Atto

 1 1|          terror hurl the dart?~ ~Oh, feeble weapon ’gainst so
 2 1|       The fruit to-morrow yields—oh, who shall say?~ ~Our God
 3 1|         for thine am I!~ ~ PAUL. Oh, why this haste to leave
 4 1|          thou dar’st not name.~ ~Oh, on my knees I supplicate,
 5 1|         night to day!~125~ POLY. Oh, dreams are naught!~ ~ PAUL.
 6 1|          150~Give him thy trust! Oh, thou shalt have reward,~ ~
 7 1|         thy choice,—~ ~But know, oh faithless one, ere day expires,~ ~
 8 1|            PAUL. My father comes—oh, peace!~ 260~Enter FELIX
 9 1|              FELIX. Thy comfort, oh my daughter, comes too late.~ ~
10 2|    disown!~ ~ FABIAN. Once more, oh see her not, ’twere for
11 2|          think, my lord——~ ~ SEV.Oh, I have thought of all;~
12 2| benignant, but a tyrant she!~145~Oh, if I conquer—if the strife
13 2|         cause for pain!~ ~ PAUL. Oh, if from pity start thy
14 2|          source of tears is dry, oh, weep no more,~ ~Thy grief
15 2|      PAUL. The day is young, and oh, the day is long,—~ ~And
16 2|       and combat shame!~ ~ POLY. Oh, true thy shield, thy victory
17 2|        him alone!~ ~Go thou, and oh, remember he is great;~
18 2|         so noble, is a friend,~ ~Oh, not from him the lance
19 2|          God! Thy spirit pour!~ ~Oh, make me true to Him whom
20 3|        dark.~ ~Severus haunts me—oh, I know his love,~ ~Yet
21 3|        of Rome reach over all.~ ~Oh, if my father bow to Roman
22 3|      vengeance wreak?~55~ STRAT. Oh, fear whate’er thou wilt—
23 3|       Christians rise?~ ~ STRAT. Oh, would that this were all!~ ~
24 3|     leads to death, or infamy.~ ~Oh, curséd friend, who, in
25 3|       ermaster all my fears,~100~Oh, let me gauge the worth
26 3|          full libations pour—~ ~‘Oh, kneel before the might
27 3|             PAUL. ’Tis as I said—oh, father, yet once more—~ ~
28 3|          give~ ~I take not back; oh, Polyeucte must live!~ 260~
29 3|       still endure.~ 295~ FELIX. Oh, wretched that I am!~ ~
30 3|       but never find the day!—~ ~Oh, what I suffer thou canst
31 3|      excuse~ 315~A father’s love—oh, he will not refuse!~ ~
32 4|        above~70~A holier fire!~ ~Oh, Love that passeth knowledge
33 4|          thee!~ ~Sun of my soul?—oh, flash one purest ray~ ~
34 4|   honours Felix on thee pours!~ ~Oh, I am nothing, nothing unto
35 4|       who gave it—to the Lord!~ ~Oh, if to die for fatherland
36 4|      thou shalt have thy will.~ ~Oh, but to leave my side with
37 4|         hour will come!~ ~ PAUL. Oh, leave illusions! Love me!~ ~
38 4|      death the link shall be,—~ ~Oh, grudge me not my dear brief
39 4|         my dear brief ecstasy!~ ~Oh, ease the heart that once
40 4|   innocent, art yet the cause.~ ~Oh, if thy soul, to thy desires
41 4|         pale, flickering fire—~ ~Oh, bliss too monstrous! Thrice
42 5|            He hates and holds me—oh, the misery!~ ~ ALBIN. I
43 5|         strike me dead!~ ~ POLY. Oh, dearer than myself to me
44 5|        outrage heaped on pain.~ ~Oh, sunk in tomb of shame,
45 5|    cannot less than father be,~ ~Oh, be to him what thou hast
46 5|         together’ thy command.~ ~Oh, shall the will that both
47 5|        law, such love to part.~ ~Oh, not a tyrant, but a father
48 5|         beckoning hand I hail!~ ~Oh, help my passage, or thy
49 5|        Severus! Fear thy fall!~ ~Oh, speed me to my lord—my
50 5|          fearest I will brave,~ ~Oh, bare thy knife!—no other