Aretino Monologue from The Immortal Lure

From The Immortal Lure by Cale Young Rice

male · sarcastic · 1:05 min

Ai, light of ladies' eyes! And with him a better! Shall we sing for entrance? (Begins)--A wench I had, But where is she--? A-ho! Old Gigia, is it? Then we come apace, [ (Enters leeringly with TITIAN.) Like satyrs to the piping of Adonis! [ (With irony.) A health to you, O heaven-born of Venice! [ (To BELLINI.) And to you, glorious dauber of Madonnas! But, bah! the smell of melancholy! Come, What is it? The tale is out about the maid? And therefore tears? [ (Laughs.) Well, by the lids of Venus, Giorgio, It serves you well--or Eve was not a woman! There were too many ripe for your assay. Why, I believe that every damsel's lips On the lagoons were pinched with longing for you!

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