Polemius Monologue from The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria A Drama of Early Christian Rome

From The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria A Drama of Early Christian Rome by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

male · dramatic · 52 sec

No, my son, 't was but this instant That I entered here, alarmed By the strange and sudden shrillness Of thy voice; and though I had On my hands important business, Grave and weighty, since to me Hath the Emperor transmitted This decree, which bids me search Through the mountains for the Christians Hidden there, and specially For Carpophorus, their admitted Chief and teacher, for which cause I my voice too thus uplifted-- "Yes, Carpophorus must pay For the trouble that this gives me"-- I left all at hearing thee.-- Why so absent? so bewildered? What 's the reason? (CHRYSANTHUS: Sir, 't is naught.) Whom didst thou address?

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