A dictionary definition
Main Entry: cue Function: noun
1 a : a signal (as a word, phrase, or bit of stage business) to a performer to begin a specific speech or action
b : something serving a comparable purpose; HINT
Woman of Samaria
A dramatic monologue
Come quick, my lord. No, there's not time to play--
your singing bird has felt the stir of wings,
and cares no more for love's old cage of things.
I have outworn them. Listen now--l want
to tell you first, that I have met a man
who told me all that I have ever done.
He's waiting for us now, at Jacob's well.
He calls himself Messiah. Dare we think
he is the Promised One? He asked for drink
from me, as you did. Why, I must have left
the pitcher there, while you've been waiting long
for water. But I've heard you say I bring
you all delight, my dear, and here I am.
Perhaps a little kiss can help your thirst?
Come along. We can go together. First
call everyone in Sichar to the well.
You laugh that such a man would speak with me,
mere woman? Laugh with better reason: he
is Jew, but not like those who wouldn't ask
Samaritan help to save themselves from death,
afraid to die unclean, as though the breath
of Jews were perfumed, that of half-Jews, foul.
I knew him by the fringe upon his cloak.
A Jew--he wore the mark--but with a look
of gentleness. And not a trace of hate.
He seemed tender, yet strong and wise, with eyes
that read a soul unwarned, by quick surprise.
Why can't you hurry? No, I didn't say
the village well, where all the women go
to wag their tongues. You think that I don't know
the ways of Sichar's women? We were bred
alike, though they deny it. Let them talk
where stones can listen. I prefer to walk
beneath the sloping fields of Garizim
to Jacob's Well. The distance is not far
for one who pleasures in the mountain air.
I found him sitting there, alone. A Jew
on foot should keep his friends about, prepared
for trouble. When he asked for a drink, I shared
the water jar. "How is it you, a Jew,
ask drink of me?" I said. He knew my place.
I thought, before I looked upon that face,
he might be wanting more from me than drink.
Instead, he spoke of living living water. "Call
your husband, bring him here." What could I tell
him? "Sir, I have no husband." Thus I tried
to hide the truth, to no avail--for then
he told me all that I have ever done.
He recognized my kind, who love too well,
and yet not well enough--for you are more
to me than lover, yet not husband. Where
would I obtain a husband? He was wise,
a prophet. Looking up to Garizim
I asked him whether in Jerusalem
or here we ought to worship, as we do.
"In spirit and in truth." And then he named
himself Messiah. "I am he." He claimed
it; I believe. How else could he have known
the deeds my heart is hiding from my mind?
Come with me, run into the village, find
the people. Tell them I have seen a man
at Jacob's Well, and what he said to me.
You are not quick enough. Oh you must see
yourself, to know, as I do, who he is.
Go then. And I will meet you there when all
the town has heard the news. Samaria shall
not let this moment pass in sleeping! We
will find his living water, for he said
that he has water such as never flowed
in Jacob's Well, which gives us back dead rain.
Quickly, come and see this holy man
who told me...we will never thirst again.
