Classical monologue - Cressida And Troilus

Question 1

Section 1 - green

Answer 1

Boldness comes to me now and brings me heart.
Prince Troilus, I have loved you night and day
For many weary months.

Question 2

Section 2 - pink

Answer 2

Hard to seem won: but i was won, my Lord,
With the first glance I ever -pardon me-
If I confess much, you will play the tyrant.

Question 3

Section 3 - Blue

Answer 3

I love you now; but not, til now, so much
But I might master it: in faith, I lie;
My thoughts were like unbridled children, grown
Too headstrong for their mother.

Question 4

Section 4 - orange

Answer 4

See we fools!
Why have I blabb’d? who shall be true to us,
When we are so unsecret to ourselves?
But though I loved you well I woo’d you not;
And yet, good faith, I wish’d myself a man,
Or that we women have the privilege of speaking first.

Question 5

Section 5 - Yellow

Answer 5

Sweet, bid me hold my tongue,

For in this rapture I shall surely speak The thing I shall repent

Question 6

Section 6 - Purple

Answer 6

See, see, your silence,
Cunning in dumbness, from my weakness draws
My very soul of counsel! Stop my mouth…

(Troilus kisses Cressida)

Question 7

What comes after ‘For many weary months’?

Answer 7

Hard to seem won: but i was won, my Lord,

Question 8

What comes after ‘If I confess much you will play the tyrant’?

Answer 8

I love you now; but not, til now, so much

Question 9

What comes after ‘Too headstrong for their mother’?

Answer 9

See we fools!

Why have I blabb’d?

Question 10

What comes after ‘Or that we women have the privilege of speaking first’?

Answer 10

Sweet, bid me hold my tongue

Question 11

What comes after ‘the thing I shall repent’?

Answer 11

See, see, your silence,

Question 12

What does ‘If I confess much, you will play the tyrant’ mean in standard English?

Answer 12

If I say too much you’ll be able to take advantage of me

Question 13

What does ‘I love you now; but not, til now, so much, But I might master it’ mean in standard English?

Answer 13

I love you now. But until now I have not loved you so deeply. I am learning to show my affection more obviously.

Question 14

What does ‘who shall be true to us,

When we are so unsecret to ourselves?’ mean in standard English?

Answer 14

Who would be honest to someone who is so bad at keeping their own secrets?

Question 15

What does ‘Sweet, bid me hold my tongue, For in this rapture I shall surely speak The thing I shall repent’ mean in standard English?

Answer 15

Sweetheart, tell me to be quiet, tell me to be quiet, because in this elated state of mind I will say something I’ll regret!

Question 16

What does ‘See, see, your silence,
Cunning in dumbness, from my weakness draws
My very soul of counsel! Stop my mouth’ mean in standard English?

Answer 16

Oh you aren’t saying anything, it is a trick to make me talk so that in my weakness I give up all of my judgement. Kiss me to stop me talking!