Monologue

Adam Monologue from As You Like It

From As You Like It by William Shakespeare

male · melancholic · 1:00 min

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What, my young master? O my gentle master, O my sweet master, O you memory Of old Sir Rowland! Why, what make you here? Why are you virtuous? Why do people love you? And wherefore are you gentle, strong, and valiant? Why would you be so fond to overcome The bonny prizer of the humorous Duke? Your praise is come too swiftly home before you. Know you not, master, to some kind of men Their graces serve them but as enemies? No more do yours. Your virtues, gentle master, Are sanctified and holy traitors to you. O, what a world is this, when what is comely Envenoms him that bears it!

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Adam expresses concern and sorrow for his young master, questioning the nature of virtue and the burdens it brings in a world that can be cruel to those who possess it.

60 and up · sadness · identity · betrayal · power · isolation

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