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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) SCENE II - Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays
SCENE II - 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 II
Sempronius, dressed like Juba, with Numidian guards.
Sempronius- The deer is lodged. I’ve tracked her to her covert.
- Be sure you mind the word, and when I give it,
- Rush in at once, and seize upon your prey.
- Let not her cries or tears have force to move you.
- —How will the young Numidian rave, to see
- His mistress lost! if aught could glad my soul,
- Beyond the enjoyment of so bright a prize,
- ’Twould be to torture that young gay barbarian.
- —But, hark, what noise! death to my hopes! ’tis he,
- ’Tis Juba’s self! there is but one way left—
- He must be murdered, and a passage cut
- Through those his guards—Hah! dastards, do you tremble!
- Or act like men, or by yon azure heaven—
Sempronius- One that was born to scourge thy arrogance,
- Presumptuous youth!
Juba- What can this mean? Sempronius!
Sempronius- My sword shall answer thee. Have at thy heart.
Juba- Nay, then beware thy own, proud, barbarous man!
- [Sempronius falls. His guards surrender.]
Sempronius- Curse on my stars! am I then doomed to fall
- By a boy’s hand? disfigured in a vile
- Numidian dress, and for a worthless woman?
- Gods, I’m distracted! this my close of life!
- Oh for a peal of thunder that would make
- Earth, sea, and air, and heaven, and Cato tremble!
Juba- With what a spring his furious soul broke loose,
- And left the limbs still quivering on the ground!
- Hence let us carry off those slaves to Cato,
- That we may there at length unravel all
- This dark design, this mystery of fate.
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