Atto

 1 1|    Once more by counsel of my father led,~ 205~To Armenia’s greatest
 2 1|       his feet!~ ~I cried, ‘O father, timely succour bear!’~ ~
 3 1|     dread a shade? How a fond father fear,~ ~Who as a son regards
 4 1|    250~For Christian blood my father has outpoured!~ ~ STRAT.
 5 1|   court disgrace!~ ~ PAUL. My father comes—oh, peace!~ 260~Enter
 6 1|   dream fulfilled! But how? O father, tell!~ 275~ FELIX. Let
 7 1|          335~Wouldst thou thy father and his weal betray?~ ~
 8 1|   shame!—come every ill!~ ~My father thou!—and I thy daughter
 9 1|     foe!~ ~Yet will I arm me! Father, I would go~ 345~To steel
10 2|        This mandate binds her father only; she~ ~Shall give no
11 2|      hand refuse.~85~Duty—her father—Fate—these willed, she but
12 2|     mine to choose, for he—my father’s choice—~ ~Must needs be
13 2|  beloved, adored—~ ~Yet at my father’s word, ‘Not this thy lord;~ ~
14 2|    wast my heaven!~ ~ PAUL.My father I obeyed—~ ~ SEV. O victim
15 2|       great the knight,~ ~Thy father will command to do me right;~ ~
16 3|   reach over all.~ ~Oh, if my father bow to Roman might,~ ~If
17 3|    speak—~ ~ PAUL. They on my father would their vengeance wreak?~
18 3|       owe I seal;~ ~I fear my father,—all his vengeance, dread.~
19 3|     much!—he dies!~ ~ PAUL. O father!—on my knees! (kneels).
20 3|    mine shall ever move~ ~Thy father’s heart to hate the man
21 3|    And grant a boon denied by father’s love!~ ~ FELIX. My love
22 3|       embrace!~ ~My duty—to a father’s love betrayed—~ ~Hath
23 3|      his sect.~ ~Is ’t thus a father pleads for his own son?~ ~
24 3|          For mine is thine; O father, save thine own—~ 210~ FELIX.
25 3|        No more!—~ 245~ PAUL.O father!~ ~Enter ALBIN~~ FELIX.Albin,
26 3|      PAUL. ’Tis as I said—oh, father, yet once more—~ ~If thou
27 3|      had to give,~ 265~Grant, father, this one prayer—Let Polyeucte
28 3|      Go! vex no more a loving father’s ear,~ ~From Polyeucte’
29 3|    undone!~ ~ ALBIN. Decius a father is, and must excuse~ 315~
30 3|        and must excuse~ 315~A father’s love—oh, he will not refuse!~ ~
31 4|      Severus go!~ ~Let but my father all his kindness show!~150~
32 4|      show!~150~ POLY. Another Father mine! His love most dear~ ~
33 4|      be!~ ~His pardon will my father grant to thee.~ ~He fears
34 5|  noble heart he feigns.~5~The father he abhors,—the daughter
35 5| lights the funeral pyre?~ ~My father should, by nature, be my
36 5|   slew;~ ~And he is mad,—but, father, thou art sane,~ ~And thou,
37 5|     art sane,~ ~And thou, his father, must his friend remain.~ ~
38 5|   must his friend remain.~ ~A father cannot less than father
39 5|       father cannot less than father be,~ ~Oh, be to him what
40 5|       Oh, not a tyrant, but a father be,~ ~Forgive,—give back—
41 5|        FELIX. Dear child, thy father is thy father still,~ 200~
42 5|      child, thy father is thy father still,~ 200~Nothing hath
43 5|    Thou tread’st the path thy father shall begin;~ ~By me his