Monologue

Over Monologue from Bartholomew Fair

From Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson

male · sarcastic · 57 sec

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Look into any angle of the town, the Streights, or the Bermudas, where the quarrelling lesson is read, and how do they entertain the time, but with bottle-ale and tobacco? The lecturer is o' one side, and his pupils o' the other; but the seconds are still bottle-ale and tobacco, for which the lecturer reads, and the novices pay. Thirty pound a week in bottle-ale! forty in tobacco! and ten more in ale again. Then for a suit to drink in, so much, and, that being slaver'd, so much for another suit, and then a third suit, and a fourth suit! and still the bottle-ale slavereth, and the tobacco stinketh.

About this piece

The character reflects on the absurdity of societal habits surrounding drinking and smoking, critiquing the financial and moral costs associated with these vices.

30s · disgust · addiction · excess · societal critique · materialism

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