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Two Pastorals an Heroic and a Comic - Moliere · South African Folk-Lore Tales

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  Speaker 1: Act one of Melesert, a heroic pastoral by Moliere, translated
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  Speaker 1: by Henri von Loan eighteen twenty through eighteen ninety six.
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Meleserte, a heroic pastoral in two
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  Speaker 1: acts dramatis persone.
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  Speaker 2: Myrtill in Love with Meelist read by Adrian Stephens.
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  Speaker 3: A cant in Love with Daphne read by Dale.
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  Speaker 4: Burgess Tyrone in Love with Eiraxenne read.
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  Speaker 5: By Lycras's Herdsman supposed father to Myrtle read by.
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  Speaker 6: Todd Nicandra a Shepherd read by Alum Mapstone.
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  Speaker 7: Mapsa shepherd supposed uncle to Melissert, read by Andrew Grants.
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  Speaker 8: Meliserte Shepherdess read by.
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  Speaker 9: Avay Cathy Shepherdess read by Kathy Marie walshek.
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  Speaker 10: Erxine Shepherdess read by Sonya Correen.
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  Speaker 11: Confidante of Melissert read by Wendy katz Hiller.
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  Speaker 1: Stage directions read by Kali Taylor. Scene Thesaly in the
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  Speaker 1: Valley of Tempe Melisserte, Act one, Scene one, Arozenne a
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  Speaker 1: cante Terine.
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  Speaker 4: Ah charming Daphne too lovely Herakxanne leave me.
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  Speaker 10: You can't do not follow me, Terrain.
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  Speaker 1: A Conte to Daphne.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you drive me away?
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  Speaker 1: Terne to Arozenna. Why do you fly from me, Daphne
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  Speaker 1: to a conte.
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  Speaker 9: You please me most when far.
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  Speaker 1: Away, Arozenne to Tarne.
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  Speaker 10: I love to be where you are not.
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  Speaker 3: Why not cease this killing severity?
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  Speaker 4: Why not cease to be so cruel?
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  Speaker 9: Why not cease your useless protestations?
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  Speaker 10: Why not cease to bore me?
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  Speaker 3: I die with grief unless you pity.
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  Speaker 4: Them, unless you succor me. My death is but too sure.
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  Speaker 9: Unless you go. I leave this place.
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  Speaker 10: If you remain, I say goodbye.
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  Speaker 3: Well be it so to please you, I will go.
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  Speaker 4: When I am gone, I am sure you will be pleased.
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  Speaker 3: Generous roc scene vouchsafe for pity's sake to say a
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  Speaker 3: word or two to her in favor of my passion.
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  Speaker 4: Obliging Daphne, speak to this inhuman creature and learn whence
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  Speaker 4: proceeds so much hatred towards me?
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  Speaker 1: Scene two, Daphne Rosella.
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  Speaker 10: Akanti has some merit and loves you dearly. How is
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  Speaker 10: it that you treat him so harshly.
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  Speaker 9: Tirne has much worth and pines for your love. Whence
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  Speaker 9: comes at that without pity, you behold him shedding tears.
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  Speaker 10: Since I put the question first, it is but fair
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  Speaker 10: that you should answer before me.
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  Speaker 9: All attentions make no impression on me. Because I care
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  Speaker 9: for someone else.
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  Speaker 10: I treat Taren with harshness because another is master of
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  Speaker 10: my heart.
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  Speaker 9: May I know this choice which you conceal?
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  Speaker 10: Yes, if you tell me this secret of yours, I
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  Speaker 10: can easily satisfy your wish without telling you the name
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  Speaker 10: of him I love.
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  Speaker 9: I have an admirable portrait of him in my pocket.
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  Speaker 9: The work of addis that inimitable painter, so like him
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  Speaker 9: in every feature that I am sure you will recognize
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  Speaker 9: him at a glance.
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  Speaker 10: I can satisfy you by the same means and repay
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  Speaker 10: you a secret. In the like coin, I also have
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  Speaker 10: a lovely portrait by this famous painter of the object
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  Speaker 10: of my affections, so like him in every feature and
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  Speaker 10: in his exceeding grace, that you will name him at
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  Speaker 10: first sight.
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  Speaker 9: The case which the painter has had made for me
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  Speaker 9: is exactly like yours.
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  Speaker 10: It is is true they are exactly alike, and certainly
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  Speaker 10: Attis must have had them made together.
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  Speaker 9: Let us, now, by means of these few tints, show
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  Speaker 9: each other the secret of our hearts.
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  Speaker 10: Let us see who will soonest understand this language, and
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  Speaker 10: which works speaks most plainly.
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  Speaker 9: This is a droll mistake, and you have made a
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  Speaker 9: nice blunder instead of your portrait. You have given me
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  Speaker 9: back to my own.
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  Speaker 10: Indeed I have. I do not know how I came
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  Speaker 10: to do it.
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  Speaker 9: Give it me. It is because you were dreaming.
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  Speaker 10: What is the meaning of this? I believe we are
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  Speaker 10: joking with each other. You have made the same blunder
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  Speaker 10: as I have with the portraits.
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  Speaker 9: This is certainly enough to make unwaf Give it me
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  Speaker 9: back again.
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  Speaker 1: Rosina, placing the two portraits side by side.
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  Speaker 10: This is the true way not to make a blunder?
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  Speaker 9: Is this an illusion to my preoccupied senses?
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  Speaker 10: Is my mind affecting my eyes?
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  Speaker 9: Myrtle is shown to me in this work.
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  Speaker 10: Of Mertle's features. I see the image.
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  Speaker 9: It is young Myrtle who has kindled my flame.
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  Speaker 10: It is too young, Murtier, that all my wishes tend.
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  Speaker 9: I came to day to entreat you to tell how
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  Speaker 9: his merits interest me in his lot.
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  Speaker 10: I came to ask you to assist me in my affections,
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  Speaker 10: to help me to gain his heart.
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  Speaker 9: Is this affection with which he inspires you? So powerful?
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  Speaker 10: Is your love for him? So violent?
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  Speaker 9: He could inflame the coldest heart, And his budding charms
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  Speaker 9: must delight every one.
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  Speaker 10: Not a nymph, but would esteem herself happy in loving him?
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  Speaker 10: Bienna herself might without shame be enamored of him.
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  Speaker 9: Nothing but his bright presence charms me nowadays. And had
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  Speaker 9: I a hundred hearts, they shall all be his.
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  Speaker 10: He blots every other sight from my eyes, And had
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  Speaker 10: I accept he should be a master of it.
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  Speaker 9: It would be useless then to try to tear this
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  Speaker 9: love from our breasts. Our hearts are two steadfast in
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  Speaker 9: their wishes. Only let us try, if possible, to remain friends.
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  Speaker 9: And since we both have formed the same designs for
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  Speaker 9: the same youth, let us act with the utmost candor
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  Speaker 9: in this matter, and not take a mean advantage of
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  Speaker 9: each other. Let us hasten together to Lecarasus and confide
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  Speaker 9: to him our tender feelings were his son.
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  Speaker 10: I can hardly conceive, so great is my surprise how
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  Speaker 10: such a son could spring from such a father, his shape,
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  Speaker 10: his mien, his words, his eyes. Oh, make you believe
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  Speaker 10: that the blood of the gods runs in his veins.
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  Speaker 10: But I consent. Let us us go and find the father.
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  Speaker 10: Let us open our hearts to him, and agree that
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  Speaker 10: Merthyr shall decide by his own choice afterwards, this contest
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  Speaker 10: of our desires be it?
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  Speaker 9: So I perceive Lucasus with Mopsi and Nicandra, they will
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  Speaker 9: leave him. Perhaps let us hide ourselves till they do.
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  Speaker 1: Scene three Lacarsus, mops Nicandra, Nicandra two Lacarsus.
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  Speaker 6: Tell us your news.
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  Speaker 5: Ah, ah, you press me. It does not do to
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  Speaker 5: tell these things, as you imagine.
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  Speaker 7: What silly ceremonies and what tomfoolery Monalchus does not make
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  Speaker 7: more to sing.
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  Speaker 5: Amongst the busy bodies. In political matters, the divulging of
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  Speaker 5: news generally causes a great stir. I wish to be
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  Speaker 5: considered as rather a man of importance, and enjoy your
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  Speaker 5: impatience a little longer.
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  Speaker 6: Do you wish to tire us both by your delay?
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  Speaker 7: Do you take pleasure in making yourself a bore?
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  Speaker 6: Pretty speakers? And stop these grimaces?
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  Speaker 5: Ask me both in a decent manner, and tell me
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  Speaker 5: what you will give me if I do as you wish.
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  Speaker 7: Plague take the fool. Let us leave him the condre.
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  Speaker 7: He is more anxious to tell than we are to here.
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  Speaker 7: His news weighs him down. He wishes to get rid
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  Speaker 7: of it, and we will just vex him by not listening.
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  Speaker 6: Eh, it serves you right for your ado.
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  Speaker 5: I will tell it. You then listen not at all
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  Speaker 5: what you do not wish to hear me? No, very well,
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  Speaker 5: I will not say a word, and you shall know nothing,
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  Speaker 5: all right. You shall not know then that the king
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  Speaker 5: has come to honor Tempe with his presence in the
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  Speaker 5: most magnificent style, and that he made his entry into
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  Speaker 5: Larissa yesterday afternoon, and that I saw him there comfortably
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  Speaker 5: installed with a whole court. That these woods will be
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  Speaker 5: rejoiced to day at the sight of him, and that
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  Speaker 5: there are a great many rumors abroad in connection with
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  Speaker 5: his visit.
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  Speaker 6: We do not wish to know anything.
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  Speaker 5: I have seen a hundred things there, delightful to behold
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  Speaker 5: nothing but great lords, glittering and brilliant from head to foot,
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  Speaker 5: as if dressed for a holiday. They astonish one's eyes
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  Speaker 5: and are more dazzling than our meadows at springtime with
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  Speaker 5: all their flowers. As for the prince himself, he is
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  Speaker 5: easily known amongst all the rest. He looks like a
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  Speaker 5: grand monarch a mile off. There is a something about
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  Speaker 5: him that makes you tell at once that he is
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  Speaker 5: a master king. He performs his part with matchless grace,
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  Speaker 5: and to say the truth, it suits him admirably. You
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  Speaker 5: would hardly believe how everyone at court eagerly watches for
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  Speaker 5: a glance. The reins around him a pleasant confusion, and
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  Speaker 5: one would think it a swarm of brilliant insects following
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  Speaker 5: everywhere a sweet honeycomb. In short, I have seen nothing
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  Speaker 5: so lovely under the canopy of heaven, and our much
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  Speaker 5: cherished feast of pan is a mere piece of trash
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  Speaker 5: compared with this spectacle. Since you seem so proud, I
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  Speaker 5: keep my news to myself and shall tell nothing.
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  Speaker 7: And we do not in the least wish to hear you.
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  Speaker 7: Go to the right about go and hang yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Scene four Arozennae Daphne Lacarsis Lacarsis believing himself alone.
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  Speaker 5: That is the way to punish people when they are
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  Speaker 5: foolish and impertinent.
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  Speaker 9: Heaven always preserved your flock.
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  Speaker 10: Shepherd, May Sarahs always keep your bonds.
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  Speaker 5: Full of corn, and may the Great pen give to
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  Speaker 5: each of you a husband who will love you much
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  Speaker 5: and be worthy of you.
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  Speaker 9: Ah larcass our wishes tend to the same end.
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  Speaker 10: Both our hearts sigh for the same object.
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  Speaker 9: And that boy Cupid, the cause of all our languor,
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  Speaker 9: has borrowed from you the dorts with which he wounds
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  Speaker 9: our hearts.
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  Speaker 10: And we have come here to seek your countenance and
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  Speaker 10: to see which of us too shall have the preference nymphs.
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  Speaker 9: For this alone, we sigh, I am.
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  Speaker 10: For this happiness only we wish we express our thoughts
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  Speaker 10: somewhat really, why so good breedings seems somewhat outraged?
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  Speaker 9: Not at all, But when the heart is consumed with
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  Speaker 9: the noble flame, one may, without any shame, make a
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  Speaker 9: candid avowal of it.
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  Speaker 5: I we may.
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  Speaker 10: Be allowed this freedom, and the beauty of our heart's
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  Speaker 10: choice warrants it.
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  Speaker 5: You shock my modesty by flattering me.
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  Speaker 10: Thus, no no affect, no modesty in this case.
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  Speaker 9: In short, all her happiness is in your keeping.
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  Speaker 10: Our only hope depends on you.
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  Speaker 9: Shall we find any difficulty in you.
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  Speaker 10: Ah, tell me, shall our wishes be rejected?
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  Speaker 5: No, Heaven has given me no cruel heart. I take
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  Speaker 5: after my late wife, and I feel like her a
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  Speaker 5: great sympathy with the desires of others. And I am
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  Speaker 5: not the man to show much pride.
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  Speaker 9: Then grant us Myrtle to our ardent love.
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  Speaker 10: And allow his choice to adjust our quarrel.
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  Speaker 9: Myrtle, Yes, it is myrtle whom we desire of you.
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  Speaker 10: Of whom did you think we were speaking?
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  Speaker 5: I do not know, But myrtle is not of an
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  Speaker 5: age to take the yoke of matrimony upon himself.
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  Speaker 9: His growing merit may strike other eyes, and we wish
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  Speaker 9: to secure too precious a possession, to forestall others, and
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  Speaker 9: to brave fortune under the firm ties of a common bond.
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  Speaker 10: As by his suit and other brilliant qualities, he is
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  Speaker 10: out of the common order and outstrips time. So shall
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  Speaker 10: our affection for him do the same, and regulate all
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  Speaker 10: his wishes according to his exceeding merit.
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  Speaker 5: It is true that for his age he sometimes surprises me,
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  Speaker 5: and that this Athenian who stayed with me for twenty months,
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  Speaker 5: finding him so handsome, took a fancy to fill his
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  Speaker 5: mind with his philosophy. He has made him so clever
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  Speaker 5: upon certain subjects, that great as I am, he often
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  Speaker 5: puzzles me. But after all he is still a child,
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  Speaker 5: and his knowledge mixed with a great deal of innocence.
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  Speaker 9: He is not such a child, but that I, who
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  Speaker 9: see him every day, believe him somewhat love sick or ready.
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  Speaker 9: And I have noticed many a thing that shows that
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  Speaker 9: he is after Mellissert.
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  Speaker 10: They may be in love with each other, and I
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  Speaker 10: can see nonsense.
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  Speaker 5: As for her, I do not say. She is two
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  Speaker 5: years older than he, and two years with her sex
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  Speaker 5: means a great deal. What as for him, he dreams
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  Speaker 5: of nothing but play, I think, and of his little
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  Speaker 5: vanities of being dressed like the shepherds of lofty rank.
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  Speaker 9: In short, we wish, by the marriage tie, to attach
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  Speaker 9: his fortune to ours.
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  Speaker 10: We are both equally eager to assure us as beforehand,
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  Speaker 10: of the mastery of his heart.
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  Speaker 5: I feel myself more honored than you would think. I
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  Speaker 5: am but a poor herdsman, and it is certainly too
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  Speaker 5: much glory that two nymphs of the highest rank in
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  Speaker 5: the land should contend for making my son their husband.
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  Speaker 5: Since he pleases you, so much. Let the matter be
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  Speaker 5: arranged in this way. I consent that his choice shall
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  Speaker 5: adjust your dispute, And she whom his decree shall set aside,
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  Speaker 5: may marry me in compensation if she likes. By all events,
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  Speaker 5: it is the same blood and almost the same thing.
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  Speaker 5: But here he is Allow me to prepare him a little.
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  Speaker 5: He has some sparrow newly caught, and this is nearly
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  Speaker 5: all his love and attachment.
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  Speaker 1: Scene five, Rolzinne, Daphne and Lacassis at the further end
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  Speaker 1: of the stage. Myrtle, Myrtle, believing himself alone, carrying a
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  Speaker 1: sparrow in a cage.
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  Speaker 2: Innocent little bird, that thus before me, beat your wings
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  Speaker 2: so violently against your prison walls. Bewhile not your loss
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  Speaker 2: of freedom, yours is a glorious fate. I have caught
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  Speaker 2: you for Melisirt. She will kiss you and take you
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  Speaker 2: in her hands, and grunt you the favor of nestling
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  Speaker 2: in her bosom. Can there be a sweeter and a
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  Speaker 2: happier lot, O happy little sparrow? Where is the king
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  Speaker 2: that would not change places with you?
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  Speaker 5: A word with you? Myrtle, leave these playthings alone. It
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  Speaker 5: is a question of something else than sparrows. These two nymphs, Myrtle,
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  Speaker 5: lay claim to you at the same time, and young
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  Speaker 5: as you are, desire you for their husband. I am
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  Speaker 5: to secure you to them by marriage. And they wish
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  Speaker 5: you to choose.
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  Speaker 2: One of them, these nymphs.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, of the two, you must elect one. Look at
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  Speaker 5: the happiness in store for you, and bless your good fortune.
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  Speaker 5: Can this proffered choice be deemed happiness? If my heart
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  Speaker 5: does not, in the least wish for it, at least
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  Speaker 5: acknowledge it, and respond properly and without confusion to the
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  Speaker 5: honor intended for you.
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  Speaker 10: Behold merty. Notwithstanding the pride which reigns amongst us two
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  Speaker 10: nymphs who offer themselves to you, the marvelous promise of
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  Speaker 10: your worth reverses the order of things in this case.
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  Speaker 9: We believe you, Myrtle, as the best judge in that matter,
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  Speaker 9: to consult your own eyes and heart. Nor will we
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  Speaker 9: influence your choice by a flowery description of our own perfections.
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  Speaker 2: You intend me an honor, the greatness of which dazzles me.
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  Speaker 2: But I confess that this honor is too great for me.
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  Speaker 2: I must oppose your exceeding goodness. I am of too
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  Speaker 2: little worth to deserve such fortune, and however great its
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  Speaker 2: attractions might be, I should be sorry that for my
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  Speaker 2: sake you should be blamed for having chosen beneath you.
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  Speaker 10: Comply with our wishes, whatever may be said of it,
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  Speaker 10: and do not trouble yourself with the care of our glory.
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  Speaker 9: No, do not think so humbly of yourself, and leave
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  Speaker 9: us to be the judges of your deserts.
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  Speaker 2: Even the profer choice supposes itself to your expectations, and
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  Speaker 2: alone would prevent my heart from satisfying you. How am
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  Speaker 2: I to choose between two great beauties equal in birth
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  Speaker 2: and rare perfections? To reject either would be a terrible crime,
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  Speaker 2: and it is much more reasonable to choose neither.
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  Speaker 10: But in refusing to comply with our desires instead of one,
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  Speaker 10: you offend two murty.
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  Speaker 9: Since we were will to abide by your decision, you
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  Speaker 9: cannot defend yourself with these reasons.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then, if these reasons do not satisfy you, this
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  Speaker 2: one will. I love other charms, and I feel full
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  Speaker 2: well that a heart which a beautiful object engrosses, is
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  Speaker 2: indifferent and deaf to all other advantages.
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  Speaker 7: What now?
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  Speaker 5: What means all this? Who could have thought it and
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  Speaker 5: do you know, boy, what love is?
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  Speaker 2: Without knowing it myself? My heart does.
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  Speaker 5: But this love displeases me and is not wanted if.
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  Speaker 2: It displeases you. You ought not to have given me
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  Speaker 2: such a tender and sensitive heart.
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  Speaker 5: But this heart that I have given you owes me obedience.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, when it is in its power to obey.
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  Speaker 5: But it ought not to love without my leave.
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  Speaker 2: Why did you not hinder it then from being charmed? Well?
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  Speaker 5: I forbid you to let this continue.
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  Speaker 2: I am afraid your prohibition comes too late.
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  Speaker 5: What has not a father superior writes?
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  Speaker 2: Even the much greater God's cannot control our hearts.
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  Speaker 5: The gods, Please, little fool, this philosophy makes me.
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  Speaker 9: Do not be angry. Pray no, he.
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  Speaker 5: Shall choose one of you, or I will whip him
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  Speaker 5: before your faces.
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  Speaker 2: Ha ha.
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  Speaker 5: I will let you know that I am your father.
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  Speaker 9: Pray, let us manage matters without anger.
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  Speaker 10: May we inquire of you Murtyr, the name of the
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  Speaker 10: charming object whose beauty has made you her swain.
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  Speaker 2: Mainly, sir Madam. She may make others love her?
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  Speaker 10: Do you compare her attractions to ours?
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  Speaker 9: Motim His choice between her and nurse is unequal enough.
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  Speaker 2: Nymphs, in Heaven's name, do not say any ill of her.
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  Speaker 2: Pray consider that I love her, and do not upset
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  Speaker 2: my mind. If by loving her I outrage your heavenly charms.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: She has no part in that crime. All the offense
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: comes from me, If you please. It is true that
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  Speaker 2: I know the difference between you and her, but we
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: cannot escape our fate. In short, Nymphs, I feel that
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Heaven has granted me all imaginable respect for you, but
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: for her, all the love of which a heart is capable.
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  Speaker 2: I perceive, by the blush that rises in your face,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: that my words do not please you. My heart fears
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: to hear in your answer what may wound it in
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: its most tender part, And to avoid such a blow,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: I prefer taking my leave of you. Nymphs, Hello, myrtle, Hello,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Will you come back, you wretch? He is off, but
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: we shall see who is master. Do not concern yourself
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: about all these idle raptures. You shall have him for
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: a husband. I answer with my life for that.
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  Speaker 1: And of Act one, Act two of Meleserto and Heroic
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Pastoral by Moliere, translated by Enrie von Land eighteen twenty
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: through eighteen ninety six. This is a LibriVox recording. All
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Meleserte Act two,
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  Speaker 1: Scene one, Melesert Corin.
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  Speaker 8: Ah Corin. You have heard it from Stella, and she
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: has got the news from Lacarsis. Yes, that Mutil's charms
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: have touched the hearts of Eruxine and Daphne. Yes, that
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: they are so eager to secure him, that both together
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: have asked for his hand, and that in their discussion
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: they have decided to claim it this very hour. How
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: unwilling you are to speak, and how little my misfortune
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: touches you.
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  Speaker 11: But what would you have me say? This is the truth?
• 24:23
  Speaker 11: And you repeat every word exactly as I told them
• 24:26
  Speaker 11: to you.
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  Speaker 8: But how does Lacarsis take this matter as an honor?
• 24:32
  Speaker 11: I believe that ought to please him mightily?
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: And do you not see you, who know my feelings
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: so well, that alas with these words, you pierce me
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: to the heart.
• 24:45
  Speaker 11: How so by showing me.
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: Thus plainly that implacable fate makes me of so little
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: consequences compared with them, is not the thought that they
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: will be preferred to me on account of their rank,
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: enough to drive me mad.
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  Speaker 11: But I only answer and say what I think.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, you kill me with your indifference. But tell me
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: what feelings did Miurtel show.
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  Speaker 11: I know not.
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  Speaker 8: That is just what you ought to know, cruel girl.
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  Speaker 11: In truth, I do not know what to do. Whatever
• 25:24
  Speaker 11: I do, I am sure to displease you.
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: It is because you do not enter into the feelings
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: of a heart too full alas of tender passion. Go
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: leave me alone in this solitude, to pass a few
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: moments of my anxiety.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Seeing too melessa it alone.
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: Behold my heart what it is to love too well?
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: Belieze warned me of it. That darling mother, before her death,
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: said to me one day on the bans of de Pennaeus, beware, daughter,
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: Love always comes to young hearts surrounded by sweet guiles.
• 26:08
  Speaker 8: At first it offers not but what is agreeable, But
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: it drags horrible troubles after it. And if you wish
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: to pass your days in peace, ever defend yourself from
• 26:19
  Speaker 8: it starts as from an evil. And oh, my heart,
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: well did I remember those lessons? And when first I
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: beheld mere till when he played with me and paid
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: me attentions. I always told you to delight less in them,
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: but you believed me not, and your complacency soon changed
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: into too much good will. You imagined nought but joy
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: and pleasure from this budding love that flattered your desires.
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: Now you beholds the cruel misfortune with which fate threatens
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: you in this ominous day, and the deadly pangs to
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: which it reduces you. Ah, my heart, my heart, I
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  Speaker 8: warned you, But let us if we can conceal our grief.
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: Here comes Scene three.
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  Speaker 2: Metho Meleissert, I just now, charming Melissat, took a little prisoner,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: which I have kept for you, and of which I
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: may perhaps become jealous one of these days. It is
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: a young sparrow, which I myself intend to tame with
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: great care and for your acceptance. The present is not great,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: but the gods themselves take note of the will. Only
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: the intention is everything, and it is never the value
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: of presence that but heaven. Whence this sadness? What ails you, Melicate,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: and what dark sorrow is reflected in your dear eyes?
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: This morning? You do not answer me, And this more
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: wornful silence redoubles my anxiety and impatience, Speak what has
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: annoyed you? What is it?
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  Speaker 8: It is nothing?
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  Speaker 2: It is nothing, you say, And yet I see your
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: eyes full of tears. Does this agree, fair, charmer? Oh,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: do not kill me by concealing it, But explain to
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: me what those tears mean.
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  Speaker 8: It would do me no good to let you know
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  Speaker 8: this secret?
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Ought you to have anything that I may not know?
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Do you not offend this day our loves by wishing
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: to rob me of my share of your troubles? Oh,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: do not hide it from my affection?
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: Well, meatild be it? So I must tell it you.
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: Then I have been informed that, by a choice very
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: glorious for you, Eroxiny and Daphne wish you for their husband.
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: And I will confess, Smeertil, that I have the weakness
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: of not being able to hear this without grief, without
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: accusing fate of her rigorous law, which renders their desires
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: preferable to mine.
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  Speaker 2: And you can harbor this unjust grief. You can suspect
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: my love of weakness. And you imagine that, bound by
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: such sweet charms, I could ever be another's, that I
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: would accept any other profit? Hand, Ah, what have I done? Cruel?
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Melly said that you treat my tenderness so harshly and
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: judge my heart so badly? What ought you even to
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: doubt it? It makes me very wretched to suffer this suspicion.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: What is the good of love like mine? Alas when
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: you are so ready to disbelieve it?
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: I would hear these rivals less smear, till if things
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: were equal on both sides, and were I of similar rank,
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: I might dare to hope that perhaps love would prefer me.
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: But the inner quality of wealth and birth, which makes
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: the difference between them and me.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Ah, their rank will not conquer my heart, and your
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: divine charms stand you instead of all I love you
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  Speaker 2: that is sufficient, and in you I see rank, wealth, treasures, state,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: scept a crown. Where the greatest monarch's power offered to me,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: I would not change it for the bliss of possessing you.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: This is the sincere and unvarnished truth, which to doubt
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  Speaker 2: is an insult to me.
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  Speaker 8: Well may till since you wish it, I believe that
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: your vows are not shaken by their rank, and that,
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: notwithstanding their nobility, riches, and beauty, your heart loves me
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: well enough to love me better than them. But you
• 30:53
  Speaker 8: will not follow the voice of love. Your father may
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: till will dictate your choice, And I am not dear
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  Speaker 8: to him as I am to you, that he should
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  Speaker 8: prefer a simple shepherdess to all else.
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  Speaker 2: No, dear melisaid, neither Father nor God shall force me
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  Speaker 2: to discard your lovely eyes forever, queen of my heart, as.
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  Speaker 8: You are, ah mere, till take care what you are doing.
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: Do not indulge my heart with hope, which it would
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: perhaps to willingly receive, and which, vanishing afterwards, like a
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: passing flash of lightning, would render my misfortune the more cruel.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: What am I to invoke the aid of oaths when
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: I promise to love you forever? How you wrong yourself
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: by such alarms? How little you know the power of
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: your charms? Well, since you wish it, I swear by
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: the gods, And if that be not enough, I swear
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: by your eyes that I shall sooner be killed than
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: leave you, except here on the spot the pledge which
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: I give you, and suffer my lips to seal the
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: oath with transport on this fair hand.
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  Speaker 8: Ah mityl get up, for fear you may be seen.
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  Speaker 2: Is there aught? But oh heavens, some one comes to
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  Speaker 2: disturb my bliss.
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  Speaker 1: Scene for lycassis methyl melesset.
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  Speaker 5: Do not let me disturb you, meleserta.
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  Speaker 8: Aside cruel fate.
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  Speaker 5: Not at all bad this go on, you two. Bless
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: my heart, dear son, how tender you look, and how
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: like a master you set about it already as this
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: sage whom Athens exiled, taught you all these pretty things
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: in his philosophy. And you, my gentle shepherdess, who so
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: sweetly gave him your hand to kiss, does honor teach
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: you these tender whiles. Wherew you thus debut young hearts.
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  Speaker 2: Refrain from these degrading insinuations, and do not pain me
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  Speaker 2: with a discourse that insults her.
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: I will speak to her. I will all this billing
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: and cooing.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: I will not allow her to be abused. My birth
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: obliges me to have some respect for you. But I
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: shall be able to punish you upon myself for this outrage. Yes,
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: I call Heaven to witness that if against my wishes,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: you utter again to her the least harsh word, I shall,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: with this sword give her satisfaction. My pierced heart shall
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: be your punishment, and my spilled blood promptly convince her
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  Speaker 2: how highly I disapprove of your anger.
• 33:52
  Speaker 8: Oh no, do not believe that I purposely inflame him,
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: and that it is my design to seduce his heart.
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  Speaker 8: It is by his own free will that he cares
• 34:02
  Speaker 8: to see me and bears me some good will. I
• 34:05
  Speaker 8: do not force him, not that I wish to refrain
• 34:08
  Speaker 8: from responding to his tender passion by an equally tender one.
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  Speaker 8: I love him, I own it as much as possible.
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  Speaker 8: But this attachment has nothing that ought to alarm you,
• 34:21
  Speaker 8: and to disarm all your unjust fears. I promise you
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: now to avoid his presence, to make room for the
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: choice you have resolved upon, and not listen to his
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: protestations of love unless you wish it.
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  Speaker 1: Scene five like Masses Merton.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now she is gone, you triumph. She has spoken,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: and you have obtained all that you desire. But know
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: that you rejoice in vain, and that you will be
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: disappointed in your expectations, and that do what you will.
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  Speaker 2: All your powers shall not shake my determination.
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  Speaker 5: What presumption is this, sir Ah? Is this the way
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  Speaker 5: to talk to me?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? I am wrong, It is true, and my anger
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  Speaker 2: is not seemly. I will change my tone as becomes me,
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: and I beseech you, my father, in the name of
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: the gods, and by all that can be most dear
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: to you, not to use in this conjuncture the supreme
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: power which nature gives you over me. Do not embitter
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: your most precious gifts. I owe my being to you,
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: But shall I be indebted to you this day? If
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: you render life unbearable to me without merely cert it
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: becomes a torment. Nothing is of value to me without
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: her divine charms. They contain all my happiness and all
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: my desires, And if you take them away, you take
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: life itself.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Laclasses aside, he makes me share his heartfelt grief.
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: Who would have ever thought it of the little rogue?
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: What passion, what excitement?
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: What talk?
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: For one of his age? It quite confuses me, and
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: I feel that I am interested in his love.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Myrto throwing himself at lacarsis knees.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Say, will you condemn me to tie? You have but
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: to speak?
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: I am ready to obey Laclasses aside.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: I can hold out no longer. He draws tears from me,
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: and his tender words make me yield. If in your
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: heart a spark of friendship inspires you with the slightest
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: pity for my fate. Grant mainly seart to my ardent desire,
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: and you will give me more than life. Get up?
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Will you take pity on my sighs? Yes? Shall I
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: obtain the object of my desires?
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: You will make her uncle give me her hand?
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: Yes, get up, I tell you, Oh.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Best of fathers, let me kiss your hands after so
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: much kindness?
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: Ah, how weaker father is for his children? Can we
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: refuse art to their tender words? Do we not feel
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: some sweet emotions within us when we reflect the day?
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: Are part of ourselves?
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: But will you keep your given promise? Tell me that
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: you will not change your mind? No, if any one
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: should make you change your feelings, have I your leave
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: to disobey you? Say?
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: Yes, ah, Nature, Nature, I will go and see Bopsey
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: and acquaint him with the love his niece and you
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: have for each other.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: How much I owe to your exceeding kindness alone? What
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: happy news to tell melely sir? I would not accept
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: a crown in exchange for the pleasure of telling her
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: this marvelous success that will please her so much.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Scene six A can'te terine myrto.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: Ah, Myrtle, the charms which you have received from Heaven
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: are the cause of tears in us. Their dawning beauty,
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: so fatal to our desires, robs us of the hearts
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: of those we love.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: May we inquire, Meretil, which of these two fair ones
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: you will choose, of which there is so much talk,
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: And upon which of us two the blow is to
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: fall that shatters all our expectant affections.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: Do not let too pine any longer. Tell us what
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: fate your heart prepares for us.
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: It is better, when one fears such terrible misfortune, to
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: be killed outright by one blow than to linger so long.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Let your love resume its calm career, noble shepherds. The
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: lovely Maliseet has captivated my heart. My lot is sweet
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: enough with her not to wish to encroach upon you.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: And if your passions have only mine to fear, neither
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: of you will have any cause to complain.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Can it be, Myrtle, that two sad lovers?
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: Can it be true that Heaven giving way to our tortures?
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, Content with my fetters as with a victory, I
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: have declined this choice, so full of glory. I have
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: also changed my father's wishes and made him consent to
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: my happiness.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: To Tarine.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: Ah. What a charming, miraculous adventure this is, and what
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: a great obstacle it removes to our pursuits.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: It may restore these nymphs to our love and be
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: the means of making us both happy.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Scene seven, Nicandra, mythol Acante.
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: Do you know where Menisser may be found?
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: She's being looked for everywhere? And why we shall soon
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: lose this beauty? It is for her that the king
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: has come hither. It is said that he will marry
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: her to some great lord.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Oh Heaven, explain these words, I pray they.
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: Are important and mysterious events. Yes, the king has come
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: to seek Melissa in these spots, and they say that
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: formerly her mother Belize, of whom all Tempe believed Mopsa
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: to be the brother. But I have undertaken to look
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: for her everywhere. You shall know all about it, by
• 41:21
  Speaker 6: and by.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Oh great God, what a calamity he not can not Candra.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: Let us follow him that we may know all.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: And of Act two, end of Melisset, a heroic pastoral
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: into acts by Moyere, translated by Enrieve von Laan.
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: A comic pastoral by Moliere, translated by Vrivon Laune eighteen
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: twenty eighteen ninety six. This is a LibriVox recording. All
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Introductory notice.
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: The pastoral comique was probably represented before the court on
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: the fifth January sixteen sixty seven. It formed part of
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: the Ballet of the Muses, and most likely replaced the
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: unfinished Melisserte when the ballet was again given in the
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: beginning of that month. We cannot now discover what plan
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: Moliere has followed or what he intended with the pastoral Comique.
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: He himself suppressed or destroyed the manuscript, and we have
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: now only the couplets which were sung and which were
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: preserved in the ballet book and in the musical partition.
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: They show, according to some commentators, a violent desire in
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: Moliere to deaden his feelings. I confess that I can
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: see in them only the ordinary words of an operatic libretto.
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: We know that our author played the part of Lycas
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: after he had just been ill. It is possible that
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: his hollow and lean features may intentionally have brended more
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: ridiculous his love declarations Dermatis personae.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: Lycas a rich shepherd in love with Iris, read by
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Adrian Stephens.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: Phileen, a rich shepherd in love with Iris, read by
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: Dale Burgess.
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: A Shepherd read by David Perdy.
• 43:33
  Speaker 12: Three Magicians read by Devora Allen.
• 43:37
  Speaker 10: A Magician read by Sonya.
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: The Gypsy read by Allam Mapstone.
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: Stage directions read by Todd Scene Thessaly in a small
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: village in the Valley of Tempe. A comic pastoral scene
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: one Lycas Corydon Blank. Scene two Like Us, dancing and
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: singing musicians Demons. First entry up the ballet. Two musicians
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: begin dancing a kind of enchantment to beautify like us.
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: They strike the ground with her wands, whereupon six demons
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: spring from it, who join them. Three more musicians appear
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: from underground. Three musicians singing.
• 44:23
  Speaker 12: Goddess of Charms, refuse us not not the favor which
• 44:27
  Speaker 12: our lips implore of you. We beseech you for it
• 44:31
  Speaker 12: by your ribbons, by your diamond buckles, by your paint
• 44:35
  Speaker 12: and powder, by your patches, your mask, your head dress,
• 44:39
  Speaker 12: and your mellows.
• 44:41
  Speaker 10: Oh, you who can beautify the plainest faces, deign to spread,
• 44:46
  Speaker 10: Oh venus, two or three charitable doses of your charms
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  Speaker 10: over this freshly clipped snout.
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  Speaker 12: Goddess of charms, refuse us not the favor which our
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  Speaker 12: lips implore of you. We beseech you for it by
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  Speaker 12: your ribbons, by your diamond buckles, by your paint and powder,
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  Speaker 12: by your patches, your mask, your head dress, and your gloves.
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  Speaker 5: Second entry of the ballet. The six dancing demons, dressed
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  Speaker 5: like us, up in a ridiculous and strange fashion, the
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  Speaker 5: three magicians singing.
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  Speaker 10: Ah, how lovely the youngster is now?
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  Speaker 12: Ah, how lovely, how lovely? How many fair ones she
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  Speaker 12: will kill? The most cruel maids will jump out of
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  Speaker 12: the fisk when they approach him. Ah, how lovely the
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  Speaker 12: youngster is now?
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  Speaker 10: Ah, how lovely, how lovely.
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  Speaker 5: Third entry of the ballet. The magicians and the demons
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  Speaker 5: continue their dancing, whilst three singing magicians continue to make
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  Speaker 5: fun of like us, How.
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  Speaker 1: Fair is he?
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  Speaker 10: How pretty hulshed?
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  Speaker 1: How fair is she?
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  Speaker 10: How fair is she.
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  Speaker 8: That can understand him?
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  Speaker 12: He is more lovely than late Narcissisus, who was a colo.
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  Speaker 12: How fair is he how pretty, un polished? How fair
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  Speaker 12: is he?
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  Speaker 5: The three singing magicians disappear in the ground, and the
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  Speaker 5: dancing magicians excellent at the sides. Scene three Licus Vieline Feline,
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  Speaker 5: without perceiving, Lichus sings.
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  Speaker 3: Browse my pretty lambs, the sprouting grass, these meadows, in
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  Speaker 3: these brooks have something to charm you. But if you
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  Speaker 3: wish to live content forever, dear little innocence, beware of love.
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  Speaker 5: Licus, without preceding Viline, and wishing to compose some verses
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  Speaker 5: for his mistress, pronounces the name of Iris, loud enough
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  Speaker 5: for Feline to hear.
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  Speaker 3: It is it you whom I hear, audacious wretch? Is
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  Speaker 3: it you who dare pronounce the name of her who
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  Speaker 3: holds meneath her sway?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? It is I, Yes, it is I.
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  Speaker 3: How dare you in any way profane that lovely name?
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  Speaker 7: Ay?
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  Speaker 2: Why not? Why not?
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  Speaker 3: Iris charms my soul? And whosoever shall dare to indulge
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  Speaker 3: in the slightest spark of love for her will repent
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  Speaker 3: of it.
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  Speaker 2: I do not care for that. I do not care
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  Speaker 2: for that.
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  Speaker 3: I will strangle and eat you. If ever you name
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  Speaker 3: my fair whatever I say I do, I will strangle
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  Speaker 3: and eat you. It is enough that I have sworn it,
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  Speaker 3: even if the gods take your part, I will strangle
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  Speaker 3: and eat you if ever you name my.
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  Speaker 2: Fair nonsense nonsense.
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  Speaker 5: Scene four Irischus blank. Scene five, likeus a cow herd
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  Speaker 5: a cowhrd brings likeus a challenge from Feline his rival blank.
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  Speaker 5: Scene six, Lichus Corydon blank. Scene seven Feline likeus, Bilie sings.
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  Speaker 3: Stay wretch, turn around and let us see which of
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  Speaker 3: us two shall gain the day.
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  Speaker 5: Lycus hesitates to fight.
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  Speaker 3: Enough of chatter, come you must die.
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  Speaker 5: Scene eight Philine Lycus, eight peasants. The peasants rush in
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  Speaker 5: to separate Philine and Licus. Fourth entry of the ballet.
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  Speaker 5: The peasants begin to quarrel among themselves while they are
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  Speaker 5: trying to separate the two shepherds, and dance while fighting.
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  Speaker 5: Scene nine Corydon, Lycus, Philine, peasants. Corydon, by speaking to them,
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  Speaker 5: finds means to appease the dispute of the peasants. Fifth
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  Speaker 5: entry of the ballet. The reconciled peasants dance together. Scene
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  Speaker 5: ten Corydon, Lycus, Philine blank. Scene eleven, Iris Corydon blank.
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  Speaker 5: Scene twelve Philine Lichus Iris Chorydonus and Feline. The two
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  Speaker 5: lovers of the shepherdess press her to decide which of
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  Speaker 5: them she prefers. Filine to Iris.
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  Speaker 3: Do not expect me to boast about the choice regarding
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  Speaker 3: which you hesitate. You can see I love you. That
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  Speaker 3: tells you enough.
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  Speaker 5: The Shepherdess decides in favor of Chordon Scene thirteen.
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  Speaker 3: Philine likeus, alas can anyone feel more poignant grief? A
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  Speaker 3: menial shepherd is to us preferred.
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  Speaker 2: Oh heavens, oh fate, what harshness, what a blow? So
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  Speaker 2: many tears and so much perseverance, such languor so much suffering,
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  Speaker 2: Such protestations and such cass, such ardor so much love
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  Speaker 2: are treated with so much disdain this day, Ah cruel
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  Speaker 2: one hardhearted, fair and tigris too merciless. Maide inhuman one,
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  Speaker 2: you stopping girl, ungrateful one, pitiless one.
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  Speaker 3: You wish to kill us? Then it is well we
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  Speaker 3: shall content you.
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  Speaker 2: We shall hope by you.
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  Speaker 5: Viline drawing his javelin like us, Let us die, like
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  Speaker 5: us drawing his javelin, Filen, let us die.
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  Speaker 3: Let us end our sufferings with this steal.
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  Speaker 2: Pierce, be firm, take courage, Come you first, No I
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  Speaker 2: will be lost.
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  Speaker 3: Since the same misfortune this day brings us together, let
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  Speaker 3: us depart together.
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  Speaker 5: Scene fourteen, Shepherd like us Helene. The shepherd sings, what folly?
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  Speaker 5: To quit life for a fair one who rejects us?
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  Speaker 5: We might wish to quit this life for a lovely
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  Speaker 5: object's sake, whose heart favors us. But to die for
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  Speaker 5: the fair one who rejects us is folly. Scene fifteen,
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  Speaker 5: a gypsy dancing Gypsies.
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  Speaker 6: Relieve the torment of a poor heart, of a poor heart.
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  Speaker 6: Relieve the suffering in vain, I depict my ardent flame.
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  Speaker 6: I see you laugh at my repining, Ah, cruel one,
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  Speaker 6: I die through so much harshness. Relieve the martyrdom of
• 51:47
  Speaker 6: a poor heart of a poor heart. Relieve the suffering.
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  Speaker 5: Sixth entry of the ballet twelve Gypsies, of whom four
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  Speaker 5: play the guitar for the cat for the nacars. Dance
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  Speaker 5: with a gypsy to the measure of her song.
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  Speaker 6: Believe me. Let us hasten my silvia and profit well
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  Speaker 6: by the precious time. Let us here satisfy our desires.
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  Speaker 6: The passions of our age invite us. You and I
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  Speaker 6: could not do better. Winter has covered our fields with ice.
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  Speaker 6: Spring comes to take her place again, and to our
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  Speaker 6: pastures gives their charm. But when alas old age has
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  Speaker 6: chilled us, our happy days return no more. Let us
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  Speaker 6: seek all day nought, but what pleases us, Let us
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  Speaker 6: both be earnest about it. Let pleasures be our business.
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  Speaker 6: Let us get rid of all our troubles. A time
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  Speaker 6: will come when we shall have enough of them. Winter
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  Speaker 6: has covered our fields with ice. Spring comes to take
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  Speaker 6: her place again, and to our pastures give their charms.
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  Speaker 6: But when alas old age has chilled our feelings, our
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  Speaker 6: happy days return no more.
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  Speaker 5: And of the comic pastoral end of Two pastor Rows
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  Speaker 5: by Moliere, translated by henri Va Long eighteen twenty to
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  Speaker 5: eighteen ninety six.