Atto

 1 1|      grant a timely truce.~ ~ NEAR. How grant you know not
 2 1|  grant to pity this delay?~ ~ NEAR. So doth the ghostly foe
 3 1|     must he love no other?~ ~ NEAR. He may—he must! ’Tis Christ
 4 1|      He will make me bold!~ ~ NEAR. Be bold! O come!~ ~ POLY.
 5 1|       home but banishment!~ ~ NEAR. Come!—to return. Thrice
 6 1|      bliss.~ ~She comes!~105~ NEAR.Then fly!~ ~ POLY.I cannot!~ ~
 7 1|     fly!~ ~ POLY.I cannot!~ ~ NEAR.To deny~ ~Would yield thine
 8 1|       might victorious Caesar near his home~ ~To claim the
 9 1|           FELIX. He comes! Is near——~ ~ PAUL.The gods——~ ~
10 2|      STRATONICE and CLEON.~ ~ NEAR. Where go’st thou?~ ~ POLY.
11 2|     temple is the call.~ 280~ NEAR. What! Wouldst thou mingle
12 2|       the cross didst set?~ ~ NEAR. Not mine their gods!~ ~
13 2|    calls me! I must go!~ 285~ NEAR. I fly their altars!~ ~
14 2|       has He died in vain?~ ~ NEAR. Let timely moderation temper
15 2|     am I! His woe my weal!~ ~ NEAR. In love with death?~ 300~
16 2|       So death is victory!~ ~ NEAR. Thy flesh is weak!~ ~ POLY.
17 2|      He will make me bold!~ ~ NEAR. And if thou waver?~ 305~
18 2|    POLY.He will me uphold!~ ~ NEAR. To tempt the Lord thy God
19 2|     cursed tempter, hence!~ ~ NEAR. In time of need the faith
20 2|    sacrifice unblessed.~ 310~ NEAR. Seek thou the death thine
21 2|       every martyr shares!~ ~ NEAR. A life of duty well that
22 2| doubts, his faith is dead!~ ~ NEAR. Not death the Christian’
23 2|   most sure, most blessed!~ ~ NEAR. Thou woo’st thy death!~ ~
24 2|    this poor life so dear?~ ~ NEAR. Ah, I must own my heart
25 2|   faith makes faith a lie!~ ~ NEAR. Who leans upon a reed shall
26 2|        Thou fearest death?~ ~ NEAR.The Christ once feared to
27 2| beclouded, dimmed, astray?~ ~ NEAR. Baptismal waters yet bedew
28 2|      issue is with God.~ 370~ NEAR. The cause is just, is true—