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Is there no way for men to be, but women Must be half-workers?

We
are all bastards, And that most venerable man which I
Did call my father was I know not where When I was stamped.
Some coiner with his tools Made me a counterfeit; yet my mother
seemed The Dian of that time; so doth my wife The nonpareil of this.
O, vengeance, vengeance! Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained an
d prayed me oft forbearance; did it with A pudency so rosy the sweet
view on ’t Might well have warmed old Saturn, that I thought
her As chaste as unsunned snow. O, all the devils! This yellow
Iachimo in an hour, was ’t not? Or less? At first? Perchance he spoke
not, but, like a full-
acorned boar, a German one, Cried “O!” and mounted; found no
opposition But what he looked for should oppose and she Should fro
m encounter guard. Could I find out The woman’s part in me—
for there’s no motion That tends to vice in man but I affirm It is the w
oman’s part: be it lying, note it, The woman’s; flattering, hers; deceivi
ng, hers; Lust and rank thoughts, hers, hers; revenges, hers; Ambition
s, covetings, change of prides, disdain, Nice longing, slanders,
mutability, All faults that man may
name, nay, that hell knows, Why, hers, in part or all, but rather all.
For even to vice They are not constant, but are changing still One
vice but of a minute old for one Not half so old as that. I’ll write
against them, Detest them, curse them. Yet ’tis greater skill In a true
hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot plague them
better.

Intensity level KEY:


Yellow= 1
Purple= 2
Cyan= 3
Blue= 4
Red= 5

This speech is Posthumous saying how upset he feels after finding out
his wife has cheated on him, he blames women for all the sins and bad
things in the world.
The speech takes place after Iachimo has come back from his venture
to England to woo posthumous’ wife. Iachimo is unsuccessful
however in order to win the bet they had made he decides to sneak
into her bedroom and note down details about her that he would only
know if he had managed to get in bed with her. He then steals the
bracelet that Posthumous had given her before he left as proof of his
successful wooing. This is enough to convince posthumous that his
wife has been unfaithful to him and this is when the speech takes
place.

Some set designs for Cymbeline

The speech is written in verse and I know this because it uses the
iambic pentameter. The reason for this is that most of Shakespeare’s
plays are written in this form and the iambic pentameter’s rhythm is
that of a heartbeat so many people believe that it is used to display
more love and passion within his writing and the reason it gets used
so often is because of how common love and passion are in
Shakespeare's plays.

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