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Poems, Dialogues in Verse and Epigrams

By Walter Savage Landor: Edited with notes by Charles G. Crump

Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)

FIRST VOLUME DRAMATIC SCENES.

SECOND VOLUME POEMS AND EPIGRAMS.

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SCENE I.

CASTLE OF MURO. Giovanna. Agatha. Otho. Officers.
Giovanna.
What shouts are those? whose voice, above them all,
Above the neighing horse and trumpet's clang,
Calls to the rescue? Can I doubt? . .
My Otho!
My Otho! rush not rashly into fight:
Thou canst not free me.

Agatha.
He has beat them off . .
He enters.

Officer.
Yes, he enters.

Otho
(wounded mortally).
Take the ransom . .
'Tis small . . 'tis only one worn life . . and loose her.

Giovanna.
Not from thy neck, my Otho, while thou livest,
Or while I live.

Otho.
Giovanna hath embraced me . .
I now have lived . . life should be over now.

Officer.
His breath is gone: bear him away: the king [Points to the Queen, who swoons.

May have commands for her.

Agatha.
My queen! my queen!
My friend! my comforter! Oh! that no more.

[Falls.