POETICAL WORKS of ROBERT BRIDGES Volume IV [Colophon] London Smith, Elder & Co. 15 Waterloo Place 1902 OXFORD: HORACE HART PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY _POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BRIDGES_ _VOLUME THE FOURTH CONTAINING_ _PALICIO_ _p._ 1 _THE RETURN OF ULYSSES_ 161 _NOTES_ 301 LIST OF PREVIOUS EDITIONS _PALICIO._ 1. _PALICIO. A Romantic Drama in Five Acts in the Elizabethan manner._ Η καὶ ΠΑΛΙΚΩΝ εὐλόγως μενεῖ φάτις; Πάλιν γὰρ ἵκουσ’ ἐκ σκότου τόδ’ ἐς φάος. Æsch., _Ætnææ_, _frag._ _Published by Ewd. Bumpus. London, 1890. 4to. pp. 37-70._ _RETURN OF ULYSSES._ 1. _THE RETURN OF ULYSSES. A Drama in Five Acts in a mixed manner._ Ἃ μὲν ἐποποιία ἔχει, ὑπάρχει τῇ τραγῳδίά ἃ δὲ αὐτη, οὐ πάντα ἐν τῇ ἐποποιίᾳ. Arist., _Poet._ 12. _Published by Ewd. Bumpus. London, 1890. 4to. pp. 71-100._ PALICIO A ROMANTIC DRAMA DRAMATIS PERSONÆ _HUGO_ _Viceroy of Sicily_. _LIVIO_ _his son, lover of Margaret_. _MANUEL_ _Chief Justiciary, betrothed to Constance_. _PHILIP, Duke_ _Spanish commissioner_. _FERDINAND_ _his secretary_. _BLASCO_ _a Sicilian count_. _MICHAEL ROSSO_ _a surgeon, lover of Margaret_. _GIOVANNI PALICIO_ _brigand_. _SQUARCIALUPU_ _his lieutenant_. _MARGARET_ _sister to Manuel_. _CONSTANCE_ _daughter to Hugo_. _LUCIA_ _servant to Margaret_. _Brigands, soldiers, messengers, servants._ _The scene is in PALERMO, and sometimes in the hills above MONREALE._ _Time, Spanish occupation of Sicily._ PALICIO ACT · I SCENE · 1 _Palermo. Reception-room in the Palace._ _BLASCO and FERDINAND._ _BLASCO._ Have you not been in Sicily before? _FERDINAND._ Never. _Bl._ And, sir, what think you of Palermo? Have you as fine cities in Spain?