Atto

 1 1|    power~ ~As sovereigns o’er man’s heart! Poor regents of
 2 1|       absorbing and imperious man!~ ~ STRAT. Ah, man does
 3 1|  imperious man!~ ~ STRAT. Ah, man does what he wills—we, what
 4 1|      And spring from Jove for man’s admonishment.~ ~ PAUL.
 5 1|      Who as a son regards the man you hold so dear?~ 245~To
 6 1|    war with gods and not with man!~ 255~Relentless wills our
 7 2|         Might prove thee also man—by passion slain.~95~She
 8 2|    made me, fated—wed another man.~ ~Let Duty still be queen!
 9 2|     right;~ ~The general is a man of honour,—he~ ~Would ne’
10 2|       His way be ours to lead man’s soul to God—~ ~For heathen
11 3|    father’s heart to hate the man thou crown’st with love!~
12 3|  heart is fixed—past power of man to estrange.~ ~This is no
13 3|       and vex mine ear,~ ~For man is deaf to what he will
14 3|    fear his hate,~ ~For he is man, and feels as man, and I~ ~
15 3|       he is man, and feels as man, and I~ ~Once spurned his
16 3|       in the dust,~ ~So, as a man he hopes—because he must.~ ~
17 4|   surely guard~ ~One fettered man in safest watch and ward,—~ ~
18 4| resign:~ ~To thee, as noblest man that I have known;—~ ~Since
19 4|   Christian bliss~ 255~Beyond man’s soul to grasp! To spurn
20 4|    sake.~ 285~Christ died for man—let pagan virtue dim~ ~His
21 4|     victory fair.~ ~To help a man to be what thou wouldst
22 4|       a task too great,~ ~For man or God: thou rushest on
23 4|        whate’er befall;~ ~The man who loseth honour loseth
24 5|       ALBIN. I see a generous man, who cries, ‘Forgive,~ ~
25 5|    sequence is most plain—the man betrayed betrays;~ ~Severus,
26 5|    his love.~ ~Here comes the man~ ~Enter POLYEUCTE and SOLDIERS~~
27 5|       joinéd be.~ ~O wretched man, hast thou no eyes to see,
28 5|     undo!~ ~ POLY. Arise, old man, from knees unused to bend,~
29 5|   mean the State,~ ~To wilful man there comes relentless fate;~ ~