First Man Monologue from A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane

From A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane by Oscar Wilde

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We worship seven gods. We may not tell their names. It is a very dangerous thing to tell the names of the gods. No one should ever tell the name of his god. Even the priests who praise the gods all day long, and eat of their food with them, do not call them by their right names. (MYRRHINA: Where are these gods ye worship?) We hide them in the folds of our tunics. We do not show them to any one. If we showed them to any one they might leave us. (MYRRHINA: Where did ye meet with them?) They were given to us by an embalmer of the dead who had found them in a tomb. We served him for seven years.

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