Audition Flashcards
Good my lord,
How does your honour for this many a day?
I humbly thank you, well, well, well
My lord, I have remembrances of yours, That I have longéd long to re-deliver.
I pray you now receive them.
No, not I.
No, not I.
I never gave you aught.
My honoured lord, you know right well you did, And with them words of so sweet breath composed
As made the things more rich. Their perfume lost,
Take these again. For to the noble mind
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. There, my lord.
Ha, ha! Are you honest?
My lord?
Are you fair?
What means your lordship?
That if you be honest and fair,
That if you be honest and fair,
Your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty
Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?
Ay, truly.
Ay, truly.
For the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty
For the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty
from what it is to a bawd
from what it is to a bawd
than the force of honesty can translate
than the force of honesty can translate
beauty into his likeness.
beauty into his likeness.
This, was sometime a paradox,
This, was sometime a paradox,
but now the time gives it proof.
but now the time gives it proof.
I did love you once.
Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so.
You should not have believed me;
You should not have believed me;
I loved you not.
I was the more deceived.
Get thee to a nunnery.
Get thee to a nunnery.
Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?
Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?
I am myself indifferent honest,
I am myself indifferent honest,
but yet I could accuse me of such things
but yet I could accuse me of such things
that it were better my mother had not borne me.
that it were better my mother had not borne me.
I am very proud,
I am very proud,
revengeful,
revengeful,
ambitious,
ambitious,
with more offences at my beck
with more offences at my beck
than I have thoughts to put them in,
than I have thoughts to put them in,
imagination to give them shape,