Monologue

Zep Monologue from Psyche

From Psyche by Molière

male · philosophical · 51 sec

You are right. You cannot do better; and you are initiated into a mystery that demands no childish powers. (LOVE: This change will, no doubt, vex my mother.) I foresee some anger in that quarter, although disputes about age ought not to exist among immortals; yet, your mother Venus shares the spirit of beauties, who do not like grown-up children. But whereat I fancy her offended is the line of conduct you are pursuing; and 'tis a strange method of avenging her, to love the beauty she wished to see punished. This hatred to which she expects the power of a son generally feared by the gods to answer....

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