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A Night in Avignon

Cale Young Rice

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .And to blaspheme with! O obsessèd man.

(Has risen, flushed.)

But you will fail! For this vain revelry
Will ease not. And I see all love is base—
As say the Fathers—[9]
All!... and the body of woman
Is vile from the beginning.

Petrarca.Monkish lies!

(Drinks again for courage.)

The body of woman's born of bliss and beauty.
Only one thing is fairer—that's her soul.

Gherardo. And is that Word which says thou shalt not look
Upon another's wife a monkish lie?

(Silence.)

Your Laura is another's.

Petrarca (torn). As I found!
After my heart became a poison flame—
Within me!
A fierce inquisitor against my peace![10]
After I followed her from Santa Clara,
That mass-hour,
To an escutcheoned door!
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