OP Unhurt amidst the way of elements, whiMO My soul is quite weigh a down with eare, and asks The wreck of matter, and the crus of worlds. The soft refreslment of a mometit's sleep. S [Exit. What means this heaviness that hang upon me, smid gogu a 9 9le guide to bi This lethargy that creeps through all my senses? jeol yeast aid PORTIUS: 'dotetta mud wsz Nature oppress’d, and harass!d out with care My thoughts are more at ease, my heart revives. Sinks down to rest. This once I'll favour her e 10 Ribu wa Enter MARCIX. That iny awakend soul may take her flight, 19 Renew'd in all her strength, and fresh with life, O Marcia, O my sister, still there's hope An offering fit for Heaven. Let guilt or fear Our father will not cast away a life Disturb man's rest, Cato knows neither of them, So needful to us all, and to his country. Toen Indifferent in his choice, to sleep or die.eger H He is retir'd to rest, and seems to cherish (hence uid Thoughts full of peace. He has dispatch'd me BIOOVI33 nig994 Enter PORTIUS. 992 o abusme With orders that bespeak a mind compos'd, ya But ha ! how's this, my son why this intrusion: And studious for the safety of his friends. stw Were not my orders that I would be private? Marcia, take care that none disturb his slumbers. Why am I disobey'd? SIAP ASUL 1938 [Erit. bori obserb PORTIUS. Toisas novasHO MARCIA. Petisi yofas Alas, my father! SoT Oye immortal powers, that guard the just, What means this sword a this instrument of death? | Watch round his couch, and soften his repose, Let me convey it hencerqouint ydt ons 029dT Banish his sorrows, and becalm his soal wat With easy dreamsg remember all his virtuess W CATO. And show mankind that goodness is your eate - bus Rash youth, forbear! 292 201092 9dt Iste mort aterij nozie tanto asal sa b arrot PORTIUS.)) assied b'seimad Enter LUCIA, id2 sdi tro eyale O let the prayers, th'entreaties of your friends, 9 to anel dti'bron edi lls esyo baa LUCIA. Their tears, their common danger, wrest it from B019DT Where is your father, Marcia, where is Cato! 18youb 1913 y 91-901 7890 909 Euro 5 si 192 ziert 701 to CATO,113 od gnidt Vos penerist a 9 MARCIA, ogaib liide si sa Lucia, speak low;" he is retirdito restavba Wouldst thou betray met wouldst thou give me Lucia, I feel a gently-dawning hope M r Bioqmi to tedwom LUCIA 2 a tool auto Or know, young man l'aq93 w od (EX 700028 Alas. I tremble when I think on Catooit te PORPIUS. In every view, in every thought I trembleborussU Cato is stern, and awful as a göd; You know I'd rather die than disobey youssa A He knows not how to wink åt human frailty, 125 136 7910206b eid b 01 sver ton blow isotonijait llboyob Or pardon weakness that he pever felt,sw Fea CAT, MIS SEE $ud 'Tis well! again I'm master of myself. 900 W 928228g 101 31 MARCIA.bren d ist M YENI (1990 Easy and good, and bounteous to my wishes 31901. ad quos dim yod 1982A O sir, forgive your son, Can som tedwelmsd to Whose grief hangs heavy on him! O my father! Tis his consent alone can make us bless dana How am I sure it is not the last time Marcia, we both are equally involv'd The cruel hand of fate, that has destroy'd blivit ar boa To quit the dreadful purpose of your soul of a 1200 Teuton Nona i - to inuugd MARCIA.oo aid 75 20700M IDPE) MICATO Cid 1890 Busa dua | And ever shall lament, unhappy youth. VESH Thou hast been ever good and dutiful. da bu [Embracing him. Has set my soul at large, and now I stand Or how he has determind of thyself? MARCIA. Let him but live! commit the rest to Heaven. su CATO. da sadur blitt Portius, thou may'st rely upon my conduct. Enter LUCIUS. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. LUCIUS. But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting Among thy father's friends: see them embark”d; Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man! And tell me if the winds and seas befriend them. | Marcia, I have seen thy godlike father: AJO Some power invisible supports his soul, JUORUM | O Marcia, what we fear'd is come to pass! LUCIUS. ,"; iri 52.130 i ...i ng'... O Portius, '. In pleasing dreams; as I drew near his couch, He smil'd, and cry'd-Cæsar, thou canst not hurt | Hide all the losrours of thy mournful tale, me! And let us guess the rest. !! Pov'USOLF 1! All' - ! ! MARCIA. u , 7br: PORTIUS. 19 lank wees" u: His mind still labours with some dreadful thought. an :L ad I?ve raise him up, A And plac'd him in his chair, where pale and faint, 1 . LUCIUS. He gasps for breath, and, as his life flows from Lucia, why all this grief, these foods of sorrow? him, Dry up thy tears, my child; we all are safe : Demands to see his friends. His weeping servants. While Cato lives his presence will protect us. | Obsequious to his orders, bear him bither, , ! [The back scene opens, and discovers CATO. Enter JUBA. MARCIA. Inn O Heaven, assist me in this dreadful hour To pay the last sad duties to my father! These are thy triumphs, thy exploits, o Cæsar! On the high point of yon bright western tower LUCTUS. We ken them from afar; the setting Sun Now is Romc falla indeed! Plays on their shining arms and burnish'd helmets, (CATO brought forward in his chair. And covers all the field with gleams of fire. Izbrisit To 10 294,- CATO. 2.1 1 . Fruit si 29TH 19g16" W 179 Here set me down Marcia, 'tis time we should awake thy father. • Portius, come near me are my friends embark'd? Cæsar is still dispos'd to give us terms, | Can any thing be thought of for their service ? And waits at distance till he hears from Cato. Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain... T O Lucius, art thou here? - Thou art too good. 10... - B y Let this our friendship live between 'our children; Portius, thy looks speak somewbat of importance. Make Portius happy in thy daughter Lucia. What tidings dost thou bring? metbioks I see Alas, poor man, he weeps !-Marcia, my daugh. Unusual gladness, sparkling in thy eyes. :) ter ITIOT bend me forward ! Juba loves thee, Marcia, 3 . PORTIUS. , , |A senator of Rome, while Rome surviv'd,, As I was hasting to the port, where now . Would not have match'd bis daughter with a king: But Cæsar's arms have thrown down all distinction; My father's friends, impatient for a passage, Whoe'er is brave and virtuous, is a Roman, Acouse the lingering winds, a sail arriv'd. -I'm sick to death when shall I get loose From Pompey's son, who, through the realms of From this vain world, th' abode of guilt and sorSpain : row! ,, . ? Calls out for vengeance on his father's death, -And yet methinks a beam of light breaks in And rouses the whole nation up to arms., On my departing soul. Alas, I fear Were Cato at their head, once more might Rome I've been too hasty. Oye powers, that search Assert her rights, and claim her liberty. The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, But hark! what means that groan? O give me way, | If I have done amiss, impute it not! And let me fly into my father's presence. [Exit. The best may err, but you are good, andoh! LUCIUS. Cato, amidst his slumbers, thinks on Rome, There fled the greatest soul that ever warna'd And in the wild disorder of his soul A Roman breast. Cato! O my friend! Mourns o'er his country; ha! a second groan! Thy will shall be religiously observ'd. But let us bear this awful corpse to Cæsar, And lay it in his sight, that it may stand, A fence betwixt us and the victor's wrath ; Cato, though dead, shall still protect his friends. "Tis death is in that sound From hence, let fierce contending nations know What dire effects from civil discord flow. 'Tis this that shakes our country with alarms, And gives up Rome a prey to Roman arms, . .. PORTIUS. Produces frand, and cruelty, and strife, [Exeunt Omnes. PORTIUS. !" : ! [Dies, LUCIUS. ENV OF VOL IX. |