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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) SCENE V - Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays
SCENE V - 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 V
Juba, Marcia, Lucia.
Juba- Hail, charming maid! how does thy beauty smooth
- The face of war, and make ev’n horror smile!
- At sight of thee my heart shakes off its sorrows;
- I feel a dawn of joy break in upon me,
- And for a while forget the approach of Caesar.
Marcia- I should be grieved, young prince, to think my presence
- Unbent your thoughts, and slackened ’em to arms,
- While, warm with slaughter, our victorious foe
- Threatens aloud, and calls you to the field.
Juba- O Marcia, let me hope thy kind concerns
- And gentle wishes follow me to battle!
- The thought will give new vigour to my arm,
- Add strength and weight to my descending sword,
- And drive it in a tempest on the foe.
Marcia- My prayers and wishes always shall attend
- The friends of Rome, the glorious cause of virtue,
- And men approved of by the gods and Cato.
Juba- That Juba may deserve thy pious cares,
- I’ll gaze for ever on thy godlike father,
- Transplanting, one by one, into my life,
- His bright perfections, till I shine like him.
Marcia- My father never, at a time like this,
- Would lay out his great soul in words, and waste
- Such precious moments.
Juba- Thy reproofs are just,
- Thou virtuous maid; I’ll hasten to my troops,
- And fire their languid souls with Cato’s virtue.
- If e’er I lead them to the field, when all
- The war shall stand ranged in its just array,
- And dreadful pomp; then will I think on thee!
- O lovely maid, then will I think on thee!
- And, in the shock of charging hosts, remember
- What glorious deeds should grace the man who hopes
- For Marcia’s love. [Exit.]
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