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us to destruction.

       We triumphed over these. On the same scaffold 185

       Where the last Louis pour’d his guilty blood,

       Fell Brissot’s head, the womb of darksome treasons,

       And Orleans, villain kinsman of the Capet,

       And Hébert’s atheist crew, whose maddening hand

       Hurl’d down the altars of the living God, 190

       With all the infidel’s intolerance.

       The last worst traitor triumphed — triumph’d long,

       Secur’d by matchless villainy — by turns

       Defending and deserting each accomplice

       As interest prompted. In the goodly soil 195

       Of Freedom, the foul tree of treason struck

       Its deep-fix’d roots, and dropt the dews of death

       On all who slumber’d in its specious shade.

       He wove the web of treachery. He caught

       The listening crowd by his wild eloquence, 200

       His cool ferocity that persuaded murder,

       Even whilst it spake of mercy! — never, never

       Shall this regenerated country wear

       The despot yoke. Though myriads round assail,

       And with worse fury urge this new crusade 205

       Than savages have known; though the leagued despots

       Depopulate all Europe, so to pour

       The accumulated mass upon our coasts,

       Sublime amid the storm shall France arise,

       And like the rock amid surrounding waves 210

       Repel the rushing ocean. — She shall wield

       The thunderbolt of vengeance — she shall blast

       The despot’s pride, and liberate the world!

      FINIS

       Table of Contents

       PART I: THE PRELUDE, ENTITLED ‘THE USURPER’S FORTUNE’

       CHARACTERS

       SCENE I

       PART II: THE SEQUEL, ENTITLED ‘THE USURPER’S FATE

       ADDITIONAL CHARACTERS

       ACT I

       SCENE I

       ACT II

       SCENE I

       ACT III

       SCENE I

       ACT IV

       SCENE I

      PART I: THE PRELUDE, ENTITLED ‘THE USURPER’S FORTUNE’

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      EMERICK, Usurping King of Illyria.

       RAAB KIUPRILI, an Illyrian Chieftain.

       CASIMIR, Son of KIUPRILI.

       CHEF RAGOZZI, a Military Commander.

       ZAPOLYA, Queen of Illyria.

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      Front of the Palace with a magnificent Colonnade. On one side a

       military Guard-house. Sentries pacing backward and forward before the

       Palace. CHEF RAGOZZI, at the door of the Guard-house, as looking

       forwards at some object in the distance.

      Chef Ragozzi. My eyes deceive me not, it must be he.

       Who but our chief, my more than father, who

       But Raab Kiuprili moves with such a gait?

       Lo! e’en this eager and unwonted haste

       But agitates, not quells, its majesty. 5

       My patron! my commander! yes, ‘tis he!

       Call out the guards. The Lord Kiuprili comes.

      [Drums beat, &c., the Guard turns out.

      Enter RAAB KIUPRILI.

      Raab Kiuprili (making a signal to stop the drums, &c.). Silence!

       enough! This is no time, young friend,

       For ceremonious dues. The summoning drum,

       Th’ air-shattering trumpet, and the horseman’s clatter, 10

       Are insults to a dying sovereign’s ear.

      

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