Monologue

Waspe Monologue from Bartholomew Fair

From Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson

male · comedic · 53 sec

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You do not know the inconvenience, gentlemen, you persuade to, nor what trouble I have with him in these humours. If he go to the Fair, he will buy of every thing to a baby there; and household stuff for that too. If a leg or an arm on him did not grow on, he would lose it in the press. Pray heaven I bring him off with one stone! And then he is such a ravener after fruit!--you will not believe what a coil I had t'other day to compound a business between a Cather'nepear woman, and him, about snatching: 'tis intolerable, gentlemen.

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Waspe expresses his exasperation over the chaotic behavior of a companion who is overly enthusiastic about shopping at the Fair, highlighting the absurdity of the situation.

30s · frustration · humor · chaos · social interaction · consumerism

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