Cleopatra Monologue from John Dryden

From John Dryden by All for Love

female · anguished · 51 sec

I would reason More calmly with you. Did not you o'errule, And force my plain, direct, and open love, Into these crooked paths of jealousy? Now, what's the event? Octavia is removed; But Cleopatra's banished. Thou, thou villain, Hast pushed my boat to open sea; to prove, At my sad cost, if thou canst steer it back. It cannot be; I'm lost too far; I'm ruined: Hence, thou impostor, traitor, monster, devil!-- I can no more: Thou, and my griefs, have sunk Me down so low, that I want voice to curse thee.

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