The heaviness and guilt within my bosom Takes off my manhood
Iachimo
The heaviness and guilt within my bosom
Takes off my manhood. I have belied a lady,
The Princess of this country, and the air on ’t
Revengingly enfeebles me; or could this carl,
A very drudge of nature’s, have subdued me
In my profession?
Knighthoods and honors, borne
As I wear mine, are titles but of scorn.
Knighthoods and honors, borne
As I wear mine, are titles but of scorn.
If that thy gentry, Britain, go before
This lout as he exceeds our lords, the odds
Is that we scarce are men and you are gods.
He exits.