Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
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page 97 of 114 (85%)
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SOLDIERS. --Segismund, Segismund, Prince Segismund! --Our own King Segismund, etc. (They all rise.) SEG. Again? So soon?--What, not yet done with me? The sun is little higher up, I think, Than when I last lay down, To bury in the depth of your own sea You that infest its shallows. CAPT. Sir! SEG. And now, Not in a palace, not in the fine clothes We all were in; but here, in the old place, And in our old accoutrement-- Only your vizors off, and lips unlock'd To mock me with that idle title-- CAPT. Nay, Indeed no idle title, but your own, Then, now, and now for ever. For, behold, Ev'n as I speak, the mountain passes fill And bristle with the advancing soldiery |
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