Dogberry Monologue from Much Ado About Nothing

From Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

male · comedic · 1:10 min

True, and they are to meddle with none but the Prince’s subjects. You shall also make no noise in the streets: for, for the watch to babble and to talk is most tolerable and not to be endured. (SECOND WATCH: We will rather sleep than talk: we know what belongs to a watch.) Why, you speak like an ancient and most quiet watchman, for I cannot see how sleeping should offend; only have a care that your bills be not stolen. Well, you are to call at all the alehouses, and bid those that are drunk get them to bed. (SECOND WATCH: How if they will not?) Why then, let them alone till they are sober: if they make you not then the better answer, you may say they are not the men you took them for.

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