Monologue

Mariana Monologue from All's Well That Ends Well

From All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare

female · dark · 1:26 min

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Come, let’s return again, and suffice ourselves with the report of it. Well, Diana, take heed of this French earl; the honour of a maid is her name; and no legacy is so rich as honesty. (WIDOW: I have told my neighbour how you have been solicited by a gentleman his companion.) I know that knave; hang him! one Parolles; a filthy officer he is in those suggestions for the young earl. Beware of them, Diana; their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust, are not the things they go under; many a maid hath been seduced by them; and the misery is, example, that so terrible shows in the wreck of maidenhood, cannot for all that dissuade succession, but that they are limed with the twigs that threaten them. I hope I need not to advise you further; but I hope your own grace will keep you where you are, though there were no further danger known but the modesty which is so lost.

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Mariana warns Diana about the dangers of seduction and the deceitful nature of men, expressing her concern for her friend's well-being.

20s · fear · betrayal · identity · power · seduction

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