Duchess Monologue from The Duchess of Malfi

From The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

female · dark · 53 sec

Sit, Cariola.--Let them loose when you please, For I am chain'd to endure all your tyranny. (Enter Madman) Here by a Madman this song is sung to a dismal kind of music O, let us howl some heavy note, Some deadly dogged howl, Sounding as from the threatening throat Of beasts and fatal fowl! As ravens, screech-owls, bulls, and bears, We 'll bell, and bawl our parts, Till irksome noise have cloy'd your ears And corrosiv'd your hearts. At last, whenas our choir wants breath, Our bodies being blest, We 'll sing, like swans, to welcome death, And die in love and rest.

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