Monologue

Over Monologue from Bartholomew Fair

From Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson

male · sarcastic · 55 sec

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O tempora! O mores! I would not have lost my discovery of this one grievance, for my place, and worship o' the bench. How is the poor subject abused here! Well, I will fall in with her, and with her Mooncalf, and win out wonders of enormity. (Comes forward.) --By thy leave, goodly woman, and the fatness of the Fair, oily as the king's constable's lamp, and shining as his shooing-horn! hath thy ale virtue, or thy beer strength, that the tongue of man may be tickled, and his palate pleased in the morning? Let thy pretty nephew here go search and see.

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The character expresses frustration and sarcasm about the state of society and the fair, revealing a sense of disillusionment with authority and the common people's plight.

40s · disgust · power · identity · corruption · social critique

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