Gaunt 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

male · anguished · 1:02 min

:O! spare me not, my brother Edward's son, :For that I was his father Edward's son. :That blood already, like the pelican, :Hast thou tapp'd out, and drunkenly carous'd: :My brother Gloucester, plain well-meaning soul,— :Whom fair befall in heaven 'mongst happy souls!— :May be a precedent and witness good :That thou respect'st not spilling Edward's blood: :Join with the present sickness that I have; :And thy unkindness be like crooked age, :To crop at once a too-long withered flower. :Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee! :These words hereafter thy tormentors be! :Convey me to my bed, then to my grave: :Love they to live that love and honour have.

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