It's Time To Speak Of Unspoken Things

Secret Ceremony

Leonora: Hush little baby, cry no more. Father's gone fishing, mother's a whore. Back in the morning, to guard your life, with two short prayers, and a carving knife.

Leonora: I had a daughter once, a very unusual child.

Albert: What happened to her?

Leonora: She vanished.

(snaps her fingers)

Leonora: There were two mice fell in a bucket of milk, one yelled for help and drowned, the other kept pedalling around and around until, in the morning, he found himself on top of butter.

Cenci: My virginity is the only thing I possess.

Leonora: Dear God, by whose mercy...

Cenci: Dear God, by whose mercy...

Leonora: ... I am shielded for a few hours...

Cenci ... I am shielded for a few hours...

Leonora ... let no-one snatch me from this heaven.

Cenci ... let no-one snatch me from this heaven.

Albert : Is your goddamn mother at home? I'm not going to eat you, you silly bitch.

Cenci: We can't have you walking about looking like a whore.

 Albert : If you don't let her go, she'll get smaller and smaller.

 

Cenci (song) Oh that I were where I would be, / There would I be where I am not; / But where I am there I must be, / And where I would be I can not.