Kent Monologue from King Lear

From King Lear by William Shakespeare

male · defiant · 1:07 min

What a brazen-faced varlet art thou, to deny thou knowest me! Is it two days ago since I tripped up thy heels and beat thee before the King? Draw, you rogue: for, though it be night, yet the moon shines; I’ll make a sop o’ the moonshine of you: draw, you whoreson cullionly barber-monger, draw! (Drawing his sword.) (OSWALD: Away! I have nothing to do with thee.) Draw, you rascal: you come with letters against the King; and take vanity the puppet’s part against the royalty of her father: draw, you rogue, or I’ll so carbonado your shanks:—draw, you rascal; come your ways! (OSWALD: Help, ho! murder! help!) Strike, you slave; stand, rogue, stand; you neat slave, strike! (Beating him.)

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