Monologue

Maria Monologue from A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane

From A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane by Oscar Wilde

female · romantic · 1:28 min

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Nor did I say a word of that you said; I said, ‘She loves him not, my lord, nor loves Any man else. Yet she might like to love, If she were loved by one who pleased her well; For she is weary of spinning long alone. She is not rich and yet she is not poor; but young She is, my lord, and you are young. (Pauses smiling.) (BIANCA: Quick, quick!) There, there! ’Twas but to show you how I smiled Saying the lord was young. It took him too; For he said, ‘This will do! If I should call To-night to pay respect unto your lovely— Our lovely mistress, tell her that I said, Our lovely mistress, shall I be received?’ And I said, ‘Yes.’ ‘Then say I come and if All else is well let her throw down some favour When as I pass below.’ He should be there! Look from the balcony; he should be there!— And there he is, dost see?

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20s · anticipation · love · youth · desire · isolation

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