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

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

male · anguished · 1:35 min

I have wrought thee so much ill, Mélisande.... I cannot tell thee the ill I have wrought thee.... But I see it, I see it so clearly to-day ... since the first day.... And all I did not know till now leaps in my eyes to-night.... And it is all my fault, all that has happened, all that will happen.... If I could tell it, thou wouldst see as I do!... I see all! I see all!... But I loved thee so!... I loved thee so!... But now there is some one dying.... It is I who am dying.... And I would know.... I would ask thee.... Thou'lt bear me no ill-will.... I would.... The truth must be told to a dying man.... He must know the truth, or else he could not sleep.... Swearest thou to tell me the truth? MÉLISANDE Yes.

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