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zar shall know from me of aught but what may honour their father's memory
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zar perhaps too natural for benefits turn poison in bad minds
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zar the honey nor inquire whence 'tis derived be satisfied you are not all abandoned
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zar so gentle with me that i cannot think of quitting
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sal nay then i must use some fraternal force which you will pardon
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myr far off a voice of wail and lamentation and thought
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sar before your entrance in this hall zarina queen of assyria departed hence
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sar now to reproof: methinks your aspect speaks of higher matter than a woman's presence
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myr had earthly monarch half the power and glory which centres in a single ray of his
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myr beat back by valour: now at once we have courage and vigilance to guard us
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bal in the late action scarcely more appalled the rebels than astonished his true subjects
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myr receive a token from your dying brother appointing zames chief
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myr of salemenes not to risk a sally till ye were strengthened by the expected succours
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sar swear that you will obey when i shall give the signal
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sar that thou shouldst come and dare to ask of me to lay it down
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her at the same peril if refused as now incurred by my obedience
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sar and tell him ere a year expire i summon him hence to meet me
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myr part to die for his sovereign and why not the woman's with her lover
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pan with but a single female to partake his death
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myr dwells thy mind rather upon that man's name than on his mate's in villany
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myr a greek girl dare not do for love that which an indian widow braves for custom
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and what is there an indian widow dares for custom which a greek girl
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nothing can sympathise with foscari not even a foscari sir i attend you
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mem we gain a step in knowledge and i look forward to be one day of the decemvirs
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mar i will not deem it: he hath nerved himself and now defies them
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sen even if she be so cannot save her husband but see the officer returns
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mem thought that the ten had even this touch of pity or would permit assistance to this sufferer
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bar that were too much: believe me 'twas not meet the trial should go further at this moment
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lor and the old ducal dotard who combined the worthy voices which o'er-ruled my own
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lor his state descend to his children as it must if he die unattainted
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doge of things you know not: but the treaty's signed return with it to them who sent you
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doge command my time when not commanded by the state
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mar of him thou canst not or thou wilt not save you were the last to bear it
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lor that they have power to act at their discretion with or without the presence of the doge
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lor 'tis not for me to anticipate the pleasure of the tribunal
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doge the deference due even to the lightest word that falls from those who rule in venice
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doge so far take on myself as order that you may be admitted
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i know if mind may bear us up or no for i have such and shown it before men it sinks in solitude: my soul is social
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this crowd of palaces and prisons is not a paradise its first inhabitants were wretched exiles
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mar it was the lot of millions and must be the fate of myriads more
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lor in canea afterwards the freedom of the whole isle
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lor the virtue which this noble lady most may practise she doth well to recommend it
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bar solicited permission to retire and twice it was refused
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mem if you obey: and if not you no less will know why you should have obeyed
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mem but me no buts unless you would pass o'er the bridge which few repass
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mem if we divulge them doubtless they are worth something at least to you or me
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doge go and obey our country's will: 'tis not for us to look beyond
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mar change their hearts or your lot: the galley's oars will quickly clear the harbour
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mar there must be life yet in that heart he could not thus leave me
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mar i am no daughter now thou hast no son oh foscari
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bar but grief is lonely and the breaking in upon it barbarous
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lor the act was passing it might have suspended its passage but impedes it not once passed
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bar inter his son before we press upon him this edict
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lor in early life its foe but in his manhood its saviour first then victim
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offi to forward the preparatory rites for the late foscari's interment
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chief of the ten to the alternative of a decree instead of your compliance
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doge but nothing will advance no not a moment what you decree decree
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doge against his country had he a thousand lives instead of that
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doge i feel athirst will no one bring me here a cup of water
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doge for my own part i credit neither 'tis an idle legend
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bar the misery to die a subject where he reigned: then let his funeral rites be princely
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bar what art thou writing with such an earnest brow upon thy tablets
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'a daughter of the house that now among its ancestors in monumental brass numbers eight doges
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the will itself dependent upon a storm a straw and both alike leading to death
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eve the fruit of our forbidden tree begins to fall
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abel be on your spirit brother [exeunt abel zillah and adah
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lucifer worthy of thought 'tis your immortal part which speaks within you
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cain i thought it was a being: who could do such evil things to beings save a being
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cain that were no evil: would i ne'er had been aught else but dust
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lucifer thou art my worshipper not worshipping him makes thee mine the same
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cain but abel's earnest prayer has wrought upon me the offering is more his than mine and adah
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adah but he is welcome as they were: they deigned to be our guests will he
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lucifer ask eve your mother: bears she not the knowledge of good and evil
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adah the seraphs love most cherubim know most and this should be a cherub since he loves not
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cain i will have nought to do with happiness which humbles me and mine
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adah saith that he has beheld the god himself who made him and our mother
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lucifer whence he shall come back to thee in an hour but in that hour see things of many days
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lucifer so humbly in their pride as to sojourn with worms in clay
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lucifer and therefore do i ask of thee if thou wouldst be immortal
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lucifer the phantasm of the world of which thy world is but the wreck
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but changes make not death except to clay but thou art clay and canst but comprehend that which was clay and such thou shall behold
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cain and some till now grew larger as we approached and wore the look of worlds
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lucifer the curse is mutual 'twixt thy sire and thee but for thy sons and brother
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cain it is too little and too lowly to sustain such creatures
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lucifer but canst not comprehend the shadow of that which it was
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lucifer the mammoth is in thy world but these lie by myriads underneath its surface
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lucifer with them would render the curse on it useless 'twould be destroyed so early
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lucifer a state and many states beyond thine own and this thou knewest not this morn
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cain distance can but diminish glory they when nearer must be more ineffable
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behold my son said adam how from evil springs good
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lucifer who shared thy mother's milk and giveth hers unto thy children
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lucifer what thy remoter offspring must encounter but bask beneath the clime which knows no winter
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cain what makes my feelings more endurable and is more than myself because i love it
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cain her favour since the serpent was the first to win it
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lucifer sufficiently to see they love your brother his sacrifices are acceptable
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cain his creatures as thou say'st we are or show me thy dwelling or his dwelling
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lucifer both but the time will come thou shalt see one of them for evermore
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cain thou speak'st it proudly but thyself though proud hast a superior
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adah shut out the sun like night and therefore seemed fitting to shadow slumber
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adah two hours since ye departed: two long hours to me but only hours upon the sun
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