Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw
MRS WARREN:
Yes, Heaven forgive me, it's true;
and you are the only one that ever turned on me.
Oh, the injustice of it! the injustice! the injustice!
I always wanted to be a good woman. I tried honest work;
and I was slave-driven until I cursed the day I ever heard of honest work.
I was a good mother; and because I made my daughter a good woman
she turns me out as if I were a leper.
Oh, if I only had my life to live over again!
I'd talk to that lying clergyman in the school.
From this time forth, so help me Heaven in my last hour,
I'll do wrong and nothing but wrong. And I'll prosper on it.
Yes, Heaven forgive me, it's true;
and you are the only one that ever turned on me.
Oh, the injustice of it! the injustice! the injustice!
I always wanted to be a good woman. I tried honest work;
and I was slave-driven until I cursed the day I ever heard of honest work.
I was a good mother; and because I made my daughter a good woman
she turns me out as if I were a leper.
Oh, if I only had my life to live over again!
I'd talk to that lying clergyman in the school.
From this time forth, so help me Heaven in my last hour,
I'll do wrong and nothing but wrong. And I'll prosper on it.
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