Shawn Monologue from The Playboy of the Western World

From The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge

male · anguished · 50 sec

walking about in desperation.—Oh, Widow Quin, what’ll I be doing now? I’d inform again him, but he’d burst from Kilmainham and he’d be sure and certain to destroy me. If I wasn’t so God-fearing, I’d near have courage to come behind him and run a pike into his side. Oh, it’s a hard case to be an orphan and not to have your father that you’re used to, and you’d easy kill and make yourself a hero in the sight of all. Oh, Widow Quin, will you find me some contrivance when I’ve promised you a ewe?

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