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Charles Di Tocca: A Tragedy

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2017
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Cardinal: To Rome?

Fulvia: Do not pause here to learn
With the dear minutes of a dying man.

    (Cardinal goes.

Charles: You baffle and bewilder.

Fulvia: Well.

Charles: You – ? – Yes!
I am beat off by it.

Fulvia: Ten years of shelter
Have you held over me.

Charles: Ten years —

Fulvia: Whose days,
Whose every moment else had borne a torture.

Charles: Now – ?

Fulvia: I, perhaps, must go.

Charles: Must? – Still I grope.

Fulvia: Must go! Though in this castle's aged calm
And melancholy dusk no shadow is
Or niche but may remember prayer for thee.

Charles: To Rome? You must? – I am under a spell.

Fulvia: We, thou and I, after the battle's foam
Or chase's tired return, often have breathed
The passionate deep hours away in rest
And sympathy.

Charles: Say on. Your voice – I marvel —

Fulvia: And at the dawn have looked and sighed, then slow
With quiet clasp of fingers turned apart.

Charles: You go? – But, on! – your tone – in it I feel —

Fulvia: Have we not fast been friends?

Charles: What hath your voice?

Fulvia: Such friends have we not been as grow up from
Eternity?

Charles: You say it, and I wake.

Fulvia: Such friends – till yesterday you —

Charles: Ah!

Fulvia: Changed sudden as the sea when cometh storm.

Charles: I had forgot – forgot! – the sun! – the sea!
The sea! – Antonio! – The cliff – the surf!
The shroud and funeral fury of the waves!

Fulvia: Be calm.

Charles (rising excitedly): I'll stay it! Cecco, our fleetest foot!
A rain of ducats if he shall outspeed
This doom on us. More! more! a flood of them,
If he —

Fulvia (drawing him to his chair): Be patient – calm.

Charles: I – I – remember,
'Tis night!

Fulvia: Yes, night.

Charles: The sun's no more! It hath
Gone down beyond all mercy and recall.

Fulvia: Beyond? – Ah!

Charles (quickly): Fulvia?

Fulvia: 'Tis hard to think!

Charles: You utter and he seemeth still of life.

Fulvia: He was a child in mimic mail clad out
When first this threshold poured its welcome to me.

Charles: Softly you muse it, and call to your eyes
No quailing nor a flame of execration!
You do not burst out on me? from me do
Not shrink as from an executioner?

Fulvia: I am a woman who in tears came to
Your strength, in tears depart.
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