Monologue

Dr Johnson Monologue from St. Nicholas Book of Plays & Operettas

From St. Nicholas Book of Plays & Operettas

male · contemplative · 41 sec

To be sure, sir, it would have been another story had you carried your wares to market yourself, for the booksellers have but an ill opinion of you at present. But there was no fear that any one of them would venture to say nay, or waste words in cheapening what I chose to recommend. Mr. Newbery, your former publisher, has been pleased to purchase the work which you intrusted to me, and to send you a remuneration of sixty guineas.

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