Monologue

Steward Monologue from All's Well That Ends Well

From All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare

male · anguished · 1:10 min

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Madam, I was very late more near her than I think she wish’d me; alone she was, and did communicate to herself her own words to her own ears; she thought, I dare vow for her, they touch’d not any stranger sense. Her matter was, she loved your son. Fortune, she said, was no goddess, that had put such difference betwixt their two estates; Love no god, that would not extend his might only where qualities were level; Diana no queen of virgins, that would suffer her poor knight surpris’d, without rescue in the first assault or ransom afterward. This she deliver’d in the most bitter touch of sorrow that e’er I heard virgin exclaim in, which I held my duty speedily to acquaint you withal; sithence, in the loss that may happen, it concerns you something to know it.

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The Steward conveys a heartfelt message about a young woman's unrequited love for the son of the lady he serves, expressing the deep sorrow and bitterness she feels about their unequal social standings.

30s · sadness · love · fate · isolation · sorrow

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