Much Ado About Nothing - Beatrice

Monologue

[Start Monologue]

Kill Claudio!
You kill me to deny it.
Farewell.
I am gone, though I am here: there is no love in you: nay, I pray you, let me go.
In faith, I will go.

*In faith, I will go.*

You dare easier be friends with me than fight with my enemy.
Is Claudio not approved in the height a villain, that hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman?

*dishonoured my kinswoman?*

O that I were a man!
What, bear her in hand until they come to take hands; and then, with public accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour,— O, God that I were a man!

*O, God that I were a man!*

I would eat his heart in the market-place.

*I would eat his heart in the market-place.*

Talk with a man out at window! A proper saying!

*Talk with a man out at window! A proper saying!*

Sweet Hero!
She is wronged, she is slandered, she is undone.

*she is undone.*

Princes and counties!
Surely, a princely testimony, a goodly count, Count Comfect; a sweet gallant surely!

*a sweet gallant surely!*

O that I were a man for his sake!
Or that I had any friend would be a man for my sake!

*Or that I had any friend would be a man for my sake!*

But manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones too:
he is now as valiant as Hercules that only tells a lie and swears it.
I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.