Monologue

Deirdre Monologue from John Millington Synge

From John Millington Synge by Deirdre of the Sorrows

29 sec

— _brightly._ — You should be well pleased it’s for that I’d worry all times, when it’s I have kept your tent these seven years as tidy as a bee-hive or a linnet’s nest. If Conchubor’d a queen like me in Emain he’d not have stretched these rags to meet us. There’s new earth on the ground and a trench dug. . . . It’s a grave, Naisi, that is wide and deep.

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