Monologue

Monticelso Monologue from The White Devil

From The White Devil by John Webster

male · dark · 49 sec

Go to, go to. After your goodly and vainglorious banquet, I 'll give you a choke-pear. (Vit: O' your own grafting?) You were born in Venice, honourably descended From the Vittelli: 'twas my cousin's fate, Ill may I name the hour, to marry you; He bought you of your father. (Vit: Ha!) He spent there in six months Twelve thousand ducats, and (to my acquaintance) Receiv'd in dowry with you not one Julio: 'Twas a hard pennyworth, the ware being so light. I yet but draw the curtain; now to your picture: You came from thence a most notorious strumpet, And so you have continued.

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