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  Speaker 1: Act one of the Dream by Joanna Bailey. This is
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  Speaker 1: Persons of the Drama Ostalou an imperial.
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  Speaker 2: General read by Thomas Peter.
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  Speaker 1: Prior of the Monastery read by Laurie Wilson. Benedict a
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  Speaker 1: monk read by Todd Jerome.
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  Speaker 3: A monk read by Gogan Paul.
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  Speaker 1: A monk read by t. J.
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  Speaker 2: Burns.
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  Speaker 1: Morant officer in the service of the Prior.
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  Speaker 4: Read by Chuck Williamson.
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  Speaker 1: Wolvill raide officer in the service of the Prior read
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  Speaker 1: by Voxanderes Leonora read by Sonia Agnes read by Abbai,
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  Speaker 1: the Imperial Ambassador. Third peasant a woman, first woman sexton.
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  Speaker 5: Read by Leannya, first.
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  Speaker 1: Officer serving under Osterloo. Third servant read by Iva Davis.
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  Speaker 1: First peasant, first servant, first executioner read by Phone, second peasant,
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  Speaker 1: second servant, first monk read by Tricia g Fourth peasant
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  Speaker 1: an old woman, second executioner read by April.
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  Speaker 2: First soldier read by Roger Moline.
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  Speaker 6: Second soldier read by Allan Mapstone.
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  Speaker 1: Third soldier read Peasant, a lay brother, The First Gentleman
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  Speaker 1: read by Philip.
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  Speaker 7: Goom, A Monk read by Jim Lark.
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  Speaker 1: Stage directions read by Sandra Schmidt. Scene Monastery of Saint
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  Speaker 1: Maurice in Switzerland, a castle near it, time the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the fourteenth century. The dream act one seen one
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  Speaker 1: a court within the monastery, with the grated iron gate
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  Speaker 1: opening into an outer court, through which are seen several
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  Speaker 1: peasants waiting. Jerome is discovered on the front of the stage,
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  Speaker 1: walking backwards and forwards in a disturbed manner, then stopping
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  Speaker 1: and speaking to himself.
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  Speaker 3: Twice in one night, the same awful vision repeated, and
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  Speaker 3: Paul also terrified with a similar visitation. This is no
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  Speaker 3: common accidental memicry of sleep, the shreds and remnants of
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  Speaker 3: our day thoughts put together at night in some fantastic
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  Speaker 3: in congress form, as the drifting clouds of a broken
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  Speaker 3: up storm peaced themselves again into uncertain shapes of rocks
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  Speaker 3: and animals. No, No, there must be some great and
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  Speaker 3: momentous meaning in this.
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  Speaker 1: Enter, benedicts behind him, some great and momentous meaning in
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  Speaker 1: this what art thou a musing upon?
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  Speaker 3: Be satisfied, Be satisfied. It is not always fitting that
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  Speaker 3: the mind should lay open the things it is busy
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  Speaker 3: withal though an articulate sound may sometimes escape it to
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  Speaker 3: set curiosity on the rack. Where is brother Paul? Is
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  Speaker 3: he still at his devotions?
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  Speaker 8: I believe so, But look for the poor peasants are
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  Speaker 8: waiting without. It is the hour when they expect our benefactions.
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  Speaker 8: Go and speak to them. Thou hast always been their
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  Speaker 8: favorite confessor, and they want consolation.
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  Speaker 1: Beckoning the peasants, who thereupon advance through the gate, while
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  Speaker 1: Jerom stretches out his hand to prevent them.
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  Speaker 3: Stop. There come not within the gates. I charge you
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  Speaker 3: at funds no, Father.
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  Speaker 1: To Benedict angrily.
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  Speaker 3: There's death and contagion in every one of them, and
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  Speaker 3: yet thou wouldst admit them so near us? Dost thou
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  Speaker 3: indeed expect a miracle to be wrought in our behalf?
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  Speaker 3: Are we not flesh and blood? And does not the
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  Speaker 3: grave yawn for us as well as other men?
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  Speaker 1: To the peasants, still more vehemently.
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  Speaker 3: Turn, I charge you and retire without the gate.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, be not.
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  Speaker 9: So stern with us, good Father. There are ten new
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  Speaker 9: corpses in the village since yesterday, and scarcely ten men
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  Speaker 9: left in it with strength enough to bury them. The
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  Speaker 9: best half of the village are now underground. Who but
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  Speaker 9: three weeks gone by. We're all alive and well. Oh,
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  Speaker 9: do not try it us away.
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  Speaker 10: God knows if any of us shall ever enter these
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  Speaker 10: gates again. And it revives us to come once a
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  Speaker 10: day to receive your blessings.
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  Speaker 3: Good fathers, well, and you shall have our blessing. My children,
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  Speaker 3: come not so near us. We are mortal man like yourselves,
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  Speaker 3: and there is contagion about you.
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  Speaker 9: Ah No, No, Saint Maurice will take care of his own.
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  Speaker 9: There is no fear of you. Fathers.
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  Speaker 3: I hope he will, but it is presumptuous to tempt danger. Retire.
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  Speaker 3: I beseech you, and you shall have relief given to
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  Speaker 3: you without the gates. If you have any love for us, retire.
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  Speaker 1: The peasants retire well.
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  Speaker 8: I feel a strong faith within me that our Saint
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  Speaker 8: or some other good spirit will take care of us.
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  Speaker 8: How is it that thou art so alarmed and so
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  Speaker 8: vehement with these good people? It is not thy usual temper.
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  Speaker 3: Be satisfied. I pray thee I cannot tell THEE. Now
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  Speaker 3: leave me to myself a little while, would to God
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  Speaker 3: brother Paul wear come to me hah, here he is, and.
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  Speaker 1: To Paul and to room. After waiting impatiently till Benedict retires,
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  Speaker 1: advances to him eagerly.
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  Speaker 3: Was it to a spot near the black monument in
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  Speaker 3: the stranger's burying vault?
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  Speaker 11: That it pointed yes to the very spot described by
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  Speaker 11: THEE yesterday morning when thou first toldst Me of thy dream?
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  Speaker 11: And indeed every circumstance of my last night's vision strongly
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  Speaker 11: resembled thine, or rather, I should say, was the same.
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  Speaker 11: The fixed frown of its ghastly face.
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  Speaker 3: I and the majestic motion of its limbs. Did it
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  Speaker 3: not wear a mantle over its right shoulder, as if
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  Speaker 3: for concealment rather than grace?
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  Speaker 10: I know not.
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  Speaker 11: I did not mark that. But it strode before me
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  Speaker 11: as distinctly as ever mortal man did before my waking sight,
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  Speaker 11: and yet as no mortal man ever did before the
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  Speaker 11: waking sight.
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  Speaker 3: But it appeared to THEE only once.
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  Speaker 11: Only once, for I waked under such a deep hoore
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  Speaker 11: that I durst not go to sleep again.
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  Speaker 3: When it first appeared to me, as I told THEE
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  Speaker 3: the night before last the form, though distinctly was, but
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  Speaker 3: faintly imaged forth, and methought it rose more powerfully to
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  Speaker 3: my imagination as I told it to thee than in
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  Speaker 3: the dream itself. But last night, when it returned, it
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  Speaker 3: was far more vivid than before I waked. Indeed, as
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  Speaker 3: thou didst impressed with a deep horror, yet irresistible, sleep
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  Speaker 3: seized upon me again. And oh how it appeared to
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  Speaker 3: me the third time, like a palpable horrid reality. After
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  Speaker 3: a pause, what is to be done?
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  Speaker 11: What can be done? We can stop no division of
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  Speaker 11: the Imperial army till one shall really march by this pass.
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  Speaker 3: And this is not likely, for I received a letter
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  Speaker 3: from a friend two days ago, by an express messenger,
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  Speaker 3: who says he had delayed sending it, hoping to have
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  Speaker 3: it conveyed to me by one of Count Ostolo's soldiers, who,
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  Speaker 3: with his division, should have marched through our pass, but
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  Speaker 3: was now he believed, to conduct them by a different route.
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  Speaker 11: What noise and commotion is that near the gate?
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  Speaker 1: Calling to those without?
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  Speaker 11: Oh there, what is the matter?
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  Speaker 1: First peasant without nothing?
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  Speaker 9: Father? That we hear a trumpet at a distance, and
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  Speaker 9: they say there is an army marching amongst the mountains.
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  Speaker 3: By all our holy saints.
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  Speaker 1: If it be so, Calling again to the first peasant.
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  Speaker 3: Are you sure it is trumpets?
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  Speaker 9: You hear as sure as we ever heard any sound.
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  Speaker 9: And here is the lad too, who saw from the
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  Speaker 9: topmost crag with his own eyes, their banners waving at
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  Speaker 9: the distance, Jerome.
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  Speaker 3: To Paul, what thing'st thou of it?
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  Speaker 11: We must go to the prior and reveal the hale
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  Speaker 11: to him directly. Our own lives and those of the
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  Speaker 11: whole brotherhood depend upon it. There can be no hesitation.
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  Speaker 3: Now come, then, lose no time. We have a solemn
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  Speaker 3: duty imposed upon us.
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  Speaker 1: Exeuned seen to an open space by the gate of
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  Speaker 1: the monastery, with the view of the building on one side,
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  Speaker 1: while rocks and mountains wildly grand appear in every other direction,
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  Speaker 1: and a narrow pass through the mountains opening to the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the stage. Several peasants, both men and women,
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  Speaker 1: are discovered, waiting, as if to see some sight. A
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  Speaker 1: trumpet and warlike music heard at a little distance.
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  Speaker 9: Here, how it echoes amongst the rocks. It is your
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  Speaker 9: true wharlike sound that makes a man's heart stir within him,
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  Speaker 9: and his feet beat ground. To its measure.
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  Speaker 10: Ah, what have our heart to do with it?
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  Speaker 12: Now?
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  Speaker 10: Miserable as we are, what.
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  Speaker 9: Have we to do with it? Speak for thyself. Were
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  Speaker 9: I to be laid in the grave this very night,
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  Speaker 9: it would rouse me to hear those sounds which remind
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  Speaker 9: me of the Battle of Lopin.
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  Speaker 10: Well, look not too proudly at me. Though I have
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  Speaker 10: not yet fought for my country. I am of a
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  Speaker 10: good stock. Nevertheless, my father lost his life at Morgarten.
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  Speaker 1: Calling up to Morrand, who now appears scrambling down the
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  Speaker 1: sides of the rocks?
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  Speaker 10: Are they near us, Lieutenant?
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  Speaker 4: They'll be here in a trice. I know their ensigns already.
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  Speaker 4: They are those brave fellows under the command of Count Osterloo,
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  Speaker 4: who did such good service to the Emperor in his
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  Speaker 4: last battle.
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  Speaker 5: Ay they be goodly men, no doubt, and bravely acuted.
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  Speaker 13: I warranty, I there be many a brave man amongst them.
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  Speaker 13: I trow, returning to his mother again. My Hubert never returned.
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  Speaker 1: The second peasant to Morant.
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  Speaker 10: Count Osterloo, who is he?
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  Speaker 4: Didst thou never hear of him? He has been in
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  Speaker 4: as many battles as thou hast been in harvest.
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  Speaker 10: Fields and won them too.
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  Speaker 4: Nay, some of them he has won, and some he
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  Speaker 4: has lost. But whether his own side were fighting or flying,
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  Speaker 4: he always kept his ground or retreated like a man.
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  Speaker 4: The enemy never saw his back.
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  Speaker 9: True, Lieutenant, I once knew an old soldier of Osterloos
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  Speaker 9: who boasted much of his general, for his men are
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  Speaker 9: proud of him, and would go through flood and flame
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  Speaker 9: for his sake.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, he is affable and indulgent to them, although passionate
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  Speaker 4: and unreasonable when provoked, and has been known to punish
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  Speaker 4: even his great It is to favorite severely for a
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  Speaker 4: slight offense. I remember well the officer I first served under,
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  Speaker 4: being a man of this kidney.
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  Speaker 9: The gates are thrown open, and yondercome the monks in procession,
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  Speaker 9: with the Prior at their head.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Prior and monks from the monastery, and range themselves
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  Speaker 1: on one side of the stage prior to the peasants.
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  Speaker 14: Retire, my children, and don't come so near us. Don't
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  Speaker 14: stand near the soldiers as they passed neither, but go
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  Speaker 14: to your houses.
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  Speaker 5: Oh BLESSINGT. Marris and your holy reverence. We see nothing
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  Speaker 5: now but coffins and burials, and hear nothing but the
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  Speaker 5: ticking of the death watch and the tolling of bowls.
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  Speaker 5: Do you let us stand here and look at the
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  Speaker 5: brave site. Lord knows of any of us maybe above
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  Speaker 5: ground to see such another, And at words pass this
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  Speaker 5: way but a week.
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  Speaker 14: Hence be it soul than daughter. But keep at a
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  Speaker 14: distance on the rocks, where you may see everything without
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  Speaker 14: communicating infection.
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  Speaker 1: The peasants retire, climbing amongst the rocks, then enter by
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  Speaker 1: the narrow pass at the bottom of the stage, soldiers
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  Speaker 1: marching to martial music with officers and osterlou Prior advancing
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  Speaker 1: and lifting up his hands with solemnity.
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  Speaker 14: Soldiers and officers, and the noble chief commanding this band
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  Speaker 14: in the name of our patron, Saint Maurice, once like yourselves,
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  Speaker 14: a valiant soldier upon earth, now a wholly powerful saint
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  Speaker 14: in heaven. I conjure you to halt.
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  Speaker 1: First officer in the foremost.
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  Speaker 15: Rank, say you, sir, Reverend Prior, to men pressing forward
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  Speaker 15: as we do, to shutter our heads for the night,
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  Speaker 15: and a cold wintry sun going down so fast upon us.
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  Speaker 16: By my faith, if we pass the night here amongst
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  Speaker 16: the mountains, it will take something besides prayers and benedictions
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  Speaker 16: to keep us alive.
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  Speaker 6: Night here among sham and eagles, some miracle, no doubt,
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  Speaker 6: will be wrought for our accommodation.
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  Speaker 15: Murmur not, my friends. Here comes your general, who is
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  Speaker 15: always careful of you.
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  Speaker 1: Ostelou, advancing from the rear. What is the matter prior
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  Speaker 1: to Ostelou?
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  Speaker 17: You are the commander in chief, Yes, Reverend father, and
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  Speaker 17: with all respect and deference, let me say the night
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  Speaker 17: advances first upon us.
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  Speaker 2: Martini is still at a good distance, and we must
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  Speaker 2: not be detained. With many thanks, then, for your intended civilities,
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  Speaker 2: we beg your prayers, Holy Prior, with those of your
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  Speaker 2: pious monks, and crave leave to pass on our.
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  Speaker 1: Way, prior lifting his hands as before.
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  Speaker 14: If there be any piety in brave men, I condure you,
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  Speaker 14: in the name of Saint Maurice, to halt. The lives
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  Speaker 14: of our whole community depend upon it, men who for
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  Speaker 14: your lives have offered to Heaven many prayers.
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  Speaker 2: How may this be, my Lord, who will attack your
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  Speaker 2: sacred walls, that you should want any defense.
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  Speaker 14: We want not general, the service of your arms. My
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  Speaker 14: own troops, with the brave captain who commands them, are
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  Speaker 14: sufficient to defend us from mortal foes.
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  Speaker 16: Must we fight with devils?
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  Speaker 13: Then?
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  Speaker 2: Must we fight with devils?
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  Speaker 12: Then?
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  Speaker 6: Must we fight with the devils?
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  Speaker 2: Then be quiet, my good comrades to prim well, my lord, proceed.
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  Speaker 14: A fatal pestilence rages in this neighborhood, and by command
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  Speaker 14: of a vision which has appeared three times to the
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  Speaker 14: senior of our order, and also to another of our brotherhood,
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  Speaker 14: threatening in case of disobedience, that the whole community should
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  Speaker 14: all victims to the dreadful disease. We are compelled to
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  Speaker 14: conjure you.
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  Speaker 2: To halt, and for what purpose that we may.
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  Speaker 14: Choose by lot from the first division of the Imperial Army,
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  Speaker 14: which marches through this pass. So did the vision precisely
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  Speaker 14: direct us a man who shall spend one night within
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  Speaker 14: the walls of our monastery there to undergo certain penances
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  Speaker 14: for the expiation of long concealed guilt.
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  Speaker 2: This is very strange. By lot, did you say it
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  Speaker 2: will be tedious? There are a hundred of my men
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  Speaker 2: who will volunteer this service.
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  Speaker 16: What say the soldiers willingly general if you desire it?
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  Speaker 16: Yet I marvel what greater virtue there can be in
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  Speaker 16: beleaguering the war worn hide of a poor soldier than
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  Speaker 16: the fat sides of a well fed monk.
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  Speaker 2: Wilt thou do it?
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  Speaker 12: Then? Aye?
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  Speaker 16: And more than that willingly for my general. It is
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  Speaker 16: not the first time a cat in nine tails has
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  Speaker 16: been across my back for other men's misdeeds. Promise me
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  Speaker 16: a good flask of brandy when I'm done with it,
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  Speaker 16: and I warrant you I'll never winch as to the
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  Speaker 16: saying of paternosters, if there be anything of that kind
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  Speaker 16: tact to it, I let you to wit. My dexterity
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  Speaker 16: is but small.
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  Speaker 2: Then be it as thou wilt, my good friend. Yet
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  Speaker 2: I had as lief my own skin should smart for
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  Speaker 2: it as thine. Thou art such a valiant.
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  Speaker 14: Fellow, No noble general, this must not be. We must
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  Speaker 14: have our men chosen by lot, the lives of the
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  Speaker 14: whole community depending upon it. We must strictly obey the vision.
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  Speaker 2: It will detain us long.
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  Speaker 14: Nay, my lord, the lots are already prepared. In the
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  Speaker 14: first place, six men only shall draw, for representing the
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  Speaker 14: soldiers and to the officers. If the soldiers are taken,
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  Speaker 14: they shall draw by companies, and the company that is
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  Speaker 14: taken shall draw individually. But if the lot falls to
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  Speaker 14: the officers, each of them shall draw for himself.
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  Speaker 2: Let it be so you have arranged it well, produce
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  Speaker 2: the lots.
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  Speaker 1: The prior, giving the sign among advances, bearing a stand
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  Speaker 1: on which are placed three vases, and sets it near
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  Speaker 1: the front of the stage.
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  Speaker 14: Now, brave soldiers, let four from your body advance.
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  Speaker 1: Ostolou points to four men who advance from the ranks.
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  Speaker 2: And two from the offices.
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  Speaker 1: My lord, even so, noble Count ostelu Dan points to
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  Speaker 1: two officers, who, with the four soldiers, draw lots from
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  Speaker 1: the smallest vays, directed by the prior. First soldier, speaking
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  Speaker 1: to his comrades as the others are drawing.
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  Speaker 16: This is strange mummery of faith. But it would have
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  Speaker 16: been no joke I supposed to have offended Saint Maurice prior.
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  Speaker 1: After examining the.
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  Speaker 14: Lots, soldiers, ye are free. It is your officers who
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  Speaker 14: are taken.
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  Speaker 1: First, sojia, as before, ha.
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  Speaker 16: The vision is dainty. It seems it is not vulgar
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  Speaker 16: blood like ours, that will serve to stain the ends
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  Speaker 16: of his holy lash.
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  Speaker 1: A monk, having removed two of the vases, the prior
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  Speaker 1: beckons the officers to draw from the remaining.
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  Speaker 14: One stand not on order. Let him who is near
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  Speaker 14: us put in his hand first.
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  Speaker 1: First sodier aside to the others. As the officers are drawing.
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  Speaker 16: Now by these arms, I would give a month's pay
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  Speaker 16: that the lotch had fallen our prim pompous lieutenant. It
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  Speaker 16: would be well worth the money to look in at
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  Speaker 16: one of their narrow windows and see his dignified backbone
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  Speaker 16: wenching under the hands of a good.
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  Speaker 1: Browni ostelo Aside unrolling his lot.
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  Speaker 2: Mighty Heaven is fate or chance in.
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  Speaker 1: This first officer aside to Osteloo.
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  Speaker 15: Have you got a general? Trains it for mine?
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  Speaker 2: If you have no, No, my noble Albert, let us
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  Speaker 2: be honest. But thanks to thy generous frenchship.
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  Speaker 14: Now show the lots.
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  Speaker 1: All the officers show their lots, excepting Osteloo, who continues
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  Speaker 1: gloomy and thoughtful.
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  Speaker 14: Has no one drawn the sable scrawl of election to Osteloo?
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  Speaker 14: You are silent, my lord? Of what color is your lot?
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  Speaker 1: Osteloo holding out his.
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  Speaker 2: Scroll black as midnight?
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  Speaker 1: So just quit their ranks and crowd round Osteloo tumultuously.
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  Speaker 16: Has it fallen upon our general? Tis a damned an
• 21:00
  Speaker 16: unfair lot.
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  Speaker 6: We will not leave him behind us, though a hundred
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: Saint Morrises commanded it.
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  Speaker 12: Get within your walls again, ye cunning friars.
• 21:14
  Speaker 16: And we should be in the open air all night.
• 21:17
  Speaker 16: We will not leave brave Master Lou behind us.
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  Speaker 14: Prior to Ostolou, Count you seem gloomy and irresolute. Have
• 21:27
  Speaker 14: the goodness to silence these clamors. I am, in truth
• 21:31
  Speaker 14: as sorry as any of your soldiers can be, that
• 21:33
  Speaker 14: the lot has fallen upon you.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: First officer assigned to Osteloo.
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  Speaker 15: Nay, my noble friend, let me fulfill the spenance in
• 21:43
  Speaker 15: your stead. It is not now a time for scruples.
• 21:46
  Speaker 15: The soldiers will be mutiness.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Mutiness soldiers return to your ranks.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Looking at them sternly as they seem unwillingly to obey.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Will you brave me so far that I must repeat
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: my command?
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: They retire?
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  Speaker 2: I thank thee Dear Albert to first officer, thou shalt
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: do something in my stead, but it shall not be
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: the service thou thinkest of to prior Reverend father. I
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: am indeed somewhat struck at being marked out by fate
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: from so many men. But as to how I shall act,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: thereupon no wise irresolute to the soldiers, continue your march.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: The brave Albert shall conduct you to Martini, and there
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: you will remain under his command till I join you again.
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  Speaker 16: God preserve you, then, my noble general. And if you
• 22:48
  Speaker 16: do not join us again by tomorrow evening safe and sound,
• 22:52
  Speaker 16: we will not leave one stone of that building standing
• 22:55
  Speaker 16: on another.
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  Speaker 2: So sore.
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  Speaker 1: Ostelu, assuming a cheerful look.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Go to foolish fellows. Were you to leave me in
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: a den of lines, you could not be more apprehensive.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: We're watching all night by some holy shrine, or walking
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: barefoot through their midnight aisles. Be such a hardship to
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: one who has passed so many nights with you all
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: on the cold field of battle. Continue your march without delay,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: else these good fathers will count you no better than
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: a band of new raised city troops with some jolly
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: tangled chief of your leader. A good march to you,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: my friends, with kind hostesses and warm firesides where you are.
• 23:43
  Speaker 16: Going, Ah, what good will our firesides do us when
• 23:48
  Speaker 16: we think how our general is lodged.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Farewell, march on as quickly as you may. You shall
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: all drink my health tomorrow evening in a good hogshead
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: of Rhenish.
• 24:00
  Speaker 16: Wh God grant we may to prayer look to it,
• 24:05
  Speaker 16: Reverend Prior, If our General be not with us by
• 24:09
  Speaker 16: tomorrow's sunset, Saint Marie shall neither have monastery nor monks
• 24:13
  Speaker 16: on this mountain no more.
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  Speaker 1: Embracing first officer and shaking hands with.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Others, farewell, farewell.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: The soldiers, after giving him a loud cheer, march off
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: with their officers to martial music, and exioned Ostolou Prior
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: and monks into the monastery, while the peasants disappear amongst
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the rocks. Manon Morand and Agnes, who has for some
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: time appeared looking over a.
• 24:42
  Speaker 18: Crag, Morom, morom.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Art thou there I might have guessed, indeed, that so
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: brave a sight would not escape thee What made thee
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: perch thyself like an eagle upon such a crag as that.
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  Speaker 18: Ah TIEDE not good, moron, But help me down, lest
• 25:05
  Speaker 18: I pay dearer price for my sight than thou, with
• 25:08
  Speaker 18: all that grumbling, wouldst wish he.
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  Speaker 1: Helps her down.
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  Speaker 4: And now thou art going no doubt to tell the
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: lady Leonora, what a band of gallant fellows thou hast seen.
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  Speaker 18: Assuredly, if I can find in my heart to speak
• 25:24
  Speaker 18: of any but their noble leader, What is his name?
• 25:28
  Speaker 18: What meaning had all that drawing of lots in it?
• 25:31
  Speaker 18: What will the monks do with him? Walk with me
• 25:34
  Speaker 18: a little way towards the castle, brave mourn and tell
• 25:38
  Speaker 18: me what thou knowest.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: I should walk to the castle in miles beyond it too.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Here I could answer so many questions, and I have
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: duty in the monastery.
• 25:49
  Speaker 18: Besides, come with me a little way at least.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: Which thou knowest too well, that I must always do
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: what thou biddest mean me.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Exhemed Scene three, the refectory of the monastery, with a
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: small table on which I placed refreshments discovered in one
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  Speaker 1: corner enter Osterloo, Prior Benedict, Jerome and Paul et cetera.
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  Speaker 14: Noble Astrolou. Let me welcome you here as one appointed
• 26:20
  Speaker 14: by Heaven to purchase our deliverance from this dreadful malady.
• 26:25
  Speaker 14: And I hope the price to be paid for it
• 26:27
  Speaker 14: will not be a heavy one. Yet, ere we proceed
• 26:31
  Speaker 14: further in this matter. Be entreated, I pray to take
• 26:34
  Speaker 14: some refreshment after your long march.
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  Speaker 1: The table is placed near the front of the stage.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, my lord. This is a gentle beginning to
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: my penance. I will, then, by.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Your leave, sitting down at the table.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: I have fasted long and am indeed somewhat exhausted.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: After taking some refreshment.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, my poor soldiers, you must still endure two hours
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: weary march before you find such indulgence. Your wine is good,
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Reverend father, I.
• 27:09
  Speaker 14: Am glad you find it so.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: It is old, and your violumes are good too, and
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: your bread is delicious.
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  Speaker 1: Drinking another cup, I.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Shall have vigor now for anything. Pray tell me something
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: more of this wonderful vision. Was it a saint or
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: an angel that appeared to the senior brother prior?
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Pointing to Jerome.
• 27:34
  Speaker 14: He will answer for himself.
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  Speaker 1: And pointing to Paul, this man saw it also.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: It was neither angel nor saint, noble count, but a
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: mortal form, wonderfully noble, And.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: It appeared to you in the usual manner of a dream.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: It did, at least I know no sensible distinction. A
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: wavy envelopment of darkness preceded it, from which appearances seemed
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: dimly to wake into form, till all was presented before
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: me in the full strength of reality.
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  Speaker 11: Nay, brother, it broke upon me at once, a vivid,
• 28:14
  Speaker 11: distinct apparition.
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  Speaker 2: Well be that as it may. What did appear to you,
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: a mortal man and very noble.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, General methought. I was returning from Mars through the
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: cloisters that led from the chapel, when a figure, as
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: I have said, appeared to me and beckoned me to
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: follow it. I did follow it, For at first I
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: was neither afraid nor even surprised. But so wonderfully it
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: rose in stature and dignity as it strode before me
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: that it reached the door of the Stranger's burying vault,
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: I was struck with unaccountable awe.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: The stranger's bearing vault.
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  Speaker 14: Does any sudden far strike you? Count?
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: No? No, here is your health, father?
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Drinking your wine is excellent.
• 29:09
  Speaker 14: But that is water you have just now swallowed it.
• 29:12
  Speaker 14: This is the wine, ha ha is it no matter?
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: No matter? It is very good too.
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  Speaker 1: A long pause, Ostra Loo, with his eyes fixed thoughtfully
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: on the ground, shall let.
• 29:27
  Speaker 14: Our brother proceed with his story.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: General, most certainly I've been listening for it.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Well, then, as I have said, at the door of
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: the Stranger's burying vault. It stopped and beckoned me again.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: It entered, and I followed it there through the damp,
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: moldering tombs. It strode still before me till it came
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: to the farther extremity, as nearly as I could guess,
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: two yards westward from the black Marble monument, and then
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: stopping an turning on me its fixed and ghastly eyes,
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: it stretched out its hands.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Its hands, did you say, its hands?
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: It stretched out one of them, the other was covered
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: with its mantle. And then the voice that sounded. I
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: know not how it sounded.
• 30:20
  Speaker 11: Aie, brother, it was something like a voice, at least
• 30:24
  Speaker 11: it conveyed words to the mind, though it was not
• 30:30
  Speaker 11: like a voice.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: Neither be that as you please, these words it solemnly uttered,
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Command the brothers of this monastery, on pain of falling
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: victims to the pestilence now devastating the country, to stop
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: on its way the first division of the Imperial Army,
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: that shall march through your mountain pass and choose from
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: it by lot a man who shall abide one night
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: within these walls to make expiation for long concealed guilt.
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  Speaker 3: Let the suffering be such as the nature of the
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: crime and the connection of the expiator. Therewith shall dictate,
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: this spot of earth shall reveal. It said no more,
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: but bent its eyes steadfastly upon me with a stern,
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: threatening frown, which became, as it looked, keener than the
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: looks of any mortal being, and vanished from my sight.
• 31:26
  Speaker 11: Aye, that look, that last terrible look. It awoke me
• 31:33
  Speaker 11: with terror, and I know not how it vanished.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: This has been repeated to me three times last night,
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: twice in the course of the night, while brother Paul
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: here was at the same time terrified with a similar apparition.
• 31:48
  Speaker 14: This you will acknowledge, count was no common visitation, and
• 31:53
  Speaker 14: could not but trouble us.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: You say, well, yet it was a dream.
• 32:01
  Speaker 14: Two, It was but a dream. And as such these
• 32:05
  Speaker 14: pious men strove to consider it when the march of
• 32:08
  Speaker 14: your troops across our mountains, a thing so unlikely to happen,
• 32:12
  Speaker 14: compelled them to reveal to me without loss of time,
• 32:16
  Speaker 14: what had appeared to them.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: A tall figure, you say, and of a noble aspect.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Like that of a king, though habited more in the
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: garb of a foreign soldier of fortune than of a
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: state so dignified.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Ostelu rises from the table, agitated.
• 32:35
  Speaker 14: What is the matter?
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: General?
• 32:36
  Speaker 14: Will you not finish your repast?
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: I thank you? I had enough. The night grows cold.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: I would rather walk.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Than sit, going hastily to the bottom of the stage
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: and pacing to and fro Jerome aside to Paul and
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: the Prior.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: But think ye of this.
• 32:58
  Speaker 14: His countenance changed times as he listened to you. There
• 33:03
  Speaker 14: is something here different from common surprise. On hearing a
• 33:06
  Speaker 14: wonderful thing.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Enter a peasant by the bottom of the stage bearing
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: a torch. Peasant eagerly as he enters. We have found it, Ostelu,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: stopping short in his walk.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: What hast thou found?
• 33:22
  Speaker 12: What the Prior desired us to dig?
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: For?
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: What is that?
• 33:27
  Speaker 12: A grave?
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Ostolu turns from him suddenly and paces up and down
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: very rapidly prior to peasant.
• 33:36
  Speaker 14: Thou hast found it?
• 33:38
  Speaker 12: I please you, And in the very spot near the
• 33:41
  Speaker 12: black monument where your reverence desired us to dig. And
• 33:45
  Speaker 12: it is well you sent for my kinsman and I
• 33:47
  Speaker 12: to do it, for there is not a lay brother
• 33:49
  Speaker 12: in the monastery strong enough to raise up the great
• 33:52
  Speaker 12: stones that covered it.
• 33:53
  Speaker 14: In the very spot, sayest thou.
• 33:56
  Speaker 12: In the very spot, bear thy.
• 33:59
  Speaker 14: Torch before us, and we'll follow them.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Let us go immediately prior to Osterloo, who stands fixed
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: to the spot.
• 34:09
  Speaker 14: Will not count Osterloo go. Also it is fitty that
• 34:12
  Speaker 14: he should.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Osterloo rousing himself.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, most assuredly, I am perfectly ready to follow you.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Exioned and of Act one, Act two of the Dream
• 34:34
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• 34:39
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• 34:42
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• 34:48
  Speaker 1: a burying vault, almost totally dark, the monuments and gravestones
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: being seen very dimly by the light of a single
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: torch stuck by the side of a deep open grave,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: in which which Sexton is discovered standing leaning on his
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: mattock and mourned above ground, turning up with his sheath's sword.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: The loose earth about the mouth of the grave.
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: There is neither skull nor bone amongst this earth. The
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: ground must have been newly broken up when that coffin
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: was let down into it.
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: So worn should think. But the earth here has the
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: quality of consuming whatever is put into it. In a
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: marvelous short.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: Time aye, the flesh and more consumable parts of a body,
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: but had the grinders in its jaws like your carnivorous animal,
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: to crunch up bones and all. I have seen bones
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: in an old field of battle, some hundred years after
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: the action, lying whitened and hard in the sun.
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: Well, ain't be new ground. I warrant to you. Somebody
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: has paid money enough for such a good tenement.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: Does this?
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: I could not wish My own father are better.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Morrant. Looking down, the.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: Coffin is of an uncommon size. There must be a
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: leaden one within it, I should think.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: I doubt that it is only a clumsy shell that
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: has been put together in haste, And I'll be hanged
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: if he who made it ever made another before it.
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: Now it would pine me with vexation to think I
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: should be laid in such a bungled piece of workmanship
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: as this.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: Ay, it is well for those who shall bury thee sexton,
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: that thou wilt not be a looker on at thine
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: own funeral. Put together in haste, sayest thou, how long
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: may it be since this coffin was laid in the
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: ground by my fain?
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: Now I cannot tell, though many a grave I have
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: dug in this vault instead of the lay brothers, who
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: are mighty apt to take make a colic or shortness
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: of breath or the like when anything of hard labor
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: falls to their share.
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  Speaker 1: After pausing, ha, now I have it.
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  Speaker 5: When I went over the mountains some ten years ago
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: to visit my father in law Baldwick, the stranger who
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: died the other day after living so long as a
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: hermit amongst the rocks, came here, and it was shrewly
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: suspected he had to leave from our late prior for
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: a good sum of money to bury a body privately
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: in this vault. I was a fool not to think
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: of it before this. I'll be sworn for it is
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: the place.
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  Speaker 1: Enter the prior Osterloo Jerome, Paul Benedict and other monks,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: with the peasant carrying light before them. They enter by
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: an arched door at the bottom of the stage and
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: walk on to the front, when everyone but Osteloo crowds
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: eagerly to the grave, looking down into it. Prior to Sexton.
• 37:58
  Speaker 14: What hast thou found, fred m the coffin ain't please you?
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: And other size too that might almost contain a giant.
• 38:07
  Speaker 8: They're an inscription on it.
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: No, No, they who put these planks together had no
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: time for inscriptions.
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  Speaker 3: Break it out, break it over, break it open.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: They crowed more eagerly about the grave, when, after a pause,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: the sexton is heard wrenching open the lid of the coffin.
• 38:29
  Speaker 11: What is there is there in it?
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: What has the found? Sexton?
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: An entire skeleton and of no common size?
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Is it entire?
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Sexton?
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  Speaker 5: After a pause, No, the right hand is wanting, and
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: there is not a loose bone in the coffin.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Osta Lou shudders and steps back. Jerome till Prior. After
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: a pause, will you.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: Not speak to him? Father? His countenance has changed, and
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: his whole frame seems smooth by some sudden convulsion.
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  Speaker 1: The Prior remained silent.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: How is this? You are also changed, Reverend Father? Shall
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: I speak to him?
• 39:10
  Speaker 14: Speak thou to him?
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Jerome, to Osteloo, what is the matter with you?
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: General? Has some sudden malady seized you?
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Osteloo to Jerome.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Let me be alone with you, Holy Prior, Let me
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: be alone with you.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Instantly, Jerome, pointing this is the Prior.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: He would be alone with you, Father, he would make
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: his confession to you.
• 39:35
  Speaker 14: I dare not hear him alone. There must be witnesses.
• 39:39
  Speaker 14: Let him come with me to.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: My apartment, Jerome, to ostoloo as they leave.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: The grave, let me conduct you count.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: After walking from it? Some paces?
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: Come on, my lord? Why do you stop short?
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Not this way? Not this way? I pray you?
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: What is it you would avoid?
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Turn aside? I pray you. I cannot cross over?
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: This?
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: Is it the grave? You mean we have left it
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: behind us?
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Is it not there? It yawns across our path directly
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: before us?
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: Indeed, my lord, it is some paces behind.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: There is delusion in my sight. Then lead me as.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Thou wilt exhumed. Scene too, the private apartment of the
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Prior and her Benedict looking round as he enters.
• 40:35
  Speaker 8: Not yet come. A penitent is not very swift of foot.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Speaking to himself as he walks up and down.
• 40:44
  Speaker 8: Miserable man, brave, goodly creature, but alas alas most subdued,
• 40:52
  Speaker 8: most miserable, and I fear most guilty. Enter, Jerome, You're
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: wrong here? Dost thou know, brother, that the Prior is
• 41:03
  Speaker 8: coming here immediately to confess the penitent?
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: Yes, brother, but I am no intruder, for he has
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: summoned me to attend the confession as well as thyself.
• 41:14
  Speaker 8: Methinks some other person of our order, unconcerned with the
• 41:18
  Speaker 8: dreaming part of this business, would have been a less
• 41:21
  Speaker 8: suspicious witness.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: Suspicious am I more concerned in this than any other
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: member of our community. Heaven appoints its own agents, as
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: it listeth the stones of these walls might have declared
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: its awful will as well as the dreams of a poor, friar.
• 41:40
  Speaker 8: True brother Jerome. Could they listen to confessions as he
• 41:44
  Speaker 8: does and hold reveries upon them afterwards?
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: What dost thou mean with thy reveries and confessions? Did
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: not Paul see the terrible visions as well as I?
• 41:55
  Speaker 8: If thou hadst not revealed thy dream to him, he
• 41:58
  Speaker 8: would have slept sound enough, or at worst have but
• 42:02
  Speaker 8: flown over the pinnacles with his old mate the horned
• 42:05
  Speaker 8: Serpent as usual. And had the hermit Baldwick never made
• 42:09
  Speaker 8: his deathbed confession to thee, thou wouldst never have had
• 42:12
  Speaker 8: such a dream to reveal.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: Thinkest thou so? Then? What brought Ostollo and his troops
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: so unexpectedly by this route? With all thy heretical dislike
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: to miraculous interposition. How wilt thou account for this.
• 42:28
  Speaker 8: If thou hadst no secret intelligence of Osterloo's route to
• 42:31
  Speaker 8: set thy fancy a workin on the story the hermit
• 42:34
  Speaker 8: confessed to THEE, I never wore owl on my head.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: Those indeed, who hear THEE speak so lightly of mysterious
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: and holy things will scarcely believe thou ever didst.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: But hush.
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: The Priy comes with his penitent. Let us have no altercation.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Now enter Priya and Ostoloo. Priya, after a pause in
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: which he seems agitated.
• 42:59
  Speaker 14: No, Count, Ostoloo, we are ready to hear your confession
• 43:05
  Speaker 14: to myself and these pious monks, men appointed by our
• 43:09
  Speaker 14: holy religion to search into the crimes of the penitent.
• 43:13
  Speaker 14: Unburthen your heart of its terrible secret, and God grant
• 43:17
  Speaker 14: you afterwards, if it be his righteous will, repentance and mercy.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Ostelou making a sign as if unable to speak, then
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: uttering rapidly.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: Presently, presently, don't hurry him, Reverend father, he cannot speak.
• 43:33
  Speaker 8: Take breath, awhile, noble Austerlu and speak to us when
• 43:37
  Speaker 8: you can.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: I thank you.
• 43:41
  Speaker 8: He is much agitated to Ostelou lean upon me, my
• 43:45
  Speaker 8: lord prior to Benedict.
• 43:49
  Speaker 14: Nay, you accede in this to ostelou recollect yourself general
• 43:55
  Speaker 14: and try to be more composed. You seem better now.
• 43:59
  Speaker 14: Endeavor to unburden your mind of its fatal secret. To
• 44:03
  Speaker 14: have it laboring within your breast is protracting a state
• 44:07
  Speaker 14: of misery.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: I have voice now.
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: Jerome, to Osteloo, given to heaven.
• 44:14
  Speaker 8: Then as you are, brother Jerome, no exhortations. Now let
• 44:19
  Speaker 8: him speak it as he can, to Osteloo. We attend
• 44:23
  Speaker 8: you most anxiously.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Osteloo. After struggling for utterance.
• 44:29
  Speaker 14: I slew him the man whose bones have now been
• 44:33
  Speaker 14: discovered the same.
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: I slew him in the field.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: Count no, no, many, A man's blood has been on
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: my hands. There this is on my heart.
• 44:50
  Speaker 14: It is then premeditated murder. You have committed.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Call it so, call it so, Jerome to Ostelou.
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: After pause, and is this all? Will you not proceed
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: to tell us the circumstances attending it?
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, they were terrible, but they are all in my mind.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: It's the indistinct horrors of a frenzied imagination.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: After a short pause, I did.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: It in a narrow pass on Saint Godad. In the
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: stormy twilight.
• 45:26
  Speaker 14: Of a winter day, you murdered him there.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: I felt him dead under my grasp, but I looked
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: at him no more. After the last desperate thrust that
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: I gave him. I hurried to a distance from the spot,
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: when a servant who was with me seized with a
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: sudden remorse, begged leave to return and remove the body,
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: that if possible, he might bury it in consecrated ground.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Is an atonement for the part. He had taken the
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: terrible deed, and I gave him leave with means to
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: procure his desire. I waited for him three days, concealed
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: in the mountains, but I neither saw him nor heard
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: of him again.
• 46:19
  Speaker 8: But what tempted a brave man like Ostraloo to commit
• 46:23
  Speaker 8: such a horrible act?
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: The torments of jealousy stung me to.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: It, hiding his face with his hands and then uncovering it.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: Loved and was beloved. He came a noble stranger.
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: I if he was in his mortal state, as I
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: in my dream beheld him, he was indeed most noble.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Oster lou waving his hand impatiently.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Well, well he had come then, and she loved me
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: no more. With arts and enchantmentcy besotted her, and even
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: from her own lips.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: I received, tossing up his arms violently and then covering
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: his face as before, But what is all.
• 47:21
  Speaker 14: This to you?
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: Named as he was, had lost his right arm in
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: a battle with the Turks, I could not defy him
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: to the field. After passing two nights and all the
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: tossing agony of a damned spirit, I followed him on
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: his journey across the mountains. On the twilight of the
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: second day, I laid weight for him in an arrow pass,
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: and as soon as his gigantic form darkened the path
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: before me, I have told you all.
• 47:59
  Speaker 14: You have not his name?
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: Did I not say him on terra? He was a
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: noble Hungarian.
• 48:07
  Speaker 14: He was so, he was so, he was noble and beloved.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Jerome aside to Praya.
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: What is the matter with you, Reverend Father? Was he
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: your friend?
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Priya? Aside to Jerome.
• 48:23
  Speaker 14: Speak not to me now, but questioned the murderer, as you.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: Will, Benedict overhearing the prior, He is indeed a murderer,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Reverend Father, but he is our penitent.
• 48:36
  Speaker 14: Go too what our names? Ask him what questions you will,
• 48:41
  Speaker 14: and finish the confession quickly.
• 48:44
  Speaker 8: Benedict to Ostelou, what have you never till now confessed
• 48:48
  Speaker 8: this crime, nor, in the course of so many years
• 48:52
  Speaker 8: reflected on its dreadful trouptude.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: The active and inventorus life of a soldier's most adverse
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: to reflection, but often the stillness of midnight remembrance. This
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: terrible deed is come powerfully upon me, till morning return
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: in the noise of the camp began, and the fortunes
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: of the day were before me.
• 49:18
  Speaker 14: Thou hast indeed been too long permitted to remain in
• 49:22
  Speaker 14: this hardened state. But Heaven, sooner or later will visit
• 49:26
  Speaker 14: the man of blood with its terrors. Sooner or later
• 49:31
  Speaker 14: he shall feel that he stands upon an awful brink,
• 49:34
  Speaker 14: and short is the step which engulfs him in that
• 49:37
  Speaker 14: world where the murdered and the murderer meet again, in
• 49:40
  Speaker 14: the tremendous presence of Him who is the Lord and
• 49:44
  Speaker 14: giver of life.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: You believe that in such severe retribution.
• 49:49
  Speaker 14: I believe in it, as in my own.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: Existence, Ostilo, turning to Jerome and Benedict, and you, good.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: Fathers, you believe in this?
• 50:00
  Speaker 8: Nature teaches this as well as revelation. We must believe it.
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: Some presumptuous minds, dazzled with the sunshine of prosperity, have
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: dared to doubt. But to us, in the sober shade
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: of life, visited too, as we have now been by
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: visions preternatural and awful. It is a thing of certainty,
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: rather than of faith, that.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: Such things are. It makes the brain confused and guiddy.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: These are tremendous thoughts.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: Leans his back against the wall and gazes fixedly on
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: the ground.
• 50:34
  Speaker 14: Let us leave him to the bitterness of his thoughts.
• 50:38
  Speaker 14: We now must deliberate with the brethren on what is
• 50:41
  Speaker 14: to be done. There must be no delay. The night
• 50:45
  Speaker 14: advances fast. Conduct him to another apartment. I must assemble
• 50:50
  Speaker 14: a council of the whole order.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: Jerome to Osterlou, we must lead you to another apartment, Count,
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: while we consider what is to be done.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: Ostelou roused.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: Aye the expiation you mean, Let it be severe, with
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: a toonement in this world may be made.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: Turning to prior Estroom leads him off.
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: Let your expiation be severe, Holy Father, A slight penance
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: matches not with such a crime as mine.
• 51:21
  Speaker 14: Be well assured it shall be what it.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Ought Ostelou, turning again and catching hold of the prior's robe.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: I regard not bodily pain. In battle. Once, with the
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: head of a broken arrow in my thigh, I let
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: on the charge and sustained all the exertions of a
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: well fought field till night closed upon our victory. Let
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: your penance be severe, my reverend father, I have been
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: long acquainted with.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: Pain Exhamed Ostoloo and Jerome.
• 51:54
  Speaker 8: You seem greatly moved, Father, But it is not with
• 51:58
  Speaker 8: pity for the wretched. You would not destroy such a
• 52:01
  Speaker 8: man as this. Though his crime is the crime of blood.
• 52:04
  Speaker 14: He shall die ere another sun down on these walls,
• 52:09
  Speaker 14: he shall die.
• 52:11
  Speaker 8: Oh say not, so, think of some other expiation.
• 52:16
  Speaker 14: I would think of another, were there any other more
• 52:18
  Speaker 14: dreadful to him than death.
• 52:21
  Speaker 8: He is your penitent.
• 52:23
  Speaker 14: He is the murderer of my brother.
• 52:28
  Speaker 8: Then Heaven have mercy on him, if he must find
• 52:30
  Speaker 8: none here. Montero was your brother.
• 52:35
  Speaker 14: My only brother. It were tedious to tell thee now
• 52:40
  Speaker 14: how I was separated from him. After the happy days
• 52:44
  Speaker 14: of our youth, I saw him no more. Yet he
• 52:49
  Speaker 14: was still the dearest object.
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: Of my thoughts.
• 52:51
  Speaker 14: After escaping death in many a battle. He was slain,
• 52:55
  Speaker 14: as it was conjectured by Banditti, in traveling across the mountains.
• 53:00
  Speaker 14: His body was never discovered. Ah, little did I think
• 53:04
  Speaker 14: it was lying so near me.
• 53:07
  Speaker 8: It is indeed piteous, and you must need to feel
• 53:09
  Speaker 8: it as a brother. What considered the danger we run?
• 53:13
  Speaker 8: Should we lay violent hands on an imperial general with
• 53:16
  Speaker 8: his enraged soldiers within a few hours march of our walls.
• 53:20
  Speaker 14: I can think of nothing but revenge. Speak to me
• 53:25
  Speaker 14: no more. I must assemble the whole order immediately.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: Examed. Scene three, another apartment enter Osterloo as from a
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: small recess at the bottom of the stage, pacing backwards
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: and forwards several times in an agitated manner, then advancing
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: slowly to the front, where he stands musing and muttering
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: to himself for some moments before he speaks aloud.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: That this smothered horse should burst upon me at last.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: And there be really such things as the dark fancy
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: images to itself. When the busy day is stilled, an
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: unseen world surrounds us, spirits and powers, and the invisible
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: dead haven near us. But we unconscious security. I have
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: slept upon a fearful brink. Every sword that threatened my
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: head in battle had power and its edge to send
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: me to a terrible account. I have slept upon a
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: fearful brink. Am I truly awake?
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: Rubbing his eyes, then grasping several parts of his body,
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: first with one hand and then with the other.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it is so. I am keenly and terribly awake.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: Paces rapidly up and down, and then stopping short.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: Can there be virtue and penances suffered by the body
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: to do away offenses of the soul? If there be, Oh,
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: if there be, let them run on my body with
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: stripes and swathe me round in one continued girth of wounds.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: Anything that can be endured here is mercy compared to
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: the dreadful abiding of what may be hereafter.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: And a wovalrated behind, followed by soldiers who ranged themselves
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: at the bottom of the stage. Osta lou turning round,
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: runs up to him eagerly.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: Ah, my dear Albert, return to me again, with all
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: my noble fellows at thy back. Pardon me I mistook
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: you for one of my captains.
• 55:44
  Speaker 19: I am the Prior's captain, and those men too. They
• 55:48
  Speaker 19: are the Prior soldiers who have been ordered from distant
• 55:52
  Speaker 19: quarters to repair to the monastery immediately.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: In such haste.
• 55:58
  Speaker 19: I in truth, we received our orders after sunset and
• 56:02
  Speaker 19: have marched two good leagues. Since what may this mean, faith,
• 56:08
  Speaker 19: I know not. My duty is to obey the Prior
• 56:13
  Speaker 19: and pray to our good Saint. And whether I am
• 56:16
  Speaker 19: commanded to surprise the stronghold of an enemy or protect
• 56:20
  Speaker 19: an execution, it is the same thing to me.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: An execution can aught of its nature be intended.
• 56:29
  Speaker 19: You turn pale, Sir, wearing the garb of a soldier.
• 56:33
  Speaker 19: You have surely seen blood air.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: Now I have seen too much blood.
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: Enter Priya, Jerome, Paul, and monks walking in order, the
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: Prior holding a paper in his hand, Priyor, with solemnity.
• 56:51
  Speaker 14: Count Ostlo, Lieutenant General of our liege Lord the Emperor.
• 56:55
  Speaker 14: Authorized by this deed, which is subscribed by all the
• 56:58
  Speaker 14: brethren of our holy Order here present, I pronounce to
• 57:02
  Speaker 14: you our solemn decision that the crime of murder, as
• 57:06
  Speaker 14: by the mysterious voice of Heaven and your own confession
• 57:10
  Speaker 14: your crime is proved to be, can only be expiated
• 57:14
  Speaker 14: by death. You are therefore warned to prepare yourself to
• 57:18
  Speaker 14: die this night before daybreak. You must be within the
• 57:22
  Speaker 14: inhabitants of another world, where may the great maker of
• 57:25
  Speaker 14: us all deal with you in.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: Mercy oustelus take us back from the spot where he
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: stood and remained silent.
• 57:34
  Speaker 14: It is a sentence count pronounced against you from necessity
• 57:37
  Speaker 14: to save the lives of our whole community, which you yourself
• 57:41
  Speaker 14: have promised to submit to. Have you anything to say
• 57:45
  Speaker 14: and reply to it?
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: Nothing? My thoughts are gone from me. In the darkness
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: of astonishment.
• 57:53
  Speaker 14: We are compelled to be thus hasty and severe. Ere
• 57:56
  Speaker 14: daybreak you must die.
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: Her daybreak, not even the light of another sun, to
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: one so ill preparedly, awful and tremendous state into which
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: she would thrust him. This is inhuman, It is horrible.
• 58:14
  Speaker 14: He was ill prepared for it, who, with still shorter warning,
• 58:18
  Speaker 14: was thrust into that awful state in the narrow pass
• 58:21
  Speaker 14: of Saint Catharine.
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: The guilt of murder was not on his soul. Nay, nay,
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: Holy Prior, consider this horrible extremity. Let the pain of
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: the executioner stroke be twentyfold upon me, But thrust me
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: not forth to that state from which my soul recoils
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: with unutterable horror. Never but once to save the life
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: of a friend. Did I bend the need to mortal man?
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: Humble supplication? I am the soldier in many battles I
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: have bled from the service of my country. I am
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: a noble soldier, and I was a proud one. Do
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: I thus con tell me not my extremity, my knees
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: on the ground.
• 59:10
  Speaker 14: Urge me no further. It must not be. No respite
• 59:15
  Speaker 14: can be granted.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: Ostelu starting off furiously from the ground and drawing his sword.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: Then subdue as you may, stern priest the strength of
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: a desperate man.
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: Woverrade, and soldiers rush forward, getting behind him and surrounding
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: him on every side, and after a violent struggle, disarm him.
• 59:37
  Speaker 19: What a noble fellow this would be to defend a
• 59:40
  Speaker 19: narrow breach. Though he shrinks with such abhorrence from a scaffold.
• 59:46
  Speaker 19: It is a piteous thing to see him so beset
• 59:51
  Speaker 19: prior to wolverrade.
• 59:53
  Speaker 14: What sayest thou for all?
• 59:56
  Speaker 19: Nay, it is no business of mine, my lord, I
• 59:59
  Speaker 19: confron us. Shall we conduct him to the prison chamber?
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 14: Do so, and see that he retained no concealed arms
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 14: about him.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 19: I obey, my lord. Everything shall be made secure.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: Exit Ostolu, guarded by Wolverrade and soldiers, and at the
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: same time and to Benedict by the opposite side, who
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: stands looking after him piteously prior sternly to Benedict.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 14: What brings thee here? Dost thou repent having refused to
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 14: concur with us in an act that preserves the community?
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 8: Say rather, Reverend Father, unact that revenges your brother's death,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 8: which the laws of the Empire should revenge.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 14: A supernatural visitation of heaven hath commanded us to punish it.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 14: What dost thou shake thy head? Thou art of a
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 14: doubting and dangerous spirit, and beware less sooner or later
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 14: than tempter, do not lure thee into heresy, and cannot
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 14: subdue thee. Authority shall return again to thyself. Let me
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 14: hear of this no more.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 8: I will, Reverend Father, But for the love of our
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 8: Holy Saint, bethink you ere it be too late that
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 8: though we may be saved from the pestilence by this
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 8: bloody sacrifice, what will rescue our throats from the swords
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 8: of Australou's soldiers when they shall return, as they have
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 8: threatened to demand from us their general.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 14: Give thyself no concern about this. My own bands are
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 14: already called in, and a messenger has been dispatched to
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 14: the Abbess Matilda for troops and defense of the church.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 14: Will face the best soldiers of the empire. But why
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 14: lose we time in unprofitable contentions?
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: Go my sons speaking to other monks.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 14: The night advances fast, and we have much to do.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: Ere morning knocking hurt without hah.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 14: Who knocks at this untimely hour? Can the soldiers be
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 14: indeed returned upon us? Run to the gate, but open
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 14: it to none.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: Exaone several monks in haste, and presently re enter with
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: the lay brother.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 12: Please ye, reverend father. The Marchioness has sent a messenger
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 12: from the castle, beseeching you to send a confessor immediately
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 12: to confess one of her women, who was taken ill
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 12: yesterday and is now at the point of death.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 14: I'm glad it is only this. What is the matter
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 14: with the penitent?
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 12: I know not, Please you. The messenger only said she
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 12: was taken ill yesterday.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: Prior shaking his head.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 14: Ay, this malady has got there also. I cannot send
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 14: one of the brothers to bring infection immediately amongst us
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 14: what is to be done. Leonora is a most noble lady,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 14: and the family have been great benefactors to our order.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 14: I must send somebody to her, but he must stop,
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 14: well his nostrils with spicery and leave his upper garment
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 14: behind him when he quits the infected apartment. Jerome wilt
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 14: thou go thou art the favorite confessor with all the
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 14: women at the castle.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: Nay, Father, I must attend on our prisoner here who
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: has most need of ghostly assistance.
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  Speaker 14: Priya to another monk, go thou Anselmo. Thou hast given
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  Speaker 14: comfort to many a dying penitent.
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  Speaker 7: I thank you, father for the preference. But Paul is
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 7: the best of us all for administering comfort to the dying.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 7: And there is a sickness come over my heart of
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 7: the sudden, that makes me unfit for the office.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: Prior to Paul.
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  Speaker 14: Thou wilt go, then, my good.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 11: Son, I beseech you don't send me, you revern father.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 11: I never escaped contagion in my life where melody or
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 11: fever were to be had.
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  Speaker 14: Who will go? Then?
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: A deep silence?
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 8: What has no one faith enough in the protection of
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 8: Saint Maurice, even purchased as it is about to be
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 8: by the shedding of human blood, to venture upon this
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 8: dangerous duty. I will go, then, Father, though I am
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 8: sometimes of a doubting spirit, Go, and Saint Maurice protect.
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  Speaker 1: Thee Exit Benedict.
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  Speaker 14: Let him go. It is well that we get rid
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 14: of him for the night. Should they happily detain him
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 14: so long at the castle. He is a troublesome, close searching,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 14: self willed fellow. He hath no zeal for the order
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 14: where a miser to bequeath his possessions to our monastery.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 14: He would assist the disappointed heir himself to find out
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 14: a flaw in the deed. But retire to yourselves, my sons,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 14: and employ yourselves in prayer and devotion, till the great
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 14: bell warn you to attend the execution.
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  Speaker 1: Exituned Scene three, an apartment in the castle, and to
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: Leonora and Agnes speaking as the enter.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 18: But she is asleep now, and is so much and
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 18: so suddenly bitter, that the Confessor, when he comes, will
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 18: be dissatisfied. I fear that we have called him from
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 18: his cell at such an unreasonable hour.
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  Speaker 20: Let him come. Nevertheless, don't send to prevent him.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 18: He will be unwilling to be detained, for they are
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 18: engaged in no common matters. To night at the monastery,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 18: Count auster Lewis, I told you before, is doing voluntary
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 18: penance at the shrine of Saint Maurice to stop the
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 18: progress of this terrible malady.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 20: I remember thou didst.
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  Speaker 18: Ah, Marchioness. You would not say so thus faintly had
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 18: you seen him march through the past with his soldiers.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 18: He is the bravest and most graceful man, though somewhat
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 18: advanced in years that I ever beheld. Ah, had you
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 18: but seen him?
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 20: I have seen him, Agnes.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 18: And I spoke of him all the while. Yet you
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 18: did not tell me this before. Ah, my noble mistress
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 18: and friend, the complexion of your cheek is altered. You
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 18: have indeed seen him, and you have not seen him
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 18: with indifference.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 20: Thinkers, thou wilt about this. He was the friend and
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 20: fellow soldier of my lord when we first married, though
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 20: before my marriage I had never seen.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 18: Him friend your lord was then in the decline of life.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 18: There must have been great disparity in their friendship.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 20: They were friends, however, for the Marquis liked society younger
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 20: than himself, and I, who had been hurried into an
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 20: unequal marriage before I could judge for myself. Was sometimes
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 20: foolish enough to compare them to.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 18: Get ay, there was natural enough.
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  Speaker 1: And what happened then?
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 20: What happened then?
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: Drawing herself up proudly.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 20: Nothing happened then but subduing the foolish fancy of a girl,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 20: which was afterwards amply repaid by the self approbation and
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 20: dignity of a woman.
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  Speaker 18: Pardon me, madam, I ought to have supposed all this,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 18: But you have been longer widow, and Osterado is still unmarried.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: What prevented you?
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 18: When free?
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 20: I was ignorant what the real state of his sentiments
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 20: had been in regard to me. But had this been
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 20: otherwise received, as I was into the family of my lord,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 20: the undourry daughter of a petty nobleman, and left, as
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 20: I now am by his confiding love the sole guardian
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 20: of his children and their fortunes. I could never think
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 20: of supporting a second lord on the wealth entrusted to
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 20: me by the first, to the injury of his children.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 20: As nothing therefore has ever happened in consequence of this
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 20: weakness of my youth, Nothing ever.
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  Speaker 18: Shall this is noble?
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 20: It is right. But here comes the father confessor.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Benedict.
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  Speaker 20: You are welcome, good father. Yet I am almost ashamed
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 20: to see you, for our sick person has become suddenly
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 20: well again and is now in.
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  Speaker 1: A deep sleep.
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  Speaker 20: I fear I shall appear to you capricious and inconsiderate
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 20: in calling you up at so late an hour.
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  Speaker 8: Be not uneasy, lady. Upon this account, I am glad
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 8: to have an occasion for being absent from the monastery
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 8: for some hours, if you will permit me to remain
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 8: here so long?
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  Speaker 20: What mean you, Father Benedict? Your countenance is solemn and sorrowful?
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 20: What is going on at the monastery?
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: He shakes his head.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 20: A will they be severe with him? In a voluntary
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 20: penance submitted to for the good of the dor? What
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 20: is the nature of the penance? It is to continue,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 20: I am told, but one.
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  Speaker 8: Night it will indeed soon be.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 20: Over, and will he be gone on the morrow?
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  Speaker 8: His spirit will, but his body remains with us forever.
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  Speaker 12: Death.
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  Speaker 20: Does thou mean, O, horror? Horror? Is this the expiation? Oh,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 20: most horrible, most unjust?
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: Indeed?
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  Speaker 8: I consider it as such, Though guilty by his own
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 8: confession or murder committed many years since under the frenzy
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 8: of passion, it belongs not to us to inflict the
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 8: punishment of death upon a guilty soul taken so suddenly
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 8: and unprepared for its doom.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 20: Murder? Didst thou say murder? Oh austerelou oustelu hast thou
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 20: been so barbarous and art thou in this terrible state?
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 20: Must thou thus end thy days? And so near me too?
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 8: You seem greatly moved, Noble Leonora. Would you could do
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 8: something more for him than lament.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: Leonora catching hold of him eagerly?
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 20: Can I do anything? Speak Father, Oh, tell me how
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 20: I will do anything and everything? Alas, alas, My vessels
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 20: are but few and cannot be assembled immediately.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 8: Force were useless. Your vassals, if they were assembled, would
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 8: not be persuaded to attack the sacred walls of a monastery.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 20: I did, indeed rave foolishly. But what else can be done?
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 20: Take these jewels and everything fell you in the castle.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 20: If they will bribe those who guard him to let
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 20: him escape, think of it, Oh, think well of it,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 20: good Benedict.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 18: I have heard that there is a secret passage leading
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 18: from the prison chamber of the monastery under its walls,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 18: and opening to the free country at the bottom of.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 8: The rocks by every holy saint. So there is, and
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 8: the most sordid of our brothers is entrusted with the
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 8: key of it. But who will be his conductor? None
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 8: but a monk of the order may pass the soldiers
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 8: who guard him, And the monk who should do it
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 8: must fly from his country forever and break his sacred vows.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 8: I can oppose the weak, fears and injustice of my brethren,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 8: for the misfortunes and disgust of the world. Not superstitious
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 8: veneration for monastic sanctity has covered my head with the cowl.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 8: But this I cannot do.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 18: There is the dress of a monk of your order
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 18: in the old wardrobe of the castle. If some person
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 18: were disguised in.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 20: It, Thanks to D, thanks to D my happy angnes,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 20: I will be that person. I will put on the disguise.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 20: Good Father, your face gives consent to this.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 8: If there be time, But I left them preparing for
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 8: the execution.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 20: There is there is. Come with me to the wardrobe,
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 20: and will set out for the monastery. Forthwith come come
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 20: a few moments, will.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: Carry us there, exit hastily followed by Agnes and Benedict.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: Seen for a wood near the castle, the stage quite dark,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: enter two servants with torches.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 9: This must surely be the entry to the path where
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 9: my lady orders us to wait for those same monks.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 10: Yes, I know it well, for yonder is the Pastern.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 10: It is the nearest path to the monastery, but narrow
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 10: and difficult. The night is called. I hope they will
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 10: not keep us long way.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 9: I heard the sound of travelers coming up to eastern avenue,
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 9: and they may linger belike form mongst her marvelously, fond
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 9: of great people and of strangers. At least the good
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 9: fathers of our monastery are aye.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 10: In their late prior's time, they lived like lords themselves,
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 10: and they are not very humble at present. But there's
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 10: light from the Pastern.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: Here they come, and to Benedict, Leonora disguised like a monk,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: and Agnes with a peasant's cloak thrown over her. Leonora
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: speaking as she enters, it.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 20: Is well thought of good Benedict, Go thou before me
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 20: to gain brother Baldwin in the first place, and I'll
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 20: wait without on the spot we have agreed upon, until
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 20: I hear the signal.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 8: Thou comprehendest me completely, brother, So God speed us both
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 8: to first servant torchmen, go thou with me. This is
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 8: the right path, I trust, fear.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 9: Not, Father, I know it well.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: Exit Benedict and first servant Leonora to Agnes, while she
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: waves her hand to second servant to retire to a
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: greater distance.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 20: After I am admitted to the monastery. Fail not to
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 20: wait for me at the mouth of the secret passage.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 18: Fear not, Benedict has described it so minutely I cannot
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 18: fail to discover it.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 20: What steps are those behind us? Somebody following us from
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 20: the castle.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: And a third servant in haste.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 15: There our travelers arrived at the gay and desire to
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 15: be admitted for the night.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 20: In an evil hour, they come returned the Agnes and
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 20: receive them benighted strangers. No doubt, excuse my absence anyhow, Go.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 18: Quickly and leave you to proceed alone.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 20: Care not for me. There is an energy within me
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 20: now that bids defiance to fear.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: Beckons to second servant, who goes out before her with
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: the torch, and exit Agnes, muttering to herself as she
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: turns to the castle.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 18: The evil spirit hath brought travelers to us at this moment,
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 18: but I'll send them to their chambers right quickly and
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 18: join her at the secret passage. Notwithstanding exioned and of
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 18: Act two, Act three of the Dream by Joanna Bailey.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 18: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 18: visit LibriVox dot org. Act three, Scene one, the prison
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 18: chamber of the monastery. Oster lowis discovered sitting in a
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 18: bending posture, with his clenched hands pressed upon his knees
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 18: and his eyes fixed on the ground. Jerome standing by.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 3: Him, Nay sink not thus, my son. The mercy of
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 3: heaven is infinite. Let other thoughts enter thy soul. Let
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 3: penitence and devotion subdue.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: It nothing but one short moment of division between the
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: state of humanity and that which is to follow. The
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: executioner lets all his axe, and the dark veil is rent.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: The gulf is uncovered. The regions of Anguis shall before.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 3: Me, my son, my son, this must not be thine
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 3: imagination overpowers thy devotion.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: The dead are there. What welcome shall the murderer receive
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: from the assembled host? The terrible form that stalks forth
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: to meet me, the stretching out of that hand, greeting
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: of that horrible smile. And it is thou who must
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: lead me before the tremendous majesty of my offended maker.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: Incomprehensible and dreadful. What thoughts can give an image of
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: that which overpowers all thought?
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: Clasping his hands tightly over his head and bending himself
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: almost to the ground, Jerome, after a pause.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: Art thou entranced? Art thou asleep? Art thou still in
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 3: those inward agonies of.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: Imagination, touching him softly, Speak to me, Ostelu starting up?
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: Are they come for me? They shall not, Yet I'll
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: strangle the first man that lays hold of me.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: Grasping Jerome by the throat.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 3: Let go your hold, my lord. I did but touch
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 3: you gently to rouse you from your stupor.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: Ostolu lets go of his hold, and Jerome shrinks to
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: a distance.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: Grasped thee then too roughly, but truing not from me.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: Thus strong men have fallen by my arm. But a
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: child might contend.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: With me, now, throwing himself back again into his chair
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: and bursting into tears.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 3: Forgive me, my son. There was a wildness in your
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 3: eyes that made me afraid.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: Thou needst not be afraid. Thou art a good man,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: and has the days of life still before thee. Thou
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: needst not be afraid. But as thou art a good man,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: speak to me. I count THEE as a man, not
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: as a monk. And to me is the true sense
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: and reason of a man. Doth convince THEE?
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 3: I will, my son, dost.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: Thou and truth believe that the very instant after life
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: has left the body, we are forthwith awake and conscious,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: the world of spirits, no intermediate state of slumbering insensibility between.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 3: It is, indeed, my belief, death is but a short
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 3: though awful pass, as it were, a winking of the
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 3: eyes for a moment. We shut them in this world
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 3: and open them in the next, And there we open
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 3: them with such increased vividness of existence, that this life
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 3: in comparison will appear but as a state of slumber
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 3: and of dreams. But wherefore dost thou cross thine arms
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 3: so closely on thy breast, and coil thyself together so wretchedly?
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 3: What is the matter, my son, art thou in bodily anguish.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: The chilly knight shoots isaac coldness.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 3: Through me, Oh, regard not the poor feelings of a
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 3: fleshly frame, which thou so soon must part withal a
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 3: little time will now put an end to every thing
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 3: thing that nature can endure.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: Ostolu raising his head quickly, How.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: Soon has the bell struck again since I listened to
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: it last?
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 3: No, but it will soon strike, and daybreak is at hand.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 3: Rouse yea then, and occupy the few minutes that remain
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 3: in acts of devotion becoming thine unhappy state. Oh, my son,
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 3: pour out thy soul and penitent prayers to an offended
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 3: but merciful God. We too will pray for thee months,
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 3: nay years, after thy death, masses shall be said for
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 3: the repose of thy soul, that it may at last
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 3: be received into bliss. O, my unhappy son, pour forth
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 3: thy spirit to God, and let thy prayers also ascend
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 3: to our blessed saint and martyr, who will intercede for
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 3: thee I cannot.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: I have not thoughts for prayer, the gulf yance before me,
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: the unknown, the unbound, thee unfathoma all prayers prayers, what
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: prayers have.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 3: Despair hold hold refractory spirit, this obstinacy is destruction. I
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 3: must call in brother Bernard to assist me. I cannot
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 3: be answerable alone in the service of such infinite moment.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: Exit and after a pause in which Ostoloo seems absorbed
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: in the stupor of despair, and to Leonora disguised, Leonora
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: coming eagerly forward and then stopping short to look at him.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 20: There is some mistake in this.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: It is not Osterloo, it is it is, But oh
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: how changed thy hand Great God has been upon him,
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: going closer to him Osterelu Osteloo.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: I hear they.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: Father, Leonora throwing aside her disguise.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 20: Oh no, it is no father. Lift up thine eyes
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 20: and see an old friend before thee with deliverance in
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 20: her hand.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: Holding out a key, Osteloo, looking up wildly.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: Is it a sound in my ears? Where did anyone
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: say deliverance?
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: Gazing on her?
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: What thick art thou form a magic or delusion?
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 20: Neither count Osterloo, but an old friend bringing this key
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 20: in her hand for thy deliverance. Yet much I fear
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 20: thou hast not strength enough to rise and follow.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: Me Osteloo bounding from his seat.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: I have strength for anything there be deliverance in it.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: Where go we? They will be upon us.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: Immediately Leonora lifting a small lamp from the table and
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: holding it to examine the opposite wall.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 20: The door, as he described it, is to the right
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 20: of a small projection of the wall. Here here it is.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: Opens a small door, and beckons Osterlou to follow her.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: Yes, blessed being, I will follow thee Ha they are.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: Coming, strides hastily to the door, while Leonora holds up
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: the lamp to light him into it, and then going
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: in herself, shuts the door softly behind her. Scene to
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: an old, ruinous vault with a strong grated door on
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: one side, through which the moonbeams are gleaming. On the
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: other side, an old winding staircase leading from the upper
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: regions of the monastery, from which a feeble light is
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: seen increasing by degrees. And presently Leonora appears descending the
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: stairs with the lamp in her hand, followed by Osterloo.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: As she enters, something on the wall catches her robe,
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: and she turns round to disentangle it, bending her face
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: close to the light. Ostelu stopping to assist her, and
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: then gazing.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: On her, thou art something I have known and loved somewhere,
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: though it has passed away from my mind, though my
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: better thoughts great power of heaven, art thou.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: Leonora, Leonora, smiling, Dost thou know me?
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 9: Now?
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: I do? I do? My heart knew THEE before, but
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: my memory did not.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: Kneeling and kissing both her hands, And so it is.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: To THEE, Thou whom I first loved, Pardon me, Pardon me,
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: Thou whom I loved and dared not love, Thou from
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 2: whom I fled to be virtuous. Thou art my liver. Oh,
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: and I never loved another after THEE. It had been well.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: Knowest thou it is a murderer. Thou art saving say
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: no more of this.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 20: I know thy story.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 2: And I came, Oh, Thou camest like a blessed spirit
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: to deliver me. For many hours, I was terribly beset.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: Thou hast snatched me from a tremendous brink.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: I hope.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 20: So if this key proved to be the right one.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: Dost thou doubt it?
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 20: It seems to me smaller than it ought to be
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 20: when I consider that massive door.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 2: Give it me.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: Snatches the key from her and runs to the door,
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: then turns the key in the lock, and finding it
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: too small, stemps with his feet, throws it from him
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: and holds up his clenched hands in despair.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 20: Oh, cross fate, But I'll return again for a right one.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 20: Baldwin cannot be so wicked as to deceive me, and
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 20: Benedicte is still on the watch near the door of
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 20: the prison chamber. Stay here till I return.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: She ascends the stairs, whilst Ostelu leans his back to
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: the wall, frequently moving his body up and down with
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: impatient agitation. A bell tolls, Ostolu starts from his place,
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: and Leonora descends again, re entering in great alarm.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 20: Oh, I cannot go now. That bell told to warn
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 20: them to the great hall. I shall meet them on
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 20: their way. What is to be done? The strength of
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 20: three men could not force that heavy door, and thou
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 20: art feeble and.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: Spent, Ostolu running furiously to the door.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: Despair has strength for anything.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: Caesar's hold of the door, and making two or three
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: terrible efforts, burst it open with a loud jar.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 20: Supernatural strength has assisted thee. Now thou art free.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: As Osterlo and Leonora are about to pass on to
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: the door, wolverwride and three armed soldiers appear in the
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: porch beyond it and oppose their passage.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 19: Halt, We are the prior soldiers and will suffer no
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 19: prisoner to escape.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: Those who dare prevent me.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: Wrest the sword from one of the soldiers, and fighting furiously,
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: forces his way past them all, they not daring to
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: pursue him. When Woverraate, seizing on Leonora to prevent her
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: from following him, she calls out, oh, let me pass,
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: and I'll reward you nobly, Ostlu, returning to rescue Leonora.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 2: Let go thine, unhallowed grasp for Heaven's.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 20: Sake, Care not for me, save thyself, Save thyself. I
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 20: am in no danger, turn not again to fight when
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 20: such terrible odds are against thee.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: I have armed in my hand now, and my foes
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: are before me.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: Fights fiercely again tillmorant, with a strong band of soldiers
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: entering the porch behind him. He's overpowered and secured. Leonora
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: sinks down by the wall in a swoon.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 19: Give me a rope. We must bind him securely, for
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 19: the devil has put the strength of ten men into him.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 19: Though but half an hour ago his face was as
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 19: pale as a moonlight icicle, and he could scarcely walk
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 19: without being supported.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 4: Alas alas his face has returned to its former color.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 4: His head sinks on his breast, and his limbs are
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 4: again feeble and listless. I would rather see him fighting
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 4: like a fiend than see him.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 19: Thus, let us move him. Hence, wouldst thou stop to
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 19: lament over him?
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 4: It was base working Baldwin to betray their plot to
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 4: the Prior, for he took their money first.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 19: I'll be sworn she had betrayed the Prior then, and
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 19: all the community besides.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 4: Well, let us move him. Hence this is no business
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 4: of ours.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: Exiled Marant woverrage and soldiers, leading out Osterolo and to
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: Agnes by the grated door, and discovers Leonora on the ground.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 18: Oh holy Virgin, on the ground, fainting and ill have
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 18: the barbarians left her.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: Thus chafing her temples at hand?
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 18: She begins to revive. It is me, my dearest lady,
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 18: look up and see me. Those men are all gone.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 20: And ostoloo wisdom. Alas he is, it is fated, So
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 20: let me lie where I am. I cannot move yet,
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 20: my good Agnes.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 18: Nay, do not yet despair of saving the Count.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: Leonora starting up and catching hold of her eagerly.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 20: How so is it possible?
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 18: The travelers arrived at the council at the Imperial ambassador
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 18: and his train night overtook them on the mountains, and
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 18: they are now making merry in the hall.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 20: Thank Heaven for this providence has sent him hither. I'll
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 20: go to him instantly and conjure him to interpose his
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 20: authority to save the life of Austerloo. Representing his liege,
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 20: Lord the Emperor. The Prior dare not disobey his commands,
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 20: and the gates of the monastery will be opened at
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 20: his call. Who comes here?
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: Let us go re enter Morrand Morant to Leonora.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 4: You are revived again. I am glad to see it.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 4: Pardon me, lady, that I forgot you when your extremity,
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 4: and let me conduct you safely to the castle.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 20: I thank you, but my servants are without Let me go.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 20: Don't follow me. I pray you.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 4: Let me support you through the porch, and I'll leave
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 4: you to their care, since you desire it.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: Exelled Leonora, supported by Morand and Agnes. Scene three, a
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: grand hall prepared for the execution. Soldiers are discovered drawn
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: up on each side of the scaffold, with Benedict and
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: several of the monks on the front of the stage.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: A bell tolls at measured intervals, with the deep pause
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: between after which Entil morand, hanging his head sorrowfully, Benedict
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: to Morrand.
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 8: Is he come forth?
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 10: Hast thou seen him?
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 4: They are moving him hither, but they move slowly.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 10: Thou hast seen him?
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 12: Then?
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 10: How does he look now?
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 4: I cannot tell thee these few hours have done on
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 4: him the work of many years. He seems broken and
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 4: haggard with age, and his quenched eyes are fixed in
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 4: their sockets, like one who walks in sleep.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 8: Alas alas how changed in little time, the bold and
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 8: gallant Austerloo.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 10: Have I not told thee Mirande that fear will sometimes
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 10: couch under the brazen helmet as well as the woolen cowl.
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 2: Fear?
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 4: Dost thou call it? Set him this moment in the
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 4: field of battle, with death threatening him from a hundred
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 4: points at once, and he would brave it most valiantly.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: Benedict, preventing first monk from.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 8: Answering, Hush, brother, be not so warm, good lieutenant, We
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 8: believe what thou sayest most perfectly. The bravest mind is
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 8: capable of fear, though it fears no mortal man. A
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 8: brave man fears not man, and an innocent and brave
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 8: man united fears nothing.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 4: Ay, Now you speak reason, call it fear then if
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 4: you will, But the Prior comes. Let us go to
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 4: our places.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: They arranged themselves, And then enter the Prior with the
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: train of monks who likewise arranged themselves, a pause in
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: which the bell holds as before, and enter Osteloo, supported
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: by Jerome and Paul Woverrat and soldiers, following Prior, meeting
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: him with solemnity.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 14: Count to austerlo in obedience to the will of Heaven
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 14: for our own preservation and the just punishment of guilt,
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 14: I am compelled with the monks of this monastery, over
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 14: whom I preside to see duly executed within the time
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 14: prescribed the dismal act of retribution. You have, I trust,
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 14: with the help of these holy men, as well as
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 14: a few short moments, would allow closed your mortal account
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 14: with Heaven. If there be aught that rests upon your
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 14: mind regarding worldly concerns which you leave behind you unsettled,
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 14: let me know your last will and it shall be obeyed.
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: To Jerome, after pausing for an answer.
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 14: Do you think he understands me?
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 3: Jerome to Ostlu, did you hear, my son, what the
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 3: Prior has been saying to you?
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: I heard words through a multitude of sounds.
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 3: It was the Prior desiring to know if you have
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 3: any wishes to fulfill regarding worldly affairs left behind you unsettled,
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 3: perhaps to your soldiers, you.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: May Ostolu, interrupting him eagerly and looking wildly around.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 2: My soldiers, are they here?
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 3: I know they are not here. They are housed for
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 3: the night in their distant quarters. They will not be
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 3: here till the setting of tomorrow's.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 2: Sun tomorrow suddenly?
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 3: Is there any wish you would have conveyed to them?
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 3: Are there any of your officers to whom you would
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 3: send a message or token of remembrance?
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 2: You speak again, imperfectly, through many ringing sounds.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 3: Is there any wish you would have conveyed to them?
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 3: Are there any of your officers to whom you would
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 3: send a message or token of remembrance?
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 7: Ay?
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 2: There is these.
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: These endeavoring to tear off his cincture and some military
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: ornaments from his dress.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 2: Cannot hit upon these fastenings.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: Will assest you, my son, undoing his cincture and girdle,
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: et cetera. Ostolou is still endeavoring to do it himself.
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 2: My sword too, and my daggers my last remembrance to them,
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 2: both to whom my lord, both all of them.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: Benedict, who has kept sorrowfully at some distance, now approaching eagerly.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 8: Urge him no more. His officers will themselves know what
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 8: names he would have uttered.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: Turning to Ostoloo with an altered.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 8: Voice, Yes, noble count, they shall be given as you desire,
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 8: with your farewell affection to all your brave followers.
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 2: I thank ye.
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 3: And this is all?
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 12: Nay?
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 2: Nay?
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 8: What is there? Besides?
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 14: There is too much of this, and some sudden rescue
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 14: may prevent us.
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 8: Nay, Reverend Father, there is no fear of this. You
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 8: would not cut short the last words of a dying man.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 14: And must I be guided by thy admonitions. Beware, though
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 14: Baldwin has not named thee, I know it is thou
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 14: who art the traitor.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 8: There is but one object at present to be thought of,
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 8: and with your leave, Reverend Father, I will not be
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 8: deterred from it.
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: To Ostolou again, in a voice of tenderness.
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 8: What is there besides noble Austerlo that you would wish
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 8: us to do?
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 2: There is something?
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 12: What is it?
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 8: My lord? I want not then let it rest?
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 2: Nay, nay this.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: This pulling a ring from his finger, which falls on
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: the ground.
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 2: Thy hands will hold nothing.
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 8: I have found it, and what shall I do with it?
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 8: You know, Leonore, I understand you, my lord.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 14: I am under the necessity, Count Osteloo of saying, your
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 14: time is run to its utmost limit. Let us call
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 14: upon you now for your last exertion of nature. These
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 14: good brothers must conduct you to the scaffold.
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: Jerome and Paul support him towards the scaffold, while Benedict
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: retires to a distance and turns his back to it.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 3: Rest upon me, my son, you have but few paces
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 3: to go.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 2: The ground sings unto me. My feet tread upon nothing.
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 3: We are now at the foot of the scaffold, and
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 3: there are two steps to mount. Lean upon us more firmly, Ostolou, stumbling.
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 2: It is dark, I cannot see.
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 3: Alas, my son. There's a blaze of torches round you.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: After they are on the scaffold.
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 3: Now in token of thy faith in Heaven and forgiveness
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 3: of all men. Raise up thy clasped hands.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: Seeing Osterloo make a feeble effort, he raises them for
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: him in a posture of devotion.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 3: And now to Heaven's mercy, we commit thee.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: Jerome and Paul retire, and two executioners prepare him for
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: the block and assist him to kneel. He then lays
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: down his head and they hold his hands, while a
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: third executioner stands with the raised ax. First executioner, speaking
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: close into.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 9: His ear, press my hand when you are ready for
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 9: the stroke.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: A long pause, he gives no sign.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 13: Stop he will immediately A second pause does he not no?
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 14: Then give him the stroke without it.
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: Third executioner prepares to give the stroke, when the imperial
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: ambassador rushes into the hall, followed by Leonor, Norah and
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: Agnes and the numerous.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 5: Train stop the execution in the name of your lead lord,
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 5: the Emperor. I command you to stop. Upon your peril,
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 5: my lord Prior, this is a treacherous and clandestine use
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 5: of your seignorial power. This noble servant of our Imperial.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: Master, pointing to Osterloo, I take under.
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 5: My protection, and you must first deprive an imperial ambassador
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 5: of life. Ere one hair of his head fall to
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 5: the ground.
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: Benedict running to the scaffold.
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 8: Up noble austra Lou, raise up thy head, Thou art rescued,
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 8: Thou art free.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 20: Raise noble ostlu dost thou not know the voice that
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 20: calls thee?
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 8: He moves not? He is in a swoon.
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: Raises Ostolou from the block, whilst Leonora bends over him
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: with anxious tenderness.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 20: He is scarcely pale, hid It should body can be
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 20: but a swoon. Chave his hands good, Benedict, while I
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 20: bathe his temples.
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: After trying to restore him.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 20: Oh no, no, no change takes place. What thinkest thou
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 20: of it? Is there any life here?
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 8: In truth?
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 12: I know not.
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 8: This seems to me the fixed, ghastly visage of complete death.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 20: Oh no, no, he will be restored. No stroke has
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 20: fallen upon him. It cannot be death. Is not that
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 20: something did.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: Not his lips move?
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 8: No, lady, you but deceive yourself. They moved not. They
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 8: are closed forever.
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: Leonora, wringing her hands.
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 20: Oh it is so, it is so, after all the
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 20: struggled and exertions of despair. This is time miserable and
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 20: alas alas thou who didst there thy crest so proudly
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 20: in many a well fought field.
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: This is thy miserable end, turning away and hiding her
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: face in the bosom of Egne's ambassador, examining the body
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: more closely.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 5: I think, in very truth he is dead.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 12: Yes, the face never looks thus till every spark of
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 12: life is.
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: Extinguished, Ambassador, turning fiercely to the prior.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 5: How is this prior, what sorcery has been here? That
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 5: your block alonehould destroy its victim? When the stroke of
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 5: the act has been wanting? What a count shall I
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 5: carry to the Master of the death of his gallant general.
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 14: Nor sorcery had been practiced on the deceased. His own
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  Speaker 14: mind has dealt with him and produce the effects you behold.
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  Speaker 14: And when you return to Louis of Bavaria, your master,
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  Speaker 14: tell him that his noble general, free from personal injury
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  Speaker 14: of any kind, died within the walls of this monastery
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  Speaker 14: of fear.
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  Speaker 5: Nay Nay, my good prior, put the fool's cap on
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  Speaker 5: thine own head, and tell him this tail thyself, fair
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  Speaker 5: Osterloo and fair coupled together when the lion and the
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  Speaker 5: faun are found couching in the same lare. We will
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  Speaker 5: believe this.
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  Speaker 14: All the brothers of the order will attest it.
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  Speaker 5: Away with the testimony of your coward witnesses.
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  Speaker 1: Beckoning morand to come near.
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  Speaker 5: Morand thou art a brave fellow. I have known thee
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  Speaker 5: of old thou Art, the Prior's officer. Indeed, but thou
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  Speaker 5: art now under my production, and shalt be received into
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  Speaker 5: the Emperor's service within crease rank. Speak the truth, then, boldly,
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  Speaker 5: how died Count Ostelo?
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  Speaker 14: And very truth?
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  Speaker 4: Then, my lord, according to my simple thoughts, he died
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  Speaker 4: even as the Prior has told you.
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  Speaker 5: Out upon thy hirelings tongue art thou not ashamed thyself
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  Speaker 5: wearing a soldier's god to blast a soldier's fame. There
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  Speaker 5: is no earthly thing the brave Osteliu was ever known
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  Speaker 5: to fear.
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  Speaker 4: You say true, my lord, and on my sword's point,
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  Speaker 4: I'll maintain it against any man as stoutly as yourself.
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  Speaker 4: But here is a pious.
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  Speaker 1: Monk pointing to Jerome, who.
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  Speaker 4: Will explain to you what I should speak of.
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  Speaker 3: But lamely, with surprized permission, my lord, if you will
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  Speaker 3: retire with me a little while. I'll inform you of
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  Speaker 3: this mysterious event, even simply as it ha And perhaps
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  Speaker 3: you will then confess that called upon suddenly, under circumstances
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  Speaker 3: impressing powerfully the imagination, to put off this mortal frame
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  Speaker 3: and stand forth in that tremendous presence before which this globe,
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  Speaker 3: with all its mighty empires, hangs, But as a crisped
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  Speaker 3: raindrop shivering on the threaded gossamer. The bravest mind may,
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  Speaker 3: if a guilty one, feel that within which is too
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  Speaker 3: powerful for human nature to sustain, explain it.
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  Speaker 5: As thou wilt. I shall listen to thee, but think
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  Speaker 5: not to cheat our imperial master. As revenge for the
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  Speaker 5: loss of his gallant general. I shall not fail, my Lord,
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  Speaker 5: prior to report to him the meek spirit of your
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  Speaker 5: Christian authority, which has made the general wheel of the
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  Speaker 5: community subservient to your private revenge. And another month, I
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  Speaker 5: trust shall not pause over our heads till a.
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  Speaker 1: Worthier man, pointing to Benedict, shall.
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  Speaker 5: Possess this power which you have so greatly abused. Let
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  Speaker 5: the body be removed and laid in solemn state, till
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  Speaker 5: it be delivered into the hands of those brave troops
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  Speaker 5: who shall interre it with the honors of a soldier.
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  Speaker 1: End of Act three. The End of the Dream by
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  Speaker 1: Joanna Bailey