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officer he keeps firm silence but these lines found on him may speak
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beatrice not hate 'twas more than hate this is most true yet wherefore question me
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beatrice what sayest my lord your words are bold and rash
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savella you own that you desired his death
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savella strange thoughts beget strange deeds and here are both i judge thee not
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lucretia o not to rome o take us not to rome
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orsino you cannot say i urged you to the deed
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i demand who were the participators in your offence speak truth and the whole truth
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beatrice what evidence this man's
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judge guards do your duty
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beatrice i hardly dare to fear that thou bring'st other news than a just pardon
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(note at stanza : the following stanza is found in the wise manuscript and in editions but is wanting in the hunt manuscript and in edition
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_ one fleay cj rossetti forman dowden woodberry out nd edition
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_ betty]emma nd edition see letter from shelley to ollier may
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if either peter or cobbett should see this note each will feel more indignation at being compared to the other than at any censure implied in the moral perversion laid to their charge
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i knew that there were crimes and evil men misery and hate nor did i hope to pass untouched by suffering through the rugged glen
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should the remaining portions of this tragedy be found entitled swellfoot in angaria and charite the translator might be tempted to give them to the reading public
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the boars we fight for this rag of greasy rug though a trough of wash would be fitter
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moses let your majesty keep the boars quiet else
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solomon why your majesty i could not give
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purganax oh would that this were all the oracle
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purganax ha what do i hear
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leech i will suck blood or muck
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purganax but i must first impanel a jury of the pigs
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the swine long live iona down with swellfoot
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a loud cry from the pigs she is innocent most innocent
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a boar what does any one accuse her of
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first boar well go on we long to hear what she can possibly have done
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semichorus no yes
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semichorus yes no
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i vote in form of an amendment that purganax rub a little of that stuff upon his face
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purganax gods what would ye be at
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an old boar take care my lord they do not smoke you first
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purganax at the approaching feast of famine let the expiation be
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swine content content
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swellfoot i only hear the lean and mutinous swine grunting about the temple
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mammon the bag is here
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the verses were apparently intended by the writer to accompany some longer poem or collection of poems of which there [are no remnants in his] remains portfolio
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a light is passed from the revolving year and man and woman and what still is dear attracts to crush repels to make thee wither
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these compositions (excepting the tragedy of the cenci which was written rather to try my powers than to unburthen my full heart) are insufficiently
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our text is that of the editio princeps corrected by a list of errata sent by shelley to ollier april the editor's notes at the end of volume should be consulted
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s volume pages -] from a proof copy of hellas in his possession
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notes _ tempest's]tempests edition _ prey edition play editions
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semichorus with the tears of sadness greece did thy shroud bedew
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semichorus with an orphan's affection she followed thy bier through time
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semichorus if heaven should resume thee to heaven shall her spirit ascend
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hassan your sublime highness is strangely moved
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mahmud i would talk with this old jew
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hassan even as that moon renews itself
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notes _ his edition its editions _ of the earth edition of earth editions
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mahmud died as thou shouldst ore thy lips had painted their ruin in the hues of our success
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notes _ in edition of editions _ and edition as editions
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mahmud and thou pale ghost dim shadow of some untimely rumour speak
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attendant your sublime highness the jew who
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mahmud but raised above thy fellow-men by thought as i by power
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mahmud a far whisper terrible silence
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voice without victory victory
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mahmud what sound of the importunate earth has broken my mighty trance
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it is a sort of natural magic susceptible of being exercised in a degree by any one who should have made himself master of the secret associations of another's thoughts
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first citizen that is the archbishop
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third citizen you seem to know the vulnerable place of these same crocodiles
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of the flesh omitted _ bondage cj forman bondages
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archy ay and some are now smiling whose tears will make the brine for the fool sees
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note _ pinched marked as doubtful by rossetti forman dowden penned woodberry
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notes _ with your grace's leave omitted _-_ go
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laud i take with patience as my master did all scoffs permitted from above
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notes _ your thine _ which
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sins omitted _ ministry ministers _- with
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strafford yet it may not long rest on our wills
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cottington meanwhile we must begin first where your grace leaves off
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archy but 'tis all over now: like the april anger of woman the gentle sky has wept itself serene
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queen what news abroad how looks the world this morning
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king the sheep have mistaken the wolf for their shepherd my poor boy and the shepherd the wolves for their watchdogs
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queen but the rainbow was a good sign archy: it says that the waters of the deluge are gone and can return no more
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pupil omitted _ partly 'tis it partly is _ of in
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laud bring forth the prisoner bastwick: let the clerk recite his sentence
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juxon if you have aught to plead in mitigation speak
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laud officer take the prisoner from the bar and be his tongue slit for his insolence
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archy i'll go live under the ivy that overgrows the terrace and count the tears shed on its old plays the song of
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swift as a spirit hastening to his task of glory and of good the sun sprang forth rejoicing in his splendour and the mask
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isle ocean and all things that in them wear the form and character of mortal mould rise as the sun their father rose to bear
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had kept as wakeful as the stars that gem the cone of night now they were laid asleep stretched my faint limbs beneath the hoary stem
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was so transparent that the scene came through as clear as when a veil of light is drawn o'er evening hills they glimmer and i knew
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as in that trance of wondrous thought i lay this was the tenour of my waking dream methought i sate beside a public way
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all hastening onward yet none seemed to know whither he went or whence he came or why he made one of the multitude and so
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and others as with steps towards the tomb pored on the trodden worms that crawled beneath and others mournfully within the gloom
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but more with motions which each other crossed pursued or shunned the shadows the clouds threw or birds within the noonday aether lost
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upon that path where flowers never grew and weary with vain toil and faint for thirst heard not the fountains whose melodious dew
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with overarching elms and caverns cold and violet banks where sweet dreams brood but they pursued their serious folly as of old
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so came a chariot on the silent storm of its own rushing splendour and a shape so sate within as one whom years deform
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speed in the van and blindness in the rear nor then avail the beams that quench the sun or that with banded eyes could pierce the sphere
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the crowd gave way and i arose aghast or seemed to rise so mighty was the trance and saw like clouds upon the thunder-blast
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by action or by suffering and whose hour was drained to its last sand in weal or woe so that the trunk survived both fruit and flower
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fled back like eagles to their native noon or those who put aside the diadem of earthly thrones or gems
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was soothed by mischief since the world begun throw back their heads and loose their streaming hair and in their dance round her who dims the sun
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kindle invisibly and as they glow like moths by light attracted and repelled oft to their bright destruction come and go
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yet ere i can say where the chariot hath passed over them nor other trace i find but as of foam after the ocean's wrath
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and follow in the dance with limbs decayed seeking to reach the light which leaves them still farther behind and deeper in the shade
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that what i thought was an old root which grew to strange distortion out of the hill side was indeed one of those deluded crew
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'i will unfold that which to this deep scorn led me and my companions and relate the progress of the pageant since the morn
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