Sigismund Monologue from Life Is a Dream

From Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

male · defiant · 54 sec

It was to save me from such words of scorn So courteously I spoke, Thinking to bind you by a gentler yoke; But if I am in aught what you have said, Then, as God lives, I will be all you dread. Ho, there! here leave us. See to it at your cost, The door be locked; let no one in. (Exeunt CLARIN and the attendants.) (ROSAURA: I'm lost! Consider....) I'm a despot, and 'tis vain You strive to move me, or my will restrain. CLOTALDO (aside). Oh, what a moment! what an agony! I will go forth and stop him though I die. (He advances.) My lord, consider, stay....

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