Count Alarcos; a Tragedy by Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli
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I:2:17 COUN.
Hast thou still foes I:2:18 ALAR. I trust so; I should not be what I am, Still less what I will be, if hate did not Pursue me as my shadow. Ah! fair wife, Thou knowest not Burgos. Thou hast yet to fathom The depths of thy new world. I:2:19 COUN. I do recoil As from some unknown woo, from this same world. I thought we came for peace. I:2:20 ALAR. Peace dwells within No lordly roof in Burgos. We have come For triumph. I:2:21 COUN. So I share thy lot, Alarcos, All feelings are the same. I:2:22 ALAR. My Florimonde, I took thee from a fair and pleasant home In a soft land, where, like the air they live in, Men's hearts are mild. This proud and fierce Castille Resembles not thy gentle Aquitaine, |
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