The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - LightNovelsOnl.com
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[Before 1]
_A wild and mountainous Country. ORDONIO and ISIDORE are discovered, supposed at a little distance from Isidore's house._
_Ord._ Here we may stop: your house distinct in view, Yet we secured from listeners.
_Isid._ Now indeed My house! and it looks cheerful as the cl.u.s.ters Basking in suns.h.i.+ne on yon vine-clad rock That overbrows it! Patron! Friend! Preserver!
Thrice have you sav'd my life.
Remorse.
[6] Had been my bed and pillow Remorse.
[12] And how, my Lord, I pray you to name Remorse.
[14] Stage-direction om. Remorse.
[17] this world] mankind Remorse.
[19] Stage-direction om. Remorse.
[Between 24 and 26]
Why you can utter with a solemn gesture Oracular sentences of deep no-meaning
Remorse.
[27-8] The words in square brackets are interpolated in MS. I. They are in their place, as here, in MSS. II, III, and in Remorse.
[31] on] upon Remorse.
[34-5]
And such do love the marvellous too well Not to believe it. We will wind up her fancy
Remorse.
[Between 40 and 41]
_Isid._ Will that be a sure sign?
_Ord._ Beyond suspicion.
Fondly caressing him, her favour'd lover, (By some base spell he had bewitched her senses.) She whisper'd such dark fears of me forsooth, As made this heart pour gall into my veins, And as she coyly bound it round his neck, She made him promise silence; and now holds The secret of the existence of this portrait Known only to her lover and herself.
But I had traced her, stolen unnotic'd on them, And unsuspected saw and heard the whole.
Remorse.
[41] _Isid._ But now, &c. Remorse.
[44-7] om. Remorse.
[47] _Isidore._ Why--why, my lord! Remorse.
[Between 50 and 53]
Return'd, yourself, and she, and the honour of both Must perish. Now though with no tenderer scruples Than those which being native to the heart, Than those, my lord, which merely being a man--
Remorse.
Stage-direction before 53 om. Remorse.
[55-6]
These doubts, these fears, thy whine, thy stammering-- Pish, fool! thou blund'rest through the book of guilt
Remorse.
[After 63] _Ord._ Virtue-- Remorse.
[64] _Isid._ Tries to o'erreach me, &c. Remorse.
[66] Stage-direction om. Remorse.
[68] And those, the two Morescoes who were with you? Remorse.
[75] Am not I a man? Remorse.
[81] Stage-direction om. Remorse.
[84] which] that Remorse.
[93] his] its Remorse.
[94] That woman is dishonoured Remorse.
[98] him] his Remorse.
[100] last] length Remorse.
[103] Stage-direction om. Remorse.
[104] He was his Maker's image undefac'd Remorse.
[106] Stage-direction om. Remorse.
[111] Stage-direction om. Remorse.
[113] Stage-direction om. Remorse.
[117] _Isidore._ You are disturb'd, my lord Remorse.
