Monologue

Bertram Monologue from All's Well That Ends Well

From All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare

male · contemplative · 1:04 min

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What of him? He’s quoted for a most perfidious slave, With all the spots o’ the world tax’d and debauch’d: Whose nature sickens but to speak a truth. Am I or that or this for what he’ll utter, That will speak anything? (KING: She hath that ring of yours.) I think she has. Certain it is I lik’d her And boarded her i’ the wanton way of youth. She knew her distance, and did angle for me, Madding my eagerness with her restraint, As all impediments in fancy’s course Are motives of more fancy; and in fine, Her infinite cunning with her modern grace, Subdu’d me to her rate; she got the ring, And I had that which any inferior might At market-price have bought.

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Bertram reflects on his past interactions with a woman he desired, revealing his feelings of regret and longing as he contemplates the complexities of their relationship.

20s · longing · love · betrayal · desire · identity

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