Cardinal Monologue from The Duchess of Malfi

From The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

male · dark · 1:00 min

You are most welcome. (Exeunt PESCARA, MALATESTI, and DOCTOR.) Are you come? so.-- (Aside.) This fellow must not know By any means I had intelligence In our duchess' death; for, though I counsell'd it, The full of all th' engagement seem'd to grow ]From Ferdinand.--Now, sir, how fares our sister? I do not think but sorrow makes her look Like to an oft-dy'd garment: she shall now Take comfort from me. Why do you look so wildly? O, the fortune of your master here the prince Dejects you; but be you of happy comfort: If you 'll do one thing for me I 'll entreat, Though he had a cold tomb-stone o'er his bones, I 'd make you what you would be.

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