The Man Monologue from John Bull's Other Island

From John Bull's Other Island by Bernard Shaw

male · philosophical · 58 sec

Sure it's the wise grasshopper yar to know that! But tell me this, Misther Unworldly Wiseman: why does the sight of Heaven wring your heart an mine as the sight of holy wather wrings the heart o the divil? What wickedness have you done to bring that curse on you? Here! where are you jumpin to? Where's your manners to go skyrocketin like that out o the box in the middle o your confession (he threatens it with his stick)? THE GRASSHOPPER (penitently). X. THE MAN (lowering the stick). I accept your apology; but don't do it again. And now tell me one thing before I let you go home to bed. Which would you say this counthry was: hell or purgatory?

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