the Circus) yet will start, nagic in it? Wrinkled bel st uprear thou and I appear. The world, the prize; and fair be But soft! why do I waste the In threats unexecuted? Haste th These hated walls that seem to m And cast me forth in duty to the ACERONIA. 'Tis time we go, the sun is high And, ere mid-day, Nero will co AGRIPPINA. My thought aches at him; not t Yes, I will be gone, But not to Antium-all shall be confess'd Whate'er the frivolous tongue of giddy fa Has spread among the crowd; things t whisper'd Have arch'd the hearer's brow, and rivett His eyes in fearful ecstasy: No matter What; so't be strange, and dreadful.-S Assassinations, poisonings-the deeper My guilt, the blacker his ingratitude. And you, ye manes of Ambition's victi Enshrined Claudius, with the pitied ghost Of the Syllani, doom'd to early death, (Ye unavailing horrors, fruitless crimes!) If from the realms of night my voice ye h In lieu of penitence, and vain remorse, Accept my vengeance. Tho' by me ye hearer's brow, and rivetted 1 ecstasy: No matter and dreadful-Sorcer range, s, with the pitied ghosts ce. Tho' by me ye bled Let me hot fall alone; but crus SCENE II. OTHO, POPPÅ Thus far we're safe. OTHO. Thanks Of amorous thefts: And had h K A FRAGMENT [This is supposed to have been written abou when Mr. Gray returned to Ca HAIL, AIL, Horrors, hail! ye ev Ye gothic fanes, and antiquated Where rushy Camus' slowly-wi Perpetual draws his humid train Glad I revisit thy neglected reig Oh take me to thy peaceful sha But chiefly thee, whose influe high Augments the native darkness o Ah, Ignorance! soft salutary P Prostrate with filial reverence I Thrice hath Hyperion roll'd his Since weeping I forsook thy for K 2 |