Cressida's Monologue [Greek translation]

Cressida:

Boldness comes to me now, and brings me heart:

Prince Troilus, I have lov’d you night and day

For many weary months.

Hard to seem won; but I was won, my lord,

With the first glance that ever – Pardon me:

If I confess much you will play the tyrant.

I love you now, but till now not so much

But I might master it. In faith I lie –

My thoughts were like unbridled children, grown

Too headstrong for their mother. – See, we fools!

Why have I blabb’d? Who shall be true to us

When we are so unsecret to ourselves? –

But though I lov’d you well, I woo’d you not;

And yet, good faith, I wish’d myself a man,

Or that we women had men’s privilege

Of speaking first. Sweet, bid me hold my tongue,

For in this rapture I shall surely speak

The thing I shall repent. See, see, your silence,

Cunning in dumbness, from my weak draws

My very soul of counsel. Stop my mouth.

• Artist:William Shakespeare
• Album:Troilus and Cressida (Act 3 Scene 2)