Sappho And Phaon; a Tragedy, Set Forth With a Prologue, Induction, Prelude, Interludes, And Epilogue
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PITTACUS [Raising his sfaffJ] Go! ALC^US Sniggling demagogue ! [Enter, right, Phaon — his shoulders stooped beneath a burden of drift-ivood. Moving toward the temple, his path lies between Alcceus and Pittacus.\ PITTACUS Thou, swollen-up with words And bitter wind, presumptuous Fop — 74 SAPPHO AND PHAON ALCyEUS Mule of Mitylene, Bray ! Let the temple fillies Hark to thy hee-haw. PITTACUS Zeus, Chastise this man ! {Striking at AIccbus, who springs back, the staff of Pittacus falls and breaks upo...n Phaon, who receives the blow with mute passivity and passes on to the temple. Pittacus slowly lets fall the pieces of his staffs Eternal Zeus, thy hand Hath interposed this slave. Look where he goes, Alcaeus ; dumb, submissive, yet my blow Fell undeserved. ALCEUS A pack-beast ! PITTACUS True ; and yet His silence hath a peace majestical. His unresistingness, an awe ! 'Tis we That, by comparison, are petty : we That for a snarling ideality Yelp at each other like Actaeon's dogs To tear our master — our own self-command.
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