Monologue

Beatrice Monologue from Much Ado About Nothing

From Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

female · comedic · 1:03 min

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The fault will be in the music, cousin, if you be not wooed in good time: if the Prince be too important, tell him there is measure in everything, and so dance out the answer. For, hear me, Hero: wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinquepace: the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes Repentance, and with his bad legs, falls into the cinquepace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave. (LEONATO: Cousin, you apprehend passing shrewdly.) I have a good eye, uncle: I can see a church by daylight.

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Beatrice advises her cousin Hero on the nature of courtship and marriage, using playful metaphors to illustrate the stages of wooing and the inevitability of regret.

20s · anticipation · love · marriage · repentance · identity

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