Golaud Monologue from Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home

From Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home by Maurice Maeterlinck

male · dark · 1:03 min

Bring it. (To ARKËL.) --They have just found another peasant dead of hunger, along by the sea. You would say they all meant to die under our eyes.-- (To MÉLISANDE.) Well, my sword?--Why do you tremble so?--I am not going to kill you. I would simply examine the blade. I do not employ the sword for these uses. Why do you examine me like a beggar?--I do not come to ask alms of you. You hope to see something in my eyes without my seeing anything in yours?--Do you think I may know something?-- (To ARKËL.) --Do you see those great eyes?--It is as if they were proud of their richness.... ARKËL. I see there only a great innocence....

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