Lydia Monologue from The Rivals

From The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

female · comedic · 1:02 min

Madam, I must tell you plainly, that had I no preferment for any one else, the choice you have made would be my aversion. Mrs. MALAPROP What business have you, miss, with preference and aversion? They don't become a young woman; and you ought to know, that as both always wear off, 'tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. I am sure I hated your poor dear uncle before marriage as if he'd been a blackamoor--and yet, miss, you are sensible what a wife I made!--and when it pleased Heaven to release me from him, 'tis unknown what tears I shed!--But suppose we were going to give you another choice, will you promise us to give up this Beverley?

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