❝ Monologues · 6 lines · C1

She told me, not thinking I had been myself,

Benedick railing at Beatrice · Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

 

She told me, not thinking I had been myself,

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that I was the prince's jester, that I was duller than a great thaw,

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Why it's worth practising

The complaint keeps escalating from daggers to poison air, each image more absurd than the last.

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