See how succeeding passions rage by turns, Let no nice taste the poet's art arraign, But shew you men and women as they are. The maid, the wife, the mistress, and the friend : 25 30 35 SCENE, Sciolto's PALACE AND Garden, with SOME PART OF THE STREET NEAR IT, IN GENOA Dramatis Persona. 1703 ed. prints the Epilogue between the Prologue and this. The Fair Penitent ACT I. SCENE I. Scene, a Garden belonging to Sciolto's Palace. Altamont. Let this auspicious day be ever No mourning, no misfortunes happen on it; Chuse it to bless their hopes, and crown their This happy day that gives me my Calista. Horatio. Yes, Altamont; to-day thy better stars Are join'd to shed their kindest influence on thee: Sciolto's noble hand, that rais'd thee first, 5 Half dead and drooping o'er thy father's grave, 10 6 my. 1732 omits. The merit of thy godlike father's arms; Before that country which he long had serv'd, 15 In watchful councils, and in winter camps, Had cast off his white age to want and wretch- And made their court to faction by his ruin. Let me not live, but at thy very name heat, To be the scorn of earth and curse of heav'n. 20 25 Hor. So open, so unbounded was his goodness, 30 It reach'd ev'n me, because I was thy friend. When that great man I lov'd, thy noble father, Bequeath'd thy gentle sister to my arms, His last dear pledge and legacy of friendship, That happy tye made me Sciolto's son; He call'd us his, and with a parent's fondness 20 live. 1732 omits comma after live, but inserts it after name. 25 driven. 1732, driv❜n. 27-28 To bear . . . heat. F omits. 35 tell ead nothings othe SCENE I gudThe Fair Penitent II Indulged us in his wealth, blest us with plenty, That nothing but a miracle could raise 'em ; Hor. didst, Yet what thou cou'dst thou And didst it like a son; when his hard creditors, His venerable corps to rest in earth, mercy, Sour, unrelenting, mony-loving villains, Who laugh at human nature and forgiveness, 40 raise. F, save. 52-56 With piety. . . destruction. F omits. 40 45 50 55 |