[footnote] *Nimrod is here used for Atlas. "Nimrod aber ist hier,
was den Profandichtern und auch dem Calderon oft Atlas ist." --
Schmidt, 'Die Schauspiele Calderon's' etc.,' p. 426.



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SCENE II.

PATRICK, and then LUIS ENIUS.

PATRICK [within]. Ah me!

LEOGAIRE. Some mournful voice.

KING. What's this?

CAPTAIN. The form,
As of a man who has escaped the storm,
Swims yonder to the land.

LESBIA. And strives to give a life-sustaining hand
Unto another wretch, when he
Appeared about to sink in death's last agony.

POLONIA. Poor traveller from afar,
Whom evil fate and thy malignant star
On this far shore have cast,