Produced by Larry B. Harrison, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) POETICAL WORKS of ROBERT BRIDGES Volume V [Colophon] London Smith, Elder & Co. 15 Waterloo Place 1902 OXFORD: HORACE HART PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY _POETICAL WORKS OF_ _ROBERT BRIDGES_ _VOLUME THE FIFTH_ _CONTAINING_ _THE CHRISTIAN CAPTIVES_ _p._ 1 _HUMOURS OF THE COURT_ 127 _NOTES_ 293 LIST OF PREVIOUS EDITIONS _CHRISTIAN CAPTIVES._ 1. _THE CHRISTIAN CAPTIVES. A Tragedy in Five Acts in a mixed manner. Published by Ewd. Bumpus. Holborn Bars. London, 1890. 4to. pp. 101-116._ _HUMOURS OF THE COURT._ 1. _THE HUMOURS OF THE COURT. A Comedy in Three Acts. Published by Geo. Bell & Sons and J. and E. Bumpus, Lim. London. 4to. pp. 147-181 [1893]._ THE CHRISTIAN CAPTIVES A TRAGEDY IN A MIXED MANNER DRAMATIS PERSONÆ _KING OF FEZ._ _ALMEH_ _his daughter._ _SALA BEN SALA_ _his General._ _TARUDANTE_ _Prince of Morocco._ _FERDINAND_ } } _Princes of Portugal._ _ENRIQUE_ } _ZAPEL_ _maid to Almeh._ _CHORUS OF CHRISTIAN CAPTIVES._ _Soldiers, Guards, and Messengers._ _The scene is in the garden of a castle of the King of Fez, by the sea._ CHRISTIAN CAPTIVES ACT·I _ALMEH and ZAPEL._ _ALMEH._ Why never came we here before? To think I have lived for eighteen years shut up in Fez, Hemmed by the sandy desert, and all the while There was the sea! To have never seen the sea! _ZAPEL._ If thou hadst ever seen it, where were now Thy joy? ’tis novelty makes the delight. To them that in this castle dwell, the sea Is as the desert was to us at Fez.