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THE House. Wet Vaults. Caissons. We breathe...
OF THE Undercroft. Abutments. Stones. Wood. Breathe...
Buttresses. Bressumers. Spandrels. We Breathe...
and Pillars. Shafts. Arches. Capitals. Breathe....
We breathe. We are waiting.
We rise. We are waiting.
We are Usher. of Usher.
Pilasters. Quoins. Piers.
Spandrels and columns shaft through the years.
of Usher.
Wainscots. Stairs. Balusters. and Cornices.
Spandrels and the capital years.
of Usher.
We breathe. We are
We rise. We are waiting.
We are Usher. of Usher.
Beams. Corbels. Joists. Kingposts.
and Chimney-shafts.
Ridge-ribs. Struts. Stanchions. Parapets.
Pediments. and Gargoyles.
The eaves. The eaves...
Cupola. Finials. Gables. Tiles. Lead...
We breathe. We are waiting.
We rise. We are waiting.
We are Usher. of Usher.
We are Keystone. We are Usher.
RODERICK
("The Sleeper") The sleeps. oh, may her sleep
is enduring so be deep!
Heaven hold her in its keep!
chamber changed for one more holy,
bed for one of melancholy.
I pray to God she may lie
with unopened eye
while the dim, sheeted go by.
My love, she sleeps. Oh, may her
as it is so be deep!
Soft may the worms her creep!
Far in the forest, dim and old,
now may some tall vault enfold
some vault that oft flung its black
and winged panels fluttering
o'er the crested palls
of her grand funerals....
MONTRESOR

I mean to interrupt...
Montresor, you came!
Did you think I'd ignore letter?
Montresor, here!
Come let me you with your coat.
Sit and rest yourself.
Oh, it's so to see you here!
Now tell me all news...
I see changed a bit, my friend...
Now you have a drink...
Yes, yes
but one at a time!
First you must me what...
But I expect I too changed.
How many years it be now
since we said farewell?
It be ten years
our last meeting,
Yes, it must be ten
since our last meeting our last meeting.
me what is wrong?
Your spoke
of a
some desperate
you not face alone...
Oh, no, you tell me all doings!
me.
me
how you pass your days how you pass days
me
from the beginning. from the
me
everything
that's
since we went our since we our
separate ways. ways.
at me...
I have not left these
three years,
I do not to do so!
I am and fear is my gaoler.
word I speak
too dangerous.
My slightest act could bring
the very thing I
But of what?
Hush, and I shall you...
you...
USHER I the light,
creep in the gloom like a toad, a worm,
tortured by the gleam of sun.
I hear...
oh God, if you could only the things I hear!
I hear the lake at the walls,
I hear bats
I hear the sky moan to join the slime!
And this,
all this thunder to me,
thunder!
My senses at me:
Sight... Touch... Sight... Touch...
Sound and Taste... and Scent,
All and claw at my sanity.
is no hiding place for me,
for in the quietest of my rooms,
I hear the in conversation;
I the palpitations of my heart;
I feel all lives and does not move
and know it my feeling.
My peace lies in my music
and then because it drowns out
all sounds and souls...
You may that I am mad, but it is not so.
My senses beneath the blow of feathers falling
and more...
But no, I see you do not understand.
MONTRESOR Oh, my dear friend,
you see you are not well.
read of this before,
I think it's Hyperaesthesis.
I'm no doctor, but clear
your nerves have to pieces.
You to get away,
you a holiday,
you need a of air!
You an ocean cruise,
you to be amused!
I tell you plain, this
to me most unhealthy.
unattached, you're free to go, you're wealthy.
USHER THE CHORUS

Leave House.
Leave House.
this House
and away.
Leave this
I cannot!
Leave House!
I cannot!
Leave House!
I must stay.
Here I stay.
You are
time.
He never
leave...
I can
leave
do
not ask me
say no more heard of this before
and let me be I think it's Hyperaesthesis
I can never I'm no doctor but it's
here your nerves have gone to pieces.
therefore do nerves have gone to pieces.
not ask me.
Say no
and let me be
I cannot
He cannot
The is I
The is he
We are as one
are as one
And I die
and so die
Now you must
I He cannot
Now you must fly
leave The is he
Now you run
The are as one
House is No-one die
I And so die
I cannot
Now you leave
He cannot
The is I
Now you fly
The is he
We are as one
Now you run
and so die
and so die
will die
USHER MONTRESOR THE

We
not let
him go!
We not
let him go!
Do not torture me! this We not
Do not try to persuade! let him go!
We not
let him go!
It only brings me grief We shall not
let him go!
Leave this We shall not
I cannot let him go!
We not
let him go!
not let him go!
USHER MONTRESOR THE THE HOUSE
Leave House
I
this House
I
Leave House Leave this House
and come with me We not
let him go.
Leave this
I cannot Never,
Leave this never!
I
this House
and with me Never! Never, never,
never!
Never! Never, never,
never!
I can We are bound
leave here
do for the last time so never
not ask me I entreat you He shall he
say no more never leave leave
and let me be. We are

for the time so never
I entreat you He shall he
Leave! never leave leave.
Do not
talk to me
do not try
to persuade Leave!
He shall
never
this house
Oh Montresor never
I beg of you never
I can never
never leave never
I can never never
leave this house Leave this never never
I can never You are wasting never
leave this house Leave this you time never never
I can never he will never never
leave this house Leave! never never
never!
The
is I.
End of Act Two