This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825. Excerpt: ... ADVERTISEMENT. This production is founded partly on the story of a Novel called -The Three Brothers, - published many years ago, from which M. G. Lewis's -Wood Demon- was also taken--and partly on the -Faust- of the great Goethe. The present publication contains the two first parts only, and the opening chorus of the third. The rest may perhaps appear hereafter. ( DRAMATIS PERSONS. MEN. STRANGER, afterwards Cjssab. ARNOLD. BOURBON. PHILIBERT. CELLINI. WOMEN. BERTHA. OL1MPIA. Spirits, Soldiers, Citizens of Rome, Priests, Peasants, etc. THE DEFORMED TRANSFORMED. PART I. SCENE I.--A FOREST. Enter ARNOLD and bis mother BERTHA. BERTHA. Oct, hunchback ARNOLD. I was born so, mother BERTHA. Out Thou incubus Thou night-mare Of seven sons The sole abortion ARNOLD. Would that I had been so, And never seen the light BERTHA. I would so too But as thou hast--hence, hence--and do thy best. That back of thine may bear its burthen; t is More high, if not so broad as that of others. ARNOLD. I1 bears its burthen;--but, my heart Will it Sustain that which you lay upon it, mother? I love, or, at the least, I loved you: nothing Save you, in nature, can love aught like me. You nursed me--do not kill me BERTHA. Yes--I nursed thee, Because thou wert my first-born, and I knew not If there would be another unlike thee, That monstrous sport of nature. But get hence, And gather wood ARNOLD. I will: but when I bring it, Speak to me kindly. Though my brothers are So beautiful and lusty, and as free As the free chase they follow, do not spurn me: Our milk has been the same. BERTHA. As is the hedge-hog's, Which sucks at midnight from the wholesome dam Of the young bull, until the milkmaid finds The nipple next day sore mad udder dry. Call not thy b...