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Athaliah - Jean Racine · A School for Greybeards; or, The Mourning Bride

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  Speaker 1: Introduction to Atheliah by Jean Racine, translated by Robert Bruce Boswell.
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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: visit liberyvox dot org. Introduction. This fine play, with which
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  Speaker 1: Racine's dramatic career fitly concluded, was composed, like Esther, for
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  Speaker 1: semi private performance by the young Ladies of the College
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  Speaker 1: of Saint Cyr, where it was first acted, as well
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  Speaker 1: as afterwards at Versailles in sixteen ninety one. It was
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  Speaker 1: not represented at a public theater till seventeen sixteen eighty lay,
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  Speaker 1: due it may be in some measure to its sacred character,
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  Speaker 1: though probably quite as much to the general lack of
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  Speaker 1: appreciation with which it had for long to contend. It
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  Speaker 1: is now universally acknowledged to deserve either first or second
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  Speaker 1: place among Racine's masterpieces, Phaedra and Athalie being rivals for
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  Speaker 1: the Palm. The scriptural narrative is faithfully followed as the
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  Speaker 1: main outline of the plot, and wherever Racine has added,
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  Speaker 1: such as Athaliah's dream, her first sight of the youthful
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  Speaker 1: Joe ash and the characters of abner Am Matta so
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  Speaker 1: far from presenting incongruous elements, enhance the dramatic interest of
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  Speaker 1: the story. End of introduction. Dramatist personae.
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  Speaker 2: Athalia, widow of Joram and grandmother of Josh, read by
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  Speaker 2: Rita Buchans.
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  Speaker 3: Joash, King of Judah and son of Ahaziah read by.
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  Speaker 4: Encirl Jehoiada the High Priest by Piece Mexicandal.
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  Speaker 5: Jehoshabah, aunt of Joosh and wife of the High Priest
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  Speaker 5: read by Deanna Lee.
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  Speaker 6: Zachariah, son of Jehoidah and Jehosheba read by Greg Giordano.
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  Speaker 7: Silomi, sister of Zachariah, read by.
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  Speaker 8: Sonya Abnau, one of the chief officers of the Kings
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  Speaker 8: of Judah, read.
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  Speaker 9: By Todd Azariah, a Chief of the Priests and Levites
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  Speaker 9: read by al Ji.
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  Speaker 10: Pag Ishmael A Chief of the Priest and Levites read
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  Speaker 10: by Michelle Wood.
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  Speaker 11: Matan an apostate priest, chief Priest of Baal read by
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  Speaker 11: Larry Dalky.
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  Speaker 12: Mabel confidential friend of Matten read by Red run.
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  Speaker 10: Hagar an attendant on Apalia read by Michelle Wood.
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  Speaker 13: A Levite read by David Perdy.
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  Speaker 14: Course of Young Maidens of the Tribe of Levi, read
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  Speaker 14: by Alice Rachelle.
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  Speaker 1: Reader Boutros, Stage directions read by Alan Mapstone. The scene
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  Speaker 1: is laid in the Temple of Jerusalem in an anti
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  Speaker 1: chamber to the High Priest's dwelling. End of introduction and
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  Speaker 1: Tramatis personae, Act one of Athaalah by Jean Racine, translated
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  Speaker 1: by Robert Bruce Boswell. This is a Liberyvox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: Liberyvox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 1: or to volunteer, please visit Liberyvox dot org Atha Liar
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  Speaker 1: a treasure he founded upon holy Scripture. The scene is
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  Speaker 1: laid in the Temple at Jerusalem in an ante chamber
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  Speaker 1: of the High Priest's dwelling. Acts one seen one Jehoidah
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  Speaker 1: and abner Yea.
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  Speaker 8: To the Temple of the Lord. I come to worship
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  Speaker 8: with the solemn rites of old, to celebrate with thee
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  Speaker 8: the famous day when from the Holy Mount our law
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  Speaker 8: was given how times are changed. Soon as a sacred
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  Speaker 8: trump with joyous blast announced this day's return, the temple
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  Speaker 8: Porticos with Garland's gay could not contain the crowds of
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  Speaker 8: the devout before the altar. They, in order due bringing
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  Speaker 8: the earliest harvest of their fields, offered those fresh fruits
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  Speaker 8: to the Lord of all. Nor were their priests enough
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  Speaker 8: for sacrifice. A woman's will has dare to check these
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  Speaker 8: throngs and turn the day's bright glory into gloom. Scarce
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  Speaker 8: dare a few more zealous worshipers recall for us some
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  Speaker 8: shadow of the past. The rest are all forgetful of
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  Speaker 8: their God or into ball's altars. Flocking now in shameful orgies,
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  Speaker 8: learn to bear their part and curse the name on
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  Speaker 8: which their fathers called. My soul is troubled. Not will
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  Speaker 8: I conceal lest Athaliah visit upon thee her vengeance, spurn
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  Speaker 8: all remnant of respect, and tear thee from the altar
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  Speaker 8: of the Lord.
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  Speaker 4: Whence comes to thee this presage dark to day.
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  Speaker 8: Holy and righteous, how canst thou escape? Long has she
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  Speaker 8: hated that rare constancy which adds new brilliance to thy
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  Speaker 8: miter'd brow. Long has she treated thy religious zeal as
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  Speaker 8: obstinate sedition and revolt the shining virtue of thy faithful spouse.
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  Speaker 8: Have earned the special hatred of the Queen. If arrant.
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  Speaker 8: Priesthood has devolved on thee. Thy wife is sister to
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  Speaker 8: our latest king Matan. Moreover, that upostate priest, his foul
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  Speaker 8: desertion from our altars, crowns with eager persecution of all
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  Speaker 8: good and worse than Athaliah spurs her on. Tis not
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  Speaker 8: enough that in foreign garb the Levite serves it balls altar.
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  Speaker 8: Now this temple is to him a sore offense, and
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  Speaker 8: he would fain destroy the God. He left no means.
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  Speaker 8: He leaves untried to ruin thee, and undermines with praise
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  Speaker 8: no less than blame. He feigns for THEE a treacherous kindliness,
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  Speaker 8: masking the blackness of his venom. Thus, sometimes he prompts
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  Speaker 8: the queen to tread Thy power, and sometimes, looking to
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  Speaker 8: her lust for gold, pretends that somewhere known to THEE alone,
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  Speaker 8: thou hidest treasures David had amassed. For two days past,
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  Speaker 8: the proud, imperious queen has seemed as though consumed by
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  Speaker 8: Baffled's fight. I saw her yesterday with furious eyes, clare
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  Speaker 8: at the sacred place and marked her well, as if
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  Speaker 8: within the tevil's deep recess looked God's avenger arm to
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  Speaker 8: punish her. The more I think thereon, the less I
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  Speaker 8: doubt on thee her wrath is ready now to burst,
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  Speaker 8: and that with all her mother's burst for blood E'en
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  Speaker 8: in his shrine, she will defy our God, He who.
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  Speaker 4: In chains the fury of the waves, knows how to
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  Speaker 4: curb the plots of wicked men, submitting humbly to his
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  Speaker 4: holy will. I fear my God and know no other fear.
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  Speaker 4: And yet I thank thee Abner for thy zeal, that
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  Speaker 4: o'er my peril keeps a watchful eye I see injustice
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  Speaker 4: chafes thine inmost heart. Thou art a faithful son of Israel,
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  Speaker 4: still for that may Heaven be blest. But secret wrath
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  Speaker 4: and passive worth art Thou? Content with these? Is faith
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  Speaker 4: sincere if it declines to act an impious foreigner. For
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  Speaker 4: eight long years has David thrown usurped with all its rights,
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  Speaker 4: unpunish'd waded in our Prince's blood, foul murderess of the
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  Speaker 4: children of her son, and E'en against our God has
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  Speaker 4: raised her arm, And thou a pillar of this trembling
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  Speaker 4: state bread and the camp of good Jehosaphat under his
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  Speaker 4: son jehoram in command, and whom alone are towns and
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  Speaker 4: terror leaned When a Haasiah's unexpected death scattered his armies
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  Speaker 4: before Jiou's face, sayst thou I fear the Lord and
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  Speaker 4: own his truth? Lo by my mouth to thee. The
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  Speaker 4: Lord replies, what boots it that thou boast zeal for
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  Speaker 4: my law? Thinkest to honor me? By baron vows? What
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  Speaker 4: fruit have I of all thy sacrifice? Need I the
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  Speaker 4: blood of heifes and of goats? Thy Prince's blood cries
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  Speaker 4: out and is not heard. Break, break or compact with impiety,
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  Speaker 4: Root up the crimes amidst my people rife, and come
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  Speaker 4: and sacrifice thy victims.
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  Speaker 8: Then what can I do? The people have lost heart.
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  Speaker 8: Judah is cowed, and Benjamin is weak. The day that
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  Speaker 8: saw their royal line extinct extinguished all their ancient valor.
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  Speaker 1: Too.
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  Speaker 8: The Lord himself, they say, withdraws from us. Though one
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  Speaker 8: so jealous of his people's praise, he sees unmoved, their
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  Speaker 8: majesty abased, and his compassion is at last worn out
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  Speaker 8: no more for us. His mighty arm, outstretched with countless marbles,
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  Speaker 8: terrifies our foes. His ark is dumb utters no oracle.
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  Speaker 4: Yet when did miracles abound? As now? When by more
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  Speaker 4: signs has God displayed his power? Will you have always
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  Speaker 4: eyes that cannot see ungrateful people? Shall his mightiest deeds
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  Speaker 4: strike upon your ears, nor ever move your hearts, say
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  Speaker 4: my dear Ebnah, must I needs repeat the wonders brought
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  Speaker 4: to pass in these are days, the signal fall of
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  Speaker 4: Israel's tyrant kings, and God found faithful to perform his threats.
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  Speaker 4: Ehab destroyed and with his blood defiled, the plot of
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  Speaker 4: land which murder had usurp'd hard by that fatal field.
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  Speaker 4: Jezebel slain, a queen down, trampled under horses hoofs, the
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  Speaker 4: dogs that lick'd up her in human blood, the mangod
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  Speaker 4: limbs of her dishonored corpse, the troop of lying prophets
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  Speaker 4: brought to shame. The fire from heaven that on the
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  Speaker 4: altar fell, Elijah's voice ruling the elements. The skies thereby
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  Speaker 4: shut up the earth like brass for three whole years,
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  Speaker 4: left without rain or dew, the dead derising at Elisha's word.
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  Speaker 4: Recall O Abna, these portentous signs. God is to day
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  Speaker 4: as he has always been, he can unfold his glory
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  Speaker 4: when he will, and ever in his mind his people dwell.
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  Speaker 8: But where the promises so often made to David and
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  Speaker 8: to Solomon his son Alas For he hoped that from
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  Speaker 8: their fruitful stock kings were to issue in a numerous train,
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  Speaker 8: that over every nation, tribe, and tongue, one of their
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  Speaker 8: lineage should extend his sway, should everywhere make war and
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  Speaker 8: strife to cease? And at his footstool see Earth's proudest kings.
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  Speaker 4: And why distrust the promises of heaven?
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  Speaker 8: That son of David? Where shall he be found? Can
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  Speaker 8: Heaven itself restore the living sap of that dry tree
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  Speaker 8: now withered at the root e'en in his cradlef Athaliah
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  Speaker 8: slew the babe, And eight years after can he live? Ah?
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  Speaker 8: Might it be her fury missed its aim? That of
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  Speaker 8: our royal bloods some drop escaped?
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  Speaker 4: What wouldst thou do?
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  Speaker 15: Oh?
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  Speaker 8: Happy day for me? How gladly I would go to
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  Speaker 8: meet my king? Doubt not that to his feet are
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  Speaker 8: eager tribes. But wherefore mark me with these idle dreams,
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  Speaker 8: ill fated air of our victorious kings we had? But
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  Speaker 8: Azia with his sons by Jay whose darts I saw
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  Speaker 8: the father slain, and thou his sons by his own
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  Speaker 8: mother murdered.
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  Speaker 4: I cannot now explain. But when the sun shall the
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  Speaker 4: third portion of his course complete, bringing the morning hour
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  Speaker 4: that bids to prayer hither return and with the self
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  Speaker 4: same zeal, then God may prove to thee by gracious deeds.
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  Speaker 4: His word is faithful still and never fails. So for
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  Speaker 4: the solemn day I must prepare, and dawn already guilds
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  Speaker 4: the temple roof.
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  Speaker 8: What greateous deed is that to me unknown toward thee,
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  Speaker 8: Dear Harsheba directs her steps. I leave thee and will
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  Speaker 8: join the faithful band brought hither by this solemn festival.
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  Speaker 1: Seene too, Jehoida and Jehosheba, Princess.
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  Speaker 4: The time has come for us to speak. Thy happy
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  Speaker 4: theft can be no longer hid. The insults of the
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  Speaker 4: enemies of God abusing this our silence have too long
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  Speaker 4: charged with unfaithfulness his promises nay more success. As animated
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  Speaker 4: rage Natalia would tabal burn e'en in God's courts, incense
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  Speaker 4: idolatrous reared in his temple neath the Almighty's wing tis
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  Speaker 4: our'd to show the King thine hands have saved. He'll
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  Speaker 4: prove himself courageous as his sires, already in wit beyond
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  Speaker 4: his age. Ere I unfold as wondrous destiny. I offer
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  Speaker 4: him to God by whom King's reign. Then, gathering straight
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  Speaker 4: our levites and our priests, I will proclaim their master's
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  Speaker 4: long lost.
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  Speaker 5: Heir knows he his name and noble fortune. Yet he knows.
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  Speaker 4: No other than a lie again, and thinks himself some
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  Speaker 4: foundling left to die, whom I, in pity treated as
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  Speaker 4: my son Ah.
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  Speaker 5: From what perils I delivered him? What danger is he
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  Speaker 5: now to meet once more?
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  Speaker 4: What fails thy faith? Already an alarm, my.
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  Speaker 5: Lord, I yield me to thy counsel. Wise, Since first
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  Speaker 5: I snatched this precious babe from death, I placed his
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  Speaker 5: welfare in thy careful hands. YEA, dreading even the fervor
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  Speaker 5: of my love, I shun his presence where and when
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  Speaker 5: I can, for fear lest my unguarded heart betray my secret.
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  Speaker 5: With the tears I cannot. Three days and nights, I
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  Speaker 5: thought that duty bad devote to weeping an impassioned prayer.
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  Speaker 5: Yet may it be allowed me to ask what friends
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  Speaker 5: hast thou ready to take thy side? Abner brib Abner,
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  Speaker 5: will he lend his aid?
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  Speaker 2: Say?
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  Speaker 5: Has he sworn to stand beside his king?
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  Speaker 4: Abnor? Though on his faith we may rely knows not
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  Speaker 4: as yet that any king is our's who is.
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  Speaker 5: To guard Yon Jewish? Wilt thou trust Obed or Abnon
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  Speaker 5: with so high a charge my father's kindness? They have
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  Speaker 5: often proved.
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  Speaker 4: And solved themselves to Rataliah's will?
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  Speaker 5: Whom to her hirelings? Wilt thou then oppose?
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  Speaker 4: Have I not said? Our levites and our priests.
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  Speaker 5: I know that, secretly assembled near their numbers, have been
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  Speaker 5: doubled by thy care, that full of love for thee
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  Speaker 5: horror for her, a great oath binds them ere the
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  Speaker 5: trial come to David's heir, when he shall be revealed.
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  Speaker 5: But though with loyal ardor they may burn, can they
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  Speaker 5: unaided vindicate their king is zeal enough to cope with
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  Speaker 5: such a task? Doubt not? The Queen, when the first
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  Speaker 5: rumor spreads of Ahaziah's son in hiding here, will gather
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  Speaker 5: all her savage troops round, besiege the temple, and break
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  Speaker 5: down its gates. Against such foes will sanctity avail, and
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  Speaker 5: holy hands raised to the Lord in prayer. Their province
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  Speaker 5: is to intercede for guilt. No blood but that of victims.
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  Speaker 5: Have they shed joush perchance sore wounded in their arms.
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  Speaker 4: Countess does naught the God who fights for us, God
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  Speaker 4: who protects the orphan's innocence and een and weakness manifests
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  Speaker 4: his might, God who hates to irons, and in Jezreel
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  Speaker 4: swore he would root out a heaven Jezebel, who striking Joram,
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  Speaker 4: husband of their child, and Joram's son their family pursued,
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  Speaker 4: whose threatening arm, though for a time withheld over that
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  Speaker 4: endious race, is ever stretched.
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  Speaker 5: Yea tis his righteous sentence on them all that makes
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  Speaker 5: me tremble for my brother's son, who knows if he,
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  Speaker 5: inheriting their guilt, was not at birth condemned to share
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  Speaker 5: their fate, or whether God exempts him from the curse
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  Speaker 5: and will for David's sake, his pardon seal ah, his
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  Speaker 5: sad state when Heaven gave him me returns each moment
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  Speaker 5: to alarm my soul. With slaughtered princes. Was the chamber
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  Speaker 5: full dagger in hand. The Inexorable Queen to bloodshed, urged
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  Speaker 5: her barbarous soldiery, and eagerly her murderous course pursued Young
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  Speaker 5: Josh left for dead. There met my eyes. I seemed
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  Speaker 5: to see his terror stricken nurse, still vainly crouching at
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  Speaker 5: the assassin's feet, his drooping form clasped to her feeble breast.
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  Speaker 5: I took him, stained with blood, bathing his face, my
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  Speaker 5: copious tears restored his vanished sense, And whether yet with
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  Speaker 5: fear or fond caress, I felt the pressure of his
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  Speaker 5: tender arms. Great God forbid my love should be his bane,
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  Speaker 5: last relic of the faithful David, now bred in Thine
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  Speaker 5: house and taught to love thy law, he knows no
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  Speaker 5: other father than thyself. If ready to attack a murderous queen,
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  Speaker 5: faith falters trembling at the danger nigh, If flesh and
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  Speaker 5: blood disquiet at this day have shed too many tears
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  Speaker 5: alarmed for him, Heir of thy holy promise, guard him well,
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  Speaker 5: and for such weakness, punish only me.
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  Speaker 4: Thy tears. Jehosheba no blame deserve. The God would have
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  Speaker 4: us trust him as a father. He visits not with
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  Speaker 4: blind resentment, sins of impious ancestors on pious sons, all
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  Speaker 4: that remains of faithful Israel still will come to day
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  Speaker 4: here to renew their vows. Deep as their reverence for
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  Speaker 4: David's race they hold aboard. The child of Jezebel. Jobesh
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  Speaker 4: will move them, with his modest grace, seeming to light
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  Speaker 4: tone the glorious past, and the Lord's voice, making our
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  Speaker 4: cause his own will in his temple to their heart's appeal.
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  Speaker 4: Two faithless kings in turn have him defied. Now must
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  Speaker 4: a monarch to the throne be raised, whose grateful memory
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  Speaker 4: shall bless the day when God, by his own priests,
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  Speaker 4: is rightes restored, who plucked him from the oblivion of
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  Speaker 4: the tomb, and David's lamp rekindled when put out, Great God,
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  Speaker 4: If thy foreknowledge sees and base bent to forsake the
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  Speaker 4: paths that David trod, that let him be like fruit,
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  Speaker 4: are ripeness plucked or flower withered by a noisome blast.
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  Speaker 4: But if this child, obedient to thy will, is destined
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  Speaker 4: to advance thy wise designs now, let the rightful heir
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  Speaker 4: the scepter sway give to my feeble hands as powerful foes,
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  Speaker 4: and baffle in her plots. A cruel queen vouchsafed my
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  Speaker 4: God on Nathan and on her the spirit of blind
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  Speaker 4: foolishness to poor, which leads deluded monarchs to their fall.
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  Speaker 4: No more, farewell our children with them, bring maidens of
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  Speaker 4: holiest stock the hallowed Seed.
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  Speaker 1: Scene three Jehosheba Anchariah Salomee chorus.
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  Speaker 5: Dear Zachariah, go nor stay thy steps, accompany thy venerable sire,
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  Speaker 5: daughters of Levi, young and faithful band whom with his
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  Speaker 5: zeal the Lord already fires, who come so often here
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  Speaker 5: to share my sighs children, My only joy and griefs
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  Speaker 5: profound These gay festoons and coronets of flowers, once well
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  Speaker 5: accorded with our stately feasts, But now alas when shame
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  Speaker 5: and sorrow rain, what offering is more fit than one
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  Speaker 5: of tears? Already do I hear the solemn trump? Soon
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  Speaker 5: will the temple doors be opened wide? While thither I
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  Speaker 5: myself prepare to go sing praise the God, whose presence
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  Speaker 5: here ye seek.
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  Speaker 1: Seen for the chorus, His glory fills the universe, Sublime.
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  Speaker 2: Lift to his time for eye the voice prayer. He
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  Speaker 2: reigns supreme before the birth of time, saying.
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  Speaker 16: Care vainly unrighteous force would still his people's praise, that
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  Speaker 16: must have course, his name shall perish. Neare day tells
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  Speaker 16: today his power. From time to time, his glory fills
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  Speaker 16: the universe, sublime, saying of his loving care.
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  Speaker 5: His glory fills the universe sublime, saying his loving care.
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  Speaker 17: He paints the flowers with all their lovely eyes. The
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  Speaker 17: fruit to ripeness grows. For daily he bestows the day's
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  Speaker 17: warm sunshine, and the night school dews. Nor does the
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  Speaker 17: grateful earth to ever pay the debt refuse. The sun,
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  Speaker 17: at his command spreads joy around Tis. From his bounteous hand,
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  Speaker 17: its light proceeds. But in his law, so pure, so
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  Speaker 17: wholly found, we hail his richest gift to meet our needs.
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  Speaker 14: O Mount of Sinai, let the memory stay of that
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  Speaker 14: forever great and famous day, when on thy flaming head
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  Speaker 14: in clouds conceal'd the Lord reveal'd to mortal eyes array
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  Speaker 14: from his own glory shed tell us why gload those
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  Speaker 14: lightning fires up there? Why rolled the smoke? Why pealed
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  Speaker 14: in troubled air? Thunder and trumpets blare? Came He that
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  Speaker 14: back to primal chaos, hurled on its foundations of past ages, world.
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  Speaker 14: Came he to shake the world.
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  Speaker 2: He came that he to Israel, might reveal their mortal
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  Speaker 2: luster of his holy law. He came that to their
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  Speaker 2: hearts he might appeal to claim their lasting love based
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  Speaker 2: upon reverent Awe divine, full of grace, justice and goodness?
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  Speaker 17: What reason and joy?
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  Speaker 2: Extreme our love and trust? And such a god to
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  Speaker 2: place from slavery's yoke? He did our fathers save and
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  Speaker 2: for their desert food sweet manna gave to us. He
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  Speaker 2: gives his laws all gifts above, save of himself for all.
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  Speaker 2: He only claims our love, justice, and goodness.
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  Speaker 14: All supreme for them divided, He the waters of the
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  Speaker 14: sea from the dry rock he made the torn stream
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  Speaker 14: to us. He gives his laws all gifts above, save
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  Speaker 14: of himself for all. He only claims our love, Oh Lord, full.
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  Speaker 4: Of grace, What the reason.
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  Speaker 2: Our love? And such a god to place you? Who
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  Speaker 2: can only know a servile fear, whose thankless souls God's
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  Speaker 2: goodness fails to move? Does it to you so hard
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  Speaker 2: a task appear so difficult to love? Slaves dread the
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  Speaker 2: tyrant slash that makes them smart, but children feel a
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  Speaker 2: love that binds the heart to share God's lavish bounty.
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  Speaker 2: You are fain, but not to love again, Oh love divine,
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  Speaker 2: full of grace, justice and goodness. All scream what reason
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  Speaker 2: and joy, extreme and trust? And such a God to place?
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  Speaker 1: End of that one. Act two of Athelia by Jean Racine,
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  Speaker 1: translated by Robert Bruce Boswell. This is a Liberaryvox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All liveryvox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit liberyvox dot org. Act two.
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  Speaker 1: Scene one Jehosheba Salome, chorus.
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  Speaker 5: Maidens, it is enough, your songs must cease. Tis time
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  Speaker 5: for us to join the public prayers. The hours come
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  Speaker 5: to celebrate the feast, and in our turn before the
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  Speaker 5: Lord appear.
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  Speaker 1: Scene two Jehosheba Sachariah salomee and chorus.
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  Speaker 5: What do I see, my son? What brings thee back
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  Speaker 5: so pale and breathless? Whither dost thou run?
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  Speaker 6: Mother?
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  Speaker 2: Speak?
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  Speaker 6: Then the temple is profaned? What and the o of
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  Speaker 6: the Lord forsaken?
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  Speaker 5: I tremble quickly tell thy mother.
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  Speaker 6: All my father, the high priest, with all due rights
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  Speaker 6: presented to the Lord who feeds mankind, the first loaves
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  Speaker 6: of the harvest we have reaped and them while offering
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  Speaker 6: with blood stained hands, the smoking inwards of the victim's slain,
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  Speaker 6: and standing by his side, Eliakim helped me to serve
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  Speaker 6: him clad in Linen's stole, while with the blood of sacrifice,
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  Speaker 6: the priests sprinkled the altar and the worshipers. There rose
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  Speaker 6: a tumult, and the people turned sudden astonishment in every eye.
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  Speaker 6: A woman is to name her blasphemy. A woman was
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  Speaker 6: Eliah's self great heaven, within the court reserved for men.
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  Speaker 6: This woman enters with uplifted brow yes, and attempts to
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  Speaker 6: pass the limits set where none but levites have a
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  Speaker 6: right to come. The people fly, all scattered in dismay.
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  Speaker 6: My father, Ah, what wrath blazed from his eyes. Moses
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  Speaker 6: to Pharaoh seemed less terrible. Go Queen, my father said,
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  Speaker 6: and leave this place. Band to thy sex and thine impiety.
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  Speaker 6: Comest to brave the majesty of God. And then the queen,
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  Speaker 6: fiercely confronting him, seemed as an act to utter blasphemies.
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  Speaker 6: I know not if the Angel of the Lord appeared
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  Speaker 6: before for her with a glittering sword, but straight her
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  Speaker 6: tongue seemed frozen in her mouth, and all her boldness
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  Speaker 6: utterly abashed. She could not move her eyes in terror,
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  Speaker 6: fixed and strange surprise on young Elia Kime.
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  Speaker 5: What did he stand there? In her very sight?
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  Speaker 6: We both stood gazing on that cruel queen, stricken with
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  Speaker 6: equal horror at our hearts. But soon the priests encompassed
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  Speaker 6: us around and forced us to withdraw. I came to
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  Speaker 6: thee to tell the outrage done. I know no more?
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  Speaker 5: Ah, she would doubtless tear him from our arms. E'
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  Speaker 5: it goes Altar hunting for her prey. Perchance. Ere now
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  Speaker 5: this child of many tears Oga, remember, David, see and save?
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  Speaker 7: Who is he thus to cause your tears to flow?
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  Speaker 6: Why should his life be threatened? Can it be?
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  Speaker 7: What can the boy have done to enrage the queen?
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  Speaker 6: What fear they from a helpless orphan child?
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  Speaker 5: She comes, She must not see us. Let us go.
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  Speaker 1: Scene three athe Liar abner Hagar attendance of ath a
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  Speaker 1: liar Madam.
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  Speaker 10: Why stay in such a place as this, where every
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  Speaker 10: sight of thins and wounds thine eye. Leave to the
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  Speaker 10: priest this temple where they dwelt. Fly from the scene
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  Speaker 10: of tumult and within thy palace lo each troubled, since.
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  Speaker 2: To rest I cannot Thou dost see me vexed and weak.
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  Speaker 2: Go thou send word to Matin that he come with haste. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: happy still, if by his aid I find that peace
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  Speaker 2: I seek and seek in Vain.
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  Speaker 1: She seats herself seem for Athelia, Abner, attendance of Athelia.
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  Speaker 8: Madam, forgive me if I dare defend him. His zeal
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  Speaker 8: should not surprise you. For the God whom we adore
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  Speaker 8: himself ordained it so, and gave us charge to guard
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  Speaker 8: his altar well the work of sacrifice to Aaron's sons,
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  Speaker 8: and to the levites, place and task assign'd to their descendants. Strictly.
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  Speaker 8: He forbade all fellowship with other deities. Art thou the
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  Speaker 8: wife and mother of our kings, a stranger to our customs.
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  Speaker 8: On this point, dost thou not know our laws? And
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  Speaker 8: must to day eh, but not in comes with him.
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  Speaker 8: I leave thee now we need.
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  Speaker 2: Thy presence, Abner. Let it pass Jehuado's presumptuous insolence, with
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  Speaker 2: all that heap of superstitions vain, which bid you keep
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  Speaker 2: your temple to yourselves. A subject far more urgent wakes alarm.
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  Speaker 2: I know that from a child reared in the camp.
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  Speaker 2: Abner is generous, knowing how to pay alike to God
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  Speaker 2: and King. The debt he owes remain.
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  Speaker 1: Scene five Athelia Abner matter attendance of Athelia.
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  Speaker 11: Great Queen? Is this a place for thee? What trouble stirs?
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  Speaker 11: What terror chills thine heart? What dost thou in the
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  Speaker 11: midst of enemies? Darest thou this unhallowed faine approach, Hast
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  Speaker 11: thou that bitter hatred cast away?
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  Speaker 2: Both of you lend me an attentive ear. I do
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  Speaker 2: not wish now to recall the past, nor give account
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  Speaker 2: to you for blood I shed a sense of duty
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  Speaker 2: prompted all my acts. Nor will I take for judge
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  Speaker 2: a hasty crowd, wheer they may presume to spread abroad.
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  Speaker 2: My vindication Heaven has made its care. My power, established
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  Speaker 2: on renowned success, has magnified my name from sea to
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  Speaker 2: c Jerusalem enjoys profoundest peace. The wandering Arab Jordan sees
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  Speaker 2: no more ravage his borders with continual raids, nor boast
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  Speaker 2: felictia over Judah. Now and Syria owns me for a
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  Speaker 2: sister Queen Lastly, the traitor who destroyed my house and
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  Speaker 2: een to me, thought to extend his rage. Jehu fierce
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  Speaker 2: Jehu in Samaria quails before a mighty rival's rapid strokes,
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  Speaker 2: whom I incited to attack my foe. And thus the
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  Speaker 2: assassin leaves me, mistress, here to reap the fruits of
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  Speaker 2: policy and peace. But for some days, annawing care has
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  Speaker 2: come to check the flood of my prosperity. A dream.
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  Speaker 2: Why should a dream disquiet me? Praise on my heart
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  Speaker 2: and keeps it ill at ease I try to banish it.
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  Speaker 2: It haunts me still twas deepest night when horror falls
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  Speaker 2: on man. My mother Jezebel before me, stood richly attired,
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  Speaker 2: as on the day she died, her pride undaunted by
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  Speaker 2: misfortune's touch that barred brightness. Still her features wore, which
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  Speaker 2: she would paint upon her withered face to hide the
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  Speaker 2: ravages of ruthless age tremble. She said, child worthy of myself,
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  Speaker 2: or thee too triumphs Judah's cruel god, and thou must
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  Speaker 2: fall into his dreadful hands. Whereat I grieve with these
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  Speaker 2: alarming words, Her specter o'er my bed appeared to bend
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  Speaker 2: I stretched my hands to clasp her, but I found
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  Speaker 2: only a hideous mass of flesh and bones, horribly bruised
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  Speaker 2: and mangled, dragged through mire, bleeding and torn, whose limbs
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  Speaker 2: the dogs of prey were growling over with devouring greed.
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  Speaker 8: Great God.
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  Speaker 2: While thus disturbed, before me rose the vision of a
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  Speaker 2: boy in shining robe, such as the Hebrew priests are
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  Speaker 2: wont to wear. My drooping spirits at his sight revived,
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  Speaker 2: But while my troubled eyes to peace restored, admired his
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  Speaker 2: noble air and modest grace, I felt the sudden stroke
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  Speaker 2: of murderous steel, plunged deep by the traitor in my breast.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps to you, this dream, so strangely mixed, may seem
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  Speaker 2: a work of chance, and I, myself, for long ashamed
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  Speaker 2: to let my fears prevail, referred it to a melancholy mood.
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  Speaker 2: But while its memory lingered in my soul, twice in
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  Speaker 2: my sleep I saw that form again twice, the same
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  Speaker 2: child before my eyes appeared, always about to stab me
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  Speaker 2: to the heart. Worn out at last by horror's close pursuit,
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  Speaker 2: I went to claim Baal's protecting care, and, kneeling at
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  Speaker 2: his altars, find repose how strangely fear may sway our
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  Speaker 2: mortal minds, and instinct seem'd to drive me to these
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  Speaker 2: courts to pacify the god whom jews adore. I thought
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  Speaker 2: that offerings might appease his wrath, that this their God
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  Speaker 2: might grow more merciful boughs, High Priest, my feebleness forgive.
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  Speaker 2: I entered, and the sacrifice was staid. The people fled.
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  Speaker 2: Jehuedah in wrath advanced to meet me. As he spake,
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  Speaker 2: I saw with terror and surprise that self same boy
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  Speaker 2: who haunts me in my dreams. I saw him there,
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  Speaker 2: his mane the same, the same, his linens stole, his gait,
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  Speaker 2: his eyes, each feature of his face. It was himself,
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  Speaker 2: besides the High Priest. He walked till quickly they removed
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  Speaker 2: him from my sight. That is the trouble which detains
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  Speaker 2: me here and thereon? Would I fain consult you both? Mataan?
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  Speaker 2: What means?
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  Speaker 18: This?
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  Speaker 11: Omen marvelous coincidence, so strange fills me with dread?
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  Speaker 2: But abner hast thou seen this fatal child? Who is he?
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  Speaker 17: What?
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  Speaker 2: His family? His chibe?
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  Speaker 8: Two children at the altar lend their aid. One is
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  Speaker 8: the High Priest's son. The other is to me unknown.
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  Speaker 11: Why hesitate to act Your majesty must needs secure them both?
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  Speaker 11: Tis known how I regard Jehoyada, seeking no vengeance for
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  Speaker 11: my private wrongs in all my warnings, studying to be fair.
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  Speaker 18: But after all.
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  Speaker 11: Were this indeed his son, would he one moment let
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  Speaker 11: the guilty live.
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  Speaker 8: Of What crime? Can a child be capable?
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  Speaker 11: Heaven showed him with a dagger in his hand, and
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  Speaker 11: Heaven is just and wise, nor works in vain? What
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  Speaker 11: more dost want?
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  Speaker 8: But trusting to a dream? Say, would thou'st have us
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  Speaker 8: bathe an infant blood? He know not yet his father nor.
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  Speaker 11: His name enough For I have considered all. If from
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  Speaker 11: illustrious parentage he springs, his ruin should be hastened by
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  Speaker 11: his rank. If fate has placed him in a lot obscure,
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  Speaker 11: what matters it?
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  Speaker 18: If worthless blood be spilt.
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  Speaker 11: Must kings keep pace when justice lags behind on promptitude?
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  Speaker 11: Their safety off depends no Irksome scruples need their freedom
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  Speaker 11: check to be suspected? Is all one with guilt?
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  Speaker 8: Matan? Is this the language of a priest nursed in
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  Speaker 8: the lap of war and carnage, reared stern agent of
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  Speaker 8: the vengeful wrath of kings. Tis I who now must
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  Speaker 8: urge misfortunes flea, and thou who alwayst him a father's love,
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  Speaker 8: A minister of peace in times of wrath, cloaking resentment
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  Speaker 8: with pretended zeal, doth chafe that blood should flow so tardily?
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  Speaker 8: Thou badest me, madam, speak my honest thought? What then
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  Speaker 8: is this that moves I fear so much? A dream,
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  Speaker 8: A feeble child, whom it may be too readily thy
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  Speaker 8: fancy recognized, Abner.
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  Speaker 2: I will admit I may be wrong heeding too much,
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  Speaker 2: perchance an idle dream. More closely, then must I behold
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  Speaker 2: that child, and at my leisure scan his features? Well?
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  Speaker 2: Let both the boys be brought before me. Now I
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  Speaker 2: fear what can they fail to grant me this? What
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  Speaker 2: reason could they have to say me no tow addrouse suspicion,
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  Speaker 2: bid Jehosheba or else her husband? Bring the children here?
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  Speaker 2: I can, at pleasure use a monarch's tone, Abner, I
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  Speaker 2: tell thee candidly, your priests have cause to bless my kindness.
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  Speaker 2: Hitherto I know how far they freely have discussed my
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  Speaker 2: conduct and abused my sovereign power, and yet they live,
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  Speaker 2: and yet their temples stands. But soon I feel the
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  Speaker 2: limit may be pasted. Jehoredah must curb his savage zeal
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  Speaker 2: and not provoke my wrath a second time.
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  Speaker 1: Go Scene six, Atheliar matter attendance of Athelia.
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  Speaker 11: I may, now, at last, in freedom, speak and clearly
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  Speaker 11: set the truth before thine eyes. A growing monster in
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  Speaker 11: this temple lurks, a tempest threatens, wait not till it
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  Speaker 11: breaks ere daylight. Abner, with the high priest conferred thou
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  Speaker 11: knowest well his love for David's line. What if Jehoyatah
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  Speaker 11: should in their ranks foist this young child, with whom
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  Speaker 11: Heaven threatens thee his son or not?
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  Speaker 2: Thou hast unsealed mine eyes and Heaven's warning vision grows distinct.
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  Speaker 2: But I would fain be free from every doubt. Children
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  Speaker 2: will readily betray their thoughts. One word will off disclose
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  Speaker 2: some deep design. Let me dear Matan, see him, question him.
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  Speaker 2: Go thou meanwhile, and secret orders, give that all my
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  Speaker 2: tyrians quickly arm themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Scene seven Joe ash Atheliah, Jehosheba, Zachariah, Abner Salome two
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  Speaker 1: Levites chorus attendants of Atheliah Jehosheba to the two Levites.
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  Speaker 5: Keep constant watch the servants of the Lord over these children,
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  Speaker 5: precious and beloved.
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  Speaker 1: Abner to Jehosheba.
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  Speaker 8: Take courage, princess, they shall be my charge heavens.
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  Speaker 2: The more closely I examine him tis he, and horror
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  Speaker 2: seizes me.
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  Speaker 1: Again, pointing to Joash.
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  Speaker 2: Wife of Jehoredah, Is this thy son he madam he
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  Speaker 2: his mother?
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  Speaker 16: No?
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  Speaker 1: Not I pointing to Zachariah, there is my son hath
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  Speaker 1: a liar to Joash, who is.
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  Speaker 2: Thy father child? Answer thyself heaven till this very day?
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  Speaker 2: Why in such haste to answer for the boy it
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  Speaker 2: is for him to speak from one so young?
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  Speaker 5: What revelation canst thou hope to gain?
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  Speaker 2: The young are innocent and simple truth. Their honest frankness
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  Speaker 2: knows not to disguise. Let him explain all that concerns himself.
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  Speaker 1: Jehosheba, aside, Great.
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  Speaker 5: God, put now thy wisdom in his mouth.
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  Speaker 2: What is thy name?
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  Speaker 3: My name's iliakam thy father? Fatherless? They say, I am
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  Speaker 3: cassince my birth upon the arms of God. I never
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  Speaker 3: knew my parents who they were?
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  Speaker 2: Hast thou no parents.
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  Speaker 3: They abandoned me?
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  Speaker 2: How and how long ago?
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  Speaker 3: When I was born?
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  Speaker 2: Where is thy home? This can at least be told.
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  Speaker 3: This temple is my home? None else I know.
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  Speaker 2: Where wast thou found? Hast thou been told of?
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  Speaker 16: That?
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  Speaker 3: Miss? Cruel wolves ready to eat me up?
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  Speaker 2: Who placed THEE in this temple?
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  Speaker 3: One unknown? She gave no name, nor was she seen again.
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  Speaker 2: Whose guardian hands preserved thine infant years?
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  Speaker 3: When did god Ey neglect his children's needs? The feathered
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  Speaker 3: nestlings he provides with food and o'er all nature spreads
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  Speaker 3: his bounty wide. Daily I pray, and with the father's care,
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  Speaker 3: he fees me from the sacred.
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  Speaker 2: No wonder comes to trouble and perplex. The sweetness of
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  Speaker 2: his voice, his infant grace unconsciously make enmity give way
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  Speaker 2: to Can it be compassion that I feel?
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  Speaker 8: Madam? Is this thy dreaded enemy? TI is evident thy
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  Speaker 8: dreams have played THEE false? Unless thy pity, which now
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  Speaker 8: seems to vex, should be the fatal blow that terrified.
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  Speaker 1: Half the liar to Joash and Jehosheba.
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  Speaker 2: Why are ye leaving thou?
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  Speaker 5: Hast hurt his tale? His presence longer might be troublesome.
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  Speaker 1: Half the liar to joash nay, child, to come back?
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  Speaker 2: What dost thou all the day?
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  Speaker 3: I worship God and hear his law explained his holy
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  Speaker 3: volume I am taught to read, and now to write it?
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  Speaker 3: Has my hand begun?
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  Speaker 2: What says that law?
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  Speaker 3: That God requires our love avenges sooner or late? His
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  Speaker 3: name plusphemed is the protector of the fatherless, resist the proud,
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  Speaker 3: and the murderer punishes.
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  Speaker 2: I understand. But all within these walls, how are they occupied.
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  Speaker 3: In praising God?
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  Speaker 2: Does God claim constant's service here? And prayer?
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  Speaker 3: Or else is banish from his holy courts?
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  Speaker 2: What pleasures hast thou.
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  Speaker 3: Where God's altera stands? I sometimes help the high priest
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  Speaker 3: of assault or incense, hear his lofty praises song, and
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  Speaker 3: see his daily ritual performed.
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  Speaker 2: What hast thou pastime? None more sweet than that said
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  Speaker 2: lot for one so young? But come with me and
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  Speaker 2: see my palace and my splendor there.
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  Speaker 3: God's goodness then would from my memory fade.
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  Speaker 2: I would not force thee to forget him.
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  Speaker 3: Child, Thou dost not pray to him?
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  Speaker 2: But thou shalt pray?
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  Speaker 3: Thou should hear another's name invoked.
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  Speaker 2: I serve my God, and thou shalt worship thine. There
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  Speaker 2: are two powerful gods.
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  Speaker 3: Thou must bear mine. He only is the Lord, and
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  Speaker 3: thine is naught.
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  Speaker 2: Pleasures untold? Will I provide for thee?
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  Speaker 3: The happiness of sinners melts away of sinners?
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  Speaker 2: Who are they?
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  Speaker 5: Madam? Excuse a child?
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  Speaker 2: I like to see how ye have taught him, And
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  Speaker 2: thou hast pleased me well eliakim being, and that past
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  Speaker 2: doubt no common child. See thou, I am a queen,
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  Speaker 2: and have no heir forsake this humble service. Doff this garb,
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  Speaker 2: and I will let thee share in all my wealth.
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  Speaker 2: Make trial of my promise from this day beside me
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  Speaker 2: at my table everywhere, thou shalt receive the treatment of
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: a son.
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  Speaker 3: A son, yes, speak, and such a father leaveful? Well,
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  Speaker 3: what such a mother as thyself?
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  Speaker 1: Half a liar to Jehosheva?
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  Speaker 2: His memory is good in all, he says, I recognize
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  Speaker 2: the lessons ye have given. Yes, this is how corrupting
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  Speaker 2: guileless youth, ye both improve the freedom ye enjoy, inciting
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  Speaker 2: them to hatred and wild rage until they shudder. But
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  Speaker 2: to hear my name.
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  Speaker 5: Could our misfortunes be concealed from them. All the world
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  Speaker 5: knows them? Are they not thy boast?
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  Speaker 2: Yea with just wrath that I am proud to own
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  Speaker 2: my parents on my offspring, I avenged. Could I see
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  Speaker 2: sire and brother massacred my mother from the palace roof
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  Speaker 2: cast down, and the same day beheaded all at once?
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: Oh horror, forescore princes of the blood, and all to
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: have v japack of prophets slain, whose dangerous frenzies Jezebel
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: had curbed, Have queen's no heart, daughters, no filial love.
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  Speaker 2: That I should act the coward and the slave, too
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  Speaker 2: pitiful to cope with savages, by rendering death for death
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  Speaker 2: and blow for blow. David's posterity from me received treatment
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: no worse than had my father's sons. Where should I
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: be to day? Had I not quelled all weakness and
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: a mother's tenderness, had not this hand of mine like water,
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: shed my own heart's blood and boldly checked your plots.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: Your God has vowed implacable revenge. Snapt is the link
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: between thine house and mine. David and all his offspring
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: I abhor, though born of mine own blood, I own
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: them not.
• 49:58
  Speaker 5: Thy plans have prospered. Let God see and judge.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: Your God, forsooth your only refuge left. What will become
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: of his predictions? Now let him present you with that
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: promised king, that son of David waited for so long.
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  Speaker 2: We meet again. Farewell, I go content. I wish to see,
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: and I have.
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  Speaker 1: Seen Habner to Jehosheba.
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  Speaker 8: The trust I undertook to keep. I thus resign.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: Scene eight, Joash Jehosheba Zechariah Salome, Jehoidah, Habner Levite's the
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: chorus Jehosheba to Jehoidah.
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  Speaker 5: My Lord did'st hear the Queen's presumptuous words.
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  Speaker 4: I heard them all and felt for thee the while
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  Speaker 4: these Levites were with me, ready to aid or perish
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  Speaker 4: with you. Such was our resolve to.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Ash, embracing him.
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  Speaker 4: May God watch o'er thee child whose courage bore just
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: now such noble witness to his name. Thy service, Abner
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: has been well discharged. I shall expect THEE at the
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: appointed hour. I must return. This impious murderess has stain'd
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: my vision and disturb'd my prayers. The very pavement that
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: her feet have trod my hands shall sprinkle o'er with
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  Speaker 4: cleansing blood.
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  Speaker 1: She nine chorus.
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  Speaker 14: What star has burst upon our eyes? What shall this
• 51:41
  Speaker 14: wondrous child become one day vain pomp and show he
• 51:46
  Speaker 14: bears despise, Nor lets those charms where danger lies lead
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  Speaker 14: his young feet from God astray.
• 51:54
  Speaker 17: While all to Bow's altar flock, and for the queen
• 51:59
  Speaker 17: their faith. This own a child proclaims that Israel's rock
• 52:04
  Speaker 17: is the eternal God alone. And though this Jezebel may
• 52:09
  Speaker 17: mock Elijah's spirit, he has shown.
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  Speaker 2: Who will the secret of thy birth explain, dear child?
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: Some holy prophet lives in thee Again.
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  Speaker 14: Thus grew the gentle Samuel of your beneath the shadow
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  Speaker 14: of God's dwelling place, and he became the hope of
• 52:28
  Speaker 14: Israel's race to guide and comfort. This be thou and more.
• 52:34
  Speaker 17: Ah blessed beyond. Compare the child who knows his love,
• 52:39
  Speaker 17: who early hears his voice and keeps with care the
• 52:43
  Speaker 17: teaching he receives from God above. Far severed from the
• 52:48
  Speaker 17: world from birth, endued with all the gifts of heaven,
• 52:52
  Speaker 17: no evil influence has imbued his innocence with sins, infectious
• 52:58
  Speaker 17: living unhappy.
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  Speaker 5: Defends whom the Lord teaches, whom the.
• 53:03
  Speaker 14: Lord defends, As in sequestered veil, where a clear streamlet
• 53:08
  Speaker 14: flows sheltered from every stormy gale. Darling of nature, some
• 53:13
  Speaker 14: young lily grows far severed from the world from birth,
• 53:17
  Speaker 14: and dude, with all the gifts of heaven no evil
• 53:21
  Speaker 14: influence has imbued his innocence with sins. Infectious lovin.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: Tongue can tell the child gods to keep his statue.
• 53:34
  Speaker 17: With faltering steps doth dawning virtue, tred mid countless perils
• 53:41
  Speaker 17: that beset the way. What hindrances and snares for him?
• 53:45
  Speaker 17: A spread who seeks thee Lord and fears from innocence
• 53:50
  Speaker 17: to stray? Where can thy saints a shelter find with
• 53:54
  Speaker 17: foes in front and foes behind sinners feel all the earth,
• 53:59
  Speaker 17: My God, God, look where.
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  Speaker 14: We mean, pallace and city David loved so well, O
• 54:05
  Speaker 14: mount where God himself long dain to dwell. What has
• 54:09
  Speaker 14: thy crime that draws down vengeance been? What sayest thou
• 54:13
  Speaker 14: dear Zion to behold seated? Where sat thy kings from
• 54:17
  Speaker 14: days of old? And impious foreign queen?
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: What sayst thou sion to behold, and pious foreign queen seated,
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: where sat thy kings from days of old, where once
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: the Lord was blessed, Father and God confessed, Where David's
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: holy strains so sweet had been. What sayest thou dear
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: Zion to beheld cursing the name thy kings adored of old,
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: praising her own false gods and impious foreign queen? How often, Lord,
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: how often yet shall we against thee rising up the
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: wicked sea? They, with unhallowed fate, thy courts defile, and
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: all who worship THEE as fools revile? How often? Lord,
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: how often yet shall we against thee rising up the
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: wicked sea? Ah? What avails? Say they? This virtue stern,
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: that from sweet pleasure's voice morosely bids you turn Your
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: God does not for you to justify your choice.
• 55:30
  Speaker 14: Where pleasure leads, laughter and song be ours. Thus speak
• 55:34
  Speaker 14: those impious throngs. Care for the future to dull fools,
• 55:38
  Speaker 14: belongs to passion, Give the reins cold, the sweet flowers
• 55:43
  Speaker 14: too quickly at the best years take their flight. Who
• 55:47
  Speaker 14: knows if you shall see tomorrow's light. Let us today
• 55:51
  Speaker 14: enjoy life's fragrant bowers.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: Let hear Lord the outcasts shall never see thy with
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  Speaker 2: eternal glory.
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  Speaker 4: Crown be ours on whom.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: Thy imortal shine, to whim thy gifts, divine be ours,
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: with voice of praise, Thy majesty, to.
• 56:15
  Speaker 14: Sound of all their false delights. What will remain to
• 56:20
  Speaker 14: souls absorbed therein as visions vein that vanish with the
• 56:24
  Speaker 14: dawning day, when they awaken with dismay. While for the
• 56:28
  Speaker 14: poor thy table shall be spread deep. Shall thou drain
• 56:31
  Speaker 14: the cup of judgment? Dread that thou shalt offer to
• 56:35
  Speaker 14: all such as they when Mercy's hour has.
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: Fled dismay from dream too quickly said from art.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: Dangerous sway, and that too. Act three of half a
• 56:58
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• 57:16
  Speaker 1: Act three seem one massin Nabao the chorus go damnsels.
• 57:23
  Speaker 11: Let Jehoshaha be told that Matan would in private speak
• 57:27
  Speaker 11: with her.
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  Speaker 2: Matan, may God in heaven confound his plots.
• 57:33
  Speaker 12: They all disperse in flight without reply.
• 57:37
  Speaker 18: Let us draw.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: Near scene to Zachariah Matan nabau rash Man.
• 57:46
  Speaker 6: Where wouldst thou go? Beware thou do not step beyond
• 57:51
  Speaker 6: this spot. There is a dwelling sacred to the priests.
• 57:56
  Speaker 6: Our laws forbid our common entrance here, whom seekest thou
• 58:03
  Speaker 6: the solemn day, My sire shuns contact with impure idolatry,
• 58:11
  Speaker 6: and prostrate now before Jehovah's shrine. My mother will not
• 58:18
  Speaker 6: have her prayer disturbed.
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  Speaker 11: My son be not distressed. We will wait here to
• 58:25
  Speaker 11: your illustrious mother. I would speak. I come charged with
• 58:28
  Speaker 11: a message from the queen.
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: Scene three massain naval.
• 58:35
  Speaker 12: The very children ape their insolence. But what means Athaliah
• 58:41
  Speaker 12: now to do? Whence springs this indecision in her plans,
• 58:47
  Speaker 12: this morn rebuffed by that presumptuous priest, when dreams had
• 58:51
  Speaker 12: warned of danger from a child. Her mind was to
• 58:55
  Speaker 12: destroy Jehoiadah, and in this temple bales altar place with
• 59:01
  Speaker 12: thee to serve him in thy joy, I shared, hoping
• 59:05
  Speaker 12: to gain my part in the rich spoil. What made
• 59:09
  Speaker 12: her change her thickle purpose?
• 59:11
  Speaker 11: Thus she has not been herself these two days past.
• 59:16
  Speaker 11: No more is she the bold clear sighted queen with
• 59:19
  Speaker 11: spirit raised above her timid sex, whose rapid action overwhelmed
• 59:24
  Speaker 11: her foes, who knew the value of an instant lost
• 59:28
  Speaker 11: fear and remorse disturb that lofty soul. She wavers falters
• 59:33
  Speaker 11: all the woman now not long ago, I filled with
• 59:37
  Speaker 11: bitter wrath, her heart already moved by threats from heaven,
• 59:42
  Speaker 11: and she, in trusting vengeance to my care, bade me
• 59:45
  Speaker 11: assemble all her guard in haste. But whether that young
• 59:50
  Speaker 11: child before her brought a poor, unhappy foundling, as they say,
• 59:55
  Speaker 11: assuaged the terror that her dream had caused, or seeing
• 59:59
  Speaker 11: in the boy's some secret charm, I find her shaken
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 11: in her dire resolve, postponing vengeance to some future day,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 11: and fatal strife in all her counsel's reigns. I have inquired,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 11: said I about that child, And hear strange boasts of
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 11: royal ancestry, how to the malcontents. From time to time
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 11: the high priest shows him, bids the Jews expect in
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 11: him a second Moses, and supports his speech with lying oracles.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 11: These words made her brow flush swiftly. The falsehood worked?
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 9: Is it for me?
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 11: She said to Pine in doubt, Let us be rid
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 11: of this perplexity. Convey my sentence to Jehoshebah. Soon shall
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 11: the fire be kindled and the sword deal slaughter. Soon
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 11: their temple shall be raised, Unless as hostage for their
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 11: loyalty they yield this child to me.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 12: For one unknown, whom chance may be, has thrown into
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 12: their arms, will they behold their temple buried?
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 11: Low Ah, But no mortals have such pride as they,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 11: rather than to my hands, resign a child whom to
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 11: his God Jehoyida has vowed he will endure to die
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 11: the worst of deaths. Besides, they manifestly love this child.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 11: And if I construe right the Queen's account, Jehoyida knows
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 11: more than he will say, touching his birth refusal, I foresee,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 11: in any case with fatal consequence, the rest be my concern.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 11: With fire and sword. To wipe this odious temple from
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 11: my eyes is my last hope.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 12: What prompts so fierce a hate is it? Consuming zeal
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 12: for Bale's cause? Myself a child of Ishmael, as thou
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 12: knowest I worship neither Thine nor Israel's God.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 11: Dost think, my friend, that any senseless zeal for a
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 11: dumb idol. Could my judgment blind a perishable log that
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 11: worms destroy? In spite of all my efforts, day by
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 11: day from birth, devoted to the God who here is worshiped,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 11: Matan still might be his priest, if but the love
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 11: of grandeur, thirst for power could be consistent with his
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 11: stringent yoke Nabal, I hardly need to thee recall the
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 11: quarrel between Jehoyida and me, When against him I dared
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 11: the censer claim. They made some stir my struggle, tears,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 11: despair vanquished, I entered on a new career and bound
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 11: me soul and body to the court. By slow degrees,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 11: I gained the ear of kings, and soon my voice
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 11: was deemed oracular their hearts I studied, flattered each caprice,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 11: and sprinkled flowers for them on danger's brink. Nothing to
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 11: me was sacred that they craved measure and weight. I
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 11: altered as they willed. As often as Jehoyata's blunt speech
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 11: boldly offended their fastidious ears. So often I had power
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 11: and skill to charm, concealing from their eyes unpleasant truths,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 11: gilding their savage passion with fair tints and lavish More
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 11: than all of human blood at length was raised by
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 11: Atheliah's hands a temple to the God. She introduced Jerusalem
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 11: with tears. The outrage saw the sons of Levi, stricken
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 11: with alarm, appealed to heaven with indignant cries. I only
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 11: leading cowards in my train, desert her from their law.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 11: That act approved, and ba' Al's priesthood thereby merited. Thus
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 11: made my rival's formidable foe. I donned the miter, marched
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 11: along his peer. Still I confess E'en at my glory's height.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 11: Harassed by memories of the god, I left some fear
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 11: remained to discompose my soul. And this it is that
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 11: fans and feeds my rage. Happy if wreaking vengeance on
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 11: his shrine, I may reduce his wrath to impotence, and
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 11: amidst ruin desolation, death, lose my remorse in plenitude of crime.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 18: Here comes Jehoshebah.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: Scene for Jehosheba massa naval.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 11: Sent by the queen to bring back peace and hatred
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 11: drive away. Be not surprised that I should thee accost princess,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 11: whose gentle spirit comes from heaven. A rumor which of
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 11: falsehood I suspect supports the warning that a dream had given,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 11: accusing the High Priest of dangerous plots, and raising in
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 11: the Queen a storm of ire. I wish not here
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 11: to vaunt my services, knowing Jehoyada to me unjust.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 18: But good for evil is a due return.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 11: In short, I come commissioned to speak peace, live, keep
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 11: your feasts without a shade of fear for your obedience,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 11: She but asks a pledge. My efforts to dissuade her
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 11: have been vain, this orphan, whom.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 5: She says, that she has seen eliakim.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 11: Whereat I feel some shame on her account, making an
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 11: idle dream of too much moment. But unless ye give
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 11: this child to me forthwith her mortal foes, ye prove
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 11: yourselves your answer, She awaits, impatient.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 5: These then are her words of peace?
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 11: And can ye for one moment hesitate by slight concessions
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 11: such a boon to gain.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 5: Strange would it be if matan free of guile, could
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 5: trample down the injustice of his heart, and, after being
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 5: of all ill contriver, could be the author of some
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 5: shade of good?
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 18: What is your grief?
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 11: Has the Queen, in rage, sent to tear Zachariah from
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 11: your arms. He is your son the other. Why so
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 11: dear this fondness in my turn surprises me? What treasure
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 11: find ye there? Of priceless worth? Has Heaven in him
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 11: sent a deliverer? Bethink you your refusal may confirm a
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 11: secret rumor that begins to grow.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 18: What rumor that illustrious is his birth?
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 11: And that thy husband hatches some grand part for him to.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 5: Play and matan by this tale that soothes.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 11: His rage, princess? It is for THEE to disabuse my mind.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 11: I know thou wouldst as falsehood's ruthless foe, resign thy
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 11: life sooner than sully thy sincerity by the least word
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 11: that is opposed to truth. Hast thou no clue?
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 18: Then to this mystery?
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 11: Is his birth buried in the deepest night? Knowest thou
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 11: not thyself from whom he sprang? Whose hands they were
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 11: that gave him to thy spouse? I pause for answer,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 11: ready to believe THEE give glory princess to the god
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 11: thou servest base man.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 5: It suits THEE well to dare to name a god
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 5: whom thou hast taught men to blaspheme can such a
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 5: wretch as thou invoke his truth, Thou on the seat
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 5: of foul, corrupt, enthroned, where falsehood reigns and spreads its
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 5: poison round whose lip with treachery and imposture teams.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: Seam five jihoider, Jehosheba Mata nabao.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 4: Where am I is this Bal's priest? I see? Does
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 4: David's daughter with a traitor talk and turn a listening hear?
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 4: Dost thou not fear that neath his feet should gape
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 4: a gulf profound in flames, forth issuing straight scorch and
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 4: consume thee? Wile these wolves crush thee falling upon him?
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 4: What would he? Why this bow effrontery? Why comes God's
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 4: foe to taint this holy.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 18: Air t rail? Is but to be jehoiada?
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 11: Yet might he well, in reverence for the Queen, show
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 11: greater prudence and forbear to insult the chosen envoy of
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 11: her high command with what ill omened tidings?
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 4: Art thou charged? What dreadful mission brings?
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 11: Such messenger Jehoshebah has heard the royal will.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 4: Then get thee from my presence in pierce wretch, go
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 4: and fill up the measure of thy crimes. Soon will
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 4: God make THEE join the perjured crew of Daithan doeg
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 4: and Ahitopev. The dogs he fed with fallen Jezebel, waiting
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 4: to glut their fury upon THEE besiege thy door, all
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 4: howling for their prey.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: Matter in confusion.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 11: Ere the day close, Which of us is it to be?
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 11: Will soon be seen? But na bo let us.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 12: Go where dost thou stray is? Then thy sense distraught?
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 12: There lies thy.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: Way Scene six Jehoida Jehosheba.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 5: The storm's about to burst the angry queen de Man's Eliakim.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 5: Already they begin to penetrate the mystery of his birth
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 5: and thy designs. Matan could all but tell his father's name.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 4: Who to the traitor can have given a clue. Thine
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 4: agitation may have told too much.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 5: I have done all I could to master it, and
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 5: yet believe me, danger presses close. Let us reserve this
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 5: child for happier times, while still our wicked foes deliberate.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 5: Ere they come round to tear him from our arms.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 5: Let me, my Lord, hide him a second time. The
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 5: gates stand open, and the way is free to while
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 5: the deserts must I carry him ready, am I I
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 5: know the secret path by which, without a chance of
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 5: being seen, crossing the Kedron's torrent with the lad the
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  Speaker 5: wilderness I'll gain where wept of old David in flight
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  Speaker 5: from his rebellious son and seeking safety from pursuit. Like us,
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  Speaker 5: I shall fear less for him, lions and bears. But
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  Speaker 5: why reject Jehu's good offices? Is not the council sound
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  Speaker 5: that I unfold? Let us in Jehu's charge this treasured place,
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  Speaker 5: and one may reach his realm this very day. The
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  Speaker 5: way that leads to him is short, nor starts the
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  Speaker 5: heart of Jehu from compassion's touch. The name of David,
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  Speaker 5: he in honor holds ah lives there a king so
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  Speaker 5: cruel and so hard unless his mother were a Jezebel,
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  Speaker 5: who would not pity such a suppliant's cry? Must not
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  Speaker 5: all monarchs make this cause their.
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  Speaker 4: Own two counsels? And how boldly urged canst thou then
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  Speaker 4: place thy hopes in Jehu's aid?
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  Speaker 5: Does God forbid all forethought and all care condemns? He
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  Speaker 5: not too blind a confidence making mankind fulfill his holy ends?
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  Speaker 5: Is it not God himself arms Jehu's hands?
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  Speaker 4: Jee who whom God and his deep wisdom chose Jeho,
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  Speaker 4: on whom I see thy hopes abased ungratefully forgets his
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  Speaker 4: benefits Ahab's fierce daughter. He is left in peace and
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  Speaker 4: follows the vile steps of Israel's kings, keeps up the
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  Speaker 4: shrines of Egypt's bestial god, and on high places rashly
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  Speaker 4: dares to burn an incense that the Lord our God
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  Speaker 4: abhause Jee, who too surely lacks the upright heart and
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  Speaker 4: clean hands needed to promote his cause. No, we must
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  Speaker 4: cling to God and him alone. We must not hide.
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  Speaker 4: But plainly, Oh the boy with royal diadem around his brow,
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  Speaker 4: I need intend to advance the appointed hour. A mattern
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  Speaker 4: can mature his counterplot.
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  Speaker 1: Seene seven Jehoida jehoreshibah Azariah, followed by the chorus and
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  Speaker 1: a number of Levites.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Azarah is the temple closed.
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  Speaker 9: I have seen all against securely bad.
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  Speaker 4: Remained there none but Thou and thine allies.
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  Speaker 9: Twice have I gone all round the sacred carts, all
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  Speaker 9: have fled heads, Nor think they every turn scattered by
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  Speaker 9: panic like a flock of sheep. The Holy tribe are
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  Speaker 9: left sole worshipers, never since they escaped from Pharaoh's power
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  Speaker 9: as such despay as this the people.
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  Speaker 4: Seized fainthearted, people born for slavery, bowed only against God.
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  Speaker 4: Let us pursue the work we have in hand. But
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  Speaker 4: who still keeps these children in our midst?
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  Speaker 2: Could we, my.
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  Speaker 17: Lord, sever ourselves from you? No strangers? We here in
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  Speaker 17: God's house, where ranged beside thee stand our fathers and
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  Speaker 17: our brothers.
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  Speaker 14: If to avenge the shame of Israel we lack Jail's power,
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  Speaker 14: who pierced the temples of God's and pious foe, we may,
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  Speaker 14: at least for him our lives lay down. When for
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  Speaker 14: his threatened shrine, your arms shall fight at least our
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  Speaker 14: tears made to his throne appeal No.
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  Speaker 4: What avenges of thy holy cause are wisdom infinite? These
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  Speaker 4: priests and babes, But thou supporting, who can make them fall?
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  Speaker 4: Thou canst it, will recall us from our graves, canst
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  Speaker 4: wound and heal, canst kill and make alive. They put
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  Speaker 4: no trust in merits of their own, but in Thy
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  Speaker 4: name for them, so often invoked Thy promise to the
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  Speaker 4: holiest of their kings. This temple where thou dost, but
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  Speaker 4: safe to dwell destin'd to last long as the sun
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  Speaker 4: in heaven. Why throbs my heart with holy ecstasy? Is
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 4: a God's spirit thus takes hold of me, glows in
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  Speaker 4: my breast, speaks and unseals mine eyes before me, spread,
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  Speaker 4: dim distant ages, rise, ye levites. Let your melodies conspire
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  Speaker 4: to fan the flame of Inspiration's fire.
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  Speaker 1: The chorus singing to the accompaniment of musical instruments.
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  Speaker 2: Lord be thy voice, our dull conveyed, thy whole message.
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  Speaker 2: Our hearts be born, as to the tender blade comes
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  Speaker 2: in the spring, the freshness of the mornin.
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  Speaker 4: Ye heavens hear my voice. Thou Earth, give ear that
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  Speaker 4: the Lord sleepst no more. Let Israel fear the Lord awakes.
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  Speaker 4: Ye sinners disappear.
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  Speaker 1: The music begins again, and Jehoida immediately resumes our.
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  Speaker 4: Hus pure gold changed into worthless lead. What Pontiff's blood
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 4: is at the altar? Shed weep Salem, faithless city, weep
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  Speaker 4: in vain thy murderous hands. Hath God's own prophets slain.
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  Speaker 4: Therefore his love for thee hath banished. Been Thine incense
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  Speaker 4: is to him a smoke unclean. O whither are these
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 4: tender captors led the Lord. The queen of cities has discrowned,
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  Speaker 4: cast off a kings, her priests and fetters bound within
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  Speaker 4: her streets, no festal throngs are found. The temple falls
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  Speaker 4: high leap, the flames of cedar fed. Jerusalem sad spectacle
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  Speaker 4: of woe. How in one day thy beauty disappears, Would
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  Speaker 4: that mine eyes might be a fount of tears to
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  Speaker 4: weep thine overthrow.
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  Speaker 19: Oh holy shrine, Oh David Lord, restore favor to thine
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  Speaker 19: own lion of your.
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  Speaker 1: The music begins again, and Jehoida, a moment afterwards breaks
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  Speaker 1: in upon it.
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  Speaker 4: What new Jerusalem? As this draws nigh with beams of
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 4: light that from the desert shine she bears upon her
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  Speaker 4: brow and marked divine Ye, People's raise, your joyous song
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 4: on high Zion is born in you, far fairer to
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  Speaker 4: the eye. From every side, a gathering crowd I view
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  Speaker 4: children that thine own bosom never knew. Jerusalem, arise, lift
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  Speaker 4: up thine head. Thy glory fills with wonder all these kings,
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  Speaker 4: each monarch of the earth. His homage brings her mightiest
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  Speaker 4: kiss the dust where thou dost tread, all pressed to
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  Speaker 4: hail the light around thee shed. Blessed be he whose
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  Speaker 4: soul with ardor glows to see fair Zion rise. Drop
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  Speaker 4: down your dews, ye skies, and let the earth her
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  Speaker 4: savior now disclose.
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  Speaker 1: Ah.
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  Speaker 5: Whence may we expect a gift so rare? If those
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 5: from who that savior is to spring.
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  Speaker 4: Prepare Jehosheba the royal crown which David wore upon his
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 4: sacred brow to the levites, and yee to arm yourselves.
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  Speaker 4: Come follow me where I kept hidden far from eyes profane,
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 4: that dread array of lances and of swords, which once
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 4: were drenched with proud Philistia's blood and conquering David full
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 4: of years and fame devoted to the lord who sheltered him.
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  Speaker 4: Can we employ them for a nobler use? Come? And
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 4: I will myself distribute them.
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  Speaker 1: Scene eight Salomee the chorus.
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  Speaker 7: What fearful scenes, my sisters, must we see? These arms?
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  Speaker 7: Great God's strange sacrifice portend? What incense? What first fruits
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 7: do they intend to offer on thine altar unto.
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  Speaker 2: D What side is this to meet our timid eyes?
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  Speaker 2: Who would have thought that we should e'er behuled forests
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: of spears arise and swords flash forth, where peace has
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: dwelt from days of alt?
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  Speaker 14: How comes it that, when danger is at hand our
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 14: city shows such dull indifference? How comes its sisters that
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 14: for our defense in valiant abner leads no succoring hand.
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  Speaker 7: Ah, In a court that owns no other laws than
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 7: force and violence, Who would embrace the inauspicious cause of
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 7: youthful innocence, baseness and blind submission? There provide high honors
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 7: that to virtue are denied.
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  Speaker 17: When danger and disorder grimly frown, for whom thus spring
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 17: day forth the consecrated crown.
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  Speaker 7: The Lord has deigned to speak, But vainly do we
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 7: seek his prophet's utterance to comprehend arms he destructions upon
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 7: us to weak, or arms he to defend, promise and threat?
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  Speaker 2: What may this mystery be? What evil? And what good?
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: In turn? Foretold? How with such anger can so love agree?
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  Speaker 1: Who shall the crew?
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  Speaker 2: Zion shall perish in devouring flame, and all her beauty
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  Speaker 2: shall be overthrown.
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  Speaker 14: Zion's defenses in Jehovah's name, his deathless word, her sure
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  Speaker 14: foundation stone.
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  Speaker 2: I see her glory sink before mine eyes.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 14: Oh, the spreading radiance of her light.
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  Speaker 2: I see plunged in the deepest gulf of misery.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 14: Zion uplifts her forehead to the skies. What ruin endless
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 14: life to her belongs?
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  Speaker 2: What cries of pain hark to victorious songs?
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  Speaker 16: Sees these perplexing thoughts to trace? God will the mystery solve?
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  Speaker 16: We know not how before.
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  Speaker 2: His wrath and reverence and grace.
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  Speaker 14: The heart whose love is thine, my God, who can
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 14: disturb its peace? Thy will supreme, Its guiding star doth
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 14: shine with beams that never cease. What happiness in earth
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 14: heaven can be like peace that keeps in sweet tranquility
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 14: The heart that loveth thee and of.
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  Speaker 1: Act three, Act four of Atheliah by Jen Racine, translated
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  Speaker 1: by Robert Bruce Boswell. This is a liverywox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: liveryvox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 1: or to volunteer, please visit liverywox dot org. Act four
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  Speaker 1: seem one Joash Jehosheba Zachariah Salome a levite the chorus.
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  Speaker 7: With step majestic by my mother's side comes with my
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  Speaker 7: brother young Iliakhiin sisters, What beare they erect within those veils?
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 7: What means that sword carried in.
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  Speaker 1: Front of them, Jehosheba to Zachariah.
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  Speaker 5: My son, with reverence. On this table place the awful
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  Speaker 5: volume of our holy law. And now, my sweet Eliacim
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  Speaker 5: lay here close to the book of God. This diadem leavite.
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  Speaker 5: It is Jooyada's command. Let David's sword be placed beside
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 5: his crown.
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  Speaker 3: Dear Princess, tell me what new sight is this? The
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  Speaker 3: sacred scroll, the sword, the diadem. Since God within his
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  Speaker 3: temple sheltered me no preparation have I seen like this?
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  Speaker 5: Soon will thy wondering doubts be cleared? My son?
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  Speaker 3: Try not? That diadem upon my brow tis profanation of
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 3: the glorious dead. The king who wore it claims more reverence.
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  Speaker 3: A poor, unhappy child left for the.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: Bears Jonesheva trying the crown upon him.
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  Speaker 5: Let be my son. Thus has it been enjoined?
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  Speaker 3: But do I hear thee sob Princess, Thy cheeks are
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 3: wet with tears. What pity touches thee am? I, as
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 3: Jephson's daughter of old, to be presented for a sacrifice,
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  Speaker 3: and by my death appease the wrath of God. A
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 3: son as not his father may not claim ah.
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  Speaker 5: Me lo, here is one who will declare God's will
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  Speaker 5: to thee alone. Fear not come, let.
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  Speaker 2: Us go.
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  Speaker 1: Scene too, Joe Ash jehoider, Joe Ash running into the
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: high Priest's arms.
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  Speaker 3: Father, my son, what preparations Here tis right.
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  Speaker 4: My son, that thou shouldst know the truth, and sooner
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 4: than all the others, learn God's will, his purpose for
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 4: his people and for thee. Arm thee with courage and
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 4: renew thy faith. The time has come to prove that
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 4: fervent zeal which I have cherished in thy heart with care,
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 4: and to discharge the debt due to Thy God. Art
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 4: thou resolved to show a generous mind?
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 3: Yes, ready, if he will to give my life.
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  Speaker 4: Oft hast thou heard the story of our kings? Dost
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 4: bear in mind, my son, how strict the laws a
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 4: king must follow, worthy of the crown wise kings.
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  Speaker 3: For thus hath God himself declared, will not rely on
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 3: riches and on gold, but fear the Lord their God,
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 3: regarding still his precepts and his judgments and his laws,
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 3: nor yoke oppressive on their brethren lay.
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  Speaker 4: But wert thou bound to copy one such king which
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 4: wouldst thou choose to imitate my son, there.
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  Speaker 3: Seems to be unworthy to compare faithful David full of
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 3: love divine.
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  Speaker 4: Thou wouldst not follow then the erring steps of faithless
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 4: Jorem and his impious son. Father, proceed and tell me
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  Speaker 4: all thy mind.
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  Speaker 3: Whoso resembles them perish as they.
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  Speaker 1: Jehoider prostrates himself at his feet.
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  Speaker 3: Father, Why dost thou kneel before my face?
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  Speaker 4: I pay THEE the respect I owe my king Joash,
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 4: prove worthy of thine ancestor of David, am I Jewish?
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  Speaker 4: Thou shalt know how graciously God foiled the savage plot
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 4: of Atalia, saving THEE from death already with the dagger
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 4: in thy breast, nor from her fury. Art thou yet
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 4: to escape it with the same eagerness that would erewhile
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 4: have slain in thee her son's posterity. Her cruelty is
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 4: bent on thy destruction. Nor doest a change of name
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 4: elude pursuit. But neath thy standard I have gathered here
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 4: prompt to avenge thee. An obedient band. Enter, brave captains
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 4: of the Holy Seed, honored by sacred service in your turns.
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  Speaker 1: Seen three, Jehoider, Joe ash Azariah, Ishmael, and the three
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  Speaker 1: other chiefs of the Levites. Jehoida continues, Lo there the
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  Speaker 1: kings of angers against his foes. And there, ye priests,
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  Speaker 1: behold your promised king.
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  Speaker 9: Why did Eliakim?
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  Speaker 4: Is that sweet child, the rightful heir of Judah's kings,
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 4: the last of hapless Ahaziah's lineage, called by the name
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 4: of joash As Ye know oor Judah, like yourselves, bewailed
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 4: the fate of that fair, tender flower, so soon cut down,
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 4: believing him with all his brethren slain with them. He
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 4: met the traitor's cruel knife, but Heaven turned aside the
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 4: mortal stroke, kept in his heart the smoldering spark of life,
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 4: and let my wife, eluding watchful eyes, convey him in
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 4: her bosom, bathed in blood, and hid him in the
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 4: temple with his nurse, I being sole accomplice of her theft.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, How my father can I e'er repay the kindness
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 3: and the love so freely given.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 4: The time will come to prove that gratitude. Look then,
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 4: upon your king, your only hope. My care has been
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 4: to keep him for this hour. Servants of God, tis
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 4: yours that care to crown the child of Jezebel. The
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 4: murderous queen informed that Josh lives will soon be here,
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 4: opening for him the tomb a second time, his death determined,
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 4: though himself unknown, priests tis for you her fury to
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 4: forestall and Judah's shameful slavery, to end avenge your princes,
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 4: slain your law, restore, make Benjamin and Judah own their king.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 4: The enterprise, no doubt, is dangerous attacking a proud queen
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 4: upon her throne, who rallies to a standard a vast
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 4: host of hardy strangers and of faithless Jews. But he
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 4: who guides and strengthens me is God. Think this child
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 4: all Israel's hope depends. The wrath of God already marks
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 4: the queen. Here have I mustered you in her despite
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 4: nor lack ye allike arms, as she believes, haste crown,
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 4: we joash and proclaim him king. Then our new prince's
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 4: valiant soldiers march, calling on him, with whom are victory
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 4: lies and waking loyalty and slumbering. Hearts e'en to her palace.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 4: Track our enemy what hearts, so sunk can Sloth's inglorious
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 4: sleep will not be roused. To follow in our steps,
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 4: when in our sacred ranks they see advance a king
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 4: whom God has at his altar fed Aaron's successor, and
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 4: a train of priests leading to battle Levi's progeny. And
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 4: in those self same hands, by all revered the arms
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 4: that David hallowed to the Lord our God shall spread
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 4: as terror o'er his foes shrink not from bathing you
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 4: and heathen blood hew down the Tyrians Yea and Jacob's
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 4: seed are ye not from those famous Levites sprung, who,
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 4: when inconstant Israel wickedly at Sinai, worshiped the Egyptian God,
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 4: their dearest kinsman, slew with righteous zeal and sanctified their
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 4: hands and traitor's blood, gaining the honor by this noble
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 4: deed of serving at the oltars of the Lord. But
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 4: I perceive your zeal already fired. Swear then, upon this
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 4: holy volume, first, before this King, whom Heaven restores to day,
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 4: to live, to fight, Yea, or to die for him.
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  Speaker 9: Here swear we for ourselves and brethren, all to establish
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 9: Josh on his father's throne, nor having taken in our
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 9: hands the sword, to lay it down till we have
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 9: slain his foes. If any one of us should break
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 9: this vow, let him Great God, and let his children
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 9: feel thy vengeance from thine heritage, shut out and numbered
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 9: with the dead, disowned by THEE.
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  Speaker 4: And thou, my King, wilt thou not swear to be
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 4: faithful to this eternal law of God?
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 3: How could I ever wish to disobey my.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 4: Son once more to call THEE by that name. Suffer
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 4: this fondness and forgive the tears prompted by two well
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 4: founded fears, for THEE far from the throne, in ignorance,
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 4: brought up of all the poisonous charms of royalty, Thou
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 4: knowest not the intoxicating fumes of power uncurbed and flattery's
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 4: magic spells. Soon will she whisper that the holiest laws,
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 4: though governing the herd, must kings obey. A monarch owns
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 4: no bridle but his will. All else must bow before
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 4: his majesty. Subjects are rightly doomed to toil in tears,
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 4: and with a rod of iron should be rulered, for
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 4: they will crush him. If they be not crushed. Thus
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 4: will fresh pitfalls for your feet be dug, New snares
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 4: be spread to spoil your innocence till they have made
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 4: you hate the truth at last by painting virtue in
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 4: repulsive guise. Alas our wisest king was led astray, swear
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  Speaker 4: on this book before these witnesses that God shall be
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  Speaker 4: thy first and constant care. Scourge is the evil refuge
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 4: of the good. That you will judge the poor as
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 4: God directs, remembering how in a simple linen clad thou
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 4: wast thyself a helpless, orphan child.
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  Speaker 3: I promise to observe the Law's commands. If I forsake Thee,
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 3: punish me, my God, I.
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  Speaker 4: Must anoint THEE with the holy oil. Jehosheba, Thou mayest
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 4: show thyself.
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  Speaker 1: Seeing for joe Ash, Jehoidah, Jehosheba, Zachariah, Salome, Azariah, Ishmael,
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: the three other chiefs of the Levites. The chorus Jehosheba
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: embracing Joash.
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  Speaker 5: My king and son of David.
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  Speaker 3: Mother, dear my only mother, Zachariah, come embrace thy.
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  Speaker 1: Brother, Jehosheba. To Zachariah, kneel before thy King. Zachariah casts
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: himself at the feet of Joash Jehoidah, while they embrace
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: one another.
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  Speaker 4: My children be united.
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  Speaker 1: Ever Thus, Jehosheba to joe Ash.
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  Speaker 5: Thou knowest then whose blood has given THEE life.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 3: And who had robbed me of it?
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 5: But for THEE, I then may call thee Joash thy
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 5: true name.
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  Speaker 3: And THEE shall Joash never cease to love.
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  Speaker 2: Why there.
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: Josh hear this messenger seam five joe Ash, Jehoida, Jehosheba, Zachariah, Salome, Azariah, Ishmael,
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: the three other chiefs of the Levites. Hey levite the chorus.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 13: I know not what their impious plan may be. But
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 13: everywhere resounds the threatening trump, and amid standards, fires are
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 13: seen to shine. The Queen is doubtless mustering her troops.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 13: Already every way of sucker closed, the sacred mount on
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 13: which the temple stands insolentians on all sides, in vast
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 13: and one of these blasphemers now brings word that Abner
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 13: is in chains. So cannot help.
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: Jehosheba to joe.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 5: Ash Ah, dearest child, by heaven and vain, restore Alas
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 5: for safety, I can do no more. God has forgotten
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 5: David and his.
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  Speaker 1: Seed Jehoider to Jehosheba.
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  Speaker 4: Dost thou not fear to draw the wrath Divine down
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 4: upon thyself and on the King. Thou lovest and need
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 4: though God should snatch him from thine arms, and will
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 4: that David's house perish with him. But there not here
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 4: upon the holy hill, where Abraham our father raised his
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 4: hand obediently to slay his blameless son, nor murmured as
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 4: he to the altar, bound the fruit of his old age,
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 4: leaving to God fulfillment of his promise, though this son
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 4: held in himself the hope of all his race. Friends,
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 4: let us take our several posts, the side that looks
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 4: towards the east, that ishmael God God, Thou the north,
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 4: thou west, and thou the south. Take heed that no
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 4: one with imprudence, ial leavit, or priest unmasking my designs,
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 4: burst forth in headlong haste before the time did each
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 4: as with one common will inspired wherever place it till
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 4: death is post maintained. Our foes regard you in their
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 4: blinded rage as timid flocks for slaughter. Set aside, and
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 4: think that ye will scatter and dismay that as a
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 4: riah on the king, attend to joash, come precious Scion,
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 4: of a vigorous stock, and with fresh courage, thy defenders
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 4: fill come don the diadem before their eyes, and die,
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 4: if it must be so, Like a king to Jehosheva,
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 4: follow him, princess to a levite. Give me the a
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 4: these arms to the chorus, offer to God the tears
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 4: of innocence.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: Scene six sallow. May the chorus go forth, and never
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: did call.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 2: The go for strike.
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  Speaker 16: Hast thou no shaft in store that justice may let fly.
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 16: Art Thou the jealous god no more? No longer God
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 16: of vengeance, thrown on high.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: Where God of Jacob is Thy goodness fled with horrors
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: all around us pressing near, Have but our sins a
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 2: voice which thou canst hear. Wilt thou on us no more?
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: Thy pardon shed? Where is thine agent tis against thee
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 2: that in this fray the wicked sent the arrow to
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 2: the bow. Let us destroy his feasts, Say they no
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 2: longer let the earth his worships show, nor his vexatious yoke.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 2: Let mortals longer know his altars, overturn his votary sleigh,
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 2: till of his name and glory remains. Not even the
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 2: story of him and his anointed break the sway, Hast
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 2: thou no chafts and sword that just maylet fly art
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 2: thou jealous God, nor no longer God.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 14: High sad relic of our king's last precious blossom of
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 14: a stem, so fair? Oh well, the knife this time
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 14: refused despair, which to his breast a cruel parent brings.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 14: Tell us, sweet Prince, if o'er thy cradle hovered some
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 14: angel that protected thee from death? Or did thy lifeless
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 14: form in darkness covered at God's awakening voice resume its breath?
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 16: Great God, dost thou the guilt upon him? Late that
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 16: his rebellious sires forsood that way is that compassion quan
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 16: gone for I?
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: Where God Jacob.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 14: Graid dear sisters crulterians hem us round. Do you not
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 14: hear their trumpets dreadful sound?
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 7: And I hear them raise their savage cry. I tremble
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 7: with alarm. Haste led us to our place of refuge,
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 7: fly where God's almighty arm shall in his temple shelter
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 7: us from harm.
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: End of Act four, Act five of Atheliah. By genre
• 1:38:44
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• 1:38:50
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• 1:38:54
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• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: And five seem one Zachariah Salomee the chorus, What news.
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 7: Dear Zachariah, doest thou bring.
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 6: Double the fervor of your prayers to heaven? Sister? Our
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 6: latest hour perhaps draws nigh for the dread conflict. Orders
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 6: have been.
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 7: Given, And what does jewish?
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 6: He has just been crowned, and by the high Priest,
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 6: with the holy oil anointed. Oh what joy in every
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 6: eye welcomed a sovereign ransomed from the tomb, a scar
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 6: still showing where the dagger fell. There too might have
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 6: been seen. His faithful nurse, who almost hidden in a
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 6: far recess, was watching her loved charge. Though none but
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 6: God and our dear Mother witnessed her concern. Our levites
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 6: wept in tenderness and joy, mingling with sobs their cries
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 6: of glad delight. He amid these transports, all untouched by pride,
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 6: gave gracious smiles, words, pressure of the hand, and swearing
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 6: to conform with their advice. This one his father, that
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 6: his brother called, And.
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 7: Has our secret reached a world without.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 6: Tis known to none. Beyond the temple walls, the sons
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 6: of Levi, in divided bands, are ranged in solemn silence
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 6: at the doors, all in an instant, ready to rush
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 6: forth and raise the signal shout long live the King.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 6: But Azariah has been strictly charged to guard the prince's
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 6: life from any risk. Meanwhile, the scornful queen, dagger in hand,
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 6: laughs at our frail defense of brazen doors, awaits the
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 6: engines that shall break them down, and threatens blood and
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 6: ruin with each breath. Some priests, my sister ventured to
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 6: advise that in a crypt dug in the days of old,
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 6: we should at least the precious ark conceal such fears
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 6: insult our God, my father said, shall then the ark
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 6: that caused proud towers to fall, that drove the waters
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 6: of the Jordan back and shattered to the earth, Philistia's
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 6: gods flee from before a shameless woman's face. Our mother,
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 6: standing near in mortal dread, Now to the prince, now
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 6: to the altar, turns her wavering glance, yielding to mute alarm,
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 6: a sight to make a very savage weep. From time
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 6: to time, the king, with fond embrace soothes her dear
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 6: sisters follow in my steps. And if this day our
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 6: king is doomed to die, that the same fate with him?
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 6: Unite us all.
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 7: What rude hand knooks with quick repeated strokes? What makes
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 7: these levites in confusion run? Why with such caution do
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 7: they hide their arms? Say?
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 6: Is the temple forced your fears? Dispel? God sends us Abner.
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: Scene to Jehoida, Jehosheba, Zachariah Salome Abner Ishmael, two levites
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: the chorus.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 4: Can I trust mine eyes? How did dear Abna find
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 4: his way to us right through the enemy's blockading camp?
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 4: Twas said that Ataliir, to ensure the execution of her
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 4: cruel plots had bound and I unchained thy generous hands.
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 8: My lord, she feared my courage and my zeal, and
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 8: worse than fetters gave me for reward, confining me with
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 8: a loathsome den to wait until the temple should be burned,
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 8: And she unstated, still with streams of blood should come
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 8: to free me from an irksome life and cut short
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 8: days which sorrows to survive my princes should have ended
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 8: long ago?
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 4: What miracle procur'd thee thy release.
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 8: God only knows how works her cruel heart. She sent
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 8: for me, and said, with anxious air, thou seest this
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 8: temple by my troops. Beset, Soon will the ventul flames
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 8: but ashes leave. In spite of all thy God can
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 8: do to save. Yet, upon two conditions may his priests
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 8: redeem their lives. But no time must be lost that
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 8: in my power they place Eleochium, with treasure known to them,
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 8: and them alone, amassed by David when he reigned of yore,
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 8: and left a secret in the high priest charge. Go
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 8: tell them on these terms, I let them live.
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 4: What course, dear Apnes, thinkest thou the.
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 8: Best give her the gold, if it indeed be true
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 8: that in thy keeping David's treasure lies, and all besides
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 8: that from her greedy hands. Thou hitherto hast saved, precious
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 8: and rare, give all, or thou wilt have vile murderers
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 8: come to break our own, burn the cherubim and on
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 8: our sacred ark, laying rude hands, stain with thy priestly
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 8: blood the inner shrine.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 4: But abner, how can I an honor yield to punishment
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 4: a poor, unhappy child whom God himself entrusted to my
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 4: care and save our lives by sacrificing his would.
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 8: To Almighty God, who sees my heart that Athaliah might
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 8: forget the boy and be content her cruelty to sleep
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 8: with Abner's blood, thinking thereby to soothe her angry Gods,
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 8: But what avails your care? If ye all perish? Will
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 8: he die?
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 9: The less?
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 8: Does God command? What is impossible? When in obedience to
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 8: a tyrant's law, his mother trusted Moses to the nile
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 8: almost as soon as born, condemned to die. Yet God,
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 8: against all hope, his life preserv'd and made the king
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 8: himself his childhood rear. Knows his purpose towards Lichium. Even
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 8: such a lot may be for him in store, and
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 8: the fell murderess of the royal seed be rendered sensitive
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 8: to pity's touch. Not long ago I saw steel o'er
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 8: her face, a tender look that by Jehesheva was marked
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 8: as well, calming her wrathful mood. Princess, the hour of danger,
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 8: claims thy voice. What shall Johidah, with thy consent for
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 8: a mere stranger, let his son and thee Yea all
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 8: his people fruitlessly be slain and flames devour the only
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 8: spot on earth where God is worshiped. What could ye
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 8: do more? Were he the sole survivor of our kings,
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 8: your ancestors.
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: Jehosheva to Jehoidah.
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 5: Thou seest his loyal heart, tell him the truth.
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 4: The time is not yet come.
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 8: Time is more precious than thou'st thinks sir, whilst thou
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 8: art doubting what reply to give Matan at Athalia's ear demands,
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 8: burning with rage, a speedy massacre. Must I fall prostrate
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 8: at thy hallowed knees now in the name of that
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 8: most holy place unseen by mortal eye, Save thine, where
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 8: dwells God's glory. Howsoever hard the task, Let us think
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 8: how to meet the sudden blow. I only beg a
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 8: moment's breathing space. Tomorrow, yea to night. I will secure
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 8: the temple and make outrage dangerous. But I perceive my
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 8: words are lost on thee tears and entreaties, powerless to persuade,
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 8: to strict thy sense of duty to give way. Well,
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 8: find me then, some weapon, spear or sword, and where
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 8: the foe await me at these gates, Abner at least
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 8: can die a soldier's death.
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 4: Nay, you, your profit counsel, I embrace abner. We will
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 4: avert these threatened ills. Tis true that David left a
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 4: treasure here that to my child was trusted, the last
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 4: hope left to the Jews in their calamities. My watchful
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 4: care bestowed it secretly, that since we cannot hide it
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 4: from your Queen, she shall be satisfied. And through these
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 4: doors enter attended by her officers. But from these altars,
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 4: let her keep afar the savage fury of her foreign troops,
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 4: and spare the House of God from pillage. Dire arrange
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 4: with her the number of her train, children and priests.
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 4: Can small suspicion rouse touching this child she dreads so
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 4: much to thee. Knowing thine upright heart, I will unfold
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 4: the secret of his birth when she can hear, and
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 4: thou shoult judge between us. If I must place this
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 4: young boy in Atalia's.
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 8: Power, I take him under my protection. Now, fear not,
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 8: my lord, back to the Queen, I haste.
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: Scene three Jehoida, Jehorsheba, Zachariah Salome Ishmael, two levites the chorus.
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 4: Great God, the hour is come that brings thy prey
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 4: hark Ishmael.
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 5: He whispers in his ear, Almighty King of Heaven, place
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 5: that thick veil before her eyes once more, as when
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 5: making her crime of none effect, Thou in my bosom
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 5: didst her victim.
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 4: Hide good Ishmael go. There is no time to lose,
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 4: fulfill precisely this important task, and above all take heed
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 4: when she arrives and passes, that no threatening signs be seen. Children,
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 4: for joesh be a throne prepared. Let our armed levites
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 4: on his steps attend princess, bring hither too his trustiness,
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 4: and dry the copious fountain of thy tears.
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: To a levite.
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 4: Soon as the queen madly presumptuous has crossed the threshold
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 4: of the temple gates, let all retreat be made impossible.
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 4: That very moment. Let the Marshal trump wakes sudden terror
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 4: in the hostile camp, call all the people to support
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 4: their king, and make her ears ring with the wondrous
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 4: tale of Joe ash. By God's providence preserved, he comes.
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: Scene four, Jehoida, jehoshebah Zachariah, Salomee Joe ash Azariah, a
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: band of priests and levites. The chorus Jehoida continues.
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 4: Ye levites and ye priests of God, range yourselves round,
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 4: but do not show yourselves. Leave it to me to
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 4: keep your zeal and check and tarry till my voice
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 4: bids you are.
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: They all hide themselves.
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 4: My king methinks this hope rewards thy vas. Come see
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 4: thy foes for prostrate at thy feet. She who in
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 4: fury sought thine infant life, comes hither in hot haste
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 4: to slay thee. Now, But fear her not think that
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 4: upon our side stands the destroying angel is thy God.
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 4: Ascend thy throne. The gates are opening wide. One moment,
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 4: Let this curtain cover thee.
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 1: He draws a curtain, Princess, Thy color changes.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 5: Can I see assassins bill God's house and not grow pale? Why?
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 5: Look how numerous the revenue I see them?
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 4: Shut the temple doors again, All is secure.
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: Scene five joe Ash, jehoider, Jehorseshibah, abner, hath A liar,
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 1: and her attendants. Joe Ash is hidden behind the curtain,
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: hath A liar to Jehoidah, deceiver.
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 2: There thou art author of mischief, plots, conspiracies whose hopes
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 2: are all upon disturbance, based inveterate foe of sovereign majesty.
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 2: Dost thou still lean upon thy God's support, or hast
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 2: that flimsy trust forsaken thee? He leaves thee in thy
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 2: temple in my power? Well might I on the altar
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 2: thou dost serve, But no thine offered ransom shall suffice
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 2: fulfill what thou hast promised that young boy, that treasure
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 2: which thou must to me resign.
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 4: Where are they straight? Shalt thou be satisfied? I'm about
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 4: to show them both at once?
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: The curtain is drawn up. Joe Ash is discovered on
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: his throat. His nurse is kneeling to his right. Azariah,
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: sword in hand, is standing on his left, and near him,
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: Zachariah and Salamei are kneeling on the steps of the throne.
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: A number of levites with swords in their hands are
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: ranged on either side the.
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 4: Peer dear child worthy of royal sires. Queen, dost thou
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 4: recognize King David's ear, observe at least these marks thy
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 4: dagger left the old thine offspring a Hasiah's son, Welcome
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 4: King joash Abner. People all haven't traitor see this faithful
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 4: Jewish here whose bosom, as thou knowest, nurse to him
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 4: them saved from thy fury by Jehosheba. Within this temple
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  Speaker 4: God has guarded him. Lo here is all of David's
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  Speaker 4: treasure left.
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  Speaker 2: Traitor, thy fraud will but destroy the child rid me
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  Speaker 2: my soldiers of this vile pretense.
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  Speaker 4: Soldiers of God draw near, defend your king.
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  Speaker 1: The back of the stage opens, the interior of the
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  Speaker 1: temple is shown, and arm levites enter from all around
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  Speaker 1: upon the stage.
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  Speaker 2: Treason, Oh, where am I? Unhappy queen? Weapons and enemies
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  Speaker 2: on every side?
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  Speaker 4: Thy search is vain. Thou canst not scape the toils
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  Speaker 4: cast round thee by the God whom thou hast scorned
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  Speaker 4: into our hands? Has he delivered thee drunken with blood?
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  Speaker 4: He calls thee to his bar.
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  Speaker 2: My warriors are turned craven, numb with fear. Abner, is
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  Speaker 2: this thy coward, snare my queen?
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  Speaker 8: As God is witness?
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  Speaker 2: Never mind thy God avenge me.
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  Speaker 1: Abner throwing himself at the feet of Joe ash.
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  Speaker 8: Upon whom Joe ash my prince.
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  Speaker 2: He joash he thy king. Bethink you knaves that ye
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  Speaker 2: are still beleaguered by my arms. I hear my soldiers
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  Speaker 2: call me with the loud shouts, tremble, ye rebels, Succor
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  Speaker 2: is at hand.
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  Speaker 1: Scene six Joe ash Atheliah, Jehoidah, Ishmael and all the
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  Speaker 1: actors in the preceding scene Ishmael to Jehoidah.
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  Speaker 15: My Lord, our foes have left the temple free. The
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  Speaker 15: foreigners are flood. The Jews submit as smoke is driven
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  Speaker 15: away before the wind the Almighty's voice. This army has
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  Speaker 15: dispersed r hoodie bites high above the courts around have
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  Speaker 15: a haziest son to all proclaimed, told of his infant
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  Speaker 15: life saved from the sword, and Athalia's fallen to the snare.
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  Speaker 15: The trumpets sounded from all sides at once and mingled
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  Speaker 15: with their cry. Such terror spread throughout the campus, struck
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  Speaker 15: with wild dismay, prow minion. At the flash of Gideon's sword,
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 15: the Tyrians, casting arms and shields away, the first in
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  Speaker 15: all directions, disappeared. Some Jews, in day's confusion shared their flight.
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  Speaker 15: The rest for Josh loudly have declared, owing heroin the
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 15: guiding hand of God, yea all the people with one heart,
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  Speaker 15: inspired women, old men and babes, embrace with joy, blessing
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  Speaker 15: Jehovah and the Kinghi sins, and him the son.
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  Speaker 4: Of David raised to life.
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  Speaker 15: All in the Holy City. Execrate the name of Boo
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  Speaker 15: and destroy his shrine maiden.
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  Speaker 2: It's slain, Jehovah, Thou hast one, Yes, it is joash
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  Speaker 2: vain denial on twas here I gave command to have
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 2: him slain. He has the mane and features of his sire.
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  Speaker 2: I trace his kinship with the line I hate. Thus
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 2: David triumphs Ahab is destroyed. Relentless God, This is thy
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  Speaker 2: work alone, with hopes of easy vengeance, luring me and
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 2: twenty times a day, setting my thoughts in conflict. Now
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 2: remorseful for this child, now dazzled with the prospect of
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 2: rich spoil, and loath to give it to devouring flames. Well,
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 2: let him reign thy care and handiwork, and to inaugurate
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 2: his sovereignty. Bid him direct this dagger to my heart.
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 2: This for my grandson is my dying wish, my wish,
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  Speaker 2: nay more than wish, my trust and hope that weary
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  Speaker 2: of Thy law, thy yoke condemned true to the blood
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  Speaker 2: of Ahab drawn from me following his grandsires and his
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 2: father's steps. He David's heir, shall make himself a port profane,
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  Speaker 2: thy altar, rob thee of thy rights. So avenge j
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  Speaker 2: Ahab Jezebel and.
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  Speaker 1: Me Atheliah goes out. The Levites follow her out.
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  Speaker 4: Of the temple precincts. Have her fought at once, norbits
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  Speaker 4: holy courts, profaned, Go and avenge your prince's massacred, whose
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 4: blood cries out till pacified by hers. If any venture
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 4: to defend her cause him, let the sword along with
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 4: her devour.
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  Speaker 1: Scene seven joe Ash, Jehoidah, Jehosheba Abner, and all the
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  Speaker 1: actors in the preceding scene Joe Ash, after descending from
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  Speaker 1: his throne.
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  Speaker 3: Thou seest o Lord, the anguish of my soul, Oh
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  Speaker 3: turn her malediction from me far and never suffer it
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  Speaker 3: to be fulfill'd. Let jewish die ere he forgets his god.
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  Speaker 1: Jehoider to the Levites, call all the people, they shall
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  Speaker 1: see their king.
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  Speaker 4: Let them approach and s fresh allegiance. Swear King, priests
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 4: and people. Let us all confirm the covenant that Jacob
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 4: made with God. Grateful for mercy for our sins, ashamed
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 4: and with new vows, binding ourselves to him. Abneal resume
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 4: thy post beside the king.
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: Scene eight joash Jehoider a Levite, and all the actors
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  Speaker 1: in the preceding scene Jehoider to the Levite.
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  Speaker 4: Well has that monster met with punishment?
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  Speaker 13: Her guilt has been a tone for with the sword Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 13: so long her furies prey relieved at last from her
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  Speaker 13: detested yoke with joy beholds her weltering in her blood.
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  Speaker 4: By this the dreadful end her crimes deserved. Learn King
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  Speaker 4: of Judah, nor this truth forget kings Heaven. Heaven There
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  Speaker 4: judge severe who to the fatherless's father, and will punish
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  Speaker 4: those who innocence oppress.
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  Speaker 1: End of back five. End of Athelia by Jean Racine,
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  Speaker 1: translated by Robert Bruce Boswell,