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Gretchen-W. S. Gilbert · Tristan and Isolde

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  Speaker 1: Act one of Gretchen by W. S. Gilbert. This is
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  Speaker 1: Gretchen a play in four acts, first produced at the
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  Speaker 1: Olympic Theater on March the twenty fourth, eighteen seventy nine.
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  Speaker 1: Dramatis persone dominic read by David Purdy.
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  Speaker 2: Anselm read by Our Mapstone.
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  Speaker 3: Faustus read by Mike Menelachus, Gottfried read by Kurtz, Mephisto
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  Speaker 3: read by.
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  Speaker 4: Todd Agatha read by Diane Castillo.
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  Speaker 5: Bessie read by Kathy Marie.
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  Speaker 6: Walshak Barbara read Batty.
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  Speaker 7: G Burns, Lisa read by Taylor.
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  Speaker 8: Gretchen read by Jen Broda, Martha read by.
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  Speaker 9: Sonya Friedrich read by David Purdy.
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  Speaker 1: Stage directions read by Adrian Stephens. Note the leading idea
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  Speaker 1: of this play was suggested by Goth's Faust. The author
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  Speaker 1: is indebted to that work for the scene between Mephesto
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  Speaker 1: and Martha in Act two. In every other respect the
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  Speaker 1: dialogue is original. Gretchen. Act one scene under the cloisters
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  Speaker 1: of a monastery in the center of the stage a graveyard.
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  Speaker 1: In the graveyard, conspicuous among other tombs, is a tall monument.
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  Speaker 1: Procession of monks crosses the stage. At back moonlight Dominic
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  Speaker 1: discovered seated reading to him, enters Anselm.
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  Speaker 9: Pak's for biscom Father Benidt.
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  Speaker 2: I am rejoiced that after many perils by sea and land,
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  Speaker 2: I am once more among you, how fares our poor
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  Speaker 2: sick faustus.
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  Speaker 9: By Heaven's grace he is in body well, Yet much
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  Speaker 9: I fear there lies some hidden canker at his soul.
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  Speaker 9: When he was prostrate on a fevered bed, the utterings
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  Speaker 9: of his delirium were rather those of some base man
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  Speaker 9: of sin than of a holy father vowed to Heaven.
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  Speaker 2: Thy news is grave, indeed, But knowest thou this from
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  Speaker 2: thine own knowledge A in.
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  Speaker 9: Truth I do. I took my turn with the others
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  Speaker 9: at his bed, and all who watched him made the
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  Speaker 9: same report. When the delirium was at its worst, his
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  Speaker 9: fevered brain was filled with worldly dreams and seemed to
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  Speaker 9: revel in the guilty joys that he, for once and
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  Speaker 9: all had long forsworn. Now at a gaming table, flushed
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  Speaker 9: with wine and swearing roundly that the dice were loaded.
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  Speaker 9: Now at a drunken revel, trolling forth on godly songs
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  Speaker 9: that set mine ears ablaze. Now at the chase, now
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  Speaker 9: breathing words of love into the ears of some fair wanton,
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  Speaker 9: then invoking curses on her wantonness.
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  Speaker 2: But spake he never of the holy life that he
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  Speaker 2: is sworn to lead.
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  Speaker 9: Nay, never once, unless it were to curse the evil
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  Speaker 9: haste that led him to it.
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  Speaker 2: It affects me much to hear these tidings of our
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  Speaker 2: well loved Faustus. I knew that ere he took his
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  Speaker 2: holy vows, he led a life of sin, and for
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  Speaker 2: that cause I more rejoiced his heart had turned to grace.
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  Speaker 2: But see he comes. Leave me alone with him. I'll
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  Speaker 2: speak to him as Father speaks to soun.
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  Speaker 9: May Heaven speed thy work.
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  Speaker 1: Exit dominic and to Faustus, come hither son.
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  Speaker 2: The kindly brothers who attended thee in thy delirium have
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  Speaker 2: no like cause to think that, though thy priestly ministries
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  Speaker 2: are to the letter faithfully performed, thy heart is bent
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  Speaker 2: on worldly matters.
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  Speaker 3: Still of what do they complain? Can any say that
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  Speaker 3: I have failed in my observances, that I have spoken
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  Speaker 3: ill of any man, that I live not a chaste
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  Speaker 3: and sober life, that I am loath to pray with
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  Speaker 3: dead and dying? Are not my priestly duties well discharged?
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  Speaker 2: Would that all priests within these sacred walls took THEE
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  Speaker 2: for an example in these matters. But who can read
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  Speaker 2: the inmost heart of man? The lips may move in prayer,
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  Speaker 2: and but the lips speak to me, frankly, Tell me
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  Speaker 2: by what means thou wast induced to quit the world
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  Speaker 2: without its fleeting pleasures and its lasting pains, for the
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  Speaker 2: pure calm of these monastic shades.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Father, Holy Father, bear with me. My heart is
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  Speaker 3: very sore.
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  Speaker 2: Come tell me all fear nothing, Speak to me as
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  Speaker 2: to thyself.
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  Speaker 3: How shall I speak to such a one as thou?
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  Speaker 3: Of an end tense and all believing love betrayed, abandoned,
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  Speaker 3: trampled underfoot, of pure and simple faith in one fair woman,
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  Speaker 3: unswerving faith, faith absolute and whole, and of the deadly
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  Speaker 3: agony that came of finding that well trusted woman faults,
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  Speaker 3: all the more faults for the divine truth promise that
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  Speaker 3: played upon her fair and placid brow, all the more
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  Speaker 3: fault for the hot passion vows that leaped and hurried
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  Speaker 3: whispers from her lips. I gave her all the wealth
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  Speaker 3: of my rich heart. I lived upon her love. I
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  Speaker 3: fed my life with the sweet poison of her lying
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  Speaker 3: lips and utter trust. God help me. One dark day,
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  Speaker 3: in the high noon of all my happiness, my heart
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  Speaker 3: upraised the heaven and gratitude for the fair promise of
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  Speaker 3: our coming life. She left me for a man whose
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  Speaker 3: proffered love had formed the theme of many an idle jest.
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  Speaker 3: But he was rich, and so she went to him.
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  Speaker 3: At once. The open volume of her life lay plain
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  Speaker 3: before me, and I read therein that she was womankind
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  Speaker 3: mad with a frenzy of a shipwrecked heart, and with
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  Speaker 3: the old fonteste words of our love wringing a mocking
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  Speaker 3: echo through my brain. I cursed the world and all
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  Speaker 3: the women in it, And here sought sanctuary.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my son, this haven from the tempest of the
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  Speaker 2: world should not be sought in bitterness of soul. Only
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  Speaker 2: the pliou's heart turned heavenwards from very love of heaven
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  Speaker 2: will here find rest. Till heaven in its good time
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  Speaker 2: she'll garner it. But take good heart, I'll talk with
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  Speaker 2: thee tonight, and with the help of Heaven, give thee
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  Speaker 2: good counsel be comforted. The world without his hollow, as
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  Speaker 2: that now in nine hot wrath did reckon it. Thy
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  Speaker 2: wrath had reason in it. Be comforted, exit.
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  Speaker 3: And selm only the pious heart turned heavenwards from very
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  Speaker 3: love of Heaven. Fit formula to typify the fierce, embittered
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  Speaker 3: cynic who, in heart misery sought refuge here. As a poor, worried,
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  Speaker 3: over hunted fox, cursing his persecutors, runs to Earth to
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  Speaker 3: lick his bleeding flanks in sulky peace and brood insolitude
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  Speaker 3: on men and dogs. No hope, no hope, no hope
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  Speaker 3: for life, entombed for life, cut off from life, A
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  Speaker 3: breathing man wrapped in a winding sheet of his own
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  Speaker 3: weaving a living heart, inurned and sepulchered.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Gottfried disguised as a monk.
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  Speaker 10: Good brother pax vobiscum benedicite art, the monk who in
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  Speaker 10: the world without was known.
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  Speaker 3: As Faustus I the very same I.
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  Speaker 10: Am, a traveling Dominican sent to thee by the prior
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  Speaker 10: of our order, who, having heard much scandalous report of
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  Speaker 10: thy most heinous immoralities, instructs me with all friendly privacy,
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  Speaker 10: to urge THEE to amend thy naughty life, or if
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  Speaker 10: thou findest this impossible, as there is reason to believe
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  Speaker 10: thou mayst so to conceal and cloak thy wanton ways,
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  Speaker 10: that thou at least may seem to be a saint,
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  Speaker 10: and so afford no handle to the grasp of the
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  Speaker 10: all watchful enemies.
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  Speaker 11: Of our church.
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  Speaker 3: Strange mission, strangely worded, Holy Brother, what doth your prior allege?
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  Speaker 3: And by what right dares he to counsel such hypocrisy?
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  Speaker 3: Whence comes as.
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  Speaker 10: In from Sir Gottfried, a very blameless, pure and godly knight, who,
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  Speaker 10: once a boon companion of thy follies, hath since repented
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  Speaker 10: and indicted THEE for that, despite thy vows of countenance,
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  Speaker 10: thou livest the old life.
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  Speaker 3: Now by the truth, never lied, Godfried, Thus.
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  Speaker 10: Nay, by the truth, I speak his very words, and
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  Speaker 10: here's the proof.
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  Speaker 1: Throws off his robe and appears as a young soldier.
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  Speaker 3: Gottfried. Is this indeed, my dear old friend.
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  Speaker 10: The same indeed bound for the wars again. My troop
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  Speaker 10: of horses passing through the town and hearing that thou
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  Speaker 10: wast within these walls, I asked for THEE. A bearded
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  Speaker 10: brother came, and with scant courtesy, he bade me wait
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  Speaker 10: thy leisure in the great refector. They are much perplexed
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  Speaker 10: to know with what a dress I might most ceremoniously
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  Speaker 10: greet so eminent a theologian.
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  Speaker 11: I saw this.
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  Speaker 10: Rag bag hanging on a peg. Thou knowest the rest.
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  Speaker 3: I am rejoiced to see THEE, despite thy ill timed jest.
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  Speaker 10: And this faustest, the old daredevil faustus marvelous. When last
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  Speaker 10: I saw thee, thou wast bravely clad in coat of CREMISEE,
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  Speaker 10: and by thy side there swung the readiest rapier in
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  Speaker 10: the town.
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  Speaker 3: Hush, hush, These vanities are past and gone, and many
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  Speaker 3: others with them.
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  Speaker 10: By the bye there was a black eyed wench, a
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  Speaker 10: plump brown rogue with full red lips and twinkling ankles. Too,
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  Speaker 10: dost recollect her ankles? No I do, Let's see her name?
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  Speaker 10: What was the wench's name? Has she gone with the
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  Speaker 10: other vanities?
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  Speaker 3: I prithy stop like tongue. I love the girl, and
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  Speaker 3: she was false to me. My heart died out I
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  Speaker 3: sickened of the world in woman's love, and here sought refuge.
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  Speaker 10: Oh for shame, for shame to hold the world to
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  Speaker 10: be a hollow world, because one heart has proved a
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  Speaker 10: hollow heart. Now here a parable. But ten days since
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  Speaker 10: a swindling huckster gave me a bad du cat. Now
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  Speaker 10: by my head, I thought that ducat good. It seemed
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  Speaker 10: so fair and bright, And as it lay upon my
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  Speaker 10: open palm, I read thereon a pious legend drawn from
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  Speaker 10: holy writ, believing that a duke cat wreathed about with
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  Speaker 10: such a goodly warrant could not lie. I love that
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  Speaker 10: du cat, and I trusted it well. Well, the ducat
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  Speaker 10: proved to be but base. With a deep sigh, for
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  Speaker 10: gold is scarce with me, I cast that ducat from me.
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  Speaker 10: But did I, on that account first swear all ducats. No,
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  Speaker 10: My love for ducats and my need of them are
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  Speaker 10: just as keen as.
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  Speaker 3: Ever, Peace, old friend. I am a priest who once
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  Speaker 3: forswore the world because he thought all women faults. Think
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  Speaker 3: you that, Being priest and sitting day by day in
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  Speaker 3: yon confessional, I have seen cause to hold by judgment.
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  Speaker 10: Cheap plague on thy judgments judgments ready made, are counterparts
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  Speaker 10: of garments ready made, that fits some well, some ill,
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  Speaker 10: some not at all. I know a maiden scarce eighteen
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  Speaker 10: years old, fair as the apple green of early dawn,
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  Speaker 10: pure as the summer sun of southern heaven, a psalm incarnate,
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  Speaker 10: an embodied prayer, not of the earth yet dwelling thereupon,
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  Speaker 10: nor yet of heaven, although her mission be to teach
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  Speaker 10: mankind that heaven is worth the winning. I have seen
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  Speaker 10: sturdy brawlers sheath their blades to humbly doff their hats
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  Speaker 10: at her approach, And when she's fairly out of hearing,
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  Speaker 10: then draw a long breath and go there ways in peace,
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  Speaker 10: as though the air were charged with loving kindness. Rude gallants,
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  Speaker 10: in whose eyes all womankind are but the subjects of
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  Speaker 10: licentious jests, stand back, abashed as Gretchen passes by, and
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  Speaker 10: hush they're converse into decency. Young wanton girls weep tears
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  Speaker 10: of honest shame, and old men think of angels and
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  Speaker 10: the heaven that is to crown their closing pilgrimage.
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  Speaker 1: Faustus interested, who is this maiden?
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  Speaker 10: My dead uncle's child, orphan dwelling twenty leagues away that
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  Speaker 10: lovest her I as I love the truth, as I
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  Speaker 10: love purity and innocence, as I love heaven and the
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  Speaker 10: good life to come.
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  Speaker 3: Well, well go on. She is thy kinswoman. Thou hast
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  Speaker 3: a goodly presence, and I know thy heart is honest,
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  Speaker 3: thou hast told thy love.
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  Speaker 10: I dare to speak of love to Gretchen. No, I'm
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  Speaker 10: a rough soldier, barrick born and bred. My life's a
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  Speaker 10: tavern life. My closest friends are all rough soldiers, and
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  Speaker 10: the air I breathe reeks with unholy jests and fumes
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  Speaker 10: of wine. I dare to speak of love to Gretchen.
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  Speaker 10: Why my tongue would shrivel at the blasphemy?
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  Speaker 3: Why what's all this? Without going from her? And thou
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  Speaker 3: dost not dare to tell her of thy love. She
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  Speaker 3: is the pearl of maidenhood, and yet thy heart is
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  Speaker 3: faint because she is the pearl of maidenhood. Yeah, up man,
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  Speaker 3: take heart of grace. Thy love is honest, Thy face
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  Speaker 3: is fair, Thine heart is true and sound. Thou art
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  Speaker 3: a soldier mark for fair re ward. Up man, take
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  Speaker 3: heart of grace. No fretting vows stand betwixt thee and
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  Speaker 3: such an earthly Heaven to think that this most miserable
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  Speaker 3: man has all this boundless treasure in his reach, and
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  Speaker 3: hesitates to grasp it up. Faint heart, come boot and saddle,
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  Speaker 3: and away with thee. Are some more daring and less
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  Speaker 3: worthy suitors step in to take her from thee.
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  Speaker 1: Gott freed, astonished.
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  Speaker 11: By my hand.
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  Speaker 10: Twas Faustus spake, then not the holy friar.
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  Speaker 3: I spake as man to man, as friend to friend.
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  Speaker 3: I love thee. And if such a woman live, as
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  Speaker 3: thou hast pictured, take her to thine heart. While yet
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  Speaker 3: thou mayst had I loved such a one, I should
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  Speaker 3: not now be wearing out my life. And these sad
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  Speaker 3: solitudes got freed.
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  Speaker 10: There spake the heart, and not the lips.
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  Speaker 1: Faustus, recollecting himself.
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  Speaker 3: May Heaven pardon me. I knew not what I said, My.
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  Speaker 10: Dear old friend. Come, I must say, farewell. My troop
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  Speaker 10: awaits me. We ride through Lutsen. I shall see her.
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  Speaker 1: There, trumpet heard without to herse, dost know the sound,
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  Speaker 1: Faustus sighing.
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  Speaker 3: I know it well.
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  Speaker 10: I'll warrant me, thy trusty soldier heart bounds as of
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  Speaker 10: old despite thy monkish frock at the old trumpet call.
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  Speaker 3: These things are past. May God protect thee in Thine
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  Speaker 3: enterprise and give THEE safe and speedy conduct home.
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  Speaker 10: Ahmen to that so faustus fairly well, exit Gottfried.
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  Speaker 3: He's gone gone forth to the fair, fruitful world, the
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  Speaker 3: world of life and love, the world of hope, of
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  Speaker 3: open hearts and unchecked sympathies. A foolish priest, misleading and misled,
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  Speaker 3: poor trickster, ever duping, ever duped, cheating thyself into a
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  Speaker 3: mad surrender of all that youth holds dearest, cheating others
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  Speaker 3: in the blind trust of thy sincerity. Thou art a man.
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  Speaker 3: The world was made for men. Thou hast a heart.
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  Speaker 3: Thy heart is idle. Here a curse on all this
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  Speaker 3: maddening mummery, this lifelong lie, this living catacomb, Earth, Heaven, Hell,
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  Speaker 3: whichever hears me, now come to my call and bring
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  Speaker 3: me back to life.
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  Speaker 1: Thunder lightning Mephisto.
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  Speaker 3: Appears merciful Heaven defend me. Who art thou? What dost
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  Speaker 3: thou hear? And what wouldst thou with me?
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  Speaker 12: You called me, and I came in hurried haste, lest
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  Speaker 12: the two other powers whom you invoked should be before
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  Speaker 12: me in the race. Art thou a traveling clock cobbler
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  Speaker 12: who repairs the moral timepiece when it's out of order?
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  Speaker 3: A chooster riddles, Then I'll.
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  Speaker 12: Speak more plainly. Some clocks are well made. Some are
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  Speaker 12: roughly fashioned and need much tinkering. Springs weaken, snap wheels loosen,
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  Speaker 12: dust gets in, and time is lost. Men lose all
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  Speaker 12: faith and put the lyre by as something worse than useless.
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  Speaker 12: I clock cobbler, wind up the moral timepiece, make new faces,
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  Speaker 12: repair this wheel that spring men here, men there. In short,
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  Speaker 12: I do my very best to make a timepiece that
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  Speaker 12: has lost its character. Pass for a trusty herald of
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  Speaker 12: the hour.
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  Speaker 3: Get thee behind me, for I know thee now, despite
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  Speaker 3: thy fair disguise.
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  Speaker 12: Oh pardon me, I've no disguise.
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  Speaker 1: This is my own fair form.
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  Speaker 12: I'm not the horrible embodiment you doctors of the church
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  Speaker 12: have painted me a very satur with a dragon's tale,
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  Speaker 12: the nursemaid's devil, Oh, short sighted priests. My policy is
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  Speaker 12: to allure maned kind, not to repel them.
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  Speaker 3: What wouldst thou with me.
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  Speaker 12: A proper question? Why you summoned me? It is a
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  Speaker 12: leading principle with me that no one ever need to
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  Speaker 12: call me twice.
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  Speaker 3: I spake in haste. I did not weigh my words.
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  Speaker 12: That may be or it may not be. I have
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  Speaker 12: a character for promptness to maintain, and can't afford to
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  Speaker 12: risk my reputation on the mere hazard that your words
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  Speaker 12: were idle.
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  Speaker 3: You've saved your character, and so depart. Prime cause of sin,
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  Speaker 3: A cursed of God and.
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  Speaker 12: Man, unjust, illogical, But you're a churchman, prime cause of sin.
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  Speaker 12: Why evil comes from good as oft as good from
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  Speaker 12: evil motives? Pooh? Why half the ills that vex mankind
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  Speaker 12: arise from motives that are unimpeachable?
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  Speaker 3: If goodly seed well sown bear evil fruit, the fault
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  Speaker 3: is scarcely with the husbandman.
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  Speaker 12: But why so any goodly seed at all, if evil
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  Speaker 12: may result from doing so?
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  Speaker 3: Why try to stop my sowing goodly seed if it
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  Speaker 3: produce the crops that please you best?
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  Speaker 12: He's hit the blot. This clear cut brain of his
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  Speaker 12: is wasted in this world of half an acre. Cast off,
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  Speaker 12: thy frock, Come forth with me. The man who can
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  Speaker 12: detect my sophisms at a glance is safe enough without
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  Speaker 12: the galling chains that fetter him to prayer and solitude.
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  Speaker 12: Come forth with me. There is a fair field without
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  Speaker 12: these gloomy walls for such a brain as thine, A
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  Speaker 12: merry world teeming with song and dance, A grateful world
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  Speaker 12: where gallant deed and brilliant enterprise meet their due reward.
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  Speaker 12: A loving world where kindred hearts may chime in unison.
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  Speaker 3: Come forth with me, peace, get thee hence away. My
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  Speaker 3: vows are taken.
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  Speaker 12: Aye, and so they are vows not to dream of
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  Speaker 12: the gay world, without vows not to sigh for temporal vanities.
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  Speaker 12: Vows so to chasten, quell and mortify your natural craving
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  Speaker 12: for a woman's love, that it shall sicken, wither, starve,
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  Speaker 12: and die from lack of sustenance. Rare vows and rarely kept.
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  Speaker 12: I make no doubt why, man, you break them every
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  Speaker 12: day you live. You break them when you weep upon
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  Speaker 12: the grave of broken hopes and blighted sympathies, of rect ambitions,
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  Speaker 12: and the hundred tombs that crowd this solitary sepulcher. You
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  Speaker 12: break them when you let your memory loose to revel
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  Speaker 12: in the rich, ripe luxury of luscious lips, soft cheeks,
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  Speaker 12: and glancing eyes, the violet breath, the press of warm,
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  Speaker 12: soft hands, or the crisp futtle of disorganized hair that
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  Speaker 12: wooed your flaming cheek as half ashamed the maiden nestled
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  Speaker 12: blushing on your breast. And yet you plead your vows
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  Speaker 12: like some I know who pray for mankind and the aggreate,
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  Speaker 12: and damn them all in detail.
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  Speaker 3: Tempt me not. I left the world of women for
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  Speaker 3: these walls because I found a woman false as thou.
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  Speaker 12: I'll not return illogical again as one is, so are
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  Speaker 12: all sound argument? You gather generals from particulars, like all
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  Speaker 12: your brood. Why there's no harm in women? I didn't
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  Speaker 12: make them. They're my deadliest foes. Why he who, of
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  Speaker 12: his own unfettered will cuts himself off from pure communion
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  Speaker 12: with blameless womanhood withdraws himself from a far holier influence
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  Speaker 12: than he finds within these sad and silent solitudes.
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  Speaker 3: Strange sentiments from such as thou.
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  Speaker 12: For that, we devils, as you churchmen please to call us,
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  Speaker 12: are not the simple folk you take us for. We
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  Speaker 12: are shrewd fellows in our homely way. And look facts
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  Speaker 12: in the face. I nor a maid, a fair and
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  Speaker 12: gentle girl, the pink and bloom of all that loveliest maidenhood,
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  Speaker 12: whose simple truth and pure and blameless life have done
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  Speaker 12: my cause more harm in eighteen years than all the
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  Speaker 12: monks in Christendom can mend.
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  Speaker 3: Is this indeed the truth?
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  Speaker 12: Ay, though I tell it.
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  Speaker 3: If there lives such a one as thou hast painted,
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  Speaker 3: a maiden pure is the blue breath of heaven, into
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  Speaker 3: whose virgin heart no dream of ill hath ever crept,
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  Speaker 3: the bloom of whose pure lips is yet unbrushed by
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  Speaker 3: man's polluting touch, whose life is open as the very truth,
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  Speaker 3: A perfect type of blameless maidenhood. Take me to her
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  Speaker 3: and I will learn of her.
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  Speaker 9: Hm.
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  Speaker 12: No, I'd rather not. And why you see, we devils
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  Speaker 12: have our consciences invise we can do nearly all that
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  Speaker 12: man can do, but not quite all. There are some
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  Speaker 12: forms of sin from which we shrink, and this is
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  Speaker 12: one of them. I have no stomach for such worldly work.
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  Speaker 12: Best get a man to help.
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  Speaker 3: You, mocking fiend, misjudge me, not, as there's a heaven
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  Speaker 3: and hell. I mean the maid no wrong. I'll take
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  Speaker 3: thy help if thou wilt give it me, but be forewarned,
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  Speaker 3: I'll make no compact with THEE. Set me free, and
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  Speaker 3: I will fight THEE with the holy aid of her
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  Speaker 3: pure innocence. Be thou forewarned.
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  Speaker 12: I like your frankness. Well, you're not the first who's
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  Speaker 12: tried to rise to heaven on my shoulders.
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  Speaker 11: Hmm.
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  Speaker 12: I don't know I am a match for you, But
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  Speaker 12: you and she allied, the odds are heavy. Well, I'm
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  Speaker 12: a student still, and always glad to glean experience when
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  Speaker 12: and how I can. I'm curious to see how this
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  Speaker 12: will end. If for me good, but if against me, well,
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  Speaker 12: I shall but lose you, And you're no great stake,
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  Speaker 12: and so I'll risk it. See the maiden comes.
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  Speaker 1: A fision of Gretchen is seen gliding across the stitche
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  Speaker 1: through the tombstones. She is reading a brevery faustus entrunced.
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  Speaker 3: Great grace of heaven. Is this indeed a form of
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  Speaker 3: mortal mold speak tempter speak?
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  Speaker 12: Aye, flesh and blood like yours, taken haphazard from a
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  Speaker 12: world of women, I'll say you. Is she not exceeding fair?
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  Speaker 12: Is there not innocence in every line of that? Pure faith?
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  Speaker 12: Is art more virginal than the sweet sadness of those
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  Speaker 12: downcast eyes bent on her brevery, and yet withal there
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  Speaker 12: is a wondering world of latent love within that maiden heart.
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  Speaker 12: The girl will love as few can love when the
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  Speaker 12: full time arrives. So take good heed, deal gently with
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  Speaker 12: the maid, or harm may come of it, And that
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  Speaker 12: were pity.
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  Speaker 3: If there be truth in heaven, there's truth in her.
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  Speaker 3: If there be heaven on earth, there's heaven here.
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  Speaker 12: Aye, verily, Why when I look on her, I am
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  Speaker 12: almost tempted to turn saint myself. What would the world do?
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  Speaker 2: Then?
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  Speaker 12: Well? What say you? The choice is well before you.
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  Speaker 12: On one hand, quibbling, chop, logic, lip and leutter, worship,
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  Speaker 12: flesh idly mortified, unreasoning, dogma, the shallow sophistries of means
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  Speaker 12: an end straw, split and split and split and split again,
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  Speaker 12: each section in itself infallible, and all the sentients damned.
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  Speaker 12: And on the other, peace, charity and mercy, simple faith, gentle,
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  Speaker 12: good will and loving kindness. Come, priest, what say you quick?
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  Speaker 12: My time is short?
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  Speaker 1: The apparition raises her eyes from her book and turns
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  Speaker 1: to Faustus, holding out her hand to him.
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  Speaker 3: Spirit of peace, divine embodiment. Henceforth be thou, my faith,
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  Speaker 3: be thou, my church, be Thou, my guide, my hope,
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  Speaker 3: my monitress. Henceforth the beacon light of thy pure soul
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  Speaker 3: shall shed its light upon my onward path, and I
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  Speaker 3: will follow whither it may lead, Spirit of purity. I
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  Speaker 3: come to thee.
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  Speaker 1: End of Act one, Act two of Gretchen by W. S. Gilbert.
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Act two scene a glade on
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  Speaker 1: the right, A precipitous descent through the stage at the back.
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  Speaker 1: On the left, an avenue of trees. Barbara, Bessie and
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  Speaker 1: others discovered to them enters Agatha.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Bessie, Barbara, Such dreadful news, news quick?
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  Speaker 6: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: Lisa has returned? Lisa who ran away with the rich
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  Speaker 4: merchant a year ago.
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  Speaker 6: A wicked, wicked girl. I hope she won't come here.
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  Speaker 5: And have you seen her?
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  Speaker 4: I met her only half an hour ago upon the
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  Speaker 4: Leipsign road.
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  Speaker 5: Is she much changed?
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  Speaker 4: Changed? Why at first I couldn't trust my eyes? You
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  Speaker 4: know how jauntily she bore herself, how daintily she dressed. Well,
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  Speaker 4: that's all changed, pale, wasted to a shadow, draggle tailed,
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  Speaker 4: dressed in torn rags, barefooted and bare headed, a beggar.
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  Speaker 6: I remember how she sneered at my blue gown trimmed
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  Speaker 6: with peach colored ribbon. Well, Heaven has punished her for that.
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  Speaker 5: But say, did she address you?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, she spoke my name, I started, and I recognized her. Well,
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  Speaker 4: I mumbled forth some words, I scarce know what? And
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  Speaker 4: all a fluster gathered up my skirts and ran as
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  Speaker 4: though a ghost were at my heels.
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  Speaker 6: And you did wisely. Honest working girls should shune such
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  Speaker 6: brazen creatures.
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  Speaker 5: She's here.
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  Speaker 1: Lisa comes down Avenue. She is dressed in torn and
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  Speaker 1: travel stained wrecks. As described. As she comes down, the
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  Speaker 1: girls turn away from her.
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  Speaker 7: Well, girls, do you not know me that you turn
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  Speaker 7: back from me? Or has the misery of twelve black
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  Speaker 7: months so sadly changed me?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: We know you?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 6: Huh too?
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  Speaker 10: Well?
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  Speaker 7: Is there no pity for me in your hearts? Is
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  Speaker 7: there no pardon for such sin as mine? See? I
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  Speaker 7: am cold and hungry, travel worn, broken in spirit, humbled
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  Speaker 7: and forsaken. Oh, I have paid a penalty.
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  Speaker 6: No doubt we knew you would.
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  Speaker 1: Bessie. Aside to Barbara, I'm sorry for the girl.
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  Speaker 5: We've known her all our lives, with all her faults.
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  Speaker 5: We loved her well when she was one of us, when.
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  Speaker 6: She was one of us, of course, because she then
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  Speaker 6: was one of us. But when a man, a married man,
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  Speaker 6: elopes with one of us, which happens sometimes, why that
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  Speaker 6: one of us no longer claims to rank as one
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  Speaker 6: of us, and so the cause of love exists no longer.
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  Speaker 4: That's true.
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  Speaker 7: Indeed, have you no charity? Is there no eloquence to
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  Speaker 7: touch your hearts in this wan wasted form, these wretched rags?
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  Speaker 7: Why look at me.
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  Speaker 6: There's a certain frock, blue trimmed with peach, not much
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  Speaker 6: the worse for wear. That's humbly at your.
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  Speaker 1: Service, curtsying mockingly.
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  Speaker 7: Spare her, pray I spare me, bitter hearts? Who can
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  Speaker 7: foresee a year ago I was as one of you,
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  Speaker 7: another year and you may be as I. So better
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  Speaker 7: spare me lest it come to pass that you have
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  Speaker 7: judged yourselves in judging me well well the rivers near.
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  Speaker 8: Enter, Gretchen. Why who is this Lisa taking her hand?
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  Speaker 7: Hold?
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  Speaker 3: Ere?
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  Speaker 7: You take my hand in yours. Remember what I am
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  Speaker 7: and what I've done. I am an outcast, cheated and betrayed.
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  Speaker 7: He swore to marry me. Well, I believed him, And
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  Speaker 7: when I looked to him to keep his promise, he
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  Speaker 7: told me of his wife. Yeah that's my story. Go
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  Speaker 7: wash your hand.
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  Speaker 8: Poor bruised and broken heart, be comforted. Why I have
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  Speaker 8: prayed and prayed for thy return, and see my prayer
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  Speaker 8: has heard, poor wanderer. Our hearts were sore for thee ay,
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  Speaker 8: very sore. And I remember well how Barbara wept when
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  Speaker 8: the sad tidings came, and vowed she'd rather lose her
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  Speaker 8: best ten years than this had happened.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, and so I would. But it has happened, and
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  Speaker 6: the mischief's done.
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  Speaker 1: Bessie crying.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure I loved her dearly, So did I. One
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  Speaker 4: can't forget old times.
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  Speaker 8: Why then, be brave and prove that thine was no
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  Speaker 8: fine weather love? Poor penitent O sisters, is it fit
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  Speaker 8: that we should judge our sister or withhold thy mercy
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  Speaker 8: that we pray for day by day?
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  Speaker 1: Lisa surprised.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Gretchen, Gretchen.
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  Speaker 8: Come, broken heart, look up, We are thy sisters.
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  Speaker 1: As of old Bessie half sobbing.
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  Speaker 5: If Gretchen can forgive THEE? Who are we that we
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  Speaker 5: should hold aloof? We speak in haste. Our hearts were
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  Speaker 5: turned to THEE despite our words.
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  Speaker 1: Bessie kisses her and exit.
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  Speaker 6: You told me once that I'd a bitter tongue. Do
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  Speaker 6: you recollect it?
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  Speaker 1: Lisa?
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  Speaker 6: You were right? Please forgive me there.
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  Speaker 1: Kissing her.
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  Speaker 6: Never mind the frock to Agatha, though, bear in mind,
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  Speaker 6: I still maintain my point that Blue and Peach go
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  Speaker 6: very well together.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent Barbara and Agatha.
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  Speaker 8: Come dry, rise and take good heart again.
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  Speaker 7: Oh Gretchen, Gretchen, let me weep a while. In truth
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  Speaker 7: I looked for pity and for help from them, for
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  Speaker 7: they and I had much in common. But thou so
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  Speaker 7: good in all, so pure, so true.
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  Speaker 8: If it be good and true to close one's heart
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  Speaker 8: to sorrow such as thine, why Heaven help me, for
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  Speaker 8: then I have no title to the words. See Martha comes.
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  Speaker 8: She has an angry tongue, although her heart is kindly
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  Speaker 8: get THEE. Hence till I have spoken to her, here
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  Speaker 8: is money, Go get THEE food and then come back
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  Speaker 8: to me. Take courage. Martha can refuse me nothing it
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  Speaker 8: shall go hard, But when thou comest back, she'll welcome
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  Speaker 8: THEE as I do, fare THEE well.
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  Speaker 7: For those who would pray for THEE have but one
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  Speaker 7: pray that earth be kind to THEE. For heaven is thine.
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  Speaker 7: I surely, surely thine.
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  Speaker 1: Exit and to Martha with basket.
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  Speaker 13: Drudge, drudge, drudge, drudge, to market, seven miles and seven
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  Speaker 13: home again. It's a hard life, and tells upon me
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  Speaker 13: sorely all this comes of marrying a bad man, a
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  Speaker 13: bad poor man. But there he is at the wars.
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  Speaker 13: God keep him there, Ah, Gretchen, Gretchen, be advised by me,
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  Speaker 13: and promise me that when thy heart's in danger, thoun't
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  Speaker 13: come to me, that I may counsel THEE out of
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  Speaker 13: the wealth of my experience, the only wealth I have
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  Speaker 13: come promise.
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  Speaker 8: Me I do.
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  Speaker 1: Pauses, then timidly, in proof of.
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  Speaker 8: My sincerity, I will begin to day I have seen
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  Speaker 8: one whom I could love.
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  Speaker 13: Why, Gretchen, what's all this? Doth he love?
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  Speaker 3: THEE? Ay?
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  Speaker 8: For he told me so, He told THEE so. And
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  Speaker 8: when last night, last night, or stay it might have
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  Speaker 8: been betimes, this morning, last night.
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  Speaker 13: This morning, Gretchen, where wast thou last night this morning?
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  Speaker 8: Why within thy house?
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  Speaker 13: And dared I love a saw THEE speak to THEE
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  Speaker 13: within my house alone at dead of night, Corretchen, for
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  Speaker 13: shame art thou as other girls? Who is the reprobate?
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  Speaker 8: I cannot say. I do not think he is a reprobate.
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  Speaker 13: His name, I do not know his rank, his colding.
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  Speaker 8: I cannot tell.
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  Speaker 13: Why Gritchen, I am a guest.
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  Speaker 8: Nay, I'll not bled THEE with half hidden truths. I'll
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  Speaker 8: tell THEE all, and thou shalt counsel me. Last night
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  Speaker 8: I slept It might have been this morning, I cannot tell.
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  Speaker 8: And as I slept, methought that as I wandered all
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  Speaker 8: alone amid the moonlight tombs of some old cloistered square,
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  Speaker 8: I saw a man arrayed in monkish frock, and yet
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  Speaker 8: so much at variance with themselves are sleeping fantasies. He
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  Speaker 8: was no monk, but some young errant knight of noble rank,
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  Speaker 8: the fairy flower of gentle chivalry. Entranced. I gazed upon him,
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  Speaker 8: marveling much that aught of mortal mold could be so
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  Speaker 8: fair twas but a dream. We cannot frame our dreams.
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  Speaker 8: And as I gazed methought, he knelt him down and
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  Speaker 8: vowed himself to me for evermore. There read me that.
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  Speaker 13: I will now mark my words. The lover whom thou
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  Speaker 13: seest in a dream will induce season courty in a dream.
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  Speaker 13: And if the courtship prosper as it will sudden day,
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  Speaker 13: perhaps heal wed thee in a dream. Then, after many
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  Speaker 13: long and lifelike dreams of merry, misery, black looks, rough words,
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  Speaker 13: hard blows, and mutual discontent, thou'lt wake and bless thy
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  Speaker 13: lucky stars. It was a dream dream on my child.
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  Speaker 13: Pray thou mayst never wake as I have done.
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  Speaker 1: Come, there is work to do, excellent together, enter Faustus
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  Speaker 1: and Mephisto.
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  Speaker 3: At last, at last, unless my heart deceives me. Here
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  Speaker 3: is the glade, and that should be her house.
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  Speaker 12: Aye, that's the house that holds the guardian maid, who
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  Speaker 12: is to lead you whither you should go and save
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  Speaker 12: your lordship from yourself and me. Henceforth, that hovel is
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  Speaker 12: to be your church, with savory fumes of roast and
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  Speaker 12: boiled for incense. The dim recesses of the chimney corner
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  Speaker 12: will serve you as a snug confessional I'll say you.
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  Speaker 12: Will you enter? If you do, you'll find the fair
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  Speaker 12: high Priestess of the shrine intent upon the secular employ
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  Speaker 12: of hanging clothes to dry. Or will you wait until
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  Speaker 12: my pretty enemy is free to enter on her spiritual functions?
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  Speaker 3: Peace, mocking spirit, stay thy rebeled tongue. Dost thou whom
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  Speaker 3: none believe? Believe in none?
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  Speaker 12: Nay, I'm the most confiding soul. Allah. I credit all
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  Speaker 12: I'm told, not by the tongue. Men do not speak
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  Speaker 12: to me with tongues. No, no man keeps his words. Indeed,
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  Speaker 12: for man's behoof, they speak a language that I cannot fathom.
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  Speaker 12: I read the heart and brain, and all they tell
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  Speaker 12: me with childlike faith, I readily accept.
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  Speaker 3: I would my heart were as an open book that
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  Speaker 3: all might read therein. But who comes here by all
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: the powers that rule mischance tis Gottfried. What shall I do?
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  Speaker 3: How justify myself in my old comrade's eyes?
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  Speaker 12: Leave that to me there yourself, boldly, put a good
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  Speaker 12: face on it, and I will frame excuses that will serve.
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  Speaker 1: And check out freed.
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  Speaker 10: Here is the well loved home. Ah, Gretchen, Gretchen, When
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  Speaker 10: shall we meet again?
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  Speaker 11: Or shall meet. God knows.
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  Speaker 10: I go where death is freely dealt, and I may
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  Speaker 10: fall well, she will weep for.
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  Speaker 1: Me, seize Faustus.
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  Speaker 11: Whom have we here?
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  Speaker 10: Either my senses cheat me, or this is Faustus, Faustus
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  Speaker 10: as I live, Faustus unfracked, Faustus unsanctified, Faustus re butterflied
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  Speaker 10: in bravery.
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  Speaker 3: I got freed. I am Faustus in the flesh.
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  Speaker 10: No, here's a riddle, and I await the answer. But
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  Speaker 10: yesterday thou wast a hooded monk, a pale, cold, stern
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  Speaker 10: and soured dominican, a human tombstone sculptured by thyself in
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  Speaker 10: honor of thy dead and buried follies. To day I
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  Speaker 10: find the tombstone taken down, and all the follies risen
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  Speaker 10: from the dead.
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  Speaker 12: He was misled, his follies cheated him, believing they were
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  Speaker 12: dead to all intent. In decency, he raised a monument
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  Speaker 12: by finding them alive beneath his gown. In decency he
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  Speaker 12: took the tombstone down.
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  Speaker 10: It is enough for me that thou art free, welcome
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  Speaker 10: once more to life and liberty. To Mephisto, sir, in
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  Speaker 10: the name of all good fellowship, I thank you for
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  Speaker 10: your charitable office.
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  Speaker 3: Now tell me, God Freed, wherefore art thou here?
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  Speaker 10: I come, as yesterday I said I should to bid
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  Speaker 10: a long farewell to cousin Gretchen. To Gretchen I, the
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  Speaker 10: maid of whom I spake is.
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  Speaker 3: Her name, Gretchen.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, she lives hard by with Mistress Martha. Faustus, thou
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  Speaker 10: shalt see her and join with me in worship at
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  Speaker 10: her shrine.
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  Speaker 3: Faustus confused, I understand my words have weighed with THEE,
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: and thou hast come to tell her of thy love.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: Not I.
• 46:18
  Speaker 10: Indeed, despite thine eloquence, I'm going from her for a
• 46:23
  Speaker 10: weary while, maybe forever. That will give her sorrow, sorrow enough.
• 46:29
  Speaker 10: I would not add to it by telling her of
• 46:32
  Speaker 10: such poor love as mine. For all the world holds dear. Someday,
• 46:38
  Speaker 10: please Heaven, I shall return with honors to my name.
• 46:42
  Speaker 10: If honors lie within my grasp, I'll grasp them. And
• 46:46
  Speaker 10: then if I've a name worth offering, maybe I'll pluck
• 46:49
  Speaker 10: up heart. Not now, not now, But hush she comes.
• 46:56
  Speaker 11: And to Gretchen, Gretchen, Gretchen, god.
• 47:01
  Speaker 8: Fred, I am right glad to welcome THEE, my dear
• 47:05
  Speaker 8: dear brother, art thou come for long?
• 47:09
  Speaker 10: Nay, Gretchen, I am with my troop of horse we
• 47:12
  Speaker 10: march to Dettingen. And being here, I stole a brief
• 47:16
  Speaker 10: half hour to say farewell, Gretchen.
• 47:20
  Speaker 8: Alumed thou art not going to the war.
• 47:23
  Speaker 10: No, no mere frontier duty, Gretchen, nothing more aside.
• 47:29
  Speaker 11: May Heaven forgive me.
• 47:31
  Speaker 10: That's a downright lie.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: I breathe again, seize Faustus with intense surprise.
• 47:40
  Speaker 8: Who is this, gentleman?
• 47:42
  Speaker 10: This is my very dear and tried friend, Faustus, the
• 47:46
  Speaker 10: truest fellow that the wide world holds, Faustus. This is
• 47:51
  Speaker 10: my gentle cousin, Gretchen.
• 47:54
  Speaker 8: Surely I dream again, Oh marvelous, the very face.
• 47:58
  Speaker 10: And form come, Gretchen speak.
• 48:02
  Speaker 8: I give you honest welcome, noble sir, as you are
• 48:06
  Speaker 8: Godfrey's friend, so are you ours?
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: I thank you lady well, and is that all?
• 48:13
  Speaker 10: I thank you? Lady? Come thou shame face, knight. Where
• 48:17
  Speaker 10: are thy words?
• 48:18
  Speaker 8: Gretchen?
• 48:19
  Speaker 10: Be not deceived. He hath a tongue, a very fluent tongue,
• 48:24
  Speaker 10: and one that serves him well when he so pleases.
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: I am not dumb from lack of gratitude much as
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: I owe to Godfried dwell tried love. My heavy debt
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: is multiplied tenfold.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: Gottfried assigned to Faustus.
• 48:40
  Speaker 10: Then debtor, pay the tenfold debt tenfold. Watch over her
• 48:46
  Speaker 10: when I am far away, shield her from harm as
• 48:50
  Speaker 10: though she were thy sister, and we'll cry quits thou
• 48:55
  Speaker 10: wilt I thank thee Faustus, I go with light.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: Heart allowed to Gretchen.
• 49:03
  Speaker 10: Now fare thee well. God, keep THEE safe and sound
• 49:07
  Speaker 10: till I return.
• 49:09
  Speaker 8: Farewell, Dear Godfreed, think of me at times my heart
• 49:13
  Speaker 8: is full. Then read it in my eyes. May Heaven
• 49:16
  Speaker 8: shield THEE from all harm.
• 49:19
  Speaker 11: Amen?
• 49:20
  Speaker 10: And now to horse, Nay, not another word, or I
• 49:23
  Speaker 10: shall lack the heart to go at all. Farewell once more,
• 49:27
  Speaker 10: and only once.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Farewell, Exit Gottfried. Gretchen timidly, sir, will you enter?
• 49:36
  Speaker 8: Our home is near, and Mistress Martha will be glad
• 49:39
  Speaker 8: to greet you. You are an old friend of my
• 49:42
  Speaker 8: cousin Godfreed. I lady, Nay, you must not call me lady.
• 49:47
  Speaker 8: I'm a peasant girl.
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: My name is Gretchen, and may I call THEE Gretchen.
• 49:53
  Speaker 8: Willingly all call me Gretchen.
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: Gottfried calls thee Gretchen. I thought he claimed a cousin's privilege.
• 50:00
  Speaker 8: Does Godfreed speak of me?
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: He does, indeed, and in such terms of glowing eulogy,
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: I almost feared that he had gained thy heart. Feared
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: pardon me, I spake unwittingly. His welfare should be very
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: dear to me, and therefore I should rather hope than fear.
• 50:18
  Speaker 8: Godfreed has been my brother all my life. I would
• 50:21
  Speaker 8: not own another man as brother, nor would I have
• 50:25
  Speaker 8: him aught but honest brother. I love him dearly, dearly.
• 50:30
  Speaker 8: Twice a day I say a prayer for him, and
• 50:32
  Speaker 8: he for me. He is my brother. Every hope of
• 50:36
  Speaker 8: his is hope of mine. When trouble falls on him,
• 50:39
  Speaker 8: it falls alike on me. He is my brother. And
• 50:43
  Speaker 8: when he comes, as one day he will come to
• 50:46
  Speaker 8: tell me of some good and gentle girl who worthily
• 50:50
  Speaker 8: has won his honest heart, I'll throw my loving arms
• 50:53
  Speaker 8: around her neck and call her sister as I call
• 50:56
  Speaker 8: him brother.
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: Now, Heaven forgive me, but those words of Thine have
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: freed my bosom from a load of care.
• 51:04
  Speaker 8: Didst Thou then think I loved him?
• 51:06
  Speaker 10: Not?
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: Nay, Nay? I fear thy love was more than sister love.
• 51:11
  Speaker 8: Dost thou then fear the love that tends to wedlock?
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Mephisto aside, not he.
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: I hold that truest happiness is born of.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Wedlock, Mephisto aside, bravo celibate.
• 51:29
  Speaker 8: And yet it much rejoiceth THEE to know that cousin
• 51:32
  Speaker 8: Godfried has no thought of wedlock.
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: Nay, maiden, it rejoiceth me to know that cousin Gretchen
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: hath no thought of wedlock.
• 51:41
  Speaker 8: Dost thou not wish me happy?
• 51:43
  Speaker 13: Then?
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: My heart? I would that it were my care to
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: make THEE happy.
• 51:49
  Speaker 8: Now I am sorely puzzled.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: Mephisto aside, And no wonder.
• 51:56
  Speaker 8: Thou wishest Godfried happy and me happy? In wedlock only
• 52:01
  Speaker 8: is true happiness. And yet forsooth it much rejoiceth THEE
• 52:06
  Speaker 8: to know that he and I are not.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: To wed Mephisto aside, pretty lajush a dilemma, TRULYE.
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: Nay Gretchen. Better let the riddle rest till time shall
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: solve it.
• 52:20
  Speaker 8: Pray forgive me, sir, I do not doubt thy words
• 52:23
  Speaker 8: are learned words. Small wonder that I cannot fathom.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: Them, Martha without.
• 52:29
  Speaker 13: Come, Gretchen, Gretchen.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: Mephisto aside, Bah, she'll ruin all.
• 52:37
  Speaker 12: How these old ladies always interfere.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: And to Martha, why who is this?
• 52:45
  Speaker 8: A friend of cousin Godfreed, a very old and very
• 52:49
  Speaker 8: trusty friend, and so a very trusty friend of ours.
• 52:53
  Speaker 13: We give you welcome, sir. Our home is poor but
• 52:57
  Speaker 13: holy at your service side. But a mass a very
• 53:03
  Speaker 13: straight and well favored gentleman.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Mephisto aside, she'll never leave him.
• 53:11
  Speaker 12: I must interfere. Coming forward, pray, pardon this intrusion?
• 53:18
  Speaker 13: Who is this.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Mephisto?
• 53:21
  Speaker 12: To Gretchen, do I address name Martha?
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: No?
• 53:26
  Speaker 8: Indeed, my name is Gretchen. This is mistress Martha.
• 53:30
  Speaker 12: Are thousand pardons for my clumsy error, misled by a
• 53:34
  Speaker 12: description tall and fair, eighteen and very beautiful. The words
• 53:40
  Speaker 12: apply with equal truth to both the ladies.
• 53:45
  Speaker 13: You vasty civil sir, aside upon my word it reigns
• 53:53
  Speaker 13: well spoken, proper gentleman.
• 53:56
  Speaker 12: The sisters, of course, nay, she.
• 54:00
  Speaker 13: My sister's child. My sister was by many years my senior.
• 54:06
  Speaker 12: That's evident. I bring you doleful news, yet news not
• 54:11
  Speaker 12: altogether dolorous. There is a certain spice of comfort in it,
• 54:17
  Speaker 12: yet not so much of comfort. I'm afraid as to disguise.
• 54:20
  Speaker 12: It's not unpleasant, bitter Your.
• 54:23
  Speaker 13: Words alarm me. Pray forgive me, sir.
• 54:27
  Speaker 12: Are you a lawyer, I am the prince of lawyers.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: I am your servant, Sir curtseying.
• 54:36
  Speaker 12: I'm glad to hear it, but pardon me. The news
• 54:40
  Speaker 12: I have to tell is for your ears alone.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Martha to Gretchen, who is conversing with Faustus.
• 54:48
  Speaker 13: Go, Gretchen, dear, and show the gentleman the lover's glen.
• 54:53
  Speaker 12: Take heed. The path is dangerously steep. Be sure you
• 54:57
  Speaker 12: do not rip, my pretty maid.
• 55:00
  Speaker 8: I thank you, sir. I know it's pitfalls well and
• 55:04
  Speaker 8: how to pass them safely.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: To Faustus, wilt thou come.
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: To the world's end, fair maiden, And thou wilt.
• 55:13
  Speaker 8: Gretchen laughing, Nay, I'll not pledge thee to so long
• 55:17
  Speaker 8: a journey. The road is short, but very perilous it is.
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: Indeed, will trust thy hand in mine.
• 55:26
  Speaker 13: Ay, take his hand. You will be safer.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: So Mephisto asighed, I doubt it much. Faustus and Gretchen
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: go down incline.
• 55:40
  Speaker 13: Now we are quite alone.
• 55:43
  Speaker 12: The news I bring you is about your husband.
• 55:48
  Speaker 13: My husband. He's not coming back.
• 55:52
  Speaker 12: No, no, it's not as bad as that.
• 55:56
  Speaker 13: You frightened me.
• 55:58
  Speaker 12: He never will come back.
• 56:02
  Speaker 8: What mean you, sir?
• 56:04
  Speaker 12: I mean that fighting bravely against the Turks and arrow
• 56:09
  Speaker 12: struck him, And.
• 56:12
  Speaker 13: I guess your meaning. This is sad news. Indeed, alack
• 56:18
  Speaker 13: a day. I never wished his death. With all his faults,
• 56:24
  Speaker 13: he was no worse than other husbands.
• 56:26
  Speaker 12: Are, a most affecting tribute to his worth. Pray, pardon
• 56:32
  Speaker 12: my emotion. I've a heart that melts at weeping women.
• 56:37
  Speaker 13: Pray, go on, I'll try to stem my tears.
• 56:42
  Speaker 12: Left he will, He did our very good and Christian will.
• 56:48
  Speaker 13: He was a Christian.
• 56:51
  Speaker 7: Ah.
• 56:52
  Speaker 12: His will directs that you shall spend on masses for
• 56:56
  Speaker 12: his soul five hundred marks.
• 56:59
  Speaker 13: Five hundred fiddlesticks, A wicked waste.
• 57:05
  Speaker 12: Well, knowing all I know about his mode of life,
• 57:10
  Speaker 12: I must admit it is a waste. But so his
• 57:13
  Speaker 12: will directs.
• 57:15
  Speaker 13: And is that all left? He no parting words of penitence.
• 57:21
  Speaker 12: Oh yes, As death drew near, he much bewailed his
• 57:27
  Speaker 12: manifold transgressions and said that he could die more tranquility
• 57:32
  Speaker 12: had he his wife's forgiveness.
• 57:35
  Speaker 13: Poor dear soul, I could forgive him freely everything except us.
• 57:41
  Speaker 12: Massive though it is true, said he in all our quarrels,
• 57:49
  Speaker 12: and we'd many quarrels. She was invariably to blame.
• 57:54
  Speaker 13: A lie, a most observable and shameless lie.
• 58:00
  Speaker 12: Alas I fear that, as a rule, his words were
• 58:06
  Speaker 12: not distinguished by that love of truth that you and
• 58:09
  Speaker 12: I deem indispensable. For instance, he declared that earning bread
• 58:16
  Speaker 12: to feed so many mouths took all his time and
• 58:20
  Speaker 12: left no moment he could call his own.
• 58:24
  Speaker 13: Again. I I drudged from morn to night to feed
• 58:28
  Speaker 13: and clothe his famished family, while he said all day
• 58:32
  Speaker 13: fuddling at the ale house. Alas he never cared for
• 58:36
  Speaker 13: wife or child.
• 58:39
  Speaker 12: Nay, there you wrong him. Give the deuce his due.
• 58:44
  Speaker 12: Before he sailed, he prayed to all the saints to
• 58:47
  Speaker 12: bless his arms with full prosperity, so that if he
• 58:52
  Speaker 12: in battle should be slain, his widow yet might live
• 58:56
  Speaker 12: in luxury.
• 58:58
  Speaker 13: Poor soul, poor soul, did heaven so bless them?
• 59:05
  Speaker 12: Yes, his prayer was heard. Some seven months ago he
• 59:10
  Speaker 12: helped to take a Turkish galley fraught with countless treasure.
• 59:14
  Speaker 13: Why that was well done, brave.
• 59:17
  Speaker 12: Man, brave man?
• 59:20
  Speaker 13: And what could he buy that?
• 59:23
  Speaker 12: His share of prize money twelve thousand marks.
• 59:27
  Speaker 13: Twelve thousand marks, a fortune in itself. May Heaven forgive
• 59:33
  Speaker 13: me all my angry words. He had a brave good heart.
• 59:38
  Speaker 13: Where is the money?
• 59:40
  Speaker 12: Ask his good heart? He never could resist. A tale
• 59:43
  Speaker 12: of sorrow eloquently told, what mean you? When at Naples?
• 59:50
  Speaker 12: Shortly after he saw a girl young, beautiful, but poor,
• 59:57
  Speaker 12: a very child, scarce seventeen years old? His tender heart
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 12: gave way. She was so poor, and then so very young,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 12: Scarce seventeen. He gave it all to her, all every florin,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 12: But then she was so young, Scarce seventeen.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 13: A tis old tricks. Then there is nothing left.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 12: You wrong him? There he left a priceless treasure, compared
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 12: with which his other paltry gains sink into nothingness. A
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 12: charming widow.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 13: You're very good.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 12: I speak the simple truth. Come take good heart. You
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 12: waste your tears upon a man who priced you far
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 12: below you're worth. You're young, and pardon me attractive. Still
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 12: spend one chase year of lonely widowhood than seek a
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 12: better husband.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 13: As for that, with all his faults, I might wet
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 13: worse than he.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 12: He was a kindly fool forgiving soul angelic tolerance. Ah,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 12: Were I sure that you would treat my faults as leniently?
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 12: I should be almost tempted to what.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 13: Oh, sir, he's surely jesting.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 12: Not at all? Aside, I'd better change the subject. This
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 12: old girl would take the very devil at his word.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 12: They're coming back aloud. We'll talk of this anon after
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 12: a year or two or three.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: We will accent together as faster and Gretchen appear at back.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: That Gretchen was my dream.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 8: Oh marvelous, that thou and I, each stranger to the other,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 8: should thus have peopled each the other's vision. I tremble
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 8: when I think on it.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: Wherefore, so was then the vision so distasteful?
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 8: Nay? I said, not so? But that we too should
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 8: dream as we have dreamt tis not in nature.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: Promise that if again thou seest me in a dream,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: thou tell me all the part I play therein the
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: words I speak to THEE and thou to me.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 8: Gretchen confused, Perhaps it may be so I will not promise.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: Tell me again got freed? Thou dost not love him?
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 8: He is my brother, sir.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: So he be alway, there is perchance some other envied
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: man to whom the flower of thine heart is given.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 8: Indeed, I have no lover, Sir, none none.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: Thy time will come. Perhaps give me thy hand. I'll
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: read thy fortune, Gretchen, wonderful?
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 8: Canst thou read fortunes?
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: Giving her hand?
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: Aye indifferent? Well?
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: Playing with her hand? Speak, Sir, I listen, Faustus, still
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: playing with her.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: Hand tis a soft white hand.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: Gretchen, demurely my fortune, Sir, Faustus recollecting himself.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: True, true, thy fortune?
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: Come looking at her palm Ah.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 3: Gretchen, Gretchen, be thou on thy guard. There cometh one
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: to woo thee will beware take heed of him. He
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: is no honest man.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 8: And do I know him, Sir?
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: Ay, in some sort Thou knowest his smooth face, his
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: specious tongue. But there is that within his evil heart,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: of which thou knowest. Little O, my child, Beware of him,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 3: my child, beware of him.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 8: Why comes this wicked man to such as I? I
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 8: would not aid him in his wickedness.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: In sad and sorrowing heart, he comes to THEE that
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: he may learn the lesson of thy life. He comes
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: to THEE in the fond, foolish hope that the pure
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: influence of such love as thine may quell the evil
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: angel at his side. For wicked as he is, he
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: loveth THEE with all his poor, frail heart. He loveth THEE.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 8: Tis a strange fortune. I, an untaught girl, can teach
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 8: but little. But if such a one come to me
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 8: sorrowing for his bygone sins, even though I loved him
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 8: not in pity, I would strive with all my heart
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 8: to help him. Even as I pray for help. I
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 8: do not know why I should fear this.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: Man, because with all his sorrow, he is false, false
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: to himself, and maybe false to THEE. Oh Gretchen, deal
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: not lightly with my words. Weigh them, and weigh them
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: over and over again. And when thou kneeleest by thy
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: bed tonight, pray thou for strength as thou hast never prayed.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: Pray for a brave and staunch and steadfast heart, steadfast
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: to aid this poor, weak wanderer upon the holy path
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: that thou hast chosen, but above all, beyond all, and
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: before all, steadfast to pluck the traitor from thine, if
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: in the depth of his mortality he strived to gain
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: THEE by unholy means, I will.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: Take heed, Sir, rising and going.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 8: Gretchen leave me, not I go to seek a poor, lost,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 8: friendless girl who waits for me hard by Hi, thank you, sir,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 8: I take your kindly counsel and good part. Thou dost
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 8: not know the sad and solemn lesson that her poor,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 8: blighted heart hath taught us all. For she was wont
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 8: to laugh as the birds sing from very wealth of
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 8: idle happiness. It seems so strange that she should not
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 8: have died.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 3: God save THEE from such harm.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: Releasing her Amen, Amen exit Fastest stands as if entranced
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: for a moment.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: Then suddenly, why whither am I going? Grace of Heaven?
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: Have I been blind? Fool? Poor self? Cheating fool? Stop?
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: While thou mayest thine eyes are open? Now, what seest
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: thou hell against Heaven and thou allied with Hell?
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: Mephisto appears and listens.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: What seest thou a pure and blameless child, trustful as innocence,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: her gentle soul, calm as a lake in heaven, her
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: angel face, God's work, untainted by man's desecrating touch. And
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: at her side a scheming mummer, tricked in godly garb,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: his tongue all plausible, his heart all faults, his lying manhood,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: traitor to itself. Faustus mind enemy. I know thee, now
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: faustus mine enemy. I know thee.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 12: Now shake off thy churchman's qualms. Thou art a man
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 12: wast once a soldier, ere thou was a priest. Has
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 12: monkish milk so curdled the hot blood that bore thee
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 12: ever where the fight was thickest, That this raw girl,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 12: this butter churning doll, hath turned thee chicken hearted.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: Hold thy peace, a cursed fiend, Nor dare to breathe
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: her name. Deal thou with me, let heaven, deal with Heaven.
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  Speaker 3: I go from her, God shield her from all harm.
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  Speaker 12: Hush not so loud, she'll hear you see she comes.
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  Speaker 1: Gretchen appears at back, picking petals from a daisy as
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  Speaker 1: she fanswys.
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  Speaker 8: He loves me, he loves me, not he loves me,
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  Speaker 8: He loves me.
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  Speaker 12: Not too late, too late, her heart is given to thee.
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  Speaker 12: Her love is not as other women's love. Take thyself
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  Speaker 12: head and she will surely die.
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  Speaker 1: Faustus watches her, entranced.
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  Speaker 8: He loves me, he loves me. Not, he loves me,
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  Speaker 8: he loves me not.
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  Speaker 12: See how she trembles as the petals fall. Poor child,
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  Speaker 12: Poor child. She trusts her simple charm, and should it fail,
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  Speaker 12: her heart will break. Have pity on her, Faustus.
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  Speaker 8: He loves me, he loves me. Not, he loves me,
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  Speaker 8: he loves me not.
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  Speaker 1: She picks the lost petal.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, heaven, have mercy.
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  Speaker 1: Faustus, breaking from Mephisto and rushing to.
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  Speaker 3: Her Gretchen, dearly loved, mistrust thy charm. By heaven that
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  Speaker 3: hears me. Now he loves THEE. Gretchen loves THEE, loves
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  Speaker 3: THEE loves THEE.
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  Speaker 1: Gretchen gives a cry of joy and surprise, then falls
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  Speaker 1: weeping on his neck. Mephisto at back, laughing cynically.
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  Speaker 3: Ah.
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  Speaker 1: End of Act two, Act three of Gretchen by W. S. Gilbert.
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot Org. Act three. Scene a marketplace in
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  Speaker 1: a German town. Entrance to church on right of stage,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: a stone cross on the left. Bessie, Barbara and Agatha
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: discovered conversing. Three months have elapsed.
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  Speaker 4: Godfried returned.
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  Speaker 5: I a captain too, all steel and gold. I hear
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 5: the people say that in the ranks of those who
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  Speaker 5: fought and bled, no braver soldier.
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  Speaker 6: Lives alas poor godfreed.
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  Speaker 5: Poor godfreed to have gained such poverty. I've given ten years, Aye,
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  Speaker 5: though it made me thirty.
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  Speaker 6: Fool He's head and ears in love with Gretchen. There's
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 6: but a bitter time in store for him.
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  Speaker 5: Ah tis a sorry think this love.
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  Speaker 4: For that the world without it were a sorry thing.
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  Speaker 4: It's meat and drink.
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  Speaker 1: To me, Oh Barbara, to Bessy.
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  Speaker 6: Thou foolish child, revile not that of which you knowest
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 6: Not some day, maybe, observe, I said, maybe some one
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  Speaker 6: will love thee strange things come to best, and then
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  Speaker 6: thou change thy note.
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  Speaker 5: If so, I pray twill not be such a one
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  Speaker 5: as the gay knight who had so wondrously bewitched our Gretchen.
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  Speaker 5: But three months since no happier maiden lived and now
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  Speaker 5: kind Heaven help us all. They say, she will not
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  Speaker 5: live this your twentieth year.
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  Speaker 1: And to Lisa, unobserved.
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  Speaker 6: Girls do not die of honest hearted love humph. They
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 6: sometimes die of shame and penitence when lovers carry them
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  Speaker 6: beyond themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Lisa coming forward.
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  Speaker 7: Thoul, Shame on thee who darest couple, shame with the
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 7: most pure and perfect heart on earth. May Heaven pardon
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 7: thee thy bitter words. I'll stake my soul upon her innocence.
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  Speaker 6: Thy stake is small in that thou ShoWest wisdom. Thou
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 6: shouldst be an unerring judge of guilt. But as to innocence,
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  Speaker 6: leave innocence to those who know the meaning of the word.
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  Speaker 7: Rail On at me. I heed a mocking tongue as
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  Speaker 7: little as I heed a winter's wind. For misery hath
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  Speaker 7: hardened me to both. But bow thy head and stop
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  Speaker 7: thy shameless tongue when others speak of that pure angel heart,
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  Speaker 7: which day by day draws nearer to its heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Agatha looking off.
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  Speaker 4: See see the soldiers all look off.
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  Speaker 5: Marry how they march? I love a soldier.
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  Speaker 1: I love several enter the soldiers led by Friedrich and
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  Speaker 1: accompany it by men and girls. They halt in line
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  Speaker 1: in front of cathedral at Friedrich's word.
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  Speaker 4: There's Carl and utters Max and Frederic too. Oh what
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  Speaker 4: a beard.
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  Speaker 1: Got freed enters dressed as an officer break off. They
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  Speaker 1: recover pikes and break off, mingling with the crowd.
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  Speaker 10: Whom have we here?
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  Speaker 11: Why?
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  Speaker 10: Agatha and Bessie Barbara?
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  Speaker 1: The crowd around as he greets them.
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  Speaker 10: How fares it with you? Are you married yet?
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  Speaker 1: They sigh and shake the heads.
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  Speaker 10: What none of you? Well, there are plenty here to
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  Speaker 10: set that.
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  Speaker 13: Right, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome home again, and you're a captain?
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  Speaker 10: Ha, yes, unworthily nay, never credit that.
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  Speaker 9: There never lived a doltier soldier?
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  Speaker 6: How came it to pass?
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  Speaker 11: My faith?
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  Speaker 10: I hardly know? Twas sheer good luck. We were at
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 10: rest around a big campfire, dreaming me be of loved
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 10: ones far away, when came a sudden trumpet call to horse.
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  Speaker 10: Another moment saw us and the saddle and tearing on.
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  Speaker 11: We knew not why nor whither.
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  Speaker 10: There came a shock of strong men breast to breast,
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  Speaker 10: a clash of swords, a hurricane of blows. Aye on
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  Speaker 10: my back, half blind with blood and rage. A thousand
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  Speaker 10: devils dancing in my eyes, and friends and foes, and
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 10: wild entanglement, all tussling for my body. Then a wrench,
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  Speaker 10: a mighty shout, another rush, and lo, a panting dozen
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  Speaker 10: of us on a hill besmirched with blood and dust,
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  Speaker 10: and all agog to grasp my hand and hail me
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  Speaker 10: as a hero rises. That's all I know of it,
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  Speaker 10: except that I went in a trooper and came out
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  Speaker 10: a captain.
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  Speaker 1: Several soldiers stroll off with girls. A Sodia remains with Bessie,
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  Speaker 1: another with Barbara Friedrich with Agatha.
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  Speaker 10: But there enough of that. Come Tell me now, how
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  Speaker 10: fair is my cousin, Gretchen?
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  Speaker 11: Is she well?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that is aside to Sodia.
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  Speaker 5: How shall I answer him?
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  Speaker 11: Is aught, am miss?
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  Speaker 5: How will thou carriest a new born rank?
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  Speaker 10: The devil take my rank? Tell me of Gretchen.
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  Speaker 1: Bessie at fault, watches her opportunity and exit with Sodia.
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  Speaker 6: Prithee, ask us not, will you not say a word
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  Speaker 6: to give thee pain on such a day?
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: Exit with Sodia Gottfried amazed, pain.
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  Speaker 4: Nay be not distressed? All may be well?
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: She lives, Yes, yes, she lives, to Friedrich.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, come away, I dare not tell him more?
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  Speaker 10: Why how is this a curse upon the fools? Where
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 10: are their tongues? Is aught amiss with her? At the
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 10: bare thought of it, my heart stands still, Nay.
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  Speaker 9: Never heed them. Girls are all alike, mere jealous jades.
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  Speaker 9: Thy first and foremost thoughts were for another. There's the
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  Speaker 9: mischief of it. Hadst thou but spoken lightly of thy cousin,
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  Speaker 9: a shower of praise would have been poured upon her,
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 9: a plague.
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  Speaker 10: Upon their scurril serpent tongues. In the old days they
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 10: knew no jealousy. My blood is all a chill. I
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  Speaker 10: shake with fear. I'll to her house at once and
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 10: ere an hour, I'll learn the best and worst.
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  Speaker 1: Exit alas poor Godfreed.
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  Speaker 9: It's a strange world. Here is a plain, shrewd fellow
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 9: with so much simple sense that when he hears of
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 9: hearts and homes laid waste through misplaced faith, uplifts his
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 9: hands in wonderment to think that men can be such fools,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 9: and thanking Heaven that he is not as blind as
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 9: others are. He trusts a pretty woman to his friend.
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  Speaker 4: But see she comes quick, Take me hence away.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Faustus and Gretchen lovingly. Gretchen, seeing Agatha, advances to
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: speak to her. Agatha turns about and exit quickly with Friedrich.
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  Speaker 8: Oh Faustus, didst thou see she turned from me?
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  Speaker 3: Nay, nay she saw THEE?
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  Speaker 8: Not she saw me? Well, they shun me one and all.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 8: Where'er I go. My loved companions look at me askance,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 8: and then, with sidelong looks and pitying words, they whisper
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  Speaker 8: to each other of my shame.
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  Speaker 3: Nay calm, thy fears. They do not speak of THEE.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, Faustus, Faustus, I know the purport of their whispered words,
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  Speaker 8: as though they had been spoken trumpet tongued.
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  Speaker 3: Nay, never he Gretchen never heed them.
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  Speaker 8: They were my world before thou camest to me. They
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  Speaker 8: loved me, Faustus, and they honored me. And now they
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  Speaker 8: turn away from me, as though I bore a deadly
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  Speaker 8: poison in my glance.
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  Speaker 3: Dismiss them from thy thoughts. We will go hence to
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  Speaker 3: some far distant land where none shall know us, And
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  Speaker 3: there the bond of all forgiving heaven shall sanctify our love.
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  Speaker 8: O Faustus, Faustus, I have thine heart forever and for
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  Speaker 8: I Ah, Heaven is kind to me for all my sin.
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  Speaker 8: For when my heart is more than common sad, I
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 8: need but close my eyes, and all at once I
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 8: wander at my will amid the days when thou and
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 8: I may face the world again. And yet I am
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 8: no fitting mate for thee. Thou a great lord, rich,
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  Speaker 8: honored and beloved, I a poor, simple, untaught, peasant girl.
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  Speaker 8: Yet bear with me, my love shall plague thee little
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  Speaker 8: though ever and anon I come to THEE with faltering
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 8: step and tearful, downcast eyes, a timid suppliant for such
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  Speaker 8: alms of love. Hast Thou, in thy good will mayest
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  Speaker 8: grant to me. So when thou seest kneeling at thy feet,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 8: thy poor, mad, love struck, trusting, trembling wife, throw in
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 8: her charity, one little flower, how to the boundless garden
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  Speaker 8: of thy heart, that she may go rejoicing on her way.
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  Speaker 3: Thou art indeed no fitting mate for me, Thou glorious
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 3: in the sheen of innocence.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: She covers her eyes.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 3: I devil taught in all unholy art, Oh Gretchen, dearly loving,
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 3: dearly loved, wronged beyond all repair, yet all forgiving. The
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  Speaker 3: simple utterance of thy trusting heart is terrible to my
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 3: unhallowed soul, as the proclaimed doom of angered heaven.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 8: Hush, Hush, I will not suffer thee to utter treason
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 8: against my Lord. I am but his handmaiden. Yet I
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 8: am jealous of my master's honor, as of his love.
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  Speaker 3: Ah Gretchen. If his honor were Trusteess's love, thy jealousy
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 3: might slumber unto death.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 8: But tell me, Faustus, when first thou camest to me
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 8: in the vision, hadst Thou then loved.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 3: I Gretchen verily with all thy heart, alas with all
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 3: my heart?
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 8: What heaven that I had been the first amen? And
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 8: when she learnt that thou hast love for me, did
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 8: her heart break?
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 3: Nay? Nay? Her love had died a year before she
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 3: fled from me, and I, in a mad frenzy, born
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 3: of shattered hopes, gave up the world and sought forgetfulness
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 3: in the cold cloisters of a monastery. For twelve long months,
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 3: twelve weary, weary months, I strove to keep my ill
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 3: considered vows till, wearying of the sackle religious lie, I
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 3: broke my bonds and cast my priesthood from.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 8: Me, Gretchen Aghast Faustus, thou art a priest? No, no, no, no,
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 8: my senses cheat me, or thou mockest me.
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  Speaker 3: If the mere letter of a reckless vow could make
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 3: me priest, I was a priest. Indeed, if vows cast
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  Speaker 3: off and scattered to the wind can free me from
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 3: my priesthood, I am free.
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  Speaker 8: Thou art a priest and vow to heaven? Why then,
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 8: O God preserve me? I am lost, indeed, O grace
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 8: of Heaven, have mercy on me. Now, Oh take me, hence, Oh,
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 8: free me from my life? What have I done?
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: Crossing and falling at foot of cross and clinging to it?
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 8: Oh, Heaven, pity me. I knew it, not Thou knowest.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: I knew it, not Faustus kneeling over.
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  Speaker 3: Her, Gretchen in Heaven's eyes, I am no priest, aposta,
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  Speaker 3: if thou will but still no priest. If there be
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  Speaker 3: power and boundless love to heal the wound that I
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 3: have open in thy heart, That boundless love is thine.
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  Speaker 1: Gretchen clinging to cross and shrinking from him.
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  Speaker 8: Thou art a priest, thou hast a bride thy church,
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  Speaker 8: Thy vows replighted, and thou hast cheated her away away
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 8: lose not a moment get THEE. Hence to her upon
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 8: thy knees, confess thy faithlessness, that she may take THEE
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 8: to her heart again. Be brave, Go thou from my
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 8: unhallowed arms back to the heavenly bride, from whom thou camest.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 3: Gretchen, Be merciful. Have pity on me. Think of our love.
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  Speaker 3: I know thou lovest me. Think of the shame that
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 3: must await THEE here if thou left unfriended and alone
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 3: to bear the burden I have placed on THEE.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 8: Think not of me. Thy wrong to me, is not
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 8: thy wrong to injured? Heaven is all in all. Go
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 8: make thy peace with her, while yet thou mayest in
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 8: the rich plenitude of her great heart. Thy bride may
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 8: pardon THEE. O Faustus, Faustus, Thou lovest my body, and
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 8: I love thy soul. O be thou brave as I.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 8: If I can go from the enduring heaven of thy
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 8: love to shame and misery unspeakable. Canst thou not yield
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 8: such mortal heart as mine for the pure love of
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 8: an eternal bride too late.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 3: My love for THEE is all supreme. And while thou
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 3: livest as heaven hears me. Now I'll leave THEE.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 8: Not thaustest, be not deceived. I love THEE with my heart,
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 8: my heart of hearts. My very death prayer shall be
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 8: breathed for THEE. But though it rend my heart to
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 8: keep my vow, as there is pardon for a penitent,
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 8: I will not meet Thine eyes on earth again. Nay,
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  Speaker 8: touch me not, God, pardon THEE. Farewell exit.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 3: My doom is spoken, and I bow my head. So Gretchen,
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  Speaker 3: let it be at thy just bidding. I go to death.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 3: In life there is a tomb in which a living,
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 3: loving man may bury all but his aching heart. I
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 3: go to it.
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  Speaker 1: Mephisto has entered and overheard this.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 12: Why how is this? Does not the good work prosper come?
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 11: Come? Take heart?
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 12: 'tis but a summer storm a day alone will bring
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 12: her to her senses.
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  Speaker 3: Fiend, I renounce THEE, give me back myself, let me go.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 3: Hence our bond is at an end.
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  Speaker 12: Nay, that's ungenerous, it is. Indeed you are a churchman.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 12: My profound respect for all your cloth induced me to
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 12: forego the customary writing. Satisfied that I was dealing with
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 12: a holy man, I asked no bond. I trusted to
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 12: your honor, And now to take advantage of my weakness
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 12: and turn my much misplaced redulity against myself, nay tis
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 12: unworthy of you.
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  Speaker 3: Poor mocker. Hold thy peace. Let me go, hence back
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 3: to my cloister, back to the old blank life. My
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 3: eyes are open, and I see the gulf, the broad
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 3: black gulf, deep as the nether hell to which thou
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 3: leadest me. Release thy grasp. My heart has changed. Thou
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 3: hast no hold on me. A cursed of God. Our
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 3: bond is at an.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: End, breaks from him and rushes into the church, Mephisto
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: moving after him, but drawing back at sight of the church.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 12: The blight of hell upon thy head, False priest, False priest,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 12: true priest, True to the lying trade that I have
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 12: taught thy smug faced brotherhood, the old old doom, my
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 12: sword against myself as once it was, so ever must
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 12: it be well, go thy ways, Go to thy kennel
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 12: dog Dominican, and gnaw the fleshless bones of thy dead joy.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 12: The end has yet to come, and times, my friend,
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 12: but all just heaven is the fight fair? When this
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 12: mine enemy may traffic with me till his end is gained,
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 12: then steep is chicken's sole in penitence and cheat damnation.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 12: So it comes to pass. I gather fools, lie, kind fools,
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 12: and only fools, Oh for the soul of one wise man,
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 12: but one to show in triumph at the reckoning.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: And to got freed.
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  Speaker 10: My search is vain. She is not at her home. Well, patience, patience,
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 10: I must wait for her as best I.
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  Speaker 1: May seize Mephisto.
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  Speaker 10: So so whom have we here? Surely I know this
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 10: worthy gentleman, your humble servant, Sir, tis faustest friend.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 12: He is very loving friend, But welcome home. Fame has
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 12: been busy with your worships of.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: Balor got freed?
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  Speaker 10: Anxiously, sir, you can give me news of cousin Gretchen.
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  Speaker 11: Is the maid safe? And well?
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  Speaker 12: Why as too well? What loving man aid is ever
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  Speaker 12: in rude health? When he who has her heart is
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  Speaker 12: far afield? But as to save, why have you not
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  Speaker 12: a friend who's sworn to keep a watch upon her safety?
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  Speaker 12: And is not that friend? Faustus have more faith?
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  Speaker 8: True?
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  Speaker 10: True, he has watched over her?
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  Speaker 12: He has most conscientiously, he never leaves her.
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  Speaker 10: I breathe again. My heart had sunk within me. I
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  Speaker 10: asked some village girls an hour ago for news of
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  Speaker 10: her well. This one shook her head, and that one sighed.
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  Speaker 10: A third looked dubious, uncertain whether she should shake or sigh.
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  Speaker 10: Then finally did both. I breathe again.
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  Speaker 12: The maid is well a little pale, perhaps, But then,
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  Speaker 12: poor child, her lover at the wars, twas hardly fair
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  Speaker 12: to leave her as you did with a mare called
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  Speaker 12: good bye.
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  Speaker 10: Why as for that I have no claim alas to
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  Speaker 10: rank his lover.
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  Speaker 12: Ah, pardon me, I know the maiden's heart.
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  Speaker 10: Sir, you are jesting, jesting.
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  Speaker 12: Not at all. For two months past, the town, from
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  Speaker 12: end to end has known no topic but your Worship's valor.
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  Speaker 12: And while she trembled for your well being, her bosom
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  Speaker 12: swelled with pride when brave men told of God Free's chivalry. Oh,
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  Speaker 12: mark my words, you have gained more promotion than.
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  Speaker 11: You ought of.
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  Speaker 10: Can this be true?
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  Speaker 12: Quite true? But see, she comes with your permission, and
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  Speaker 12: no doubt you'll grant it. I will withdraw, but ere
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  Speaker 12: I take my leave. Allow me to congratulate you both,
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  Speaker 12: on the great happiness in store for you.
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  Speaker 11: You're more than good.
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  Speaker 12: Some people seem to think so, but then they flatter me.
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  Speaker 10: Ha ha ha, good day, exit at last, at last?
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  Speaker 10: Why how I tremble strange? I am a little moved
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  Speaker 10: at thought of death. I've stared his kingship out of
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  Speaker 10: countenance a dozen times a day. But in the presence
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  Speaker 10: of this gentle child, my well beloved and loving kinswoman,
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  Speaker 10: I am no better than a shaking coward.
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  Speaker 11: And to Gretchen, Gretchen.
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  Speaker 8: At last, Godfrey II.
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  Speaker 10: Home again, hail, sound and whole, with money in my
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  Speaker 10: purse and a good sounding title to my name, So
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  Speaker 10: give me joy of it. Why how is this hast
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  Speaker 10: thou no welcome for me? Cousin Gretchen, I.
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  Speaker 8: Welcome home, Dear Godfried, welcome home.
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  Speaker 10: But wherefore dost thou sigh nay?
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  Speaker 8: Heed me not? But tell me of thyself. The countryside
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  Speaker 8: rings with the tidings of thy valor.
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  Speaker 4: Bah.
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  Speaker 10: I am no hero, Gretchen, and myself a plain, rude
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  Speaker 10: man with just so much of sense as to gladly
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  Speaker 10: two leagues round about to save a broken crown who
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  Speaker 10: loves not blood, unless indeed it be his own and
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  Speaker 10: that he loves too well to lose it willingly. So, Cousin, Gretchen,
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  Speaker 10: if there be aught of valor in my deeds, the
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  Speaker 10: merit of it is thine own, not mine mine. Godfreed mine, aye,
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  Speaker 10: for it came from THEE. It lives for THEE, and
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  Speaker 10: it will die with THEE.
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  Speaker 11: Gretchen, my dearly loved.
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  Speaker 8: Oh godfreed. Godfreed.
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  Speaker 10: For many a year, at home and far away, I've
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  Speaker 10: had THEE at heart, but did not dare to speak
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  Speaker 10: to THEE of love. Misjudge me not. I do not
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  Speaker 10: blush that I have loved THEE, Gretchen. God sent such
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  Speaker 10: truth and virgin innocence to teach rough men how holy
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  Speaker 10: love may be. Let that man blush, if such a
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  Speaker 10: one there live who knows thy maiden heart and loves THEE.
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  Speaker 11: Not I would not be that man.
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  Speaker 10: But if in giving tongue to my dumb love, I
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  Speaker 10: overstep the bounds of reverence, look down in pity on
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  Speaker 10: my poor mad heart, and tell me gently that for
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  Speaker 10: man to hope for more than sister love from such
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  Speaker 10: as thou is more than man should dare. And I'll
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  Speaker 10: believe it.
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  Speaker 8: Godfreed, Have mercy on me. And be silent, Dear God,
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  Speaker 8: freed brother, be my brother still, Oh be my brother.
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  Speaker 8: I have need of THEE, such need, Oh Heaven pity
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  Speaker 8: me such need.
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  Speaker 11: Gretchen, my sister.
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  Speaker 10: If no more than brother, than always brother, now as Heretofore,
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  Speaker 10: why dost thou weep, nay, nay, take heart again? Tell
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  Speaker 10: me thy sorrow.
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  Speaker 8: Tell it unto THEE, no, not to THEE. I have
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  Speaker 8: my punishment. If thou hast love for me, I know
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  Speaker 8: thou hast, go pray with all thy heart for such
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  Speaker 8: as I. If thou hast pity, and I know thou hast,
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  Speaker 8: ask me no more, but go and pray for me.
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  Speaker 10: Well, be it so enough that thou hast cause to
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  Speaker 10: hide thy grief. May Heaven lighten it. I seek to
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  Speaker 10: know no more. My love for THEE is deathless as
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  Speaker 10: the faith it feeds upon.
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  Speaker 8: Thy love for me comes of thy faith in me,
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  Speaker 8: God free, Let thy love die. Uproot it from thine
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  Speaker 8: heart it feeds on falsehood. How uproot the weed it
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  Speaker 8: hath no blaze amid the God grown flowers, truth, steadfast, honor,
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  Speaker 8: simple manliness that blossom in that goodly garden land. Let
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  Speaker 8: thy love die, brave heart, I am unworthy.
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  Speaker 10: Gretchen, What sayest thou unworthy? And of what of such
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  Speaker 10: as I? After a pause, God help me if I
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  Speaker 10: read thy words? Aright thou Gretchen, Thou? No, No, it
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  Speaker 10: could not be thou, Gretchen. O mankind is not so base.
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  Speaker 8: Oh God Freid, pity me.
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  Speaker 10: My heart is broken, Oh my poor love, my gentle
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  Speaker 10: angel heart, Oh death, kind death that thou canst surely strike,
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  Speaker 10: hadst thou no pity on them, poor fair flower, Oh death,
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  Speaker 10: kind death, with Heaven's mercy. Thou hadst been at hand
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  Speaker 10: to fold my darling in thy sheltering wings.
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  Speaker 11: His name, Quick, quick his name?
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  Speaker 8: They ask me, not in this have mercy?
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  Speaker 1: Gottfried drawing his sword, quick his name?
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  Speaker 8: I say no, no, Oh Godfried, spare him, quick his name.
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  Speaker 8: He loved me, Godfried, spare him. He is gone. Oh godfreed, Godfreedhi.
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  Speaker 1: Falls senseless at his feet. Come hither all During these lines,
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  Speaker 1: the soldiers Friedrich and girls have entered his name.
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  Speaker 10: Give me his name?
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  Speaker 1: They turn away?
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  Speaker 10: Why how is this? Why turn you from me? Comrades?
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  Speaker 10: Have you heard I Gottfried?
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  Speaker 9: We have heard curse on you?
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  Speaker 10: Why hold back his name?
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  Speaker 1: In mercy to THEE godfrey it, seizing him and threatening him.
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  Speaker 10: Have mercy on thyself. Am I in mood to play
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  Speaker 10: with words? I charge THEE on thy life, give me
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  Speaker 10: his name.
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  Speaker 9: Then steal thy heart. To hear it, they say it
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  Speaker 9: was thy friend, my friend, I faustus.
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  Speaker 10: Faustus, my friend.
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  Speaker 6: They lie alas alas she has confessed the truth.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, Earth and Heaven, are there no bounds to human devilhood?
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  Speaker 10: Are Heaven's weapons? Sheathed, is honored, dead, has innocence, cast
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  Speaker 10: off her.
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  Speaker 1: Majesty unhooks his scabbard and breaks it away away.
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  Speaker 10: I have no need of THEE, good, trusty sword. Henceforth,
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  Speaker 10: sheathless thou until I home THEE to the very hilt
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 10: in the foul slew of his accursed heart, his heart,
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  Speaker 10: and then mine own.
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  Speaker 1: End of Act three, Act four of Gretchen by W. S. Gilbert.
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Act four, room in Martha's cottage,
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  Speaker 1: A couch in recess of window night. A small lamp
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  Speaker 1: burning on pedestal table at head of couch ander Lisa
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  Speaker 1: from without meeting Martha.
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  Speaker 13: Well, hast thou seen the Holy Ansel?
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  Speaker 7: Yes? Yet, but one moment I had been too late.
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 7: Old Carl is dying, and the Holy Man, being called
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 7: in haste to minister to him, was on the evel
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  Speaker 7: starting as I.
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  Speaker 13: Came, Old Karl, must she needs die this very night?
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  Speaker 13: But thou didst tell the Holy Man that Gretchen was
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  Speaker 13: sorely ill and stood in urging need of his most
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  Speaker 13: comfortable ministry.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, yes, alas that it should be the truth. He
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  Speaker 7: promised he would come without delay. How fairs our loved one,
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  Speaker 7: is her mind at rest.
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  Speaker 13: Alas I fear that death draws nigh a pace, there
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 13: is a strange look in her wandering eyes that is
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 13: not of this world, a bright, calm light, as though
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 13: she saw far far beyond the grave. When she is
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 13: taken heaven helped the poor. There is not an ailing
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 13: soul for miles around who does not bless her ministering hand.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 7: If the old tale be true, When such as she
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  Speaker 7: are taken hints to their appointed heaven, good angels come
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 7: to earth to take their place and finish their good works,
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  Speaker 7: and so the poor who look to them, are clothed
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  Speaker 7: and comforted, the hungry, fed, the sick and dying, healed.
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  Speaker 13: Her work is all her own, and would be so,
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  Speaker 13: though Heaven sent the best of all good angels.
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  Speaker 1: Gretchen appears at door, dressed in white. She is pale
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  Speaker 1: and weak, Lisa.
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  Speaker 7: Thy hand, Gretchen, what dost thou hear?
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  Speaker 8: My heart is sad. I cannot rest in peace.
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  Speaker 13: But thou shouldst not have left thy bed, dear child.
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  Speaker 8: The night is cold, alas it matters little. The end
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  Speaker 8: is near, the tale is nearly told.
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  Speaker 7: Nay, nay, not yet, not yet, Oh Gretchen, Gretchen, while
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  Speaker 7: life remains to thee, pray thou for life. Oh, pray, pray,
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  Speaker 7: pray for Heaven hears the prayers of such as thou. Oh, mercy,
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 7: mercy on my misery? How shall I live without thy
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 7: saving love? How shall I die when thou art gone
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  Speaker 7: from me? Oh, Gretchen, stay with us, Oh, stay with us,
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  Speaker 7: as thou in the rich love of thy great heart?
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  Speaker 7: Didst look in pity on my bygone sin? Have mercy
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  Speaker 7: on the love I live upon, And pray for life, Oh, Gretchen,
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  Speaker 7: pray for life.
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  Speaker 8: Lisa, I looked in pity, on thy by gone sin,
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  Speaker 8: in the poor pride of an untempted heart, as one
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  Speaker 8: to whom such sorrow couldnot come. I looked upon such
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 8: unknown sin as thine, as a rich queen might look
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  Speaker 8: up starvation in pitying wonder that such things could be.
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  Speaker 8: And now, God, pardon me, as thou wast so am I, But.
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  Speaker 7: Gretchen, think of him.
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  Speaker 8: He loveth thee.
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  Speaker 7: His heart is all thine own. Oh, live for him,
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  Speaker 7: Oh Gretchen, for his sake, if not for ours, remember him.
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  Speaker 7: His life's in thy hands.
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  Speaker 8: Remember him. I I remember him. Had I the power
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  Speaker 8: to blot him from my aching memory, even as I
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 8: have torn him from my heart, then I could die
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  Speaker 8: in hope.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, Gretchen, Gretchen, pray Heaven thy love be dead.
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  Speaker 8: I have no love. There is no biding place for
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  Speaker 8: earthly love within a heart rent with the agony of sacrilege,
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  Speaker 8: unpardoned and unatoned, her minister, her chosen instrument. And I, Oh, Heaven,
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  Speaker 8: have mercy on my soul. I knew it, not thou
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  Speaker 8: knowest I knew it?
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  Speaker 1: Not falls weeping on the couch. Who knocks Lisa opening.
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  Speaker 7: Door, tis father Anselm.
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  Speaker 1: Enter, Anselm followed by Faustus, who is in a mongst dress,
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  Speaker 1: his face hidden by his cowl.
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  Speaker 2: Bennetty she day. Is this the poor sick maid who
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 2: seeks our aid?
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  Speaker 1: To Gretchen, who is still sobbing.
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  Speaker 2: Nay dry thy tears my child, However grave thy burden,
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  Speaker 2: Heaven's grace will lighten it.
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  Speaker 1: To Martha.
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  Speaker 2: Old Karl is even at the point of death, and
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  Speaker 2: I must go to him. But take good heart, this
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  Speaker 2: holy Father will abid with her until I come again.
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  Speaker 2: The old man's house is near at hand.
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  Speaker 13: Good Father, follow me and I will leave ee thither.
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  Speaker 1: Be it so excellent. Anselm and Martha exit Lisa by
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  Speaker 1: another door, Gretchen weeping at couch, Faustus removing his cowl.
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  Speaker 8: Gretchen, thou here, o, Faustus, get thee Hents. Have I
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 8: not send enough that thou hast come to fill my
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 8: dying heart with thoughts of THEE. I am not dying.
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  Speaker 8: Go leave me to myself.
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  Speaker 3: As stands a felon at the judgment seat, bent with
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 3: the burden of his published shame, stand I before THEE.
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  Speaker 8: I am not thy judge.
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  Speaker 13: I have been.
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  Speaker 3: Judged, and to my lifelong doom, I bow Yet by
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 3: the love of long ago, by the pure days, when
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  Speaker 3: yet that love was young, shed but one ray of
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 3: light gleam of hope upon the darkness of my dungeon soul.
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  Speaker 8: What would'st thou with me speak? My hour is brief?
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  Speaker 3: Time was when every tongue was eloquent with legends of
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 3: thy god sent charity. Gretchen, of all the starving crowd
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  Speaker 3: thy hands have fed, Never was wretch so famine worn
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  Speaker 3: as I. Of all the agony thy words have soothed,
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 3: never soothed they such agony as mine. I come to
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 3: thee as others came to THEE in shame and sorrow,
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  Speaker 3: hungry and athirst, for pity and for pardon.
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  Speaker 8: Oh faustus, is it meet that thou and I, too,
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  Speaker 8: trembling sinner's guilty, hand in hand, should ask each other's mercy?
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 8: Who am I that I should deal in pardons?
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  Speaker 3: What am I that I should live unpardoned? Hear my
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 3: prayer and save me from myself. Thy love is dead,
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  Speaker 3: so let it rest tis fit that it should die.
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 3: I would not raise it from its solemn grave, for
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 3: all the joy that it would bring to me. I
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 3: pray thy pity Gretchen, not thy love.
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  Speaker 8: Kneel thou to heaven and not to such as I.
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 8: So shall thy pardon come from that great source from
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 8: which alone can pardon profit thee. My time is brief.
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 8: I have to make my peace.
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  Speaker 3: Exit, go on and with her my only hope on earth.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Heaven, send me my death, Send me my death
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  Speaker 3: and all that follows death. Am I to live with
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 3: this black blight upon my tortured soul? Or carry with
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 3: me into dark old age the canker of an unforgiven sin.
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 3: Curse not the world with my unhallowed life, or me
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  Speaker 3: with life on this thy goodly world. Send me my death,
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 3: Oh Heaven, Send me my death.
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: Fool's so big on table. Door opens and Gottfried enters,
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  Speaker 1: with sword drawn and another in his hand. He pauses,
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: advances to Faustus, strikes him heavily on the shoulder, and
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  Speaker 1: puts one's sword on table.
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  Speaker 10: Sleeper, Awake thine hour, or mine hath come.
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  Speaker 1: Faustus, starting and turning round.
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  Speaker 10: Gottfried, Aye, Gottfried, Oh mine enemy, arise, destroyer Thou that
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  Speaker 10: layest waste the flowers of heaven with thy plague laden blast,
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  Speaker 10: Thou devil, wielded scourge, Thou, thief of souls, make thine
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 10: account with God thy courses run.
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  Speaker 3: Spare thou thy barbed word for worthier foes. There is
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 3: a voice within my tortured heart, to whose Anethema's thine
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 3: utterance is but a kindly whisper.
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  Speaker 10: Use thy sword, then strip thy monkish fright and take
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  Speaker 10: thy guard. Strip off thy frock, I say, or does
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 10: it cling more closely to thy limbs than Heretofore time
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 10: was when thou couldst cast thy slew at will? Has
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 10: that time gone? Or does thy craven heart seek sanctuary
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 10: in a churchman's garb?
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  Speaker 1: Involuntarily, Faustus grasps sword on table.
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  Speaker 10: Despare thy hope the rag will serve thee, not monk
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 10: or no monk, as Heaven defends the right tonight, Thou
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  Speaker 10: diest so arman, take thy guard.
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: Faustus, after pause, throws down sword.
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  Speaker 3: Gofried, I'll fight thee, not thy causes. Just I am
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 3: a blot upon the fruitful world away with me. I
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 3: have no claim to.
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 10: Live defend thy life bases. Thy soul has shown I
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 10: would not be thine executioner. Yet by the rude defense
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 10: or no defense. I will fulfill my mission. Take thy sword.
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  Speaker 10: I know no mercy when I war with hell.
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 3: Strike, God Freed. Strike. In the good days gone by,
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 3: thy loving hand was ever on the stretch to aid
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 3: me with a hundred offices, the least of which should
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 3: knit my heart to thine as brother's heart, to brother,
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  Speaker 3: crown thy work.
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  Speaker 1: And to Gretchen. She stands horrified.
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  Speaker 3: With this, the kindliest of thy kindly.
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  Speaker 1: Deeds, tearing open his.
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  Speaker 3: Gown, comrade in arms, brother, in all but blood, Here
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  Speaker 3: is my heart. Kill thee accursed thing it eats my flesh.
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  Speaker 3: Strike surely, and strike deep.
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  Speaker 10: So be it. Then thine hour has come, good sword
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  Speaker 10: that never yet shed undefended blood. I pray thy pardon
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  Speaker 10: for the infamy I place upon thee.
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  Speaker 1: Gottfried is about to strike. Gretchen staggers forward and places
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  Speaker 1: herself for Faustus, with her arms extended to protect him.
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  Speaker 8: God Freed, stay thy hand, or slay me with him,
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  Speaker 8: O for shame, for shame? Is this thy love for me?
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  Speaker 8: He is to me as I to thee. And wouldst
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  Speaker 8: thou prove thy love by slaying him to whom my
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  Speaker 8: heart is given? God Freed, I blace thy brotherhood upon
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  Speaker 8: the test, and by that test, So shall it stand
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  Speaker 8: or fall? If it be free from the base taint
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  Speaker 8: of earth, as I believe it from my heart to be.
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  Speaker 8: It will arise unshaken from the proof, if it be
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  Speaker 8: as the love of other men, slay.
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  Speaker 1: Him and me kneeling to him.
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  Speaker 8: My brother, O, my brother, I know thy love. This
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  Speaker 8: is its counterfeit. I know thy love. Thou wouldst lay
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  Speaker 8: down thy life to add one hour to mine. Thou
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  Speaker 8: wouldst not rob the few brief hours that yet are
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  Speaker 8: left to me. Thou seest I know thy love, Oh brother, brother,
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  Speaker 8: be strong in mercy. His his wrong to THEE less
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  Speaker 8: than his wrong to me, and I forgive him. May
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  Speaker 8: Heaven have pity on my woman's heart. I love this
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  Speaker 8: man got freed after a pause, Go.
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  Speaker 10: Sir, I spare thy life. My heart has lost its vigor,
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  Speaker 10: and my hand has stayed against THEE. Go thou knowest
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  Speaker 10: now the virtue of her love. It's alchemy. Hath made
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  Speaker 10: THEE sacred in mine eyes. Go, sir, amend thy misspent life.
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  Speaker 10: She loveth THEE. When evil thoughts assail thine impious soul,
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  Speaker 10: remember that despite thy wrong to her, she loveth THEE.
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  Speaker 10: If a man's heart is beating in thy breast, that
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  Speaker 10: amulet should hold thee Satan.
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  Speaker 14: Proof exit, Gretchen, I thank THEE for my granted life.
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  Speaker 14: For it hath taught me that for all my sin,
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  Speaker 14: thine heart has turned towards me. But for that it's
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  Speaker 14: where better I had died by Godfreed's hand than by
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  Speaker 14: mine own.
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  Speaker 8: Faustus, thou shalt not die, Oh, Faustus, Faustus, I am
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  Speaker 8: marked for death. Is not one knife enough?
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  Speaker 3: Aye verily, so that that life be mine. I must atone.
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  Speaker 8: Thou shalt atone, for thou hast greatly sinned. Thou shalt
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  Speaker 8: atone with worthy deeds, life long. Thou shalt atone with steadfast,
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  Speaker 8: humbled heart, with faith and truth and works of charity,
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  Speaker 8: a tone with life, with brave and blameless life, and
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  Speaker 8: not with our death. Resign thyself and to Lisa. Heaven
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  Speaker 8: wills that thou shouldst live, that I should die. So
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  Speaker 8: let us yield ourselves to Heaven's will.
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  Speaker 1: Gretchen grows gratually fainter. Faustus leads her to couch and
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  Speaker 1: to Martha and Anselm.
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  Speaker 13: Too late, Oh Heaven, too late.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Gretchen, Gretchen, poor loved one, speak to us one word,
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  Speaker 7: one word, Oh heaven pity us.
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  Speaker 8: Nay, gentlemen, weep not for Gretchen. Three sad months ago,
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  Speaker 8: poor Gretchen died. Tis a long time to mourn. Three
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  Speaker 8: months Nay, Martha, dry thine eyes again, and deck thyself
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  Speaker 8: as for a holiday. Joyce with me. The days of
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  Speaker 8: mourning for thy kinswoman are past and gone.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Gretchen, Oh my love, my heart will break. Gretchen.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me at least that thou forgivest me.
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  Speaker 1: Faint indications of coming daylight are seen through window.
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  Speaker 8: I love thee Faustus ah me, but it is Meet
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  Speaker 8: that I should die. For I can turn my head,
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  Speaker 8: but not my heart. And I can close mine eyes
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  Speaker 8: but not my heart, and still my foolish tongue, but
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  Speaker 8: not my heart. So Faustus, it is Meet that I
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  Speaker 8: should die. Weep not.
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  Speaker 1: Faustus rises and turns towards Anselm.
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  Speaker 8: I go from death to life, from night to day.
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  Speaker 8: Weep not. My heart is glad, and all my cares
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  Speaker 8: fold their black wings and creep away abashed as shrinks
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  Speaker 8: the night before the coming dawn.
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  Speaker 1: The lamp at her feet begins to die out. Mephisto
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  Speaker 1: is seen at door farewell.
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  Speaker 8: The hand of death is heavy on my heart. The
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  Speaker 8: little lamp of life is dying out. It matters not.
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  Speaker 8: The dreary night is past, and daylight is at hand.
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  Speaker 1: She raises her hands towards the rising sun, which is
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  Speaker 1: seen through the window. Her hand falls slowly, and she
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  Speaker 1: dies as the light at her head goes out, And
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  Speaker 1: the sky is filled with the splendor of the coming day.
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  Speaker 1: And Pselm consoling. Faustus raises his crucifix in the air.
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  Speaker 1: Mephisto Adore cowers before it. During Gretchen's speech, the music
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  Speaker 1: of an organ is heard, faint, it swells into a
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  Speaker 1: loud peal as Gretchen dies. End of Act four. End
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  Speaker 1: of Gretchen by W. S. Gilbert