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Why Jesus Wept
Why Jesus Wept (1904), PDF p. 39
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WHY JESUS WEPT
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SIR PERCY.
I love you, love you. Yes, you love me ! Love ! Christ !
Yes, oh ! I love you so, dear heart.
MOLLY.
Dear love, I love you.
SIR PERCY.
Ah, love, love, how I love you. This is the world ! Love !
Love ! I love you so, my darling. Oh my white golden heart
of glory !
MOLLY.
I love you, love you so.
SIR PERCY.
Ah, God ! I love you ! I shall faint with love. I love
you so. (Angela, Lady Baird, is discovered behind the trees. She suffers the
torments of hell.)
ANGELA, While the duet continues.
Ah ! if there were a devil to buy souls,
Of if I had not sold mine ! Quick bargain, God !
Hell catch the jade ! Blister her fat red cheeks !
Rot her snub nose ! Poison devour her guts !
Wither her fresh clean face with old grey scabs,
And venomous ulcers gnaw the baby breasts !
Vermin upon her ! Infamous drab ! Gr ! Gr !
I would I had her home to torture her.
I would dig out those amorous eyes with gimlets,
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