Keep Your Own Secret Monologue
| Keep Your Own Secret Monologue by Pedro Calderón de la Barca | |
| Character: | Prince |
| Gender: | Male |
| Age (range): | ? |
| Style: | Classical |
| Length: | < 3 minutes |
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- PRINCE: Don Arias,
- I love Don Cesar with as whole a heart
- As ever. He and I from infancy
- Have grown together; as one single soul
- Our joys and sorrows shared; till finding him
- So wise and true, as to another self
- Myself, and my dominion to boot,
- I did intrust: you are his friend, and surely
- In honouring you I honour him as well.
- Besides, Arias, I know not how it is,
- For some while past a change has come on him;
- I know not what the cause: he is grown sad,
- Neglects his business--if I call to him,
- He hears me not, or answers from the purpose,
- Or in mid answer stops. And, by the way,
- We being on this subject, I would fain,
- Being so much his friend, for both our sakes,
- You would find out what ails and occupies him;
- Tell him from me to use my power as ever,
- Absolute still: that, loving him so well,
- I'd know what makes him so unlike himself;
- That, knowing what it is, I may at least,
- If not relieve his sorrow, share with him.
- I love Don Cesar with as whole a heart
Credits: Reprinted from Eight Dramas of Calderon. Trans. Edward Fitzgerald. London: Macmillan & Co., 1906.
