Monologue Overview
Show
Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act 2, Scene 1
Time & Place
London, Seventeenth Century
Length
Long
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
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Context
Sir Epicure Mammon has come to see Face and the
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For I do mean
To have a list of wives and concubines,
Equal with Solomon, who had the stone
Alike with me; and I will make me a back
With the elixir, that shall be as tough
As Hercules, to encounter fifty a night.—
Thou'rt sure
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