Monologue

Colonel Standard Monologue from The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip to the Jubilee: A Comedy, in Five Acts

From The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip to the Jubilee: A Comedy, in Five Acts by George Farquhar

male · defiant · 52 sec

(Colonel S.) How weak is reason in disputes of love! I've heard her falsehood with such pressing proofs, that I no longer should distrust it. Yet still my love would baffle demonstration, and make impossibilities seem probable. (Looks up.) Ha! That fool too! What, stoop so low as that animal?--'Tis true, women once fallen, like cowards in despair, will stick at nothing; there's no medium in their actions. They must be bright as angels, or black as fiends. But now for my revenge; I'll kick her cully before her face, call her whore, curse the whole sex, and leave her. [ (Goes in.)

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