Monologue

Arruntius Monologue from Sejanus His Fall

From Sejanus His Fall by Ben Jonson

male · defiant · 54 sec

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And trusted to this office! Lepidus, I’d sooner trust Greek Sinon, than a man Our state employs. He’s gone: and being gone, I dare tell you, whom I dare better trust, That our night-eyed Tiberius doth not see His minion’s drifts; or, if he do, he’s not So arrant subtile, as we fools do take him; To breed a mungrel up, in his own house, With his own blood, and, if the good gods please, At his own throat, flesh him, to take a leap. I do not beg it, heaven; but if the fates Grant it these eyes, they must not wink.

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Arruntius expresses his deep mistrust of Lepidus and the political machinations surrounding Tiberius, revealing a tense atmosphere of betrayal and impending danger.

30s · anger · betrayal · power · fate · revenge

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