Truf Monologue from Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx

From Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx by Friedrich Schiller

male · sarcastic · 1:11 min

How dare you make such a confounded clatter? You stupid, don't you know the whole Divan Are called to meet as quickly as they can? Another suitor for my mistress' heart Is anxious from his silly head to part. (BRIG: For shame! Three hours ago one victim fell.) This new pretender seems a precious swell. His curly poll will grace the hangman's pole, A charming barber's block, upon my soul! 'Twill cut a figure in our " Rotten Row;" I think that jest is witty--Ho, ho, ho! (BRIG: Your soul in blackness with your visage vies-- You grin whene'er a fellow-creature dies.) You jackanapes! None of your paltry spite; My heart's not black,--your liver 'tis that's white; So hold your jaw. Why should I grieve to see That men for love such arrant fools can be? The more the merrier; for on each day, Our Princess 'scapes a husband's dreaded sway; She gives us all a good jollification, Besides munificent gratification.

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