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Scene A MADHOUSE	A
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Persons VISITOR PHYSICIAN AND PATIENT	B
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VISITOR	C
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I'll know no more the heart is torn	D
By views of woe we cannot heal	E
Long shall I see these things forlorn	D
And oft again their griefs shall feel	E
As each upon the mind shall steal	E
That wan projector's mystic style	F
That lumpish idiot leering by	G
That peevish idler's ceaseless wile	F
And that poor maiden's half form'd smile	F
While struggling for the full drawn sigh	G
I'll know no more	H
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PHYSICIAN	I
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Yes turn again	J
Then speed to happier scenes thy way	K
When thou hast view'd what yet remain	L
The ruins of Sir Eustace Grey	K
The sport of madness misery's prey	K
But he will no historian need	M
His cares his crimes will he display	K
And show as one from frenzy freed	M
The proud lost mind the rash done deed	M
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That cell to him is Greyling Hall	N
Approach he'll bid thee welcome there	O
Will sometimes for his servant call	N
And sometimes point the vacant chair	O
He can with free and easy air	O
Appear attentive and polite	P
Can veil his woes in manners fair	O
And pity with respect excite	P
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PATIENT	B
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Who comes Approach 'tis kindly done	I
My learn'd physician and a friend	Q
Their pleasures quit to visit one	I
Who cannot to their ease attend	Q
Nor joys bestow nor comforts lend	Q
As when I lived so blest so well	R
And dreamt not I must soon contend	Q
With those malignant powers of hell	R
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PHYSICIAN	I
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'Less warmth Sir Eustace or we go '	-
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PATIENT	B
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See I am calm as infant love	S
A very child but one of woe	T
Whom you should pity not reprove	S
But men at ease who never strove	S
With passions wild will calmly show	T
How soon we may their ills remove	S
And masters of their madness grow	T
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Some twenty years I think are gone	U
Time flies I know not how away	K
The sun upon no happier shone	V
Nor prouder man than Eustace Grey	K
Ask where you would and all would say	K
The man admired and praised of all	N
By rich and poor by grave and gay	K
Was the young lord of Greyling Hall	N
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Yes I had youth and rosy health	W
Was nobly form'd as man might be	X
For sickness then of all my wealth	W
I never gave a single fee	X
The ladies fair the maidens free	X
Were all accustom'd then to say	K
Who would a handsome figure see	X
Should look upon Sir Eustace Grey	K
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He had a frank and pleasant look	Y
A cheerful eye and accent bland	Z
His very speech and manner spoke	A2
The generous heart the open hand	Z
About him all was gay or grand	Z
He had the praise of great and small	N
He bought improved projected plann'd	Z
And reign'd a prince at Greyling Hall	N
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My lady she was all we love	S
All praise to speak her worth is faint	B2
Her manners show'd the yielding dove	S
Her morals the seraphic saint	B2
She never breath'd nor look'd complaint	B2
No equal upon earth had she	X
Now what is this fair thing I paint	B2
Alas as all that live shall be	X
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There was beside a gallant youth	C2
And him my bosom's friend I had	D2
Oh I was rich in very truth	C2
It made me proud it made me mad	D2
Yes I was lost but there was cause	E2
Where stood my tale I cannot find	F2
But I had all mankind's applause	G2
And all the smiles of womankind	F2
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There were two cherub things beside	F2
A gracious girl a glorious boy	H2
Yet more to swell my full blown pride	F2
To varnish higher my fading joy	H2
Pleasures were ours without alloy	H2
Nay Paradise till my frail Eve	S
Our bliss was tempted to destroy	H2
Deceived and fated to deceive	S
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But I deserved for all that time	I2
When I was loved admired caress'd	F2
There was within each secret crime	I2
Unfelt uncancell'd unconfess'd	F2
I never then my God address'd	F2
In grateful praise or humble prayer	O
And if His Word was not my jest	F2
Dread thought it never was my care	O
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I doubted fool I was to doubt	F2
If that all piercing eye could see	X
If He who looks all worlds throughout	F2
Would so minute and careful be	X
As to perceive and punish me	X
With man I would be great and high	S
But with my God so lost that He	X
In His large view should pass me by	S
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Thus blest with children friend and wife	S
Blest far beyond the vulgar lot	F2
Of all that gladdens human life	S
Where was the good that I had not	F2
But my vile heart had sinful spot	F2
And Heaven beheld its deep'ning stain	L
Eternal justice I forgot	F2
And mercy sought not to obtain	L
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Come near I'll softly speak the rest	F2
Alas 'tis known to all the crowd	F2
Her guilty love was all confess'd	F2
And his who so much truth avow'd	F2
My faithless friend's In pleasure proud	F2
I sat when these cursed tidings came	J2
Their guilt their flight was told aloud	F2
And Envy smiled to hear my shame	J2
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I call'd on Vengeance at the word	F2
She came Can I the deed forget	F2
I held the sword the accursed sword	F2
The blood of his false heart made wet	F2
And that fair victim paid her debt	F2
She pined she died she loath'd to live	S
I saw her dying see her yet	F2
Fair fallen thing my rage forgive	S
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Those cherubs still my life to bless	K2
Were left could I my fears remove	S
Sad fears that check'd each fond caress	K2
And poison'd all parental love	S
Yet that with jealous feelings strove	S
And would at last have won my will	L2
Had I not wretch been doom'd to prove	S
Th' extremes of mortal good and ill	L2
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In youth health joy in beauty's pride	F2
They droop'd as flowers when blighted bow	M2
The dire infection came they died	F2
And I was cursed as I am now	M2
Nay frown not angry friend allow	M2
That I was deeply sorely tried	F2
Hear then and you must wonder how	M2
I could such storms and strifes abide	F2
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Storms not that clouds embattled make	N2
When they afflict this earthly globe	O2
But such as with their terrors shake	N2
Man's breast and to the bottom probe	O2
They make the hypocrite disrobe	O2
They try us all if false or true	P2
For this one Devil had power on Job	O2
And I was long the slave of two	P2
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PHYSICIAN	I
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Peace peace my friend these subjects fly	S
Collect thy thoughts go calmly on	Q2
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PATIENT	F2
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And shall I then the fact deny	S
I was thou know'st I was begone	S
Like him who fill'd the eastern throne	S
To whom the Watcher cried aloud	F2
That royal wretch of Babylon	S
Who was so guilty and so proud	F2
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Like him with haughty stubborn mind	F2
I in my state my comforts sought	F2
Delight and praise I hoped to find	F2
In what I builded planted bought	F2
Oh arrogance by misery taught	F2
Soon came a voice I felt it come	R2
'Full be his cup with evil fraught	F2
Demons his guides and death his doom '	-
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Then was I cast from out my state	F2
Two fiends of darkness led my way	K
They waked me early watch'd me late	F2
My dread by night my plague by day	K
Oh I was made their sport their play	K
Through many a stormy troubled year	S2
And how they used their passive prey	K
Is sad to tell but you shall hear	T2
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And first before they sent me forth	U2
Through this unpitying world to run	S
They robb'd Sir Eustace of his worth	V2
Lands manors lordships every one	S
So was that gracious man undone	S
Was spurn'd as vile was scorn'd as poor	W2
Whom every former friend would shun	S
And menials drove from every door	H
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Then rose ill favour'd Ones whom none	S
But my unhappy eyes could view	P2
Led me with wild emotion on	S
And with resistless terror drew	P2
Through lands we fled o'er seas we flew	P2
And halted on a boundless plain	S
Where nothing fed nor breathed nor grew	P2
But silence ruled the still domain	S
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Upon that boundless plain below	T
The setting sun's last rays were shed	F2
And gave a mild and sober glow	T
Where all were still asleep or dead	F2
Vast ruins in the midst were spread	F2
Pillars and pediments sublime	I2
Where the gray mass had form'd a bed	F2
And clothed the crumbling spoils of time	I2
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There was I fix'd I know not how	M2
Condemn'd for untold years to stay	K
Yet years were not one dreadful Now	M2
Endured no change of night or day	K
The same mild evening's sleeping ray	K
Shone softly solemn and serene	S
And all that time I gazed away	K
The setting sun's sad rays were seen	S
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At length a moment's sleep stole on	S
Again came my commission'd foes	X2
Again through sea and land we're gone	S
No peace no respite no repose	X2
Above the dark broad sea we rose	X2
We ran through bleak and frozen land	F2
I had	F2