Antonio Monologue from The Duchess of Malfi

From The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

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He is so quiet that he seems to sleep The tempest out, as dormice do in winter. Those houses that are haunted are most still Till the devil be up. (DELIO: What say the common people?) The common rabble do directly say She is a strumpet. (DELIO: And your graver heads Which would be politic, what censure they?) They do observe I grow to infinite purchase, (73) The left hand way; and all suppose the duchess Would amend it, if she could; for, say they, Great princes, though they grudge their officers Should have such large and unconfined means To get wealth under them, will not complain, Lest thereby they should make them odious Unto the people. For other obligation Of love or marriage between her and me They never dream of.

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