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Part IV. EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS. t49
Thou cunning’st pattern of excelling nature,
I know not where is that Promethean heat
That can thy light relumine. — [ Sets down the tapir.
When I have pluck’d thy rose ,
I cannot give it vital growth again*,
It needs must wither.-— I’ll smell thee on the tree ?
[ KiJ/ing her.
Oh balmy breath, that dosc almost persuade
Justice to break her sword ! — One more ; one more *,
Be thus when thou art dead , and I will kill thee ,
And love thee after. — One more , that s the last ;
So sweet was ne’er so fatal 1 I must weep.
But they are cruel tears ! this sorrow's heav’nly ;
It strikes where it doth love.— Act h.Jc.z.
In Otway’s Orphan, we have an illustrious ex-
ample of the address employed to gratify opposite
passions direfted to the same object. Castalio and
Polydore , brothers and rivals, had sworn mutual
confidence : Castalio broke his faith by a private
marriage ; which unwarily betrayed Polydore into
a dismal deed , that of polluting his brother’s bed ,
Thus he had injured his brother, and was injured
by him : justice prompted him to make full atone*
ment by his own death ; resentment against his
brother, required a full atonement to be made to
himself. In coexistent passions so contradictory, one
of them commonly prevails after a struggle : but
here happily an expedient occurred to Polydore
for gratifying both ; which was, that he should
provoke his brother to put him to death. Poly-
Thou cunning’st pattern of excelling nature,
I know not where is that Promethean heat
That can thy light relumine. — [ Sets down the tapir.
When I have pluck’d thy rose ,
I cannot give it vital growth again*,
It needs must wither.-— I’ll smell thee on the tree ?
[ KiJ/ing her.
Oh balmy breath, that dosc almost persuade
Justice to break her sword ! — One more ; one more *,
Be thus when thou art dead , and I will kill thee ,
And love thee after. — One more , that s the last ;
So sweet was ne’er so fatal 1 I must weep.
But they are cruel tears ! this sorrow's heav’nly ;
It strikes where it doth love.— Act h.Jc.z.
In Otway’s Orphan, we have an illustrious ex-
ample of the address employed to gratify opposite
passions direfted to the same object. Castalio and
Polydore , brothers and rivals, had sworn mutual
confidence : Castalio broke his faith by a private
marriage ; which unwarily betrayed Polydore into
a dismal deed , that of polluting his brother’s bed ,
Thus he had injured his brother, and was injured
by him : justice prompted him to make full atone*
ment by his own death ; resentment against his
brother, required a full atonement to be made to
himself. In coexistent passions so contradictory, one
of them commonly prevails after a struggle : but
here happily an expedient occurred to Polydore
for gratifying both ; which was, that he should
provoke his brother to put him to death. Poly-