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Hammill Peter
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THE VOICES House. Wet Vaults. Caissons. We breathe...
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OF THE Undercroft. Abutments. Stones. Wood. Breathe...
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HOUSE Buttresses. Bressumers. Spandrels. We Breathe...
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Columns and Pillars. Shafts. Arches. Capitals. Breathe....
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We breathe. We are waiting.
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We rise. We are waiting.
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We are Usher. House of Usher.
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Pilasters. Quoins. Piers.
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Spandrels and columns that shaft through the years.
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House of Usher.
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Wainscots. Stairs. Balusters. Cusps and Cornices.
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Spandrels and Columns the capital years.
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House of Usher.
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We breathe. We are waiting
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We rise. We are waiting.
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We are Usher. House of Usher.
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Beams. Corbels. Joists. Kingposts.
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Copings and Chimney-shafts.
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Ridge-ribs. Struts. Stanchions. Parapets.
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Pediments. Mansards and Gargoyles.
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The eaves. The dripping eaves...
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Cupola. Finials. Gables. Tiles. Lead...
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We breathe. We are waiting.
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We rise. We are waiting.
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We are Usher. House of Usher.
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We are Keystone. We are Usher.
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RODERICK USHER
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("The Sleeper") The lady sleeps. oh, may her sleep
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which is enduring so be deep!
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Heaven hold her in its sacred keep!
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This chamber changed for one more holy,
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this bed for one of melancholy.
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I pray to God that she may lie
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forever with unopened eye
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while the dim, sheeted ghosts go by.
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My love, she sleeps. Oh, may her sleep
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as it is lasting so be deep!
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Soft may the worms around her creep!
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Far in the forest, dim and old,
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now may some tall vault enfold her;
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some vault that oft hath flung its black
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and winged panels fluttering back
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triumphant o'er the crested palls
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of her grand family funerals....
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USHER MONTRESOR
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I didn't mean to interrupt...
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Montresor, you came!
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Did you think I'd ignore your letter?
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Montresor, you're here!
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Come let me help you with your coat.
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Sit down and rest yourself.
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Oh, it's so good to see you here!
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Now tell me all your news...
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I see you've changed a bit, my friend...
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Now won't you have a drink...
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Yes, yes
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but one thing at a time!
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First you must tell me what...
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But I expect I too have changed.
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How many years could it be now
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since last we said farewell?
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It must be ten years
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since our last meeting,
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Yes, it must be ten years
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since our last meeting since our last meeting.
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Tell me what is wrong?
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Your letter spoke
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of a malady;
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some desperate trial
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you could not face alone...
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Oh, no, you tell me all your doings!
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Tell me.
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Tell me
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how you pass your days how you pass your days
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Tell me
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from the beginning. from the beginning
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Tell me
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everything everything
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that's happened
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since we went our since we went our
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separate ways. separate ways.
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Look at me...
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I have not left these walls
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these three years,
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I do not dare to do so!
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I am imprisoned and fear is my gaoler.
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Each word I speak
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seems too dangerous.
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My slightest act could bring about
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the very thing I fear
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But fear of what?
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Hush, and I shall tell you...
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tell you...
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USHER I shun the light,
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creep in the gloom like a toad, a white worm,
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tortured by the faintest gleam of sun.
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I hear...
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oh God, if you could only know the things I hear!
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I hear the lake sucking at the walls,
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I hear bats breathing
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I hear the sky moan to join with the slime!
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And this,
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all this like thunder to me,
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like thunder!
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My senses scream at me:
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Sight... Touch... Sight... Touch...
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Sound and Taste... Sound and Scent,
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All torment and claw at my sanity.
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There is no hiding place for me,
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for even in the quietest of my rooms,
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I hear the walls in conversation;
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I hear the palpitations of my heart;
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I feel all that lives and does not move
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and know it knows my feeling.
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My only peace lies in my music
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and then only because it drowns out
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all other sounds and souls...
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You may think that I am mad, but it is not so.
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My senses reel beneath the blow of feathers falling
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and more...
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But no, I see you do not understand.
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MONTRESOR Oh, my poor dear friend,
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you must see you are not well.
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I've read of this before,
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I think it's called Hyperaesthesis.
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I'm no doctor, but it's clear
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your nerves have gone to pieces.
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You need to get away,
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you need a holiday,
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you need a change of air!
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You need an ocean cruise,
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you need to be amused!
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I tell you plain, this House
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to me seems most unhealthy.
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You're unattached, you're free to go, you're wealthy.
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USHER MONTRESOR THE CHORUS
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Leave this House.
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Leave this House.
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Leave this House
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and come away.
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Leave this House
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I cannot!
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Leave this House!
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I cannot!
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Leave this House!
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Here I must stay.
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Here I must stay.
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You are wasting
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your time.
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He will never
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leave...
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I can never
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leave here
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therefore do
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not ask me
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say no more I've heard of this before
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and let me be I think it's called Hyperaesthesis
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I can never I'm no doctor but it's clear
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leave here your nerves have gone to pieces.
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therefore do your nerves have gone to pieces.
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not ask me.
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Say no more
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and let me be
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I cannot leave
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He cannot leave
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The House is I
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The House is he
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We are as one
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They are as one
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And I would die
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and so must die
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Now you must leave
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I He cannot leave
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cannot Now you must fly
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leave The House is he
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Now you must run
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The They are as one
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House is No-one will die
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I And so must die
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I cannot leave
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Now you must leave
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He cannot leave
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The House is I
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Now you must fly
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The House is he
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We are as one
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Now you must run
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and so must die
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and so must die
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No-one will die
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USHER MONTRESOR THE HOUSE
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We shall
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not let
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him go!
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We shall not
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Leave let him go!
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Do not torture me! this We shall not
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Do not try to persuade! House let him go!
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We shall not
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Leave let him go!
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It only brings me grief this We shall not
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House let him go!
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Leave this House We shall not
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I cannot leave let him go!
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We shall not
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let him go!
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shall not let him go!
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USHER MONTRESOR THE CHORUS THE HOUSE
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Leave this House
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I cannot
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Leave this House
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I cannot
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Leave this House Leave this House
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and come with me We shall not
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let him go.
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Leave this House
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I cannot Never, never
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Leave this House never!
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I cannot
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Leave this House
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and come with me Never! Never, never,
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never!
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Never! Never, never,
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never!
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I can never We are bound
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leave here together
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therefore do for the last time so never
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not ask me I entreat you He shall he shall
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say no more never leave never leave
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and let me be. We are bound
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together
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for the last time so never
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I entreat you He shall he shall
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Leave! never leave never leave.
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Do not
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talk to me Never
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do not try never
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to persuade Leave! never
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He shall never
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never leave
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Leave this house
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Oh Montresor never never
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I beg of you never never
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I can never never
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never leave never never
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I can never never never
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leave this house Leave this house never never
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I can never You are wasting never never
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leave this house Leave this house you time never never
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I can never he will never never never
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leave this house Leave! leave never never
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never!
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The House
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is I.
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End of Act Two
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