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The Lamp and the Bell
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Prologue
[Anselmo and Luigi]
ANSELMO. What think you,—lies there any truth in the tale The King will wed again?
LUIGI. Why not, Anselmo? A king is no less lonely than a collier When his wife dies, And his young daughter there, For all her being a princess, is no less A motherless child, and cries herself to sleep Night after night, as noisily as any, You may be sure.
ANSELMO. A motherless child loves not, They say, the second mother. Though the King May find him comfort in another face,— As it is well he should—the child, I fancy, Is not so lonely as she is distraught With grief for the dead Queen, and will not lightly Be parted from her tears.
LUIGI. If tales be true, The woman hath a daughter, near the age Of his, will be a playmate for the Princess.
CURTAIN
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Chicago: Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Prologue," The Lamp and the Bell, ed. Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934 in The Lamp and the Bell (New York: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1906), Original Sources, accessed November 23, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=6VFSIP14EMLDHDS.
MLA: Millay, Edna St. Vincent. "Prologue." The Lamp and the Bell, edited by Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934, in The Lamp and the Bell, Vol. 22, New York, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1906, Original Sources. 23 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=6VFSIP14EMLDHDS.
Harvard: Millay, ES, 'Prologue' in The Lamp and the Bell, ed. . cited in 1906, The Lamp and the Bell, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 23 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=6VFSIP14EMLDHDS.
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