Aug. 3rd, 2010

bardic_lady: (midsummer - take pains)
Day #17: Your favorite speech

Damn, and I thought the early questions were hard. There are so many choices...

The first act chorus from Henry V? "His mother was a votaress of my order" from Midsummer? The epilogue or "Our revels are now ended" from Tempest? "What studied torments tyrant hast for me" from Winter's Tale? "I have of late but wherefore I know not lost all my mirth" from Hamlet? The Queen Mab speech from R&J? "Now is the winter of our discontent" from Richard III? "Go not to these wars" from Henry IV 2?

All speeches I love. (Yes, several are VERY well known. Turns out, there's a reason some Shakespeare is very well known) But ultimately it comes down to a tie between two speeches.
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I Cannot Hide What I Am

I must be sad when I have cause and smile
at no man's jests, eat when I have stomach and wait
for no man's leisure, sleep when I am drowsy and
tend on no man's business, laugh when I am merry and
claw no man in his humour...
I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in
his grace, and it better fits my blood to be
disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob
love from any: in this, though I cannot be said to
be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied
but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with
a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I
have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my
mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do
my liking: in the meantime let me be that I am and
seek not to alter me.

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