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Cressida Monologue from Troilus and Cressida

From Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare

female · anguished · 53 sec

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Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, When time is old and hath forgot itself, When waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, And blind oblivion swallow’d cities up, And mighty states characterless are grated To dusty nothing—yet let memory From false to false, among false maids in love, Upbraid my falsehood when th’ have said ‘As false As air, as water, wind, or sandy earth, As fox to lamb, or wolf to heifer’s calf, Pard to the hind, or stepdame to her son’— Yea, let them say, to stick the heart of falsehood, ‘As false as Cressid.’

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Cressida grapples with her perceived infidelity and the weight of her reputation, reflecting on the nature of truth and betrayal in love.

20s · despair · betrayal · love · identity · memory

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