Sosie Monologue from Amphitryon

From Amphitryon by Molière

male · defiant · 49 sec

Justice, citizens! Help! I beseech you. (MERC: So, you gallows-bird, you yell out?) You beat me down with a thousand blows, and yet do not wish me to cry out? (MERC: It is thus that my arm...) The action is unworthy. You gloat over the advantage which my want of courage gives you over me; that is not fair treatment. It is mere bullying to wish to profit by the poltroonery of those whom one makes to feel the weight of one's arm. To thrash a man who does not retaliate is not the act of a generous soul; and to show courage against men who have none merits condemnation.

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