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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) SCENE III - Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays
SCENE III - Joseph Addison, Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays [1710]Edition used:Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays, ed. by Christine Dunn Henderson and Mark E. Yellin, with a Foreword by Forrest McDonald (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004).
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- Foreword
- Introduction
- The Life of Joseph Addison
- Addison the Essayist
- Cato, a Tragedy
- Editors’ Note
- Acknowledgments
- Cato: a Tragedy
- Prologue By Mr. Pope 2
- Dramatis Personae
- Act I —
- Scene I
- Scene Ii
- Scene Iii
- Scene Iv
- Scene V
- Scene Vi
- Act Ii —
- Scene I
- Scene Ii
- Scene Iii
- Scene Iv
- Scene V
- Scene Vi
- Act Iii —
- Scene I
- Scene Ii
- Scene Iii
- Scene Iv
- Scene V
- Scene Vi
- Scene Vii
- Act Iv —
- Scene I
- Scene Ii
- Scene Iii
- Scene Iv —
- Act V —
- Scene I
- Scene Ii
- Scene Iii
- Scene Iv
- Epilogue By Dr. Garth. 1
- Selected Essays
- Tatler, No. 161
- Tatler, No. 162
- Whig Examiner, No. 5
- Spectator, No. 55
- Spectator, No. 125
- Spectator, No. 169
- Spectator, No. 215
- Spectator, No. 219
- Spectator, No. 231
- Spectator, No. 237
- Spectator, No. 243
- Spectator, No. 255
- Spectator, No. 256
- Spectator, No. 257
- Spectator, No. 287
- Spectator, No. 293
- Spectator, No. 349
- Spectator, No. 446
- Spectator, No. 557
- Guardian, No. 99
- Guardian, No. 161
- Freeholder, No. 1
- Freeholder, No. 2
- Freeholder, No. 5
- Freeholder, No. 10
- Freeholder, No. 12
- Freeholder, No. 13 1
- Freeholder, No. 16
- Freeholder, No. 29
- Freeholder, No. 34
- Freeholder, No. 39
- Freeholder, No. 51
- The Life and Character of M. Cato of Utica [ ]
SCENE III
Marcus, Portius.
Marcus- Portius, what hopes? how stands she? am I doomed
- To life or death?
Portius- What wouldst thou have me say?
Marcus- What means this pensive posture? thou appear’st
- Like one amazed and terrified.
Portius
Marcus
- Thy downcast looks and thy disordered thoughts
- Tell me my fate. I ask not the success
- My cause has found.
Portius- I’m grieved I undertook it.
Marcus- What! does the barbarous maid insult my heart,
- My aching heart! and triumph in my pains?
- That I could cast her from my thoughts for ever!
Portius- Away! you’re too suspicious in your griefs;
- Lucia, though sworn never to think of love,
- Compassionates your pains, and pities you.
Marcus
- Compassionates my pains, and pities me!
- What is compassion when ’tis void of love?
- Fool that I was to choose so cold a friend
- To urge my cause! compassionates my pains!
- Prithee what art, what rhetoric didst thou use
- To gain this mighty boon? She pities me!
- To one that asks the warm return of love,
- Compassion’s cruelty, ’tis scorn, ’tis death—
Portius- Marcus, no more! have I deserved this treatment?
Marcus
- What have I said! O Portius, O forgive me!
- A soul exasperated in ills fall out
- With everything, its friend, its self—but, hah!
- What means that shout, big with the sounds of war?
- What new alarm?
Portius- A second, louder yet,
- Swells in the winds, and comes more full upon us.
Marcus
- Oh for some glorious cause to fall in battle!
- Lucia, thou hast undone me! thy disdain
- Has broke my heart: ’tis death must give me ease.
Portius- Quick, let us hence; who knows if Cato’s life
- Stands sure? O Marcus, I am warmed, my heart
- Leaps at the trumpet’s voice, and burns for glory.
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