Monologue

Touchstone Monologue from As You Like It

From As You Like It by William Shakespeare

male · philosophical · 51 sec

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And I mine. I remember when I was in love I broke my sword upon a stone and bid him take that for coming a-night to Jane Smile; and I remember the kissing of her batlet, and the cow’s dugs that her pretty chopped hands had milked; and I remember the wooing of a peascod instead of her, from whom I took two cods, and, giving her them again, said with weeping tears, “Wear these for my sake.” We that are true lovers run into strange capers. But as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

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Touchstone reflects on the absurdities and follies of love, recalling humorous yet poignant memories of his romantic past.

20s · melancholy · love · folly · memory · mortality

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