The Actor's Book of Classical Monologues by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.

All’s Well That Ends Well

(Act I, Scenes 1 and 3)

HELENA

I think not on my father;

And these great tears grace his remembrance more

Than those I shed for him.

What was he like?

I have forgot him: my imagination

Carries no favour in’t but Bertram’s.

I am undone: there is no living, none,

If Bertram be away.

It were all one

That I should love a bright particular star

And think to wed it, he is so above me:

In his bright radiance and collateral light

Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.

The ambition in my love thus plagues itself:

The hind that would be mated by the lion

Must die for love.

‘Twas pretty, though a plague,

To see him every hour; to sit and draw

His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls,

In our heart’s table; heart too capable

Of every line and trick of his sweet favour:

But now he’s gone, and my idolatrous fancy

Must sanctify his reliques.

(To the Countess) Then, I confess,

Here on my knee, before high heaven and you

That before you, and next unto high heaven,

I love your son.

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