Monologue

Bia Monologue from The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama In Five Acts

From The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama In Five Acts by Edna St. Vincent Millay

female · defiant · 1:10 min

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A spinster! Do you come here to me, Rose-Red, Whilst I pinch you smartly! You, Arianna, push me Her Highness over here, that I may pinch her! (To Loretta.) Nay, is it finished? Aye, 'tis very well. Though not so well, Loretta, as many a day When I was doing nothing!--Nay, my girl, 'Tis well enough. He will take me as I am Or leave me as I was.--You may come back In half an hour, if you are grieved about it, And do it again. But go now,--all of you. I wish to be alone. (To Beatrice.) Not you. (Exeunt all but Bea. and Bia.) Oh, Rose-Red, I trust 'twill not be long before I see you As happy as you see me now!

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30s · determination · identity · isolation · freedom · trust

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