Monologue

Fra Monologue from The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama In Five Acts

From The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama In Five Acts by Edna St. Vincent Millay

any · anguished · 51 sec

How do I know you love her still?--I know, The way you fall a-tapping with your fingers, Or plucking at your eye-brows, if her name Is spoken, or she move across the court. How do I know?--Oh, Guido, have I learned you So little, then, in all these bitter years? I know you very well. (GUI: You know too much I'll have an end of this, I tell you!) Ay. You've told me that before.--An end of what? What is this thing you'll put this mighty end to? 'Fore God I would I know. Could I but name it, I might have power to end it then, myself!

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