Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology

Mapping Keats’s Progress
A Critical Chronology

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Otho the Great: A Tragedy in Five Acts: Act V SCENE I

A part of the Forest.

Enter CONRAD and AURANTHE.

Auranthe. Go no further; not a step more. Thou art
A master-plague in the midst of miseries.
Go, — I fear thee! I tremble every limb,
Who never shook before. There’s moody death
In thy resolved looks! Yes, I could kneel
To pray thee far away! Conrad, go! go! —
There! yonder underneath the boughs I see
Our horses!
Conrad. Ay, and a man.
Auranthe. Yes, he is there!
Go, go, — no blood! no blood! — go, gentle Conrad!
Conrad. Farewell!
Auranthe. Farewell! For this heaven pardon you! (Exit AURANTHE.)
Conrad. If he escape me, may I die a death
Of unimagined tortures, or breathe through
A long life in the foulest sink of the world!
He dies! ’Tis well she do not advertise
The caitiff of the cold steel at his back. (Exit CONRAD.)

Enter LUDOLPH and Page.

Ludolph. Miss’d the way, boy? Say not that on your peril!
Page. Indeed, indeed I cannot trace them further.
Ludolph. Must I stop here? Here solitary die?
Stifled beneath the thick oppressive shade
Of these dull boughs, — this oven of dark thickets, —
Silent, — without revenge? — pshaw! — bitter end, —
A bitter death, — a suffocating death, —
A gnawing — silent — deadly-quiet death!
Escap’d — fled — vanish’d — melted into air —
She’s gone — I cannot catch her! no revenge!
A muffled death, ensnared in horrid silence!
Suck’d to my grave amid a dreary calm!
O, where is that illustrious noise of war,
To smother up this sound of labouring breath,
This rustle of the trees! (AURANTHE shrieks at a distance.)
Page. My lord, a noise!
This way — hark!
Ludolph. Yes, yes! A hope! A music!
A glorious clamour! Now I live again! (Exeunt.)

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Keats, John. “Otho the Great: A Tragedy in Five Acts: Act V SCENE I.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, by G. Kim Blank. Edition 3.27 , University of Victoria, 19 August 2024. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_otho_act_v_scene_i.html.

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John Keats, “Otho the Great: A Tragedy in Five Acts: Act V SCENE I,” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.27 , last modified 19th August 2024. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_otho_act_v_scene_i.html.

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Keats, John. “Otho the Great: A Tragedy in Five Acts: Act V SCENE I.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.27 , last modified 19th August 2024. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_otho_act_v_scene_i.html.