Mascarille Monologue from The Blunderer

From The Blunderer by Molière

male · anguished · 50 sec

He was certainly much to blame. I can never forgive him for such a freak. (ANS: Not even to take time to be ill.) No, never was a man in such a hurry to die. (ANS: And how does Lelio behave?) He raves, and has lost all command over his temper; he has beaten himself till he is black and blue in several places, and wishes to follow his father into the grave. In short, to make an end of this, the excess of his grief has made me with the utmost speed wrap the corpse in a shroud, for fear the sight, which fed his melancholy, should tempt him to commit some rash act.

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