Atto

 1 1|        the desire grows weak.~ ~Ah! whilst from woman’s breast
 2 1|          POLY.Appease her fear! Ah, this~ ~Alone will give
 3 1|        must listen, for I love! Ah, me!~ ~ POLY. Take courage,
 4 1|      hand, and hail the tomb!~ ~Ah, Stratonice! for our boasted
 5 1|        imperious man!~ ~ STRAT. Ah, man does what he wills—
 6 1|           Severus was his name:—Ah! memory~ ~May spare love
 7 1|       sire’s command.~ ~ STRAT. Ah! I must wish that love the
 8 1|       Severus lives!~ 265~ PAUL.Ah! this no cause for fear!~ ~
 9 1|      thanks and love.~ ~ FELIX. Ah, Fortune, turn thy wheel,
10 1|     PAUL. Yes, this may be, for ah! he loved me well!~ ~ FELIX.
11 2|        from despair!~ ~ FABIAN. Ah! You may see her——~ ~ SEV.
12 2|     Help!—No, I will not blench—ah, say you lie!~ ~If this
13 2|      Forgive, Pauline, forgive; ah! grief hath made me blind~ ~
14 2|     forlorn, my peace denied,~ ~Ah! show thyself less fair,—
15 2|      thou, thou alone defend!~ ~Ah, if thou honourest my victory—~
16 2|     other woe—forgotten fear!~ ~Ah! let me breathe, some respite
17 2|    noble in his heart!~ ~ PAUL. Ah, Polyeucte bathed in blood!
18 2|         cost of all my bliss,~ ~Ah, Cleopatra’s pearl was naught
19 2|     poor life so dear?~ ~ NEAR. Ah, I must own my heart is
20 2|      breast—and shall endure;~ ~Ah, must the dawn of this my
21 3|      reign for maddening whip~ ~Ah! what a base, unworthy fear
22 3|     PAUL.What of them?~ ~ STRAT.Ah, how to speak—~ ~ PAUL.
23 3|          PAUL. Dead?~60~ STRAT. Ah, no, he lives—yet every
24 3|        had thy blame!~ ~ STRAT. Ah! I foresaw not this—their
25 3|         They can blaspheme, but ah, they cannot lie!~ ~They
26 3|         greater than they know. Ah, me!~ ~Thought surges upon
27 4|     would see my lord.~ ~ POLY. Ah, how my heart quails at
28 4|     this kindly service pay;~25~Ah, lose no time, time now
29 4|    Their pleasure wed to strife—ah, death the gate of life,—~ ~
30 4|         has the right!~ ~ POLY. Ah, for my country I would
31 4|         PAUL. One moment feign. Ah, let Severus go!~ ~Let but
32 4|     PAUL. For love’s dear sake, ah, listen to my prayer!~ ~
33 4|       more than sight!~ ~ PAUL. Ah, death, strange rival to
34 4|    GUARDS~~Who comes to invade, ah, not to cure my grief?~
35 4|      still the more I strive.~ ~Ah! must a woman, sunk in deep
36 4|         I would ban!~ ~ FABIAN. Ah, let the whole crew light
37 4|        all, then sail for Rome, ah! this were best!~ ~She loves
38 4|      must provoke revolt.~ ~And ah! where Christians live—there
39 5|   Preserve thy life!’~ ~ ALBIN. Ah, let Pauline at least thy
40 5|   forthwith embrace!~45~ ALBIN. Ah, this is stern!~ ~ FELIX.’
41 5|      POLY.Severus wed!~ ~ PAUL. Ah, this is outrage! Rather
42 5|     FELIX.To his death!~ ~ POLY.Ah, no to life!~ ~(To PAULINE.)
43 5|     kind!’~ ~The people I defy, ah, let them rage!~ 260~Severus
44 5| Unworthy deed for Roman knight! ah, me! [Aside.~ ~I would that
45 5|       ALBIN. I need not go, for ah—Pauline is here!~ ~ PAUL.