Monologue

Duchess Monologue from Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Oxford 1911)/Volume 4/The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

From Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Oxford 1911)/Volume 4/The Tragedy of King Richard the Second by Oxford 1911

female · anguished · 49 sec

:Why then, I will. Farewell, old Gaunt. :Thou go'st to Coventry, there to behold :Our cousin Hereford and fell Mowbray fight: :O! sit my husband's wrongs on Hereford's spear, :That it may enter butcher Mowbray's breast. :Or, if misfortune miss the first career, :Be Mowbray's sins so heavy in his bosom :That they may break his foaming courser's back, :And throw the rider headlong in the lists, :A caitiff recreant to my cousin Hereford! :Farewell, old Gaunt: thy sometimes brother's wife :With her companion, Grief, must end her life.

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