Monologue

Dionyza Monologue from Pericles

From Pericles by William Shakespeare

female · anguished · 1:52 min

How now, Marina! why do you keep alone? How chance my daughter is not with you? Do not consume your blood with sorrowing; Have you a nurse of me? Lord, how your favour’s Changed with this unprofitable woe! Come, give me your flowers, ere the sea mar it. Walk with Leonine; the air is quick there, And it pierces and sharpens the stomach. Come, Leonine, take her by the arm, walk with her. (MARINA: No, I pray you; I’ll not bereave you of your servant.) Come, come; I love the king your father, and yourself, With more than foreign heart. We every day Expect him here: when he shall come and find Our paragon to all reports thus blasted, He will repent the breadth of his great voyage; Blame both my lord and me, that we have taken No care to your best courses. Go, I pray you, Walk, and be cheerful once again; reserve That excellent complexion, which did steal The eyes of young and old. Care not for me; I can go home alone. (MARINA: Well, I will go; But yet I have no desire to it.) Come, come, I know ’tis good for you. Walk half an hour, Leonine, at the least: Remember what I have said.

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