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shakespeare monologue??

well im audtioning for my school play and we need to memorize a shakespeare monologue for the audition.. perferably a funny one or a comedy or something of that sort.. does any one happen to know any?

Rosalind’s monologue at the closing of “As you like it”
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It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue. If it be true that good wine needs no bush, ’tis true that a good play needs no epilogue; yet to good wine they do use good bushes, and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. What a case am I in then, that am neither a good epilogue, nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalf of a good play! I am not furnished like a beggar, therefore to beg will not become me: my way is, to conjure you; and I’ll begin with the women. I charge you, O women! for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this play as please you: and I charge you, O men! for the love you bear to women,’as I perceive by your simpering none of you hate them,’that between you and the women, the play may please. If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied not; and, I am sure, as many as have good beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths, will, for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.
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Or Helena’s monologue from “Midsummer Night’s Dream”
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http://www.mirroruptonature.com/shakespeare-monologues/female/amnd-3-2-192-helena.pdf
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Or Puck’s closing to the same play (Puck is generally an androgenous role)
http://www.mirroruptonature.com/shakespeare-monologues/female/amnd-5-2-56-puck.pdf

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