Antonio Monologue from The Duchess of Malfi

From The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

male · philosophical · 48 sec

Indeed, my rule is only in the night. (DUCHESS: I 'll stop your mouth.) Nay, that 's but one; Venus had two soft doves To draw her chariot; I must have another.-- (She kisses him again.) When wilt thou marry, Cariola? (CARIOLA: Never, my lord.) O, fie upon this single life! forgo it. We read how Daphne, for her peevish (flight,) (80) Became a fruitless bay-tree; Syrinx turn'd To the pale empty reed; Anaxarete Was frozen into marble: whereas those Which married, or prov'd kind unto their friends, Were by a gracious influence transhap'd Into the olive, pomegranate, mulberry, Became flowers, precious stones, or eminent stars.

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