Monologue

Face Monologue from The Alchemist

From The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

male · comedic · 1:25 min

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Ay, sir, And gallants yet. Here's a young gentleman Is born to nothing,-- forty marks a year, Which I count nothing:--he is to be initiated, And have a fly of the doctor. He will win you, By unresistible luck, within this fortnight, Enough to buy a barony. They will set him Upmost, at the groom porter's, all the Christmas: And for the whole year through, at every place, Where there is play, present him with the chair; The best attendance, the best drink; sometimes Two glasses of Canary, and pay nothing; The purest linen, and the sharpest knife, The partridge next his trencher: and somewhere The dainty bed, in private, with the dainty. You shall have your ordinaries bid for him, As play-houses for a poet; and the master Pray him aloud to name what dish he affects, Which must be butter'd shrimps: and those that drink To no mouth else, will drink to his, as being The goodly president mouth of all the board.

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Face describes the extravagant lifestyle and opportunities that await a young gentleman who is about to be initiated into a world of gambling and social status, highlighting the allure and potential deception of such a life.

20s · anticipation · ambition · power · identity · deception

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