# THE HONEYED MOON SCRIPT
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#### By: [[Colette]]
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>><span class="info">Location</span>
>>_<span class="info"><font color="#81799">[[The Grand Chateau Theatre]]</font></span>_
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>><span class="info">Date</span>
>>_<span class="info"><font color="#81799">14/12/2025</font></span>_
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>><span class="info">Session</span>
>>_<span class="info"><font color="#81799">[[Session 29]]</font></span>_
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><center>Excerpt from the play 'The Honeyed Moon' that belonged to one of the students.</center>
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>**<div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">PRINCE</p></div>**
><div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">[To CÉLINE] If I profane with my unworthiest hand</p></div>
><div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:</p></div>
><div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand </p></div>
><div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.</p></div>
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>**<div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">CÉLINE</p></div>**
><div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,</p></div>
><div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">Which mannerly devotion shows in this;</p></div>
><div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,</p></div>
><div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.</p></div>
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>**<div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">PRINCE</p></div>**
><div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?</p></div>
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>**<div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">CÉLINE</p></div>**
><div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.</p></div>
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>**<div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">PRINCE</p></div>**
><div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;</p></div>
><div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.</p></div>
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>**<div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">CÉLINE</p></div>**
><div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.</p></div>
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>**<div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">PRINCE</p></div>**
><div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.</p></div>
><div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.</p></div>
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>**<div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">CÉLINE</p></div>**
><div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">Then have my lips the sin that they have took.</p></div>
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>**<div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">PRINCE</p></div>**
><div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!</p></div>
><div class="typewriter1"><p align="center">Give me my sin again.</p></div>
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>[!cite|transcript]- Transcript
>**PRINCE**
>[To CÉLINE] If I profane with my unworthiest hand
>This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
>My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
>To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
>
>**CÉLINE**
>Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
>Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
>For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
>And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
>
>**PRINCE**
>Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
>
>**CÉLINE**
>Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
>
>**PRINCE**
>O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
>They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
>
>**CÉLINE**
>Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
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>**PRINCE**
>Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
>Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.
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>**CÉLINE**
>Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
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>**PRINCE**
>Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
>Give me my sin again.