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• Faust a Tragedy
• Faust First Part
• Dramatis PersonÆ.
• Dedication.
• Prologue For the Theatre.
• Prologue In Heaven.
• Walpurgis-night.
• Walpurgis-night’s Dream; Or, Oberon and Titania’s Golden Wedding Feast. Intermezzo.
• Faust. Second Part
• Dramatis PersonÆ.
• Act I.
• Act II.
• Act III.
• Act IV.
• Act V.
• Egmont
• Dramatis PersonÆ.
• Act I.
• Scene I.—: Soldiers and Citizens, With Cross-bows.
• Scene II.—: Palace of the Regent.
• Scene III.—: Citizen’s House.
• Act II.
• Scene I.—: Square In Brussels.
• Scene II.—: Egmont’s Residence.
• Act III.
• Scene I.—: Palace of the Regent.
• Scene II.—: Clara’s Dwelling.
• Act IV.
• Scene I.—: A Street.
• Scene II.—: The Palace of Eulenberg, Residence of the Duke of Alva.
• Act V.
• Scene I.—: A Street. Twilight.
• Scene II.: A Prison.
• Scene III.—: Clara’s House.
• Scene IV.—: A Prison.
• The Natural Daughter a Tragedy
• Dramatis PersonÆ.
• Act I.
• Scene I.—: Thick Wood.
• Scene II.—: The Same.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.—: The Same.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Act II.
• Scene I.—: Eugenie’s Apartment In Gothic Style.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Act III.
• Scene I.—: The Antechamber of the Duke, Furnished In Magnificent Modern Style.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Act IV.
• Scene I.—: Park At the Port. On One Side a Palace, On the Other a Church; In the Background a Row of Trees Through Which the Port Is Seen Below. Eugenie, Enveloped In a Veil, Seated On a Bench In the Background, With Face Turned to the Sea.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Act V.
• Scene I.—: Plaza At the Port.
• Scene II.—: The Same.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.—: The Same.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Scene VII.
• Scene VIII.
• Scene IX.
• The Sorrows of Young Werther
• Book I.
• Book II.
• The Editor to the Reader.
• Colma.
• Rhyno.
• Alpin.

SCENE I.—

Plaza at the Port.

Eugenie. Governess.

Eugenie.

What influence dost thou use to draw me back?

Now also I obey against my will.

O cursed power, thy voice has won upon me,

Which erst so smoothly led me to obey,

Which got the mastery of the whole domain

Wherein my plastic nature was confin’d.

’Twas thou who taught me first the magic power

Of speech, the fine artistic web of words.

Thy lips unseal’d the world to me and gave me

The costly knowledge of my inmost heart.

This magic now thou usest to my harm;

Thou bindest me, thou draggest me away.

My mind is dull’d, my feelings are confus’d,

And I could wish I were among the dead.

Governess.

Oh, would this magic had reveal’d its power

In days when I besought thee fervently

To let those lofty schemes of thine dissolve.

Eugenie.

Didst thou imagine such a monstrous evil

And didst not warn the all-too-trustful mind?

Governess.

Indeed I warn’d thee but in guarded words;

The secret spoken out had brought thee death.

Eugenie.

And yet behind thy silence exile lay;

More welcome to me were the doom of death.

Governess.

Yet this misfortune, unforeseen or not,

Has snar’d me with thee in the selfsame net.

Eugenie.

How can I know what great reward thou’lt have

When thou hast work’d the undoing of thy charge?

Governess.

’Tis waiting for me on a foreign shore.

The sail is spread and bears us both away.

Eugenie.

The prison of the ship has not yet seiz’d me;

’Tis not too late; why should I go unwilling?

Governess.

Hast thou not once appeal’d unto the people?

They only stared in silence and went their way.

Eugenie.

Contending as I was with keen emotions

The common people thought that I was mad.

Yet not with words or violence should’st thou hinder

My bold, courageous steps to get me aid.

The magnates of this city from their houses

Come hither to the strand to watch the vessels

Which mass’d in fleets, by us unlov’d, depart.

Within the palace of the governor

The guards are stirring; he it is who comes

Adown you steps escorted by a throng.

I will address him and unfold my case.

If he be fit to represent my King

And take his place in matters of concern,

He’ll not repulse me without hearing me.

Governess.

I stand not in the way of this attempt;

Yet name no names, but only tell thy story.

Eugenie.

No names until I see that I can trust him.

Governess.

He seems to be a noble youth, and gladly

Will do his utmost to confer a favor.