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 · melancholic · 1:06 min

She will come, I tell you! (GIU: Ay, I doubt it not.) Ay, she will come. But if she should come late, And I no longer be here to receive her, Show her all courtesy, I conjure you. She will be weary, and mightily distraught. Make her take wine,--and bring the children to her. And tell her, they are hers now. She is their mother. (Giulietta starts to go back to the window.) And say to her--wait!--I have a message for her. Say to her this, Giulietta: The foot stumbles, The hand hath its own awkward way; the tongue Moves foolishly in the mouth; but in the heart The truth lies,--and all's well 'twixt her and me. Can you remember that? (GIU: Ay, madam, I think so. If not the words, at least the gist of it.) Forget it all, my good child, but forget not: All's well 'twixt her and me.

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