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Bianca Monologue from A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane

From A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane by Oscar Wilde

female · dramatic · 1:59 min

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Some favour. Yes. This ribbon weighted by this brooch will do. Maria, be you busy near within, but, till I call take care you enter not. Go down And let the young lord in, for hark, he knocks. (Exit MARIA.) Great ladies might he choose from and yet he Is drawn... ah, there my fear is! Was he drawn By love to me—by love’s young strength alone? That’s where it is, if I were sure he loved, I then might do what greater dames have done And venge me on a husband blind to beauty. But if! Ah if! he is a wandering bee, Mere gallant taster, who befools poor flowers... (MARIA opens the door for GUIDO BARDI, and then withdraws.) My lord, I learn that we have something here, In this poor house, which thou dost wish to buy. My husband is from home, but my poor fate Has made me perfect in the price of velvets, Of silks and gay brocades. I think you offered Some forty thousand crowns, or fifty thousand, For something we have here? And it must be That wonder of the loom, which my Simone Has lately home; it is a Lucca damask, The web is silver over-wrought with roses. Since you did offer fifty thousand crowns It must be that. Pray wait, for I will fetch it.

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20s · fear · love · betrayal · revenge · identity

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