Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
page 80 of 114 (70%)
page 80 of 114 (70%)
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Ay?
SEG. Ay; and even told me of the very stars You tell me here of--how in spite of them, I was enlarged to all that glory. CLO. Ay, By the false spirits' nice contrivance thus A little truth oft leavens all the false, The better to delude us. SEG. For you know 'Tis nothing but a dream? CLO. Nay, you yourself Know best how lately you awoke from that You know you went to sleep on?-- Why, have you never dreamt the like before? SEG. Never, to such reality. CLO. Such dreams Are oftentimes the sleeping exhalations Of that ambition that lies smouldering Under the ashes of the lowest fortune; |
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