Dramas (Volume 1) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE BANDIT. A COMEDY. Interdum tamen et vocem Comoedia tollit. HORACE. DRAMATIS PERSONS. Baron Stolberg, ... Palatine of Stolberg. Count Rodolph, .... An Hungarian Nobleman. A it Old, Captain of the Banditti. Herman, His Brother. Ditmar, Physician at Stolberg Castle. Housdorff, Gamekeeper there. FlNCK, -V Swartz, Banditti. Gortz, J Ida, Niece of Baron Stolberg. Agatha, Housekeeper at Stolberg Castle. Banditti, Huntsmen, Servants. Scene?H ungary. BANDIT. ACT I. SCENE I. Court-yard of Stolberg Castle. Enter Housdorff and Huntsmen. HOUSDORFF. Come on ! O'er yonder eastern cliff the dawn Spreads it's first beams?'tis time we were abroad. Sound your loud bugles, let the battlements Of Stolberg Castle ring with your acclaim, 'Till ev'ry drowsy inmate start from slumber, To meet the morn upon the mountain top! (The Huntsmen sound.Enter Baron Stolberg. BARON. Welcome, my gallant friends ! Why this shews well. What! thou here, Housdorff! Still alert as ever ? 1IOUSDORFF. Aye, my good lord; though time has thinn'd my hair, And over what remains has spread his snow, I still am heart-whole: let the merry horn Give but the note of preparation, And Housdorff still is found among the first. Baron. That's bravely said. Thy heartiness, old man, Makes me forget my age, and think myself Young, as when first thine hand lac'd on my cuirass, To meet the Turk who menac'd our destruction. Those were brave days; but they are gone, and noir Life's autumn, creeps upon me, my sere leaves Begin to drop apace, and nought remains To cheer my closing scene, but the fond hope Of my lov'd Ida's future happiness. HOUSDORFF. That seems beyond a doubt. Train'd up by you With more than father's care? Baron. Hold, ...