{"id":710,"date":"2013-07-13T01:29:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=710"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:29:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:29:53","slug":"15-act-four-scene-4-vol-06-collected-plays-part-i-volume-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/06-collected-plays-part-i-volume-06\/15-act-four-scene-4-vol-06-collected-plays-part-i-volume-06","title":{"rendered":"-15_Act Four -Scene-4.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nSCENE IV <\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

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\nOn the road to the sea-shore.
\nPhineus and his Tyrians.<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tPHINEUS<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

\nA mighty power confounds our policies.
\nIs’t Heaven? is’t Fate? What’s left me, I will take.
\n‘TIS best to rescue young Andromeda
\nFrom the wild mob and bear her home to Tyre.
\nShe, when the roar is over, will be left
\nMy claim to Syria’s prostrate throne, which force,
\nIf not diplomacy shall re-erect
\nAnd Tyre become the Syrian capital.
\nI hear the trampling of the rascal mob. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tCRIES <\/font>(outside)<\/i>
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDrag her more quickly To the rocks! to the rocks’
\nGlory to great Poseidon! <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tPHINEUS <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTyrians, be ready. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPerissus and a number of Syrians
\nenter leading Andromeda bound.<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tSYRIANS<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

\nTo the rocks with her, to the rocks! bind her on the rocks. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tPHINEUS <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nPause, rabble! Yield your prey to Tyrian Phineus.
\nLift up thy lovely head, Andromeda! <\/font><\/p>\n

\nFor thou art saved. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tPERISSUS <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWho art thou with thy nose and thy fellows and thy spits? <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\u2013 152<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\tPHINEUS <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nKnow’st thou me not? I am the royal Phineus.
\nYield up the Princess, fair Andromeda. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tPERISSUS <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nArt thou the royal Phineus and is this long nose thy sceptre?
\nI am Perissus, the butcher. Stand aside, royal Phineus. or I will
\nchop thee royally with my cleaver. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tANDROMEDA<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

\nWhat wilt thou with me. King of Tyre ? <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tPHINEUS <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSweet rose,
\nI come to save thee. I will carry thee,
\nMy bride, far from these savage Syrian tumults
\nTo reign in loyal Tyre. Thou art safe. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tANDROMEDA <\/font>(sorrowfully)<\/i>
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSafe!
\nMy father and my mother are not safe <\/font><\/p>\n

\nNor Iolaus: nor is Syria safe.
\nWill you protect my people, when the god,
\nNot finding me, his preferable victim,
\nWorks his fierce will on these? <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tPHINEUS <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThou car’st for them? <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThey have o’erwhelmed thee with foul insult, bound thee,
\nThreatened thy lovely limbs with rascal outrage
\nAnd dragged to murder! <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tANDROMEDA<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

\nBut they are my people.
\nPerissus, lead me on. I will not go with him. <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\u2013 153<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\tPHINEUS <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThou strange and beautiful and marvellous child, <\/font><\/p>\n

\nWilt thou or wilt thou not, by force I’ll have thee.
\nGolden enchantment! thou art too rare a thing
\nFor others to possess. Run, rascal rabble!
\nOn, Tyrians! <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tPERISSUS <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nCleavers and axes to their spits’ <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tANDROMEDA <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nKing Phineus, pause! J swear I will prefer
\nDeath’s grim embrace rather than be thy wife
\nAbandoning my people. "Tis a dead body
\nThou wilt rescue. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tPHINEUS <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIs thy resolve unshakable? <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tANDROMEDA<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

\nIt is. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tPHINEUS<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

\nDie then! <\/b>To Death alone I yield thee.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nHe goes out with his Tyrians.<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tPERISSUS <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSo then thou art off, royal Phineus! so thou hast evaporated,
\nbold god of the Hittites! Thou hast saved thy royal nose from
\nmy cleaver. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tSYRIANS<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

\nOn to the rocks! Glory to great Poseidon. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThey go leading Andromeda.<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage <\/font>
\n\u2013 154<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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