Monologue

King Richard 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 · 45 sec

:Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, :To make my end too sudden: learn, good soul, :To think our former state a happy dream; :From which awak'd, the truth of what we are :Shows us but this. I am sworn brother, sweet, :To grim Necessity; and he and :Will keep a league till death. Hie thee to France, :And cloister thee in some religious house: :Our holy lives must win a new world's crown, :Which our profane hours here have thrown down.

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