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Thespis: Act I

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

GODS

Jupiter, Aged Diety
Apollo, Aged Diety
Mars, Aged Diety
Diana, Aged Diety
Mercury

THESPIANS

Thespis
Sillimon
TimidonTipseion
Preposteros
Stupidas
Sparkeio n
Nicemis
Pretteia

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poem by William Schwenck Gilbert
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XI. Guido

You are the Cardinal Acciaiuoli, and you,
Abate Panciatichi—two good Tuscan names:
Acciaiuoli—ah, your ancestor it was
Built the huge battlemented convent-block
Over the little forky flashing Greve
That takes the quick turn at the foot o' the hill
Just as one first sees Florence: oh those days!
'T is Ema, though, the other rivulet,
The one-arched brown brick bridge yawns over,—yes,
Gallop and go five minutes, and you gain
The Roman Gate from where the Ema's bridged:
Kingfishers fly there: how I see the bend
O'erturreted by Certosa which he built,
That Senescal (we styled him) of your House!
I do adjure you, help me, Sirs! My blood
Comes from as far a source: ought it to end
This way, by leakage through their scaffold-planks
Into Rome's sink where her red refuse runs?
Sirs, I beseech you by blood-sympathy,
If there be any vile experiment

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poem by Robert Browning from The Ring and the Book
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Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

quote by Auguste Rodin
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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

quote by Robert Frost
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Amelie

jumping in the clouds
looking for dreams
unsettling for the lump
of the earth.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

quote by Pablo Picasso
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Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.

quote by Ann Macbeth
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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

quote by David Herbert Lawrence
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My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

quote by Thomas Kyd
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The Sugar Lump

The sugar lump, he got the hump,
When tossed straight over the rim.
Into the cup, awaiting sup,
His one and only swim.

poem by Greg Costello
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