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Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol 02 - William Shakespeare · Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare

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  Speaker 1: Now is the winter of our Discontent from Richard the
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  Speaker 1: third Act one, Sene one. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Kirsten Ferrari. Now is the winter of our
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  Speaker 1: discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York. And
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  Speaker 1: all the clouds that lured upon our house in the
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  Speaker 1: deep bosom of the ocean are buried. Now are our
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  Speaker 1: brows bound with victorious wreaths, our bruised arms hung up
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  Speaker 1: from monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, our
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  Speaker 1: dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim visaged war hath smoothed
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  Speaker 1: his wrinkled front, and now, instead of mounting barded steeds
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  Speaker 1: to fright the souls of fearful adversaries, he capers nimbly
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  Speaker 1: in a lady's chamber to the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
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  Speaker 1: But I that am not shap'd for sportive tricks, nor
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  Speaker 1: made to court an amorous looking glass. I that am
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  Speaker 1: rudely stamp'd and wont love's majesty to strut before a
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  Speaker 1: wanton ambling nymph. I that am curtailed of this fair proportion,
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  Speaker 1: cheated of feature by dissembling nature, deformed, unfinish'd, sent before
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  Speaker 1: my time into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
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  Speaker 1: and that so lamely and unfashionable that dogs bark at
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  Speaker 1: me as I halt by them. Why I, in this
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  Speaker 1: weak piping time of peace, have no delight to pass
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  Speaker 1: away the time unless to spy my shadow in the
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  Speaker 1: sun and discant on my own deformity. And therefore, since
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  Speaker 1: I cannot prove a lover to entertain these fair, well
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  Speaker 1: spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain and
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  Speaker 1: hate the idle pleasure of these days. Plots have I laid,
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  Speaker 1: inductions deigned by drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams, to set
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  Speaker 1: my brother Clarence and the King in deadly hate, the
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  Speaker 1: one against the other. And if King Edward be as
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  Speaker 1: true and just as I am subtle, false and treacherous,
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  Speaker 1: this day should Clarence closely be mewed up about a
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  Speaker 1: prophecy which says that g of Edward's heirs, the murderer,
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  Speaker 1: shall be dive of thoughts down to my soul. Here
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  Speaker 1: Clarence comes. End of now is the winter from Richard
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  Speaker 1: the third, Act one, Scene one. This recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: To thy own self be true from Hamlet, Act one,
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  Speaker 2: Scene three by William Shakespeare, recorded for LibriVox dot org.
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  Speaker 2: Yet here larities aboard, aboard for shame the wincet in
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  Speaker 2: the shoulder of your sale, and you are stayed for
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  Speaker 2: there my blessing with THEE, and these few precepts in
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  Speaker 2: thy memory. Look thou character, give thy thoughts, no tongue,
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  Speaker 2: nor any unproportioned thought. His act be thou familiar, but
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  Speaker 2: by no means vulgar thou friends. Thou hast in their
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  Speaker 2: adoption tried grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
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  Speaker 2: But do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each
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  Speaker 2: new hatched, unfledged comrade, beware of entrance to a quarrel,
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  Speaker 2: but being in bear that the opposed may beware of THEE,
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  Speaker 2: give every man thine ear, but few thy voice, take
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  Speaker 2: each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit
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  Speaker 2: as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy
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  Speaker 2: rich not gaudy, for the apparel oft, proclaims the man,
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  Speaker 2: and they in france of the best rank and station
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  Speaker 2: are most select and generous, chief in that neither borrower
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  Speaker 2: nor lender be for low nought loses both itself and friend,
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  Speaker 2: and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all
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  Speaker 2: till thine own self be true, and it must follow
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  Speaker 2: as the night the day. Thou canst not then be
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  Speaker 2: false to any man. Fare Well, my blessing season.
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  Speaker 3: This and the.
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  Speaker 2: End of thine own self be true. From Hamlet, Act one,
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  Speaker 2: Scene three. This recordings in the public domain.
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  Speaker 4: These are the forgeries of jealousy from A Midsummer Night's
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  Speaker 4: Dream by William Shakespeare, Act two, Scene one. This is
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  Speaker 4: the forgeries of jealousy. And never since the middle summer's
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  Speaker 4: spring met we on hill in dale Forest, or mead
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  Speaker 4: by Pavid Fountain, or by Rushy Brook, or in the
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  Speaker 4: beached margent of the sea, to dance our ringlets to
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  Speaker 4: the whistling wind. But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed
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  Speaker 4: our sport. Therefore the winds piping to us in vain,
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  Speaker 4: as in revenge have sucked up from the sea. Contagious fogs,
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  Speaker 4: which falling in the land, have every pelting river made
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  Speaker 4: so proud that they have overborne their continents. The ox
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  Speaker 4: hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain, the plowmen lost
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  Speaker 4: his sweat, and the green corn hath rotted. Ere his
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  Speaker 4: youth attained a beard. The fold stands empty in the
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  Speaker 4: drowned field, and crows are fatted with the murray and flock.
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  Speaker 4: The nine men's morris is filled up with mud, and
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  Speaker 4: the quaint mazes in the wanton green, for lack of tread,
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  Speaker 4: are undistinguishable. The human mortals want their winter here. No
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  Speaker 4: night is now with him or Carol blest. Therefore the moon,
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  Speaker 4: the governess of floods, pale in her anger, washes all
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  Speaker 4: the air that rheumatic diseases do abound, and thorothest distemperature.
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  Speaker 4: We see the seasons alter. Hoary headed frosts fall in
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  Speaker 4: the fresh lap of the crimson rose, and on old
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  Speaker 4: Higham's thin and icy crown. An odorous chaplet of sweet
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  Speaker 4: summer buds is as in mockery, set the spring the summer,
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  Speaker 4: the child in autumn angry winter change their wonted liveries,
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  Speaker 4: and the mazed world by their increase, now knows not
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  Speaker 4: which is which. And this same progeny of evils comes
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  Speaker 4: from our debate, from our dissension. We are their parents
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  Speaker 4: and original end of These are the forgeries of jealousy.
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  Speaker 4: From A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, Act two,
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  Speaker 4: Scene one. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: This is a LibriVox recording. All libervox recordings are in
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  Speaker 5: the public domain. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
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  Speaker 5: Bottom's Monologue, Act five, Scene one, bottom as Pyramus Bottom,
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  Speaker 5: read by Simon Taylor. Sweet Moon, I thank THEE for
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  Speaker 5: thy shunny beams. I thank THEE Moon for shining now
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  Speaker 5: sore bright, for by thy gracious gold and glittering gleams.
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  Speaker 5: I trust to take of was this beside? But stay,
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  Speaker 5: oh spite, but mark, poor knight, What dreadful doll is here?
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  Speaker 6: Ice? Do you see?
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  Speaker 5: How can it be?
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  Speaker 7: O dainty dog, oh.
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  Speaker 5: Dear thy mantle good?
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  Speaker 7: What stayed with blute.
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  Speaker 8: Approachy, furies fell, our fates come, come, cut thread and thrumb, quail, crush,
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  Speaker 8: conclude and quail, Oh, wherefore nature didst thou lion's frame,
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  Speaker 8: Since lion vile hath he deflowered my dear, which is.
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  Speaker 9: No no, which was the fairest dame that lived, that love,
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  Speaker 9: that lighted, that looked with cheer, come tears, confound out
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  Speaker 9: sword and wound the pap of pyramids, that left pap
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  Speaker 9: where heart doth hop.
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  Speaker 10: Thus die aye, Thus thus doats now my dead, now
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  Speaker 10: my flattered, My shawl is in the sky.
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  Speaker 7: Tongue lose thy light, Moon, take thy flight, now die,
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  Speaker 7: die die.
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  Speaker 5: End of Sweet Moon. I thank THEE for thy sunny beams.
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  Speaker 5: From Midsummer Night's Dream, Act five, Scene one. This recording
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  Speaker 5: All Liberal Vox recordings are in the public domain. King
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  Speaker 5: Henry the Fifth, Act four, Scene one. King Henry's monologue,
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  Speaker 5: King Henry the Fifth Thread by Simon Taylor. Upon the King,
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  Speaker 5: let us our lives, our souls, our debts, are careful wives,
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  Speaker 5: our children and our sins lay on the King. We
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  Speaker 5: must bear all, oh heart condition twin born with greatness,
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  Speaker 5: subject to the breath of every fool who sends no
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  Speaker 5: more can feel but his own ringing what infinite hearts.
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  Speaker 5: Ease must kings neglect that private men enjoy. And what
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  Speaker 5: have kings that privates have not too? Save ceremony, save
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  Speaker 5: general ceremony. And what art thou thou idle ceremony? What
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  Speaker 5: kind of god art thou that sufferest more of mortal
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  Speaker 5: griefs than do thy worshippers? What are thy rents? What
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  Speaker 5: are thy comings in our ceremony? Show me but thy worth?
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  Speaker 5: What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou naught else
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  Speaker 5: but place, degree and form, creating awe and fear in
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  Speaker 5: other men? Wherein thou art less happy being feared than
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  Speaker 5: they in fearing? What drink'st thou oft instead of homage,
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  Speaker 5: sweet but poisoned flattery? Are we sick? Great greatness? And
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  Speaker 5: bid thy ceremony? Give thee cure? Think'st thou? The fiery
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  Speaker 5: fever will go out with titles blown from adulation? Will
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  Speaker 5: it give place to flexure and low bending? Canst thou
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  Speaker 5: when thou command'st the beggar's knee, command the health of it?
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  Speaker 5: No thou proud dream that plays so subtly with the
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  Speaker 5: king's repose. I am a king that find thee, and
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  Speaker 5: I know tis not the balm the scepter and the ball,
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  Speaker 5: the sword, the mace, the crown imperial, the intertissued robe
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  Speaker 5: of gold and pearl, the facet title running for the king,
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  Speaker 5: the throne he sits on, Nor the tide of pomp
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  Speaker 5: that beats upon the high shore of this world.
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  Speaker 11: No, not all these.
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  Speaker 5: Thrites, gorgeous ceremony, Not all these laid in bed majesticle,
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  Speaker 5: can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave, who, with
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  Speaker 5: a body filled and vacant mind gets him to rest,
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  Speaker 5: cramped with distressful bread, never sees horrid night, the child
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  Speaker 5: of hell, but like a lackey, from the rise to
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  Speaker 5: set sweats in the eye of phoebe An all night
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  Speaker 5: sleeps in elysium. Next day, after dawn doth rise and
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  Speaker 5: help Hyperion to his horse, and follows so the ever
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  Speaker 5: running year, with profitable labor, to his grave. And but
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  Speaker 5: for ceremony, such a wretch, winding up days with toil
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  Speaker 5: and nights with sleep, had the forehand and advantage of
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  Speaker 5: a king. The slave, a member of the country's peace,
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  Speaker 5: enjoys it. But in gross brain little what's what watch
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  Speaker 5: the king keeps to maintain the peace, whose hours the
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  Speaker 5: peasant best advantages end of upon the King from Henry
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  Speaker 5: the fifth Act for scene one. This recording is in
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  Speaker 5: the public domain.
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  Speaker 12: They met Me in the Day of Success by Lady
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  Speaker 12: Macbeth from Macbeth, Act one, Scene five. This is a
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  Speaker 12: They met me in the day of success, and I
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  Speaker 12: have learned by the perfectest report they have more in
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  Speaker 12: them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire to
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  Speaker 12: question them further, they made themselves heir, into which they vanished.
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  Speaker 12: Whilst I stood wrapped in the wonder of it, came
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  Speaker 12: missives from the King, who all hailed me Fane of Caudor,
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  Speaker 12: by which title before these weird sisters saluted me and
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  Speaker 12: referred me to the coming on of time, with hail King,
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  Speaker 12: that shalt be.
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  Speaker 2: This.
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  Speaker 12: I have thought good to deliver THEE, my dearest partner
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  Speaker 12: of greatness, that thou mightst not lose the deus of
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  Speaker 12: rejoicing by being ignorant of what greatness does. Promised THEE.
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  Speaker 12: Lay it to thy heart and farewell glanms thou Art
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  Speaker 12: and Caudor and shalt be what thou art promised. Yet
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  Speaker 12: I do fear thy nature. It is too full of
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  Speaker 12: the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way
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  Speaker 12: Thou wouldst be great art, not without ambition, but without
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  Speaker 12: the illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly, that
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  Speaker 12: wouldst thou holy, would not play false, and yet wouldst
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  Speaker 12: wrongly win. Thou'dst have great glance. That which cries thou
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  Speaker 12: must do if thou have it, And that which rather
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  Speaker 12: thou dost fear to do than wishest should be undone
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  Speaker 12: hie thee hither that I may pour my spirits in
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  Speaker 12: thine ear and chaste eyes with the valor of my tongue.
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  Speaker 12: All that impedes THEE from the golden round which fate
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  Speaker 12: and metaphysical aid doth seem to have they crowned withal
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  Speaker 12: end of Lady Macbeth's monologue from Macbeth, Act one, Scene five.
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  Speaker 4: Set Down, Set Down, Your Honorable Load from Richard the
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  Speaker 4: Third by William Shakespeare, Act one, scene two. This is
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  Speaker 4: visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Elizabeth Klett. Set Down,
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  Speaker 4: Set down your honorable load, if honor may be shrouded
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  Speaker 4: in a hearse whilst I awhile obsequiously lament the untimely
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  Speaker 4: fall of virtuous Lancaster, poor key, cold figure of a
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  Speaker 4: holy king, pale ashes of the house of Lancaster, Thou
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  Speaker 4: bloodless remnant of that royal blood. Be it lawful that
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  Speaker 4: I invocate thy ghost to hear the lamentations of poor Anne, wife,
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  Speaker 4: to thy edward, to thy slaughtered son, stabbed by the
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  Speaker 4: self same hand that made these wounds lo in these
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  Speaker 4: windows that let forth thy life, I pour the helpless
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  Speaker 4: balm of my poor eyes. Cursed be the hand that
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  Speaker 4: made these fatal holes. Cursed be the heart that had
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  Speaker 4: the heart to do it. Cursed the blood that let
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  Speaker 4: this blood from Hence more direful, hap betide that hated
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  Speaker 4: wretch that makes us wretched by the death of thee
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  Speaker 4: than I can wish to adders spier's toads, or any
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  Speaker 4: creeping venom thing that lives. If ever he have child abortive,
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  Speaker 4: be it prodigious and untimely brought to light, whose ugly
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  Speaker 4: and unnatural aspect may fright the hopeful mother at the view,
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  Speaker 4: and that be heir to his unhappiness. If ever he
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  Speaker 4: have wife, let her be made more miserable by the
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  Speaker 4: death of him, as I am made by my poor lord,
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  Speaker 4: and thee come now towards Chertsey, with your holy load
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  Speaker 4: taken from Paul's, to be interred there, And still, as
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  Speaker 4: you are weary of the weight rest you. Was I
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  Speaker 4: lament King Henry's course, and of set down, set down
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  Speaker 4: your honorable load. From Richard the Third by William Shakespeare,
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  Speaker 4: Act one, Scene two. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 4: When he that is my husband now from Richard the
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  Speaker 4: Third by William Shakespeare, Act four, Scene one. This is
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  Speaker 4: visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Elizabeth Klett. When he
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  Speaker 4: that is my husband now came to me as I
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  Speaker 4: followed Henry's course, when scarce the blood was well washed
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  Speaker 4: from his hands, which issued from my other angel husband,
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  Speaker 4: and that dead saint, which then I weeping followed. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: when I say I looked on Richard's face, this was
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  Speaker 4: my wish. Be thou quoth I accursed for making me
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  Speaker 4: so young, so old a widow, And when thou wedst
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  Speaker 4: let sorrow, haunt thy bed and be thy wife. If
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  Speaker 4: any be so mad as miserable by the life of
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  Speaker 4: thee as thou hast made me by my dear lord's death,
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  Speaker 4: lo ere I can repeat this curse again, even in
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  Speaker 4: so short a space. My woman's heart grossly grew captive
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  Speaker 4: to his honey words, and proved the subject of my
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  Speaker 4: own soul's curse, which ever since hath kept my eyes
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  Speaker 4: from rest. For never yet one hour in his bed
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  Speaker 4: have I enjoy'd the golden dew of sleep, but have
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  Speaker 4: been waked by his timorous dreams. Besides, he hates me
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  Speaker 4: for my father Warwick, and will no doubt shortly be
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  Speaker 4: rid of me, and of when he that is my
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  Speaker 4: husband now From Richard the Third by William Shakespeare, Act four,
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  Speaker 4: scene one. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 3: There is a willow from Hamlet, Act four, scene seven.
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  Speaker 3: Woe doth tread upon another's heel so fast they follow
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  Speaker 3: your sister's drowned laerties. There is a willow grows aslant
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  Speaker 3: a brook that shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
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  Speaker 3: There with fantastic garlands. Did she come of crow flowers, nettles, daisies,
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  Speaker 3: and long purples, that liberal shepherds give a groser name,
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  Speaker 3: But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them.
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  Speaker 3: There on the pendent boughs, her coronet weeds, clamoring to
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  Speaker 3: hang an envious sliver broke when down her weedy trophies,
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  Speaker 3: and herself fell in the weeping brook, her clothes spread
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  Speaker 3: wide and mermaid like awhile they bore her up, which
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  Speaker 3: time she chanted snatches of old tunes, as one incapable
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  Speaker 3: of her own distress, or like a creature native, and
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  Speaker 3: endured unto that element. But long it could not be
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  Speaker 3: till that her garments, heavy with their drink, pulled the
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  Speaker 3: poor wretch from her melodious lay to muddy death. Drowned, drowned.
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  Speaker 3: End of There is a willow from Hamlet at four,
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  Speaker 3: scene seven. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 13: More strange than true, spoken by theseus from a midsommer
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  Speaker 13: night's dream, Act five, Scene one. This is a LibriVox Recording.
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  Speaker 13: Tis strange what these lovers speak of, more strange than true.
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  Speaker 13: I never may believe these antique fables, nor these fairy toys.
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  Speaker 13: Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies,
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  Speaker 13: that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic.
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  Speaker 13: The lover, and the poet are of imagination. All compact.
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  Speaker 13: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold. That
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  Speaker 13: is the madman. The lover, all is frantic, sees Helen's
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  Speaker 13: beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in
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  Speaker 13: a fine frenzy rolling doth glance from Heaven to Earth,
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  Speaker 13: from Earth to heaven. And as imagination bodies forth the
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  Speaker 13: forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shapes,
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  Speaker 13: and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name.
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  Speaker 13: Such tricks hath strong imagination, that, if it would but
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  Speaker 13: apprehend some joy, it comprehends some bringer of that joy,
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  Speaker 13: or in the night imagining some fear. How easy is
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  Speaker 13: a bush supposed a bear end of more strange than
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  Speaker 13: true from a Midsummer Night's Dream, Act five, Scene one.
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  Speaker 13: I have passed a miserable night, spoken by Clarence in
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  Speaker 13: Richard the third, Act one, Scene four. This is a
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  Speaker 13: LibriVox dot org. Oh, I have passed a miserable night,
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  Speaker 13: so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams, that as
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  Speaker 13: I am a Christian, faithful man, I would not spend
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  Speaker 13: another such night, though twere to buy a world of
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  Speaker 13: happy days so full of dismal teire was the time, methoughts,
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  Speaker 13: that I had broken from the tower and was embarked
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  Speaker 13: to cross to Burgundy, and in my company my brother Gloucester,
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  Speaker 13: who from my cabin tempted me to walk upon the hatches.
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  Speaker 13: Thence we looked toward England and sighted up a thousand
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  Speaker 13: fearful times during the Wars of York in Lancaster that
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  Speaker 13: had befallen us. As we paced along upon the giddy
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  Speaker 13: footing of the hatches, methought that Gloucester stumbled, and in
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  Speaker 13: falling struck me that thought to stay him overboard into
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  Speaker 13: the tumbling billows of the main.
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  Speaker 2: Lord.
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  Speaker 13: Lord, methought, what pain it was to drown? What dreadful
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  Speaker 13: noise of waters in mine ears? What ugly sights of
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  Speaker 13: death within mine eyes? Methought? I saw a thousand fearful wrecks,
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  Speaker 13: ten thousand men that fishes, gnawed upon wedges of gold,
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  Speaker 13: great anchors, heaps of pearl inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, all
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  Speaker 13: scattered in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in
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  Speaker 13: dead men's skulls. And in those holes where eyes did
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  Speaker 13: once inhabit, there were crept as twere in scorn of eyes,
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  Speaker 13: reflecting gems, which wooed the slimy bottom of the deep,
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  Speaker 13: and mocked the dead bones that lay scattered by methought,
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  Speaker 13: I had, and often did, I strive to yield the ghost.
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  Speaker 13: But still the envious flood kept in my soul, and
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  Speaker 13: would not let it forth to seek the empty, vast
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  Speaker 13: and wandering air, but smothered it within my panting bulk,
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  Speaker 13: which almost burst to belch it in the sea. My
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  Speaker 13: dream was lengthened after life then began the tempests to
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  Speaker 13: my soul, who passed me thought the melancholy flood with
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  Speaker 13: that grim ferryman which poets write of unto the kingdom
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  Speaker 13: of perpetual night. The first that there to creat my
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  Speaker 13: stranger's soul was my great father in law, renowned Warwick,
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  Speaker 13: who cried aloud, what discourge for perjury can this dark
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  Speaker 13: monarchy afford? False Clarence? And so he vanished. Then came
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  Speaker 13: wandering by shadow like an angel with bright hair, dabbled
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  Speaker 13: in blood, and he squeaked out loud. Clarence has come, false, fleeting,
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  Speaker 13: perjured Clarence that stabbed me in the field by Tewksbury
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  Speaker 13: sees on him furies take him to your torments. With
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  Speaker 13: that methought. A legion of foul fiends environed me about,
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  Speaker 13: and halid in mine ears such hideous cries that with
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  Speaker 13: the very noise I trembling waked, and for a season
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  Speaker 13: after I could not believe but that I was in hell.
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  Speaker 13: Such terrible impression made the dream end of I have
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  Speaker 13: passed a miserable night from Richard the third Act one,
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  Speaker 13: scene four. This recording is in the public domain. Performed
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  Speaker 13: by Scott D. Farker of The Rude Mechanicals www dot
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  Speaker 11: Oh what a rogue and peasant slave? Am I? From
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  Speaker 11: Hamlet at two, Scene two. This recording is in the
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  Speaker 11: public domain. Recording by Michael Sirwah, Now I am alone?
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  Speaker 11: Oh what a rogue and peasant slave? Am I? Is
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  Speaker 11: it not monstrous that this player here but in a fiction,
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  Speaker 11: in a dream of passion, could force his soul so
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  Speaker 11: to his own conceit, that from her working all his
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  Speaker 11: visage wand tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect,
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  Speaker 11: the broken voice, and his whole function suiting with forms
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  Speaker 11: to his conceit, and all for nothing for Hecuba, what
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  Speaker 11: Hecuba to him? Or he to Hecuba, that he should
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  Speaker 11: weep for her?
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  Speaker 6: What would he do?
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  Speaker 11: Had he the motive and the cue for passion that
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  Speaker 11: I have, he would drown the stage with tears and
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  Speaker 11: cleave the general ear with horrid speech, make mad the
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  Speaker 11: guilty in appall the free, confound the ignorant, and amaze
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  Speaker 11: indeed the very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I
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  Speaker 11: er a dull and muddy metaled rascal pique, like John,
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  Speaker 11: a dreams unpregnant of my cause, and can say nothing, No,
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  Speaker 11: not for a king upon whose property, in most dear
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  Speaker 11: life a damned defeat was made. Am I a coward
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  Speaker 11: who calls me villain, breaks my pate across, plucks off
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  Speaker 11: my beard and blows it in my face, tweaks me
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  Speaker 11: by the nose, gives me the lie in the throat
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  Speaker 11: as deep as to their lungs. Who does me this?
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  Speaker 11: Ah swoons, I should take it, for it cannot be.
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  Speaker 11: But I am pigeon livered and lack gall to make
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  Speaker 11: oppression bitter or ere this I should have fatted all
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  Speaker 11: the region kites with this slave's awful, bloody body. Villain, remorseless, treacherous, leacherous,
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  Speaker 11: kindless villain, Oh vengeance, Why what an ass am? I?
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  Speaker 11: This is most brave that I, the son of a
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  Speaker 11: dear father, murdered, prompted to my revenge by Heaven and hell,
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  Speaker 11: must like a whar unpack my heart with words and
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  Speaker 11: fall a cursing like a very drab a scullion thigh
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  Speaker 11: upon it, faugh about my brain. I have heard that
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  Speaker 11: guilty creatures sitting at a play have, by the very
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  Speaker 11: cunning of the scene, vince truck so to the soul
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  Speaker 11: that presently they have proclaimed their malefactions for murder, though
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  Speaker 11: it have no tongue, will speak with most miraculous organ
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  Speaker 11: I'll have these players play something like the murder of
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  Speaker 11: my father before mine uncle. I'll observe his looks, and
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  Speaker 11: I'll tend him to the quick if he but blench.
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  Speaker 11: I know, my course, the spirit that I have seen
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  Speaker 11: may be the devil, and the devil hath power to
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  Speaker 11: assume a pleasing shape. Yea, and perhaps out of my
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  Speaker 11: weakness and my melancholy, as he is very potent with
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  Speaker 11: such spirits and abuses me to damn me. I'll have
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  Speaker 11: grounds more relative than this. The plays the thing wherein
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  Speaker 11: I'll catch the conscience of the king end of over
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  Speaker 11: a rogue and peasants Labemi from Hamlet, Act two, Scene two.
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  Speaker 11: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 14: I know a bank where the wild time blows from
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  Speaker 14: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act two, Scene one. This is
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  Speaker 14: a LibriVox recording. For more information or to volunteer, please
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  Speaker 14: visit LibriVox dot org. Hast thou the flower there, welcome
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  Speaker 14: wonder humph. I pray THEE give it me. I know
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  Speaker 14: a bank where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips, and
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  Speaker 14: the nodding violet grows quite over, canopid with luscious woodbine,
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  Speaker 14: with sweet musk roses, and with eggling time. There sleeps
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  Speaker 14: Titania some time of the night, lulled in these flowers
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  Speaker 14: with dances and delight. And there the snake throws her
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  Speaker 14: enamel'd skin weed wide enough to wrap the fairy in.
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  Speaker 14: And with the juice of this I'll streak her eyes
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  Speaker 14: and make her full of hateful fantasies. Take thou some
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  Speaker 14: of it, and seek through this gone a sweet Athenian
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  Speaker 14: ladies in love with a disdainful youth. Anoint his eyes.
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  Speaker 14: But do it when the next thing here spies may
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  Speaker 14: be the lady. Thou shalt know the man by the
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  Speaker 14: Athenian garments. He hath on effect it with some care,
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  Speaker 14: that he may prove more fond on her than she
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  Speaker 14: upon her love. And look thou meet me, heir the
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  Speaker 14: first cock crow. End of I Know a Bank where
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  Speaker 14: the wild time blows from a midsummer night's dream, act
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  Speaker 14: to seen one. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 4: Ulysses each on time from Troylis and Crescida by William Shakespeare,
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  Speaker 4: Act three, Scene three. This is a LibriVox recording. For
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  Speaker 4: Recording by Elizabeth Klett. Time half my lord a wallet
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  Speaker 4: at his back, wherein he puts alms for oblivion, a
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  Speaker 4: great sized monster of ingratitudes. Those scraps are good deeds past,
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  Speaker 4: which are devoured as fast as they are made, forgot
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  Speaker 4: as soon as done perseverance, Dear, my lord, keeps honor bright.
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  Speaker 4: To have done is to hang quite out of fashion,
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  Speaker 4: like a rusty mail and monumental mockery. Take the instant
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  Speaker 4: way for honor travels in a strait so narrow where
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  Speaker 4: one but goes abreast. Keep then the path for emulation
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  Speaker 4: hath a thousand sons that one by one pursue. If
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  Speaker 4: you give way or hedge aside from the direct forthright,
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  Speaker 4: like to an entered tide, they all rush by and
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  Speaker 4: leave you hindmost, or like a gallant horse fallen in
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  Speaker 4: first rank, lie there for pavement to the abject rear,
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  Speaker 4: or run and trampled on. Then what they do in present,
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  Speaker 4: though less than yours in past, must or top yours
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  Speaker 4: for time is like a fashionable host that slightly shakes
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  Speaker 4: his parting guest by the hand, and with his arms
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  Speaker 4: outstretched as he would fly grasps in the comer. Welcome
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  Speaker 4: ever smiles and farewell goes out, sighing, Oh, let not
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  Speaker 4: virtue seek remuneration for the thing it was for beauty, wit,
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  Speaker 4: high birth, vigor of bone, desert in so nervous love, friendship,
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  Speaker 4: charity are subjects all to envious and calumniating time. One
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  Speaker 4: touch of nature makes the whole world. Kin that all,
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  Speaker 4: with one consent praise new born gods, though they are
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  Speaker 4: made and molded of things past, and give to dust
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  Speaker 4: that is a little guilt more lawed than guilt or dusted.
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  Speaker 4: The present eye praises the present object. Then marvel not thou,
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  Speaker 4: great and complete man, that all the Greeks begin to
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  Speaker 4: worship Ajax, Since things in motion sooner catch the eye
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  Speaker 4: than what not stirs. The cry went once on thee,
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  Speaker 4: and still it might, and yet it may again, if
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  Speaker 4: thou wouldst not entomb thyself alive and case thy reputation
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  Speaker 4: in thy tent whose glorious deeds. But in these fields
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  Speaker 4: of late made emulous missions, monkst the gods themselves, and
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  Speaker 4: Na and drave great Mars to faction. End of Ulysses's
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  Speaker 4: speech on time from Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare.
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  Speaker 4: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 6: O Reason not the Need from King Lear, Act two,
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  Speaker 6: Scene four. This is a LibriVox recording. For more information
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  Speaker 6: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by
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  Speaker 6: Chris gladys All. Reason not the need. Our basest beggars
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  Speaker 6: are in the poorest thing, superfluous. Allow not nature more
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  Speaker 6: than nature needs. Man's life is cheap as beasts. Thou art,
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  Speaker 6: a lady, if only to go warm were gorgeous? Why
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  Speaker 6: nature needs not without gorgeous worst which scare keeps thee warm.
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  Speaker 6: But for true need, you, Heavens, give me that patience.
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  Speaker 6: Patience I need you, see me, hear you. God's a
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  Speaker 6: poor old man, as full of grief as age, wretched
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  Speaker 6: in both. If it be you that stir these daughter's
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  Speaker 6: hearts against their father, fool me not so much to
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  Speaker 6: bear it. Tamely touch me with noble anger, and let
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  Speaker 6: not women's weapons water drops stain my man's cheeks. No, you,
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  Speaker 6: unnatural hags. I will have such revenges on you both
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  Speaker 6: that all the world shall I will do such things
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  Speaker 6: what they are? Yet I know not that they shall
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  Speaker 6: be the terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep, No,
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  Speaker 6: I'll not weep. I have full cause of weeping. But
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  Speaker 6: this heart shall break into a hundred thousand floors, or
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  Speaker 6: e'er i'll weep O fool, I shall go mad. End
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  Speaker 6: of O reason not the need from King Lear Act
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  Speaker 6: two seen for this recording is in the public domain.