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Velasco-Epes Sargent IV · Tristan and Isolde

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  Speaker 1: Act one of Velasco by EP Sargeant. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Dramatis Persona Ferdinand, King.
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  Speaker 2: Of Castile read by Wayne Cook.
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  Speaker 1: Favillo, his Chamberlain read by Jim Hendrick Delerma writ by
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  Speaker 1: Al Mapstone, Velasco, son of.
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  Speaker 3: Di Lerma read by Jake Militia.
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  Speaker 4: Gonzalez read by Al Gpag.
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  Speaker 1: Julio, son of Gonzalez read by Andrew Lathera, Hernando his
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  Speaker 1: Kinsman read by Adrian Stephens. Mendoza read by Rick Quadra, Alphonso.
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  Speaker 5: Read by Gregg Jeered Nuno read by Laurie Wilson.
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  Speaker 1: Carlos a Page read by Todd Knight.
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  Speaker 6: Read by Mike Manelakis.
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  Speaker 1: Isidora read by mat First Lady read by Michel Eaton,
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  Speaker 1: Second Lady read by Lynette Culkin's stage directions read by
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  Speaker 1: Kelly Taylor. The scene is laid in Bogos about the
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  Speaker 1: year ten forty six. Velasco A tragedy in five acts
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  Speaker 1: by EP Sergeant Act one, Scene one before the Castle
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  Speaker 1: of Dilerma, time sunset enter Velasco in the full costume
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  Speaker 1: of a knight of the eleventh century, followed by Alfonso,
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  Speaker 1: his squire home.
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  Speaker 3: Home at last, Alfonso, where they shine the old ancestral
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  Speaker 3: bulwarks in the rays of the declining sun. A year
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  Speaker 3: has passed since I last gazed upon them. There they rise,
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  Speaker 3: the same as when a careless child I played beneath
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  Speaker 3: their mighty shadows. How each nook prates of the olden time.
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  Speaker 3: The very air is fragrant as the breath of infancy
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  Speaker 3: old towers. I bring you no unworthy inmate, no spotted scutcheon,
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  Speaker 3: no inglorious name. Alfonso. By the calendar, what day is
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  Speaker 3: it not? Santiago's aye, my Lord, this day completes my
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  Speaker 3: term of banishment. Banishment, hast thou never yet divined the
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  Speaker 3: motive which has kept my visor closed? Now a long
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  Speaker 3: twelvemonth to all human eyes. Say thine alone that after victory,
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  Speaker 3: the king himself has sued to me in vain to
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  Speaker 3: unbar the iron mask that hid my features. Had I
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  Speaker 3: complied and he redeemed his oath, my instant death had
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  Speaker 3: followed the disclosure.
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  Speaker 5: My Lord, the cause do not effect thy honor?
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  Speaker 3: Askest thou the cause was trivial, for the king was
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  Speaker 3: young and hasty. Thus the occurrent chanced. The Count Gonzales
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  Speaker 3: and his majesty were altercating in the hall of council.
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  Speaker 3: As I approached, the King up raised his arm to
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  Speaker 3: strike the impetuous peer. I interposed, perhaps ungently in a
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  Speaker 3: monarch's quarrel, and turned the royal anger on myself. He
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  Speaker 3: banished me the kingdom for a year, the penalty being
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  Speaker 3: death if in that time Castile saw my return. This
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  Speaker 3: knight completes my banishment, unveils my countenance to King and father.
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  Speaker 3: They will start Alphonso in the masked cavalier, the sable Knight,
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  Speaker 3: or whatsoever name they choose to give me to find Velasco.
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  Speaker 5: Whose renown shall be.
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  Speaker 3: Spare me thy herald's bombast. I would see my father,
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  Speaker 3: Yet I dally with the joy. Now it is in
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  Speaker 3: my reach. Tonight the King, in honor of the unknown
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  Speaker 3: cavalier who fought beneath his banner, whose return is promised
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  Speaker 3: on the occasion, gives a banquet. Here is my reverence,
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  Speaker 3: jew ere, I depart one blast to call the warder
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  Speaker 3: quick Alfonso, Alfonso, sounds.
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  Speaker 7: Of bugle, dost thou not close thy vasor Velasco closing
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  Speaker 7: his visor.
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  Speaker 3: Well, bethought, I wonder if old Nuno yet is warder
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  Speaker 3: far back as memory goes?
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  Speaker 5: Enter Nuno, my lord, behold Nuno, would you betrayed yourself?
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  Speaker 3: Not yet?
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  Speaker 8: Who calls?
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  Speaker 3: Is Count di Lemma in his hall? Who may it
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  Speaker 3: be that asks a Christian knight? No farther title? Will
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  Speaker 3: thy master need.
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  Speaker 8: Thou art right in that? But he is not within.
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  Speaker 8: Gone with the rest of the Burgos to the palace
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  Speaker 8: where the king banquets the masked cavalier. Sir, Knight, thou
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  Speaker 8: art masked?
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  Speaker 3: I shall continue, so knowest thou old man aught of
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  Speaker 3: the sun.
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  Speaker 8: Velasco ah tis a sorry subject, and don't recall it?
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  Speaker 3: Sorry? What mean you?
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  Speaker 4: He sir?
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  Speaker 8: Poor Velasco, whunless we heard of him, had joined the Moors,
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  Speaker 8: turned infidel and fought against a castile.
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  Speaker 3: Nuno tis false turn infidel. He'd sooner die by the torture.
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  Speaker 3: Pray you pardon me? That is the rumor that he'd
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  Speaker 3: joined the Morse.
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  Speaker 8: Ay, sir, it makes my master wondrous, said, but why
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  Speaker 8: art thou so mood?
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  Speaker 3: I knew Velasco farewell, I'll seek thy master at the palace.
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  Speaker 8: Exit a single word with you, sir, who's your master?
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  Speaker 5: You'll be surprised to learn I am all ears, then
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  Speaker 5: by thine own admission, thou art an ass?
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  Speaker 8: Thou art keen, sir, varlet but from Toledo, I.
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  Speaker 5: No, from the wars.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, then your master is precisely yes, I thought so.
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  Speaker 8: You have hit it now to surprise me with his name?
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  Speaker 9: His name?
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  Speaker 5: You'll be discreet, Oh, trust me?
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  Speaker 3: Who's your master?
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  Speaker 1: Alfonso hesitating?
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  Speaker 7: I shall not tell you Exit what a close lipped rogue,
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  Speaker 7: just as my ear was ready for the secret to
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  Speaker 7: traw it back.
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  Speaker 8: I've surely heard that voice. But where or when to
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  Speaker 8: whom may it belong?
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  Speaker 9: Well?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I will not puzzle my old brains.
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  Speaker 1: Exit Scene two, an anter room in the Royal Palace,
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  Speaker 1: into Fabio and a knight.
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  Speaker 6: Do the guests yet assemble?
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  Speaker 10: I pass on, sir, They fill the vestibule.
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  Speaker 6: The visored knights.
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  Speaker 10: He arrived there, yet has been no signal of his approach.
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  Speaker 6: And know you not Favio, whose face that visor hides.
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  Speaker 10: No more than thou, but that he is the bravest
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  Speaker 10: in Castile. I can attest twice in the last campaign
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  Speaker 10: he saved our sovereign's life twice. Madly brave did he
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  Speaker 10: roll back the crimson tide of war upon our foes.
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  Speaker 10: Doing such deeds of wonder. Our troops regarded him as
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  Speaker 10: more than human and raised the battle shout of Santiago.
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  Speaker 10: But look, more guests arrive.
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  Speaker 6: Farewell, Favio.
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  Speaker 10: Exit, Enter de Lerma, Welcome de Ierma. I had feared
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  Speaker 10: thy absence. Tis the first time since thy sons. Pardon me.
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  Speaker 10: I did not mean rudely to touch that chord.
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  Speaker 11: A transitory pang. I come to see this night, whose
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  Speaker 11: fame has pierced my alas Favillo, such a champion, I
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  Speaker 11: fond the hope one day to find Velasco, and now
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  Speaker 11: to think of his apostasy.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Gonzalez hastily, Gonzales, Welcome.
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  Speaker 10: May I speak with.
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  Speaker 4: You when you are not attended? As present?
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  Speaker 2: Exit?
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  Speaker 11: The feud between you is still warm, my lord, his
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  Speaker 11: anger I regard not, but more guests claim your attention.
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  Speaker 11: I will to the king.
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  Speaker 1: Exit. Enter Henando, Mendoza and.
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  Speaker 10: Carlos on to the presence. Gentlemen, Hernando, your bride, that
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  Speaker 10: is to be fair, Isidora will grace our fate? Why
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  Speaker 10: comes she not with you.
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  Speaker 12: She better likes her brother's company.
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  Speaker 13: Peace, boy, who questioned you?
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  Speaker 14: I like that boy in South Favio. Isidora chose the
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  Speaker 14: attendance of her brother.
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  Speaker 10: It's not strange.
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  Speaker 13: Twas maiden delicacy.
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  Speaker 12: That was all I that was all.
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  Speaker 4: I thought.
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  Speaker 10: You were betrothed.
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  Speaker 14: True by our father at an early age.
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  Speaker 10: And she consents.
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  Speaker 14: The bridal day is fixed.
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  Speaker 12: Consents, my lord? How could you ask the question?
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  Speaker 4: She saw him? Sir?
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  Speaker 12: Consent? Was then no virtue chatterling, hush, look you, I
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  Speaker 12: wear a sword, exit a forward boy.
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  Speaker 10: I envy you your lot, sir. The lady Isidora is
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  Speaker 10: most fair?
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  Speaker 13: Shall we attend the king?
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  Speaker 14: Come on, mendoza exiant.
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  Speaker 10: Now were I only younger by a score or two
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  Speaker 10: of year's that laggard should not win so fair and
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  Speaker 10: rich a prize as Isidora. And she forsakes the lover
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  Speaker 10: for the brother. Strange wooing this enter two ladies, ladies,
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  Speaker 10: your servant? Ever, shall I be your conductor?
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  Speaker 1: Offering his arm?
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  Speaker 6: Is he?
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  Speaker 1: Where is he?
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  Speaker 12: His visor?
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  Speaker 14: Yet?
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  Speaker 3: What is he like?
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  Speaker 12: Complexion?
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  Speaker 15: Light or dark? What colored hair? Is he not?
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  Speaker 6: Handsome?
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  Speaker 15: Tell us? Are his eyes the true Castilian brown?
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  Speaker 1: What sort of features exund omnis, talking incessantly into Jugio
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  Speaker 1: and Isudora.
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  Speaker 9: Now, by the faith of Knighthood's sister mine, this unknown
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  Speaker 9: and redoubted cavalier with the bad visa seems to have
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  Speaker 9: usurped the empire of thy fancy and thy.
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  Speaker 15: Heart, alas a wider empire should be his. He must
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  Speaker 15: be youthful, Julio, handsome, noble. Why does he hide his
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  Speaker 15: face behind a visa?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, how a little mystery will pique thy sexes. Wonder
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  Speaker 9: and let loose some eyes in sterling prose. He hides
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  Speaker 9: his face most like to hide his ugliness.
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  Speaker 15: That cannot be, they say, And I believe that he
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  Speaker 15: has made an oath to mask his face from human
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  Speaker 15: eyes till he shall find the lid of his heart.
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  Speaker 9: Nay, he has proved himself no carpet knight.
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  Speaker 15: No carpet night. Indeed, it must have been a brave
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  Speaker 15: scene his first entrance to the field. Our rooted troops
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  Speaker 15: were flying in dismay before the Turban Wars, when from
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  Speaker 15: the gloom of a green thicket rushed a mountain knight,
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  Speaker 15: his charger white as snow, his battle axe poised in
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  Speaker 15: his right hand, while his left up reared the Christian
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  Speaker 15: and sign blazoning the cross, and as he spurred his steed,
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  Speaker 15: he cried aloud castile and freedom. Then arose the shout
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  Speaker 15: from the odd soldiers checked in their retreat. A miracle.
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  Speaker 15: A messenger from heaven fights with us to the charge,
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  Speaker 15: A santiago. One thrill of inspiration heaved their hearts. They
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  Speaker 15: followed him through seas of blood and carnage, and ere
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  Speaker 15: the sun set the masked cavalier had fought the battle
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  Speaker 15: and redeemed the field. Nay, do not laugh at me.
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  Speaker 9: He will not need a herald's clamorous voice to sound
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  Speaker 9: his praises, nor the soft numbers of a troubadour, while
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  Speaker 9: thou shalt live to be his chronicler. I should be jealous, now,
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  Speaker 9: were I Hernando so scornful at the mention of his name.
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  Speaker 9: Thou lovest, thy kinsman.
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  Speaker 15: Tell me what love is, and in all candor, I
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  Speaker 15: will answer thee.
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  Speaker 9: A cloud steeped in sunshine, an illusion on which concentrate
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  Speaker 9: passion's fiercest rays your lover's a little better than a
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  Speaker 9: pagan on a heart shrine. He rears a human idol.
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  Speaker 9: Imagination heightens every charm brings down celestial attributes to clothe it,
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  Speaker 9: and jeeps the willing soul, until at length he kneels
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  Speaker 9: unto a creature of the brain, a bright abstraction. But
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  Speaker 9: the cynic time, who holds the touchstone to a mortal truth,
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  Speaker 9: soon laughs him out of the prodigious folly. Say art thou,
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  Speaker 9: one of these idolatest.
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  Speaker 15: Tis very plain to me. I never loved, and least
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  Speaker 15: of all Ernando trust me. Julio, I ne'er shall be
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  Speaker 15: the pagan Ye describe if I depend upon him for my.
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  Speaker 9: Conversion tware best? Perhaps, But didst thou ever love? Is
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  Speaker 9: there no flaw or no dent upon thy heart? Did
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  Speaker 9: ne'er a random arrow? Even graze it?
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  Speaker 15: Dost thou remember in our childhood Julio, a dark haired boy,
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  Speaker 15: the foremost in our sports de larem my's son. What
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  Speaker 15: was his name?
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  Speaker 9: Velasco?
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  Speaker 15: Velasco. And the feud between our fathers disparted us. We
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  Speaker 15: lost a welcome playmate. For years we did not meet.
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  Speaker 15: When last I saw him, twas as he went forth
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  Speaker 15: to his banishment and mailed in armor. He was on
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  Speaker 15: his steed. He saw me smiled as I shall ne'er
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  Speaker 15: forget and bending to his saddle bows rode on. I
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  Speaker 15: watched him till my eyes were dim with tears.
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  Speaker 9: Prithee, What inference wouldst have me draw with this pathetic story?
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  Speaker 1: Inference?
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  Speaker 15: Nothing? It crossed my mind. I know not why. It
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  Speaker 15: is a pity he has joined the moors.
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  Speaker 9: Oh thou capricious, but a moment since the visored Knight
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  Speaker 9: claimed all thy fancies, dreams, and now.
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  Speaker 15: Ah tis a noble champion. I have not wavered in
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  Speaker 15: my admiration. Happy the fair dame at whose feet he kneels.
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  Speaker 1: Carlos enters and is crossing the stage.
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  Speaker 9: Carlos boy page, Don.
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  Speaker 1: Carlos, Carlos, turning abruptly, that's my name, lady, I shall
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  Speaker 1: be honored in your service.
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  Speaker 15: Is he arrived?
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  Speaker 1: The cavalier Carlos with dignity?
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  Speaker 12: No lady aside. They think of nothing but the cavalier,
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  Speaker 12: and will not waste a single smile on me. The cavalier,
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  Speaker 12: a man is ashamed to show his face. I'm not
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  Speaker 12: afraid of him.
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  Speaker 1: Exit.
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  Speaker 9: Shall we not in to see the festal show?
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  Speaker 15: He is not there? Why should we be? In haste?
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  Speaker 1: A trumpet sounds sharply.
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  Speaker 15: He comes, He comes, It was his trumpet peal, I'll
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  Speaker 15: know you it for his It was a note so
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  Speaker 15: clear and bold.
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  Speaker 9: Why how thou heart is beating? Come will not lose
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  Speaker 9: the pageant of his entry exeunt.
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  Speaker 1: Scene three, A hall of state, the King on his throne,
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by his court, among whom are Di Lerma, Gonzalez, Hernando, Favello,
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and et cetera. Giulia and Isidora enter and mingle
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  Speaker 1: with the groups a flourish. As the scene opens, Ferdinand rising.
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  Speaker 2: He has our answer to his welcome signal. How another
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  Speaker 2: army broke their trumpet voice when he rose up before
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  Speaker 2: our flying hosts and cried a rescue.
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  Speaker 1: Trumpet from without sounds twice.
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  Speaker 10: He is here, my liege, enter with visor.
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  Speaker 1: Closed, Velasco. He kneels to the king.
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  Speaker 2: Rise up, Sir Knight, no vessel, but our.
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  Speaker 1: Friend Velasco rising.
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  Speaker 2: My gracious sovereign, Nobles of Castile. It needs no commendation
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  Speaker 2: of our own to yield his frame or to confirm
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  Speaker 2: his welcome. We hail him as his country's well trained
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  Speaker 2: soldier and hord just pride.
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  Speaker 3: Could I believe, my liege, your praises were not the
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  Speaker 3: unbidden impulse of a too partial kindness. I should be
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  Speaker 3: elated on the wings of conscious glory. But the poor
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  Speaker 3: bark freighted with my deserts too light a ballast has
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  Speaker 3: to carry sail before the fameward breath of your applause.
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  Speaker 1: Enter carlos Ma.
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  Speaker 12: Lige, a messenger without from Rome, claims instant access.
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  Speaker 2: Let him be admitted.
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  Speaker 1: Enter a messenger in the livery of the Pope. He
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  Speaker 1: delivers papers which the King perused. Velasco goes towards Dilerma,
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  Speaker 1: but abruptly checks himself and bows profoundly.
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  Speaker 11: Sir Knight, you leave no advantage ground for envy, if
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  Speaker 11: with so meet a grace you wear your laurels.
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  Speaker 1: Ferdinand, rising in great agitation.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, this shall not be. The Pope once more
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  Speaker 2: urges upon us his presumptuous mandate that we shall bow
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  Speaker 2: the neck to Germany and hold our own crown, as
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  Speaker 2: Henry's willing vassal will send the answer back.
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  Speaker 1: Exit Messenger, affairs of.
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  Speaker 2: Moment, the clan immediate hearing of our council parids for
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  Speaker 2: a while, my lords onto the hall of council.
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  Speaker 1: Exit Ferdinand, followed by Dilerma, Gonzales, Jiulio, and lords Isidora
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  Speaker 1: goes up the stage, followed by Hernando. Groups gradually disperse
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  Speaker 1: velasco too favio.
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  Speaker 3: If I er not it is the daughter of the
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  Speaker 3: Count Gonzales.
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  Speaker 10: You're right, sir, one would note her among a thousand.
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  Speaker 3: She's passing, fair, look you.
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  Speaker 10: She turns away as conscious of our notice. Tis a
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  Speaker 10: pity she weds that recreant kinsman by her side.
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  Speaker 3: What's him? Hernando? Can she love him? Sir?
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  Speaker 10: Love him? She's been instructed to regard him as her
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  Speaker 10: intended lord. But as for love, a cruel fate.
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  Speaker 3: They come this way again? Now? Could you help me
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  Speaker 3: to an audience?
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  Speaker 10: If there be any virtue in my wand thy wish
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  Speaker 10: shall be complied? With Don Hernando touching the subject of
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  Speaker 10: our late discourse, exit leading him.
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  Speaker 3: Fair Isidora, Might I claim from thee a moment's converse,
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  Speaker 3: It would be more prized than all the honors fate
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  Speaker 3: has heaped upon me.
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  Speaker 15: Sir Knight. We knew of thy send and valor, We
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  Speaker 15: did not know thy gallantry kept pace in its success
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  Speaker 15: with thy superior virtue.
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  Speaker 3: Gallantry, lady tis too cold a word. Devotion is a
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  Speaker 3: better Where thou art nay.
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  Speaker 15: Tell me of thy battles and thy perils. Dost thou
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  Speaker 15: not sigh already for the gleam of hostile steel, the
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  Speaker 15: nay of pawing chargers. The symbols clash, the trumpet's thrilling shriek.
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  Speaker 3: I have encountered perils heir to day, but never one
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  Speaker 3: so imminent as that which bids me now surrender. I
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  Speaker 3: have seen the Moorish Army, in their bright array, send
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  Speaker 3: back the sun shafts brighter than they fell, But not
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  Speaker 3: the sheen of all their scimitars in one small point concentrated,
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  Speaker 3: could eclipse a single ray shot from those lustrous eyes. Nay,
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  Speaker 3: turn not from me, lady, I have heard the nay
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  Speaker 3: of steeds, the trumpet's thrilling note. They cannot stir my
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  Speaker 3: heart like thy sweet voice.
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  Speaker 15: Is it not the common rhetoric of the court that
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  Speaker 15: thou hast called for me? Thinks I believe I am
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  Speaker 15: the first to whom it has been.
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  Speaker 3: Offered, Ah, lady, poorly can the heart disguise in flippant
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  Speaker 3: fancy's garniture of words its true emotion? Love's a sorry masker?
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  Speaker 15: Then love bears no similitude to thee twas of the walls, we.
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  Speaker 3: Spake enough of them. Oh ne'er did mariner, long tossed
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: at sea, with no benignant star to point his course,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: hail with more rapture the first gleam of land than
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: I from war's seemed visage and wild glance turned to
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: the blue eyes of maternal peace. Oh not, the joyous
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: shout of victory was heir to me, so grateful as
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: the sight which the declining sun this day has revealed.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: What sight my boyhood's fair and happy home the past
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: again was mine, and memory did seem reality. I thought
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: of her, whose childish beauty so enthralled my heart.
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  Speaker 15: Of her, of whom.
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  Speaker 3: Alas I must forget, But thou shalt hear my story.
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  Speaker 3: We were playmates in the confiding hours of early youth.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: I was the mimic champion of her wrongs, and with
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: my shield and lance I rescued her from many a
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: fabled giant ah those days. At length, the feud broke
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: out between our fathers, and we were parted. But I
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: kept the faith which in my boyish earnestness I swore.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: She was my paragon, my dream of joy years past.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: I went forth to my country's wars dreaming of fame,
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: but as a galliard's wreath to grace me in her eyes.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: When I returned, she false one was betrothed unto another. Plascar, Hush,
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: betray me, not the king.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: They retire up the stage, conversing re Enter Ferdinand, Giulio Gonzales,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: di Leerma and lords, and in another direction for Vio Hernando, Carlos,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: ladies and et cetera.
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  Speaker 2: Julio, with all despatch, wilt thou prepare to be our
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: envoy to the court of Rome.
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  Speaker 1: Exit Giulio, Sir Knight.
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  Speaker 2: We've caught the Gordian knot of council to play the
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: host to thee. Hast thou no boon to grave within
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: our royal power to grant, unless thou proudly wilst refuse
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: to cancel a portion of the countless death we owe THEE.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Give us the clue whereby our gratitude may lead unto
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: the dear wish of thy heart.
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: Behold it here, my liege, pointing to is a door.
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  Speaker 3: Could thy decree make this fair hand mine own? I
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: should be blessed beyond roquetto in a gift so.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Rich a gallant boon, we'll be thine intercessor. Gonzales speak,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Thou wilt not throat her wish.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: Lady is adorer, is affianced already to her kinsman.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Don't Hernando, which thou constrain her choice? And don Ernando,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: wouldst thou take to thee a reluctant bride knighthood forbid?
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Gonzolees listened. We will not speak a favor showered upon
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: thee of injuries forgiven, but in justice. Say dost thou
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: leave thy daughter free to choose? My liege, I do
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: their weakness to at all? Now is a door, use
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: thy privilege. Choose as they heart may dictate.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: She gives her hand to Velasco.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: It is well, my liege, Thou hast endeared me to thee. Ever,
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: now that the occasion for disguise is past, I will
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: repay thy.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Courtesy, advances and uncloses his visor. The lasco the sun,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Gonzalez aside.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: The air made detested foe.
• 24:05
  Speaker 13: It is unnatural, it must not be the lasco.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Thou art welcome these surprise is plucked away the only
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: sharp We regret that the wrankled in our breast, its
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: music killed. The last one found the banish one returned
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: on to the banquet room. There we were obledged. Joy
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: to this fair alliance. May the stars shed their auspecies
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: influence upon it.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: A flourish exit Ferdinand, followed by all except Hernando and Mendoza,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: who retire in an opposite direction. And of Act the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: first of Velasco by EPP's Sergeant. Act two of Velasco
• 25:01
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• 25:06
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• 25:18
  Speaker 1: one before the Royal Palace.
• 25:22
  Speaker 10: Enter Favillo and Carlos cease flouting. Boy, tis not for
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: thee to laugh, And yet I know not why thou
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: shouldst be stinted. Twas a most rare, unlooked for counterplot.
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: Ha ha, poor don Hernando.
• 25:38
  Speaker 12: Santiago, where I so ousted from my lady's favor, though
• 25:42
  Speaker 12: by the fiercest knight in Christendom, I'd brain him so death.
• 25:46
  Speaker 12: I'll teach him the Pasado. Look there he comes the
• 25:50
  Speaker 12: flower of chivalry, Hernando with the man that's not his father.
• 25:55
  Speaker 10: Be quiet, Carlos, show some reverence.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Enter Gonzalez, Hernando.
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  Speaker 10: Give you good morrow. Gentlemen, Gonzales, commend me to your daughter.
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  Speaker 4: Is she well I left her?
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  Speaker 12: So, Favillo, may I ask my lord without presumption, when
• 26:12
  Speaker 12: her nuptials are likely to take place.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: The King has ordered this celebration the next holy.
• 26:17
  Speaker 12: Day, So soon, ah, happy bridegroom, beauteous bride.
• 26:23
  Speaker 10: My lord, I give you joy of the alliance. Walk
• 26:26
  Speaker 10: you in the direction of the palace.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: The opposite for Villo, fare you well.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Carlos is about to say something to Hernando. Favio draws
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: him away and exits with him.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Fernando, thou set me an example of meek forbearance. I
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: should strive to follow like thee or make a virtue
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: of compulsion.
• 26:46
  Speaker 14: It is the part of wisdom by a lady.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: You take it curly, sir. Now for myself, had I
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: been so discarded in behalf of a more favored suitor,
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: my resentment had burst in flames around him. My revenge, revenge,
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: ha ha, revenge It rouses thee.
• 27:07
  Speaker 14: Oh no, you see I laugh at it, my Lord,
• 27:11
  Speaker 14: that no revenge can find her harbor here.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: I do believe the kinsman. Thou art blessed in a
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: forgiving an un equal temper. And when I see with
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: what philosophy this loss is borne by THEE, I am
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: disarmed on half of my objections to the choice my
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: daughter made. Farewell, go hill the ground, get the shepherd's crook,
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: and prithee pardon erastik, who may rob thee if thy
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: feell us.
• 27:40
  Speaker 14: Exit scoff on my lord. While yet thou hast the
• 27:45
  Speaker 14: breath short sighted fool he thinks, because I rave not
• 27:51
  Speaker 14: clenching my hands or smiting my hot brow, that the
• 27:55
  Speaker 14: barb does not rankle. True revenge is patient as the
• 28:00
  Speaker 14: watchful alchemist, sagacious as the bloodhound on the scent secret
• 28:08
  Speaker 14: as death.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Mendoza.
• 28:12
  Speaker 14: Mendoza from the palace.
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  Speaker 13: Aye, from the palace, where dispute runs high. Upon Dilemma's
• 28:18
  Speaker 13: counsel to the king touching the Pope's new mandate.
• 28:21
  Speaker 14: Am I right? Dileerma spurned the mandate.
• 28:26
  Speaker 13: And gonzaleest is said, is for submission to the Pope.
• 28:30
  Speaker 14: Mendoza, we can trust, not to Gonzales for farther opposition
• 28:36
  Speaker 14: to these nuptules. We're thrown upon ourselves.
• 28:42
  Speaker 13: What's to be done?
• 28:43
  Speaker 14: Tis forming in my brain the embryo vengeance misshapen, yet
• 28:49
  Speaker 14: it lies and indistinct but fast matures. And now the
• 28:56
  Speaker 14: mist scales off from its appalling lineaments, and there revealed
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  Speaker 14: it stands an invocated fiend folly. Come on, Mendoza, thou
• 29:13
  Speaker 14: shalt no exult scene too.
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  Speaker 1: An apartment in the mansion of Gonzalez. Enter Julio, dressed
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: as for a journey, followed by a servant.
• 29:28
  Speaker 9: Let the train move on by the eastern road. I
• 29:30
  Speaker 9: will overtake them before many leagues are placed between us?
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Exit servant?
• 29:35
  Speaker 9: Why do I delay? What means this dark presentiment of ill?
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Enter Gonzalez?
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: Not yet upon the road? I thought thee gone? Why
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: dost thou tarry art not all equipped thy stiege comparisoned attendants?
• 29:51
  Speaker 9: Ready, Hi, Father, and the morning shines propitious. But there's
• 29:55
  Speaker 9: a boding raven at my heart? What says Hernando.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: Out upon he Julio, he is submissive as a priest
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: led lamb.
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  Speaker 9: Tis that submissiveness which makes me fear him.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: Fear him. He is an inoffensive craven.
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  Speaker 9: There's mischief in his looks.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: Be sure, then, Giulio, he will not venture father than
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: his looks.
• 30:16
  Speaker 9: I know not that disguised beneath a smile, it may
• 30:19
  Speaker 9: be bold enough to play the assassin.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: Nay, his own shadow would have frighted, so it would
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: recoil and leave the work undone.
• 30:28
  Speaker 9: Well, have a care, and now before we part, one
• 30:31
  Speaker 9: word of Isidora. You dispute not the choice her own
• 30:35
  Speaker 9: heart and the king have made velasco. Sir is brave.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: Aye, he has proved it.
• 30:40
  Speaker 9: His father too, though war worn and in years has
• 30:43
  Speaker 9: been the pattern of a Christian knight.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: There is no Christian reverence in his art this very moment, Giulio,
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: he disputes the sovereignty the German emperor claims. Ever castile,
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: he claimed, the Pope admits deliarma, yet withstands the will
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: of Rome did i its menace and defies its thunder impiety.
• 31:04
  Speaker 9: And yet we must forego all controverted points with him,
• 31:07
  Speaker 9: my father, since this alliance, be it for good or ill,
• 31:10
  Speaker 9: between our houses, has been ratified for our own honor's sake,
• 31:14
  Speaker 9: and Isidorus no propagation must revive the feud.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: Whom wouldst thou caution, Sir, nay, not be angered.
• 31:21
  Speaker 9: I spake with all humility, my lord.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: Well, Julio, do not fear, but I have reached years
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: of discretion. Beauty calls me forth, farewell, my blessing speed
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: THEE on thy journey exit.
• 31:36
  Speaker 9: Stay father gone, should we ne'er meet again? I fear
• 31:42
  Speaker 9: his sudden and remorseless temper. And Isidora, when I parted
• 31:46
  Speaker 9: from her? Why did that sickening premonition start into my
• 31:49
  Speaker 9: brain and weigh on me? As if some inner, finer
• 31:53
  Speaker 9: sense had felt the pang of a sharp agony which
• 31:55
  Speaker 9: was to come. She seemed too happy, a delighted thing
• 32:00
  Speaker 9: on the margin of life's sunny stream. She comes enter, Isadora,
• 32:06
  Speaker 9: You see I'm yet a loiterer.
• 32:07
  Speaker 15: Tis well thou art? For I would ask THEE, Julio,
• 32:11
  Speaker 15: why when we parted thou didst seem so sad? Thy
• 32:15
  Speaker 15: last farewell was uttered in such tones as breaking heart
• 32:18
  Speaker 15: strings might have given. Forth, twas not the common grief
• 32:23
  Speaker 15: of parting, Julio, For hitherto when at the trumpet's call
• 32:27
  Speaker 15: thou hast gone forth to battle? In thine eyes a
• 32:30
  Speaker 15: sunny hope has danced, But now a tear breaks from
• 32:34
  Speaker 15: its realist gloom? What means it? Brother?
• 32:37
  Speaker 9: Alas I never yet have parted from THEE with the
• 32:40
  Speaker 9: sad thought that ere we meet again, thou wouldst be
• 32:43
  Speaker 9: all another's never more, the gay, free hearted, fond and
• 32:47
  Speaker 9: careless girl whose laugh in Boa and Hall were sweetest music.
• 32:51
  Speaker 9: Is not the thought well worth a casual tear?
• 32:53
  Speaker 15: Why should I be less happy or less fond? The
• 32:57
  Speaker 15: influences of all outward things, they the sunshine and the
• 33:02
  Speaker 15: vernal earth, beauty and song? Will they not be the same?
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Ah?
• 33:07
  Speaker 15: There are spirits in this fretful world which grow not old,
• 33:10
  Speaker 15: and change not with the seasons.
• 33:12
  Speaker 9: Oh, let not that assure thee time My sister is
• 33:16
  Speaker 9: not content with marring outward charms. His deepening pharaohs reach
• 33:20
  Speaker 9: the spirit's core. They spoil the soul of many an
• 33:23
  Speaker 9: airy grace. Hope's gilded temples sink beneath his touch, joyous
• 33:28
  Speaker 9: buds of promise. Whither at his frown.
• 33:31
  Speaker 15: Now out upon this sullen humor, brother, have done? Or
• 33:35
  Speaker 15: I in sooth shall wish thee gone?
• 33:38
  Speaker 12: Ah?
• 33:38
  Speaker 15: No, not gone, But I would have thee glad, even
• 33:42
  Speaker 15: though from me thou goest far away.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Julia, regarding her steadfastly.
• 33:47
  Speaker 9: I see it now now in that earnest smile, now
• 33:51
  Speaker 9: in the pallor of that tranquil brow, the doom, the curse,
• 33:56
  Speaker 9: heaven shield, the Isidora, farewell, farewell rushes.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Out, Oh, do not leave me.
• 34:03
  Speaker 15: Thus, Julio tis very strange. He made me tremble, and
• 34:09
  Speaker 15: as his eyes glared on me, they appeared lit with
• 34:12
  Speaker 15: the conscious fire of prophecy.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Into Velasco did see my brother?
• 34:18
  Speaker 15: Is he gone? Velasco?
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Impetuous in his haste, he has departed. He sprang into
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: his saddle, waved his hand in token of farewell, then,
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: at full speed, followed his train along the winding road.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: You parted kindly.
• 34:32
  Speaker 15: He was strangely moved. Wherefore I know not?
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: He has left thee sad and full of wonder.
• 34:40
  Speaker 15: What can be the cause of such a sudden frenzy?
• 34:44
  Speaker 15: He would stay, poor Julio, He would stay to see
• 34:48
  Speaker 15: our nuptials. That must have been his motive.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: Think'st thou so our nuptials, Isidora? Oh speed on ye
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: lagging hours that would defer their date?
• 35:00
  Speaker 15: Dost thou not recollect? When first we knew the well
• 35:03
  Speaker 15: kept secret of each other's heart, I shuddered at the
• 35:06
  Speaker 15: frowning obstacles which intervene between our severed fates. What doubts
• 35:11
  Speaker 15: and fears and anxious fantasies clouded our sky for Alasco.
• 35:16
  Speaker 15: Now a breath has cleared hopes blue horizon, and we
• 35:20
  Speaker 15: see nor rock, nor quicksand which can threaten wreck. Ah,
• 35:25
  Speaker 15: will the prize so lightly one be.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Prized above all earthly treasures? For to me thou art
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: the fulfillment of the brightest dreams of young romance, the
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: goal on which my hopes fall down and rest. But
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: we must part a while I go to seek my father.
• 35:43
  Speaker 15: Dost remember a favorite haunt with us in former days,
• 35:47
  Speaker 15: a spot the peasants call King Roderick's glen. I shall
• 35:51
  Speaker 15: be there by twilight, not alone.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: There from all sides shall start bright recollections, and hope
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: shall catch new luster from the part.
• 36:00
  Speaker 15: The present. Oh, the present tis so bright. Memory can
• 36:05
  Speaker 15: lend no radiance from the past, How can reflect no
• 36:09
  Speaker 15: glory from the future.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Exum Scene three, a street in Bergos. Enter Gonzalez and Hernando.
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: Nay, do not fret me with ambiguous hints. We speak
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: of old de Lerma, and you said it was the
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: Dota's privilege to slander, to slander whom the king yourself
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: myself you seek If I know negative to that what
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: is trnando? Speak with more direction, My.
• 36:43
  Speaker 14: Lord, you must forgive me, Press me not to more
• 36:47
  Speaker 14: disclosures for my peace and signe.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: Well, well, twere better that it should not be de
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: Lerma and myself must soon be fathers to the same children.
• 37:00
  Speaker 14: Soon curb my speech, Let base detractions slur thy honored name?
• 37:06
  Speaker 14: Can I regard thee as less brave or loyal? Though
• 37:10
  Speaker 14: others prate of cowardice and treason?
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: Those words were never coupled with my name, it happen'd.
• 37:17
  Speaker 14: Thus dispute was running high upon the German Emperor's new pretensions.
• 37:25
  Speaker 14: Some did I admit them, But Dilurma cried, if Henry
• 37:30
  Speaker 14: claimed dominion o castile, let him prove good his title
• 37:36
  Speaker 14: by the sword and curse it be the cravens and
• 37:40
  Speaker 14: the traitors who would submit to such a vassolitch. There
• 37:45
  Speaker 14: are good men and true, was my reply, who favor
• 37:51
  Speaker 14: his pretensions? No, not one? What sayest thou to gonzaleth er?
• 37:59
  Speaker 13: What then he did not dare I kinsman?
• 38:03
  Speaker 14: He did dare to stigmatize THEE as a craven traitor.
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: Ernando, if thou place me folds thy life shall be
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: annimulation to my fury.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Seizes him and looks intently in his face.
• 38:17
  Speaker 14: I can bring proofs my lord, nay, is this courteous
• 38:24
  Speaker 14: well gives my face the light to my assertion?
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: How wouldst thou dare, even in repetition to breathe those
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: words of me?
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: My lord?
• 38:35
  Speaker 14: For bah twas zeal for thine own honor, made me bold.
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: Zeal for mine honor, venom of thy soul.
• 38:45
  Speaker 14: Hold if thou dost not shrink from actual proof, Here
• 38:50
  Speaker 14: comes a lama. Charge it home on him. If he
• 38:55
  Speaker 14: deny it, spurn me as thou wilt leave.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Me henan aside.
• 39:01
  Speaker 14: The spark has caught, it kindles fast the conflagration. Blood
• 39:08
  Speaker 14: alone can quench exit.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: Should it prove true, he comes, I must keep down
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: these throws of fashion.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Di lerma enters and is crossing, Sir.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: A word with you.
• 39:23
  Speaker 11: I am a listener, an impatient one. Twere best that
• 39:28
  Speaker 11: this encounter should be brief.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: This haughtiness, my lord the king tis said, refuses to
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: omit the Emperor's claim.
• 39:37
  Speaker 11: Thank ems the King's no recreance, no coward, but a
• 39:41
  Speaker 11: castilian heart and hand, My lord, would I might say
• 39:46
  Speaker 11: the same of all his subjects.
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: Thrust thou the taut on me.
• 39:51
  Speaker 11: Wherefore this rage If thou art innocent, de Lehrma, do tad.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Half unsheathed his sword, but instance the dashes it into
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: the scabbard.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: No, no, thout old and feeble and our children, Oh,
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: do not temper with my desperation.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: In a sudden burst of passion.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: Retract what thou hast said.
• 40:13
  Speaker 11: Not while the proofs appear even now in all thy
• 40:18
  Speaker 11: looks and actions.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: It is false. Thou word just made a frenzy. Thus
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: strikes him, It will find vent.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: A blow, dishord struck draws.
• 40:31
  Speaker 11: Defend thyself. Ere I commit a murder with thee.
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: All not contend. Thy army is nerveless, the odds are
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: too unequal.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Then I rush upon thee as thou art, as Dilerma
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: rushes upon him. Gonzalez wrests away his sword and throws
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: it upon the ground.
• 40:51
  Speaker 11: I spare thy life, Oh spare me not if mercy
• 40:56
  Speaker 11: thou would show, Thou givest me back only what thou
• 41:01
  Speaker 11: hast made a misery, a burden, a disgrace. It is
• 41:06
  Speaker 11: a gift for which I cannot thank.
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: THEE keep it, my lord, and let this lesson, teach
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: what thy gray hairs have failed to bring THEE prudence.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Exit dilemma, Taking up his sword.
• 41:20
  Speaker 11: Thou treacherous steel, aren't there the same alas of yours?
• 41:27
  Speaker 11: So crimsoned in the Moorish wars? Methinks there should have
• 41:33
  Speaker 11: been a soul in THEE, the soul of victories and
• 41:37
  Speaker 11: great achievements, to form a living instrument of vengeance. And
• 41:44
  Speaker 11: in the weakness of thy master's arm, to leap spontaneous
• 41:49
  Speaker 11: to his honors rescue go tis a mockery to wear.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: THEE now throws down his sword, struck.
• 41:58
  Speaker 11: Like a menial, buffeted, degraded, and baffled in my impotent attack.
• 42:08
  Speaker 11: Oh Fate, oh time, Why when you took away from
• 42:15
  Speaker 11: this right arm, its cunning and its strength, its power
• 42:20
  Speaker 11: to shield from wrong or to redress, did ye not
• 42:25
  Speaker 11: pluck from out this swelling heart, its torturing sense of
• 42:30
  Speaker 11: insult and of shame. I am sunk lower than the
• 42:35
  Speaker 11: lowest wretch. Oh, that the earth might hide me, that
• 42:41
  Speaker 11: I might sink fathoms deep beneath its peaceful breast.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Retires up the stage and leans against Tapillar enter Velasco.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: The peerless Isidora. How my thoughts, swept by the grateful
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: memory of her love, still bend to her like flower.
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  Speaker 3: Hours before the breeze. They paint her image on vacuity.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: They make the air melodious with her voice, and she,
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: the idol of my boyhood's dreams, is now mine own,
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: betrothed benignant heavens. The gulf is past, which threatened to
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: divide us, and the broad future unobscured.
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  Speaker 1: Expands dilemma advancing, Oh be.
• 43:26
  Speaker 11: Thy wauntings hushed my father.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: Here there is distraction in thy haggard. Looks Thou art
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: not well? Let me support thee. Hence it is.
• 43:37
  Speaker 11: No corporal ill art thou, oh, my son, my father,
• 43:43
  Speaker 11: in thy feeble childhood, who sustained thee, reared thee, and
• 43:48
  Speaker 11: protected thee.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: It was thyself, and in thy.
• 43:52
  Speaker 11: Forward youth, who plume thy soul for glorious, our duous flight,
• 43:58
  Speaker 11: instructed thee to in thy martial fame, Thou didst eclipse
• 44:04
  Speaker 11: thy master.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: Thou alone, and in thy waning age. This arm shall
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: be thy shield and thy support.
• 44:10
  Speaker 11: Thou, mart my son velasco from our haughty ancestry, we
• 44:18
  Speaker 11: claim descent whose glory it has been that never one
• 44:23
  Speaker 11: of their illustrious line was tainted with dishonor yesterday that
• 44:30
  Speaker 11: boast was true. It is no longer true.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: No longer true. Who of our race my lord has
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: proved unworthy of the name he bears.
• 44:42
  Speaker 11: I am that wretch, thou father. I I thought thou
• 44:49
  Speaker 11: would shrink from me as a thinger cursed. Tis right?
• 44:54
  Speaker 11: I taught thee thou. But mindest my dictates, But do
• 45:01
  Speaker 11: not curse me, For there was a time when I
• 45:05
  Speaker 11: had felt him lifeless at my feet.
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  Speaker 13: The will was.
• 45:10
  Speaker 11: Strong, although the nerveless arm dropped palsied to my side.
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  Speaker 3: My father speak explain this mystery.
• 45:19
  Speaker 11: I have been struck, degraded, while vile and brutal blow.
• 45:26
  Speaker 11: Oh thou art silent? Thou wilt not despise me?
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: Who was the rash aggressor he shall die? Nay, twas
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: some sarth, there's not the gentleman in orchestele would lay
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: an unkind hand upon thy feebleness. Then do not think
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: thyself disgraced, my honorable father, more than if smitten by
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: a lion's claw, a horse's hoof, the falling of a rafter.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: Knowst thou the offender's.
• 45:56
  Speaker 11: Name alas, no, sir, no man of low degree has
• 46:01
  Speaker 11: done this deed. The aggressor is our equal.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: Sayest thou so, then, by my sacred honor he shalt die.
• 46:10
  Speaker 11: Thou wilt hold true to that?
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: Have I not said? Were it the king himself who
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: dared profane a single hair upon my reverend brow, I
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: would assail him on his guarded throne, and with his
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: life blood stained the marble floor.
• 46:24
  Speaker 11: Thou, noble scion, tho a blighted stalk. I am yet
• 46:30
  Speaker 11: strong in thee. Thou shalt avenge this ignominious wrong.
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: Who did it speak?
• 46:39
  Speaker 11: Gonzales did it?
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: No? No, No. The air in fiendish mockery syllabled that name.
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: It was a dreadful fantasy.
• 46:49
  Speaker 11: My lord Pedro Gonzales is it Ora's father? Oh thou
• 46:56
  Speaker 11: hast other twice I did forget go.
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: Thou releast there must be expiation. Oh I am very wretched,
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: But fear not there shall be satisfaction or atonement.
• 47:14
  Speaker 11: Thou sayest it to thy trust, I yield mine honor.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Exit.
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: While the proud bird soared to the noon bay sun,
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: the shaft was sped that dashed him to the earth
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: twas winged by fate tis here. I cannot shrink from
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: the appalling sense that it is real. This throbbing brain,
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: this sick and riven heart, these shudders that convulse my
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: very soul confirm the dreadful truth. But oh, to think
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: of all the wretchedness twill bring on her, Her whose
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: glad tones and joy bestowing beauties seemed doubly glad and
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: beautiful to day, whose little plans of happiness great heavens.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: It will affright her reason drive her mad.
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: It must not be.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: And yet my father, wronged, insulted by a blow, the
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: proud old man, whose fourscore years has kept his fame unblurred.
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: Now to be so disgraced and no redress my honor
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: calls it drowns all other cries, Love's shrieking woe and
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: Mercy's pleading voice. Thus thus I cast them off, poor suppliants,
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: and now Gonzales for revenge and thee exit.
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  Speaker 1: End of Act the second of velasco By EP's Sergeant.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Act three of velasco By e F's Sergeant. This is
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• 49:18
  Speaker 1: Act three, Scene one, an apartment in the mansion of Gonzalez,
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: folding door opening upon an esplanade, a sliding panel concealed
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: by a picture of an armed knight enter Gonzalez.
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: Why should I, with a vain regret, deplore this deed
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: to which my just resentment forced me? Did not the
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: provocation justify it? An injury? My nature can forgive? An
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: insult wakes the instinct of revenge. Yes, I was right,
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: he merited the blue. Yet for her sake, for Isidorus,
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: would that I might avert the threatening issue. I'll go
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: to old de le Erma on my knee solicitis forgiveness.
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: But the world, what would be their construction of the abasement?
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: That it was fear of his redoubted son which drew
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: me to it, fear of Don Valesco to a manders
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: to retract, Valesco comes enter Velasco.
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  Speaker 3: I see thou know'st my errand.
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: Thou art quick in thy surmises. What wouldst thou with me? Oh?
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: Was it, sir, an honorable deed, one worthy of a
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: brave and high born knight to strike an old man
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: in his helplessness, an old Castilian warrior whose gray hairs
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: o'er shadow's scars enough to chronicle his country's battles for
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: these sixty years.
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: Be thy rebukes, I am thy elder sir, not to
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: be tutored in the ways of honor by such as thou.
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: Thy father put on me a grievous insult, one which
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: even dotage had no immunity to put on manhood. I
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: answered the foul slander with a blow, and prepared to
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: abide the penalty obdurate.
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: Must the last resort be.
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: Ours, if thou wouldst do it with me, I await
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: thy pleasure.
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  Speaker 3: Then here, my lord, here is the.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Arbitrament, pointing to his sword.
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: Which now remains for us.
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: In as thou wilt follow me, though I spare thy
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: father's life, Think not they waits for thee the same
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: forbearance stay which object ourself to scrutiny should remove this way,
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: Look you don Valasco.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: Springs the panel which opens a passage, the.
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: Secret passage known to me alone. It carries us to
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: a secluded spot beyond the castle's walls. I would not
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: share this secret with my dearest friend on earth. Thou
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: must not live to whisper it come.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: On exit through the panel.
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: It is decreed.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: Is Adra's voice is heard in sa.
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: Her voice, her happy voice, ill fated Isidora. Soon those
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: tones must be forever changed. Despair's wild shriek must render
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: that fine harmonious instrument made for the utterance of joy
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: and love.
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  Speaker 1: Gonzalez without a lagoda, farewell my love forever.
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  Speaker 3: Thus o'er the brink of our despair. I rush exit.
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  Speaker 1: The panel closes into Isidora.
• 52:30
  Speaker 15: Why is it all I meet? Appear so sad my
• 52:34
  Speaker 15: brother ear this morning? He departed, gazed steadfastly a while
• 52:38
  Speaker 15: into my face, and started from me as he had
• 52:42
  Speaker 15: been blasted. Hernando too, our kinsman. When we meet Ben,
• 52:46
  Speaker 15: such a strange and warning glance upon me my path
• 52:51
  Speaker 15: he crosses like an evil omen. Even old Bianca not
• 52:56
  Speaker 15: to be outdone in her contagious sadness, prates of which
• 53:00
  Speaker 15: reveled her empty brain last night. And when the golden
• 53:05
  Speaker 15: zone Velasco gave me snapped in the middle as it
• 53:09
  Speaker 15: clasped my waist, she wrung her hands and cried, woe
• 53:13
  Speaker 15: is me? Alas ah well a day and made such
• 53:18
  Speaker 15: wild exclaims as it had been her heart. Not the
• 53:22
  Speaker 15: girdle whose breaking made her weep tis very strange. I
• 53:28
  Speaker 15: wish the sun was set, for I might see Velasco then,
• 53:33
  Speaker 15: and we would laugh away these dark misgivings.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Touches the strings of a lute.
• 53:38
  Speaker 15: Ah, what sounds are those?
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: Re enter? Gonzalez wounded, supported by two servants.
• 53:46
  Speaker 15: Forfended heaven, My father wounded, bleeding for help, for help.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: Will ye not fly for help supporting him?
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: Nay, do not move me. I can go over. Still
• 54:02
  Speaker 4: it will avail. Not I must die?
• 54:06
  Speaker 15: Say not so thou art hurt? Not unto death, Thou
• 54:10
  Speaker 15: wilt survive such care. I'll take thee.
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: No is a daughter. There's a monitor here which too
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: surely tells me I must die. But shall there be
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: no vengeance, no redress? Nay hear me while I have
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: the power to speak, swear is a daughter? Swear to
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: me that thou wilt, to the death pursue the man.
• 54:34
  Speaker 15: Who slew me, alas who did this deed?
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: I tell THEE. Swear if thou wouldst part with me
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: in peace, delay a moment, and thou art too late,
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: thou'd not refuse my dying blessing.
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  Speaker 15: Take mine oath who relentless did this cruelty.
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  Speaker 1: Gonzalez, giving her a dagger, his.
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: Name a torrance. Poury on my heart, and now like
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: fire it rashes to my brain. Whereat there was your daughter?
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: All is dark dies.
• 55:11
  Speaker 15: He most breathes. Not is this death? No? It cannot
• 55:17
  Speaker 15: should not be. Not death? Not death? Oh Father, speak
• 55:22
  Speaker 15: is thy daughter, calls she who this morning hung upon
• 55:26
  Speaker 15: my neck from without the circle in thy living arms. Oh,
• 55:31
  Speaker 15: do not leave me thus, cold, motionless, silent, fiver more.
• 55:38
  Speaker 15: And I stand here, conscious of this, yet wondrously alive,
• 55:44
  Speaker 15: nerving my sinews to the appointed task. The name knew year,
• 55:49
  Speaker 15: the name he would have uttered.
• 55:51
  Speaker 7: You do not?
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: It is well? Bear in your burthen, excellent servants, with
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: Gonzales now.
• 55:58
  Speaker 15: To fulfill mine own. And were there none to bind
• 56:02
  Speaker 15: me to pursue the murderer, should not my filial duty
• 56:06
  Speaker 15: be enough to urge me on an oath, an oath
• 56:10
  Speaker 15: of vengeance? Oh what I have to do with vengeance?
• 56:15
  Speaker 15: I who do so shudder at the sight of blood
• 56:18
  Speaker 15: unworthy hesitation? Am I not a warrior's promise?
• 56:22
  Speaker 10: Bright?
• 56:23
  Speaker 15: Why should I fly?
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: If not to him?
• 56:25
  Speaker 15: In this calamity? Alas he now awaits me light of
• 56:30
  Speaker 15: heart beside the garden's verge, the spot I chose. Affliction
• 56:35
  Speaker 15: casts no shadow.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: On his dreams Into Hernando unperceived, he looks for a.
• 56:41
  Speaker 15: Glad meeting, Oh Flascar, What desolation would be round my path.
• 56:47
  Speaker 16: In this bereavement were it not for thee exit it
• 56:52
  Speaker 16: is accomplished all as I foresaw fly, wretched maid to
• 56:58
  Speaker 16: thy victoriously lover, seek consolation in his blood stained arms,
• 57:05
  Speaker 16: that thou mayst shrink with more abhorrence from.
• 57:09
  Speaker 14: Him when the dread truth volcano like bursts on thee.
• 57:17
  Speaker 14: There's but one obstacle remains between my hopes and their attainment.
• 57:25
  Speaker 14: Yulio lives, and but for him these castellated wars, this
• 57:33
  Speaker 14: broad domain, with its well doured mistress, might be mine.
• 57:39
  Speaker 14: Own success emboldens thee. Hernando Ay ambition shall complete what
• 57:51
  Speaker 14: vengeance has so prosperously begun.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: Exit scene too, a hall in the mansion of Dilerma
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: with Gothic windows.
• 58:05
  Speaker 11: Enter Dilerma velasco comes not. He is brave and strong,
• 58:13
  Speaker 11: and yet there is a sinking in my heart at
• 58:17
  Speaker 11: this delay. Should he have fallen in the fight, or
• 58:22
  Speaker 11: desperate rushed on his opponent's sword. Tis time he were returned.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: Throws open a window.
• 58:30
  Speaker 11: The sun's red orb is poised in yellow mist above
• 58:35
  Speaker 11: the west. A storm is in those vapors. Hark a step.
• 58:42
  Speaker 11: He comes victorious. He has effaced from the discussion of
• 58:48
  Speaker 11: our noble house the only stain that ever marred its whiteness.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: Enter Velasco, gazing distractedly on his drawn sword.
• 59:01
  Speaker 11: Welcome, thou hast discharged a sacred duty.
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: Look there, it is his blood, Gonzalez's blood. He was
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: the father of my Isidora, the parent found whence flowed.
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: The ruby stream that circles in her fine, translucent veins,
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: tis the same blood that warms her innocent heart, that
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: paints the rose leaf on her dainty cheek, that mantles
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: in her blush when maiden pride checks the betrayal of
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: her guileless love, her love. O Heavens, what claim have
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: I to that I who have slain her father? I
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: have done a double murder. May a double curse fall
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: on my head? For when the offernal steel was leveled
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: at his breast full well, I knew that it would
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: reach through him to Isidora.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: With vehement emotion.
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: Twas Thou twas thou who forced me to this deed.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: Oh is this not satiety of vengeance? Now to reward
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: thy son, be merciful.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: Gives dilemma his sword.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: And turn the point on which those sanguine drops plead
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: like the tears of orphans for my suit. Turn it
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: against this desolate heart.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: I kneel to thee.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: I ask it of thy mercy.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 11: Up up thelasco be the hero still curb these unruly passions.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 11: Thou hast made a worthy offering on the shrine of honor.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 11: Much comfort yet remains for thee, my son honor?
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: What frigid bigotry? Is this comfort?
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: No more?
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: Never more shall I know the soft comfort of a
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: mind at ease.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 11: Will thou flick me with thy green excess?
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: Her father's death, that's sure, had been enough to prostrate
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: her young joys and bow her soul in agony of sorrow? Then, oh, heavens,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: with what redoubled horror will she learn that I was
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: the fell agent I who swore to cherish and to
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: love her all her days. Bend not thy thoughts on that,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: or they will end in maniac frenzy. Even now my
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: brain in spiral flames seems eddying unto madness. Oh give
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: me air, air eer, I shall die.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: Rush us out.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 11: These fament griefs of their own fierceness soon burn out
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 11: or are extinguished in the tears which follow their explosion.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 11: Passion's reign is brief, as turbulent reasons light. He will
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 11: regard the act as brave men. Should it pleases me
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 11: the color of this blade, it shall be treasured that
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 11: when men shall say di Leerma was dishonored, the replumni
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 11: may point to the red proofs of his revenge.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: Exit Scene three. A glen near the castle of Gonzalez.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: A storm is raging with thunder and lightning. Enter velasco
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: from the rocks in the background.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: I lay my brow against the marble rock. I hold
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: it throbbing to the dewy grass. There is no coolness
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: in the summer rain. The elements have lost their attributes.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: The oaks are shivered round me in the blaze of
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: the near lightning as it bursts the folds of its
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: black serrements. But no gracious bolt blast me or scathes.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: A wilder storm is here. The fiery quiver of the
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: clouds will be exhausted Soon the hurricane will sink, and
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: through the vista of the western clouds, the slant rays
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: of the setting sun will stream, and birds on every
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: glistening bough will hail the refluent brightness and the freshened air.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: But when will the pass away from this sad heart,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 3: the cloud of grief, the tempest of remorse? When will
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 3: the winged hopes that glanced and sang, enjoyed melodious atmosphere
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: return to welcome back the gladness of the soul this spot?
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: What fatal instinct led me here? It is our trysting place.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: And what form breaks through the shadowy Gloomtis is Adora.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: She sees me, she advances, knows she yet the fearful truth. Oh,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: where this trial spared me?
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 15: Enter Alasco? Is it thou think heaven? We meet alas
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 15: my lord, such fearful news I bring Thou wouldst not
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 15: shun me Velasco embracing.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: Her shun thee is a Dora.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 15: Oh, such a strange calamity has fallen upon our house
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 15: for Alasco. But I see thou art informed already.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: We must straight pursue the guilty wretch Velasco, starting.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: Avoid me fly Let me not taint THEE with my
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: traitorous touch.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 15: Here are do my senses plain me false? What dost
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 15: thou say? Still silent, wilt not speak? I did not
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 15: look for this thy sympathy at least would do me
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 15: in this hour of woe?
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: Do I not share the burthen of thy sorrow? Oh,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: Let this writhing heart, this burning brain attest my grief,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: my anguish, my despair.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 15: Oh, pardon my mistrust. Thou dost partake with me this
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 15: great affliction? Who Alas could have contrived so impias an act?
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 15: Help me to curse him?
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: No tis not for THEE to curse him, is adorer,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: Not for THEE, tis not for.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 15: Me to curse him. Thou art right, tis for no
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 15: Christian soul to breathe a curse. But I have sworn
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 15: an oath, an oath of vengeance. Where is thy sword
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 15: of Alasko? Thou shalt be my champion, the avenger of
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 15: my father?
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: I thine avenger, I thy champion.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 15: And whom but thou my brother gone Alas? Where should
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 15: I fly for sake and sue to thee? Oh, Thou
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 15: art powerful to redress my wrongs? Invincible in arms, Thy
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 15: honor too. I need not tell THEE that Thy honor
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 15: cried with loud appeal on THEE to vindicate me, made
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 15: an orphan, and.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: My father slain, and thou dost ask of.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 15: Me to slay the slayer, to execute the law of
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 15: heaven and earth, of deity and mortal blood for blood.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: Thou knowest not what thou askest.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 15: I have checked the tributary anguish at my heart and
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 15: wrought the natural weakness of my sex to the stern task.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 15: My dying siren post Alasco I had thought to find
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 15: in THEE a prompt avenger.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: Why art thou thus I cannot wilt thou, Oh have
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: pity Heaven.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 15: We are betrothed, but er a bridegroom's hand is casped
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 15: in mine. The atonement must be made. Were he among
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 15: the mightiest of the land who must account for this
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 15: unholy deed before thy arm of terror, he would quail
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 15: go then pursue the assassin to the death.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: Assassin, if the death of him, my love, who slew
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: thy father, would content thy soul the boon it were
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: not difficult to grant, knowest.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 15: Thou the man thelascar, Yes, oh haste to find him
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 15: then he.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: Is already found.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 15: Where is the man? Who is he?
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: He is here?
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 4: I am the man.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: Well mayst thou look aghast.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: A peal of thunder is Adora falls to the ground.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: The thunder echoes it. The sable air tolls with the
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: sound and sheds lamenting drops. The toxin of the elements
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: proclaims it, and nature shudders it. Hath stunned thy soul,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: o flower too early blighted? Is a look up? Arise,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: return to thy sad home. Nay, do not gaze so
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: steadfastly upon that fearful conjuration of thy brain. Wake is a.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 15: Dora wake, since it's a dream, Oh blessed waking such
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 15: a dream of horror duped. My poor senses were impalpable.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 15: It could not more have checked my frozen blood, nor
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 15: thrilled mine eyes within their loosened orbs methought. I gazed
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 15: upon my slaughtered sire, bound by an oath of dire
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 15: solemnity to take swift vengeance on his murderer. Distraught with grief,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 15: I hastened to velasco whom should I make but him
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 15: my champion? The lightning's flash, the muffled thunderous peal the
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 15: harrowy rain. I heeded not the storm, but forward urged
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 15: my steps, until at length I met my lover, near
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 15: our favorite haunt. Averted were his eyes, But when he
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 15: turned to fold me in his arms, pale horror glared
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 15: from every tortured feature.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: Then, oh, then slowly recovering her consciousness, Thou art velasco.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 15: This is not my home, my happy chamber, where the
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 15: morning sun sheds such a tender radiance. No, the air
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 15: is black with vapors, and the moaning gale bends the
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 15: high trees and sweeps the murky clouds. What do I
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 15: hear at such an hour as this?
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: It was no dream?
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 15: It is reality.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, let me palliate the dreadful act. Thou dost not know,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: But thou art faint?
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 4: My love?
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 15: Stand back to night, thy arm no more shall clasp me.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 15: Think of my oath, it yet must be fulfilled before
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 15: the King himself. I will arraign THEE to answer for
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 15: this deed. I am devoted the fulfillment of a sacred duty,
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 15: but did not think to find in THEE the man.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, may I not support THEE to thy home? Thou
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: art weak, distracted, mourner.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: No, away.
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  Speaker 15: A power not mine sustains my weary limbs.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: Enter Hernando, who receives her insensible in his arms.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 14: Here in her kinsman's arms is her protection. Wouldst thou
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 14: yet sprinkled with her parents' blood?
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: Profit thy aid bears her out. Velasco, looking after.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: Them lost, lost.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: For ever lost, throws himself on the ground. End of
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: Act three of Velasco by Sergeant, Act four of Velasco
• 1:11:10
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  Speaker 1: Royal orience room, a chair of state enter Ferdinand and Favio.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: Unsai is slain, and no one knows by whom, no
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: clue discovered. It is strange, indeed.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 10: But still more wonderful that Don Velasco should not be
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 10: eager to avenge his death, at least to ferret out
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 10: the murderer.
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  Speaker 2: A mystery involves the deed each time must speedily unfold.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: Shouts are heard.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: What shouts are those? What is that beneath the porch?
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 12: Enter Carlos my liege, the daughter of Gonzales and her kinsman,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 12: thy presence seek The people gather round and in their
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 12: pity shot aloud for justice.
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  Speaker 1: Igniti exit Carlos. The king ascends his throne.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 10: Strange Flasco should be absent.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: Enter Isidora, followed by Hernando, knights, ladies and et cetera,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: who form round his throne. Isidora kneels to the king.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: Raise up faermona, we will hear thy griefs.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 15: I am the orphan daughter of Gonzales. He was great king,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 15: thy brave and loyal subject, and he has done service
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 15: in his country's walls by violence. His death has been accomplished. Oh,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 15: grant my lie redress against the man who has my
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 15: father slain? Who is the man ah me, the last
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 15: who should have done the deed? His name? I am
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 15: a feeble advocate, again, so potent and renowned, a foe.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 15: But let the arm of justice mighty king read him
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 15: upon his pinnacle of fame. Ah name, thy foe, his name,
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 15: I cannot speak it.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 14: Velasco ay tis spoken heavens.
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  Speaker 2: Belasco. Thou hast a mazed this lady by thy charge.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: The proofs that would have urged on deconviction cannot be
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: such as will admit our doubt.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 14: My liege, he deigns not to dispute the charge.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: What madness drove him to the ruthless deed?
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 14: My liege, we must conjecture that he hoped, by virtue
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 14: of his marriage with this lady to gain possession of
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 14: the signories Gonzalez held.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 15: Never thou dost malign him, Never could such a motive
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 15: s weigh his heart, Oh judge, not thou of motives,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 15: if none better thou canst attribute sir to such as
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 15: he a knight, a man of honor of.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: Velasco, enter of Alasco. Unperceived He stands composedly with folded arms,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: while Hernando is speaking.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 14: My liege, I did but venture a surmise his motives
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 14: to the crime. I may misdeem, But of his ahagiency,
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 14: what doubt remains much? Cause have we to fear? It
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 14: was no duel by knightly laws in which Gonzalez fell,
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 14: but an assassination in which honor.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: He suddenly sees Velasco and is silent.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: Go on, wait, doest thou hit it? De Ronando accused?
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: Confront him with thy charge.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: My leech, has my rival struck? Thee speechless why what
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 3: type of infamy thou standest troduced?
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 4: Sir?
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 3: Thou art sunk beneath my scorn. But whereas he who
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 3: will maintain thy charge, I slew Gonzales as becomes a
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 3: knight in honorable combat, sword.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: To sword, throwing down his gauntlet.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 3: Behold my gauge, who will gainsay the truth?
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: What the proof canst bring? Helenando?
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 14: Of they charge presumptions strong, my leege.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: Presumption, sir, and wouldst thou slender a Castian noble upon
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: such grounds? Velasco, we know not a provocation drove thee
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: to this deed, but that then honor suffered in the encounter.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: Thy own attesting wood could not persuade us.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 11: Enter de lama, my liege, this is my quarrel, and
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 11: be sure justice holds me alone responsible. Velasco was the
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 11: weapon in my hand, wielded for the redemption of my honor.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 11: Know that I was insulted by Gonzales, Struck like a
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 11: very beggar in the streets. I drew my sword upon him,
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 11: but alas my arm had lost its vigor, and with scorn,
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 11: he dashed aside my unavailing blade, then left me crushed
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 11: beneath a load of shame? Could I exist, my liege,
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 11: while live the man who had disgraced me? No I
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 11: had a son. He has but done his duty, and
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 11: no more.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: Hence said Velasco yielded up love life I more than life,
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: rather than honor for thee unhappy lady who has to
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: been deprived at once a bridegroom and the father. We
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: cannot punish. Where we find no guilt, no treacherous action
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: nor intent is proved. We can but say, bring forth
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: thy champion. Velasco promptly will obey his summons. The feud
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: admits not of our interference. We have decided follow me.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: Ernando exude all but Isidora, and Velasco Carlos, as he
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: goes out, returns the latter is gauntlet.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 3: Thou hast heard all which can extenuate the perpetration of
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 3: the deed we mourn. Oh, wilt thou not believe that,
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 3: when mine arm was raised to strike, my heart was
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 3: torn with anguish, that I did love THEE better at
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 3: that moment, while severing the tie between our fates than
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 3: when exulting hope was all mine own.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 15: Call it not love? Velasco hast thou love, Thou sooner
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 15: would have died a death of shame than brought this
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 15: weight of misery upon me.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, sound the dreary depth of my despair, than if
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 3: thou canst measure my boundless love.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 15: Call'st thou that love which pride can subjugate, which can
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 15: be quelled by what the world call honor, or mean
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 15: to yield even by filial duty. No, to all these,
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 15: true love is paramount.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 3: Oh, my fair name had been forever lost if I
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 3: had tamely borne the unmeasured insult.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 15: No one appealing word had wrought compunction in the offender's heart.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 15: But pride withheld thee. A human victim was the sole
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 15: oblation which could appease thy moloch, And revenge was dearer
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 15: to THEE than the hopes of love, more sacred than
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 15: thy plighted faith to her, who to thy trust gave
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 15: all her happiness. Oh what a reckless steward hast thou been?
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 3: Could I behold a venerated father, crushed by a sense
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 3: of unrequited wrong, wasted by stricken pride and wounded honor,
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 3: And with the power to save deny redress.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 15: Thou dost but point the sting of mine own conscious.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 15: If to address a blow, thy sacrifice was the aggressor's life,
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 15: what should be mine? Who have a father, slaughter to avenge?
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 3: Oh worse than death, thou dost inflict on me now
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 3: by thy hate, my hate? Thou dost not love me?
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 15: Love me?
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 17: Oh?
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 15: No, I should not, would not love thee. I will
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 15: fly from thee.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 3: Stay before we part, which parting is forever. May we
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 3: not forget the sad devulsion of our fate and sailed
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 3: together down the sunny past?
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 15: How every tone brings back the happy days? I fear
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 15: tis sin to listen. There is such sweet enchantment in it.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 3: Tis in vain. I cannot rid me of the recollection.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 3: Thou art a passive victim, I alas I was the scourge,
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 3: the awful instrument.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 15: Canst thou recall not that delicious twilight, when venturous children,
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 15: careless of time's lapse, we traversed in a skiff the
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 15: woodkirt lake, while from the rosy west, the drooping clouds
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 15: in sanguined banners of the captive day threw o'er the
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 15: purple wave, their glowing shadows.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 3: I can but sigh for what we might have been
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 3: and the.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 15: Memory need not travel far to bring that hour when
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 15: we two parted, light of heart, in the near prospect
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 15: of a joyous bridle. Oh little did we dream that,
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 15: eh we met strange horror would destroy?
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 3: Oh forget or ere we part, vouchsafe one last embrace forbet.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 15: This is impiety for Alasco, tis not for thee to
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 15: clasp me. Think my father dying, he drew from me
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 15: a sacred oath, and as a legacy bequeath this dagger.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 3: My heart leaps to it. Strike and do not quail
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 3: now ere thy purpose flag?
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: Strike?
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 3: I will bless thee.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: She raises it as if to strike him. He extends
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: his arms, inviting the blow. Whereupon she drops the dagger
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: and rushes out.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 3: Were I the only victim I could brave? Methinks fate's
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 3: worst infliction, But my heart breaks when I see her suffer.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 3: I look round for refuge, but can find one only haven,
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 3: the quiet grave, as if.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: To point the way, taking up the dagger, the.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 3: Steel she left gleams on me. If despair could ever
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 3: justify self sacrifice, now's the occasion when my forfeit life
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 3: is claimed by her to whom it was devoted A
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 3: sinews quick contraction, and tis done no no velasco tis
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 3: a weary march, and many droop and falter by the way,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 3: and many treading in forbidden paths at their great Captain's
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 3: sacred laws rebel. But the good soldier still maintains his post, obeys,
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 3: and presses forward to the last. While on the streaming
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 3: flag that marshals him and lifts the emblem of his faith,
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 3: he reads by this sign, shalt thou conquer?
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: Exit, re enter Carlos, poor velasco ah, who approach Hernando
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: and Mendoza, some knighveries afoot.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 12: I'll stand aside.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: Re enter Hernando with Mendoza. Carlos seats himself, unperceived upon
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: the chair of state.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 14: Art well assured of the fidelity of him. Thou hast
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 14: employed in this affair.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 13: Don Julio stands no longer in thy way. Our agents
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 13: will bring such proof as will convince thee. How wilt
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 13: thou mold the sister to thy purpose?
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 14: She will be mine, Mendoza, And at once, if not
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 14: by fair compliance, by compulsion, I have possessed the castle
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 14: with my creatures, ridding its precincts of the old adherents.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 14: She returns home to my home. Dost thou hear she's
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 14: in my power? Ist not a master piece, a rare one.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: Carlos, in drawing his sword, rattles.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 14: It ha a listener, It is Carlos confusion. He has
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 14: heard us. Boy, come hither.
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: Carlos hums a tune and bends his sword blade against
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: the floor. Mendoza going towards him, So.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 13: I will drag him to you meddling page.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 12: Carlos starting forward, stand off, sir, off, My rapier is
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 12: not squeamish. It may take up with offals, so beware.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 12: Go frighten women, think not that I fear you.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 14: Nay, Carlos tempt him not, Mendoza. Hold, didst hear the
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 14: import of the brief discourse which passed between this gentleman
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 14: and me.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 12: Oh to writers every villainous word, Ye uttered, I overheard.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 14: Thou jesting with us, Carlos.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 12: Flatter yourself with a belief. Perchance ye soon will find.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: I do not just with traitors to Mendoza, who is
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: trying to circumvent him.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 12: A fair field and no favor if you please, none
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 12: of your backhand villainy go to stay, boy, Thou not
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 12: betray us I betray. What have you trusted to me?
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 13: With report?
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 2: Aught?
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 13: Thou hast heard?
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 14: Nay, Carlos knows his friends. There is an Arab courser
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 14: in my stables, fleet as the wind, clean limbed and tractable,
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 14: and of a size just suited to thy height. I
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 14: would not part with him for money, Carlos, But if
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 14: thou be our friend and keep our counsel, he shall
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 14: be thine mendoza aside.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 13: Well put the bribe has won him.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 12: Hast thou so bravest deed, I Carlos, black black as
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 12: a raven, oh very fleet, Then prithee mind my caution,
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 12: mount at once, and swift as thou canst spur him,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 12: leave behind the gallows that awaits thee.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 14: Dost thou mock me?
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 12: But should thy neck be broken in thy flight, the
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 12: accident may save it from a halter and cheat an
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 12: honest hangman of his fee, stand back, or thou shalt
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 12: rule it, boy.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 14: Beware, thy life shall be the forfeit of thy treason.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 14: What wouldst thou do?
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 12: Expose you?
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 9: Bath?
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 4: Will you?
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  Speaker 15: Oh?
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  Speaker 13: Phew not?
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 12: I shall haste to don Valasco tell him what I
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 12: have heard, and if he have not two knaves, heads
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 12: dangling at his saddle bow before the nightfall. I'm no conjurer,
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 12: exit s death.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 13: There is danger in him. He will keep his threat.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 13: What's to be done.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 14: We must be speedy in the achievement of our purposes.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 14: To horse will reach the castle of gonzaleth ere the
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 14: lam is raised. There. We are safe and his adra's mine.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 14: The massive gates shall keep out all intruders, even the king,
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 14: and should velasco venture to approach us, our crossbow men
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 14: shall send an arrow through him. Come fortune beckons us
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 14: to Hoss to Hoss exunt.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: Scene two, same as Act three, Scene one. An apartment
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: in the mansion of Gonzalez. A sliding panel concealed by
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: the picture of an armed knight folding doors closed.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 15: Enter is a doorra My home seems changed. New faces
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 15: stare upon me, Familiar ones are missed?
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: Or do I dream?
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 15: Was it not all the mere fantast stick play of
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 15: brainsick fancy. No, I've stood before the king and claimed
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 15: redress against my lover, O hypocrite, Thy tongue besought a boon,
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 15: Thy inmost heart rejected. I have failed in my first trial?
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 15: Would it were the last?
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: May it not?
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 15: Be the last. Have I not done all that could
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 15: be exacted from me? No, My duty urges, and my
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 15: oath compels terrible duty heard distracting oath? Is this the
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 15: hand to point the avenging steel? To point it against him?
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 15: And do I waver? Do I so soon infract my
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 15: sacred word? The powers of retribution strengthen me, and Thou,
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 15: impatient ghost, rebuke me not for this delay. I'll not
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 15: forget thy mandate.
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: I will do all my woman's weakness can enter Hernando. Hernando,
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: speaking as he enters.
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  Speaker 14: I close the gates and man the outward towers. Let
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 14: no one be admitted on thy life.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 15: Let no one be admitted. Close the gates. Put meanst thou.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 14: By such orders, I have cause, fair cousin to mistrust
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 14: for Lasco's purpose. One of our house he has already slain.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 14: May he not meditate against another? A like attempt? Tis
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 14: well to be prepared for a surprise.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 18: Out upon thy mistrust. Shall not be who waits, Nay,
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 18: be not hasty. Hear me, and deign to do my
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 18: motives justice. Oh, may I trust thee Let my actions
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 18: prove it.
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 15: I know not well what is thy word with me?
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 14: That now fair cousin left in the wide world, an
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 14: unprotected solitary. Often thy brother gone, perchance not to return.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 14: The man who was betrothed to THEE become the man
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 14: whom of all others thou art bound with a relentless
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 14: hatred to pursue. Methinks the path of wisdom and of
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 14: duty is plain before THEE.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: Well, if in.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 14: Thy kinsman thou now wouldst take a husband and a protector,
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 14: twould be compliance with thy father's will?
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 15: Is this a season for such words from THEE? Leave
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 15: me dismiss thy train? I need them not, but I do,
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 15: Lady Sir, I would be in private. Thou art not gone?
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 15: Where be my servants ho within there.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 14: Thou dost call in vain fair cousin, not one of
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 14: all thy menials tarries here as the next male inheritor
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 14: to thy brother. I have possess'd this castle, and the
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 14: walls are fill'd with my retainers. Thou art here, wholly
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 14: within my power. Now has a guest, fair cousin be
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 14: less scornful?
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 15: Even thou couldst not have been so dazardly a traitor, false.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 14: Knight, false lady. I have told the truth.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 15: Thou wouldst not death wrong me.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 14: I would be loath to do that. I offer thee
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 14: my hand. If thou dost scorn it, Lady, then beware.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 15: Thou hast forgotten that I have a brother.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 14: That brother is no more, he has been slain. I
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 14: can produce assurance of the fact.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 15: No more, and I'm lost. Indeed, thou wouldst deceive me.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 15: I'll not credited. Let me go forth, nando.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 14: Thou shalt not. Thou canst not sentinels at every door,
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 14: closed gates, and lofty walls, forbid departure. Listen. Thou didst
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 14: discard me for another, thinking that I would tamely bear
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 14: the slight and meekly pardon my successful rival. Thou hast
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 14: misjudged me.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 12: Tis my triumph.
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 14: Now reflect twast thou who raised the feet in me?
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 14: And it is thou alone who can exorcise. Why thou
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 14: art brave and dangerous, fair cousin consent consent to be
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 14: my wedded wife, or I will drag thee by thy
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 14: braided hair to yonder chamber.
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: Enter velasco silently through the secret passage. Isidora appears to
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: be searching for a dagger, when suddenly she perceives him.
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 15: Providence has sent THEE.
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  Speaker 3: I did not think that fate had in reserve for
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 3: me another moment of such sweetness.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 14: What sorcery is this?
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 3: Oh? Draw thy sword, and if one drop of manhood
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 3: warm thy blood shed it in guarding now thy sordid
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 3: life wilt not, then thus I'll rob thee of thy.
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: Sting seizes him and raise his sword.
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  Speaker 3: A power invisible arrests my arm. Blood of thy race
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 3: enough alas has been already shed by me. Live.
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 17: If thou canst hernando retreating dupe, Thou art lost, and
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 17: she thou wouldst have saved again? Is mine mendoza, Oh,
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 17: my god.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: Exit.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 3: This passage leads to a secluded spot beyond the walls. Oh,
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 3: hasten to escape.
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: Lead on. She gives him her hand, but instantly recoils.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 15: Thou art spotted with my father's blood. I cannot go
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 15: with THEE.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 3: It is no time for thoughts like these. Escape. While
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 3: yet we may hark. They approach a moment and we're lost.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 15: May a moment's amnesty exists between me and my father's
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 15: mortal foe.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 3: Oh, fatal hesitation is adra.
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 15: Forgive me and lead on. I'll fly with THEE.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 3: It is too late, they see us through the embrasure.
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 3: Should they sail us in you labyrinth, the chances are
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 3: against us, for my sword would not avail me in
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 3: the narrow darkness. We will stand here and brave them
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 3: to the death.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 15: Tis I have brought down ruin on us.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 3: Both twill be too sweet to die defending.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: Thee enter Hernando Mendoza and soldiers part y.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 14: Ye both shall fall beneath our swords, tear them assunder,
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 14: will not part welasco.
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: A soldier advances with a battle axe, the Alasko seizes
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: it from him and drops his sword.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 3: It were the past time of a holiday to sweep
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 3: battalions of you down like reeds. And here is one whom,
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 3: if ye dare to harm, even in the grazing of
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 3: her sacred robe, I'll hew a passage, Cravens through your hearts. Come,
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 3: ye should know me. I am he who burst upon
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 3: the conquering moors as Santiago steath.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 14: Do you trail your spears? Tis, but one man their
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 14: town secure them.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 18: Your reward is doubled as they level their spears.
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: Carlos rushes in through the secret passage.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 14: Boy, thou hast rushed to thine own chastisement, thou too
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 14: art lost.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: Hold all a pause. The king approaches, They fall back
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: in dismay. Enter Ferdinand through the passage with attendants and
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: et cetera, bearing torches. The King points to Hernando and Mendoza,
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: who are seized. Velasco supports Isadora. The soldiers of Hernando
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: kneel and lay down their arms. End of Act four
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: of Velascar by EV's Sergeant. Act five of Velasco by
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: eb Sergeant. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: audience Room, Enter Carlos.
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  Speaker 12: Twill be a joyous bridle. Even the skies are flaunting
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 12: in their robes of festival to grace the nuptials of
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 12: the brave and fair. All Burgols is in motion, and
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 12: the streets are spanned by arches and be strewn with garlands.
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 12: Balconies gleam with tapestry and flowers, and columns rise floshing
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 12: with shields and helms, and twined with all our branches. Oh,
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 12: twill be a braver wedding than the world ever saw
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 12: what shows and bank what shall we have?
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: The king exit? Enter Ferdinand with Fabio and attendants. Ferdinand
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: on his throne.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: So many culprit justus must have swayed.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: Enter Hernando with guards Ernando.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 2: Out of mercy to thyself, we have appointed for thy
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 2: final sentence this day, a day when he on whose
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 2: decision thy fate hangs trembling between life and death, may
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 2: be of all most leniently disposed the conscience, Say whom
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 2: thou hast injured most. Then wait from him thy.
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 14: Doom lasco I, oh doom it the gallas banish me,
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 14: but leave me not to certain death.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 2: Great King, he comes the arbiter of fate to thee
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 2: enter Velasco Belasco. We would not march with one cloud.
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 2: These stay toujoy devoted. But the fate of these unhappy
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 2: men is in thy hands. Pronounce his sentence.
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 3: It shall be fulfilled, My liege, Thou art ever, just
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 3: stand forth, Hernando. I will not speak to thee wrongs
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 3: which lie between ourselves, thy baseless calumny, the frail abortions
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 3: of thy active hate. But it was thou who did
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 3: relume the feud betwixt my noble father and Gonzales, urging
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 3: a blow that death alone could heal. Twas thou who
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 3: would have wronged my promised bride. And for all this,
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 3: thy punishment shall be to live thy chain, the chain
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 3: that conscience forges, linked with remorse and hateful memories, a
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 3: heavier chain than now is on thy limbs. I live
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 3: and be the infliction for thy crimes remembrance.
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 2: Go, I pity and forgive thee exit realissim.
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 10: But one moment, stay, my liege. There was another charge,
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 10: Young Carlos brought. Tell us Hernando, if in any way
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 10: thou wert accessory to Julio's death.
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 14: I take the dead to witness.
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: Enter Giulio, who starts at seeing Hernando in fetters.
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 17: Ah.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 14: Here he comes here to confound me with a miracle.
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 14: I do confess.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 2: Ah, Why don't Julio.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 9: Hear, my liege, forgive me the astonishment which did arrest
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 9: the homage of my knee.
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 2: Thou wer't will it come? We had credited the rumor
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 2: that toldest thou wert slain.
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 9: Alone, my liege, of all my train I have escaped
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 9: from slaughter, robbed of my parchments, thwarted in my mission.
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 9: No cause remained to me, but to return my sisters
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 9: brid All this I did not think to be so fortunate.
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 2: It should have been I wholio, but tit was not.
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 2: Tell't you ad hear the causes? Why? But give thy
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 2: promise first? Whoever I may these clothes, Thou wilt not
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 2: trust a quarrel on velasco and to.
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 9: Forio strange request. Methinks I should gain little in a
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 9: quarrel with such a foe, A child of victory. I
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 9: know my king would not entrap mine honor, and so
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 9: to the effect I pledge my word.
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 2: Thou shalt hear all that prudence and compassion. Then culture
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 2: thee to bear and to forbear.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 9: This mystery, my liege. Strange foreboding runs darkening through my brain.
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 9: I am impatient.
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 2: No sooner wast thou gone upon the niche. Then, by
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 2: base hints and gradual intimations, the prisoner here inflamed their
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 2: father's rage against the Lehrma, whom, encountering Gonzalez.
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 9: Struck, They thought de Lerma fell scarce.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 2: Could he try his sword before twas wrenched by his
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 2: opponent from him? Then with scorn, thy father left him
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 2: vanquished and disgraced.
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 9: It was not well, my father is too choleric, and
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 9: this untoward chance delayed the nuptials.
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 2: De Lerma felt the insult, but too keenly, and called
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 2: Velasco to remove the stigma from his attainted honor.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 9: Velasco he did not. No, it is too horrible.
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 2: Thy father fell beneath Velasco's sword.
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 9: My father, Dad, my valiant father slain. How the retribution
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 9: shall be sure?
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 2: Regard thy promise, Coolio. Let the revenge be stifled in
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 2: the bud. It must be crushed.
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 9: And she, my sister wedds in festal bravery, the homicide
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 9: who robbed her of a father.
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 2: By my command, she weds him. Hear me, Julio, hadst
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 2: thou but seen thy sister. They by a while life
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 2: ebbed swiftly from her feeding cheek, now sadly patient, and
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 2: now stung to frenzy, invoking vengeance until reason fled. Thou
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 2: wouldst be merciful?
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 9: Oh not a hem?
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 2: He saved thy sister from a villain's grasp. Will that
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 2: appease not I insane revenge? Long did I soue in
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 2: vain to ease? Adore for her permission to renew these
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 2: nuptials with earnest plea. I urged that she was left
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 2: an orphan brotherless. But in the reply she raised her
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 2: eyes to heaven in silent trust. A holy priest I
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 2: sent to sway her soul and offered absolution, but his
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 2: crafted no avail. At length, the whispering court dared to
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 2: revive Hernando's baseless charge that by foul means thy father
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 2: had been slave. That dying he revealed unto thy sister
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 2: what filled her with unconquerable heid against Velasco. To her heirs,
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 2: it came the slender humor, and in one well burst
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 2: of renewed love, of sympathy and scorn. And she proved
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 2: it false consenting to these nuptials. Here let them end,
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 2: how Julio wouldst Thou dare dispute my ordnance, Attend thy
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 2: sister and lead her to the banquet room Anon I
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 2: with Velasco, and the bridal train will meet you there,
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 2: and thou shalt pledge with him and drowning copse oblivion
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 2: to the past, then to the church to seal the
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 2: nuptial bond remand the culprit. I've thy promise, Julio, exit.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 9: My promise is not perjury of virtue in such a juncture.
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: Hanando advancing, Ay, it is a virtue. You hear me.
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: Julio motions back the guards who are advancing.
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 14: They tell me, I provoked the mischief. Let my accusers
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 14: prove it. No Velasco to evaid or palliate. His monstrous
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 14: guilt has fixed on me this charge?
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 9: Could I believe it?
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 14: Learn more? Thy father, dying with an oath, bound Isidora
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 14: to pursue to the death the man to whom she
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 14: gives her hand this day.
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 9: It must not be. Religion shudders at it, and filial
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 9: piety recoils with horror. It must not be.
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 14: But how wilt thou prevent it? The appointed hour is near?
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 14: The King commands, and Isidora urged to whom madness yields.
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 14: If thou dost push a quarrel on Velasco, thy solemn
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 14: pledge is broken, and the King forbids the contest, stripping
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 14: thee perchance even of thy knighthood and thy right to challenge.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 14: And more, Velasco never will contend, whatever the provocation, with thyself.
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 9: Great heavens, what's to be done?
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 14: One way is left. What said the King that in
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 14: the banquet room thou shouldst a wait Velasco there to
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 14: pledge the happy bridegroom in forgiving cups. Well, lest Velasco's
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 14: beaker be not brimmed.
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: Offers a file of poison.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 14: Villain reflect it is the only way to save thy
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 14: sister from a fearful crime and to avenge thy father.
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: Julio, hesitating to avenge, sayest thou conceal it quickly?
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 14: H thy vest that evesdropper. Young Carlos is approaching. Consider
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 14: take it.
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: Enter Carlos. Julio convulsively grasps the file and conceals it.
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 12: Are you here, Don Julio, Huh what token passed between you?
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 14: Nothing?
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 12: Carlos, looking distrustfully at each nothing does nothing glitter.
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: So Julio, with asperity.
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 12: What wouldst thou I meant not to offend to play
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 12: the spy?
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 14: What hast thou seen?
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 2: All?
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 12: Nothing?
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: Hernando to his guards. I am ready, Carlos to Hernando.
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 12: They tell me, Don Velasco has reprieved thee I'll trust
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 12: thou'llt show thy gratitude.
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: I will exit with guards.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 12: I will there's a mischief in that ruffian. Yet Don Julio,
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 12: I was bidden to attend you, Giulio in a reverie.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 9: I cannot do it. Twas infamous to tempt me.
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: How so Giulio still musing, how so suddenly rousing himself.
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 9: Carlos, nay, look.
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 12: Not on me so terribly, my lord. They bade me come,
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 12: but to attend thee.
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  Speaker 9: Hence lead on, lead on.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent scene too, an apartment in the Royal Palace. Enter
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: Isidora sumptuously attired.
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  Speaker 15: I will believe that I am born along to this
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 15: day's purpose, in the arms of fate. For though my
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 15: better angel warns me back with earnest gesture and imploring eyes,
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 15: yet I am weak, resistless as a child. Shouts are heard,
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 15: Shout on glad voices. Swell your acclamations. It is my
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 15: bridal day, a day of joy. My heart is lifted
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 15: on those waves of sound and thrills with the first
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 15: gladness it has known since since away away Thou fiend
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 15: remembrance is there. No spell can lay thee. Thou art hideous.
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 15: Yet there's a fascination in thy horror that pits me
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 15: gaze and gaze till I am prenzied ah me on
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 15: what a basis reared the joy a single flash of
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 15: memory can shiver? What have I done? Brief as the
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 15: time elapsed? Since with the ashes of his great forefathers,
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 15: all that is mortal of my sire was blended, And
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 15: now death sable rivalry is changed for bridal pomp, the
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 15: wail of lamentation, for shouts of mirth and nuptial harmonies.
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 15: And he I wed is reason cannot breathe it. Yet
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 15: in that little space, that sound of time, What weary
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 15: lives of anguish have been crowded, What maddening thoughts, What
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 15: passions and what terrors? Revenge and love and duty and despair,
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 15: the fury of the elements, the shock of adverse fleets
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 15: on a tempestuous sea, But overall, riding the topmost wave,
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 15: Love's bark still floats triumphant enter of Alaska, solitary, Oh,
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 15: True and bridegroom, Thou hast lagged behind them and the
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 15: heels of expectation.
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 3: I have counted the tedious hours that kept me from thy.
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 15: Side, and me sad thoughts have visited in thy absence.
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, banish them, is Adra regarding him steadfastly, I know that.
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 15: Thou art good, impregnable in honor, brave and noble. But
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 15: dost thou not condemn me in thy heart for the
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 15: blind weakness of that sense of duty, or for the
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 15: strength of that o a mastering passion which wrongs a
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 15: father for a lover's sake?
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 3: Why what a restless conjurer of ill thy fancy is?
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 3: Thou knowest that all my hopes are staked upon the
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 3: promise of this day?
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 15: Thou art pale, methinks.
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 3: And thou art beautiful?
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 15: We should be happy at a time like this?
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 3: Am I not happy? Is it not a joy to
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 3: look into thy face? To hear thee speak?
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 15: Why should we.
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: Not be happy?
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 15: Why? When time has softened, tis a tenderness of grief,
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 15: the bitter recollection of the past?
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: Should we not be? Who speak?
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 3: I heard no voice?
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 15: Didst thou not say thy oath? I did not speak
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 15: twas fantasy?
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 3: Who laughed thyself?
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 15: Forgive my feebleness? What did I ask?
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 3: Why should we not be happy?
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 7: Ah?
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 15: Look there my father comes? Oh what a wedding guest.
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 15: The grave could not withhold him. There he stands as
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 15: I beheld him.
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: Last, pale, pale and dying.
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 15: Oh, thou august and dreadful monitor? Wouldst thou remind me
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 15: of my broken vow. Art thou my marshal to eternity,
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 15: or but the herald of thy own revenge?
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 3: Nay?
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 12: Is it?
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 4: Dora?
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 7: Ah?
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 15: He turned to thee. There's no forgiveness in his spectral glare.
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 15: He spurns me from him with his filmy arms recoiling.
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 15: Now he draws his mantle's fold, and horror points onto
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 15: a waking wound.
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: Alas, my love vanishes in darkness, velasco supporting her.
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 3: It was a delusion. Rouse thee Isidora? Oh fate should
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 3: she be? No? She breathes, she moves, cheer, cheer.
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: My love music is heard.
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 3: Dost hear the bridle train? Expect our coming? Twas a
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 3: fleeting dream?
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 15: Is there no portent in the troubled air to blast
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 15: my senses? If I look around?
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 11: Oh?
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 3: No, come forth? The blessed sunshine streams over the green earth,
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 3: and every human heart is dancing in its brightness. Look
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 3: and here, fair sights, glad sounds for us are fair
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 3: and glad.
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 15: I hear a step, Whose is it?
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: Enter Julio and Carlos, mine own brother, Julio, Carlos to Alasko.
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 12: My lord, the king requires your presence.
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: Velasco and Julio regard each other a moment in silence.
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: Velasco to Julio.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 3: I thank THEE that thou hast conveyed thy thoughts by looks,
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 3: not words, which happily had been harsh. I need not
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 3: tell THEE by my knighthood's faith. I will account to
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 3: THEE for all in honor.
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: Exunt Carlos and Velasco.
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 15: I knew thou wouldst return to be unharmed, that our
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 15: false kinsman's words were false like him the rice, welcome
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 15: home my own, my only brother? Is this thy greeting?
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 15: No fraternal kiss, no arm to clasp me, and no
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 15: voice to bless statue like silent cold. I give THEE joy,
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 15: Oh memory, it blazes on me now.
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 9: Thou art to wed my sister. As I passed through
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 9: the gay streets, asked what means this pageant? They told
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 9: me it was his Adora's bridle. Through our own holes,
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 9: I strode they were deserted. Not even a solitary watchdog,
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 9: growled then, hastening to the palace, I looked round searchingly
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 9: on the bright robe, laughing throng that through the royal valves,
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 9: moved to and fro but could not find my father.
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 9: Where's my father?
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 15: Go ask the dead? Ah, do not feign surprise, tis
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 15: useless cruelty. Thou knowest it all I do.
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 9: But till I hear from thine own lips that thou
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 9: wilt wed the homicide, I cannot credit the monstrous story.
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 9: It is true, Thou shalt not do it.
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 15: Shalt not, Oh, my.
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 9: Sister, by the fond recollections of our childhood, of those
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 9: bright days when we two hand in hand, roamed through
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 9: the fragrant fields in Andalusia.
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 15: Go on, go on, Oh, those were blessed days that
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 15: I might, once again, before I die, welcome the morning
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 15: with as light a.
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 9: Heart, by all that memory hallows of the past, by
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 9: all that hope prefigures of the future. Forego these nuptials.
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 15: No, it is too late. My word is pledged.
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 9: Thy word tis well for THEE to be so scrupulous,
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 9: Thou who hast so faithfully kept thy word unto the dead. Ah,
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 9: that strikes home. Conscience is not yet torpid.
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 15: Oh, I am tried beyond my human strength.
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 9: Spare me, my brother will to rest these nuptials. Never
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 9: I do implore THEE. I command THEE.
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 15: It is in vain. I tell THEE that the dead
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 15: himself hath risen to frighten me from my purpose, and
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 15: dost thou hope, by mortal agency to shake my steadfast,
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 15: unappalled soul.
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 9: Then may the furies wait upon thy nuptials. Despair and
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 9: discord be thy marriage lot, and ere thy husband's kisses
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 9: on thy cheek. May thy wronged father's image shoot between,
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 9: and his angry eyes transfix THEE till thou art petrified
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 9: with horror. If thou hast children, may they be fratracides,
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 9: avenging upon each other's head their grandsire's doom.
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 15: Now do I fear that those keen miseries, those bitter
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 15: pangs that should have broke my heart, have made it
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 15: hard as adamant or else? Why quail I not beneath
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 15: thy imprecations music her the bridegroom.
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 9: Waits by force. I will withhold thee. Sister, Thou shalt
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 9: not go to him?
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 15: Stand back tis Fate's coercion hurries me along, and death
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 15: must drag me at his chariot wheels. Oh we again
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 15: are parted.
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 9: Exit she is gone, And what is frenzy she believes
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 9: is fate? Shall I submit, no, no, it must not be.
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 9: The terrible alternative is left.
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: Exit Scene three, The Royal banquet Room, a banqueting table
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: superbly set out with vessels of wine, goblet, and et cetera.
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: Enter Julio through the folding doors.
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 9: How like a cautious, trembling, guilty thing, I glide with
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 9: stealthy paces toward my purpose? Can that be good? Of
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 9: which the outward signs are the thief's posture and the
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 9: coward's tread away reflection? Tis too late to waiver when
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 9: half the crime is in the intent committed decision gives
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 9: a virtue even to vice and gilds its black deformity. Oh,
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 9: think of all the fierce incentives to the act. Quick
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 9: are the occasions gone?
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 1: He advances rapidly towards the table, hesitates as he is
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 1: about to poison the garblet, and, finally, recalling from the undertaking,
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: rushes to the front of the stage.
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 9: Was I struck? Blind? There I could do the deed?
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 9: A shadow fell on all around me, and the flushing
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 9: board changed to funereal blackness. Indistinct was every object of
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 9: my blasted sight, and the gemmed goblet faded, and the
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 9: floor sank in and reeled like the sea's undulations. I'll
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 9: not renew the attempt.
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: A burst of sprightly music is heard from the distance.
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 9: Ah, they approach with dulcimer and symbol. They approach coast
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 9: of my slaughtered father. Now transfuse into this frame thy
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 9: immaterial essence, nerve the obedient muscles of mine arm, and
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 9: be thine own avenger.
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: He again approaches the goblet and with a steady hand,
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 1: infuses the poison. Just as he is turning from the
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: perpetration of the deed, Carlos and Isidora appear at the
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: door in the background. The former, after a significant gesture, withdraws,
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: and the latter comes forward, unperceived by Julio and lays
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: her hand upon him, which caused him to start with terror.
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 9: It is done.
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 15: What hast thou done?
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 9: Sister? What have I done?
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 7: Aye?
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 15: There is no evasion, for I know what thou hast done.
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 15: Art thou, my brother, Julio, Undo thy foul attempt, Undo
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 15: it quickly, or by my hopes of heaven, I will
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 15: proclaim it.
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 9: Hold is my turn to be the obdurate. Now dare
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 9: to reveal it. And the lightning's flash is not more
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 9: nimble than the steel shall be to make my vengeance certain.
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 9: Hush they come, my brother, do not, I will stop these. Hush.
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: He supports her enter to music Ferdinand with Velasco, followed
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: by de Lerma, Favello, Carlos, Ladies, knights and banner bearers
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 1: who form in the background.
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 2: Julio, They prompt complaints. Claims are of things I bring
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 2: to thee A brother in that pledge, which is the
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 2: sacred symbol of forgiveness. Griccy each other first, Then trumpets
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 2: sound and lit as all hailed the propitious union in
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 2: flowing cups.
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 9: My lish. My heart goes with it, and I will
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 9: play the ganny meade myself.
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: He leaves Isadora, who stands motionless and unconscious, but gradually
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 1: revives as Velasco speaks. Juyo feels two goblets and hands
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 1: the poisoned one to Velasco, who replaces it on the
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: board so abruptly as to excite Juyo's apprehensions lest he
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: is aware of the treachery. But Velasco advances and frankly
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: offers him his hand.
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 3: Julio, thy hand, thou makest me by this act bankrupt
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 3: in gratitude. I slew thy father, My honor forced me
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 3: while my heart revolted. I will requite thee with a
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 3: brother's kindness, cherish thy sister, with a parent's care, and
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 3: with a lover's duty to our union.
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: As Velasco lifts the garblet, Isidora utters a faint exclamation,
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: which arrests his hand. Julio aside to Isidora.
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 3: Beware, what says the bride?
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 9: Twas not the joy the transport come my union.
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: Isidora, seizing the garblet from Velasco. Trembling, she returns the
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 1: garblet to the cupbearer.
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 3: What wouldst thou, Isidora taste it not?
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 15: Thou wouldst not queft before the bride has sipped.
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 9: I'll not be thwarted by thee.
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 2: Ah prevent him.
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 9: My father aims the blow. It is Gonzales.
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: As Isidora springs to meet Velasco. He falls at her feet.
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: Isidora bending over him.
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 15: Oh, fatal trees and terrible revenge.
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 3: Thy love supports me, and thy are and folds me.
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 3: My ebbing sight heaves its last glance on thee. Thus
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 3: dying death is grateful.
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 15: Oh farewell dies, are you all speechless. I should be,
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 15: were it not. I know that I full soon shall
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 15: follow him. Faint, very faint.
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: Caesar's the poisoned garblet.
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 15: Here's that which shall revive.
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 1: Me, drains it.
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 9: It is the poison goblet.
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: Not a drop remains for thee gazing upon Velasco.
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 15: Alas I only love the brave, the glorious, and the beautiful.
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 15: In death, we are united, never more to part. The
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 15: expiation is complete.
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: She sinks gradually away from the arms of her brother
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: towards Velasco, and curtain falls end of Act five. End
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: of Velasco by EPs Sergeant