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Cenci - Percy Bysshe Shelley · Tristan and Isolde

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  Speaker 1: Act One of the Chenchi by Percy bish Shelley. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. Dramatis Personae Stage Directions read by Jake Militsia.
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  Speaker 2: Count Francesco chen Chi read by Gregg Giardano.
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  Speaker 3: Giacomo, Son of Cenci read by Adrian Stephens.
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  Speaker 4: Bernardo, Son of Cenci read by Ric Cordrey.
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  Speaker 5: Cardinal Camillo read by Alum Mapstone.
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  Speaker 6: Orsino a Prelate read by Todd.
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  Speaker 7: Savella. The Pope's Leger read by Rob Marland.
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  Speaker 8: Olympio Assassin read by Andrew Gance.
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  Speaker 9: Marzio Assassin read by Larry Wilson.
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  Speaker 1: Andrea Servant Tchenci read by Jake Willitzia.
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  Speaker 10: Lucrezia, wife of Chenchi and stepmother of his children, read
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  Speaker 10: by Sonia.
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  Speaker 11: Beatrice, daughter of Chenchi, read by Jen Broda.
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  Speaker 12: Servant read by David Purdy.
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  Speaker 13: First guest read by Lynette Colkins.
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  Speaker 9: Second guest read by Lurie Wilson.
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  Speaker 12: Third Guest read by David Perdy. Guard read by David Perdy.
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  Speaker 5: Officer read by Alan matt.
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  Speaker 14: Stone first Judge read by Sanamyangton.
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  Speaker 12: Second Judge read by David Purdy.
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  Speaker 13: Colona read by Lynette Carkins.
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  Speaker 1: The scene lies principally in Rome, but changes during the
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  Speaker 1: fourth act to Petrella, a castle among the Apulian Appennines,
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  Speaker 1: time during the Pontificate of Clement. The eighth Act one
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  Speaker 1: Scene one an apartment in the Chenchi Palace, enter Count
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  Speaker 1: Chenchi and Cardinal Camillo.
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  Speaker 5: That matter of the murder is hushed up if you
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  Speaker 5: consent to yield his holiness, your thief that lies beyond
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  Speaker 5: the Pincian gate. It needed all my interest in the
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  Speaker 5: conclave to bend him to this point. He said that
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  Speaker 5: you bought perilous impunity with your gold, that crimes like yours,
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  Speaker 5: if once or twice compounded, enrich the church, and respited
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  Speaker 5: from hell an erring soul which might repent and live.
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  Speaker 5: But that the glory and the interest of the high
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  Speaker 5: throne he fills little consists with, making it a daily
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  Speaker 5: mark of guilt, as manifold and hideous as the deeds
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  Speaker 5: which you scarce hide from men's revolted eyes.
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  Speaker 2: The third of my possessions, let it go. I I
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  Speaker 2: once heard the nephew of the Pope had sent his
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  Speaker 2: architect to view the ground, meaning to build a villa
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  Speaker 2: on my vines. The next time I compounded with his uncle,
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  Speaker 2: a little thought he should outwit me. So henceforth no witness,
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  Speaker 2: not the lamp, shall see that which the vassal threaten'd
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  Speaker 2: to divulge, whose throat is choked with dust. For his reward.
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  Speaker 2: The deed he saw could not have rated higher than
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  Speaker 2: his most worthless life. It angers me, respited me from hell.
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  Speaker 2: So may the devil respite their souls from heaven, no doubt.
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  Speaker 2: Pope Clement and his most charitable nephews pray that the
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  Speaker 2: Apostle Peter and the saints will grant for their sake
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  Speaker 2: that I long enjoy strength, wealth, and pride, and lust,
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  Speaker 2: and length of days wherein to act the deeds which
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  Speaker 2: are the stewards of their revenue. But much yet remains
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  Speaker 2: to which they show no title.
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  Speaker 5: O consciencie, so much that thou mightst honorably live and
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  Speaker 5: reconcile thyself with thine own heart, and with thy God,
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  Speaker 5: and with the offended world. How hideously look deeds of
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  Speaker 5: lust and blood through those snow white and venerable hairs.
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  Speaker 5: Your children should be sitting round you now, but that
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  Speaker 5: you fear to read upon their looks the shame and
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  Speaker 5: misery you have written there. Where is your wife? Where
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  Speaker 5: is your gentle daughter? Methinks her sweet looks, which make
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  Speaker 5: all things else beauteous and glad, might kill the fiend
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  Speaker 5: within you? Why is she barred from all society but
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  Speaker 5: her own strange and uncomplaining wrongs. Talk with me, count,
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  Speaker 5: you know I mean you well. I stood bed beside
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  Speaker 5: your dark and fiery youth, watching its bold and bad
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  Speaker 5: career as men watch meteors. But it vanished. Not I
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  Speaker 5: march your desperate and remorseless manhood. Now do I behold
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  Speaker 5: you in dishonorable age, charged with a thousand unrepented crimes.
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  Speaker 5: Yet I have ever hoped that you would amend, and
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  Speaker 5: in that hope have saved your life three times.
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  Speaker 2: For which adol Berandino owes you now, my thief beyond
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  Speaker 2: the Pincian cardinal. One thing I pray you recollect henceforth,
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  Speaker 2: and so we shall converse with less restraint. A man
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  Speaker 2: you knew, spoke of my wife and daughter. He was
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  Speaker 2: accustomed to frequent my house. So the next day his
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  Speaker 2: wife and came and asked if I had seen him,
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  Speaker 2: and I smiled. I think they never saw him any.
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  Speaker 5: More, Thou execrable man.
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  Speaker 1: Beware of thee.
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  Speaker 2: Nay, this is idle. We should know each other as
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  Speaker 2: to my character. For what men call crime seeing, I
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  Speaker 2: please my senses as I list and vindicate that right
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  Speaker 2: with force or guile. It is a public matter, and
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  Speaker 2: I care not if I discuss it with you. I
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  Speaker 2: may speak alike to you and my own conscious heart,
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  Speaker 2: for you give out that you have half reformed me.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore strong vanity will keep you silent, if fear should
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  Speaker 2: not both will. I do not doubt all men delight
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  Speaker 2: in sensual luxury. All men enjoy revenge and most exalt
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  Speaker 2: over the tortures they can never feel flattering their secret
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  Speaker 2: peace with others pain. But I delight in nothing else.
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  Speaker 2: I love the sight of agony, in the sense of
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  Speaker 2: joy when this shall be in other's and that mine
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  Speaker 2: and I have no remorse and little fear, which are
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  Speaker 2: I think the checks of other men. This mood has
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  Speaker 2: grown upon me until now any design my captious fancy
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  Speaker 2: makes the picture of its wish, and it forms none
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  Speaker 2: but such as men like you would start to know,
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  Speaker 2: is as my natural food and rest debarred until it
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  Speaker 2: be accomplished.
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  Speaker 5: Art thou not most miserable?
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  Speaker 2: Why miserable?
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  Speaker 10: No?
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  Speaker 2: I am what your theologians call hardened, which they must
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  Speaker 2: be in impudence so to revile a man's peculiar taste. True,
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  Speaker 2: I was happier than I am. Oh, yet manhood remained
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  Speaker 2: to act the thing I thought while lustwas sweeter than revenge,
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  Speaker 2: And now invention palls aye. We must all grow old,
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  Speaker 2: and but that there yet remains a deed to act
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  Speaker 2: whose horror might make sharp an appetite duller than mine.
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  Speaker 2: I do I know not what. When I was young,
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  Speaker 2: I thought of nothing else but pleasure, and fed on
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  Speaker 2: honey sweets men by Saint Thomas, I cannot live like bees.
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  Speaker 2: And I grew tired. Yet till I killed a foe
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  Speaker 2: and heard his groans and hurt his children's groans, I
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  Speaker 2: knew not what delight was else on earth, which now
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  Speaker 2: delights me little.
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  Speaker 14: Aye.
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  Speaker 2: The rather look on such pangs as terror ill conceals
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  Speaker 2: the dry, fixed eyeball, the pale, quivering lip, which tell
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  Speaker 2: me that the spirit weeps within tears bitterer than the
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  Speaker 2: bloody sweat of Christ. I rarely killed the body, which
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  Speaker 2: preserves like a strong prison, the soul within my power,
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  Speaker 2: wherein I feed it with the breath of fear for
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  Speaker 2: hourly pain.
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  Speaker 5: Hell's most abandoned fiend did never, in the drunkenness of guilt,
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  Speaker 5: speak to his heart as now you speak to me.
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  Speaker 5: I thank my God that I believe you.
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  Speaker 14: Not.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Andrea, my lord, a gentleman from Salamanca, would speak
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  Speaker 1: with you.
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  Speaker 2: Bid him attend me in the grand saloon.
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  Speaker 1: Exit Andrea.
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  Speaker 5: Farewell, and I will pray Almighty God, that thy false
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  Speaker 5: impious words tempt not his spirit to abandon thee exit Camillo.
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  Speaker 2: The third of my possessions I must use close husbandry
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  Speaker 2: or gold. The old man's sword falls from my withered hand.
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  Speaker 2: But yesterday there came an order from the Pope to
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  Speaker 2: make fourfold provision for my cursed sons, whom I had
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  Speaker 2: sent from home to Salamanca, hoping some accident might cut
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  Speaker 2: them off, and meaning if I could to starve them there.
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  Speaker 2: I pray thee God send some quick death upon them.
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  Speaker 2: Bernardo and my wife cannot be worse. If dead and damned,
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  Speaker 2: then as to be a treacy.
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  Speaker 1: Looking around him suspiciously.
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  Speaker 2: I think they cannot hear me at that door, what
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  Speaker 2: if they should? And yet I need not speak, though
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  Speaker 2: the heart triumphs with itself in words. Oh thou most
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  Speaker 2: silent air that shalt not hear? What now I think
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  Speaker 2: thou pavement which I shread towards her chamber. Let your
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  Speaker 2: echoes talk of my imperious step scorning surprise, but not
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  Speaker 2: of my intent. Andrea, Enter Andrea, my lord, bid beatricy
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  Speaker 2: attend me in her chamber this evening, No at midnight
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  Speaker 2: and alone.
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  Speaker 1: Excient scene too, a garden of the Chenchy palace. Enter Beatrice,
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  Speaker 1: and Osino as in conversation.
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  Speaker 11: Pervert not truth or Sino? You remember where we held
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  Speaker 11: that conversation. Nay, we see the spot even from this cypress.
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  Speaker 11: Two long years are passed since on in April midnight,
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  Speaker 11: underneath the moonlit ruins of Mount Palatine, I did confess
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  Speaker 11: to you my secret mind.
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  Speaker 6: You said you loved me.
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  Speaker 11: Then you are a priest. Speak to me not of love.
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  Speaker 6: I may obtain the dispensation of the pope to marry
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  Speaker 6: because I am a priest. Do you believe your image
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  Speaker 6: as the hunter? Some struck dear follows me? Not whether
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  Speaker 6: I wake or sleep.
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  Speaker 11: As I have said, speak to me not of love.
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  Speaker 11: Had you a dispensation, I have not, Nor will I
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  Speaker 11: leave this home of misery. Whilst my poor Bernard and
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  Speaker 11: that gentle lady to whom I owe life, and these
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  Speaker 11: virtuous thoughts must suffer what I still have strength to
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  Speaker 11: share alas Orsino, All the love that once I felt
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  Speaker 11: for you is turned to bitter pain. Ours was a
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  Speaker 11: youth contract which you first broke by assuming vows no
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  Speaker 11: pope will loose. And thus I love you still, but holy,
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  Speaker 11: even as a sister or a spirit might. And so
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  Speaker 11: I swear a cold fidelity. And it is well. Perhaps
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  Speaker 11: we shall not marry. You have a sly, equivocating vein
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  Speaker 11: that suits me not. Ah, wretched that I am? Where
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  Speaker 11: shall I turn? Even now you look on me as
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  Speaker 11: you are not my friend, as if you discovered that
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  Speaker 11: I thought so, with false smiles making my true suspicion
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  Speaker 11: seem You're wrong. Ah No, forgive me. Sorrow makes me
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  Speaker 11: seem sterner than else my nature might have been. I
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  Speaker 11: have a weight of melancholy thoughts, and they forebode, But
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  Speaker 11: what can they forebode worse than I now endure?
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  Speaker 6: All will be well is the petition yet prepared. You
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  Speaker 6: know my zeal for all you wish, sweet Beatrice, and
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  Speaker 6: doubt not, But I will use my utmost skill so
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  Speaker 6: that the Pope attend to your complaint.
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  Speaker 11: Your zeal for all I wish. Ah me, you are cold,
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  Speaker 11: your utmost skill speak but one word aside alas weak
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  Speaker 11: and deserted creature that I am. Here can I stand
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  Speaker 11: bickreeing with my only friend.
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  Speaker 1: To Orsino?
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  Speaker 11: This night my father gives a sumptuous feast Orsino. He
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  Speaker 11: has heard some happy news from Salamanca, from my brother's there.
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  Speaker 11: And with this outward show of love he mocks his
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  Speaker 11: inward hate tis bold hypocrisy, for he would gladly or
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  Speaker 11: celebrate their deaths, which I have heard him pray for
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  Speaker 11: on his knees. Great God, that such a father should
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  Speaker 11: be mine. But there is a mighty preparation made, and
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  Speaker 11: all our kin, the chen Chi, will be there, and
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  Speaker 11: all the chief nobility of Rome. And he has been
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  Speaker 11: in me and my pale mother attire ourselves in festival array.
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  Speaker 11: Poor lady, she expects some happy change in his dark spirit.
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  Speaker 11: From this act I none at supper. I will give
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  Speaker 11: you the petition till when farewell.
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  Speaker 1: Farewell, well, exit Beatrice.
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  Speaker 6: I know the Pope will ne'er absolve me from my
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  Speaker 6: priestly vow, but by absolving me from the revenue of
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  Speaker 6: many a wealthy sea, and Beatrice, I think to win
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  Speaker 6: thee at an easier rate. Nor shall he read her
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  Speaker 6: eloquent petition. He might bestow her on some poor relation
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  Speaker 6: of his sixth cousin, as he did her sister, and
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  Speaker 6: I should be debarred from all access, then as to
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  Speaker 6: what she suffers from her father. In all this there
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  Speaker 6: is much exaggeration. Old men are testy and will have
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  Speaker 6: their way. A man may stab his enemy or his vassal,
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  Speaker 6: and live a free life as to wine or women,
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  Speaker 6: and with a peevish temper, may return to a dull
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  Speaker 6: home and rate his wife and children doll and wives
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  Speaker 6: call this foul tyranny. I shall be well content if
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  Speaker 6: on my conscience there rests no heavier sin than what
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  Speaker 6: they suffer from the devices of my love, a net
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  Speaker 6: from which you shall escape. Not yet I fear her
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  Speaker 6: subtle mind, her awe inspiring gaze, whose beams anatomize me,
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  Speaker 6: nerve by nerve, and lay me bare, and make me
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  Speaker 6: blush to see my hidden thoughts. Ah No, a friendless
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  Speaker 6: girl who clings to me as to her only hope.
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  Speaker 6: I were a fool, no less than if a panther
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  Speaker 6: were pennic stricken by the antelope's eye, if she escaped me.
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  Speaker 1: Exit Scene three. A magnificent hole in the Chenchy Palace.
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  Speaker 1: A banquet enter Chenchi, Lucretia, Beatrice, Orsino, Camillo, Nobles.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome, my friends and kinsmen. Welcome ye princes and cardinals,
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  Speaker 2: pillars of the church, whose presence honors our festivity. I
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  Speaker 2: have too long lived like an anchorite, and in my
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  Speaker 2: absence from your merry meetings, an evil word is gone
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  Speaker 2: abroad of me. But I do hope that you, my
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  Speaker 2: noble friends, when you have shared the entertainment here and
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  Speaker 2: heard the pious cause for which tis given, and we
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  Speaker 2: have pledg'd a health or two together, will think me
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  Speaker 2: flesh and blood as well as you sinful. Indeed, for
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  Speaker 2: Adam made also a tender hearted, meek and pitiful.
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  Speaker 13: In truth, my lord, you seem too light of heart,
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  Speaker 13: too spread, un companionable a man to act the deeds that.
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  Speaker 1: Rumor pins on you to his companion.
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  Speaker 13: I never saw such blithe and open tear in any eye.
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  Speaker 9: Some most desired event in which we all demand a
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  Speaker 9: common joy, has brought us hither. Let us hear it. Count.
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  Speaker 2: It is indeed a most desired event. If when a parent,
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  Speaker 2: from a parent's heart lifts from this earth to the
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  Speaker 2: Great Father of all a prayer, both when he lays
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  Speaker 2: him down to sleep and when he rises up from dreaming,
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  Speaker 2: it one supplication, one desire, one hope, that he would
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  Speaker 2: grant a wish for his two sons, even all that
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  Speaker 2: he demands in their regard, and suddenly beyond his dearest
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  Speaker 2: hope it is accomplished. He should then rejoice and call
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  Speaker 2: his friends and kinsmen to a feast, and task their
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  Speaker 2: love to grace his merriment. Then honor me thus far,
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  Speaker 2: for I am.
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  Speaker 1: He Beatrice to Lucretia.
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  Speaker 11: Great God, how horrible some dreadful ill must have befallen
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  Speaker 11: my brothers.
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  Speaker 10: Fear no child. He speaks too frankly.
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  Speaker 11: Ah, my blood runs cold. I fear that wicked laughter
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  Speaker 11: round his eye, which wrinkles up the skin even to
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  Speaker 11: the hair.
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  Speaker 2: Here are the letters brought from Salamanca, BEATRICY read them
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  Speaker 2: to your mother God. I thank THEE. In one night
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  Speaker 2: that'st thou perform by ways inscrutable the thing I sought.
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  Speaker 2: My disobedient and rebellious sons are dead.
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  Speaker 11: Why dead?
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  Speaker 2: What means this change of cheer? You hear me not?
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  Speaker 2: I tell you? They are dead, and they will need
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  Speaker 2: no food or raiment more. The tapers that delight them
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  Speaker 2: the dark way are their last cost. The Pope, I think,
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  Speaker 2: will not expect I should maintain them in their coffins.
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  Speaker 2: Rejoice with me. My heart is wondrous glad.
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  Speaker 1: Lucretia sinks half fainting. Beatrice supports her.
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  Speaker 11: It is not true, dear lady, pray look up. Had
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  Speaker 11: it been true, there is a God in heaven, he
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  Speaker 11: would not live to boast of such a boon. Unnatural man,
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  Speaker 11: thou knowest that it is false?
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  Speaker 2: Aye, as the word of God, who here I call
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  Speaker 2: to witness that I speak the sober truth, and whose
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  Speaker 2: most favoring providence was shown even in the manner of
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  Speaker 2: their deaths. For Rocco was kneeling at the mass with
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  Speaker 2: sixteen others when the church fell and crushed him to
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  Speaker 2: a mummy. The rest escaped unhurt. Christofano was stabbed in
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  Speaker 2: error by a jealous man whilst she he loved was
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  Speaker 2: sleeping with his rival, all in the self same hour
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  Speaker 2: of the same night, which shoes that Heaven has special
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  Speaker 2: care of me. I beg those friends who love me
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  Speaker 2: that they mark the day of feast upon their calendars.
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  Speaker 2: It was the twenty seventh of December. I read the
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  Speaker 2: letters of you, doubt my oath.
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  Speaker 1: The assembly appears confused. Several of the guests.
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  Speaker 13: Rise, Oh horrible, I will depart.
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  Speaker 9: And I no stay.
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  Speaker 12: I do believe it is some jest, though faith tis
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  Speaker 12: mocking us somewhat too solemnly. I think his son has
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  Speaker 12: married the Infanta, or found a mine of gold in
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  Speaker 12: El Dorado. Tis, but to season some such news, stay stay,
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  Speaker 12: I see tis only raillery by his.
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  Speaker 1: Smile, Chency filling a bowl of wine and lifting it up.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thou bright wine, whose purple splendor leaps and bubbles
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  Speaker 2: gaily in this golden bowl under the lamp light, as
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  Speaker 2: my spirits do to hear the death of my accursed sons.
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  Speaker 2: Could I believe thou wert their mingled blood, than would
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  Speaker 2: I taste THEE like a sacrament, and pledged with thee.
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  Speaker 2: The mighty devil in hell, who if a father's curses,
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  Speaker 2: as men say, climb with swift wings after their children's
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  Speaker 2: souls and drag them the very throne of heaven. Now
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  Speaker 2: triumphs in my triumph. But thou art superfluous. I have
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  Speaker 2: drunken deep of joy, and I will taste no other
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  Speaker 2: wine tonight. Here Andrea bear the bowl around.
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  Speaker 1: A guest rising.
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  Speaker 12: Thou ratch, will none among this noble company, check the
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  Speaker 12: abandoned villain.
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  Speaker 5: For God's sake, let me dismiss the guests. You are insane.
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  Speaker 5: Some ill will come of this, says sailed him.
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  Speaker 13: I will, and I.
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  Speaker 1: Chenchi, dressing those who rise with a threatening gesture.
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  Speaker 2: Who moves, who speaks?
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  Speaker 1: Turning to the company.
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  Speaker 2: Tis nothing. Enjoy yourselves, beware, for my revenge is as
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  Speaker 2: the sealed commission of a king that kills in. None
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  Speaker 2: dare name the murderer.
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  Speaker 1: The banquet is broken up. Several of the guests are departing.
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  Speaker 11: I do entreat you go not, noble guests. What although
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  Speaker 11: tyranny and impious hate stands sheltered by a father's hoary hair,
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  Speaker 11: what if tis he who clothed us in these limbs,
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  Speaker 11: who tortures them and triumphs. What if we the desolate
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  Speaker 11: and the dead were his own flesh, his children, and
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  Speaker 11: his wife, whom he is bound to love and shelter.
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  Speaker 11: Shall we therefore find no refuge in this merciless one world.
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  Speaker 11: Oh think what deep wrongs must have blotted out, first love,
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  Speaker 11: then reverence in a child's prone mind, till it thus
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  Speaker 11: vain was shame and fear. Oh think I have borne
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  Speaker 11: much and kissed the sacred hand which crushed us to
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  Speaker 11: the earth, and thought its stroke was perhaps some paternal chastisement,
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  Speaker 11: have excused much doubted, and when no doubt remained, have
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  Speaker 11: sought by patience, love and tears to soften him. And
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  Speaker 11: when this could not be I have knelt down through
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  Speaker 11: the long sleepless nights and lifted up to God, the
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  Speaker 11: father of all passionate prayers. And when these were not heard,
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  Speaker 11: I have still born. Until I meet you here, Princes
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  Speaker 11: and kinsmen, at this hideous feast given at my brother's deaths.
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  Speaker 11: Two yet remain. His wife remains an I whom, if
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  Speaker 11: ye save not, ye may soon share some merriment again
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  Speaker 11: as fathers make over their children's graves. O Prince Colonna
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  Speaker 11: thou Art, our near kinsman, Cardinal thou Art, the Pope's
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  Speaker 11: chamberlain Camillo, Thou art chief judiciary, take us away, Chenchi.
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  Speaker 1: He has been conversing with Camillo during the first part
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  Speaker 1: of Beatrice's speech. He hears the conclusion and now advances.
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  Speaker 2: I hope my good friends here will think of their
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: own daughters, or perhaps of their own throats, before they
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  Speaker 2: lend an ear to this wild girl.
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  Speaker 1: Beatrice, not noticing the words of Chenchi.
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  Speaker 11: Dare no one look on me? None answer? Can one
• 28:50
  Speaker 11: tyrant overbear the sense of many best and wisest men?
• 28:54
  Speaker 11: Or is it that I soon not in some form
• 28:56
  Speaker 11: of scrupulous law, that she deny my suit? O God,
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  Speaker 11: that I were buried with my brothers, and that the
• 29:04
  Speaker 11: flowers of this departed spring were fading on my grave,
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  Speaker 11: and that my father were celebrating now one feast for.
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  Speaker 5: All, A bisser wish for one so young and gentle?
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  Speaker 5: Can we do nothing?
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  Speaker 13: Nothing? That I see Count Gentye were a dangerous enemy,
• 29:26
  Speaker 13: Yet I would second any one and die.
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  Speaker 2: Retire to your chamber, insolent girl.
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  Speaker 11: Retire, thou impious man, I hide thyself where never I
• 29:42
  Speaker 11: can look upon thee.
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  Speaker 9: More?
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  Speaker 11: Wouldst thou have honor and obedience? Who art a torturer. Father.
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  Speaker 11: Never dream though thou mayst overbear this company, but ill
• 29:53
  Speaker 11: must come of ill, frown not on me. Haste hide thyself,
• 29:59
  Speaker 11: lest with avenging looks, my brother's ghost should hunt THEE
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  Speaker 11: from thye seat, Cover thy face from every living eye,
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  Speaker 11: and start. If thou but hear a human step, seek
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  Speaker 11: out some dark and silent corner. There, bow thy white
• 30:15
  Speaker 11: head before offended God, and we will kneel around and
• 30:18
  Speaker 11: fervently pray that He pity both ourselves and thee.
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  Speaker 2: My friends, I do lament this insane girl has spoilt
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: the mirth of our festivity. Good Night, farewell. I will
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: not make you longer spectators of our dull domestic quarrels.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Another time, extend all but Chenchy and Beatrice.
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  Speaker 2: My brain is swimming round. Give me a bowl of
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: wine to Beatrice, thou painted viper beast, that thou art
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  Speaker 2: fair and yet terrible. I know what charm shall make
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: THEE meek and tame. Now get THEE from my sight.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Exit Beatrice.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Here, Andrea, fill up this goblet with Greek wine. I
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: said I would not drink this evening, but I must
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: for strange to say. I feel my spirits fail with
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: thinking what I have decreed to do.
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  Speaker 1: Drinking the wine be.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Thou the resolution of quick youth within my veins and
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: manhood's purpose stern in ages firm called subtle villainy. As
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: if thou wert indeed my children's blood, which I did
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  Speaker 2: thirst to drink, the charm works well, it must be done.
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  Speaker 2: It shall be done. I swear.
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  Speaker 1: Exit end of the first act, Act too of the
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  Speaker 1: Chenche by Percy Bisch Shelley. This is the LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Act two,
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  Speaker 1: Scene one, an apartment in the Chenchy Palace. Enter Lucretia
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: and Bernardo.
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  Speaker 10: Weep, not my gentle boy he struck, but me, who
• 32:40
  Speaker 10: have borne deeper wrongs in truth. If he had killed me,
• 32:44
  Speaker 10: he had done a kind of deed. Oh God Almighty,
• 32:47
  Speaker 10: do thou look upon us. We have no other friend,
• 32:51
  Speaker 10: but only THEE. Yet weep not. Though I love you
• 32:55
  Speaker 10: as my own, I am not your true.
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  Speaker 4: Mother, oh more more than ever mother was to any
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  Speaker 4: child that you have been to me. Had he not
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: been my father, do you think that I should weep.
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  Speaker 10: Alas, poor boy, what else couldst thou have done?
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  Speaker 1: Enter Beatrice? Beatrice, in a hurried voice.
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  Speaker 11: Did he pass this way? Have you seen him? Brother? Ah?
• 33:25
  Speaker 14: No?
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  Speaker 11: That is his step upon the stairs tis near her.
• 33:28
  Speaker 11: Now his hand is on the door. Mother. If I
• 33:31
  Speaker 11: to thee have ever been a duteous child? Now save me, Thou,
• 33:36
  Speaker 11: great God, whose image upon earth a father is? Dos
• 33:39
  Speaker 11: thou indeed abandon me? He comes the door's opening. Now
• 33:44
  Speaker 11: I see his face. He frowns on others, but he
• 33:47
  Speaker 11: smiles on me, even as he did after the feast
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  Speaker 11: last night.
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  Speaker 1: Enter a servant, Almighty.
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  Speaker 11: God, how merciful thou art 'tis? But orsino servant? Well?
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  Speaker 11: What news?
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  Speaker 12: My master bids me say. The Holy Father has sent
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  Speaker 12: back your petition thus unopened, giving a paper, and he
• 34:12
  Speaker 12: demands at what hour tware secured to visit you again?
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  Speaker 1: Etty ave Maria, exit servant, So.
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  Speaker 10: Daughter, our last hope has failed? How me, how pale
• 34:27
  Speaker 10: you look? You tremble, and you stand wrapped in some
• 34:30
  Speaker 10: fixed and fearful meditation, as if one thought were over
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  Speaker 10: strong for you. Your eyes have a chill glare. Oh dearest child,
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  Speaker 10: are you gone mad?
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  Speaker 11: If not?
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  Speaker 10: Pray speak to me.
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  Speaker 11: You see, I am not mad. I speak to you.
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  Speaker 10: You talked of something that your father did after that
• 34:52
  Speaker 10: dreadful feast. Could it be worse than when he smiled
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  Speaker 10: and cried, my son's are dead, and every one looked
• 34:59
  Speaker 10: in his, his neighbor's face to see if others were
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  Speaker 10: as white as he. At the first word he spoke,
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  Speaker 10: I felt a blood rush to my heart and fell
• 35:08
  Speaker 10: into a trance. And when it passed, I said, all
• 35:11
  Speaker 10: weak and wild, whilst you alone stood up and where
• 35:15
  Speaker 10: strong words checked his unnatural pride, and I could see
• 35:19
  Speaker 10: the devil was rebuked that lived in him until this hour.
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  Speaker 10: Thus have you ever stood between us and your father's
• 35:27
  Speaker 10: moody wrath like a protecting presence? Your firm mind has
• 35:32
  Speaker 10: been our only refuge and defense. What can have thus
• 35:36
  Speaker 10: subdued it? What can now have given you that cold,
• 35:39
  Speaker 10: melancholy look succeeding to your unaccustomed fear?
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  Speaker 11: What is it that you say? I was just thinking
• 35:47
  Speaker 11: t were better not to struggle any more. Men like
• 35:50
  Speaker 11: my father have been dark and bloody, Yet never oh,
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  Speaker 11: before worse comes of it, twere wise to die it?
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  Speaker 10: And that at last, oh talk not so dear, child,
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  Speaker 10: Tell me at once, what did your father do or
• 36:08
  Speaker 10: say to you? He stayed not after that accursed feast,
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  Speaker 10: one moment in your chamber.
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  Speaker 4: Speak to me, oh, sister, sister prithee, speak to.
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  Speaker 1: Us, Beatrice, speaking very slowly, with a forced calmness.
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  Speaker 11: It was one word, mother, one little word, one look,
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  Speaker 11: one smile. Oh. He has trampled me under his feet
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  Speaker 11: and made the blood stream down my pallid cheeks. And
• 36:39
  Speaker 11: he has given us all ditch water and the fever
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  Speaker 11: stricken flesh of buffaloes, and bade us eat or starve,
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  Speaker 11: and we have eaten. He has made me look on
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  Speaker 11: my beloved Bernardo when the rust of heavy chains has
• 36:52
  Speaker 11: gangreened his sweet limbs. And I have never yet despaired.
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  Speaker 11: But now what could I.
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  Speaker 1: Say recovering herself?
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  Speaker 11: Ah, No, tis nothing new. The sufferings we all share
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  Speaker 11: have made me wild. He only struck and curse me
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  Speaker 11: as he passed. He said, he looked, He did nothing
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  Speaker 11: at all beyond his wont yet it disordered me. Alas
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  Speaker 11: I am forgetful of my duty, I should preserve my
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  Speaker 11: senses for your sake.
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  Speaker 10: Nay, BEETRICEE have courage, my sweet girl. If any one despairs.
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  Speaker 10: It should be I who loved him once and now
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  Speaker 10: must live with him till God, in pity call for him.
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  Speaker 10: O me, for you, may, like his sister, find some
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  Speaker 10: husband and smile years hence with children round your knees,
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  Speaker 10: whilst I then dead, and all this hideous coil shall
• 37:55
  Speaker 10: be remembered only as a dream.
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  Speaker 11: Talk not to me, dear lady of a husband. Did
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  Speaker 11: you not nurse me when my mother died? Did you
• 38:04
  Speaker 11: not shield me in that dearest boy? And had we
• 38:08
  Speaker 11: any other friend but you in infancy, with gentle words
• 38:12
  Speaker 11: and looks to win our father, not to murder us?
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  Speaker 11: And shall I now desert you? May the ghost of
• 38:19
  Speaker 11: my dead mother bleed against my soul if I abandon her,
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  Speaker 11: who filled the place she left with more even than
• 38:26
  Speaker 11: a mother's love.
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  Speaker 4: And I am of my sister's mind. Indeed, I would
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: not leave you in this wretchedness, even though the Pope
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: should make me free to live in some blithe place
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  Speaker 4: like others of my age, with sports and delicate food
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  Speaker 4: and the fresh air. Oh, never think that I will
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  Speaker 4: leave you, mother.
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  Speaker 1: My dear dear children, enter chenchi, suddenly.
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  Speaker 2: What be a treaty?
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  Speaker 10: Here?
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  Speaker 2: Come hither.
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  Speaker 1: She shrinks back and covers her face.
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  Speaker 2: Nay, hide not your face tis fair? Look up? Why,
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: yester night you dared to look with disobedient insolence upon me,
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: bending a stern and an inquiring brow on what I meant?
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Whilst I then sought to hide that which I came
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: to tell you, But in.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Vain Beatrice, wildly staggering towards the door.
• 39:30
  Speaker 11: Oh, that the earth would gape hide me, o God.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Then it was I whose inarticulate words fell from my lips,
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: and who, with tottering steps, fled from your presence, as
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: you now from mine.
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  Speaker 9: Stay.
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  Speaker 2: I command you, from this day and hour never again.
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  Speaker 2: I think with fearless eye and brow superior in unaltered cheek,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: and that lip made for tenderness or scorn. Shalt thou
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: strike dumb, the meanest of mankind, me least of all.
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  Speaker 2: Now get thee to thy chamber, Thou too, though that
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: image of thy cursed mother, to Bernardo, thy milky, meek
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: face makes me sick with hate.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Excellent Beatrice and Bernardo Chenchi aside.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: So much has passed between us as must make me
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: bold her fearful. Tis an awful thing to touch such
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: mischief as I now conceive, some men sit shivering on
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: the dewy bank and try the hill stream with their
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: feet once in how the delighted spirit pants for.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Joy Lucretia advancing timidly towards.
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  Speaker 10: Him, Oh husband, pray forgive poor Beetrice. She meant not any.
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  Speaker 2: Ill, nor you, perhaps, nor that young imp whom you
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: have taught by rote Parricide with his alphabet, nor Giacamo,
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: nor those two most unnatural sons who stirred enmity up
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: against me, with the Pope whom, in one knight, merciful
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: God cut off innocent lambs. They thought not any ill
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: you were not here conspiring. You said nothing of how
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: I might be dungeoned as a madman, or be condemned
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: to death for some offense, and you would be the
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: witnesses this failing, How just it were to hire assassins,
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: or put sudden poison in my evening drink, or smother
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: me when overcome by wine. Seeing we had no other
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: judge but God, and he had sentenced me, and there
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  Speaker 2: were none but you to be the executioners of his
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: decree and registered in heaven. Oh no, you said not this, So.
• 42:24
  Speaker 10: Help me God, I never thought of things you charge
• 42:27
  Speaker 10: me with.
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  Speaker 2: If you dare speak that wicked lie again, I'll kill
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: you what it was not by your counsel that be
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: your treachy distirb the feast last night. You do not
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: hope to stir some enemies against me and escape and
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: laugh to scorn what every nerve of you now trembles at.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: You judge that men were bolder than they are. Few
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: dare to stand between their grave and me?
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  Speaker 10: Look not so dreadfully by my salvation. I knew not
• 43:04
  Speaker 10: aught that beatreech it design'd, nor do I think she
• 43:08
  Speaker 10: designed anything until she heard you talk of her dead.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: Brothers, blaspheming liar. You are damned for this, But I
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: will take you where you may persuade the stones you
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: tread on to deliver you. For men, there shall be
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: none but those who dare all things not question that
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: which I command. On Wednesday next, I shall set out
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: you know that savage Rock, the castle of Petrella, tis
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: safely walled and moted round about, Its dungeons underground, and
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: its thick towers never told tales, though they have heard
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: and seen what might make dumb things speak. Why do
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: you linger make speediest preparation for the journey.
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  Speaker 1: Exit Lucretia.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: The alle beholding sun yet shines. I hear a busy
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: stir of men about the streets. I see the bright
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: sky through the window panes. It is a garish, broad
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: and peering day, loud light, suspicious, full of eyes and ears,
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: and every little corner, milk and whole is penetrated with
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: the insolent light. Come darkness. Yet, what is the day
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: to me? And wherefore should I wish for night? Who
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: do a deed which shall confound both night and day?
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: Tis she shall grope through a bewildering mist of horror.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: If there be a sun in heaven, she shall not
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: dare to look upon its beams, nor feel its warmth.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: Let her then wish for night. The act I think
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: shall soon extinguish all.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: For me.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: I bear a darker, deadlier gloom than the earth shade
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: or interlunar air. Were constellations quenched in murkiest cloud in
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: which I walked a cure and unbeheld towards my purpose?
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: Would that it were done?
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Exit Scene two. A chamber in the Vatican, enter Camillo
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: and Jacomo in conversation.
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: There is an obsolete and doubtful law by which you
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: might obtain a bare provision of food and clothing.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: Nothing more alas bear must be the provision which strict
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: law awards and aged sullen avarice poys. Why did my
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: father not appres me to some mechanic trade? I should
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: have then been trained in no high born necessities which
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: I could meet, not by my daily toil. The eldest
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: son of a rich nobleman is heir to all his incapacities.
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: He has wide wants and narrow powers. If you, Cardinal Camillo,
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: were reduced at once from thrice driven beds of down
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: and delicate food, and hundred servants and six palaces, to
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: that which nature doth indeed require.
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: Nay, there is reason in your plea twere hard.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: Tis hard for a firm man to bear. But I
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: have a dear wife, a lady of high birth, whose
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: dowry in ill hour I lent my father without a
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: bond or witness to the deed, and children who inherit
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: her fine senses, the fairest creatures in this breathing world.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: And she and they reproach me. Not, Cardinal, do you
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: not think the Pope would interpose and stretch authority beyond
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: the law.
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: Though your peculiar case is hard, I know the Pope
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: will not divert the course of law. After that impious
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: feast the other night, I spoke to him and urged
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: him then to check your father's cruel hand. He frowned
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: and said, children are disobedient, and they sting their father's
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: hearts to madness and despair, requiting years of care with contumely.
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: I pity the Count Chenchi from my heart. His outrage
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: love perhaps awakened hate. Thus he is exasperated too. Ill
• 48:04
  Speaker 5: in the great war between the old and young, I
• 48:08
  Speaker 5: who have white hairs and a tottering body, will keep
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: at least blameless neutrality.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Enter Orsino, you, my good lord.
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  Speaker 5: Orsino, heard these words?
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: What word.
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  Speaker 3: Alas? Repeat them? Not again? There there is no redress
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: for me, at least none but that which I may
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: achieve myself, since I am driven to the brink. But say,
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: my innocent sister and my only brother are dying underneath
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: my father's eye. The memorable torturers of this land Galias, Visconti,
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: Borgia Etzeln, never inflicted on the meanests. What these endure?
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: Shall they have no protection?
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: Why if they would petition to the Pope, I see
• 49:10
  Speaker 5: not how he could refuse it. Yet he holds it
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: of most dangerous example, in aught to weaken the paternal power,
• 49:20
  Speaker 5: being as tore the shadow of his own. I pray
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: you now excuse me. I have business that will not
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: bear delay.
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  Speaker 1: Exit Camillo.
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: But you, Orsino, have the petition, wherefore not present it?
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: I have presented it and backed it with my earnest
• 49:45
  Speaker 6: prayers and urgent interest. It was returned, I answered, I
• 49:52
  Speaker 6: doubt not, but that the strange and execrable deeds alleged
• 49:56
  Speaker 6: in it, in truth, they might well baffle any belief,
• 50:00
  Speaker 6: have turned the Pope's displeasure upon the accusers from the criminal.
• 50:05
  Speaker 6: So I should guess from what Camilla said.
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: My friend, that palace walking devil Gold has whispered silence
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: to his holiness, and we are left the scorpions ringed
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: with fire. What should we do but strike ourselves to death?
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: For he who is our murderous persecutor is shielded by
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: a father's holy name or high.
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  Speaker 1: Would stops abruptly?
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  Speaker 6: What fear not to speak? Your thought? Words are but
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  Speaker 6: wholly as the deeds they cover. A priest who has
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  Speaker 6: forsworn the god he serves, A judge who makes the
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  Speaker 6: truth weep at his decree, A friend who should weave
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  Speaker 6: counsel as I now, but as the mantle of some
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  Speaker 6: selfish guile. A father who is all a tyrant seems
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  Speaker 6: with a profaner for his sacred name.
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  Speaker 3: Ask me not what I think. The unwilling brain feigns
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  Speaker 3: often that it would not, And we trust imagination with
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  Speaker 3: such fantasies, as the tongue dares not fashion into words
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  Speaker 3: which have no words. Their horror makes them dim to
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  Speaker 3: the mind's eye. My heart denies itself to think what
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  Speaker 3: you demand.
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  Speaker 6: But a friend's bosom is as the inmost cave of
• 51:36
  Speaker 6: our own mind, where you set shut from the wide
• 51:39
  Speaker 6: gaze of day and from the awe communicating air. You
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  Speaker 6: look what I suspected.
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  Speaker 3: Spare me now. I am as one lost in a
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  Speaker 3: midnight wood, who dares not ask some harmless passenger the
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: path across the wilderness, lest he, as my thoughts are are,
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  Speaker 3: should be a murderer. I know you are my friend,
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  Speaker 3: and all I dare speak to my soul that will
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: I trust with thee. But now my heart is heavy
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  Speaker 3: and would take lone counsel from a night of sleepless care.
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  Speaker 3: Pardon me that I say farewell, farewell. I would that
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  Speaker 3: to my own suspected self, I could address a word
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  Speaker 3: so full of peace.
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  Speaker 6: Farewell, be your thoughts better or more bold? Exit Jacomo,
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  Speaker 6: I had disposed the Cardinal Camillo to feed his hope
• 52:44
  Speaker 6: with cold encouragement. It fortunately serves my close designs. That
• 52:50
  Speaker 6: tis a trick of this same family to analyze their
• 52:53
  Speaker 6: own in others minds such self. Anatomy will teach the
• 52:58
  Speaker 6: will dangerous secrets, for it tempts our powers, knowing what
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  Speaker 6: must be thought and may be done, into the depth
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  Speaker 6: of darkest purposes. So chen Shi fell into the pit
• 53:11
  Speaker 6: even I, since Betrice unveiled me to myself and made
• 53:15
  Speaker 6: me shrink from what I cannot shun, show a poor
• 53:20
  Speaker 6: figure to my own esteem, to which I grow half reconciled.
• 53:25
  Speaker 6: I'll do as little mischief as I can. That thought
• 53:29
  Speaker 6: shall fee the accuser conscience. After a pause, now, what
• 53:37
  Speaker 6: harm if chen Chi should be murdered? Yet if murdered,
• 53:42
  Speaker 6: wherefore by me? And what if I could take the profit?
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: Yet omit the sin and peril of such an action?
• 53:53
  Speaker 6: Of all the earthly things I fear a man whose
• 53:56
  Speaker 6: blows outspeat his words, and such is check. And while
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  Speaker 6: Enchi lives, his daughter's dowry were a secret grave. If
• 54:05
  Speaker 6: a priest wins her Ah, fair Beatrice, would that I
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  Speaker 6: love thee, not or loving thee could but despise danger
• 54:15
  Speaker 6: and gold in all that frowns between my wish and
• 54:18
  Speaker 6: its effect or smiles beyond it, there is no escape.
• 54:24
  Speaker 6: Her bright form kneels beside me at the altar, and
• 54:28
  Speaker 6: follows me to the resort of men, and fills my
• 54:31
  Speaker 6: slumber with tumultuous dreams. So when I wake, my blood
• 54:36
  Speaker 6: seems liquid fire. And if I strike my damp and
• 54:40
  Speaker 6: dizzy head, my hot palms scorches it. Her very name,
• 54:46
  Speaker 6: but spoken by a stranger, makes my heart sicken and pant,
• 54:51
  Speaker 6: And thus unprofitably I have clasped the phantom of unfelt delights,
• 54:56
  Speaker 6: till weak imagination half possesses the self created shadow. Yet
• 55:02
  Speaker 6: much longer will I not nurse this life of feverish
• 55:05
  Speaker 6: hours from the unraveled hopes of Giacomo. I must work
• 55:09
  Speaker 6: out my own dear purposes. I see as from a
• 55:14
  Speaker 6: tower the end of all, her father dead, her brother
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  Speaker 6: bound to me, by a dark secret surer than the grave.
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  Speaker 6: Her mother scared, an unexpostulating from the dread manner of
• 55:27
  Speaker 6: her wish achieved, and she once more take courage, my
• 55:32
  Speaker 6: faint heart. What dares a friendless maiden matched with thee
• 55:38
  Speaker 6: I have such foresight as a sure success. Some unbeheld
• 55:42
  Speaker 6: divinity doth, ever, when dread events are near, stir up
• 55:47
  Speaker 6: men's minds to black suggestions, and he prospers best. Not
• 55:52
  Speaker 6: who becomes the instrument of ill, but who can flatter
• 55:56
  Speaker 6: the dark spirit that makes its empire and its prey
• 56:00
  Speaker 6: of other hearts? Do it become his slave as I
• 56:05
  Speaker 6: will do.
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  Speaker 1: Exit end of the second act, Act three of the
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  Speaker 1: Chenchi by Percy bish Shelley. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Act three,
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  Speaker 1: Scene one, an apartment in the Chenchi Palace. Lucretia to
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  Speaker 1: her enter Beatrice. Beatrice. She enters, staggering and speaks wildly.
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  Speaker 11: Reach me that handkerchief. My brain is hurt. My eyes
• 56:54
  Speaker 11: are full of blood. Just wipe them for me. I see,
• 56:58
  Speaker 11: but indistinctly my sweet child, you have no wound.
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  Speaker 10: Tis only a cold dew that starts for me, a
• 57:05
  Speaker 10: dear bro aless aless. What has befallen?
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  Speaker 11: How comes this air undone? Its wandering strings must be
• 57:13
  Speaker 11: what blind me so? And yet I tied it fast,
• 57:18
  Speaker 11: Oh horrible. The pavement sinks under my feet, the walls
• 57:22
  Speaker 11: spin round. I see a woman weeping there, and standing
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  Speaker 11: calm and motionless, whilst eyes slighed giddily as the world reels.
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  Speaker 11: My God, the beautiful blue heaven is flecked with blood.
• 57:34
  Speaker 11: The sunshine on the floor is black. The air is
• 57:37
  Speaker 11: changed to vapors, such as the dead breathe and the
• 57:40
  Speaker 11: charnel pits. Ah, I am choked. There creeps a glinging, black,
• 57:45
  Speaker 11: contaminating mist about me. Tis substantial, heavy, thick. I cannot
• 57:52
  Speaker 11: pluck it from me, for it glues my fingers and
• 57:55
  Speaker 11: my limbs to one another, and eats into my sinews,
• 57:58
  Speaker 11: and dissolves my flesh to a pollution, poisoning the subtle,
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  Speaker 11: pure and inmost spirit of life. My God, I never
• 58:08
  Speaker 11: knew what the man felt before, for I am mad
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  Speaker 11: beyond all doubt. No, I am dead. These putrefying limbs
• 58:18
  Speaker 11: shut round and suppulch her the painting soul which would
• 58:21
  Speaker 11: burst forth into the wandering air. What hideous thought was
• 58:26
  Speaker 11: that I had? Even now tis gone, and yet its
• 58:30
  Speaker 11: burthen remains here? Or these dull eyes upon this weary heart?
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  Speaker 11: Oh world, O life, Oh day, oh misery?
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  Speaker 10: What ailstee my poor child? She answers not her spirit
• 58:48
  Speaker 10: apprehends the sense of pain, but not its cause. Suffering
• 58:52
  Speaker 10: has stried away the source from which it.
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  Speaker 1: Sprung, Beatrice frantically.
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  Speaker 11: Like parricide, misery has killed its father, yet its father
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  Speaker 11: never like mine? Oh God, what thing am.
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  Speaker 10: I, my dearest child? What has your father done?
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  Speaker 1: Beatrice? Doubtfully?
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  Speaker 11: Who art thou questioner?
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  Speaker 1: I have no father aside?
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  Speaker 11: And she is the mad house nurse who tends on me.
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  Speaker 11: It is a piteous office.
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  Speaker 1: To Lucretia in a slow, subdued voice.
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  Speaker 11: Do you know I thought I was that wretched Beatrice
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  Speaker 11: man speak of whom her father sometimes hails from hall
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  Speaker 11: to hall by the entangled hair. At others pens up
• 59:45
  Speaker 11: naked in the damp cells, where scaly reptiles crawl and
• 59:49
  Speaker 11: starves her there till she will eat strange flesh. This
• 59:54
  Speaker 11: woeful story, So did I overact in my sick dreams
• 59:58
  Speaker 11: that I imagined. No, it cannot be. Horrible things have
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 11: been in this wild world, prodigious mixtures and confusion, strange
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 11: of good and ill and worse have been conceived than
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 11: ever there was found a heart to do, but never
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 11: fancy image such a deed as.
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  Speaker 1: Pauses suddenly recollecting herself.
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  Speaker 11: Who art thou swear to me?
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  Speaker 7: Ere?
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  Speaker 11: I die with fearful expectation that indeed thou art not
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  Speaker 11: what thou seemest?
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  Speaker 10: Mother, Oh my sweet child, know.
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  Speaker 11: You yet speak it?
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  Speaker 1: Not?
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  Speaker 11: For then if this be truth, that other too must
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 11: be a truth, a firm, enduring truth, linked with each
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 11: lasting circumstance of life, never to change, never to pass away.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 11: Why so it is? This is the chenchy palace. Thou
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  Speaker 11: art Lucretia. I am Beatrice. I have talked some wild words,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 11: But will no more or mother come near me? From
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 11: this point of time?
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  Speaker 7: I am?
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  Speaker 1: Her voice dies away faintly, bless.
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  Speaker 10: What has befallen thee child? What has thy father done?
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  Speaker 11: What have I done? Am I not innocent? Is it
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 11: my crime? That one with white hair and imperious brow
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 11: who tortured me from my forgotten years? As parents. Only
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 11: dare should call himself my father? Yet should be Oh
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 11: what am I? What name? What place? What memory? Shall
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 11: be mine? What retrospects outliving even despair?
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  Speaker 10: He is a violent tyrant, surely, child, we know that
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 10: death alone can make us free, his death or ours.
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  Speaker 10: But what can he have done of deadly outrage or
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 10: worse injury? Thou art unlike thyself? Thine I showed forth
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 10: a wondering and strange spirit. Speak to me, unlock those
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 10: pallid hands, whose fingers twine with one another.
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  Speaker 11: Tis the restless life tortured within them? If I try
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 11: to speak, I shall go mad. I something must be done.
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  Speaker 11: What yet? I know not something which shall make the
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 11: thing that I have suffered, but a shadow in the dread,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 11: lightning which avenges it brief, rapid, irreversible, destroying the consequence
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 11: of what it cannot cure, some such thing as to
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 11: be endured or done. When I know what, I shall
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 11: be still and calm, and never anything will move me more.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 11: But now, oh blood, which art my father's blood circling
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 11: through these contaminated veins, If thou pour it forth on
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 11: the poult earth could wash away the crime and punishment
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 11: by which I suffer. No, that cannot be. Many might
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 11: doubt there were a god above who sees and permits evil,
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  Speaker 11: and so die that faith. No agony shall obscure in me.
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  Speaker 10: It must indeed have been some bitter wrong. Yet what
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 10: I dare not guess, Oh, my lost child, hide not
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 10: in proud impenetrable grief. Thy sufferings from my fear.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 11: I hide them not. What are the words which you
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 11: would have me speak? I who can feign no image
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 11: in my mind of that which has transformed me, I
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 11: whose thought is like a ghost shrouded and folded up
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 11: in its own formless horror of all words that ministered
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 11: to mortal intercourse, which wouldst thou hear? For there is
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 11: none to tell my misery if another ever knew aught
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 11: like to it. She died as I will die, and
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 11: left it as I must, without a name. Death. Death,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 11: our law and our religion call thee a punishment and
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 11: a reward. Oh, which have I deserved.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 10: The peace of innocence till in your season you be
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 10: called to heaven. Whatever you may have suffered, you have
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 10: done no evil. Death must be the punishment of crime,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 10: or the reward of trembling down the thorns which God
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 10: has strewed upon the path which leads to immortality.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 11: I death the punishment of crime. I pray thee God
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 11: let me not be bewildered while I judge. If I
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 11: must live day after day and keep these limbs the
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 11: unworthy temple of Thy spirit as a foul din from
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 11: which what thou a poorest may mock thee unavenged, it
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 11: shall not be self murder. No, that might be no escape,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 11: for thy decree yawns like a hell between our will
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 11: and it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 11: In this mortal world there is no vindication and no
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 11: law which can a judge and execute the doom of
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 11: that through which I suffer.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: Enter Orsino, She approaches him, solemnly.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 11: Welcome friend. I have to tell you that since last
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 11: we met, I have endured a wrong so great and
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 11: strange that neither life nor death can give me rest.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 11: Ask me not what it is, For there are deeds
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 11: which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 6: And what is he who has thus injured you?
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 11: The man they call my father a dread name.
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  Speaker 6: It cannot be.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 11: What it can be, or not forbear to think it is,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 11: And it has been adfinds me how it shall not
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 11: be again. I thought to die, but a religious awe
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 11: restrains me, and the dread lest death itself might be
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 11: no refuge from the consciousness of what it is yet unexpiated.
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  Speaker 6: Oh speak, accuse him of the deed, and let the
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 6: law avenge thee.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, I searted Counselor if I could find a word
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  Speaker 11: that might make known the crime of my destroyer, and
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 11: that done, my tongue should, like a knife tear out
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 11: the secret which cankers my heart's core. I lay all bare,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 11: so that my unpolluted fame should be with violest gossips,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 11: a stale mouthed story, a mock, a byword, an astonishment.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 11: If this were done, which never shall be done. Think
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 11: of the offender's gold, his dreaded hate, and the strange
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 11: horrors of the accuser's tale, baffling belief and overpowering speech,
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  Speaker 11: scarce whispered, unimaginable, wrapped in hideous hints. Oh, most assured.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 6: Redress, you will endure it, Then endure orsino.
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  Speaker 11: It seems your counsel is small.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: Prophet turns from him and speaks half to herself.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 11: I all must be suddenly resolved and done. What is
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 11: this undistinguishable mists of thoughts, which rise like shadow after shadow,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 11: darkening each other.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 6: Should the offender live triumph in his misdeed and make
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 6: by use his crime whatever it is dreadful, no doubt
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 6: thine element, until thou mayest become utterly lost, subdued even
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 6: to the hue of that which thou permittest.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: Beatrice to herself, lay.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 11: Death, thou double vision, shadow only judge rightfulest arbiter.
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  Speaker 1: She retires absorbed in thought.
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  Speaker 10: If the lightning of God has ever descended.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 6: To avenge blaspheme not his high providence committed glory on
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 6: this earth, and their own wrongs into the hands of
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 6: men if they neglect to punish crime.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 10: But if one like this wretch should mock with gold, opinion, law,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 10: and power. If there be no appeal to that which
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 10: makes the guiltiest tremble. If because our wrongs, for that
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 10: they are a natural, strange and monstrous, exceed all measure
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 10: of belief, Oh God, if for the very reasons which
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 10: should make redress most swift and sure, our injurer triumphs,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 10: and we the victims, bear worse punishment than that appointment
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 10: for their torturer.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 6: Think not but that there is redress where there is wrong,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 6: so we be bold enough to seize it.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 10: How if there were any way to make all sure?
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 10: I know not, but I think it might be good too.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 6: Why his late outraged to Beatrice? For it is such
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 6: as I, by faintly guess as makes remorse, dishonor, and
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 6: leaves her only one duty. How she may avenge you
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 6: but one refuge from ills ill endured me but one counsel.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 10: For we cannot hope that aid, or retribution or resource
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 10: will arise. Thence where every other one might find them
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 10: with less need.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 11: Beatrice advances, then, piece Orcino, an honored lady. While I speak,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 11: I pray that you put off as garments overworn forbearance
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 11: and respect, remorse and fear, and all the fit restraints
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 11: of daily life which have been borne from childhood, but
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 11: which now would be a mockery to my holier plea.
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  Speaker 11: As I have said, I have endured a wrong, which,
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 11: though it be expressionless, is such as asks atonement both
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 11: for what is past, and lest I be reserved day
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 11: after day to load with crimes and overburthened soul, and
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 11: be what ye can dream not? I have prayed to God,
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 11: and I have talked with my own heart, and have
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 11: unraveled my entangled will, and have at length determined what
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  Speaker 11: is right. Art thou, my friend, Orsino, false or true?
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  Speaker 11: Bledge thy salvation? Ere I speak.
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  Speaker 6: I swear to dedicate my cunning and my strength, my silence,
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  Speaker 6: and whatever else is mine to thy.
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  Speaker 1: Come.
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  Speaker 10: You think we should devise.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 11: His death and execute what is devised. And suddenly we
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 11: must be brief and bold.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 6: And yet most cautious, for.
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  Speaker 10: The jenous laws would punish us with death and infamy
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 10: for that which it became themselves to do.
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  Speaker 11: Be cautious as you may. But prompt Orsino, what are
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 11: the means?
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 6: I know too? Dull fierce outlaws who think men's spirit
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 6: as a worm's. And they would travel out for any
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 6: slight caprice, the meanest or the noblest life. This mood
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 6: is marketable here in Rome. They sell what we now want.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 10: Tomorrow, before dawn, Chen, she will take us to that
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 10: lonely rock Petrella in the Apulian Apennines.
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  Speaker 11: If he arrived there, he must not arrive.
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  Speaker 6: Will it be dark before you reach the tower.
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  Speaker 10: The sun will scarce be set.
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  Speaker 11: But I remember two miles on this side of the fort.
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  Speaker 11: The road crosses a deep ravine, tis rough and narrow,
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  Speaker 11: and winds with short turns down the precipice. And in
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 11: its depth there is a mighty rock which has from
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  Speaker 11: unimaginable years sustained itself with terror and with toil over
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 11: a gulf, and with the agony of which it clings
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 11: seems slowly coming down, even as a wretched soul, hour
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 11: after hour clings to the mass of life. Yet clinging leans,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 11: and leaning makes more dark the dread abyss in which
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 11: it fears to fall. Beneath this crag Hugh just despair,
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  Speaker 11: as if in weariness. The melancholy mountain yawns below you hear,
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  Speaker 11: but see not an impetuous torrent raging among the caverns.
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  Speaker 11: And a bridge crosses the chasm, and high above there
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  Speaker 11: grow with intersecting trunks from crag to crag, cedars and
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  Speaker 11: ewes and pines whose tangled hair is matted in one
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  Speaker 11: solid roof of shade by the dark Ivy's twine. At
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  Speaker 11: noonday here tis twilight, and at sunset blackest night.
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  Speaker 6: Before you reach that bridge makes some excuse for spurring
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  Speaker 6: on your mules or loitering until what sound.
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  Speaker 11: Is that huck.
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  Speaker 10: No, it cannot be a servants step. It must be Geny,
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  Speaker 10: unexpectedly returned, makes some excuse for being here.
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  Speaker 1: Beatrice to Orsino, as she goes out that.
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  Speaker 11: Step we hear approach must never pass the bridge of
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  Speaker 11: which we.
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  Speaker 1: Speak, Excellent Lucretia and Beatrice.
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  Speaker 6: What shall I do? Genji must find me here, and
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 6: I must bear the imperious inquisition of his looks as
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 6: to what brought me hither? Let me mask mine own
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 6: in some inane and vacant smile.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Jacomo in a hurried manner.
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  Speaker 6: Ah, have you ventured hither? Know you then that Jenshi
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 6: is from home?
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  Speaker 3: I sought him here and now must wait till he returns.
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  Speaker 6: Great God, wey you the danger of this rashness.
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  Speaker 3: I does my destroyer know his danger? We are now
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  Speaker 3: no more as once parent and child, but man to man,
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  Speaker 3: the oppressor to the oppressed, the slanderer to the slandered,
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  Speaker 3: foe to foe. He has cast nature off, which was
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: his shield, and nature casts him off? Who is her shame?
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 3: And I spurn both? Is it a f's throat which
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: I will shake and say? I ask not gold, I
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  Speaker 3: ask not happy years, nor memories of tranquil childhood, nor home.
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  Speaker 3: Shalt at love, though all these thou hast torn from
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  Speaker 3: me and more, but only my fair fame, only one
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  Speaker 3: horde of peace, which I thought hidden from thy hate
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  Speaker 3: under the penury heaped on me by thee or I
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  Speaker 3: will God can understand and pardon. Why should I speak
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  Speaker 3: with man? Be calm, dear friend, Well, I will calmly
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  Speaker 3: tell you what he did. This old Francesco Cenci, as
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 3: you know, borrowed the dowry of my wife from me,
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  Speaker 3: and then denied the lone and left me so in poverty,
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  Speaker 3: the which I sought to mend by holding a poor
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  Speaker 3: off in the state it had been promised to me.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 3: And already I bought new clothing for my ragged babes,
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 3: and my wife smiled. My heart new repose when changes intercession,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 3: as I found, conferred this office on a wretch, whom
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 3: thus he paid for vilest service. I returned with this
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 3: ill news, and we sat sad together, solacing our despondency
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: with tears of such affection and unbroken faith as temper
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 3: life's worst bitterness. When he as he is wont came
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 3: to upbraid and curse mocking our poverty, telling us such
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 3: was God's courage for disobedient sons, and then that I
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 3: might strike him dumb with shame. I spoke of my
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 3: wife's dowry, but he coin'd a brief yet specious tale
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  Speaker 3: of how I had wasted the sum in secret riot.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 3: And he saw my wife was touched, and he went
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 3: smiling forth. And when I knew the impression he had made,
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  Speaker 3: I felt my wife insult with silent scorn my ardent truth,
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  Speaker 3: and look averse and cold. I went forth too, but
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  Speaker 3: soon returned again. Yet not so soon but that my
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  Speaker 3: wife had taught my children her harsh thoughts, And they
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 3: all cried, give us clothes, father, give us better food.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 3: What you, in one night's squander were enough For months
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 3: I looked and saw that home was hell. And to
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 3: that hell will I return no more until mine enemy
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 3: has rendered up atonement, or as he gave life to me,
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 3: I will reversing Nature's law.
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  Speaker 6: Trust me, the compensation which thou seekest hear will be denied.
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  Speaker 3: Then are you not, my friend? Did you not hint
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  Speaker 3: at the alternative upon the brink of which you see
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 3: I stand? The other day, when we conversed together my
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 3: wrongs were then less. The word parricide, although I am resolved,
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 3: haunts me like fear.
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  Speaker 6: It must be fear itself, for the bare word is hollow, mockery,
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  Speaker 6: mar our wisest God draws to one point the threads
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  Speaker 6: of a just doom, so sanctifying it. What you devise
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 6: is as it were accomplished.
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  Speaker 3: Is he dead?
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  Speaker 6: His grave is ready? Know that since we met, chen
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 6: Chi has done an outrage to his daughter. What outrage
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  Speaker 6: that she speaks not, But you may conceive such half
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 6: conjectures as I do, from her fixed paleness and the
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 6: lofty grief of her stern brow bent on the idle air,
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  Speaker 6: and her severe, unmodulated voice, drowning both tenderness and dread.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 6: And last from this that whilst her step mother and I,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 6: bewildered in our horror, talked together with obscure hints, both
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 6: self misunderstood and darkly guessing, stumbling in our talk over
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 6: the truth, and yet to its revenge, she interrupted us,
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 6: and with a look which told before she spoke it
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  Speaker 6: he must die.
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  Speaker 3: It is enough, my doubt, so well appeased. There is
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 3: a higher reason for the act than mine. There is
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 3: a wholier judge than me, a more unblamed avenger, Beatrice, who,
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 3: in the gentleness of thy sweet youth, hast never trodden
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  Speaker 3: on a worm or bruised a living flower, but thou
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 3: hast pitied it with needless tears, Fair sister, thou in
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 3: whom men wondered how such loveliness and wisdom did not
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 3: destroy each other? Is there made ravage of thee, Oh heart,
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 3: I ask no more justification. Shall I wait or see
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 3: no till he return and stab him at the door?
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 6: Not so some accident might interpose to rescue him from
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 6: what is now most sure. And you are unprovided where
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 6: to fly, how to excuse, or to conceal. Nay, listen,
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 6: all is contrived. Success is so assured that enter Beatrice.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 11: Tis my brother's voice.
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  Speaker 3: You know me, not my sister, my lost sister lost.
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  Speaker 11: Indeed, I see Orsino has talked with you, and that
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 11: you conjecture things too horrible to speak, yet far less
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 11: than the truth. Now stay not he might return, yet
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 11: kiss me. I shall know that then thou hast consented
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 11: to his death. Farewell, farewell led piety to God, brotherly love,
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 11: justice and clemency, and all things that make tender hardest
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 11: hearts make thine hard brother, answer not farewell.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent severally Scene two, a mean apartment in Jacomo's house,
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  Speaker 1: Jack Como.
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  Speaker 3: Alone tis midnight, and our seen now comes not.
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  Speaker 1: Yet thunder and the sound of a storm.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 3: What can the everlasting elements feel with a worm like man?
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 3: If so the shaft of mercy winged lightning would not
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 3: fall on stones and trees, My wife and children sleep,
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 3: They are now living in unmeaning dreams. But I must wake,
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 3: still doubting if that deed be just? Which is most necessary?
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 3: Oh thou unreplenished lamp, whose narrow fire is shaken by
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 3: the wind, and on whose edge devouring darkness hovers ou
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 3: small flame, which as a dying pulse rises and falls,
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 3: still flickers up and down. How very soon did I
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 3: not feed thee? Wouldst thou fail and be as thou
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 3: hadst never been? So wastes and sinks even now? Perhaps
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 3: the life that kindled mine, but that no power can
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 3: fill with vital oil. That broken lamp of flesh. Ha
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 3: tis the blood which fed these veins that ebbs till
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 3: all is cold. It is the form that molded mine,
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 3: that sinks into the white and yellow spasms of death.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 3: It is the soul by which mine was arrayed in
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 3: God's immortal likeness, which now stands naked before Heaven's judgment.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 10: Seat Ah one, AH.
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  Speaker 1: Two.
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  Speaker 3: The hours crawl on, and when my hairs are white,
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 3: my son will then perhaps be waiting, thus tortured between
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 3: just hate and vain remorse, chiding the tardy messenger of
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 3: news like those which I expect. I almost wish he
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 3: be not dead, although my wrongs are great. Yet tis
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 3: Orsino's step, Enter Orsino.
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  Speaker 6: Speak, I am come to say he has escaped, escaped
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 6: and safe within patrella. He passed by the spot appointed
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 6: for the deed an hour too soon?
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 3: Are we the fools of such contingencies? And do we
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 3: waste in blind misgivings? Thus the hours when we should act?
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 3: Then wind and thunder, which seemed to howl his knell,
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 3: is the loud laughter with which Heaven mocks our weakness.
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  Speaker 3: I henceforth will ne'er repent of aught design'd or done.
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  Speaker 3: But my repentance.
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  Speaker 6: See the lamp is out.
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  Speaker 3: If no remorse is ours, then the dim air has
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 3: drank this innocent flame. Why should we quail when Chench's
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  Speaker 3: life that light by which ill spirits see the worst
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 3: deeds they prompt shall sink forever. No I am hardened.
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  Speaker 6: Why what need of this? Who feared the pale intrusion
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 6: of remorse in a just deed? Although our first plan failed,
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 6: doubt not, But he will soon be laid to rest.
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  Speaker 6: But light the lamp. Let us not talk in the dark,
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  Speaker 6: Jacomo lighting the lamp.
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  Speaker 3: And yet, once quenched, I cannot thus relume my father's life.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 3: Do you not think his ghost might plead that argument
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 3: with God?
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  Speaker 6: A Once gone? You cannot now recall your sister's peace,
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 6: your own distinguished years of youth and hope, nor your
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 6: wife's bitter words, nor are the taunts which from the
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 6: prosperous weak misfortune takes, nor your dead mother, nor.
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  Speaker 3: Oh speak no more. I am resolved. Although this very
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 3: hand must quench the life that animated it, there.
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  Speaker 6: Is no need of that.
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  Speaker 1: Listen.
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  Speaker 6: You know Olympio, the castellon of Petroula in old Colonna's time,
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 6: him whom your father degraded from his post. And Marzio,
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 6: that desperate wretch whom he deprived last year of a
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 6: reward of blood well earned. And doe.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 3: I knew Olympio, and they say he hated old Chenchi,
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 3: so that in his silent rage his lips grew white,
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 3: only to see him pass of Marzio. I know nothing.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 6: Martio's hate mages, Olympio's. I have sent these men, but
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 6: in your name, and as at your request, to talk
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 6: with Beatrice and Lucretia, only to talk. The moments which
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 6: even now pass onward to tomorrow's midnight hour, may memorize
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 6: their flight with death. Ere then they must have talked,
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 6: and may perhaps have done and made an end.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 3: Listen, what sound is that?
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 6: The house dog moans, and the beams crack, nothing else.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 3: It is my wife complaining in her sleep.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 8: I doubt not.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 3: She is saying bitter things of me and all my
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 3: children round her, dreaming that I deny them sustenance.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 6: Whilst he who truly took it from them, and who
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 6: fills their hungry rest with bitterness, now sleeps lapped in
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 6: bad pleasures and triumphantly marks the visions of successful hate
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 6: to like the truth of day.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 3: If ere he wakes again, I will not trust to
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 3: hireling hands.
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 6: Why that will well? I must be gone good night.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 6: When next we meet, may all be done.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 3: And all forgotten. Oh that I had never been.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent. End of the third act, Act for of the
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: Chenche by Percy Biss Shelley. This is a LibriVox recording.
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Act four,
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: Scene one, an apartment in the castle of Petrella. Enter Chenchi.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 2: She comes not yet I left her, Even now vanquished
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 2: and faint. She knows the penalty of her delay. Yet
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 2: what if threats are vain and I not now within
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: Petrella's moat, were fear I still the eyes and ears
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 2: of Rome. Might I not drag her by the golden hair,
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 2: stamp on her, keep her sleepless till her brain be overworn,
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 2: tame her with chains and famine. Less would suffice? Yet
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: so to leave undone what I most seek No tis
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 2: her stubborn will, which by its own consent shall stoop
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 2: a as low as that which drags it down.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Lucretia, Thou.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 2: Loathed wretch, Hide thee from my abhorrence. Fly begone, yet stay,
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: bid Beetricy, come hither, o husband.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 10: I pray for thine own wretched sake. Heed what thou
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 10: dost A man who walks like THEE through crimes, and
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 10: through the danger of his crimes. Each hour may stumble
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 10: over sudden grave, and thou art old thy hairs a
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 10: hoary gray, as thou wouldst save thyself from death and hell.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 10: Pity thy daughter. Give her to some friend in marriage,
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 10: so that she may tempt THEE not to hatred or
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 10: worse thoughts.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 2: If worse there be, what like her sister, who has
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 2: found a home to mark my hate from with prosperity.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 2: Strange ruin shall destroy both her and THEE and all
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: that yet remain. My death may be rapid, her destiny
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 2: outspeeds it. Go, Bid her come hither, and before my
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 2: mood be changed, lest I should drag her by the hair.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 10: She sent me to thee husband at thy presence, she fell,
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 10: as thou dost know, into a trance. And in that
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 10: trance she heard a voice which said, chance, she must die.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 10: Let him confess himself. Even now the accusing angel waits
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 10: to hear if God to punish his enormous crimes heard
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 10: in his dying.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: Heart, why such things are no doubt divine revealings may
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: be made. Tis plain I have been favored from above,
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: for when I cursed my sons, they died. Aye, so
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 2: as to the right or wrong, That's talk repentance. Repentance
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: is an easy moments work, and more depends on God
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 2: than me. Well, well, I must give up the greater point,
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 2: which was to poison and corrupt her soul.
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  Speaker 1: A pause, Lucretia approaches anxiously, and then shrinks back as
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: he speaks One.
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  Speaker 2: Two I Racco and Cristofano, my curse strangled, and Giacomo,
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 2: I think will find life a worse hell than that
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: beyond the grave be a treacy, shall if there be
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 2: skill and hate, die and despair, blaspheming to Bernardo, he
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 2: is so innocent, I will bequeath the memory of these
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 2: deeds and make his youth the sepulcher of hope, where
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 2: evil thoughts shall grow like weeds on a neglected tomb
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: is done out in the wide Campanna. I will pile
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 2: up my silver and my gold, my costly robes, paintings
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: and tapestries, my parchments, and all records of my wealth,
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 2: and make a bonfire in my joy, and leave of
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 2: my possessions nothing but my name, which shall be it
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 2: inheritance to strip its wearer bare as infamy that done
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 2: my soul, which is a scourge? Will I resign into
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: the hands of him who wielded it, get for its
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 2: own punishment or theirs. He will not ask it of
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 2: me till the lash be broken in its last and
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 2: deepest wound, until its hate be all inflicted. Yet, lest
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 2: death outspeed my purpose, let me make short work and shore.
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  Speaker 1: Going. Lucretia stops him.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 10: Oh, stay, it was a faint. She had no vision,
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 10: and she heard no voice. I said it. But to all.
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 2: Thee that is well vile palterer with the sacred truth
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 2: of God, be thy soul choked with that blaspheming lie,
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 2: for be it treachy. Worse terrors are in store to
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 2: bend her to my will.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 10: Oh to what will? What cruel sufferings more than she
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 10: has known? Canst thou inflict?
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 2: Andrea, Go call my daughter, And if she comes, not
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 2: tell her that I come what sufferings? I will drag
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 2: her step by step through infamies unheard of among men.
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 2: She shall stand shelterless in the broad noon of public scorn,
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 2: for axe blazoned abroad, one among which shall be what
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 2: canst thou guess? She shall become? For what she most abhors,
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 2: shall have a fascination to entrap her loathing will to
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 2: her own conscious self all she appears to others. And
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 2: when dead, as she shall die, unshrived and unforgiven, a
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 2: rebel to her father and her God. Her corpse shall
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 2: be abandoned to the hounds. Her name shall be the
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 2: terror of the earth. Her spirit shall approach the throne
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 2: of God plague spotted with my curses. I will make
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 2: body and soul a monstrous lump of ruin.
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: And to Andrea, Lady Beatrice.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 2: Speak, pale slave, What said she, my lord?
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: Twas what she looked? She said, Go tell my father
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: that I see the gulf of hell between us two,
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: which he may pass.
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 2: I will not exit, Andrea, Go thou quick, Lucretia, tell
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 2: her to come. Yet let her understand her coming is consent,
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 2: and say moreover that there she come, not I will
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 2: curse her.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: Exit.
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 2: Lucretia, ha with what but with a father's curse? Doth
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 2: God panic strike armed victory and make pale cities in
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 2: their prosperity. The world's father must grant a parent's prayer
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 2: against his child. But he who asks even what men
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: call me, will not the deaths of her rebellious brothers
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 2: awe her before I speak, for I on them, did
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 2: imprecate quick ruin? And it came.
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: Enter Lucretia.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: Well, what speak, wretch?
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 10: She said, I cannot come. Go tell my father that
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 10: I see a torrent of his own blood raging between us.
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: Chenchi kneeling, God, hear me.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 2: If this most specious mass of flesh which thou hast
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 2: made my daughter, this my blood, this particle of my
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 2: divided being, or rather this my bane and my disease,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 2: whose sight infects and poisons me. This devil, which sprung
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 2: from me as from a hell, was meant to aught
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 2: good use. If her bright loveliness was kindled to illumine
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 2: this dark world. If nursed by thy selectestdow of love,
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 2: some virtues blossom in her, as should make the peace
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 2: of life. I pray THEE for my sake, as Thou,
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 2: the common God and Father, art of her and me
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 2: and all reverse that doom earth in the name of God.
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 2: Let her food be poison till she be encrusted round
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 2: with leprous stains. Heaven rain upon her head the blistering
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 2: drops of the merrimas do till she be speckled like
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 2: a toad. Parch up those love and kindled lips, warp
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 2: those fine limbs to loathed lameness. All beholding sun. Strike
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 2: in thine envy those life darting eyes with thine own
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 2: blinding beams.
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 10: Peace, Peace for thine own sake. Unsay those dreadful words.
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 10: When High God grants, he punishes such prayers.
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: Chen shei leaping up and throwing his right hand and
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: towards heaven, he.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 2: Does his will. I mine this in addition that if
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 2: she have.
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 10: A child, herd the thought.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 2: That if she ever have a child, and thou quick nature,
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 2: I adjure thee by thy God, that Thou'll be fruitful
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 2: in her and increase and multiply fulfilling his command. And
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 2: my deep imprecation may be a hideous likeness of herself,
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 2: that as from a distorting mirror, she may see her
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 2: image mixed with what she most abhors, smiling upon her
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 2: from her nursing breast, And that the child may, from
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 2: its infancy, grow day by day more wicked and deformed,
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: turning her mother's love to misery, And that both she
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 2: and it may live until it shall repay her care
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 2: and pain with hate, or what may else be more
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 2: unknown actual, so he may hunt her through the clamorous
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 2: scoffs of the loud world to a dishonored grave. Shall
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 2: I revoke this curse? Go, bid her come before my
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 2: words are chronicled in heaven.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: Exit Lucretia.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 2: I do not feel as if I were a man,
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 2: but like a fiend appointed to chastise the offenses of
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 2: some unremembered world. My blood is running up and down
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 2: my veins. The fearful pleasure makes it prick and tingle.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 2: I feel a giddy sickness of strange awe. My heart
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 2: is beating with an expectation of horrid joy.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: Enter Lucretia.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 11: What speak?
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 10: She bids THEE curse? And if thy curses, as they
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 10: cannot do, could kill her soul.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 2: She would not come. Tis well, I can do both.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: First take what I demand, and then extort concession to
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 2: thy chamber. Fly Ere I spurn THEE, and beware this
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 2: night that thou cross not my footsteps. It were safer
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 2: to come between the tiger and his prey.
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 1: Exit Lucretia.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 2: It must be late. Mine eyes grow weary, dim with
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 2: unaccustomed heaviness of sleep conscience, Oh thou, most insolent of lies.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 2: They say that sleep, that healing dew of heaven, steeps
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 2: not in balm the foldings of the brain, which thinks
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 2: thee an impostor. I will go first to belie thee
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 2: with an hour of rest, which will be deep and
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 2: calm I feel. And then, oh, moltudinous hell, the fiendans
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 2: will shake thine arches with the laughter of their joy.
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 2: There shall be lamentation heard in heaven as o'er an
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 2: angel fallen, and upon earth all good shall droop and
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 2: sicken in ill things shall, with the spirit of unnatural life,
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 2: stir and be quickened. Even as I am.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: Now exit, seen too before the castle of Petrella, enter
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: Beatrice and Lucretia. Above on the ramparts.
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 11: They come not yet to sciss midnight. How slow behind
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 11: the course of thought, even sick with speed lags leaden
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 11: footed time, the minutes pass.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 10: If he should wake before the deed is done.
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 11: Oh mother, he must never wake again. What thou hast
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 11: said persuades me that our act will but dislodge a
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 11: spirit of deep hell a human form tis true.
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 10: He spoke of death and judgment with strange confidence, for
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 10: one so wicked as a man believing in God, yet
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 10: wrecking not of good or ill, and yet to die
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 10: without confession.
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 11: Oh, believe that Heaven is merciful and just, and will
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 11: not add her dread necessity to the amount of his offenses.
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: Enter Olympio and Marzio below.
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 10: See they come.
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 11: All mortal things must hasten us to their dark end.
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: Let us go down, excellent Lucretia and Beatrice from above?
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 8: How feel you to this work?
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 9: As one who thinks a thousand crown's excellent market price
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 9: for an old murderer's life? Your cheeks are pale.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 8: It is the white reflection of your own which you
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 8: call pale.
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 9: Is that there natural hue?
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 8: Ortis my hate and the deferred desire to wreak it
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 8: which extinguishes their blood.
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 9: You are inclined then, to this business?
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 8: Ay, if one should bribe me with a thousand crowns
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 8: to kill a serpent which had stung my child, I
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 8: could not be more willing.
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: Enter Beatrice and Lucretia below.
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 11: Noble ladies, are ye resolved?
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 8: Is he asleep?
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 9: Is all quiet?
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 10: I mixed and opiate with his drink. He sleeps so soundly.
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 11: That his death will be but as a change of sin,
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 11: chastising dreams, a dark continuance of the hell within him,
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 11: which God extinguish. But ye are resolved. You know it
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 11: is a high and holy deed.
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 8: We are resolved.
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 9: As to how this act be warranted? Rests with you?
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 8: Well, follow, hush, hark What noise is that?
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 9: Ah? Someone comes?
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 11: Ye conscious, stricken cravens, rock to rest your baby hearts.
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 11: It is the iron gate which he left open, swinging
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 11: to the wind, that enters, whistling as in scorn. Come
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 11: follow and be your steps like mine, light, quick and bold.
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: Excellent Scene three an apartment in the castle. Enter Beatrice
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: and Lucretia.
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 10: They are about it now.
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 11: Nay, it is done.
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 10: I have not heard him grown.
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 11: He will not groan.
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 10: What sound is that?
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 11: Liszt tis the tread of feet about his bed?
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: My god?
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 10: If he be now a cold, stiff corpse.
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 11: Oh fear not what may be done? But what is
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 11: left undone? The act seals all.
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: Enter Olympio and Marzio.
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 11: Is it accomplished?
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 8: What did you not call?
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 11: When?
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 8: Now?
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 11: I ask? If all is over?
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 8: We dare not kill an old and sleeping man, his
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 8: thin gray hair, his stern and reverent brow, his veined
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 8: hands crossed on his heaving breast, and the calm, innocent
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 8: sleep in which he lay quelled me. Indeed, indeed, I
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 8: cannot do it.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 9: But I was bolder, for I chied Olympio and bade
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 9: him bear his wrongs to his own grave and leave
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 9: me the reward. And now my knife touched the loose,
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 9: wrinkled throat when the old man stirred in his sleep
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 9: and said, God, here, oh, here, a father's curse. What
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 9: art thou not our father? And then he laughed. I
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 9: knew it was the ghost of my dead father speaking
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 9: through his lips, and could not kill him.
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 11: Miserable slaves, Where if you dare not kill a sleeping man,
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 11: found you the boldness to return to me with such
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 11: a deed? Undone bass, palterers, cowards and traitors? Why the
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 11: very conscience which she would sell for golden for revenge
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 11: is an equivocation. It sleeps over a thousand daily acts
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 11: disgracing men, and when, indeed, where mercy insults heaven? Why
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 11: do I.
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: Talk snatching a dagger from one of them and raising.
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 11: It, hadst thou a tongue to say she murdered her
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 11: own father. I must do it, but never dream ye
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 11: shall outlive him.
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 8: Long stop for God's sake.
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 9: I they will go back and kill him.
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 8: Give me the weapon we must do.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 4: Thy will take it.
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: Depart, return excient Olympio and Marcio.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 11: How pale thou art we do that which tore a
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 11: deadly crime to leave undone would it would done? Even
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 11: whilst that doubt is passing through your mind. The world
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 11: is conscious of a change. Darkness and hell have swallowed
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 11: up the vapor they sent forth to blacken the sweet
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 11: light of life. My breath comes, methinks lighter, and the
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 11: jellied blood runs freely through my veins.
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: Hark enter, Olympio and Marcio.
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 8: He is dead.
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 9: We strangled him that there might be no blood, and
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 9: then we threw his heavy corpse in the garden under
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 9: the balcony. We will seem it.
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: Fell Beatrice giving them a bag of coin.
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 11: Here, take this gold and hasten to your homes. And Marzio,
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 11: because thou wast only awed by that which made me tremble,
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 11: where thou.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: This clothes him in a rich mantle.
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 11: It was the mantle which my grandfather wore in his
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 11: high prosperity, and men envied his state. So may they
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 11: envy thine. Thou wert a weapon in the hand of
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 11: God to a just use, Live long, and thrive, and
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 11: mark if thou hast crimes, repent this deed is none.
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 10: Uck dis the casson, my God. It sounds like the
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 10: last trump.
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 11: Some tedious guest is coming.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 10: The drawbridge is let down. There is a tramp of
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 10: horses in the court.
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: Fly hide yourselves, Exciant, Olympio and Marzio.
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 11: Let us retire to counterfeit deep reast, I scarcely need
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 11: to counterfeit it. Now the spirit which doth reign within
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 11: these limbs seems strangely undisturbed. I could even sleep, fearless
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 11: and calm. All ill is surely.
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: Past, Excillant. Scene four, another apartment in the castle. Enter
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: on one side the leg at Savella, introduced by a servant,
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: and on the other Lucretia and Bernardo.
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 4: Lady.
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 7: My duty to his Holiness be my excuse that thus
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 7: unseasonably I break upon your rest. I must speak with
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 7: Count Chenchi. Doth he sleep?
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: Lucretia in a hurried and confused manner.
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 10: I think he sleeps, Yet wake him not I pray
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 10: spare me a while he is a wicked and a
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 10: wrathful man. Should he be roused out of his sleep
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 10: to night, which is I know a hell of angry dreams?
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 10: Twere not well? Indeed it were not well. Wait till
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 10: daybreak aside. Oh, I am deadly sick.
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 7: I grieve thus to distress you. But the Count must
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 7: answer charges of the gravest import And suddenly such my
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 7: commission need.
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: Is Lucretia with increased agitation.
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 10: I dare not rouse him. I know none who dare
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 10: twa a perilous you might as safely waken a serpent
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 10: or a corpse in which some fiend were late to sleep.
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 7: Lady, my moments here accounted, I must rouse him from
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 7: his sleep, since no one else.
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: Deare Lucretia aside? Oh terror, Oh despair to Bernardo.
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 10: Bernardo, conduct you the lord leggate to your father's chamber.
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: Exeyon, Savella and Bernardo enter Beatrice.
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 11: 'tis a messenger come to arrest the culprit who now
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 11: stands before the throne of unappealable God, both heaven and
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 11: Earth consenting arbiters acquit our.
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 10: Deed, Oh, agony of fear, would that ye yet might live.
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 10: Even now I heard the legates follow as whisper as
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 10: they passed. They had a warrant for his instant death.
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 10: All was prepared by unforbidden means, which we must pay
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 10: so dearly. Having done. Even now they search the tower
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 10: and find the body. Now they suspect the truth. Now
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 10: they consult before they come to text us with the fact.
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 10: Horrible tis all iscovered.
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 11: Mother. What is done wisely is done well. Be bold,
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 11: as thou art, just tis like a truant child to
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 11: fear that others know what thou hast done, even from
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 11: thine own strong consciousness, And thus write on unsteady eyes
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 11: and altered cheeks all thou would'st tide. Be faithful to thyself,
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 11: and fear no other witness but thy fear, For if,
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 11: as cannot be, some circumstance should rise in accusation, we
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 11: can blind suspicion with such cheap astonishment, or overbear it
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 11: with such guiltless pride as murderers cannot feign. The deed
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 11: is done, and what may follow now regards not me.
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 11: I am as universal as the light, free as the
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 11: earth surrounding air, as firm as the world's center, consequence
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 11: to me is the wind which strikes the solid rock
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 11: but shakes it.
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: Not a cry within and t tumult murder, murder, murder,
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: Enter Bernardo and Savella, Savella to his followers.
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 7: Go search the castle round Sudrey, alarm, look to the gates,
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 7: that none escape.
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 11: What now?
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 4: I know not what to say. My father's dead?
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 11: How dead? He only sleeps, you mistake, brother. His sleep
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 11: is very calm, very like death. Tis wonderful, how well
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 11: a tyrant sleeps. He is not dead.
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: Dead murdered, Lucretia with extreme agitation.
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 10: Oh no, no, he is not murdered, though he may
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 10: be dead. I have a loaned the keys of those apartments.
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 11: Huh it so, my lord, I pray, excuse us, we
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 11: will retire. My mother is not well. She seems quite
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 11: overcome with this strange horror.
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 1: Excellent, Lucretia and Beatrice.
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 7: Can you suspect who may have murdered him?
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 4: I know not what to think.
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 7: Can you name any who had an interest.
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 4: In his death? Alas I can name none who had not,
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 4: and those most who most lament that such a deed
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 4: is done. My mother, my sister, and myself.
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 7: Tis strange. There were clear marks of violence. I found
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 7: the old man's body in the moonlight, hanging beneath the
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 7: window of his chamber, among the branches of a pine.
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 7: He could not have fallen there, for all his limbs
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 7: lay heaped and effortless. Tis true there was no blood
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 7: favor me, sir. It much imports your house that all
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 7: to be made clear. To tell the ladies that I
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 7: request their presence.
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 1: Exit Bernardo, enter gods, bringing in Marzio.
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 12: We have one, my lord.
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 5: We found this ruffian and another lurking among the rocks.
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 5: There is no doubt but that they are the murderers
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 5: of Count chen Chi. Each had a bag of coin.
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 5: This fellow wore a golden woven robe, which, shining bright
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 5: under the dark rocks to the glimmering moon, betrayed them
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 5: to our notice. The other fell desperately fighting.
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 7: What does he confess?
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 5: He keeps firm silence, But these lines found on him
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 5: may speak their language.
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 7: Is at least sincere reads to the lady Beatrice, that
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 7: the atonement of what my nature sickens to conjecture may
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 7: soon arrive. I send thee at thy brother's desire, those
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 7: who will speak and do more than I dare write.
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 7: Thy devoted servant, or Sino.
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: And to Lucretia. Beatrice and Bernardo.
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 7: Knowest thou this writing, Lady, No, nor thou Lucretia.
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 1: Her conduct throughout the scene is marked by extreme agitation.
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 10: Where was it found? What is it? It should be
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 10: Orsino's hand. It speaks of that strange horror which never
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 10: yet found utterance, but which made between that hapless child
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 10: and her dead father a gulf of obscure hatred?
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 7: Is it so? Is it true, lady, that thy father
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 7: did such outrages as to awaken in thee unfilial hate.
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 11: Not hate twas more than hate. This is most true?
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 11: Yet wherefore question me?
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 7: That is a deed demanding question done? Thou hast a
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 7: secret which will answer?
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: Not?
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 11: What sayest? My Lord? Your words are bold and rash.
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  Speaker 7: I do arrest all present in the name of the
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  Speaker 7: Pope's holiness. You must to Rome, oh not Rome.
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  Speaker 10: Indeed, we are not guilty.
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  Speaker 11: Guilty who dares talk of guilt? My Lord? I am
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  Speaker 11: more innocent of paracite than is a child born fatherless.
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  Speaker 11: Dear mother, Your gentleness and patience are no shield for
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  Speaker 11: this keen judging world, this two edged lie, which seems
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  Speaker 11: but is not what will human laws. Rather, will ye
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  Speaker 11: who are their ministers, bar all access to retribution first?
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  Speaker 11: And then when Heaven doth interpose to do what ye
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  Speaker 11: neglect arming familiar things to the redress of an unwonted crime,
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  Speaker 11: Make ye the victims who demanded its culprits? Tis ye,
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  Speaker 11: are the culprits that poor wretch who stands so pale
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  Speaker 11: and trembling and amazed. If it be true he murdered
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  Speaker 11: chen Chi was a sword in the right hand of
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  Speaker 11: justice God. Wherefore should I have wielded it? Unless the
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  Speaker 11: crimes which mortal tongue dare never name. God therefore scruples
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  Speaker 11: to avenge.
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  Speaker 7: You own that you desired his death.
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  Speaker 11: It would have been a crime no less than his
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  Speaker 11: if for one moment that fierce desire had faded in
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  Speaker 11: my heart. Tis true, I did believe and hope and pray.
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  Speaker 11: I I even knew, for God is wise and just
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  Speaker 11: that so strange sudden death hung over him. Tis true
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  Speaker 11: that this did happen, And most true, there was no
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  Speaker 11: other rest for me on earth, no other hope in Heaven.
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  Speaker 7: Now what of this strange thoughts beget strange deeds? And
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  Speaker 7: hear of both. I judge thee not.
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  Speaker 11: And yet if you arrest me, you are the judge
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  Speaker 11: and executioner of that which is the life of life.
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  Speaker 11: The breath of accusation kills an innocent name and leaves
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  Speaker 11: for lame acquittal the poor life, which is a mask.
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  Speaker 11: Without it, tis most false that I am guilty of
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  Speaker 11: foul parricide, although I must rejoice for justice cause that
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  Speaker 11: other hands have sent my father's soul to ask the
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  Speaker 11: mercy he denied to me. Now leave us free. Stay
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  Speaker 11: not a noble house with vague surmises of rejected crime.
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  Speaker 11: Add to our sufferings and your own neglect. No heavier sae.
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  Speaker 11: Let them have been enough, Leave us the wreck we have.
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  Speaker 7: I dare not, lady. I pray that you prepare yourselves
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  Speaker 7: for Rome. There the Pope's further pleasure will be known.
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  Speaker 10: Oh not to Rome, Oh take us not to Rome?
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  Speaker 11: Why not to Rome? Dear mother, there as here our
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  Speaker 11: innocence is as an armed heel to trample accusation. God
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  Speaker 11: is there as here, and with his shadow ever closed,
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  Speaker 11: the innocent, the injured, and the weak as such are
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  Speaker 11: we cheer up. Dear lady, lean on me collect your
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  Speaker 11: wandering thoughts, my lord. As soon as you have taken
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  Speaker 11: some refreshment and had all examinations made upon the spot
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  Speaker 11: as may be necessary to the full understanding of this matter,
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  Speaker 11: we shall be ready. Mother. Will you come, They will
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  Speaker 11: bind us.
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  Speaker 10: To the wreck and rest self accusation from our agony.
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  Speaker 10: Will Jacob will be there, Oh see you, no Marcio,
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  Speaker 10: All present, all confronted, all demanding each from the other's countenance,
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  Speaker 10: the thing which is in every heart, Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Misery, She faints and is born out.
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  Speaker 7: She faints an ill appearance.
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  Speaker 11: This, my lord, She knows not yet the uses of
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  Speaker 11: the world. She fears that power is as a beast
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  Speaker 11: which grasps and loosens, not a snake, whose look transmutes
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  Speaker 11: all things to guilt, which is its nutriment. She cannot
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  Speaker 11: know how well the supine slaves of blind authority read
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  Speaker 11: the truth of things when written on a brow of guilelessness.
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  Speaker 11: She sees not yet triumphant innocence stand at the judgment
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  Speaker 11: seat of mortal man, a judge and an accuser of
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  Speaker 11: the wrong which drags it there. Prepare yourself, my lord,
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  Speaker 11: are suite, will join yours in the court below.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent end of the fourth Act, Act five of the
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  Speaker 1: Chenchi by Percy bish Shelley. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Act five,
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  Speaker 1: Scene one, an apartment in Orsino's palace, enter Orsino and Jacomo.
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  Speaker 3: To evil deeds thus quickly come to end. Oh that
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  Speaker 3: the vain remorse which must chastise crimes done, had Butter's
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  Speaker 3: lowed a voice to warn as it's his keen sting
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  Speaker 3: is mortal to avenge. Oh that the hour, when present,
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  Speaker 3: had cast off the mantle of its mystery and shown
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  Speaker 3: the ghastly form with which it now returns when its
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  Speaker 3: scared game is roused, cheering the hounds of conscience to
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  Speaker 3: their prey. Alas, alas it was a wicked thought, a
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  Speaker 3: piteous deed, to kill an old and hoary headed father.
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  Speaker 6: It has turned out unluckily in truth.
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  Speaker 3: To violate the sacred doors of sleep, to cheat kind
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  Speaker 3: nature of the placid death which she prepares for overwearied age,
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  Speaker 3: to drag from heaven an unrepentant soul which might have
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  Speaker 3: quenched in reconciling prayers a life of burning crimes.
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  Speaker 6: You cannot say I urged you to the deed.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, had I never found in thy smooth and ready
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  Speaker 3: countenance the mirror of my darkest thoughts. Hadst Thou, never,
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  Speaker 3: with hints and questions, made me look upon the monster
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  Speaker 3: of my thought until it grew familiar to desire tears.
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  Speaker 6: Thus men cast the blame of their unprosperous acts upon
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  Speaker 6: the abettors, of their own resolve, or anything but their weak,
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  Speaker 6: guilty selves, And yet confess the truth. It is the
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  Speaker 6: peril in which you stand gives you this pale sickness
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  Speaker 6: of penitence. Confess tis fear disguised from its own shame,
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  Speaker 6: that takes the mantle now of thin remorse. What if
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  Speaker 6: we yet were safe?
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  Speaker 3: How can that be? Already Beatrice, Lucretia, and the murderer
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  Speaker 3: are in prison, I doubt not. Officers are whilst we speak,
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  Speaker 3: sent to arrest us.
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  Speaker 6: I have all prepared for instant flight. We can escape
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  Speaker 6: even now. So we take fleet occasion by the hair.
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  Speaker 3: Rather expire in tortures as I may. What will you cast,
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  Speaker 3: by self accusing flight assured conviction upon Beatrice, She who
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  Speaker 3: alone in this unnatural work stands like God's angel, ministered
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  Speaker 3: upon by fiends, avenging such a nameless wrong as turns
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  Speaker 3: black parricide to piety. Whilst we for basest ends I fear,
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  Speaker 3: orso while I consider all your words and looks, comparing
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  Speaker 3: them with your proposal, now that you must be a villain,
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  Speaker 3: For what end could you engage in such a perilous crime,
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  Speaker 3: training me on with hints and signs and smiles even
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  Speaker 3: to this gulf. Thou art no life. No thou art
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  Speaker 3: a lie, traitor and murderer, coward and slave. But no
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  Speaker 3: defend thyself, drawing, let the sword speak what the indignant
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  Speaker 3: tongue disdains to brand thee with.
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  Speaker 6: Put up your weapon? Is it the desperation of your
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  Speaker 6: fear that makes you thus rash and sudden? With a
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  Speaker 6: friend now ruined for your sake? If honest anger have moved,
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  Speaker 6: you know that what I just proposed was but to
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  Speaker 6: try you. As for me, I think thankless affection led
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  Speaker 6: me to this point, from which, if my firm temper
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  Speaker 6: could repent, I cannot now recede. Even whilst we speak.
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  Speaker 6: The ministers of justice wait below. They grant me these
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  Speaker 6: brief moments. Now, if you have any word of melancholly
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  Speaker 6: comfort to speak to your pale wife. Twere best to
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  Speaker 6: pass out at the postern and avoid them.
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  Speaker 3: So, oh, generous friend, how canst thou pardon me? Would
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  Speaker 3: that my life could purchase thine?
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  Speaker 6: That wish now comes a day too late. Haste fare
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  Speaker 6: thee well? Here wert thou not steps along the corridor
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  Speaker 6: exit Jacomo. I'm sorry for it, But the guards are
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  Speaker 6: waiting at his own gait. And such was my contrivance,
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  Speaker 6: that I might rid me both of him and them.
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  Speaker 6: I thought to act a solemn comedy upon the painted
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  Speaker 6: scene of this new world, and to attain my own
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  Speaker 6: peculiar ends by some such plot of mingled good and
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  Speaker 6: ill as others weave. But there arose a power which
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  Speaker 6: grasped and snapped the threads of my device, and turned
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  Speaker 6: it into a net of ruin.
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  Speaker 1: Ah. A shout is heard, is that my.
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  Speaker 6: Name I here proclaimed abroad. But I will pass wrapped
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  Speaker 6: in a vile disguise, rags on my back and a
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  Speaker 6: false innocence upon my face, through the misdeeming crowd, which
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  Speaker 6: judges by what it seems. Tis easy then for a
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  Speaker 6: new name, and for a country, new and a new
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  Speaker 6: life fashioned on old desires to change the honors of
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  Speaker 6: abandoned rome. And these must be the masks of that
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  Speaker 6: within which must remain unaltered. Oh I fear that what
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  Speaker 6: is past will never let me rest. Why when none
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  Speaker 6: else is conscious but myself of my misdeeds? Should my
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  Speaker 6: own hearts contempt trouble me? Have I not the power
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  Speaker 6: to fly my own reproaches? Shall I be the slave
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  Speaker 6: of what a word which those of this false world
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  Speaker 6: employ against each other, not themselves as men wear daggers,
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  Speaker 6: not for self offense? But if I am mistaken, where
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  Speaker 6: shall I find the disguise to hide me from myself?
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  Speaker 6: As I now skull from every other eye?
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  Speaker 1: Exit scene too? A whole of justice Camillo, judges et
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: cetera are discovered seated. Marzio is led in accused.
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  Speaker 14: Do you persist in your denial? I ask you? Are
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  Speaker 14: you innocent or guilty? I demand who are to participates
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  Speaker 14: in your offense? Speak truths and the whole truths?
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  Speaker 9: My God, I did not kill him. I know nothing.
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  Speaker 9: Olympias solved the robe to me from which you would
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  Speaker 9: infer my guilt away with?
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  Speaker 14: Dare you with lipseyot wife from the rex kiss speak false?
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  Speaker 14: Is it so soft to question it, that you would
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  Speaker 14: bendy love us, jop with it to wind out alive
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  Speaker 14: and soul away.
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  Speaker 9: Spare me, oh spare, I will confess, then speak. I
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  Speaker 9: strangled him in his sleep?
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  Speaker 14: Who urged you to it?
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  Speaker 9: His own son Gia Coombo, and the young prelate Orsinio
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  Speaker 9: sent me to Brittella. There the ladies Beatrice and Lucretia
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  Speaker 9: tempted me with a thousand crowns, and I and my
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  Speaker 9: companion forthwith murdered him. Now let me die.
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  Speaker 14: This sounds just about as truth. God. There lead for
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  Speaker 14: the prisoners.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Lucretia, Beatrice and Jacomo guarded.
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  Speaker 14: Look upon this man. When did you see him?
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  Speaker 11: We never saw him?
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  Speaker 9: You know me too well, Lady Beatrice, I.
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  Speaker 11: Know thee how where when.
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  Speaker 9: You know twas I whom you did urge with menaces
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  Speaker 9: and bribes to kill your father. When the thing was done,
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 9: you clothed me in a robe of woven gold and
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  Speaker 9: bade me thrive. How I have thriven? You see you,
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  Speaker 9: my lord Diacomo, Lady Lucretia, you know that what I
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  Speaker 9: speak is true.
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  Speaker 1: Beatrice advances towards him. He covers his face and shrinks back.
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  Speaker 9: Oh dart the terrible resentment of those eyes on the
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  Speaker 9: dead earth. Turn them away from me. They wound twas
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  Speaker 9: torture forced the truth. My lords having said this, let
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  Speaker 9: me be led to death, poor wretch.
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  Speaker 11: I pity thee. Yet stay awhile.
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  Speaker 5: Gods lead him not away.
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  Speaker 11: Cardinal Comillo, you have a good repute for gentleness and wisdom.
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  Speaker 11: Can it be that you sit here to countenance a
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  Speaker 11: wicked farce like this when some obscure and trembling slave
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  Speaker 11: is dragged from sufferings which might shake the sternest heart,
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  Speaker 11: and bade to answer not as he believes, but those
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  Speaker 11: who may suspect or do desire, whose questions then suggest
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  Speaker 11: their own reply. And in that peril of such hideous torments,
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  Speaker 11: as merciful God spares even the damned, speak now the
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  Speaker 11: thing you surely know, which is that you, if your
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  Speaker 11: fine frame were stretched upon that wheel, and you were told,
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  Speaker 11: confess that you did poison your little nephew, that fair
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  Speaker 11: blue eyed child, who was the load star of your life.
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  Speaker 11: And though all see since his most swift and piteous day,
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  Speaker 11: that day and night, and heaven and earth and time,
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  Speaker 11: and all the things hoped for or done therein are
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  Speaker 11: changed to you through your exceeding grief. Yet you would
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  Speaker 11: say I confess anything and beg from your tormentors like
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  Speaker 11: that slave the refuge of dishonorable death. I pray thee
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  Speaker 11: Cardinal that thou assert my innocence.
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  Speaker 1: Camillo much moved.
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  Speaker 5: What shall we think, my lords? Shame on these tears
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  Speaker 5: my thought? My heart was frozen? Which is there fountain?
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  Speaker 5: I would pledge my soul that she is guiltless.
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  Speaker 14: Yet she must be tortured.
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  Speaker 5: I would as soon have tortured mine own nephew, if
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  Speaker 5: he now lived, he would be just her age. His
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  Speaker 5: hair too was her color, and his eyes like hers
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  Speaker 5: in shape, but blue and not so deep as that
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  Speaker 5: most perfect image of God's love that ever came sorrowing
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  Speaker 5: upon the earth. She is as pure as speechless infancy.
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  Speaker 14: Well be her purity on your head, my lord, if
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  Speaker 14: you forbid the ray his holiness and joined us to
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  Speaker 14: pursue this monstrous crime by the severe forms of law, nay,
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 14: even to stretch a point against the criminals, the prisoners
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  Speaker 14: and accused of parasigite upon such evidence as justifies torture.
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  Speaker 11: What evidence this man's even so?
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  Speaker 1: Beatrice to Marzio.
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  Speaker 11: Come near, and who art thou that'st chosen fourth out
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  Speaker 11: of the multitude of living men to kill the innocent.
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  Speaker 9: I am bart thy father's vassal.
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  Speaker 11: Fix thine eyes on mine. Answer to what I ask.
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  Speaker 1: Turning to the judges, Hi.
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  Speaker 11: Prithee mark his countenance. Unlike bold calumny, which sometimes dares
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  Speaker 11: not speak the thing it looks, he dares not look
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  Speaker 11: the thing he speaks, but bends his gaze on the
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 11: blind earth. To Mazio, what wilt thou say that I
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 11: did murder my own father?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, spare me. My brain swims round. I cannot speak.
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 9: It was that horrid torture. Force the truth and take
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  Speaker 9: me away. Let her not look on me. I am
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 9: a guilty and miserable wretch. I have said all I know.
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  Speaker 9: Now let me.
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  Speaker 11: Die, My lords, If by my nature I had been
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  Speaker 11: so stern as to have planned the crime alleged which
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  Speaker 11: your suspicions dictate to this slave and the rack makes
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  Speaker 11: him utter, do you think I should have left this
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  Speaker 11: two edged instrument of my misdeed, this man, this bloody
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  Speaker 11: knife with my own name engraven on the heft, lying
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  Speaker 11: unsheathed amid a world of foes for my own death,
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 11: that with such horrible need for deepest silence, I should
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 11: have neglected so trivial a precaution as the making his tomb,
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  Speaker 11: the keeper of a secret written on a thief's memory?
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  Speaker 11: What is his poor life? What are a thousand lives?
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 11: A parricide had trampled them like dust? And see he lives?
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  Speaker 1: Turning to Marzio.
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  Speaker 9: And thou, oh, spare me, speak to me no more
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  Speaker 9: that sterned yet piteous look those solemn tones wound worse.
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  Speaker 1: Than torture to the judges.
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  Speaker 9: I have told it all for pity's sake. Lead me
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  Speaker 9: away to death.
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  Speaker 5: Gods, lead him near the lady Beatrice. He shrinks from
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  Speaker 5: her regard, like Waltam's leaf, from the keen breath of
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  Speaker 5: the serenest North.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, thou who tremblest on the giddy verge of life
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  Speaker 11: and death. Pause ere thou answerest me, So mayst thou
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  Speaker 11: answer God with less dismay? What evil have we done?
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  Speaker 11: Thee I alas have lived but on this earth a
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  Speaker 11: few sad years. And so my lot was ordered that
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  Speaker 11: a father first turned the moments of awakening life to drops,
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 11: each poisoning youth's sweet hope, and then stabbed with one
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  Speaker 11: blow my everlasting soul and my untainted fame and even
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  Speaker 11: that peace which sleeps within the core of the heart's heart.
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  Speaker 11: But the wound was not mortal. So my hate became
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  Speaker 11: the only worship I could lift to our great Father, who,
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  Speaker 11: in pity and love armed thee as thou dost say
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  Speaker 11: to cut him off. And thus his wrong becomes my accusation.
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  Speaker 11: And art thou the accuser. If thou hopest mercy in
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 11: heaven show justice upon earth. Worse than a bloody hand
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  Speaker 11: is a hard heart. If thou hast done murders, made
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 11: thy life's path over the trampled laws of God and man,
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  Speaker 11: rush not before thy judge and say, my Maker, I
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  Speaker 11: have done this and more. For there was one who
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  Speaker 11: was most pure and innocent on earth. And because she
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  Speaker 11: endured what never any guilty or innocent endured before, because
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  Speaker 11: her wrongs could not be told, not thought, because thy
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  Speaker 11: hand at length did rescue her. I wish my words
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  Speaker 11: killed her and all her kin. Think. I adjure you
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  Speaker 11: what it is to slay the reverence living in the
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  Speaker 11: minds of men towards our ancient house and stainless fame.
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  Speaker 11: Think what it is to strangle infant pity cradled in
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  Speaker 11: the belief of guileless looks, till it become a crime
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  Speaker 11: to suffer. Think what tis to blot with infamy and
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  Speaker 11: blood all that which shows like innocence? And is hear me,
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  Speaker 11: Great God, I swear most innocent, so that the world
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  Speaker 11: lose all discrimination between the sly, fierce, wild regard of
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 11: guilt and that which now compels thee to reply to
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  Speaker 11: what I ask? Am I? Or am I not a parricide?
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 9: Thou art not?
• 2:20:57
  Speaker 14: What is this?
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 9: I here declare those whom I did accuse are innocent?
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 9: Tis I alone am guilty?
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 14: Drag him away to torments, Let them be subtle and
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 14: long drawn out, to tear the face of the heart
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 14: in morcel and bind him. Not really confess.
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 9: Torture me as ye will. A keener pain has wrung
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 9: a higher truth from my last breath. She is most innocent.
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 9: Blood has not men blet yourselves well with me? I
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 9: will not give you that fine piece of nature to
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 9: rind and.
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 1: Ruin exit Marzio guarded.
• 2:21:39
  Speaker 5: What saye now, my lords?
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 14: Let torture strain the truth till it be as why
• 2:21:46
  Speaker 14: the snow tries sifted by the frozen.
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 5: Wind, yet stained with blood?
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 1: Judge to Beatrice, know you.
• 2:21:56
  Speaker 14: This paper, lady, entrap me not with questions.
• 2:22:00
  Speaker 11: Gents, who stands here? Is my accuser?
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 10: Hah?
• 2:22:04
  Speaker 11: Wilt thou be he who arn't my judge? Accuser? Witness? Judge?
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 11: What all in one? Here is Orsino's name? Where is Orsino?
• 2:22:15
  Speaker 11: Let his eye meet mine? What means this scrawl? Alas,
• 2:22:20
  Speaker 11: ye know not what? And therefore, on the chance that
• 2:22:23
  Speaker 11: it may be some evil, will ye kill us?
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 1: Enter an officer Marzius did what did you say?
• 2:22:35
  Speaker 5: Nothing? As soon as we had found him on the wheel,
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 5: he smiled on us as one who baffles a deep adversary,
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 5: and only his breath died.
• 2:22:48
  Speaker 14: There remains nothing but to apply the question to those
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 14: prisoners who yet remain stubben.
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 5: I overrule further proceedings, and in the behalf off of
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 5: these most innocent and noble persons, will use my interest
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 5: with the Holy Father.
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 14: Lettypop's pleasure then be done. Meanwhile, conduct these culprits, eat
• 2:23:14
  Speaker 14: the separate souls, and be the engine tready. But this night,
• 2:23:19
  Speaker 14: if the Pop's your solution be as gray pious and
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 14: just as once I'll ringed tooths out of those nerves
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 14: and sinews grown by groan.
• 2:23:30
  Speaker 1: Excillant. Scene three, the cell of a prison. Beatrice is
• 2:23:37
  Speaker 1: discovered asleep on a couch, and to Bernardo.
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 4: How gently slumber rests upon her face like the last
• 2:23:46
  Speaker 4: thoughts of some days, sweetly spent closing in night and dreams,
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 4: and so prolonged after such torments as she bore last night,
• 2:23:57
  Speaker 4: How light and softer breathing comes Aye me methinks that
• 2:24:02
  Speaker 4: I shall never sleep again, but I must check the
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 4: heavenly dew of rest from this sweet folded flower. Thus
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 4: wake awake? What sister can'st thou sleep?
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 1: Beatrice awaking?
• 2:24:19
  Speaker 11: I was just dreaming that we were all in paradise.
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 11: Thou knowest this cell seems like a kind of paradise
• 2:24:26
  Speaker 11: after our father's presence.
• 2:24:29
  Speaker 4: Dear dear sister, would that thy dream were not a dream?
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 4: Oh God, how shall I tell?
• 2:24:38
  Speaker 11: What wouldst thou tell? Sweet brother?
• 2:24:41
  Speaker 4: Look not so calm and happy? Or even whilst I
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 4: stand considering what I have to say, my heart will break?
• 2:24:49
  Speaker 11: Now see thou makest me weep? How very friendless thou
• 2:24:54
  Speaker 11: wouldst be? Dear child? If I were dead. Say what
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 11: thou hast to say?
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 4: They have confessed they could endure no more the tortures.
• 2:25:05
  Speaker 11: Hah, What was there to confess? They must have told
• 2:25:09
  Speaker 11: some weak and wicked lie to flatter their tormentors. Have
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 11: they said that they were guilty? Oh, white innocence, That
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 11: thou shouldstwear the mask of guilt, to hide thine awful
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 11: and serenus countenance from those who know thee.
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 1: Not, and to judge with Lucretia and Jacomo guarded.
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 11: Hignoble hearts for some brief spasm of pain, which are
• 2:25:35
  Speaker 11: at least as mortal as the limbs through which they pass,
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 11: are centuries of high splendor, laden dust, and that eternal
• 2:25:43
  Speaker 11: honor which should live sunlike above the reek of mortal
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 11: fame changed to a mockery and a by word, What
• 2:25:51
  Speaker 11: will you give up these bodies to be dragged at
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 11: horses heels, so that our hair shall sweep the footsteps
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 11: of the vain and senseless crowd, who that they make
• 2:26:01
  Speaker 11: our calamity their worship and their spectacle will leave the
• 2:26:05
  Speaker 11: churches and the theaters as void as their own hearts.
• 2:26:09
  Speaker 11: Shall the light multitude fling at their choice curses or faded, pity,
• 2:26:15
  Speaker 11: sad funeral flowers to dec a living corpse upon us
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 11: as we pass, to pass away and leave what memory
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 11: of our having been infamy, blood, terror, despair. O thou
• 2:26:32
  Speaker 11: who wert a mother to the parentless, kill not thy child,
• 2:26:37
  Speaker 11: Let not her wrongs kill thee brother. Lie down with
• 2:26:42
  Speaker 11: me upon the rack, and let us each be silent
• 2:26:45
  Speaker 11: as a corpse. It will soon be as soft as
• 2:26:48
  Speaker 11: any grave tis. But the falsehood it can wring from
• 2:26:52
  Speaker 11: fear makes the rack cruel.
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 3: They will tear the truth even from thee at last,
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 3: those cruel pains, for pity's sake, Say thou art guilty, now, oh.
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 10: Speak the truth. Let us all quickly die, And after death,
• 2:27:11
  Speaker 10: God is our judge, not they. He will have mercy on.
• 2:27:15
  Speaker 4: Us, if indeed it can be true, Say so, dear
• 2:27:19
  Speaker 4: sister mine, and then the Pope will surely pardon you,
• 2:27:22
  Speaker 4: and all will be well.
• 2:27:24
  Speaker 14: Confessor, I will warp your limbs with such keen tortures.
• 2:27:29
  Speaker 11: Tortures turn the rack henceforth into a spinning wheel. Torture
• 2:27:34
  Speaker 11: your dog that he may tell when last he lapped
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 11: the blood his master shed.
• 2:27:39
  Speaker 2: Not me.
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 11: My pangs are of the mind and of the heart
• 2:27:43
  Speaker 11: and of the soul, I of the inmost soul which
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 11: weeps within tears as of burning gall to see in
• 2:27:52
  Speaker 11: this ill world where none are true my kindred, false
• 2:27:56
  Speaker 11: to their deserted selves. And with concern all the wretched
• 2:28:01
  Speaker 11: life which I have lived, and it's now wretched end,
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 11: and the small justice shown by Heaven and earth to
• 2:28:08
  Speaker 11: me or mine? And what a tyrant thou art, And
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 11: what slaves these? And what a world we make the
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 11: oppressor and the oppressed. Such pangs compel my answer, What
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 11: is it thou would'st with me?
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 10: Art?
• 2:28:26
  Speaker 14: Thou not guilty of thy father's death.
• 2:28:29
  Speaker 11: Or wilt thy rather tax hi? Judging God, that he
• 2:28:33
  Speaker 11: permitted such an act as that which I have suffered,
• 2:28:36
  Speaker 11: and which he beheld, made it unutterable, and took from
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 11: it all refuge, all revenge, all consequence. But that which
• 2:28:46
  Speaker 11: thou hast called my father's death, which is or is
• 2:28:51
  Speaker 11: not what men call a crime, which either I have
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 11: done or have not done. Say what ye will, I
• 2:28:58
  Speaker 11: shall deny no more if ye desire it. Thus thus
• 2:29:03
  Speaker 11: let it be, And so an end of all. Now
• 2:29:06
  Speaker 11: do your will. No other pains shall force another word.
• 2:29:11
  Speaker 14: She is convicted but has not confessed beat Enough and
• 2:29:16
  Speaker 14: told their final sentence that none have conversed with them. You,
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 14: young lord linga not here.
• 2:29:24
  Speaker 11: Hold tear him not away.
• 2:29:27
  Speaker 14: God's do your duty.
• 2:29:30
  Speaker 1: Bernardo embracing Beatrice.
• 2:29:34
  Speaker 4: Oh would you divide body from Saul?
• 2:29:38
  Speaker 1: That is the Edmund's business? Excellent? All but Lucretia, Beatrice
• 2:29:44
  Speaker 1: and Jacomo.
• 2:29:46
  Speaker 3: Have I confessed? Is it all over now? No hope,
• 2:29:51
  Speaker 3: no refuge, Oh, weak wicked tongue which has destroyed me?
• 2:29:56
  Speaker 3: Would that thou hadst been cut out and own to
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 3: dogs first? To have killed my father first and then
• 2:30:05
  Speaker 3: betrayed my sister? I thee the one thing innocent and
• 2:30:10
  Speaker 3: pure in this black, guilty world, to that which I
• 2:30:15
  Speaker 3: so well deserve, My wife, my little ones destitute, helpless,
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 3: and I Father, God, canst thou forgive even the unforgiving
• 2:30:30
  Speaker 3: when their full hearts break?
• 2:30:32
  Speaker 1: Thus thus covers his face and weeps, oh.
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 10: My child, toward a dreadful end that we all come.
• 2:30:42
  Speaker 10: Why did I yield? Why did I not sustain those torments?
• 2:30:47
  Speaker 11: Oh?
• 2:30:48
  Speaker 10: Did I were all dissolved into these first and unavailing
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 10: tears which flow and feel not?
• 2:30:56
  Speaker 11: What twas weak to do, tis weaker to lament one
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 11: being done, Take cheer the God who knew my wrong
• 2:31:04
  Speaker 11: and made our speedy act. The angel of his wrath
• 2:31:08
  Speaker 11: seems and but seems to have abandoned us. Let us
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 11: not think that we shall die for this brother. Sit
• 2:31:16
  Speaker 11: near me, Give me your firm hand. You had a
• 2:31:20
  Speaker 11: manly heart. Bear up, Bear up, oh dearest lady. Put
• 2:31:27
  Speaker 11: your gentle head upon my lap, and try to sleep.
• 2:31:30
  Speaker 11: Awhile your eyes look pale, hollow and overworn with heaviness
• 2:31:36
  Speaker 11: of watching and slow grief. Come. I will sing you
• 2:31:41
  Speaker 11: some low, sleepy tune, not cheerful nor yet sad, some
• 2:31:47
  Speaker 11: dull old thing, some outworn and unused monotony, such as
• 2:31:52
  Speaker 11: our country gossips sing and spin till they almost forget
• 2:31:56
  Speaker 11: they live. Lie down so that will do? Have I
• 2:32:01
  Speaker 11: forgot the words faith? They are sadder than I thought
• 2:32:06
  Speaker 11: they were? False?
• 2:32:09
  Speaker 15: Friend, Will thou smile or weep? When my life is
• 2:32:16
  Speaker 15: laid asleep? Little caps for a smile alority, the clay
• 2:32:26
  Speaker 15: called corps upon thebby.
• 2:32:32
  Speaker 11: Farewell, high hope. What is a wiser's love? There is
• 2:32:42
  Speaker 11: a snake? Can I smile? Might dear and bitder?
• 2:32:48
  Speaker 7: Poison?
• 2:32:49
  Speaker 11: Within?
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 15: Nighty, sweet sleep, poor death like to thee hoorri. If
• 2:33:00
  Speaker 15: thou cold, it's more to be, I would call these
• 2:33:08
  Speaker 15: eyes of pain when to wake.
• 2:33:13
  Speaker 11: Never again, o world farewell.
• 2:33:23
  Speaker 16: Listen to the passing per it said, thou and I must.
• 2:33:33
  Speaker 15: Part with a light and a hevy hol.
• 2:33:44
  Speaker 1: The scene closes. Scene four, A whole of the prison
• 2:33:51
  Speaker 1: enter Camillo and Bernardo.
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 5: The Pope is stern, not to be moved or bent.
• 2:34:00
  Speaker 5: He looked as calm and keen, as is the engine
• 2:34:05
  Speaker 5: which tortures and which kills, exempt itself from all that
• 2:34:10
  Speaker 5: it inflicts. A marble form, a right, a law, a custom,
• 2:34:19
  Speaker 5: not a man. He frowned, as if to frown at
• 2:34:24
  Speaker 5: been the trick of his machinery on the advocates, presenting
• 2:34:28
  Speaker 5: the defenses which he tore and through behind, muttering with hoarse,
• 2:34:35
  Speaker 5: harsh voice, which among ye defended their old father killed
• 2:34:41
  Speaker 5: in his sleep. Then to another, thou dost this in
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 5: virtue of thy place? Tis well? He turned to me, then,
• 2:34:53
  Speaker 5: looking deprecation, and said these three words coldly. They he
• 2:35:00
  Speaker 5: must die.
• 2:35:03
  Speaker 4: And yet you left him not, I.
• 2:35:06
  Speaker 5: Urged him, still pleading as I could guess the devilish
• 2:35:11
  Speaker 5: wrong which prompted your unnatural parent's death, and he replied,
• 2:35:18
  Speaker 5: Paulo Santa Crocee murdered his mother yester evening, and he
• 2:35:24
  Speaker 5: is fled. Parricide grows rife that soon for some just cause,
• 2:35:31
  Speaker 5: no doubt, the young must strangle us all dozing in
• 2:35:35
  Speaker 5: our chairs. Authority and power and hoary hair are grown crimes. Capital.
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 5: You are my nephew. You come to ask their pardon,
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 5: Stay a moment. Here is their sentence. Never see me
• 2:35:57
  Speaker 5: more till to the letter it be all fulfilled.
• 2:36:04
  Speaker 4: Oh God, not so. I did believe, indeed that all
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 4: you said was but sad preparation for happy news. Oh
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 4: there are words and looks to bend the sternest purpose.
• 2:36:17
  Speaker 4: Once I knew them, Now I forget them. At my
• 2:36:19
  Speaker 4: dearest need, What think you if I seek him out
• 2:36:23
  Speaker 4: and bathe his feet and robe with hot and bitter tears,
• 2:36:27
  Speaker 4: importune him with my prayers, vexing his brain with my
• 2:36:29
  Speaker 4: perpetual cries, until enrage he strike me with his pastoral
• 2:36:34
  Speaker 4: cross and trample across my prostrate head, so that my
• 2:36:38
  Speaker 4: blood may stained the senseless dust on which he treads,
• 2:36:43
  Speaker 4: and remorse awakened mercy, I will do it. Oh wait
• 2:36:47
  Speaker 4: till I return.
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 5: Rush is out alas poor boy, a wreck devoted seamen.
• 2:36:57
  Speaker 5: Thus might pray to the death.
• 2:37:00
  Speaker 1: See enter Lucretia, Beatrice and Jacomo guarded.
• 2:37:06
  Speaker 11: I hardly dare to fear that thou bringest other news
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 11: than a just pardon.
• 2:37:11
  Speaker 5: May God in Heaven be less inexorable to the Pope's
• 2:37:16
  Speaker 5: prayers than he has been to mine. Here is the
• 2:37:21
  Speaker 5: sentence and the warrant, Beatrice wildly.
• 2:37:27
  Speaker 11: Oh my God, can it be possible? I have to
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 11: die so suddenly, so young, to go under the obscure, cold, rotting,
• 2:37:36
  Speaker 11: wormy ground, to be nailed down into a narrow place,
• 2:37:40
  Speaker 11: to see no more sweet sunshine, hear no more blithe
• 2:37:44
  Speaker 11: voice of living thing. Muse not again upon familiar thoughts,
• 2:37:49
  Speaker 11: sad yet thus lost, how fearful to be nothing, or
• 2:37:56
  Speaker 11: to be what?
• 2:37:58
  Speaker 10: Oh?
• 2:37:58
  Speaker 11: Where am I me not?
• 2:38:00
  Speaker 1: Go?
• 2:38:00
  Speaker 11: Mad? Sweet Heaven, forgive weak thoughts. If there should be
• 2:38:05
  Speaker 11: no God, no heaven, no earth, in the void world,
• 2:38:10
  Speaker 11: the wide, gray, lampless, deep, unpeopled world, If all things
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 11: then should be my Father's spirit, his eye, his voice,
• 2:38:21
  Speaker 11: his touch surrounding me, the atmosphere and breath of my
• 2:38:26
  Speaker 11: dead life. If sometimes has a shape more like himself,
• 2:38:31
  Speaker 11: even the form which tortured me on earth, masked in
• 2:38:34
  Speaker 11: gray hairs and wrinkles, He should come and wind me
• 2:38:38
  Speaker 11: in his hellish arms, and fix his eyes on mine,
• 2:38:42
  Speaker 11: and drag me down, down, down. For was he not
• 2:38:46
  Speaker 11: alone omnipotent on earth and ever present, even though dead,
• 2:38:51
  Speaker 11: does not his spirit live in all that breathe and
• 2:38:55
  Speaker 11: work for me and mine? Still the same ruin scorn, pain, despair.
• 2:39:02
  Speaker 11: Who ever yet returned to teach the laws of deaths untrodden,
• 2:39:05
  Speaker 11: realm unjust perhaps is those which drive us Now? Oh
• 2:39:10
  Speaker 11: whither whither.
• 2:39:13
  Speaker 10: Trust in God's sweet love? The tender promise is of
• 2:39:16
  Speaker 10: Christ eye a knight. Think we shall be in paradise.
• 2:39:22
  Speaker 11: Tis past. Whatever comes, my heart shall sink no more.
• 2:39:28
  Speaker 11: And yet I know not why your words strike chill,
• 2:39:32
  Speaker 11: how tedious, false and cold seems all things I have
• 2:39:37
  Speaker 11: met with much injustice in this world. No difference has
• 2:39:41
  Speaker 11: been made by God or Man, or any power molding
• 2:39:45
  Speaker 11: my wretched lot TwixT good or evil has regarded me.
• 2:39:50
  Speaker 11: I am cut off from the only world I know,
• 2:39:53
  Speaker 11: from light and life and love in youth's sweet prime.
• 2:39:59
  Speaker 11: You do well telling me to trust in God. I
• 2:40:03
  Speaker 11: hope I do trust in Him in whom else can
• 2:40:06
  Speaker 11: any trust, And yet my heart is cold.
• 2:40:13
  Speaker 1: During the latter speeches, Jacomo has retired, conversing with Camillo,
• 2:40:18
  Speaker 1: who now goes out. Jacomo advances, no you not, mother, sister,
• 2:40:25
  Speaker 1: No you not.
• 2:40:27
  Speaker 3: Bernardo even now is gone to implore the pope to
• 2:40:31
  Speaker 3: grant her pardon.
• 2:40:34
  Speaker 10: Child. Perhaps it will be granted. We may all then
• 2:40:37
  Speaker 10: live to make these woes a tail for distant years.
• 2:40:41
  Speaker 10: Oh what a thought. It gushes to my heart like
• 2:40:44
  Speaker 10: the warm blood.
• 2:40:46
  Speaker 11: Yet both will soon be cold. Oh, tramp'll have that thought.
• 2:40:51
  Speaker 11: Worse than despair, worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.
• 2:40:56
  Speaker 11: It is the only ill which can find place upon
• 2:40:59
  Speaker 11: the giddy, sharp and narrow hour tottering beneath us. Plead
• 2:41:04
  Speaker 11: with the swift frost, that it should spare the eldest
• 2:41:07
  Speaker 11: flower of spring. Plead with the awakening earthquake? Or whose
• 2:41:11
  Speaker 11: couch even now a city stands strong, fair and free,
• 2:41:17
  Speaker 11: now stench and blackness, yawn like death, ho plead with
• 2:41:22
  Speaker 11: famine or wind, walking, pestilence, blind lightning, or the deaf sea.
• 2:41:29
  Speaker 11: Not with man cruel, cold, formal, man righteous in words
• 2:41:36
  Speaker 11: indeeds a cain, No mother, we must die, since such
• 2:41:42
  Speaker 11: is the reward of innocent lives, such the alleviation of
• 2:41:46
  Speaker 11: worst wrongs. And whilst our murderers live, and hard cold men,
• 2:41:51
  Speaker 11: smiling and slow walk through a world of tears to death,
• 2:41:56
  Speaker 11: as to life's sleep, tward just the grave were some
• 2:42:00
  Speaker 11: strange joy for us. Come obscure death, and wind me
• 2:42:05
  Speaker 11: in nine all embracing arms like a fond mother. Hide
• 2:42:09
  Speaker 11: me in thy bosom, and rock me to the sleep
• 2:42:12
  Speaker 11: from which none wake. Live, Ye who live subject to
• 2:42:17
  Speaker 11: one another as we were ones who.
• 2:42:21
  Speaker 1: Now bernarda rushes in.
• 2:42:25
  Speaker 4: Oh horrible the tears that looks that hopes poured forth
• 2:42:30
  Speaker 4: in prayer, even till the heart is vacant and despairs
• 2:42:33
  Speaker 4: should all be in vain. The ministers of death are
• 2:42:37
  Speaker 4: waiting around the doors. I thought I saw blood on
• 2:42:41
  Speaker 4: the face of one, What if it were fancy? Soon
• 2:42:45
  Speaker 4: the heart's blood of all I love on earth will
• 2:42:47
  Speaker 4: sprinkle him, and he will wipe it off as it
• 2:42:50
  Speaker 4: twere only rain, Oh life, a world cover me. Let
• 2:42:56
  Speaker 4: me be no more to see that perfect mirror of
• 2:43:01
  Speaker 4: pure innocence, wherein I gazed and grew happy and good,
• 2:43:06
  Speaker 4: shivered to dust to see thee Beatrice who made all lovely,
• 2:43:13
  Speaker 4: Thou didst look upon the light of life dead dark well,
• 2:43:20
  Speaker 4: I say, sister, to hear I have no sister, and
• 2:43:25
  Speaker 4: thou mother, whose love was as a bond to all
• 2:43:28
  Speaker 4: our loves dead, the sweet bond broken.
• 2:43:34
  Speaker 1: Entero Camillo, and Gods they come.
• 2:43:38
  Speaker 4: Let me kiss those warm lips before their crimson leaves
• 2:43:41
  Speaker 4: are blighted, white cold, Say farewell before death chokes that
• 2:43:49
  Speaker 4: gentle voice. Oh, let me hear you.
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  Speaker 11: Speak, farewell, my tender brother. Think of our sad fate
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  Speaker 11: with gentleness as now, and let mild pitying thoughts lighten
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  Speaker 11: for thee. Thy sorrow's load err not in harsh despair,
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  Speaker 11: but tears and patience. One more thing, my child, for
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  Speaker 11: thine own sake, be constant to the love thou bearest us,
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  Speaker 11: and to the faith that I, though wrapt in a
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  Speaker 11: strange cloud of crime and shame, lived ever holy and unstained,
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  Speaker 11: and though ill tongues shall wound me, and our common
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  Speaker 11: name be as a mark stamped on thine innocent brow
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  Speaker 11: for men to point at as they pass. Do thou forbear,
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  Speaker 11: and never think a thought unkind of those who perhaps
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  Speaker 11: love THEE and their graves. So mayst thou die as
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  Speaker 11: I do, fear and pain being subdued. Farewell, farewell, farewell.
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  Speaker 4: I cannot say. Farewell.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, oh lady beatress.
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  Speaker 11: Give yourself no unnecessary pain. My dear lord Cardinal, here,
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  Speaker 11: mother tie my girdle for me, and bind up this
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  Speaker 11: hair in a simple knot. Aye, that does well? And
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  Speaker 11: yours I see is coming down. How often have we
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  Speaker 11: done this for one another? Now we shall not do
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  Speaker 11: it any more, my lord, we are quite ready. Well,
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  Speaker 11: tis very well.
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  Speaker 1: End of the fifth act, End of the chen Chee
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  Speaker 1: by Percy bish Shelley