Playboy Flashcards
Description of shebeen
Very rough and untidy
P- ‘Stop tomenting
me with Father Reilly’
P- ‘Fine,
handsome young fellow with a noble brow’
C- ‘Star
of knowledge shining from her brow’
C- ‘Aid me
for to win Pegeen. It’s herself only that I’m seeking now’
P- ‘I’m thinking
you’re too fine for the like of me, Shawn Keogh’
P- ‘I’ve lost
the only Playboy of the Western World’
Description of Pegeen
Wild looking but fine girl
P- ‘You’ve done
nothing at all’
S- ‘I’m afeared of
Father Reilly’
‘Bravery’s
a treasure in a lonesome place’
C- ‘I’ll not
leave Pegeen Mike’
P- ‘That lad
would wear the spirits from the saints of peace’
C: He getting
old and crustry
C- ‘would there be
any offense if I was asking are you single now?’
C- stage direction while talking to P
Expanding with delight at the first confidential talk he has ever had with a woman
C- ‘There wasn’t anyone
heeding me in that place saving only the dumb beasts of the field
C- ‘your promise
that you’ll wed me in a fortnight’
P- ‘the like of you
drawing nearer, like the stars of God’
P- ‘I the fright
of seven townlands for my biting tongue’
P- ‘you’re the one
I’m after lacing in my heart-strings half an hour gone by’
C- ‘If it’s a poor thing
to be lonesome it’s worse, maybe, to go mixing with the fools of the earth’
C- ‘Ten thousand blessings
upon all that’s here, for you’ve turned me a likely gaffer in the end of all’
