The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume II Part 131

[_Exit, VALDEZ following after her._

_Ordonio._ This, then, is my reward! and I must love her?

Scorn'd! shudder'd at! yet love her still? yes! yes!

By the deep feelings of revenge and hate 170 I will still love her--woo her--win her too! [_A pause._ Isidore safe and silent, and the portrait Found on the wizard--he, belike, self-poison'd To escape the crueller flames----My soul shouts triumph!

The mine is undermined! blood! blood! blood! 175 They thirst for thy blood! thy blood, Ordonio! [_A pause._ The hunt is up! and in the midnight wood With lights to dazzle and with nets they seek A timid prey: and lo! the tiger's eye Glares in the red flame of his hunter's torch! 180

To Isidore I will dispatch a message, And lure him to the cavern! aye, that cavern!

He cannot fail to find it. Thither I'll lure him, Whence he shall never, never more return!

[_Looks through the side window._

A rim of the sun lies yet upon the sea, 185 And now 'tis gone! All shall be done to-night. [_Exit._

FOOTNOTES:

[853:1] 45-6. Compare _The Death of Wallenstein_, Act I, Sc. IV, ll.

48-9. See note by J. D. Campbell, _P. W._, 1893, p. 650.

[856:1] It was pleasing to observe, during the Rehearsal all the Actors and Actresses and even the Mechanics on the stage cl.u.s.tering round while these lines were repeating just as if it had been a favourite strain of Music. But from want of depth and volume of voice in Rae, they did not produce an equal effect on the Public till after the Publication--and _then_ they (I understand) were applauded. I have never seen the Piece since the first Night. _S. T. C._

LINENOTES:

SCENE II] SCENE III. _Interior of a Chapel._ Edition 1.

[20] would he] wouldst thou Edition 1.

[22] _Teresa (wildly)._ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829. _Valdez (with averted countenance)._ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[24] A worse sorrow] And how painful Edition 1.

[41]

Was Alvar lost to thee-- [_Turning off, aloud, but yet as to himself._

Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[44] _Teresa (with faint shriek)._ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829. my] _my_ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[45] He grasp'd it in his death-pang! Edition 1. did] _did_ Editions 2, 3, 1829.

[49] Is] _Is_ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[52] Thou] _Thou_ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[After 55] Stage-direction om. Edition 1.

[67] _Ordonio (confused)._ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[73] _Valdez (confused)._ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[After 83] [_Turns off abruptly; then to himself._ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[84] grateful] _grateful_ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[94] _Ordonio (in a slow voice, as reasoning to himself)._ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[101] Had] _Had_ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[After 105] [_Averting himself._ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[107] _Ordonio (now in soliloquy, and now addressing his father; and just after the speech has commenced, Teresa_, &c. Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[110] kill'd] _kill'd_ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[After 110] [_TERESA starts and stops listening._ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[Before 115] _Ordonio (checking the feeling of surprise, and forcing his tones into an expression of playful courtesy)._ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[124] live] LIVE Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[128] him] HIM Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[After 128] [_Strides off in agitation towards the altar_, &c. Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[129] _Teresa (recoiling with the expression appropriate to the pa.s.sion)._ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829. thou] _thou_ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[131] beheld . . . he] _beheld . . . He_ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[134] grateful] _grateful_ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[135] _Valdez (looking with anxious disquiet at his Son, yet attempting to proceed with his description)._ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[146]

Starts up bewildered and talks idly. [_Then mysteriously._

Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[158] _Both._ Whither Edition 1.

[168] must] _must_ Editions 1, 2, 3.

[171] win] _win_ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.

[176] thy] _thy_ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829.