulness? 005:02;591[C ]| Yet, yet thou mayst be saved. 005:02;591[' ]| <\Osorio (stupidly reiterating the word).\> 005:02;591[A ]| Saved? saved? 005:02;591[C ]| One pang ~~ 005:02;591[C ]| Could I call up one pang of true remorse! 005:02;591[A ]| He told me of the babe, that prattled to him, 005:02;591[A ]| His fatherless little ones! Remorse! remorse! 005:02;591[A ]| Where gott'st thou that fool's word? Curse on remorse! 005:02;591[A ]| Can it give up the dead, or recompact 005:02;591[A ]| A mangled body ~~ mangled, dash'd to atoms! 005:02;591[A ]| Not all the blessings of an host of angels 005:02;591[A ]| Can blow away a desolate widow's curse; 005:02;591[A ]| And tho' thou spill thy heart's blood for atonement, 005:02;591[A ]| It will not weigh against an orphan's tear. 005:02;591[' ]| <\Albert (almost overcome by his feelings).\> 005:02;591[C ]| But Albert ~~ 005:02;591[A ]| Ha! it chokes thee in the throat, 005:02;592[A ]| Even thee! and yet, I pray thee, speak it out. 005:02;592[A ]| Still Albert! Albert! Howl it in mine ear! 005:02;592[A ]| Heap it, like coals of fire, upon my heart! 005:02;592[A ]| And shoot it hissing through my brain! 005:02;592[C ]| Alas ~~ 005:02;592[C ]| That day, when thou didst leap from off the rock 005:02;592[C ]| Into the waves, and grasp'd thy sinking brother, 005:02;592[C ]| And bore him to the strand, then, son of Velez! 005:02;592[C ]| How sweet and musical the name of Albert! 005:02;592[C ]| Then, then, Osorio! he was dear to thee, 005:02;592[C ]| And thou wert dear to him. Heaven only knows 005:02;592[C ]| How very dear thou wert! Why didst thou hate him? 005:02;592[C ]| O Heaven! how he would fall upon thy neck, 005:02;592[C ]| And weep forgiveness! 005:02;592[A ]| Spirit of the dead! 005:02;592[A ]| Methinks I know thee! Ha! ~~ my brain turns wild 005:02;592[A ]| At its own dreams ~~ off ~~ off, fantastic shadow! 005:02;592[' ]| <\Albert (seizing his hand).\> 005:02;592[C ]| I fain would tell thee what I am, but dare not! 005:02;592[' ]| <\Osorio (retiring from him).\> 005:02;592[A ]| Cheat, villain, traitor! whatsoe'er thou be 005:02;592[A ]| I fear thee, man! 005:02;592[' ]| <\He starts, and stands in the attitude of listening.\> 005:02;592[A ]| And is \this\ too my madness? 005:02;592[C ]| It is the step of one that treads in fear 005:02;592[C ]| Seeking to cheat the echo. 005:02;592[A ]| It approaches ~~ 005:02;592[A ]| This nook shall hide me. 005:02;592[' ]| 005:02;592[E ]| I have put aside 005:02;592[E ]| The customs and the terrors of a woman, 005:02;592[E ]| To work out thy escape. Stranger! begone, 005:02;592[E ]| And only tell me what thou know'st of Albert. 005:02;592[' ]| 005:02;592[' ]| <\it her with unutterable tenderness.\> 005:02;593[C ]| Maria! \my\ Maria! 005:02;593[E ]| Do not mock me. 005:02;593[E ]| This is my face ~~ and thou ~~ ha! who art thou? 005:02;593[E ]| Nay, I will call thee Albert! 005:02;593[' ]| <\She falls upon his neck. OSORIO leaps out from\> 005:02;593[' ]| <\the nook with frantic wildness, and rushes\> 005:02;593[' ]| <\towards\ ALBERT \with his sword.\ MARIA> 005:02;593[' ]| <\gazes at him, as one helpless with terror,\> 005:02;593[' ]| <\then leaves\ ALBERT, \and flings herself upon\> 005:02;593[' ]| 005:02;593[E ]| Madman, stop! 005:02;593[' ]| <\Albert (with majesty and tenderness).\> 005:02;593[C ]| Does then this thin disguise impenetrably 005:02;593[C ]| Hide Albert from thee? Toil and painful wounds, 005:02;593[C ]| And long imprisonment in unwholesome dungeons, 005:02;593[C ]| Have marr'd perhaps all trace and lineament 005:02;593[C ]| Of what I was! But chiefly, chiefly, brother! 005:02;593[C ]| My anguish for thy guilt. Spotless Maria, 005:02;593[C ]| I thought thee guilty too! Osorio, brother! 005:02;593[C ]| Nay, nay, thou \shalt\ embrace me! 005:02;593[' ]| <\Osorio (drawing back and gazing at Albert with a countenance\> 005:02;593[' ]| <\expressive at once of awe and terror).\> 005:02;593[A ]| Touch me not! 005:02;593[A ]| Touch not pollution, Albert! ~~ I will die! 005:02;593[' ]| <\He attempts to fall on his sword.\ ALBERT \and\> 005:02;593[' ]| 005:02;593[C ]| We will invent some tale to save your honour. 005:02;593[C ]| Live, live, Osorio! 005:02;593[E ]| You may yet be happy. 005:02;593[' ]| <\Osorio (looking at Maria).\> 005:02;593[A ]| O horror! Not a thousand years in heaven 005:02;593[A ]| Could recompose this miserable heart, 005:02;593[A ]| Or make it capable of one brief joy. 005:02;593[A ]| Live! live! ~~ why yes! 'Twere well to live with you ~~ 005:02;594[A ]| For is it fit a villain should be proud? 005:02;594[A ]| My brother! I will kneel to you, my brother! 005:02;594[' ]| <\Throws himself at\ ALBERT'S \feet.\> 005:02;594[A ]| Forgive me, Albert! ~~ \Curse\ me with forgiveness! 005:02;594[C ]| Call back thy soul, my brother! and look round thee. 005:02;594[C ]| Now is the time for greatness. Think that Heaven ~~ 005:02;594[E ]| O mark his eye! he hears not what you say. 005:02;594[' ]| <\Osorio (pointing at vacancy).\> 005:02;594[A ]| Yes, mark his eye! there's fascination in it. 005:02;594[A ]| Thou said'st thou didst not know him. That is he! 005:02;594[A ]| He comes upon me! 005:02;594[' ]| <\Albert (lifting his eye to heaven).\> 005:02;594[C ]| Heal, O heal him, Heaven! 005:02;594[A ]| Nearer and nearer! And I cannot stir! 005:02;594[A ]| Will no*one hear these stifled groans, and wake me? 005:02;594[A ]| He would have died to save me, and I kill'd him ~~ 005:02;594[A ]| A husband and a father! 005:02;594[E ]| Some secret poison 005:02;594[E ]| Drinks up his spirit! 005:02;594[' ]| <\Osorio (fiercely recollecting himself).\> 005:02;594[A ]| Let the eternal Justice 005:02;594[A ]| Prepare my punishment in the obscure world. 005:02;594[A ]| I will not bear to live ~~ to live! O agony! 005:02;594[A ]| And be myself alone, my own sore torment! 005:02;594[' ]| <\The doors of the dungeon are burst open with\> 005:02;594[' ]| <\a crash.\ ALHADRA, MAURICE, \and the band\> 005:02;594[' ]| <\of\ Morescoes \enter.\> 005:02;594[' ]| <\Alhadra (pointing to Osorio).\> 005:02;594[F ]| Seize first that man! 005:02;594[' ]| <\The\ Moors \press round.\> 005:02;594[' ]| <\Albert (rushing in among them).\> 005:02;594[C ]| Draw thy sword, Maurice, and defend my brother. 005:02;594[' ]| <\A scuffle, during which they disarm\ MAURICE.> 005:02;594[A ]| Off, ruffians! I have flung away my sword. 005:02;594[A ]| Woman, my life is thine! to thee I give it. 005:02;594[A ]| Off! he that touches me with his hand of flesh, 005:02;594[A ]| I'll rend his limbs asunder! I have strength 005:02;594[A ]| With this bare arm to scatter you like ashes! 005:02;595[F ]| My husband ~~ 005:02;595[A ]| Yes! I murder'd him most foully. 005:02;595[' ]| <\Albert (throws himself on the earth).\> 005:02;595[C ]| O horrible! 005:02;595[F ]| Why didst thou leave his children? 005:02;595[F ]| Demon! thou shouldst have sent thy dogs of hell 005:02;595[F ]| To lap \their\ blood. Then, then, I might have harden'd 005:02;595[F ]| My soul in misery, and have had comfort. 005:02;595[F ]| I would have stood far off, quiet tho' dark, 005:02;595[F ]| And bade the race of men raise up a mourning 005:02;595[F ]| For the deep horror of a desolation 005:02;595[F ]| Too great to be one soul's particular lot! 005:02;595[F ]| Brother of Zagri! let me lean upon thee. 005:02;595[' ]| <\Struggling to suppress her anguish.\> 005:02;595[F ]| The time is not yet come for woman's anguish ~~ 005:02;595[F ]| I have not seen his blood. Within an hour 005:02;595[F ]| Those little ones will crowd around and ask me, 005:02;595[F ]| Where is our father? 005:02;595[' ]| <\Looks at\ OSORIO.> 005:02;595[F ]| I shall curse thee then! 005:02;595[F ]| Wert thou in heaven, my curse would pluck thee thence! 005:02;595[E ]| See ~~ see! he doth repent. I kneel to thee. 005:02;595[E ]| Be merciful! 005:02;595[' ]| 005:02;595[F ]| Thou art young and innocent; 005:02;595[F ]| 'Twere merciful to kill thee! Yet I will not. 005:02;595[F ]| And for thy sake none of this house shall perish, 005:02;596[F ]| Save only he. 005:02;596[E ]| That aged men, his father! 005:02;596[' ]| <\Alhadra (sternly).\> 005:02;596[F ]| Why had he such a son? 005:02;596[' ]| <\The\ Moors \press on.\> 005:02;596[' ]| <\Maria (still kneeling, and wild with affright).\> 005:02;596[E ]| Yet spare his life! 005:02;596[E ]| They must not murder him! 005:02;596[F ]| And is it then 005:02;596[F ]| An enviable lot to waste away 005:02;596[F ]| With inward wounds, and like the spirit of chaos 005:02;596[F ]| To wander on disquietly thro' the earth, 005:02;596[F ]| Cursing all lovely things? to let him live ~~ 005:02;596[F ]| It were a deep revenge! 005:02;596[' ]| <\All the band cry out\> 005:02;596[X ]| No mercy! no mercy! 005:02;596[' ]| 005:02;596[F ]| Nay, bear him forth! Why should this innocent maid 005:02;596[F ]| Behold the ugliness of death? 005:02;596[' ]| <\Osorio (with great majesty).\> 005:02;596[A ]| O woman! 005:02;596[A ]| I have stood silent like a slave before thee, 005:02;596[A ]| That I might taste the wormwood and the gall, 005:02;596[A ]| And satiate this self-accusing spirit 005:02;596[A ]| With bitterer agonies than death can give. 005:02;596[' ]| <\The\ Moors \ gather round him in a crowd, and pass\> 005:02;596[' ]| <\off the stage.\> 005:02;596[F ]| I thank thee, Heaven! thou hast ordain'd it wisely, 005:02;596[F ]| That still extremes bring their own cure. That point 005:02;596[F ]| In misery which makes the oppressed man 005:02;596[F ]| Regardless of his own life, makes him too 005:02;596[F ]| Lord of the oppressor's! Knew I an hundred men 005:02;596[F ]| Despairing, but not palsied by despair, 005:02;596[F ]| This arm should shake the kingdoms of this world; 005;02;597[F ]| The deep foundations of iniquity 005;02;597[F ]| Should sink away, earth groaning from beneath them; 005;02;597[F ]| The strong holds of the cruel men should fall, 005;02;597[F ]| Their temples and their mountainous towers should fall; 005;02;597[F ]| Till desolation seem'd a beautiful thing, 005;02;597[F ]| And all that were and had the spirit of life 005;02;597[F ]| Sang a new song to him who had gone forth 005;02;597[F ]| Conquering and still to conquer!