The Ultimate audition book : 222 monologues, 2 minutes and under by Beard Jocelyn A

Author:Beard, Jocelyn A
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Monologues, Acting, Drama
Publisher: Lyme, NH : Smith and Kraus
Published: 1997-10-18T16:00:00+00:00

The Sad Shepherd

Ben Jonson 1640

Scene: Sherwood

Dramatic

Eglamour: a sad shepherd, 20-30

Here, Eglamour tells his friend, Robin Hood, that he can no longer enjoy the springtime.

eglamour: A spring, now she is dead! Of what? Of thorns? Briars and brambles? Thistles? Burrs and docks? Cold hemlock? Yew? The mandrake or the box? These may grow still; but what can spring beside? Did not the whole earth sicken when she died? As if there since did fall one drop of dew But what was wept for her, or any stalk Did bear a flower, or any branch a bloom, After her wreath was made! In faith, in faith, You do not fair to put these things upon me, Which can in no sort be. Earine, Who had her very being and her name With the first knots or buddings of the spring, Born with the primrose and the violet, Or earliest roses blown, when Cupid smiled, And Venus led the Graces out to dance, And all the flowers and sweets in nature's lap Leaped out, and made their solemn conjuration To last but while she lived! Do not I know How the vale withered the same day, how Dove, Dean, Eye, and Erwash, Idel, Snite, and Soare Each broke his urn, and twenty waters more That swelled proud Trent shrunk themselves dry? That, since, No sun or moon or other cheerful star Looked out of heaven, but all the cope was dark, As it were hung so for her exequies! And not a voice or sound to ring her knell

17th Century 135

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