Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
MC: Those of you who have never been before,
this is how we clap.
This is another way that we clap,
so don't be afraid to show your appreciation and approval
in such a fashion.
Uh...
on your mark...
[laughter]
for me?...
no...
oh...
uh...
...and now we go crazy for the
Jean Massieu School for the Deaf.
[cheering]
I forget.
We will be performing a scene from Richard the third
Act one
Scene four
I will be portraying murderer number one
I will be murderer number two
I will be Clarence.
Audience: [aw...oh...]
[laughter]
Both: [Ah...Oh...Ah...]
[laughter]
What, shall we stab him as he sleeps?
No; then he will say 'twas done cowardly, when he wakes.
Oww!
When he wakes! why, fool, he shall never wake till the judgment-day.
Why, then he will say we stabbed him sleeping.
[laughter]
The urging of that word 'judgment' hath bred a kind of remorse in me.
[laughter]
What, art thou afraid?
Not to kill him, having a warrant for it;
but to be damned for killing him, from which no warrant can defend us.
I thought thou hadst been resolute.
So I am,
to let him live.
[laughter]
Back to the Duke of Gloucester, tell him so.
I pray thee, stay a while:
I hope my holy humour will change;
'twas wont to hold me but while one would tell twenty.
How dost thou feel thyself now?
'Faith, some certain dregs of conscience are yet within me.
Remember our reward, when the deed is done.
'Zounds, he dies: I had forgot the reward.
[laughter]
Where is thy conscience now?
In the Duke of Gloucester's purse.
[laughter]
So when he opens his purse to give us our reward, thy conscience flies out.
[laughter]
Let it go;
there's few or none will entertain it.
[laughter]
How if it come to thee again?
[Owww!]
[laughter]
I'll not meddle with it:
it is a dangerous thing: it makes a man a coward:
a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him;
he cannot swear, but it cheques him;
'tis a blushing shamefast spirit that mutinies in a man's ***;
it fills one full of obstacles:
it made me once restore a purse of gold that I found;
[laughter]
it beggars any man that keeps it:
it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing;
[laughter] it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing;
[laughter]
and every man that means to live well
endeavours to trust to himself and to live without it.
[laughter]
[sigh...]
'Zounds, it is even now at my elbow, persuading me not to kill the duke.
[laughter] 'Zounds, it is even now at my elbow, persuading me not to kill the duke.
'Zounds, it is even now at my elbow, persuading me not to kill the duke.
Take the devil in thy mind, and relieve him not:
he would insinuate with thee but to make thee sigh.
Tut, I am strong-framed, he cannot prevail with me, I warrant thee.
[laughter] Tut, I am strong-framed, he cannot prevail with me, I warrant thee.
[laughter]
Spoke like a tail fellow that respects his reputation.
Come, shall we to this gear?
Take him over the costard with the hilts of thy sword,
and then we will chop him in the malmsey-butt in the next room.
O excellent devise! make a sop of him. and then we will chop him in the malmsey-butt in the next room.
O excellent devise! make a sop of him.
Hark! he stirs: shall I strike?
[laughter]
[laughter]
Where art thou, keeper? give me a cup of wine.
You shall have wine enough, my lord, anon.
[laughter]
In God's name, what art thou?
A man, as you are.
[laughter]
But not, as I am, royal.
Nor you, as we are, loyal.
Thy voice is thunder, but thy looks are humble.
[laughter]
My voice now,
is the king's,
my looks mine own.
How darkly and how deadly dost thou speak!
Your eyes do menace me:
[laughter]
why look you pale?
Who sent you hither?
Wherefore do you come?
[uh...uh...] To, to, to--
[laughter] [uh...uh...] To, to, to--
[uh...uh...] To, to, to--
To *** me?
[laughter]
Ay, ay. [laughter]
[laughter]
[laughter]
[oh] [laughter]
[oh]
[laughter]
[cheering] [laughter]
[cheering]
[cheering]
Never forget,
there's always more than one way to speak the speech.
Give them another big hand.
[cheering]
[whooo] Alright.
Next, the ever popular...