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Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
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A SOLDIER (to Captain).
Stay, stay; I remember--
Hark in your ear a moment.
(Whispers.)

CAPT.
So--so--so?--
Oh, now indeed I do not wonder, sir,
Your senses dazzle under practices
Which treason, shrinking from its own device,
Would now persuade you only was a dream;
But waking was as absolute as this
You wake in now, as some who saw you then,
Prince as you were and are, can testify:
Not only saw, but under false allegiance
Laid hands upon--

SOLDIER 1.
I, to my shame!

SOLDIER 2.
And I!

CAPT.
Who, to wipe out that shame, have been the first
To stir and lead us--Hark!
(Shouts, trumpets, etc.)

A SOLDIER.
Our forces, sir,
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