Men's Monologues

The Comedies

All's Well That Ends Well

Parolles	Prose	Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier be blown up	I i 79
King	Verse	I would I had that corporal soundness now	I ii 34
King intercut	Verse	'Tis only title thou disdain'st in her	II iii 104

As You Like It

Orlando	Prose	As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion	I i 1
Oliver	Prose	Charles, I thank thee for thy love to me	I i 44
Adam	Verse	What, my young master? O, my gentle master!	II iii 4
Jaques	Verse	A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest	II vii 15
Jaques	Verse	All the world's a stage	II vii 147
Oliver intercut	Verse	When last the young Orlando parted from you	IV iii 74
Touchstone intercut	Prose	I press in here, Sir, amoung the rest of the country copulatives	V iv 47

The Comedy of Errors

Duke	Verse	Merchant of Syracusa, plead no more	I i 5
Aegeon intercut	Verse	A heavier task could not have been impos'd	I i 33
Balthazar	Verse	Have patience, sir, O, let it be not so!	III i 93
S Antipholus	Verse	Sweet mistress--what your name is else, I know not,	III ii 31
Courtezan	Verse	Now out of doubt Antipholus is mad	IV iii 56
E. Antipholus	Verse	My liege, I am advised what I say	V i 224

Cymbeline

Jachimo	Verse	The crickets sing, and man's o'er labor'd sense	II ii 15
Jachimo	Verse	Is there no way for men to be, but women	II v 1
Pisanio	Verse	How? of adultery? Wherefore write you not	III ii 1
Belarius	Verse	Now for our mountain sport: up to yond hill	III iii 14
Belarius intercut	Verse	How do you speak! Did you but know the city's usuries	III iii 50
Cloten	Prose	I am near to the place where they should meet	IV i 1
Posthumus	Verse	Yea, bloody cloth, I'll keep thee, for I wish'd	V i 1
Posthumus intercut	Verse	No blame be to you, sir; for all was lost,	V iii 7
Posthumus	Verse	Still going? - This is a lord! O noble misery!	V iii 72
Posthumus	Verse	Most welcome, bondage! for thou art away,	V iv 5
Jupiter	Verse	No more you petty spirits of region low	V iv 98
Posthumus	Verse	Sleep, thou hast been a grandsire and begot	V iv 128
Lucius	Verse	Consider, sir, the chance of war, the day	V v 91
Iachimo	Verse	Upon a time - unhappy was the clock	V v 184
Posthumus	Verse	Ay, so thou dost Italian friend! Ay, most credulous fool,	V v 244
Iachimo	Verse	So sure as you your father's. I, old Morgan,	V v 402

Loves Labour's Lost

King	Verse	Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives	I i 1
Berowne	Verse	I can but say their protestation over	I i 35
Armado	Prose	I do affect the very ground, which is base,	I ii 96
King	Verse	Madam, your father here doth intimate	II i 133
Boyet	Verse	Why, all his behaviors did make their retire	II i 234-250
Berowne	Verse	O, and I, forsooth in love,	II i 117
Moth	Prose	No, my complete master, but to jig off	III i 8
Boyet	Prose	By Heaven that thou art fair	IV i 8 64
Berowne	Prose	The King he is hunting the deer	IV iii 1
King	Verse	So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not	IV iii 7
Dumaine	Verse	On a day - Alack the day!	IV iii 58
Berowne	Verse	Now step I forth to whip hypocrisy	IV iii 1 89
Berowne intercut	Verse	Sweet Lords, sweet lovers, O let us embrace	IV iii 160
Berowne	Verse	O, 'tis more than need	IV iii 236
Armado	Verse	Sir, the king is a noble gentleman,	V i 42
Boyet	Verse	Under the cool shade of sycamore	V ii 95
Berowne	Verse	This fellow peeks up wit as pigeons pease	V ii 341
Berowne	Verse	Thus pour the stars down plagues for perjury	V ii 423
Berowne	Verse	Neither of either; I remit both twain	V ii 493
Berowne	Verse	Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief	V ii 737

Measure for Measure

Duke	Verse	Angelo,       There is a kind of character in thy life	I i 31
Claudio intercut	Verse	Thus it stands with me; upon a true contract	I ii 91
Duke intercut	Verse	No; Holy Father, throw away that thought	I iii 1
Lucio	Verse	This is the point	I iv 56
Angelo	Verse	Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus	II i 20
Angelo	Verse	What's this? What's this? Is this her fault or mine?	II ii 196
Angelo	Verse	When I would pray and think, I think and pray	II iv 1
Angelo	Verse	Who will believe thee, Isabel?	II iv 154-170
Duke	Verse	Be absolute for death: either death or life	III i 7
Claudio	Verse	Aye, but to die and go we know not where	III i 131
Duke	Prose	This forenam'd maid hath yet in her	III i 194
Duke	Verse	He who the sword of heaven will bear	III ii 111
Pompey	Prose	I am as well acquainted here as I was in our house of proffesion	IV iii 1
Angelo	Verse	This deed unshapes mequite, makes me unpregnant	IV iv 13
Duke	Verse	She, Claudio, that you wrong'd, look you restore	V i 539

Merry Wives of Windsor

Falstaff	Prose	O, she did so course o'er my exteriors	I iii 35
Falstaff	Prose	Reason, you rogue, reason	II ii 9
Ford	Prose	What a damn'd Epicurean rascal is this	II ii 93
Falstaff	Prose	Have I liv'd to be carried in a basket	III v 5
Falstaff	Prose	Nay, you shall hear, Master Brook	IV i 43
Fenton	Verse	From time to time I have acquainted you	IV vi 8

Merchant of Venice

Salerio	Verse	My wind cooling my broth Would blow me to an ague when I thought	I i 25
Gratiano	Verse	Let me play the fool with mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come	I i 85
Bassanio intercut	Verse	Tis not unknown to you Antonio	I i 124
Shylock	Verse	Signior Antonio, many a time and oft	I iii 88
Morocco intercut	Verse	Mislike me not for my complexion	II i 1
Launcelot	Verse	Certainly my conscience will serve me to run	II ii 1
Morocco	Verse	Some god direct my judgement. Let me see	II vii 15
Arragon Intercut	Verse	And so have I address'd me. Fortune Now	II ix 23
Shylock	Prose	To bait fish withal, if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.	III i 23
Shylock	Prose	Why, there, there, there, there! A diamond gone, cost me two thousand ducats in Frankford!	III i 83-96
Bassanio intercut	Verse	So may the outward shows be least themselves	III ii 67
Bassanio	Verse	What find I here? Fair Portia's counterfeit! What demigod	III ii 114-148
Bassanio	Verse	O sweet Portia Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words	III ii 242
Shylock intercut	Verse	I have possess'd your grace of what I purpose	IV i 39
Antonio	Verse	But little; I am arm'd and well prepar'd	IV i 264
Lorenzo intercut	Verse	How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank	V i 63
Bassanio intercut	Verse	Sweet Portia, if you did know to whom I gave the ring	V i 211

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Egeus	Verse	Full of vexation come I, with complaint	I i 26
Lysander	Verse	You have her father's love, Demetrius	I i 104
Oberon	Verse	That very time I saw (but thou couldst not)	II i 161
Oberon	Verse	I pray thee give it me. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows	II i 258
Puck	Verse	My mistress with a monster is in love	III ii 10
Oberon	Verse	Thou seest these lovers seek a place to fight	III ii 376
Oberon	Verse	Welcome, good Robin. Seest thou this sweet sight?	IV i 30
Demetrius	Verse	My lord, fair Helen told me of their stealth	IV i 147
Bottom	Prose	When my cue comes, call me	IV i 190
Theseus Intercut	Verse	More strange than true. I never may believe	V i 4
Theseus Intercut	Verse	Say what abridgment have you for this evening?	V i 44
Theseus	Verse	The kinder we, to give them thanks for nothing	IV i 96
Quince Intercut	Verse	If we offend, it is with our good will.	IV i 117
Bottom Intercut	Verse	Sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams	V i 250
Flute (Thisbe)	Verse	Asleep, my love?	V i 294
Oberon	Verse	Now, until the break of day	V ii 33

Much Ado About Nothing

Benedick	Prose	O, she misused me past the endurance of a block	II i 111
Benedick	Prose	I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool	II iii 8
Benedick	Prose	This can be no trick, the conference was sadly borne.	II iii 90
Borachio intercut	Prose	Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief	III iii 58
Claudio intercut	Verse	There, Leonato, take her back again	IV i 25
Leonato	Verse	Wherefore? Why, doth not every earthly thing	IV i 115
Friar Francis	Verse	Marry, this well carried on her behalf	IV i 215
Dogberry	Prose	Dost thou not suspect my place?	IV ii 41
Leonato	Verse	I pray thee cease thy counsel	V i 6
Borachio	Prose	Sweet Prince, let me go no farther to mine answer	V i 171

Pericles

Pericles	Verse	See where she comes, apparelled like the spring	I i 15
Pericles	Verse	Great King, few love to hear the sins	I i 86
Pericles	Verse	How courtesy would seem to cover sin	I i 116
Pericles	Verse	Why should this change of thoughts	I ii 1
Pericles	Verse	Thou speak'st like a physician, Helicanus	I ii 175
Cleon	Verse	But see what heaven can do by this our change	I iv 35
Gower	Verse	Thus time we waste and longest leagues make short	IV iv 1
Pericles	Verse	O Helicanus, strike me honored sir	V i 223
epilogue	Verse	In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard	V iii 100

The Taming of the Shrew

Lord	Verse	Even as a flattering dream or worthless fancy	Induct. i 39
Lord	Verse	Sirrah, go you to Barthol'mew my page	Induct. i 104
Lord	Verse	Hence comes it that your kindred shuns your house	Induct. i 15
Lucentio	Verse	Tranio, since for the great desire I had	I i 1
Tranio	Verse	Mi perdonate, gentle master mine	I i 27
Tranio	Verse	Pardon me, sir, the boldness is mine own	II i 81
Tranio	Verse	Pardon me, sir, the boldness is mine own	II i 81
Petruchio	Verse	No, not a whit: I find you passing gentle.	II i 243
Petruchio	Verse	Be patient, gentlemen; I choose her for myself:	II i 304
Gremio	Verse	First, as you know, my house within the city	II i 349
Petruchio	Verse	They shall go forward, Kate, at thy command	III ii 203
Petruchio	Verse	Thus have I politicly begun my reign	IV i 126
Petruchio	Verse	Well, come, my Kate; we will unto your father's,	IV iii 163
Pedant	Verse	Sir, by your leave: having come to Padua	IV iv 28

The Tempest

Prospero intercut	Verse	My brother and thy uncle, call'd Antonio,	I ii 82
Ariel intercut	Verse	I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak,	I ii 230
Caliban intercut	Verse	This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,	I ii 396
Caliban	Verse	All the infections that the sun sucks up	II ii 1
Trinculo	Prose	Here's neither bush nor shrub to bear off any weather	II ii 23
Ferdinand	Verse	There be some sports are painful and their labor	III i 4
Caliban	Verse	Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him	III ii 57
Ariel	Verse	You are three men of sin, whom Destiny	III iii 69
Prospero	Verse	Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves	V i 40
Prospero	Verse	You do look, my son, in a mov'd sort	III iii 158
Ariel	Verse	I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking	IV i 186
Prospero	Verse	In this last tempest. I perceive, these lords	V i 168
Prospero	Verse	Now my charms are all o'erthrown,	Epilogue

Troilus and Cressida

Prologue	Verse	In Troy there lies the scene	Prologue
Troilus	Verse	O Pandarus! I tell thee, Pandarus	I i 36
Troilus	Verse	Peace, you ungracious clamours! peace, rude sounds!	I i 66
Agamemnon	Verse	Princes, What grief hath set the jaundice on your cheeks?	I iii 1
Nestor	Verse	With due observance of thy god-like seat,	I iii 33
Ulysses	Verse	Troy, yet upon his basis, had been down,	I iii 78
Aeneas	Verse	Trumpet, blow aloud, Send thy brass voice through all these lazy tents;	I iii 263
Nestor	Verse	Yes, 'tis most meet: whom may you else oppose,	I iii 341
Ulysses	Verse	What glory our Achilles shares from Hector	I iii 376
Hector	Verse	Though no man lesser fears the Greeks than I,	II ii 10
Hector	Verse	You are for dreams and slumbers, brother priest;	II ii 40
Troilus	Verse	I take today a wife, and my election	II ii 65
Paris	Verse	Sir, I propose not merely to myself	II ii 154
Hector	Verse	Paris and Troilus, you have both said well;	II ii 171
Thersites	Prose	How now, Thersites! what, lost in the labyrinth	II iii 1
Agamemnon	Verse	Hear you, Patroclus We are too well acquainted with these answers:	II iii 59
Ulysses	Verse	O Agamemnon! let it not be so.	II iii 122
Achilles	Verse	What! am I poor of late?	III iii 79
Ulysses intercut	Verse	I do not strain at the position	III iii 121
Ulysses	Verse	The providence that's in a watchful state	III iii 208
Thersites intercut	Verse	Ajax goes up and down the field, asking for himself.	III iii 259
Troilus	Verse	And suddenly; where injury of chance	IV iv 30
Hector	Verse	Thou art, great lord, my father's sister's son,	IV v 140
Nestor	Verse	I have, thou gallant Trojan, see thee oft,	IV v 206
Thersites	Prose	With too much blood and too little brain	V i 36
Troilus	Verse	This she? no, this is Diomed's Cressida	V ii 163
Troilus	Verse	You understand me not that tell me so.	V x 15

Twelfth Night

Duke	Verse	If music be the food of love, play on	I i 1
Malvolio	Verse	M, O, A, I; this simulation is not as the former	II v 74
Malvolio	Prose	O ho, do you come near me now?	III iv 49
Sebastian	Verse	This is the air, that is the glorius sun	IV iii 1
Antonio	Verse	Orsino, noble sir, Be pleased that I shake off these names you give me	V i 52
Duke	Verse	Why should I not (had I the heart to do it)	V i 100
Malvolio intercut	Verse	Madam, you have done me wrong, Notorious wrong.	V i 294

Two Gentlemen of Verona

Launce	Prose	Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping	II iii 1-32
Valentine	Verse	Ay, Proteus, but that life is alter'd now	V i 123
Proteus	Verse	Even as one heat another heat expels	II iv 190
Proteus	Verse	To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn;	II vi 1
Proteus	Verse	My gracious lord, that which I would discover	III i 6
Duke	Verse	Proteus, I thank thee for thine honest care,	III i 24
Valentine	Verse	A woman sometime scorns what best contents her.	III i 96
Duke	Verse	What letter is this same? What's here? To Silvia!	III i 141
Valentine	Verse	And why not death rather than living torment?	III i 163
Proteus	Verse	Ay, ay; and she hath offer'd to the doom	III i 215
Proteus	Verse	Cease to lament for that thou canst not help,	III i 234
Launce	Prose	I am but a fool, look you; and yet I have the wit	III i 254
Proteus	Verse	Say that upon the altar of her beauty	III ii 76
Launce	Prose	When a man's servant shall play the cur with him	IV iv 1

The Winter's Tale

Leontes	Verse	Thou want'st a rough pash and the shoots that I have	I ii 157
Leontes	Verse	To your own bents dispose you; you'll be found	I ii 215
Camillo	Verse	My gracious lord, I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful	I ii 295
Leontes	Verse	Apollo, pardon My great profaneness 'gainst thine oracle!	III ii 160
Antigonus	Verse	Come, poor babe: I have heard, but not believed, the spirits o' the dead	III iii 21
Autolycus	Prose	Ho, ha, what a fool Honesty is!	IV iii 586

The Histories

Henry IV i

King Henry	Verse	So shaken as we are, so wan with care,	I i 1
King Henry	Verse	Yea, there thou mak'st me sad and mak'st me sin	I i 80
King Henry	Verse	I know you all, and will awhile uphold	I ii 64
Hotspur	Verse	My liege, I did deny no prisoners	I iii 28-68
Hotspur	Verse	Revolted Mortimer! He never did fall off, my sovereign liege,	I iii 96
Hotspur	Verse	Nay, then I cannot blame his cousin king	I iii 164
Falstaff	Prose	I am accursed to rob in that thief's company	II ii 10
Hotspur	Prose	But for mine own part, my lord, I could be well contented	II iii 1
Prince Hal	Prose	With three or four loggerheads	II iv 5
Falstaff intercut	Prose	Peace, good pint-pot! peace, good tickle-brain!	II iv 162
King	Verse	God pardon thee! Yet let me wonder Harry	III ii 31
King Henry	Verse	For all the world, As thou art to this hour was Richard then	III ii 96
Prince Hal	Verse	Do not think so, you shall not find it so	III ii 132
Falstaff	Prose	No, I'll be sworn; I make as good use of it	III iii 9
Falstaff	Prose	If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a soused gurnet.	IV ii 9
Hotspur intercut	Verse	The king is kind; and well we know the king	IV iii 60
Worchester	Verse	It pleas'd your majesty to turn your looks	V i 34
Falstaff	Prose	'Tis not due yet: I would be loath to pay him before	V i 129
Worchester	Verse	Then are we all undone. It is not possible, it cannot be,	V ii 6
Prince Hal	Verse	For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart!	V iv 94

Henry IV ii

Rumour	Verse	Open your ears; for which of you will stop	Induction
Morton	Verse	I am sorry I should force you to believe	I i 121
Northumberland	Verse	For this I shall have time enough to mourn.	I i 152
Morton	Verse	Sweet earl, divorce not wisdom from your honour.	I i 179
Morton	Verse	'Tis more than time: and, my most noble lord,	I i 203
Falstaff	Prose	Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me:	I ii 5
Bardolph	Verse	Yes, if this present quality of war,	I iii 39
ArchBishop of York	Verse	Let us on, And publish the occasion of our arms.	I iii 90
Prince Hal intercut	Prose	Before God, I am exceeding weary.	II ii 1
King Henry IV	Verse	How many thousand of my poorest subjects	III i 6
King Henry IV	Verse	O God! that one might read the book of fate,	III i 48
Falstaff	Prose	As I return, I will fetch off these justices:	III ii 130
Archbishop of York	Verse	Wherefore do I this? so the question stands.	IV i 60
Lancaster	Verse	You are well encounter'd here, my cousin Mowbray:	IV ii 1
Falstaff	Prose	I would you had but the wit:	IV iii 48
King Henry	Verse	Nothing but well to thee, Thomas of Clarence.	IV iv 23
Prince Hal	Verse	O, pardon me, my liege! but for my tears,	IV v 146
King Henry	Verse	O my son, God put it in thy mind to take it hence,	IV v 185
Prince Hal	Verse	Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow,	IV v 25
King Henry	Verse	Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought:	IV v 100
King Henry IV	Verse	You are right, justice, and you weigh this well;	V ii 108
King Henry V	Verse	I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;	V v 38
Epilogue	Prose	First my fear; then my courtesy; last my speech.	V v 92

Henry V

Chorus	Verse	O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend	Prologue I i
Canterbury	Verse	Hear him but reason in divinity,	I i 42
Henry	Verse	Sure, we thank you. My learned lord, we pray you to proceed,	I ii 13
Canterbury	Verse	Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers,	I ii 38
Canterbury	Verse	Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions,	I ii 186
King Henry	Verse	We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us	I ii 268
Chorus	Verse	Now all the youth of England are on fire	Prologue II i
King Henry	Verse	The mercy that was quick in us but late	II ii 83
King Henry	Verse	God quit you in his mercy! Hear your sentence.	II ii 167
Exeter intercut	Verse	From him; and thus he greets your majesty	II iv 84
Chorus	Verse	Thus with imagin'd wing our swift scene flies	Prologue III i
Henry	Verse	Once more into the breach dear friends, once more	III i 4
Boy	Prose	As young as I am, I have observed these three	III ii 16
Henry	Verse	Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;	III i 1
Henry	Verse	How yet resolves the governor of the town?	III iii 1
French King	Verse	Where is Montjoy the herald? speed him hence	III v 8
Montjoy	Verse	Thus says my king: Say thou to Harry of England:	III vi 55
Henry	Verse	Thou dost thy office fairly. Turn thee back,	III vi 58
Chorus	Verse	Now entertain conjecture of a time	IV i
Henry	Prose	So, if a son that is by his father sent	IV i 95
Henry	Verse	Upon the King! Let us our lives, our souls	IV i 116
Henry	Verse	O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts	IV i 178
Constable	Verse	To horse, you gallant princes! straight to horse!	IV ii 19
Henry	Verse	This day is called the feast of Crispian	IV iii 45
Henry	Verse	I pray thee, bear my former answer back	IV iii 98
Exeter	Verse	In which array, brave soldier, doth he lie,	IV vi 9
Henry	Verse	This note doth tell me of ten thousand French	IV viii 47
Chorus	Verse	Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story	V i

Henry VI i

Third Messenger	Verse	O, no! wherein Lord Talbot was o'erthrown	I i 113
Talbot intercut	Verse	The Duke of Bedford had a prisoner	I iv 30
Talbot	Verse	What chance is this that suddenly hath cross'd us?	I iv 76
Talbot	Verse	My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel	I iv 22
Mortimer	Verse	I will, if that my fading breath permit,	II v 64
Plantagenet	Verse	And peace, no war, befall thy parting soul	II v 118
Gloucester	Verse	Presumptuous priest! this place commands my patience	III i 10
Talbot intercut	Verse	Shame to the Duke of Burgundy and thee!	IV i 16
King Henry	Verse	Come hither, you that would be combatants	IV i 138
General	Verse	Thou ominous and fearful owl of death	IV ii 18
Talbot	Verse	When from the Dauphin's crest thy sword struck fire	IV vi 12
Talbot intercut	Verse	Where is my other life? Mine own is gone	IV vii 3
Suffolk	Verse	An earl I am, and Suffolk am I call'd	V iii 58
Suffolk	Verse	A dower, my lords! disgrace not so your king	V v 50
King Henry	Verse	Whether it be through force of your report	V v 81

Henry VI ii

Gloucester	Verse	Brave peers of England, pillars of the state	I i 64
Cardinal	Verse	So, there goes our protector in a rage	I i 136
Salisbury	Verse	Pride went before, ambition follows him.	I i 169
York	Verse	Anjou and Maine are given to the French	I i 203
Hume	Verse	Hume must make merry with the duchess' gold	I ii 91
Gloucester	Verse	Ah, gracious lord, these days are dangerous	III i 146
King Henry	Verse	Ay, Margaret; my heart is drown'd with grief,	III i 202
York	Verse	Now, York, or never, steel they fearful thoughts	III i 336
King Henry	Verse	What! doth my Lord of Suffolk comfort me?	III ii 45
Salisbury	Verse