The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume II Part 165

_Casimir._ Mark too, the edges of yon lurid ma.s.s!

Restless and vext, as if some angering hand, With fitful, tetchy s.n.a.t.c.h, unrolled and pluck'd The jetting ringlets of the vaporous fleece!

These are sure signs of conflict nigh at hand, And elemental war!

1817-1851.

[Note.--The text of 1829, 1831 is inscribed in Notebook 20 (1808-1825).]

[47] Which, as Poets tell us, the Sea-Shepherds tend, Notebook 20.

[48] _my_ 1828, 1829.

[57]

Neighs at the gate. [_A volley of Trumpets._

1817, 1828, 1829.

[After 68: [_Exit RUDOLPH and manet CASIMIR._

[95-6]

That but oppressed me hitherto, now scares me.

You will ken Bethlen?

_Glycine._ O at farthest distance, Yea, oft where Light's own courier-beam exhausted Drops at the threshold, and forgets its message, A something round me of a wider reach Feels his approach, and trembles back to tell me.

MS. correction (in the margin of Zapolya 1817) inserted in text of P.

and D. W. 1877, iv. pp. 270-71.

[After 99] [_ZAPOLYA, who had been gazing affectionately after GLYCINE, starts at BATHORY'S voice._ 1817, 1828, 1829.

[Before 128] _Pestalutz (affecting to start)._ 1817, 1828, 1829.

[128] _Laska (in affright)._ Ha, &c. 1817, 1828, 1829.

[Before 134] _Laska (pompously)._ 1817, 1828, 1829.

[137] _Pestalutz (with a sneer)._ What! &c. 1817, 1828, 1829.

[Before 139] _Laska (throwing down a bow and arrows)._ 1817, 1828, 1829.

[139] Take] there's 1817, 1828, 1829.

[140]

These points are tipt with venom.

[_Starts and sees GLYCINE without._

1817, 1828, 1829.

[After 141] [_They run . . . GLYCINE, and she shrieks without: then enter, &c._ 1817, 1828, 1829.

[144]

The shriek came thence. [_Clash of swords, and BETHLEN'S voice heard from behind the scenes; GLYCINE enters alarmed; then, as seeing LASKA'S bow and arrows._

1817, 1828, 1829.

[After 146] [_She seizes . . . following her. Lively and irregular music, and_ Peasants _with hunting spears, &c._ 1817, 1828, 1829.]

[After 162] _Re-enter, as the_ Huntsmen _pa.s.s off, BATHORY, &c._ 1817, 1828, 1829.

[Before 163] _Glycine (leaning on Bethlen)._ 1817, 1828, 1829.

[Before 166] _Bathory (to Bethlen exultingly)._ 1817, 1828, 1829.

[Linenote _Before_ 181: _Bethlen (hastily)._ 1817, 1828, 1829.

[184]

_Bathory._ Hail . . . my king! [_Triumphantly._

1817, 1828, 1829.

[205]

Has scattered them! [_Horns heard as from different places at a distance._

1817, 1828, 1829.

[207] _thee_ 1817, 1828, 1829.

[After 209] [_Thunder again._ 1817, 1828, 1829.

[After 211] [_Pointing without to the body of PESTALUTZ._ 1817, 1828, 1829.

[213] Lo] Low _1828_, _1829_.]

[After 215] [_Exeunt . . . GLYCINE, ANDREAS, having in haste dropt his sword. Manet BATHORY._ 1817, 1828, 1829.

[216] Yon bleeding corse (_pointing to Pestalutz's body_) 1817, 1828, 1829.

[219]

I'll drag it hither. [_Exit BATHORY. After awhile several_ Hunters _cross the stage as scattered. Some time after, enter KIUPRILI in his disguise, fainting with fatigue, and as pursued._

1817, 1828, 1829.