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- 0:02Speaker 1: All the world's the stage from As You Like It
- 0:06Speaker 1: at one, Scene seven by William Shakespeare. This is a
- 0:10Speaker 1: LibriVox recording. For more information or to volunteer, please visit
- 0:14Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. Recording by Alexander Hasten. All the world's
- 0:24Speaker 1: the stage, and all the men and women merely players.
- 0:29Speaker 1: They have their exits and their entrances. And one man
- 0:32Speaker 1: in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
- 0:38Speaker 1: First the infant, muling and puking in the nurse's arms,
- 0:42Speaker 1: and then the whining schoolboy with a satchel and shining
- 0:45Speaker 1: morning face, creeping like snail unwillingly to school. And then
- 0:50Speaker 1: the lover, sighing like furnace with a woeful ballad made
- 0:55Speaker 1: to his mistress's eyebrow. Then a soldier full strange uls
- 1:01Speaker 1: and bearded like the pard, jealous in honor, sudden and
- 1:04Speaker 1: quicken quarrel, seeking the bubble reputation even in the cannon's mouth.
- 1:10Speaker 1: And then the justice in fair round belly with good
- 1:14Speaker 1: cap and lined with ice, severe and beard of formal cup,
- 1:19Speaker 1: full of wise saws and modern instances. And so he
- 1:23Speaker 1: plays his part. The sixth age shifts into the lean
- 1:27Speaker 1: and slippered pantaloon with spectacles and nose and pouch on side.
- 1:32Speaker 1: His youthful hose well saved a world too wide for
- 1:36Speaker 1: his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, turning again
- 1:40Speaker 1: toward childish trouble pipes and whistles in his sound last
- 1:47Speaker 1: scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, his
- 1:52Speaker 1: second childishness and mere oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sounds,
- 2:01Speaker 1: everything end off. All the world's a stage from As
- 2:08Speaker 1: You Like It, Act one, scene seven. This recording is
- 2:12Speaker 1: in the public domain.
- 2:22Speaker 2: Come on, Norissa, from The Merchant of Venice, Act three,
- 2:26Speaker 2: Scene four by William Shakespeare. This is a LibriVox recording.
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- 2:39Speaker 2: Recording by Charlene V. Smith. Come on, Norissa, I have
- 2:46Speaker 2: work in hand that you yet know.
- 2:48Speaker 3: Not all.
- 2:49Speaker 2: We'll see our husbands before they think of us, but
- 2:52Speaker 2: in such a habit that they shall think we are
- 2:54Speaker 2: accomplished with that we lack. I'll hold thee any wager
- 3:00Speaker 2: when we have both accoutered like young men. I'll prove
- 3:03Speaker 2: the prettier fellow of the two, and wear my dagger
- 3:07Speaker 2: with a brave of grease, and speak between the change
- 3:10Speaker 2: of man and boy with a reed voice, and turn
- 3:13Speaker 2: two mincing steps into a manly stride, and speak a
- 3:18Speaker 2: phrase like a fine bragging youth, and tell quaint lies
- 3:22Speaker 2: how honorable ladies sought my love, which are denying. They
- 3:27Speaker 2: fell sick and died. I could not do with all.
- 3:31Speaker 2: Then I'll repent and wish for all that that I
- 3:34Speaker 2: had not killed them. And twenty of these puny lies,
- 3:38Speaker 2: I'll tell that men shall swear I've discontinued school above
- 3:42Speaker 2: a twelvemonth. I've within my mind a thousand raw tricks
- 3:45Speaker 2: of these bragging jacks, which I will practice. But come,
- 3:51Speaker 2: I'll tell thee all my whole device, when I am
- 3:52Speaker 2: in my coach, which stays for us at the park gate.
- 3:56Speaker 2: And therefore haste away, for we must measure twenty miles
- 3:59Speaker 2: to day end of Come on Nerissa from The Merchant
- 4:05Speaker 2: of Venice, Act three, Scene four. This recording is in
- 4:09Speaker 2: the public domain. Recording by Charlene V.
- 4:13Speaker 4: Smith Even or odd of all Days in the year
- 4:22Speaker 4: Nurses monologue from Romeo and Juliet, Act one, seene three
- 4:27Speaker 4: by William Shakespeare. This is a LibriVox recording. For more
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- 4:39Speaker 4: by Ruth Golding. Even or odd of all days in
- 4:45Speaker 4: the year, come lamousye at night shall she be fourteen?
- 4:49Speaker 4: Susan and she God rest all Christian souls were of
- 4:53Speaker 4: an age. Well, Susan is with God. She was too
- 4:57Speaker 4: good for me. But as I said on La, I
- 5:00Speaker 4: must eve at night shall she be fourteen? That shall
- 5:03Speaker 4: she marry? I remember it well, tis since the earthquake
- 5:08Speaker 4: now eleven years, and she was weaned. I never shall
- 5:12Speaker 4: forget it of all the days of the year. Upon
- 5:14Speaker 4: that day, for I had then laid wormwood to my
- 5:18Speaker 4: dog sitting in the sun under the dove house wall.
- 5:22Speaker 4: My lord and you were then at Mantua. Nay, I
- 5:25Speaker 4: do bear a brain. But as I said, when it
- 5:28Speaker 4: did taste the wormwood on the nipple of my dog
- 5:30Speaker 4: and felt it bitter, pretty fool to see it tetchy
- 5:35Speaker 4: and fall out with the dog shake quoth the dove house,
- 5:40Speaker 4: twas no need I trow to bid me trudge. And
- 5:44Speaker 4: since that time it is eleven years. For then she
- 5:48Speaker 4: could stand alone. Nay, by the rude she could have
- 5:51Speaker 4: run and modeled all about for even the day before
- 5:54Speaker 4: she broke her brow. And then my husband, God be
- 5:58Speaker 4: with his soul, he was a merry man, took up
- 6:02Speaker 4: the child. Yea quoth he, dost thou fall upon thy face?
- 6:07Speaker 4: Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit, wilt
- 6:11Speaker 4: thou not jewel? And by my holy Dame, the pretty
- 6:16Speaker 4: wretch left crying and said, aye, to see now how
- 6:22Speaker 4: a jestu'll come about? I warrant and I should live
- 6:26Speaker 4: a thousand years. I never should forget it. Wilt thou
- 6:29Speaker 4: not jewel? Quoth he, and pretty fool? It's stinted, and said, aye,
- 6:38Speaker 4: endeth even or odd of all days in the year.
- 6:41Speaker 4: From Romeo and Juliet at one scene three. This recording
- 6:46Speaker 4: is in the public domain. Fi fi un knit that
- 6:57Speaker 4: threatening unkind brow from The Taming of the Shrew, Act five,
- 7:02Speaker 4: seen two by William Shakespeare. This is a LibriVox recording.
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- 7:15Speaker 4: Recording by Ruth Golding fi fi unknit that threatening unkind brow,
- 7:25Speaker 4: and dart not scornful glances from those eyes to wound
- 7:29Speaker 4: thy lord, thy King, thy governor it blots thy beauty,
- 7:34Speaker 4: as frosts to bite the meads, confound thy fame, as
- 7:39Speaker 4: whirlwinds shake fair buds, And in no sense is meet
- 7:43Speaker 4: or amiable. A woman moved is like a fountain, troubled, muddy, ill, seeming, thick,
- 7:52Speaker 4: bereft of beauty. And while it is so none so
- 7:57Speaker 4: dry or thirsty, will deign to sip or touch one
- 8:01Speaker 4: drop of it. Thy husband is thy lord, thy life,
- 8:08Speaker 4: thy keeper, thy head, thy sofvereign, one that cares for
- 8:13Speaker 4: thee and for thy maintenance, commits his body to painful labor,
- 8:17Speaker 4: both by sea and land, to watch the night in storms,
- 8:22Speaker 4: the day in cold, whilst thou liest warm at home,
- 8:26Speaker 4: secure and safe, and craves no other tribute at thy
- 8:31Speaker 4: hands but love, fair looks, and true obedience. Too little
- 8:37Speaker 4: payment for so great a debt, such duty as the
- 8:43Speaker 4: subject owes the prince. Even such a woman oweth to
- 8:46Speaker 4: her husband. And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,
- 8:52Speaker 4: and not obedient to his honest will, what is she
- 8:56Speaker 4: but a foul, contending, rebel, and graceless trait to her
- 9:00Speaker 4: loving lord? I am ashamed that women are so simple
- 9:06Speaker 4: to offer war where they should kneel for peace or
- 9:10Speaker 4: seek for rule, supremacy, and sway when they are bound
- 9:14Speaker 4: to serve love and obey. Why are our bodies soft
- 9:19Speaker 4: and weak and smooth, unapt to toil and trouble in
- 9:23Speaker 4: the world, but that our soft conditions and our hearts
- 9:27Speaker 4: should well agree with our external parts. Come, come, you
- 9:32Speaker 4: froward and unable worms. My mind hath been as big
- 9:37Speaker 4: as one of yours, my heart as great. My reason
- 9:40Speaker 4: haply more to bandy word for word and frown for frown.
- 9:45Speaker 4: But now I see our lances are but straws, our
- 9:49Speaker 4: strength as weak, our weakness past. Compare that seeming to
- 9:54Speaker 4: be most, which we indeed least are. Then veil your
- 9:59Speaker 4: sl damas for it is no boot, and place your
- 10:03Speaker 4: hands below your husband's foot, in token of which duty,
- 10:08Speaker 4: if he please, my hand is ready, May it do
- 10:12Speaker 4: him ease? End of five five unknit that threatening unkind
- 10:19Speaker 4: brow from the Taming of the Shrew, Act five, Scene two.
- 10:25Speaker 4: This recording is in the public domain. Recording by Ruth Golding.
- 10:36Speaker 5: Friends Romans Countryman, lend me your ears from Julius Caesar,
- 10:42Speaker 5: Act three, Scene two by William Shakespeare. This is a
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- 10:51Speaker 5: LibriVox dot org. Recording by Hattie Lennox. Friends, Romans, countrymen,
- 11:04Speaker 5: lend me your ears. I come to bury Caesar, not
- 11:09Speaker 5: to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them.
- 11:14Speaker 5: The good is oft inturid with their bones. So let
- 11:19Speaker 5: it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus hath told you
- 11:25Speaker 5: that Caesar was ambitious. If it were so, it was
- 11:29Speaker 5: a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answered it here
- 11:37Speaker 5: under leave of Brutus, and the rest. For Brutus is
- 11:41Speaker 5: an honorable man. So are they all all honorable men?
- 11:47Speaker 5: Come I to speak at Caesar's funeral. He was my friend,
- 11:55Speaker 5: faithful and just to me. But Brutus says he was ambitious,
- 12:03Speaker 5: and Brutus is an honorable man. He hath brought many
- 12:09Speaker 5: captives home to Rome, whose ransoms did the general coffers fill?
- 12:13Speaker 5: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor
- 12:19Speaker 5: have cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should be made of
- 12:23Speaker 5: sterner stuff. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus
- 12:32Speaker 5: is an honorable man. You all did see that on
- 12:37Speaker 5: the lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, which
- 12:41Speaker 5: he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition, yet, Brutus says
- 12:47Speaker 5: he was ambitious, and sure he is an honorable man.
- 12:53Speaker 5: I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here
- 12:57Speaker 5: I am to speak what I do know. You all
- 13:01Speaker 5: did love him once, not without cause.
- 13:03Speaker 6: What cause withholds.
- 13:04Speaker 5: You then to mourn for him? Oh judgment, Thou art
- 13:08Speaker 5: fled to British beasts and men have lost their reason.
- 13:13Speaker 7: Bear with me.
- 13:15Speaker 5: My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, and
- 13:17Speaker 5: I must pause till it come back to me. End
- 13:24Speaker 5: of Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears from Julius Caesar,
- 13:31Speaker 5: Act three, Scene two. This recording is in the public domain.
- 13:36Speaker 5: Recording by Hattie Lennox.
- 13:43Speaker 8: For Our Lawrence's Herbs to men monologue from Romeo and
- 13:46Speaker 8: Juliet Act two, Scene three recorded for Theprobox dot Org
- 13:50Speaker 8: bysure to Goal. The gray eyed morn smiles on the
- 13:54Speaker 8: frowning night, checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light
- 13:59Speaker 8: and fleckle darkness like a drunkard. Reels from Fourth Day's
- 14:03Speaker 8: Path and Titan's fiery wheels. Now ere the sun advance's
- 14:08Speaker 8: burning eye, the day to cheer, and night's dank dew
- 14:12Speaker 8: to dry. I must upfill this outseer cage of hours
- 14:16Speaker 8: with baleful weeds and precious juiced flowers. The earth is
- 14:20Speaker 8: Nature's mother, is her tomb, what is her burying grave,
- 14:24Speaker 8: That is her womb? And from her womb children of
- 14:27Speaker 8: diverse kind. We sucking on her natural bosom, find many,
- 14:31Speaker 8: for many virtues excellent none, but for some, and yet
- 14:35Speaker 8: all different. Oh, Michael, is the powerful grace that lies
- 14:39Speaker 8: in herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities. For not
- 14:44Speaker 8: so vile that on the earth doth live, but to
- 14:46Speaker 8: the earth some special good doth give, nor aught so good,
- 14:50Speaker 8: but strained from that fair use revolts from true birth.
- 14:54Speaker 8: Stumbling on abused virtue itself turns vice being misapplied, and
- 15:00Speaker 8: vice sometimes by action dignified Within the infant rind of
- 15:05Speaker 8: this weak flower, poison hath residence and medicine power. For
- 15:10Speaker 8: this being smelt with that part cheers, each part being tasted,
- 15:15Speaker 8: stays all senses with the heart. Two such opposed kings,
- 15:19Speaker 8: and camp them still in men as well as in herbs.
- 15:23Speaker 8: Grace and rude will and where the worser is predominant
- 15:28Speaker 8: full soon the kinker death eats up that plant. End
- 15:34Speaker 8: of monologue. Mist recordings in the public domain. For more
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- 15:48Speaker 9: Here is a knocking indeed from McBeth Act to Scene
- 15:51Speaker 9: three by William Shakespeare. This is a LibriVox recording. For
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- 16:02Speaker 9: Recording by Tatiana. He is a knocking indeed. A man
- 16:13Speaker 9: will portal of the hell gate. He should have old
- 16:16Speaker 9: turning the key. Knock, knock, knock, who's there? In the
- 16:24Speaker 9: name of the Ilzebub. He's a farmer that hanged himself
- 16:30Speaker 9: on the expectation of plenty.
- 16:33Speaker 10: Come in time, have napkins enough about you for he
- 16:37Speaker 10: you sweat for? Knock knock? Who's there? In the Devil's name? Faith?
- 16:45Speaker 10: He is an equivocator that could swear in both the
- 16:49Speaker 10: scales against either scale who committed treason enough for God's sake,
- 16:54Speaker 10: it could not equivocate to Heaven. Come in at go
- 17:00Speaker 10: with the gator. No, knock knock, who's there? Faith? He's
- 17:09Speaker 10: an English taylor. Come hither for stealing out of a
- 17:12Speaker 10: French hose. Come in Taylor, he you may roast your goose.
- 17:20Speaker 10: Knock knock, never requiet. What are you? But this place
- 17:27Speaker 10: is too cold for hell, old devil? Porterit no further.
- 17:32Speaker 10: I had thought to have led in some of all
- 17:35Speaker 10: professions that go the Primrose Way to the everlasting bonfire,
- 17:41Speaker 10: and none and none. I'd pray you remember the porter?
- 17:48Speaker 11: Was it so late?
- 17:48Speaker 10: Friend? Ere you went to bed? That you do lie
- 17:51Speaker 10: so late? Faith, sir, we were carousing till the second
- 17:54Speaker 10: cock and drink, sir, is a great provoker of three
- 17:59Speaker 10: things things? What three things does drink especially provoke? Mary, sir? Nose, painting, sleep,
- 18:08Speaker 10: and erin lechery, Sir? It provokes and unprovokes. It provokes
- 18:18Speaker 10: the desire, but takes away from the performance. Therefore, much
- 18:26Speaker 10: drink maybe said to be an equivocator with lichery. It
- 18:30Speaker 10: makes him and it mars him. It sets him on
- 18:33Speaker 10: and takes him off. It persuades him and disheartens him,
- 18:38Speaker 10: makes him stand to and not stand to. In conclusion,
- 18:46Speaker 10: it equivocates him in a sleep, and giving him the
- 18:49Speaker 10: lie leaves him. I believe drink gave thee the lie
- 18:53Speaker 10: last night. Then it did, sir in the very throat
- 18:56Speaker 10: of me. But I requited him for his lie, and
- 18:59Speaker 10: I think being too strong for him, though we took
- 19:03Speaker 10: up my legs sometime yet I made a shift to
- 19:08Speaker 10: cast him. Ah is thy master?
- 19:17Speaker 9: Stirring end of here's a knocking indeed from Macbeth, Act two,
- 19:24Speaker 9: Scene three. This recording is in the public domain and
- 19:29Speaker 9: was recorded by Tatiana.
- 19:35Speaker 3: Shall I speak ill of him? That is my husband?
- 19:39Speaker 3: From Romeo and Juliet, Act three, Scene two by William Shakespeare.
- 19:45Speaker 3: This is a LibriVox recording. For more information or to volunteer,
- 19:49Speaker 3: please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Victoria Grace. Shall
- 19:57Speaker 3: I speak ill of him that is my husband?
- 20:00Speaker 12: Ah, poor, my lord?
- 20:02Speaker 3: What tongue shall smooth thy name? When I thy three
- 20:06Speaker 3: hours wife have mangled it? But wherefore villain didst thou
- 20:12Speaker 3: kill my cousin? That villain cousin would have killed my husband? Back,
- 20:17Speaker 3: foolish tears, back to your native spring. Your tributary drops
- 20:22Speaker 3: belong to woe, which you mistaking offer up to joy.
- 20:27Speaker 3: My husband lives. That Tibblet would have slain, and Tibblet's dead.
- 20:32Speaker 3: That would have slain my husband all this is comfort?
- 20:36Speaker 3: Wherefore we buy then some word there was worser than
- 20:40Speaker 3: Tibblet's death that murdered me. I would forget it, fain,
- 20:44Speaker 3: but oh, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty
- 20:49Speaker 3: deeds to sinner's minds. Tibbolt is dead and Romeo banished,
- 20:56Speaker 3: That banished, that one word banished, hath slain ten thousand Tibblets.
- 21:03Speaker 3: Tipplet's death was woe enough if it had ended there,
- 21:07Speaker 3: or if sour woe's lights and fellowship and needley will
- 21:11Speaker 3: be ranked with other griefs. Why followed not when she
- 21:15Speaker 3: said Tippolet's dead, thy father or thy mother? Nay or both,
- 21:21Speaker 3: which modern lamentations might have moved, But with a rear
- 21:25Speaker 3: ward Following Tibbot's death, Romeo is banished to speak. That
- 21:32Speaker 3: word is father, mother, Tibolt, Romeo, Juliet.
- 21:38Speaker 12: All slain, all dead. Romeo is banished. There is no end,
- 21:45Speaker 12: no limit, measure bound in that word's death. No words
- 21:50Speaker 12: cannot woe sound Where is my father and my mother?
- 21:54Speaker 7: Nurse?
- 21:57Speaker 13: End of?
- 21:58Speaker 3: Shall I speak ill of him? That is my husband?
- 22:01Speaker 3: From Romeo and Juliet, Act three, Scene two by William Shakespeare.
- 22:07Speaker 3: This recording is in public domain.
- 22:20Speaker 7: I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus. From
- 22:24Speaker 7: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Act one, Scene two. This
- 22:29Speaker 7: is a LibriVox recording. For more information or to volunteer,
- 22:34Speaker 7: please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Neil Donnelly. I
- 22:41Speaker 7: know that virtue to be in you, brutus, as well
- 22:44Speaker 7: as I do know your outward favor. Well, honor is
- 22:48Speaker 7: the subject of my story. I cannot tell what you
- 22:51Speaker 7: and other men think of this life, but for my
- 22:53Speaker 7: single self, I had as lief, not be as lived,
- 22:57Speaker 7: to be in awe of such a thing as I might.
- 23:01Speaker 7: I was born free as Caesar, so are you. We
- 23:05Speaker 7: both have fed as well, and we can both endure
- 23:07Speaker 7: the winter's cold as well as he. For once upon
- 23:11Speaker 7: a raw and gusty day, the troubled Tiber chafing with
- 23:14Speaker 7: her shores, Caesar said to me, dareest thou cassiust, Now
- 23:19Speaker 7: leap in with me into this angry flood and swim
- 23:22Speaker 7: to yonder point. Upon the word accoutered as I was,
- 23:26Speaker 7: I plunged in and bade him follow. So indeed he did.
- 23:31Speaker 7: The torrent roared and we did buffet it with lusty sinews,
- 23:35Speaker 7: throwing it aside and stemming it with hearts of controversy.
- 23:39Speaker 7: But ere we could arrive the point proposed. Caesar cried,
- 23:42Speaker 7: help me, Cassius, or I sink i as eneas our
- 23:47Speaker 7: great ancestor did from the flames of Troy upon his
- 23:50Speaker 7: shoulder the old anchises bear. So from the waves of Tiber,
- 23:54Speaker 7: did I the tired Caesar. And this man is now
- 23:58Speaker 7: become a god. And cat vicious is a wretched creature,
- 24:01Speaker 7: and must bend his body if Caesar carelessly, but not
- 24:05Speaker 7: on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain,
- 24:09Speaker 7: and when the fit was on him, I did mark
- 24:11Speaker 7: how he did shake? Tis true, this god did shake
- 24:16Speaker 7: his coward lips did from their color fly. And at
- 24:19Speaker 7: that same eye whose bend doth all the world, did
- 24:23Speaker 7: lose his luster. I did hear him groan ah, And
- 24:27Speaker 7: that tongue of his that bad. The Romans mark him
- 24:30Speaker 7: and write his speeches in their books. Alas it cried,
- 24:34Speaker 7: give me some drink Titanus as a sick girl. Ye Gods,
- 24:39Speaker 7: it doth amaze me a man of such a feeble
- 24:42Speaker 7: temper should so get the start of the majestic world,
- 24:45Speaker 7: and bear the palm alone, and of I know that
- 24:50Speaker 7: virtue to be in you Brutus from Julius Caesar by
- 24:54Speaker 7: William Shakespeare, Act one, Scene two. This recording is in
- 24:59Speaker 7: the public domain.
- 25:11Speaker 1: Is this a dagger from Macbeth, Act two, Scene one
- 25:16Speaker 1: by William Shakespeare. This is a LibriVox recording. For more
- 25:20Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording
- 25:28Speaker 1: by Alexander Houston. Is this a dagger which I see
- 25:36Speaker 1: before me? The handle toward my hand? Come, let me
- 25:43Speaker 1: clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see
- 25:46Speaker 1: thee still? Are they not fatal vision? Sensible to feeling?
- 25:52Speaker 1: As to sight? Art thou? But a dagger of the mind,
- 25:57Speaker 1: a false creation proceeding from the press brain. I see
- 26:03Speaker 1: the yet informed with palpable as this which now I draw.
- 26:08Speaker 1: Marshallessed me. The way that I was going in such
- 26:11Speaker 1: an instrument, I was to use my eyes and made
- 26:14Speaker 1: the fools of the other senses. That's worth all the rest.
- 26:18Speaker 1: I see the still on thy blade and dungeon gouts
- 26:24Speaker 1: of blood, which was not so before. There's not such thing.
- 26:29Speaker 1: It is the bloody business which informs thus to mine
- 26:32Speaker 1: eyes now o'er the one half world. Nature seems dead
- 26:37Speaker 1: and wicked dreams abuse, the curtains sleep. Witchcraft celebrates pale
- 26:44Speaker 1: Acty's offerings and withered murder, alarmed by his sentinel, the wolf,
- 26:52Speaker 1: whose howls has watched. Thus with his stealthy pace, with
- 26:57Speaker 1: Tarquin's ravishing sties to wars, his design moves like a ghost,
- 27:03Speaker 1: was sure and firm set art. He had not my
- 27:06Speaker 1: steps which way they walk? For fear thy very stone's
- 27:11Speaker 1: plate of my whereabout? And take the present horror from
- 27:15Speaker 1: the time which now suits with it. Whiles I threat
- 27:24Speaker 1: he lives words to the heat of deeds. Two cold
- 27:28Speaker 1: breath gives I go, and it is done. The bell
- 27:38Speaker 1: invites me. Hear it not duncan, for it is a
- 27:41Speaker 1: knell sums thee heaven or the hell end off is
- 27:56Speaker 1: the sidaga from Macbeth at to see. This recording is
- 28:02Speaker 1: in the public domain.
- 28:15Speaker 14: Now is the Winter of Our Discontent from Richard the
- 28:18Speaker 14: third Act one seene one by William Shakespeare. This is
- 28:23Speaker 14: a LibriVox recording. For more information or to volunteer, please
- 28:27Speaker 14: visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Sheldon Greeves now is
- 28:35Speaker 14: the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this
- 28:39Speaker 14: sun of York. And all the clouds that lowered upon
- 28:43Speaker 14: our house in the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
- 28:48Speaker 14: Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised
- 28:53Speaker 14: arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to
- 28:58Speaker 14: merry meetings. Are our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim
- 29:04Speaker 14: visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front, and now, instead
- 29:10Speaker 14: of mounting barded steeds to fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
- 29:15Speaker 14: he capers nimbly in a lady's chamber to the lascivious
- 29:20Speaker 14: pleasing of a lute. But I that am not shaped
- 29:25Speaker 14: for sportive tricks, door made to court an amorous looking glass,
- 29:30Speaker 14: I that to rudely stamped and want love's majesty to
- 29:34Speaker 14: strut before a wanton, ambling nymph. I that am curtailed
- 29:39Speaker 14: of this fair proportion, cheated a feature, by dissembling nature, deformed, unfinished,
- 29:45Speaker 14: sent before my time into this breathing world, scarce half
- 29:49Speaker 14: made up, and that so lamely and unfashionable that dogs
- 29:54Speaker 14: bark at me as I halt by them. Why I,
- 30:00Speaker 14: in this weak and piping time of peace, have no
- 30:05Speaker 14: delight to pass away the time unless to see my
- 30:08Speaker 14: shadow in the sun and descant on mine own deformity.
- 30:13Speaker 14: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover to entertain
- 30:17Speaker 14: these fair well spoken days, I am determined to prove
- 30:22Speaker 14: a villain and hate the idle pleasures of these days.
- 30:27Speaker 14: Plots have I laid and inductions dangerous by drunken prophecies, libels,
- 30:33Speaker 14: and dreams, to set my brother Clarence and the King
- 30:36Speaker 14: in deadly hate, the one against the other. And if
- 30:41Speaker 14: King Edward be as true and just as I am, subtle,
- 30:45Speaker 14: false and treacherous, this day should Clarence closely be mewed
- 30:49Speaker 14: up about a prophecy which says that g of Edward's heirs,
- 30:54Speaker 14: the murderer, shall be dive thoughts down to my soul.
- 31:00Speaker 14: Here Clarence comes end of Now is the Winter of
- 31:07Speaker 14: our Discontent from Richard the third Act one, seen one
- 31:11Speaker 14: by William Shakespeare. This recording is in the public domain.
- 31:24Speaker 11: Now the Hungry Lion roars from our Midsummer Night Stream,
- 31:28Speaker 11: Act five, seen too by William Shakespeare. Now the Hungry
- 31:33Speaker 11: Lion roars, and the wolf behowls the moon, whilst the
- 31:37Speaker 11: heavy plowman snores, all with weary task for dun Now
- 31:42Speaker 11: the wasted hands do glow, whilst the screech owl screeching loud,
- 31:47Speaker 11: puts the wretch that lies in woe in remembrance of
- 31:51Speaker 11: a shroud. Now it is the time of night that
- 31:54Speaker 11: the graves all gaping wide. Every one lets forth his
- 31:58Speaker 11: sprite in the che churchway paths to glide, and we
- 32:02Speaker 11: fairies that do run by the triple Hecate's team from
- 32:07Speaker 11: the presence of the sun, following darkness like a dream.
- 32:12Speaker 11: Now our frolic, not a mouse shall disturb this hollowed house.
- 32:17Speaker 11: I am sent with broom before to sweep the dust
- 32:20Speaker 11: behind the door. End of Now, the hungry lion roars
- 32:26Speaker 11: from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Acts five, Scene two. This
- 32:30Speaker 11: recording is in the public domain.
- 32:35Speaker 14: No matter where, of comfort, no man speak from Richard
- 32:39Speaker 14: the second Act three, Scene two by William Shakespeare. This
- 32:45Speaker 14: is a LibriVox recording. For more information or to volunteer,
- 32:49Speaker 14: please visit LibriVox dot Org. Recording by Sheldon Greeves. No
- 32:57Speaker 14: matter where of comfort, no maare man speak. Let's talk
- 33:03Speaker 14: of graves and worms and epitaphs make dust our paper,
- 33:09Speaker 14: and with rainy eyes right sorrow on the bosom of
- 33:13Speaker 14: the earth. Let's choose executors and talk of wills. And
- 33:18Speaker 14: yet not so, for what can we bequeath save our
- 33:21Speaker 14: deposed bodies to the ground, our lands, our lives, and
- 33:27Speaker 14: all our balling brooks. And nothing can we call our
- 33:31Speaker 14: own but death, and that small model of the barren earth,
- 33:36Speaker 14: which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For
- 33:41Speaker 14: God's sake, let us sit upon the ground and tell
- 33:45Speaker 14: sad stories of the death of kings. How some have
- 33:49Speaker 14: been deposed, some slain in war, some haunted by the
- 33:53Speaker 14: ghosts they have deposed, some poisoned by their wives, some
- 33:59Speaker 14: sleeping kids, all murdered. For within the hollow crown that
- 34:06Speaker 14: rounds the mortal temples of a king keeps death his court.
- 34:11Speaker 14: And there the antic sits, scoffing his state and grinning
- 34:15Speaker 14: at his pomp, allowing him a breath, a little scene
- 34:20Speaker 14: to monarchize, be feared and kill with looks, infusing him
- 34:24Speaker 14: with self and vain conceit, as if this flesh which
- 34:28Speaker 14: walls about our life were brass, impregnable and humored. Thus
- 34:33Speaker 14: comes at the last, and with a little pin bores
- 34:39Speaker 14: through his castle wall and farewell King, Cover your heads
- 34:49Speaker 14: and mock not flesh and blood, with solemn reverence, throw
- 34:52Speaker 14: away respect, tradition, form, and ceremonious duty. For you have
- 34:58Speaker 14: but mistook me all this while I live with bread
- 35:03Speaker 14: like you feel, want taste, grief, need friends subjected. Thus,
- 35:12Speaker 14: how can you say to me? I am a king,
- 35:19Speaker 14: and of no matter where of comfort? No man speak?
- 35:22Speaker 14: From Richard the second Act three, scene two. This recording
- 35:27Speaker 14: is in the public domain.
- 35:34Speaker 15: Oh, God of Battles, from the Life of King Henry,
- 35:37Speaker 15: the fifth act four, Scene one, by William Shakespeare. This
- 35:42Speaker 15: is a LibriVox recording. For more information or to volunteer,
- 35:46Speaker 15: please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Michael MacDonald, Oh
- 35:53Speaker 15: God of Battles, steal my soldier's hearts, possess them not
- 35:57Speaker 15: with fear, take from them now the Senate of Reckoning,
- 36:00Speaker 15: if the opposed numbers pluck their hearts from them? Not today,
- 36:05Speaker 15: o Lord, Oh not today, Think not upon the fault
- 36:09Speaker 15: my father made encompassing the crown. I Richard's body have
- 36:13Speaker 15: interred anew and on it have bestowed more contrite tears
- 36:17Speaker 15: than from it issued forced drops of blood. Five hundred
- 36:21Speaker 15: poor I have in nearly pay, who twice a day
- 36:24Speaker 15: their withered hands hold up toward Heaven to pardon blood.
- 36:28Speaker 15: And I have built two chantries with a sad and
- 36:31Speaker 15: solemn priest sing still for Richard's soul? More will I do?
- 36:36Speaker 15: Though all that I can do is nothing worth, since
- 36:40Speaker 15: that my penitence comes after all, imploring pardon, and of
- 36:46Speaker 15: Oh God of battles. From the Life of King Henry,
- 36:50Speaker 15: the fifth, Act four, Scene one. This recording is in
- 36:55Speaker 15: the public domain. Recording by Michael MacDonald.
- 37:12Speaker 11: Oh that this two too solid flush would melt from Hamlet,
- 37:16Speaker 11: Act one, seen too by William Shakespeare. This is a
- 37:20Speaker 11: lubrivox recording. For more information or to volunteer, please visit
- 37:26Speaker 11: liubrivox dot org. Recording by Caitlin Cooper. Oh that this
- 37:32Speaker 11: two too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself
- 37:36Speaker 11: into a dew. Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
- 37:41Speaker 11: his count and gainst self slaughter. Oh God, God, how weary, stale,
- 37:47Speaker 11: flat and unprofitable seemed to me all the uses of
- 37:50Speaker 11: this world fie on it. Ah fi 'tis an unweeded
- 37:56Speaker 11: garden that grows to seed things rank and gross, and
- 37:59Speaker 11: nature possess it merely that it should come to this,
- 38:04Speaker 11: but two months dead, Nay, not so much, not to
- 38:09Speaker 11: so excellent a king that was to this hyperion, to
- 38:12Speaker 11: a satdter, so loving to my mother, that he might
- 38:16Speaker 11: not beteem the winds of heaven. Visit her face too roughly,
- 38:20Speaker 11: Heaven and earth. Must I remember why she would hang
- 38:25Speaker 11: on him, as if increase of appetite had grown by
- 38:27Speaker 11: what it fed on. And yet within a month, let
- 38:32Speaker 11: me not think on it, frail tea, thy name is woman.
- 38:35Speaker 11: A little month or ere, those shoes were old with
- 38:39Speaker 11: what she followed my poor father's body, like Niobe all tears.
- 38:43Speaker 11: Why she even she, oh God, a beast that one's
- 38:49Speaker 11: discourse of reason would have mourned longer, married with my uncle,
- 38:53Speaker 11: my father's brother, but no more like my father than
- 38:57Speaker 11: I to Hercules. Within a month ere, yet the salt
- 39:01Speaker 11: of most unrighteous tears had left the flushing in her
- 39:04Speaker 11: galled eyes. She married, Oh, most wicked speed, to post
- 39:09Speaker 11: with such dexterity to ancestrous sheets. It is not, nor
- 39:14Speaker 11: can not come to good, but break my heart, for
- 39:18Speaker 11: I must hold my tongue, and of oh, that this
- 39:22Speaker 11: too too solid flesh should melt from Hamlet, Act one,
- 39:27Speaker 11: Scene too. This recording is in the public domain.
- 39:35Speaker 6: So Many Journeys. May the Sun and Moon from Hamlet,
- 39:39Speaker 6: Act three, Scene two by William Shakespeare. This is a
- 39:46Speaker 6: LibriVox recording. For more information or to volunteer, please visit
- 39:53Speaker 6: LibriVox dot org. Read by Rebecca Fritz. So many Journeys.
- 40:03Speaker 6: May the Sun and Moon make us again count ere,
- 40:06Speaker 6: or love be done? But woe is me. You are
- 40:12Speaker 6: so sick of late, so far from cheer and your
- 40:16Speaker 6: former state, that I distrust you. Yet though I distrust
- 40:23Speaker 6: discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must. For woman's fear
- 40:29Speaker 6: and love holds quantity in neither aught or in extremity.
- 40:36Speaker 6: Now what my love is proof hath made you known.
- 40:41Speaker 6: And as my love is sized, my fear is so.
- 40:45Speaker 6: Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear. Where
- 40:50Speaker 6: little fear grows great, great love grows there. End of
- 40:57Speaker 6: So Many Journeys. May the Sun and Moon from Hamlet,
- 41:01Speaker 6: Act three, Scene two. This recording is in the public domain.
- 41:19Speaker 16: Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face
- 41:21Speaker 16: from Romeo and Juliet, Act two, Scene Too, by William Shakespeare.
- 41:27Speaker 16: This is the LibriVox recording. For more information or to volunteer,
- 41:31Speaker 16: please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Brianna Rupe. Thou
- 41:38Speaker 16: knowest the mask of night is on my face? Else
- 41:43Speaker 16: would a maiden blush? But paint my cheek for that
- 41:47Speaker 16: which thou hast heard me speak tonight? Fain would I
- 41:50Speaker 16: dwell on?
- 41:50Speaker 11: Four?
- 41:51Speaker 16: Fain fain deny what I have spoke? But fou will compliment?
- 41:57Speaker 16: Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say I,
- 42:02Speaker 16: and I will take thy word. Yet if thou swear'st
- 42:05Speaker 16: thou mayst prove false a lover's perjuries, then say joy
- 42:10Speaker 16: laughs o, gentle Romeo. If thou dost laugh, pronounce it faithfully.
- 42:16Speaker 16: Or if thou thinkest I am too quickly won, I'll
- 42:19Speaker 16: frown and be diverse and say thee nay, so thou
- 42:22Speaker 16: wilt woo. But else not for the world In truth
- 42:27Speaker 16: the montague, I am too fond, and therefore thou mayst
- 42:32Speaker 16: think myhavior light. But trust me, gentlemen, I'll prove more true.
- 42:37Speaker 16: And those that have more cunning to be strange, I
- 42:40Speaker 16: should have been more strange. I must confess, but that
- 42:44Speaker 16: thou horver hurtst ere I was ware my true love's passion. Therefore,
- 42:48Speaker 16: pardon me and not impute this yielding to light love,
- 42:53Speaker 16: which the dark knight hath so discovered, and of thou knowest.
- 43:03Speaker 16: The mask of night is on my face from Romeo
- 43:05Speaker 16: and Juliet, Act two, scene two. This recording is in
- 43:10Speaker 16: the public domain. Recording by Brianna Rupe of Surgeon Bay, Wisconsin.
- 43:28Speaker 9: The raven himself is horse from Macbeth, Act one, scene five,
- 43:33Speaker 9: line thirty one by William Shakespeare. This is a LibriVox recording.
- 43:38Speaker 9: For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
- 43:44Speaker 9: Recording by Tatiana. The raven himself is horse that croaks
- 43:52Speaker 9: the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements. Comeu, Spirit
- 44:00Speaker 9: that tend on mortal thoughts. Come sex me here and
- 44:06Speaker 9: fill me from the crown to the toe top full
- 44:10Speaker 9: of direst cruelty, Make thick my blood. Stop up the
- 44:22Speaker 9: access and passage to remorse that no compunctuous visitings of
- 44:26Speaker 9: nature shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between the
- 44:31Speaker 9: effect and it. Come to my woman's breasts and take
- 44:36Speaker 9: my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, wherever in your
- 44:41Speaker 9: sightless substances you wait on nature's mischief. Come thick night
- 44:52Speaker 9: and pall thee in the dumbest smoke of hell. But
- 44:55Speaker 9: my keen knife see not the wound it makes, nor Heaven.
- 45:00Speaker 9: Peep through the blanket of the dark.
- 45:01Speaker 17: To cry, hold hold great glans Worthy cordor greater than both.
- 45:09Speaker 17: By thee, all hail hereafter thy letters have transported me
- 45:15Speaker 17: beyond this ignorant present, and I feel now the future
- 45:20Speaker 17: in the instant end of the raven himself is Horse
- 45:28Speaker 17: from Macbeth, Act one, Scene five, line thirty one. This
- 45:33Speaker 17: recording is in the public domain and was recorded by Tatiana.
- 45:44Speaker 7: Thy Wish. Was father Harry to that thought? From Henry
- 45:48Speaker 7: the Fourth Part II, Act four, Scene five by William Shakespeare.
- 45:53Speaker 7: This is a LibriVox recording. For more information or to volunteer,
- 45:57Speaker 7: please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Nil Donnelly thy
- 46:03Speaker 7: Wish was father Harry to that thought? I stay too
- 46:07Speaker 7: long by thee. I weary THEE dost thou so hunger
- 46:12Speaker 7: from mine empty chair that thou wilt needs invest THEE
- 46:15Speaker 7: with my honors before thy hour.
- 46:17Speaker 1: Be ripe, o foolish youth.
- 46:20Speaker 7: Thou seekest the greatness, Thou will overwhelm thee. Stay but
- 46:24Speaker 7: a little, for my cloud of dignity is held from
- 46:26Speaker 7: falling with so weak a wind that it will quickly drop.
- 46:30Speaker 7: My day is dim. Thou hast stolen that which, after
- 46:34Speaker 7: some few hours were thine without offense, And at my
- 46:38Speaker 7: death thou hast sealed up my expectation. Thy life did manifest.
- 46:43Speaker 7: Thou lovest me not, and thou wilt have me die
- 46:46Speaker 7: assured of it. Thou hidest thousand daggers in thy thoughts,
- 46:50Speaker 7: which thou hast wetted on thy stony heart to stab
- 46:53Speaker 7: at half an hour of my life. What canst thou
- 46:57Speaker 7: not forbear me half an hour and get thee gone,
- 47:01Speaker 7: and dig my grave thyself, and bid the merry bells
- 47:05Speaker 7: ring to thine. Ear that thou art crowned, not that
- 47:09Speaker 7: I am dead. Let all the tears that should bedo
- 47:12Speaker 7: my hearst be drops of balm to sanctify thy head.
- 47:16Speaker 7: Only compound me with forgotten dust. Give that which gave
- 47:20Speaker 7: thee life unto the worms. Pluck down my officers, break
- 47:24Speaker 7: my decrees for now a timest come to mock at form.
- 47:29Speaker 7: Harry the Fifth is crown'd up, vanity down, Royal state.
- 47:34Speaker 7: All you sage counselors, hence and to the English court,
- 47:38Speaker 7: assemble now from every region apes of idleness, Now neighbor confines,
- 47:44Speaker 7: purge you of your scum. Have you a ruffian that
- 47:48Speaker 7: will swear, drink, dance, revel the Knight, rob murder, and
- 47:52Speaker 7: commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways. Be happy.
- 47:57Speaker 7: He will trouble you no more. England shall double gild
- 48:01Speaker 7: his trouble guilt. England shall give him office, honor might.
- 48:06Speaker 7: For the fifth. Harry, from curbed license plucks the muzzle
- 48:09Speaker 7: of restraint, and the wild dog shall flesh his tooth
- 48:13Speaker 7: on every innocent. Oh, my poor kingdom sick with civil blows,
- 48:18Speaker 7: when that my care could not withhold thy riots. What
- 48:22Speaker 7: wilt thou do when riot is thy care? Oh thou
- 48:26Speaker 7: wilt be a wilderness again, peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants.
- 48:33Speaker 7: End of thy wish? Was Father Harry to that thought
- 48:36Speaker 7: from Henry The Fourth, Part two, Act four, Scene five
- 48:40Speaker 7: by William Shakespeare. This recording is in the public domain. O,
- 48:50Speaker 7: My good lord, why are you thus alone from Henry
- 48:54Speaker 7: the Fourth, Part one, Act two, Scene three by William Shakespeare.
- 49:01Speaker 13: This is a LibriVox recording. For more information or to volunteer,
- 49:06Speaker 13: please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Caroline Francis. O,
- 49:14Speaker 13: My good lord, why are you thus alone? For what
- 49:20Speaker 13: offense have I this fortnight? Been a banished woman from
- 49:23Speaker 13: my Harry's bed? Tell me, sweet Lord, what ist that
- 49:29Speaker 13: takes from thee thy stomach pleasure and thy golden sleep.
- 49:34Speaker 13: Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth and
- 49:37Speaker 13: start so often when thou sit'st alone? Why hast thou
- 49:42Speaker 13: lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks and given my
- 49:46Speaker 13: treasures and my rights of thee to thick eyed, musing
- 49:49Speaker 13: and cursed melancholy in thy faint slumbers. I, by thee,
- 49:54Speaker 13: have watched and heard thee murmur tales of ironed wars,
- 49:59Speaker 13: speak to her, of manage, to thy bounding steed, cry
- 50:03Speaker 13: courage to the field. And thou hast talked of sallies
- 50:08Speaker 13: and retires, of trenches, tents, of palaesidios, frontiers, parapets, of basilis,
- 50:16Speaker 13: of cannon, culverin, of prisoners, ransom, and of soldiers slain,
- 50:22Speaker 13: and all the currents of a heady fight. Thy spirit
- 50:28Speaker 13: within thee hath been so at war, and thus hath
- 50:32Speaker 13: so bestirred thee in thy sleep that beads of sweat
- 50:36Speaker 13: have stood upon thy brow like bubbles in a late
- 50:40Speaker 13: disturbed stream. And in thy face strange motions have appeared,
- 50:48Speaker 13: such as we see when men restrain their breath on
- 50:51Speaker 13: some great sudden hest. Oh what portents are these? Some
- 50:57Speaker 13: heavy business hath my lord in hand, and I must
- 51:01Speaker 13: know it else he loves me not end of O,
- 51:10Speaker 13: my good lord? Why are you thus alone? From Henry?
- 51:13Speaker 13: The fourth Part one, Act two, Scene three. This recording
- 51:20Speaker 13: is in the public domain.