The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume II Part 205

[Vide _ante_, p. 421.]

AN HISTORIC DRAMA

IN

FIVE ACTS.

FIRST PERFORMED WITH UNIVERSAL APPLAUSE AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE, ON SAt.u.r.dAY, FEBRUARY THE 7TH, 1801.

APOECIDES.

Quis hoc scit factum?

EPIDICUS.

Ego ita esse factum dico.

PERIPHANES.

Scin' tu istuc?

EPIDICUS.

Scio.

PERIPHANES.

Qui tu scis?

EPIDICUS.

Quia ego vidi.

PERIPHANES.

[Ipse vidistine [Tragediam?]] Nimis factum bene!

EPIDICUS.

Sed vest.i.ta, aurata, ornata, ut lepide! ut concinne! ut nove! [Proh Dii immortales! tempestatem (plausuum Populus) n.o.bis nocte hac misit!][1060:2]

(Plaut. _Epidicus_. Act 2. Scen. 2, ll. 22 sqq.)

LONDON.

PRINTED FOR T. N. LONGMAN AND REES, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1801.

FOOTNOTES:

[1060:1] Now first published from an MS. in the British Museum (Add.

MSS. 34,225). The _Triumph of Loyalty_, 'a sort of dramatic romance'

(see _Letter to Poole_, December 5, 1800; _Letters of S. T. C._, 1895, i. 343), was begun and left unfinished in the late autumn of 1800. An excerpt (ll. 277-358) was revised and published as 'A Night Scene. A Dramatic Fragment,' in _Sibylline Leaves_ (1817), vide _ante_, pp.

421-3. The revision of the excerpt (ll. 263-349) with respect to the order and arrangement of its component parts is indicated by asterisks, which appear to be contemporary with the MS. I have, therefore, in printing the MS., followed the revised and not the original order of these lines. Again, in the hitherto unpublished portion of the MS. (ll.

1-263) I have omitted rough drafts of pa.s.sages which were rewritten, either on the same page or on the reverse of the leaf.

[1060:2] The words enclosed in brackets are not to be found in the text.

They were either invented or adapted by Coleridge _ad hoc_. The text of the pa.s.sage as a whole has been reconstructed by modern editors.

DRAMATIS PERSONae.

Earl Henry MR. KEMBLE

Don Curio MR. C. KEMBLE

Sandoval MR. BARRYMORE

Alva, the Chancellor MR. AICKIN

Barnard, Earl Henry's Groom of the Chamber MR. SUETT

Don Fernandez MR. BANNISTER, JUN.

The Governor of the State Prison MR. DAVIS

Herreras (Oropeza's Uncle) and three Conspirators MESSRS. PACKER, WENTWORTH, MATHEW, and GIBBON

Officers and Soldiers of Earl Henry's Regiment.

The Queen of Navarre MRS. SIDDONS

Donna Oropeza MRS. POWELL

Mira, her attendant MISS DECAMP

Aspasia, a singer MRS. CROUCH

Scene, partly at the Country seat of Donna Oropeza, and partly in Pampilona [_sic_], the Capital of Navarre.

THE TRIUMPH OF LOYALTY

ACT I

SCENE I. _A cultivated Plain, skirted on the Left by a Wood. The Pyrenees are visible in the distance. Small knots of Soldiers all in the military Dress of the middle Ages are seen pa.s.sing across the Stage.

Then_