Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
A monk watching a brother tend the myrtle bed works himself into a lather over the man's table talk, his chatter about pirates, and the way he sets his glass down without first crossing himself. Between growled Latin and half-remembered heresies the speaker sorts through the ways he might damn him, none of which would require laying a finger on him. One of the Dramatic Lyrics of 1842, and the purest case of Browning letting a voice convict itself while it believes it is prosecuting somebody else.
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