601:01,001[C ]| You must conduct her to that fatal place, 601:01,002[C ]| Where miserable lovers that despair, 601:01,003[C ]| With howls and lamentations fill the air; 601:01,004[C ]| A husband there your daughter shall embrace. 601:01,005[C ]| On Venus Rock upon the sea, 601:01,006[C ]| She must by you deserted be: 601:01,007[C ]| A poisoned serpent there she'll find, 601:01,008[C ]| By heaven he Psyche's husband is designed. 601:01,008[C ]| 601:01,009[B ]| Gods! that I e'er should live to see this day. 601:01,010[B ]| 'Tis for some great offence 601:01,011[B ]| Of mine, that thou art to be snatched from hence. 601:01,012[B ]| Oh take my life, and let her stay. 601:01,013[B ]| But 'tis in vain to ask, we must obey: 601:01,014[B ]| For which I'll weep my hated life away. 601:01,015[G ]| Venus has kept her word, and she shall be 601:01,016[G ]| Much more adored by me, 601:01,017[G ]| Than any other deity. 601:01,018[H ]| Now my fair sister must a serpent have, 601:01,019[H ]| Instead of a nuptial bed, a grave. 601:01,020[H ]| Now she shall suffer for her pride; 601:01,021[H ]| Our love and hate will now be satisfied. 601:01,022[A ]| To whatsoe'er the oracle thinks fit, 601:01,023[A ]| I cheerfully submit: 601:01,024[A ]| I have not lived so ill, but I 601:01,025[A ]| With ease can die: 601:01,026[A ]| I with a willing heart 601:01,027[A ]| Can with my life as with a trifle part: 601:01,028[A ]| As no joy yet could ever fill my mind, 601:01,029[A ]| I from no danger can distraction find. 601:01,030[B ]| Lead on; and with a funeral pace, 601:01,031[B ]| For I in that unhappy place 601:01,032[B ]| Must bury all my joy, and leave my life behind. 601:01,033[D ]| Stay but a moment, stay; 601:01,034[D ]| You will not sure this oracle obey. 601:01,035[D ]| Consider and be wise: 601:01,036[D ]| If it be good Psyche to sacrifice, 601:01,037[D ]| You were obliged to it without this command, 601:01,038[D ]| And we the action should not then withstand. 601:01,039[E ]| If bad, then heaven itself can't make it good: 601:01,040[E ]| All good and ill's already understood. 601:01,041[E ]| Heaven has forbid the shedding guiltless blood. 601:01,042[E ]| If good and ill anew it has designed, 601:01,043[E ]| The gods are mutable, and change their mind. 601:01,044[D ]| Be not by this imposture, sir, betrayed, 601:01,045[D ]| By this dull idol which the priests have made: 601:01,046[D ]| Too many cheats are in the temple found, 601:01,047[D ]| Their fraud does more than piety abound: 601:01,048[D ]| They make the senseless image speak with ease 601:01,049[D ]| Whate'er themselves shall please. 601:01,050[F ]| Do not the sacred image thus profane, 601:01,051[F ]| Which will revenge itself, and all its rites maintain. 601:01,052[E ]| If that be sacred, and you that adore, 601:01,053[E ]| Then him that made it you should worship more: 601:01,054[E ]| To the poor mechanic you give no respect, 601:01,055[E ]| You adore his workmanship, but him neglect. 601:01,056[D ]| For sacred you impose what you decree, 601:01,057[D ]| And the deluded multitude believe, 601:01,058[D ]| By boasting of infallibility, 601:01,059[D ]| The unthinking rabble you with ease deceive. 601:01,060[E ]| Whatever in divinity you know, 601:01,061[E ]| In all concernments of mankind below: 601:01,062[E ]| In all the objects of the mind, 601:01,063[E ]| And in all human science we can find. 601:01,064[E ]| In priests more errors than in all mankind. 601:01,065[D ]| In sacred things yet you so much excel 601:01,066[D ]| All others, in your sleeps you can foretell; 601:01,067[D ]| When after surfeits in your holy feasts 601:01,068[D ]| You sleep in skins of sacrificed beasts, 601:01,069[D ]| The troubled dreams you from those fumes receive, 601:01,070[D ]| To the unheedful world for oracles you give. 601:01,071[B ]| In holy mysteries you must lay by 601:01,072[B ]| Your intricate philosophy. 601:01,073[B ]| After the dreadful cloud with thunder broke, 601:01,074[B ]| It was some loud immortal voice that spoke. 601:01,075[F ]| The holy rites you saw performed, 601:01,076[F ]| By miracles were now confirmed. 601:01,077[D ]| Miracles! 601:01,078[D ]| You holy cheats to advance your mystery: 601:01,079[D ]| The noblest science is divinity. 601:01,080[D ]| But when become a trade, I see, 'twill be 601:01,081[D ]| Like other trades, maintained by knavery. 601:01,082[F ]| By miracles the power of heaven is known. 601:01,083[E ]| Heaven's power is more by settled order shown. 601:01,084[E ]| The beauty of that order which is found, 601:01,085[E ]| To govern the creation in a round, 601:01,086[E ]| The fixed uninterrupted chain, whereby 601:01,087[E ]| All things on one another must depend; 601:01,088[E ]| This method proves a wise divinity, 601:01,089[E ]| As much as should the gods on earth descend. 601:01,090[F ]| You speak from nature, which is ignorance; 601:01,091[F ]| But we to inspiration must advance. 601:01,092[D ]| If, priest, by means not natural heaven declares 601:01,093[D ]| Its will, and our obedience so prepares; 601:01,094[D ]| The gods by this their weakness would confess, 601:01,095[D ]| What you call miracles would make them less. 601:01,096[D ]| If something without nature they produce, 601:01,097[D ]| Nature is then defective to their use: 601:01,098[D ]| And when by that they cannot work their end, 601:01,099[D ]| My miracle their instrument they mend. 601:01,100[E ]| If this be granted, priest, by this we find, 601:01,101[E ]| The gods foresee not, or else change their mind. 601:01,102[E ]| But heaven does nothing to our sense produce, 601:01,103[E ]| But it does outward natural causes use. 601:01,104[E ]| Fools trust in miracles, and fools ne'er doubt: 601:01,105[E ]| 'Tis ignorance of causes, priest, makes fools devout. 601:01,105[' ]| 601:01,106[F ]| Be gone, profane and wicked men, 601:01,107[F ]| You have provoked heaven's wrath again. 601:01,108[F ]| Heaven does again to you in thunder speak! 601:01,109[D ]| 'Twas nothing but a petty cloud did break; 601:01,110[D ]| What, can your priesthood's grave philosophy 601:01,111[D ]| So much amazed at common thunder be? 601:01,112[A ]| We should obey without these prodigies; 601:01,113[A ]| I to heaven's will my own will sacrifice. 601:01,114[G ]| Must I then with my much loved sister part? 601:01,115[H ]| The dismal loss will break my tender heart. 601:01,116[B ]| Joy of my life, let's to the fatal place, 601:01,117[B ]| Where thine and all my sorrow is designed: 601:01,118[B ]| When thee the poisonous serpent shall embrace, 601:01,119[B ]| Assure thyself I'll not stay long behind. 601:01,120[E ]| Thus the great Agamemnon was betrayed, 601:01,121[E ]| And Iphigenia thus a victim made: 601:01,122[E ]| Such horrid ills religion can persuade. 601:01,122[' ]| 601:02,000[' ]| 601:02,000[' ]| 601:02,000[' ]| 601:02,001[W ]| <1 Lover.> Ah what a dreadful rocky desert's this, 601:02,002[W ]| The melancholy region of despair: 601:02,003[W ]| Where'er I turn me, poisonous serpents hiss, 601:02,004[W ]| And with their venomous breaths infect the air. 601:02,005[V ]| <2 Lover.> Here pestilential vapours do abound, 601:02,006[V ]| And killing damps the vaults and caverns breath; 601:02,007[V ]| From dreadful gapings of the craggy ground, 601:02,008[V ]| The fatal desert seems to yawn forth death. 601:02,009[W ]| <1 Lover.> A gloomy darkness hovers o'er this place; 601:02,010[W ]| Here sure the sun ne'er shows his joyful face. 601:02,011[W ]| Nature this place for horror did design: 601:02,012[W ]| No beam of comfort here can shine. 601:02,013[V ]| <2 Lover.> Nothing but howls of sad despair, 601:02,014[V ]| And dismal groans of wretches fill the air, 601:02,015[V ]| Who in agonies their hated lives resign. 601:02,016[W ]| <1 Lover.> How many various ways to death we have: 601:02,017[W ]| Some from that rock have plunged into the deep; 601:02,018[W ]| And in the sea we saw 'em find a grave. 601:02,019[V ]| <2 Lover.> Some by their poniards meet death's easy sleep: 601:02,020[V ]| By wilful stopping their own breath. 601:02,021[W ]| <1 Lover.> Nature this place did for my grief intend. 601:02,022[V ]| <2 Lover.> And here my fatal life and love shall end. 601:02,023[W ]| <1 Lover.> Psyche is hither by Apollo sent, 601:02,024[W ]| Here to fulfil the oracle's intent. 601:02,024[' ]| 601:02,024[' ]| 601:02,025[W ]| <1 Man.> Break, break distracted heart, there is no cure 601:02,026[W ]| For love, my mind's too raging calenture. 601:02,027[V ]| <1 Woman.> Sighs which in other passions vent, 601:02,028[V ]| And give them ease when they lament, 601:02,029[V ]| Are but the bellows to my hot desire. 601:02,030[V ]| <2 Woman.> And tears in me not quench, but nourish fire. 601:02,031[W ]| <2 Man.> Nothing can mollify my grief, 601:02,032[W ]| Or give my passion a relief. 601:02,033[W ]| <1 Man.> Love is not like our earthly fire; 601:02,034[W ]| You soon may smother out that flame; 601:02,035[W ]| Concealing does increase desire, 601:02,036[W ]| No opposition love can tame. 601:02,037[V ]| <2 Woman.> Despair in love transcends all pain, 601:02,038[V ]| Lost hope will ne'er return again. 601:02,039[V ]| <1 Woman.> In hell there's no such misery, 601:02,040[V ]| As now oppresses me. 601:02,041[V ]| I this one pang alone 601:02,042[V ]| Would change for Sisyphus his stone. 601:02,043[W ]| <2 Man.> I would the torments which I feel 601:02,044[W ]| Change for Ixion's wheel. 601:02,045[V ]| <2 Woman.> The vulture should on me forever feed, 601:02,046[V ]| Rather than thus my heart for love should bleed. 601:02,047[W ]| <1 Man.> Oh Tantalus! for thy eternal thirst; 601:02,048[W ]| I'm more on earth than thou in hell accursed. 601:02,049[V ]| <1 Woman.> Was ever grief like mine? 601:02,050[V ]| <2 Woman.> Like mine? 601:02,051[W ]| <1 Man.> Like mine? 601:02,052[W ]| <2 Man.> Like mine? 601:02,053[X ]| Was ever grief like mine? Was ever, etc% 601:02,054[V ]| <2 Woman.> Nothing but death can cure our misery. 601:02,055[V ]| <1 Woman.> I'll die. 601:02,056[W ]| <1 Man.> I'll die. 601:02,057[W ]| <2 Man.> I'll die. 601:02,058[X ]| Nothing but death can cure our misery. Nothing but, etc% 601:02,059[W ]| <1 Man speaks.> How long shall I for this dull serpent stay, 601:02,060[W ]| Ere I become his prey? 601:02,061[W ]| Come forth from out thy poisonous den: 601:02,062[W ]| Dost thou despise the flesh of men? 601:02,063[W ]| <2 Man.> The lazy serpent breakfasted today; 601:02,064[W ]| I will not for his waking stomach stay: 601:02,065[W ]| I'll be author of my fate, and make my*self away. 601:02,065[' ]| 601:02,066[V ]| <1 Woman.> Your sex no more in courage shall excel, 601:02,067[V ]| For I can die as well. 601:02,068[V ]| I in this dagger my relief will find, 601:02,069[V ]| And kill my body thus to ease my mind. 601:02,069[' ]| 601:02,070[W ]| <1 Man.> I to the top of all the rock will climb; 601:02,071[W ]| And if in little time 601:02,072[W ]| The serpent there I cannot see, 601:02,073[W ]| I'll find a way to follow thee. 601:02,074[V ]| <2 Woman.> My heart that office will perform for me. 601:02,075[V ]| A death-like pang I feel, 601:02,076[V ]| I have no need of steel. 601:02,077[V ]| A faint cold sweat besmears my face, 601:02,078[V ]| I can make haste and die apace. 601:02,079[V ]| And these are the last words I e'er shall speak, 601:02,080[V ]| Farewell my cruel love, for thee my heart does break. 601:02,080[' ]| 601:02,080[' ]| 601:02,080[' ]| 601:02,080[' ]| 601:02,081[A ]| Oh stop those royal fountains, tears are things 601:02,082[A ]| Which ill become the majesty of kings. 601:02,083[B ]| But they become a father, who must lose 601:02,084[B ]| The only comfort of his fading life; 601:02,085[B ]| Who barbarously must his child expose, 601:02,086[B ]| By heaven's command, to be a serpent's wife. 601:02,087[A ]| That dread command I'm ready to obey, 601:02,088[A ]| I beg you will no longer stay. 601:02,089[A ]| Death's cold embraces I will court; 601:02,090[A ]| I can my fate, but not your tears support. 601:02,091[B ]| Ye gods, why did ye ever bless 601:02,092[B ]| Me with this gift, to snatch it back again? 601:02,093[B ]| My burden's greater than I can sustain! 601:02,094[A ]| I never could deserve such tenderness; 601:02,095[A ]| Nay, good sir, dry your eyes, my heart will break; 601:02,096[A ]| To bear your grief, I am too weak. 601:02,097[B ]| Oh that I'd never seen thy much-loved face, 601:02,098[B ]| And that thou hadst perished in the womb: 601:02,099[B ]| I had not led thee to this fatal place, 601:02,100[B ]| Thy father had not brought thee living to thy tomb. 601:02,101[A ]| Your sad complaints so soften me, 601:02,102[A ]| My heart will melt to that degree, 601:02,103[A ]| That I shall have none left when death I see. 601:02,104[B ]| Heavens! what could thus your cruelty provoke? 601:02,105[B ]| Your altars, by my bounty, daily smoke 601:02,106[B ]| With fat, with incense, and with gums: 601:02,107[B ]| Nor have you wanted hecatombs. 601:02,108[B ]| And must I thus rewarded be? 601:02,109[G ]| See how the dotard weeps, while we 601:02,110[G ]| Rejoice at this her destiny. 601:02,111[G ]| Oh how it would my envy feed, 601:02,112[G ]| Could my glad eyes behold her bleed! 601:02,113[H ]| Oh good dear serpent, make her sure, 601:02,114[H ]| Her death, our grief can only cure. 601:02,115[H ]| Oh that she were at my command, 601:02,116[H ]| And that her heart were throbbing in my hand. 601:02,117[H ]| Some miracle may else relieve 601:02,118[H ]| Her from this death, and we afresh may grieve. 601:02,119[A ]| Good sir, be gone, the will of heaven obey. 601:02,120[A ]| Besides, if you should longer stay, 601:02,121[A ]| Before the serpent comes, my life will steal away. 601:02,122[A ]| Weigh not your loss, but what you have remain; 601:02,123[A ]| You have the comfort of my sisters left, 601:02,124[A ]| Who will your drooping age sustain, 601:02,125[A ]| When you are of me bereft. 601:02,126[A ]| Sisters, be good, and to my father give 601:02,127[A ]| All comfort, and his grief relieve; 601:02,128[A ]| He, from you two, much pleasure may receive. 601:02,129[G ]| Our grief as much as his relief will need, 601:02,130[G ]| Of that I might with Psyche bleed: 601:02,131[G ]| Did not the gods self-murder hate, 601:02,132[G ]| I would accompany your fate. 601:02,133[H ]| Oh that the gods would suffer me 601:02,134[H ]| To be exchanged for thee! 601:02,135[A ]| Sisters, farewell, pray dry your eyes: 601:02,135[' ]| 601:02,136[A ]| I am for you a sacrifice. 601:02,137[A ]| You may your choice of many princes have, 601:02,138[A ]| When I am cold, forgotten in my grave. 601:02,139[B ]| Gods! can I yet hear this and live? 601:02,140[B ]| Oh take my life, or me my Psyche give. 601:02,141[A ]| Sir, if you longer stay, 601:02,142[A ]| You'll cause my death, not they. 601:02,143[A ]| I on my knees beseech you quit 601:02,144[A ]| This fatal place, and to heaven's will submit. 601:02,145[A ]| Farewell: 'tis time, 601:02,146[A ]| I now the rock my fatal tomb must climb, 601:02,147[A ]| Farewell for*ever ~~ 601:02,148[B ]| Say not so, 601:02,149[B ]| For I to death will go, 601:02,150[B ]| My soul tomorrow shall meet thine below. 601:02,151[' ]| 601:02,152[A ]| Even now grim death I slightly did esteem; 601:02,153[A ]| With the wrong end of the glass I looked on him; 601:02,154[A ]| Then afar off and little did he seem: 601:02,155[A ]| Now my perspective draws him near, 601:02,156[A ]| He very big and ugly does appear. 601:02,157[A ]| Away ~~ it is the base false glass of fear. 601:02,157[' ]| 601:02,158[A ]| Why do you come to see me wretched here? 601:02,159[A ]| What can you hope from her whose death's so near? 601:02,160[E ]| To save your life, our lives we will expose. 601:02,161[A ]| Can mortal men the heavenly powers oppose? 601:02,162[D ]| What heaven commands is surely good. 601:02,163[D ]| Heaven has declared 'gainst shedding human blood. 601:02,164[D ]| Boars, rams and bulls will serve Apollo's turn, 601:02,165[D ]| Whilst gums and incense on his altars burn. 601:02,166[D ]| 'Tis to the priests that you are sacrificed. 601:02,167[A ]| I must not hear the oracle despised. 601:02,168[D ]| In vain, 'gainst prejudice we still dispute: 601:02,169[D ]| Our swords shall this great oracle confute. 601:02,170[D ]| No serpent whilst we live shall you embrace, 601:02,171[D ]| Nor any other rival in this place. 601:02,172[A ]| He carries deadly venom in his breath, 601:02,173[A ]| Which certainly will give you death. 601:02,174[E ]| Cadmus, without love's aid, the dragon slew; 601:02,175[E ]| Inspired by love, what cannot princes do? 601:02,176[A ]| Why for my preservation should you strive? 601:02,177[A ]| For neither my affection e'er could move. 601:02,178[A ]| Though heaven for that would suffer me to live: 601:02,179[A ]| No prince on earth could ever make me love. 601:02,180[D ]| 'Tis time we both of us should die, 601:02,181[D ]| Since we from you no pity can deserve. 601:02,182[D ]| Yet ~~ 601:02,183[D ]| Had we no love for generosity, 601:02,184[D ]| Spite of yourself we would your life preserve. 601:02,185[E ]| You have made rivals thus agree, 601:02,186[E ]| Though could you love, but one could happy be. 601:02,187[E ]| Each will assist the other, and you'll see, 601:02,188[E ]| In spite of oracles we'll set you free. 601:02,189[A ]| Farewell: I must not hear this blasphemy. 601:02,190[D ]| We cannot leave you till you die, 601:02,191[D ]| No oracle shall that deny. 601:02,191[' ]| 601:02,191[' ]| 601:02,191[' ]| 601:02,191[' ]| 601:02,192[I ]| Be gone, you rivals of an angry deity: 601:02,193[I ]| Shall I by insolent princes rivalled be? 601:02,194[I ]| Shall mortals for my Psyche strive with me? 601:02,195[I ]| Vulcan make haste, prepare 601:02,196[I ]| My costly palace for my fair; 601:02,197[I ]| In that splendid place, 601:02,198[I ]| My love, my dear, my Psyche will embrace. 601:02,198[' ]| 601:02,198[' ]| 601:02,199[D ]| By what enchantment were we hurried hence? 601:02,200[D ]| Psyche is gone. Let's use all diligence 601:02,201[D ]| Soon to prevent her fate, 601:02,202[D ]| Or we shall come too late. 601:02,203[E ]| We will our much-loved Psyche find. 601:02,204[E ]| Or we will leave our hated lives behind. 601:02,204[' ]|