Much Ado About Nothing - Beatrice SS

For Semel Showcase

[Start Monologue]

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

Is he not approved in the height a villain that hath slandered, scorned, dishonored 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 rancor—

What, bear her in hand until they come to take hands, and then, with public accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancor—

O God, that I were a man!
I would eat his heart in the marketplace…

I would eat his heart in the marketplace…

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

She is wronged, she is slandered, she is undone. 

She is wronged, she is slandered, she is undone.

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 curtsies, valor into compliment,
and men are only turned into tongue.

and men are only turned into tongue.

I cannot be a man with wishing—
therefore I will die a woman with grieving.