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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) SCENE I - Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays
SCENE I - 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 I
Lucia, Marcia.
Lucia- Now tell me, Marcia, tell me from thy soul,
- If thou believ’st ’tis possible for woman
- To suffer greater ills than Lucia suffers?
Marcia
- O Lucia, Lucia, might my big-swoln heart
- Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow:
- Marcia could answer thee in sighs, keep pace
- With all thy woes, and count out tear for tear.
Lucia- I know thou ’rt doomed, alike, to be beloved
- By Juba and thy father’s friend, Sempronius;
- But which of these has power to charm like Portius!
Marcia
- Still must I beg thee not to name Sempronius?
- Lucia, I like not that loud, boisterous man;
- Juba to all the bravery of a hero
- Adds softest love, and more than female sweetness:
- Juba might make the proudest of our sex,
- Any of woman-kind, but Marcia, happy.
Lucia- And why not Marcia? come, you strive in vain
- To hide your thoughts from one who knows too well
- The inward glowings of a heart in love.
Marcia
- While Cato lives, his daughter has no right
- To love or hate, but as his choice directs.
Lucia- But should this father give you to Sempronius?
Marcia
- I dare not think he will: but if he should—
- Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
- Imaginary ills, and fancied tortures?
- I hear the sound of feet! they march this way!
- Let us retire, and try if we can drown
- Each softer thought in sense of present danger.
- When love once pleads admission to our hearts,
- (In spite of all the virtue we can boast,)
- The woman that deliberates is lost.
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