The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works
The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works
Vittorio Alfieri
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So, I wish thoe to excel me : and to prove Thy greater excellence, thou shouldst survive me : And in the name of thy renown, do I Enjoin thee to do this* To thee would death Be a disgrace ; for to it love alone Could prompt thee : life were a disgrace to me. Since love alone could force mo to endure it* My deatbj thou know'et, is indispensable : To me thou swaredst it ; and such a gift Would yet be grateful to me from thy hands : Not by refusing it canst thou avert My settled purpose. In this v...ery place, Before the camp, immovable and mute. Yet three more days, which 1 shall add to this. In which I have not slaked my burning thirst ^*en with a draught of water, will assure me sa v.] soPHONiSBA. 257 Perfect ascendency o'er Rome. But, ah ! Is it compassion in thee, thus to leave me To a protracted agonizing death, When thou hadst promised to procure me one Both brief and dignified ? . . . Fool that I was I Trusting in thee alone, I hither came . . . Ma, Thou on our death hast then resolved ?
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