Monologue

Hotspur Monologue from Henry IV, Part 1

From Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare

male · dramatic · 1:11 min

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Why, so it would have done At the same season, if your mother’s cat Had but kitten’d, though yourself had never been born. (GLENDOWER: I say the Earth did shake when I was born.) And I say the Earth was not of my mind, If you suppose as fearing you it shook. (GLENDOWER: The heavens were all on fire, the Earth did tremble.) O, then th’ Earth shook to see the heavens on fire, And not in fear of your nativity. Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions; oft the teeming Earth Is with a kind of colic pinch’d and vex’d By the imprisoning of unruly wind Within her womb, which for enlargement striving, Shakes the old beldam Earth, and topples down Steeples and moss-grown towers. At your birth Our grandam Earth, having this distemp’rature, In passion shook.

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20s · anger · fate · power · identity · nature

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