Monologue

Bosola Monologue from The Duchess of Malfi

From The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

male · defiant · 43 sec

I do haunt you still. (CARDINAL: So.) I have done you better service than to be slighted thus. Miserable age, where only the reward of doing well is the doing of it! (CARDINAL: You enforce your merit too much.) I fell into the galleys in your service: where, for two years together, I wore two towels instead of a shirt, with a knot on the shoulder, after the fashion of a Roman mantle. Slighted thus! I will thrive some way. Black-birds fatten best in hard weather; why not I in these dog-days?

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