Anna Monologue from The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage

From The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe

female · anguished · 1:06 min

Before I came, Æneas was abourd, And spying me, hoyst vp the sailes amaine: But I cride out, Æneas, false Æneas stay. Then gan he wagge his hand, which yet held vp, Made me suppose he would haue heard me speake: Then gan they driue into the Ocean, Which when I viewd, I cride, Æneas stay, Dido, faire Dido wils Æneas stay: Yet he whose heart of adamant or flint, My teares nor plaints could mollifie a whit: Then carelesly I rent my haire for griefe, Which seene to all, though he beheld me not, They gan to moue him to redresse my ruth, And stay a while to heare what I could say, But he clapt vnder hatches saild away. (Dido: O Anna, Anna, I will follow him.) How can ye goe when he hath all your fleete?

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