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...Excerpt: A jungle path. A lion?s roar, a melancholy suffering roar, comes from the jungle. It is repeated nearer. The lion limps from the jungle on three legs, holding up his right forepaw, in which a huge thorn sticks. He sits down and contemplates i...

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...haw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni-... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic ... ...niversity is an equal opportunity university. 3 GB Shaw Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw 1912 PROLOGUE Overture; forest sounds, roaring ... ...n by George Bernard Shaw 1912 PROLOGUE Overture; forest sounds, roaring of lions, Christian hymn faintly. A jungle path. A lion’s roar, a melancholy s... ...lancholy suffering roar, comes from the jungle. It is repeated nearer. The lion limps from the jungle on three legs, holding up his right forepaw, in ... ...nly throwing down her stick) I won’t go another step. 4 Androcles and the Lion ANDROCLES (pleading wearily) Oh, not again, dear. What’s the good of s... ...t on to the next village before night. There are wild beasts in this wood: lions, they say. MEGAERA. I don’t believe a word of it. Y ou are always thr... ... when I can hardly drag one foot before another. W e haven’t seen a single lion yet. ANDROCLES. Well, dear, do you want to see one? MEGAERA (tearing t... ...e day for me when you first came drinking in our bar. 6 Androcles and the Lion ANDROCLES. I confess I was addicted to it, dear. But I gave it up when...

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Preface: Androcles and the Lion. On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw.

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...PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY By George Bernard Shaw 1912 A Penn S... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw is a publicat... ... as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylv... .......................................... 94 7 Preface to Androcles and the Lion PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY By... ...f his are now turning out to be good sense 9 Preface to Androcles and the Lion and sound economics. I say distinctive, because his common humanity an... ...ure and sacrifice his life without resis- 11 Preface to Androcles and the Lion tance in the conviction that he would presently rise again in glory, y... ...nt them from painters and poets, you came 13 Preface to Androcles and the Lion out with an impression of their contents that would have astonished a ... ...o it, they burn him as a public nuisance. 15 Preface to Androcles and the Lion RELIGION OF THE MINORITY. SALVATIONISM The religion of the tolerated ... ...arer Salvationist opinion that it is much 17 Preface to Androcles and the Lion better to hang the wrong fellow: that, in fact, the wrong fel- low is ...

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...nd the faces of them all gather blackness. 11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the ol... ...ons, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid? 12 The lion ... ...2 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin. 13 Beho... ... will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy mes...

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... As kine they were, that midst the copses shrink From faring forth to meet a lion grim, But in dense thickets terror huddled cower; So in their fortre... ...ermodosa rushed, stood Meriones, Quintus Smyrnaeus The Fall of Troy 11 A lion in the path, and slew: his spear Right to the heart of one he drave,... ... with T roy. For his death fury kindled was the son Of haughty Phyleus: as a lion leaps Upon the flock, so swiftly rushed he: all Shrank huddling back... ...Penthesileia fainted not nor failed; But as amid long ridges of lone hills A lioness, stealing down a deep ravine, Springs on the kine with lightning ... ...es. Many they slew with their resistless spears; As when two herd destroying lions come On sheep amid the copses feeding, far From help of shepherds, ... ... debt shalt pay Of a dark doom, as when mid mountain folds A pricket meets a lion, waster of herds. What, woman, hast thou heard not of the heaps Of s... ... Huntress Artemis Sleeping, what time her feet forwearied are With following lions with her flying shafts Over the hills far stretching. She was made... ...on of Pyrrhasus. Wroth for his fall, against Antilochus He leapt, as leaps a lion mad of mood Upon a boar, the beast that flincheth not From fight wit... ...e unto him Quintus Smyrnaeus The Fall of Troy 34 But weaklings. A great lion seemed he there Standing above a hart, as jackals they, That, howso ...

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... beasts full of eyes before and behind. 7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a... ...ok thereon. 5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapte... ...d they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 9 And they had breastplates, as it were breast plates of iron; an... ...f jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. 18 By... ...and his left foot on the earth, 3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thun ders uttered their voices.... ..., and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority....

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...and sated themselves, leaning on their el- bows in the peaceful posture of lions tearing their prey. The last comers stood leaning against the trees w... ...hey slew; some hurled torches into the foli- age; others, leaning over the lions’ balustrade, massacred the animals with arrows; the most daring ran t... ...ed like volcanoes beginning to smoke. The clamour re- doubled; the wounded lions roared in the shade. In an instant the highest terrace of the palace ... ... that they could see something extraordinary on the top of a carob tree: a lion’s head reared itself above the leaves. They ran thither. It was a lion... ... two more, and then there suddenly appeared a long file of crosses bearing lions. Some had been so long dead that nothing was left against the wood bu... ...nt. “What people is this,” they thought, “that amuses itself by crucifying lions!” They were, besides, especially the men of the North, vaguely uneasy... ...en a draught of which they are to die. One morning when all three went out lion-hunting, Narr’ Havas concealed a dagger in his cloak. Spendius kept co... ...himself. One night he went in. Matho, as naked as a corpse, was lying on a lion’s skin flat on his stomach, with his face in both his hands; a hanging... ...arches, of a dumpy kind of architecture, with buttresses at their foot and lions’ heads at the top, reached to the western part of the Acropolis, wher...

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... camel’s-skin was wrapped about his loins, and his head was like that of a lion. As soon as he saw me, he launched in my direction all the malediction... ... Syrian’ s words. In the midst of the uproar Antipas remembered the medal- lion of the emperor that Herodias had given to him; he drew it forth and lo... ... Herodias appeared be- tween them, she looked like Cybele supported by her lions. In her hands she carried a patera, a shallow vessel of silver used b... ...he railing of the balcony so fiercely as to break her nails; the two stone lions at her back seemed to bite her shoulders and join their voices to her...

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... all them that persecute me, and deliver me: 2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver. 3 O LORD my God... ...is eyes are privily set against the poor. 9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor... ...our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth; 12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in sec... ...nd. 13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a raven ing and a roaring lion. 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my ... ... from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. 21 Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. 22 I w... ...D, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. 10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not wan... ... thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. 18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise ... ...p. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth. 4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men... ...their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD. 7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when h...

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...hour when ye say: “What good is my reason! Doth it long for knowledge as the lion for his food? It is poverty and pollution and wretched self-complace... ...e spirit do I designate to you: how the spirit becometh a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child. Many heavy things are there for the s... ...st wilderness happeneth the second metamorphosis: here the spirit becometh a lion; freedom will it capture, and lordship in its own wilderness. Its la... ...ord and God? “Thou-shalt,” is the great dragon called. But the spirit of the lion saith, “I will.” “Thou-shalt,” lieth in its path, sparkling with gol... ... more. Thus speaketh the dragon. My brethren, wherefore is there need of the lion in the spirit? Why sufficeth not the beast of burden, which renounce... ...urden, which renounceth and is reverent? To create new values—that, even the lion cannot yet accomplish: but to create itself freedom for new creat- i... ...h: but to create itself freedom for new creat- ing—that can the might of the lion do. To create itself freedom, and give a holy Nay even unto duty: fo... ... give a holy Nay even unto duty: for that, my brethren, there is need of the lion. To assume the right to new values—that is the most formidable assum... ...s even in the holiest things, that it may capture freedom from its love: the lion is needed for this capture. But tell me, my brethren, what the child...

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..., 22, 1845. My Dear Friend: You remember the old fable of “The Man and the Lion,” where the lion complained that he should not be so misrep- resented ... ...re the lion complained that he should not be so misrep- resented “when the lions wrote history.” I am glad the time has come when the “lions write his... ...orrow at my departure. It was a glad day to me. I had escaped a worse than lion’s jaws. I was ab- sent from Baltimore, for the purpose of valuation an... ... had lost his way. He did nothing of him- self. He might have passed for a lion, but for his ears. In all things noble which he attempted, his own mea... ...rrival at New York, I said I felt like one who had escaped a den of hungry lions. This state of mind, however, very soon sub- sided; and I was again s... ...ican slave sys- tem, and hastening the glad day of deliverance to the mil- lions of my brethren in bonds—faithfully relying upon the power of truth, l...

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...us, ord’ring all that prudence could provide, I clothe my shoulders with a lion’s hide And yellow spoils; then, on my bending back, The welcome load o... ... woods, She secret rites and ceremonies taught, And to the yoke the savage lions brought. Let us the land which Heav’n appoints, explore; Appease the ... ...to cross his way, And rather would the tusky boar attend, Or see the tawny lion downward bend. Meantime, the gath’ring clouds obscure the skies: From ... ... among the spoils, he draws (Pond’rous with shaggy mane and golden paws) A lion’s hide: to Salius this he gives. Nisus with envy sees the gift, and gr... ...ther’s light. From hence were heard, rebellowing to the main, The roars of lions that refuse the chain, The grunts of bristled boars, and groans of be... ... in battle gore. Like Hercules himself his son appears, In salvage pomp; a lion’s hide he wears; About his shoulders hangs the shaggy skin; The teeth ... ...’d higher from the ground, Receiv’d the Trojan chief; and, o’er the bed, A lion’s shaggy hide for ornament they spread. The loaves were serv’d in cani... ...ourser, fairer than the rest, The king himself presents his royal guest: A lion’s hide his back and limbs infold, Precious with studded work, and paws... ...d sheath’d the blade. This was his gift. Great Mnestheus gave his friend A lion’s hide, his body to defend; And good Alethes furnish’d him, beside, Wi...

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...at to the fire is brought, Which harmless lay benumbed with cold before, A lion so his rage renewed hath, Though fame before, if he be moved to wrath.... ...anta swift arear, Through forests wild, and unfrequented land To chase the lion, boar, or rugged bear, The satyrs rough, the fauns and fairies wild, S... ... together fold and wrap; Then spake again with fell and spiteful heart, So lions roar enclosed in train or trap, “Thou proud despiser of inconstant ma... ... his sandy locks he tore, Our from his lips flew such a sound confused, As lions make in deserts thick, which roar; Or as when clouds together crushed... ...nd wounds his hand, which he outstretched saw, Fiercer than eagles’ talon, lions’ paw. XCVII Now here, now there, on every side he rode, With nimble s... ...ght, Which got, she home retired and all her men, And thus she chased this lion to his den. CXXIII Y et ceased not the fury and the ire Of these huge ... ...ir weapons him environed round. 200 Jerusalem Delivered LXXXIII So when a lion shakes his dreadful mane, And beats his tail with courage proud and wr... ... disdainful grace, Sullen and sad, sat the Circassian stout, Like a fierce lion grumbling in his place, His fiery eyes that turns and rolls about; Nor... ... wind a rumbling makes, Or like sea waves against the scraggy shore; There lions grumble, there hiss scaly snakes, There howl the wolves, the rugged b...

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...at to the fire is brought, Which harmless lay benumbed with cold before, A lion so his rage renewed hath, Though fame before, if he be moved to wrath.... ...anta swift arear, Through forests wild, and unfrequented land To chase the lion, boar, or rugged bear, The satyrs rough, the fauns and fairies wild, S... ... together fold and wrap; Then spake again with fell and spiteful heart, So lions roar enclosed in train or trap, “Thou proud despiser of inconstant ma... ... his sandy locks he tore, Our from his lips flew such a sound confused, As lions make in deserts thick, which roar; Or as when clouds together crushed... ...nd wounds his hand, which he outstretched saw, Fiercer than eagles’ talon, lions’ paw. XCVII Now here, now there, on every side he rode, With nimble s... ...ght, Which got, she home retired and all her men, And thus she chased this lion to his den. CXXIII Y et ceased not the fury and the ire Of these huge ... ...ir weapons him environed round. 200 Jerusalem Delivered LXXXIII So when a lion shakes his dreadful mane, And beats his tail with courage proud and wr... ... disdainful grace, Sullen and sad, sat the Circassian stout, Like a fierce lion grumbling in his place, His fiery eyes that turns and rolls about; Nor... ... wind a rumbling makes, Or like sea waves against the scraggy shore; There lions grumble, there hiss scaly snakes, There howl the wolves, the rugged b...

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...t down with his Guelphs, but let him fear its talons, which from a loftier lion have stripped the fell. Often ere now the sons have wept for the sin o... ...fortunate Callaroga, under the protection of the great shield on which the Lion is subject and subjugates. 9 Therein was born the amorous lover of the... ...g interpreted, means as is said! 17 9 The shield of Castile, on which two lions and two castles are quartered, one lion below and one above. 10 St. ... ...as light- ened of me with whom she was burdened, this fire had come to its Lion 7 five hundred, fifty, and thirty times to reinflame itself beneath h... ...as St. John the Baptist. 7 —Mars As he glow’ d like a ruddy shield on the Lion’s breast.—Maud, part III. The Lion is the sign Leo in the Zodiac, appr... ...e lifted to the seventh splendor which beneath the breast of the burn- ing Lion now radiates downward mingled with his strength. 1 Fix thy mind behind... ... to thee.” 1 The seventh splendor is Saturn, which was in the sign of the Lion, whence its rays fell to earth, mingled with the strong influences of ...

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...y were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions. 24 Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarle... ... 17:9 37 10 And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a might... ...he son of a val iant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a p...

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...th the dappled skin. But not so that the sight which ap- peared to me of a lion did not give me fear. He seemed to be coming against me, with head hig... ...g them, I saw upon a yellow purse azure that had the face and bearing of a lion. 8 Then as the current of my look proceeded I saw another, red as blo... ...ntagna, make an anger of their teeth there where they are wont. The little lion of the white lair 7 governs the city of Lamone and of Santerno, and c... ...the blood of their subjects. 7 This is Maghinardo da Susinana, who bore a lion azure on a field argent. 8 The city of Cesena. 9 Refuse not to answe... ... with her two sons, cried out, “Spread we the nets, so that I may take the lioness and the young lions at the pass,” and then he stretched out his pit... ...nnibal and his followers turned their backs, didst bring of old a thousand lions for booty,—and it still seems credible that hadst thou been at the hi...

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...le skiffs by moonlight, nightingales in shady groves, “gentlemen” brave as lions, gentle as lambs, virtuous as no one ever was, always well dressed, a... ...ds, that often show us at once palm trees and firs, tigers on the right, a lion to the left, T artar minarets on the horizon; the whole framed by a ve... ...he scales of Justice. But that which most attracts the eye is opposite the Lion d’Or inn, the chemist’s shop of Monsieur Homais. In the evening especi... ...n their tur- bid alcohol, and above the big door of the inn the old golden lion, faded by rain, still shows passers-by its poodle mane. On the evening... ...rugging her fat shoulders. “Come, come, Mon- sieur Homais; as long as the ‘Lion d’Or’ exists people will come to it. We’ve feathered our nest; while o... ...laumin, Monsieur Leon Dupuis (it was he who was the second habitue of the “Lion d’Or”) frequently put back his dinner-hour in hope that some traveler ... ... head away and fainted. Madame Homais, as well as Madame Lefrancois of the Lion d’Or, almost immediately came running in to embrace her. The chemist, ... ...habit of drinking a good deal of brandy , he often sent the servant to the Lion d’Or to buy him a bottle, which was put down to his son’s account, and... ...ers pass along the pavement. T wice a day Leon went from his office to the Lion d’Or. Emma could hear him coming from afar; she leant forward listenin...

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...service of her fruit. But ravening tigers come not nigh, nor breed Of savage lion, nor aconite betrays Its hapless gatherers, nor with sweep so vast D... ...ver than then more fiercely o’er the plain Prowls heedless of her whelps the lioness: Nor monstrous bears such wide spread havoc doom Deal through the... ... will change T o bristly boar, fell tigress, dragon scaled, And tawny tufted lioness, or send forth A crackling sound of fire, and so shake of The fet... ...r hand hath built, Us before all things let the woods delight. The grim eyed lioness pursues the wolf, The wolf the she goat, the she goat herself In ... ...e Their udders swollen with milk, while flocks afield Shall of the monstrous lion have no fear. Thy very cradle shall pour forth for thee Caressing fl... ...ass blade touch. Nay, the wild rocks and woods then voiced the roar Of Afric lions mourning for thy death. Daphnis, ’twas thou bad’st yoke to Bacchus’...

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...e LORD; she drew not near to her God. 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morr...

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... problem, which Alexander Aphrodiseus hath accounted unanswerable: why the lion, who with his only cry and roaring affrights all beasts, dreads and fe... ...ard of that colour, as of his property and specifical quality, than with a lion. He saith, furthermore, that devils have been often seen in the shape ... ...n. He saith, furthermore, that devils have been often seen in the shape of lions, which at the sight of a white cock have presently van- ished. This i... ...his sheep, and turn the hogs to the hay. He would beat the dogs before the lion, put the plough before the oxen, and claw where it did not itch. He wo... ... time that the beasts did speak, which is not yet three days since, a poor lion, walking through the forest of Bieure, and saying his own little priva... ...re there was a roguish collier gotten up to cut down wood, who, seeing the lion, cast his hatchet at him and wounded him enormously in one of his legs... ...atchet at him and wounded him enormously in one of his legs; whereupon the lion halting, he so long toiled and turmoiled himself in roam- ing up and d... ...ch for some yarrow or millefoil, commonly called the carpenter’s herb. The lion, being thus healed, walked along in the forest at what time a sempiter... ...s picking up and gathering some sticks in the said forest, who, seeing the lion coming towards her, for fear fell down backwards, in such sort that th...