The English and American Stage Volume 28 (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: DRAMATIS PERSONS. Mahomet, Mr. Rutherfvret Zaphna, Alcanor, Mir van, AH,. . .... Mr. Darley Pharon, ITercides,,.... Mr. If anting ton , .... Mr. Shafiter Amrnon,Mr. Doyle Palmira,, ..... Mrs. Twaits SCENE...Mtcca. The passages marked thus (u) are omit led in the representation. chapter{Section 4MAHOMET. A C T I. Scene i?an afiartment in the temple of Mecca. enter Alcanor and Phahon. Jllc. Pharon, no more?shall I Fall prostrate to an arrogant impostor, Homage, in Mecca, one I banish'd thence, And incense the delusions of a rebel ? No ! blast Alcanor, righteous heaven, if e'er This hand, yet free and uncontaminate, Shall league with fraud, or adulate a tyrant! Phar. August and sacred chief of Ishmael's senate, This zeal of thine, paternal as it is, Is fatal now?our impotent resistance Controls not Mahomet's unbounded progress, But, without weak'ning, irritates the tyrant. When once a citizen, you well condemn'd him As an obscure seditious innovator ; But now he is a conq'ror, prince, and pontiff, Whilst nations, numberless, embrace his laws, And pay him adoration?ev'n in Mecca He boasts his proselytes. Ale. Such proselytes Are worthy of him?low, untutor'd reptiles, " In whom sense only lies"most credulous still Of what is most incredible. Phar. Be such Disdain'd, my lord t b, mnynt the pest spread upwards, And seize the head ??say, is the senate sound ? I fear somemembesof that rev'rend class Are mark'd with the contagion, who, from views Of higher pow'r and rank, Worship this rising sun, and give a sanction To his invasions. Ale. If, ye pow'rs divine J Ye mark the movements of this nether world, And bring them to account, crush, crush those vi- pers, Who. singled out by a community To guard therr rights, shall, for a grasp of ore, Or pa...