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Pericles Monologue

From Pericles by William Shakespeare

male · philosophical · 1:06 min

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Antiochus, I thank thee, who hath taught My frail mortality to know itself, And by those fearful objects to prepare This body, like to them, to what I must; For death remember’d should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error. I’ll make my will then, and, as sick men do Who know the world, see heaven, but, feeling woe, Gripe not at earthly joys as erst they did; So I bequeath a happy peace to you And all good men, as every prince should do; My riches to the earth from whence they came; (To the daughter of Antiochus.) But my unspotted fire of love to you. Thus ready for the way of life or death, I wait the sharpest blow, Antiochus.

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Pericles reflects on mortality and prepares for the possibility of death, expressing a sense of peace and love amidst the fear of his fate.

30s · melancholy · death · love · fate · peace

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