Ben Monologue from William Congreve

From William Congreve by Love for Love

male · comedic · 1:03 min

Why that’s true, as you say, nor I an’t dumb, I can be heard as far as another,—I’ll heave off, to please you. An we were a league asunder, I’d undertake to hold discourse with you, an ’twere not a main high wind indeed, and full in my teeth. Look you, forsooth, I am, as it were, bound for the land of matrimony; ’tis a voyage, d’ye see, that was none of my seeking. I was commanded by father, and if you like of it, mayhap I may steer into your harbour. How say you, mistress? The short of the thing is, that if you like me, and I like you, we may chance to swing in a hammock together.

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