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 1 1|           Pauline is wrung with fear—by day—by night;~ ~My road
 2 1|     drops hath ne’er a taint of fear!~ ~Who dreads not torture,
 3 1|       wait!~ ~ POLY.Appease her fear! Ah, this~ ~Alone will give
 4 1|            Doth honour call?—or fear’st thou for thy life?~115~
 5 1|        must needs be thine, thy fear my fear,~ ~And, that the
 6 1|     needs be thine, thy fear my fear,~ ~And, that the horror
 7 1|        shade? How a fond father fear,~ ~Who as a son regards
 8 1|     rest——~ ~ PAUL. By what new fear, say, is thy heart opprest?~ ~
 9 1|      PAUL.Ah! this no cause for fear!~ ~ FELIX. At Decius’ court,
10 1|   Unnerves me quite.~ 310~ PAUL.Fear not, his soul is great.~ ~
11 1|       no guilt shall stain.~ ~I fear the combat that I may not
12 2|        that other woe—forgotten fear!~ ~Ah! let me breathe, some
13 2|        own my heart is slave to fear.~ 325~The rack! The cross!
14 3|       comes not to the birth—~ ~Fear hydra-headed terror still
15 3|       serve by contrast to make fear more dark.~ ~Severus haunts
16 3|       Ah! what a base, unworthy fear is mine!~ ~How ill I read
17 3|        40~Hope but deceived,—my fear alone I trust,~ ~Heaven
18 3| vengeance wreak?~55~ STRAT. Oh, fear whate’er thou wilt—that
19 3|         whate’er thou wilt—that fear too small!~ ~ PAUL. The
20 3|      the bond I owe I seal;~ ~I fear my father,—all his vengeance,
21 3|        disdained.~ ~Thus pallid fear broods over all, presaging
22 3|        Jove alone, but Decius I fear:—~ 220~But why anticipate
23 3|         power, which now I only fear,~ ~Make thou that power
24 3|       must kill;~ 300~Love—hate—fear—pain: I am of each the prey,~ ~
25 3|       strife,~ ~For my renown I fear,—fear for my life.~ ~I must
26 3|           For my renown I fear,—fear for my life.~ ~I must myself
27 3|      work my ruin quite—~ 325~I fear his power, his wrath,—for
28 3|        er, worth what it may, I fear his hate,~ ~For he is man,
29 3|      rust but laggards are.~ ~I fear—and fear both give our vision
30 3|      laggards are.~ ~I fear—and fear both give our vision scope—~
31 4|        friend to aid, or foe to fear?~ ~Is it Christ’s soldier
32 4|        from a world begirt with fear.~ ~For life’s stern race
33 5|          and his gifts, alike I fear!~ ~If Polyeucte still to
34 5|      There! Then understand and fear!~100~ FELIX. Nay, nay, in
35 5|  console her—Go! what dost thou fear?~ 290~Enter PAULINE~~ ALBIN.
36 5|        fail!~ 305~Dread Decius! Fear Severus! Fear thy fall!~ ~
37 5|     Dread Decius! Fear Severus! Fear thy fall!~ ~Oh, speed me
38 5|      the grave,~ ~The slaves of fear themselves alone enslave.~ ~
39 5|          A Christian thou? Then fear my wrath no more,~ 375~Thy
40 5|     persecution baseless as his fear.~ ~ FELIX. Severus—thou