Monologue

Scroop Monologue from Richard II

From Richard II by William Shakespeare

male · anguished · 1:02 min

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Glad am I that your highness is so armed To bear the tidings of calamity. Like an unseasonable stormy day Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores As if the world were all dissolved to tears, So high above his limits swells the rage Of Bolingbroke, covering your fearful land With hard bright steel and hearts harder than steel. Whitebeards have armed their thin and hairless scalps Against thy majesty; boys with women’s voices Strive to speak big and clap their female joints In stiff unwieldy arms against thy crown; Thy very beadsmen learn to bend their bows Of double-fatal yew against thy state; Yea, distaff-women manage rusty bills Against thy seat. Both young and old rebel, And all goes worse than I have power to tell.

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Scroop delivers a dire warning to the king about the uprising led by Bolingbroke, expressing the widespread fear and chaos that threatens the kingdom.

30s · fear · power · rebellion · calamity · identity

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