Rosaura Monologue from Life Is a Dream

From Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

female · anguished · 43 sec

Mine's a wrong more deep and bitter. (CLOTALDO: Tell it, then; it cannot be Worse than what my fancy pictures.) I will tell it; though I know not, With the respect your presence gives me, With the affection you awaken, With the esteem your worth elicits, How with bold face here to tell you That this outer dress is simply An enigma, since it is not What it seems. And from this hint, then, If I'm not what I appear, And Astolfo with this princess Comes to wed, judge how by him I was wronged: I've said sufficient. (Exeunt ROSAURA and CLARIN.)

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