Monologue

Mel Monologue from The Double Dealer

From The Double Dealer by William Congreve

male · comedic · 51 sec

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'Tis a mistake, for women may most properly be said to be unmasked when they wear vizors; for that secures them from blushing and being out of countenance, and next to being in the dark, or alone, they are most truly themselves in a vizor mask. Here they come: I'll leave you. Ply her close, and by and by clap a billet doux into her hand; for a woman never thinks a man truly in love with her, till he has been fool enough to think of her out of her sight, and to lose so much time as to write to her.

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Mel reflects on the nature of women and their perceptions of love, preparing to engage in a romantic scheme involving a letter.

20s · anticipation · love · identity · deception · gender roles

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