Blanco Monologue from The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

From The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet by Bernard Shaw

male · defiant · 1:20 min

Sheriff: you touch me home. This is a rotten world; but there is still one thing in it that remains sacred even to the rottenest of us, and that is a horse. (THE BOYS: Good. Well said, Blanco. Thats straight.) You have a right to your horse, Sheriff; and if I could put you in the way of getting it back, I would. But if I had that horse I shouldn't be here. As I hope to be saved, Sheriff--or rather as I hope to be damned; for I have no taste for pious company and no talent for playing the harp--I know no more of that horse's whereabouts than you do yourself. (STRAPPER: Who did you trade him to?) I did not trade him. I got nothing for him or by him. I stand here with a rope round my neck for the want of him. When you took me, did I fight like a thief or run like a thief; and was there any sign of a horse on me or near me?

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