Monologue

Paudeen Monologue from The Land of Heart's Desire

From The Land of Heart's Desire by W.B. Yeats

male · defiant · 43 sec

You that have been gaoled this eight months know little of this countryside. It isn’t a limping stroller like yourself the Boys would let come among them. But I know. I went to the drill a few nights and I skinning kids for the mountainy men. In a quarry beyond the drill is—they have their plans made—it’s the square house of the Brownes is to be made an attack on and plundered. Do you know, now, who is the leader they are waiting for?

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