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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 VI.

NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS. Maximin. Durazzo.
Maximin.
Gallant prince!
Conqueror of more than men, of more than heroes!
What may that soldier merit who deserts

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His post, and lets the enemy to the tent?

Durazzo.
Death is the sentence.

Maximin.
Sign that sentence then.
I shall be found beside a new-made grave
In Santa Chiara.

Durazzo.
Art thou mad?

Maximin.
I shall be
If you delay.

Durazzo
(to Guards).
See this man into Hungary.