Bosola Monologue from The Duchess of Malfi

From The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

male · contemplative · 47 sec

Nobly: I 'll describe her. She 's sad as one long us'd to 't, and she seems Rather to welcome the end of misery Than shun it; a behaviour so noble As gives a majesty to adversity: You may discern the shape of loveliness More perfect in her tears than in her smiles: She will muse for hours together; and her silence, Methinks, expresseth more than if she spake. (FERDINAND: Her melancholy seems to be fortified With a strange disdain.) 'Tis so; and this restraint, Like English mastives that grow fierce with tying, Makes her too passionately apprehend Those pleasures she is kept from.

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