Libertine Monologue
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
British (General) British (Received Pronunciation - RP, BBC)Transcript
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Victoria Fitzgerald Libertine monologue. You have no understanding, do you? You have comprehended just that I am tired of being your mistress. And your solution is to conscripts me into becoming your wife. It is not being a mistress. I am tired of John. I am tired of you. I do not wish to be your wife. I do not wish to be anyone's wife. I wish to continue being the creature I am. I am no Nell Gwyn. I will not give up the stage as soon as a king or a lord has seen me on it. I'm wishing me to be his and his alone. Well, then pay a fortune to keep me off it. I am not the sparrow you picked up in the roadside. My love London walks into this theatre to see me, not George's play, nor Mr Betterton. They want me and they want me over and over again. And when people desire you in such a manner, then you can envisage a steady river of gold lapping at your doorstep. Not £5 here or there for pity or bed favours. Not a noble's ransom for holding you hostage from the thing you love. But a lifetime of money amassed through your owning Davis, that is riches. Leave this Gordy gilded stage. You're right. This stage is gilded. It is gilded with my future earnings and I will not treat those for dependency on you. I will not swap my certain glory for your undependable love.