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 1 1|         thousandfold!~ ~ PAUL.Great Gods above!~ ~ POLY. Thou hast
 2 1|                Yet do they war with gods and not with man!~ 255~Relentless
 3 1|        comes! Is near——~ ~ PAUL.The gods——~ ~ FELIX.Do all things
 4 2|             I obey:~ ~What reck the gods on high our sacrifice and
 5 2|          lie!~ ~If this be true!—ye gods—can I be I?~ ~ FABIAN. No,
 6 2|                NEAR. Not mine their gods!~ ~ POLY.He calls me! I
 7 2|              trample under foot the gods that men have wrought;~
 8 2|         them see the light!~ ~Their gods of stone, of clay, but vampires
 9 3|      serpent slay!~75~Who mocks the Gods on high will his own wife
10 3|           quail.~115~‘Vain are your gods of wood and stone!’ his
11 3|           light.~ ~ PAUL. O, by the Gods—~ ~ FELIX.Nay, daughter,
12 3|           Spurned—outraged—’tis the Gods demand his death.~ ~ PAUL.
13 3|           shall fall!~ ~ FELIX. The Gods—the Emperor—rule over all.~ ~
14 3|           cruel grave!~ 310~’Gainst Gods and Emperor too sore the
15 4|        hopes, assuages fears.~ ~Thy gods are deaf and senseless,
16 4|             strange!~ ~Not thus, ye Gods! Severus had been blind~ ~
17 4|         this my will, were this, ye Gods, my fate—~ 280~To shame
18 4|               Tis hers, and, by the Gods, it shall be mine!~ 325~
19 4|          nothing new:~ ~To thousand gods men build, unchecked, their
20 4| metamorphoses confuse the mind~ ~As gods in cats, and saints in fiends
21 4|             commands,~ ~While pagan gods each ’gainst the other strive,~ ~
22 5|          turn to swift revenge. The gods defied~ ~May do their will
23 5|            125~ POLY. I thought the gods were dead, but they revive~ ~
24 5|          erthrown;—~135~Shall I the gods by incense pacify?~ ~Or
25 5|              Pray then to these thy gods of wood and stone,—~ ~To
26 5|            of wood and stone,—~ ~To gods who every deed of crime
27 5|            most just.~ ~Die! or the gods adore!~ 245~ POLY.A Christian
28 5|         FELIX.Thou must~ ~Adore the gods I say! Adore, or die!~ ~
29 5|          Why did he thus assail the gods and me~ ~With insult, and
30 5|                Lead me to these—the gods by thee confest,~ 310~Some
31 5|            rest!~ ~There, there the gods thou fearest I will brave,~ ~
32 5|         will~ ~That each to his own gods be faithful still,~ ~Let