The Purgatory of St. Patrick by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
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Let my voice guide thee, if amid the blast
My accents thou canst hear; since it is only To rouse thy courage that I speak to thee. Come! [Enter PATRICK and LUIS ENIUS, clasping each other. PATRICK. Oh, God save me! LUIS. Oh, the devil save ME! LESBIA. They move my pity, these unhappy two. KING. Not mine, for what it is I never knew. PATRICK. Oh, sirs, if wretchedness Can move most hearts to pity man's distress, I will not think that here A heart can be so cruel and severe As to repel a wretch from out the wave. Pity, for God's sake, at your feet I crave. LUIS. I don't, for I disdain it. From God or man I never hope to gain it. KING. Say who you are; we then shall know What hospitable care your needs we owe. But first I will inform you of my name, Lest ignorance of that perchance might claim Exemption from respect, and words be said |
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