Monologue

Flamineo Monologue from The White Devil

From The White Devil by John Webster

male · dramatic · 1:26 min

In all the weary minutes of my life, Day ne'er broke up till now. This marriage Confirms me happy. (Hort: 'Tis a good assurance. Saw you not yet the Moor that 's come to court?) Yes, and conferr'd with him i' th' duke's closet. I have not seen a goodlier personage, Nor ever talk'd with man better experience'd In State affairs, or rudiments of war. He hath, by report, serv'd the Venetian In Candy these twice seven years, and been chief In many a bold design. (Hort: What are those two That bear him company?) Two noblemen of Hungary, that, living in the emperor's service as commanders, eight years since, contrary to the expectation of the court entered into religion, in the strict Order of Capuchins; but, being not well settled in their undertaking, they left their Order, and returned to court; for which, being after troubled in conscience, they vowed their service against the enemies of Christ, went to Malta, were there knighted, and in their return back, at this great solemnity, they are resolved for ever to forsake the world, and settle themselves here in a house of Capuchins in Padua.

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