Monologue

Cade Monologue from Henry VI

From Henry VI by William Shakespeare

male · anguished · 56 sec

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By my valour, the most complete champion that ever I heard! Steel, if thou turn the edge, or cut not out the burly-boned clown in chines of beef ere thou sleep in thy sheath, I beseech God on my knees thou mayst be turned to hobnails. (Here they fight and Cade falls.) O, I am slain! Famine and no other hath slain me. Let ten thousand devils come against me, and give me but the ten meals I have lost, and I’d defy them all. Wither, garden; and be henceforth a burying place to all that do dwell in this house, because the unconquered soul of Cade is fled.

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Cade laments his dire situation, feeling defeated by famine and expressing a desire for death, while reflecting on his lost strength and the futility of his struggles.

30s · despair · death · power · isolation

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