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Now I am alone.
Now I am alone.
O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
Is it not monstrous that this player here,
Is it not monstrous that this player here,
But in a fiction,
But in a fiction,
in a dream of passion,
in a dream of passion,
Could force his soul so to his own conceit,
Could force his soul so to his own conceit
That from her working all his visage wann’d,
That from her working all his visage wann’d,
Tears in his eyes,
Tears in his eyes,
distraction in’s aspect,
distraction in’s aspect,
A broken voice,
A broken voice,
and his whole function suiting
and his whole function suiting
With forms to his conceit?
With forms to his conceit?
and all for nothing!
and all for nothing!
For Hecuba!
For Hecuba!
What’s Hecuba to him,
What’s Hecuba to him,
or he to Hecuba,
or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her?
That he should weep for her?
What would he do,
What would he do,
Had he the motive and the cue for passion
Had he the motive and the cue for passion
That I have?
That I have?
He would drown the stage with tears
He would drown the stage with tears
And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,
And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,
Make mad the guilty and appal the free,
Make mad the guilty and appal the free,
Confound the ignorant,
Confound the ignorant,
and amaze indeed
and amaze indeed
The very faculties of eyes and ears.
The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Yet I,
Yet I,
A dull and muddy-mettled rascal,
A dull and muddy-mettled rascal,
peak,
peak,
Like John-a-dreams,
Like John-a-dreams,
unpregnant of my cause,
unpregnant of my cause,
And can say nothing,
And can say nothing,
no,
no,
not for a king,
and not for a king,
Upon whose property and most dear life
Upon whose property and most dear life
A damn’d defeat was made.
A damn’d defeat was made.
Am I coward?
Am I coward?
Who calls me villain?
Who calls me villain?
breaks my pate across?
breaks my pate across?
Plucks off my beard,
Plucks off my beard,
and blows it in my face?
and blows it in my face?
Tweaks me by the nose?
Tweaks me by the nose?
gives me the lie i’ the throat,
gives me the lie i’ the the throat,
deep as to the lungs,
deep as to the lungs?
Who does me this!
