Play on Words

dramatic · any · ~1 min · 128 words

Camber monologue (Act 3) — Locrine: A Tragedy

Were it so, It should not irk thee, she being wronged alone; Thy mother’s bed, and not thy father’s throne, Being soiled with usurpation. Ay? but say That now mine uncle and her sire lies dead And helpless now to help her, or affray The heart wherein her ruin and thine were bred, Not she were cast forth only from his bed, But thou, loathed issue of a contract loathed Since first their hands were joined not but betrothed, Wert cast forth out of kingship? stripped of state, Unmade his son, unseated, unallowed, Discrowned, disorbed, discrested—thou, but late Prince, and of all men’s throats acclaimed aloud, Of all men’s hearts accepted and avowed Prince, now proclaimed for some sweet bastard’s sake Peasant?

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