Monologue

Waspe Monologue from Bartholomew Fair

From Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson

male · sarcastic · 37 sec

Alas! and why _alas_ from you, I beseech you? or why _poor_ Numps, goody Rich? Am I come to be pitied by your tuft-taffata now? Why, mistress, I knew Adam the clerk, your husband, when he was Adam Scrivener, and writ for two-pence a sheet, as high as he bears his head now, or you your hood, dame.-- _Enter BRISTLE and other Watchmen._ What are you, sir?

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