Monologue

Edg Monologue from Bartholomew Fair

From Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson

male · comedic · 1:19 min

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Not yet, sir; except you would go with me and see it, it is not worth speaking on. The act is nothing without a witness. Yonder he is, your man with the box, fallen into the finest company, and so transported with vapours! they have got in a northern clothier, and one Puppy, a western man, that's come to wrestle before my lord mayor anon, and captain Whit, and one Val. Cutting, that helps captain Jordan to roar, a circling boy; with whom your Numps is so taken, that you may strip him of his clothes, if you will. I'll undertake to geld him for you, if you had but a surgeon ready to sear him. And mistress Justice there, is the goodest woman! she does so love them all over in terms of justice and the style of authority, with her hood upright that--I beseech you come away, gentlemen, and see't.

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Edg is engaging with others about a spectacle that is about to occur, expressing excitement and a sense of urgency to witness the events unfold.

20s · anticipation · identity · power · justice · ambition

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