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December 2007

 

Charles-François Racot de Grandval

LA NOUVELLE MESSALINE | THE New Messalina

 

Author’s Note to the Reader:

 

I cannot be reproached for having infected my play with dirty and equivocal words.  To the best of my ability, I have written in a clear style, and I can assure the reader that, as limited as his abilities might be, he will find nothing here beyond the scope of his intelligence.

 

            For to counterfeit the tone of the great Boileau,

            I call a prick a prick, a cunt a cunt, just so.

 

The singularity of my play forces me, in spite of my modesty, to say that it is an exemplar of its genre, that I find it so because I wrote it that way, and that those whose taste is so bad that they refuse to applaud it can throw it into the fire.  I don’t give a shit about them.  Adieu.

 

Cast:

 

Couillanus (Testicle-Ass), King of Foutange (Fuckland)

Messalina, daughter of Couillanus

 

Vitus (Dick-us)

Pinez de Villeprune                                 All princes and lovers of Messalina

Matricius

Nombrilis

 

Conina, Messalina’s servant

Several Guards

 

Setting: The Royal Palace

 

 

 

Scene 1 (Messalina, Conina)

 

                                    CONINA

Yes, Madame, this report is faithful and sincere:

Your father has been seen on an island near here.

Having for six long years been away from these parts

He’s returning to his home to kiss his dear hearts.

But what unpleasant thoughts occupy your fair mind?

You’re wandering around the palace as if you were blind.

You aren’t listening at all; your face is so sad.

Chin up! Melancholy on a girl your age looks bad!

What on earth is wrong?  Why are you sighing so?    

 

 

                                    MESSALINA

Yes, I am upset, if you really must know.

You know of Sir Vitus, the hero of the war?

This man I once desired—I’ve found out he’s a boor!

 

                                    CONINA

How has he displeased you?  What are you talking about?

 

                                    MESSALINA  

I refuse to see him again, the stupid lout!

You must remember that from the first time I saw him

I wanted to hold him, to kiss him, to paw him.

He came upon me asleep in my bed one day,

Slid his hand under my skirt in an amorous way,

And pulled his enormous manhood out of his pants…

He put it inside me and my soul began to dance!

Such pleasure! Such friction! Such force! O gods! What joy!

I knew how Pyrrhus felt when he saw the flames of Troy!

Never wanting to let him escape from my embrace

I saw him get hard, fuck, and ejaculate

Yesterday Vitus satisfied me for hours.

Today he was more like a bunch of wilted flowers.

I thought his prick’s sole purpose was to penetrate;

Approaching me today, all it did was deflate.

Now, Conina, you know why I’m so offended.

This insulting failure can never be mended.

 

                                    CONINA

Yes, Madame, you are right to be upset;

With a man like that, your needs will never be met.

But really, even if it is bloody and cruel,

You must not feel badly.  Take care of your jewel;

It’s so pretty and sweet.  Do not let it dry up

Because of the shame of not keeping one guy up.

You deserve a reward.  Why not go and indulge…

 

                                    MESSALINA

Yes, it’s time to find a man with a bigger bulge. 

Too long have I nourished my weakness and pain;

From now on bodily fluids will flow like rain.

I will sail away on a river of semen,

And fill each waking moment with lusty he-men.

But someone is coming; O god, who can it be?

 

                                    CONINA

We were speaking of Vitus, Madame.  It is he. 

 

                                    MESSALINA

Conina, please inform him that in my present state 

I must refuse to see him.  He’s made me irate.

 

Scene 2: Vitus, Conina

 

                                    VITUS

She detests me, she flees! Oh, capricious princess

Is this a fair reward for all my tenderness?

Tell me, Conina, why is she running away?

 

                                    CONINA

Because of you, sir, and your impotence today.

Do not come here and crow about your tender love

If you can’t offer hard proof when push comes to shove.

 

                                    VITUS

How can she be upset?  I truly did my best.

After nine attempts my prick just needed a rest

 

                                    CONINA

Perhaps were you a woman you would feel the same;

A man’s lack of desire would surely cause you shame.

Why not take vengeance, sir?  Seek elsewhere for pleasure.

She’s looking for a prick of a different measure;

You should find another cunt, rejecting hers duly.

May I suggest the one belonging to yours truly?

A warrior like yourself is used to nobler arms,

But my body is not without its own unique charms.

And whether you find my jewel to be large or small,

The change from hers will surely make your prick stand tall.

 

                                    VITUS

I’d follow your advice, if it weren’t so base

And you weren’t so beneath me.  Don’t you know your place?

I forgive your audacious and forward request.

Though I could take revenge, it is my sole behest

That you leave me alone.  Since you want me so much,

The best punishment is to deprive you of my touch.

Go!

 

                                    CONINA (Aside)

   Contemptuous fool!  You will learn in good time

How my passion will bring you to pleasures sublime.

 

Scene 3: Vitus alone.

 

                                    VITUS

Treacherous Eros, now I see your full power

Before the strength of Love, all humans must cower.

Until today, Messalina was nothing more 

Than a vessel to satisfy my lust—a whore.

Every day she seems more like an angel above,

The more I see her cunt, the more I’m filled with love.

Conina offered herself in Messalina’s place,

But she just annoys me.  Now she’s out of my face.

I love Messalina, and I will endeavor

To assuage her anger by filling her forever.

 

Scene 4: Vitus, Guard.

 

                                    GUARD

Messalina, my lord, in her profound distress,

Has ordered that the palace be emptied of guests.

She’s coming now.

 

                                    VITUS

            All right.  I will leave her in peace,

In hopes that my absence will make her sorrows cease.

 

Scene 5: Messaline, Pinez, Matricius, Nombrilis

 

                                    MESSALINA

Come, exquisite heroes, take your places all three;

Your merits are great, but which is worthy of me?

Fortune shall decide which of your three hard cocks

Will be given the chance to knock off my socks.

What am I saying?  Leaving this up to fate

Is a dreadful idea that we all should hate. 

No, we must trust empirical evidence.

The one of you who shows more vigor than the rest

Earns the right to my bed, by fucking me the best

Go, brave warriors, take out your pricks, now!

Prepare them to fuck me as your strength will allow.

Get to work.  Show me how you’re so strong and clever

That the lusty battle will continue forever.

Will you all submit to this amorous commune?

Your turn to respond first, Pinez de Villeprune.

                       

                                    PINEZ

I obey.  I know the merits of my prick:

It may be the smallest of the three, but it’s slick.

Size doesn’t matter when…

 

                                    MATRICIUS

                                          Shut up, you sucker. 

Until we know who will be the first to fuck her

 

                                    MESSALINA

The first to get a hardon.

 

                                    All Three Men

But we’re all hard already.

 

                                    MESSALINA

Well, gentlemen, please do keep them steady.

Let me come up with another plan, my dears.

Matricius, pull out a few of my pubic hairs.

 

                                    MATRICIUS

I’ve got some.

 

                                    MESSALINA

                        And you, Pinez?

 

                                    PINEZ

                                                            Me, too.

 

                                    MESSALINA

                                                                                    That’s good news.

Your turn, Nombrilis.  Don’t worry, don’t refuse.

My Phoenix-like hairs grow back quickly from their ashes.

Let’s count now.  How many did you get, Matricius?

 

                                    MATRICIUS

Nineteen.

 

                                    MESSALINA

                        And you, Pinez?

 

                                    PINEZ

                                                            I have four more than that.

 

                                    MESSALINA

And you, quiet Nombrilis?  It’s your turn to chat.

How many?

 

                                    NOMBRILIS

 Seventeen.  As you can see, good sirs

Though my mouth remains closed, my cock stirs and stirs.

 

                                    MESSALINA

Less talk and more action! Nombrilis, fuck me first.

Then Matricius, then Pinez.  I’m about to burst!

Come to me, sacrifice to Priapus, my god.

Come, Nombrilis, lie with me, give me your hard rod.

Let’s lie down on this bed…I’m already so wet.

Are you discharging yet?

 

                                    NOMBRILIS

                                                Hang on, I can’t get…

 

                                    MESSALINA

What?  Your cock is melting?  The coward retreats?

I thought you had at least the strength of Hercules

Out, impotent one, no more comparisons lofty!

The devil take you and break your neck, you softie.

Come, Matricius, take his place, I’m sure you’ll suffice.

When I am all on fire, why are you cold as ice?

Where is your cock?

 

                                    MATRICIUS

It’s right here.

 

                                    MESSALINA

                                                            Dear gods, what a fall,

From Charybdis to Scylla!  This won’t do at all.

 (To Pinez)

And what’s wrong with you now?  Should I show you the door?

 

                                    PINEZ

Madame, I was hard, but now I’m not anymore.

 

                                    MESSALINA

So many refusals!  I can’t take it today.

Limp-dicks be gone, out of my sight, go away!

You can’t get it up even seeing me nude?

Out, out, I say!  My just revenge could start a feud.

 

 

Scene 6: Messalina, alone.

 

                                    MESSALINA

O fury!  O despair!  O treacherous Venus!

What do I have to do to find a hard penis?

Haven’t I burned enough incense at your altar

To avoid this problem?  Why should all these men falter?

Venus, can you look on at these four failing men

Without crying vengeance on behalf of women?

Men’s impotence insults the women of this nation.

How can I have been reduced to masturbation?

Vengeance!  Vengeance!  Take up bolts of lightning

Pulverize their cocks!  Show them you can be frightening.

O earth, open up around their weak footsteps

Goddesses of hell, invent new torments

Dig deep, at every instant, many abysses

So that they can learn how we’ll punish their misses!

Reverse the order of what they have in store,

Force them after death to fuck only whores

Whose disease-ridden cunts, from their horrible depths

Will transfer to those cocks ugly sores and distress.

Cover their bodies with boils, disgusting and mean!

Change the color of their semen to yellow and green!

And let a burning chancre, tormenting each soul

Teach them that pleasing women is more than a goal.

 

Scene 7: Messalina, A Guard.

 

                                    GUARD

Your father has arrived, Madame, the people cheer him.

Please hide the pain in your eyes while you are near him.

 

Scene 8: The King, Messalina.

 

                                    KING

My daughter, it is sweet after six years of absence

Today to enjoy the pleasure of your presence,

To taste of your delight…

 

                                    MESSALINA

                                                Couillanus, stop, please!

Your words cannot return me to a life of ease.

You’ve been offended; outrageous fortune hasn’t

Been kind to Messalina while you were absent.

Because I am unworthy to approach your grace

I must go hide myself from the whole human race.

                                   

KING

What a strange welcome she makes to her father! 

This sudden departure covers up some bother.

Let’s ask Conina, who is coming to greet us.

To whom is this letter addressed?

 

Scene 9: King, Conina

 

                                    CONINA

 It’s for Vitus.

 

                                    KING

Can you tell me why your mistress flees from my sight? 

Her eyes and her face are on fire in this flight.

How has she been occupying her time?

 

                                    CONINA

                                                            She fucks.

 

                                    KING

Nothing wrong with that.  Fucking is pleasant enough.

But how can she give all her thought and care to it?

If she doesn’t spend less time trying to do it,

She’ll never find a glorious place in history.

 

                                    CONINA

My Lord, there are many paths to glory;

The Princess wants to make a glorious name

By making sex a virtue; the gods do the same.

Yes, the divine ones know of no greater pleasure

And humans can also partake of this treasure.

Who can blame her for wanting to follow their lead?

Even if you wanted, you couldn’t do the deed.

Figure it out, your highness, the glory of sex

Is the only way our lives can have lasting effects.

 

                                    KING

I submit to your logic; such cunning discourse

Calls my prick to action.  I’m hard as a horse.

I must go right away to find my mistress.

 

                                    CONINA

Don’t let your old age leave a damsel in distress.

 

Scene 10: Conina, alone.

 

                                    CONINA

Deign, Love, to protect my amorous design

Bring Vitus into my trap, make him finally mine.

Here he comes..Oh, God, don’t let me miss the boat!

 

Scene 11: Conina, Vitus

 

                                    CONINA

Sir, I have been charged with delivering this note;

Here it is.

                       

                                    VITUS

                        Let’s read.

 

                                    CONINA (Aside)

                                                God of Love, work your magic.

If he sees through my trick, the result could be tragic.

                                   

                                    VITUS

“Adorable Vitus, if your heart still loves me

Come and give me the proof of your tender torment;

I will come and join you in this apartment

To swear a thousand times that my soul adores thee.

            My father is back here:

For fear that he will walk right in and surprise us,

            Lock the door, my dear,

So that no one can see, or hear, or surmise us.”

 

O inimitable goodness!  My darling dear!

What! Your cunt still would like for my cock to be near!

And you, my cock, and you…

 

                                    CONINA

                                                Ooh, la, la, that is nice.

I’d kill to have that cock inside me, even just twice.

 

                                    VITUS

Why are you interrupting me?  Stay over there.

Good help is so hard to find these days, I swear.

And you, my cock, and you, happiest of cocks

Please make a strong effort.  Don’t leave me on the rocks.

Since Messalina has never been satisified

By even your best efforts, redouble your pride.

We’ll exhaust her.  We’ll give her everything we’ve got.

Then she’ll acknowledge me as master of her twat.

 

Go tell her your mistress that I anxiously await

Her arrival, and that of her cunt.  It’s a date.

 

Scene 12: Vitus, alone

 

                                    VITUS

Conina ogled you, and you got excited.

True, if I had fucked her she would have been delighted.

But who cares?  Once I have fucked my dear Messalina

I can amuse myself with her servant Conina .

Would such an encounter my honor offend?

No, my goal is to get hard and to fuck…the end!

How many men, more than you could count, I expect,

Fuck the mistress, then the servant, with no disrespect?

But my darling approaches, I hear her alight.

She’s closing the curtains, getting ready for the night.

Should I believe my heart?  Is it you, my princess?

 

Scene 13: Vitus and Conina.

 

                                    CONINA (in disguise)