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Gather around handmaidens of sorrow...

6 seconds sound clip from the A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:11:44 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Here! You're to take that immediately up to the green bedroom.

- Son!

- Father!

- Oh, my passion potion.

- No!

- Forgive me for ever mistrusting you, my darling, but you have been a little distant these past 29 years.

- I shall compose a funeral dirge.

- Oh, do. A nice short one.

- Gather around handmaidens of sorrow...

- Sound the flute, blow the horn pluck the lute, forward mourn.

- All Crete was at her feet, all Thrace was in her throne, all Sparta loved her sweetness.

- And Gaul.

- And Spain.

- And Greece.

- And Egypt.

- And Syria.

- And Mesopotamia.

- What's that?

- It's a funeral.

- Oh. Somebody's dead, eh?

- Oh, yeah. The captain's maiden.

[...]

Top rated lines from this movie

Madam, at this very moment, the hospitality of your house is being enjoyed by a great captain, Miles Gloriosus. -The Gloriosus? -The the himself.
On behalf of the body, I'd like to thank you for a lovely funeral.
Be careful. I'm a bleeder.
A hundred and four years old and a single organ in working condition.
Crete? Do not touch me. Do not breathe on me. The plague, the plague!
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Sound Clip

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) poster

Funny quotes from the movie A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966), with short sound clips.

Actors: Zero Mostel (Pseudolus), Michael Crawford (Hero), Phil Silvers (Marcus Lycus), Leon Greene (Miles Gloriosus), Buster Keaton (Erronius), Michael Hordern (Senex)

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