Monologue

Eglantine Monologue from The Harlequinade: An Excursion

From The Harlequinade: An Excursion by Dion Clayton Calthrop

male · comedic · 53 sec

Whose marriage settlement? (HARLEQUIN: At ten o'clock your lordship is to be married.) So I am! Heel-taps and Hymen's torches! so I am! Wonderful fellow, you remember everything! But death of my waistcoats! Have I but two hours to dress in? Not more. Begin on me... begin. (HARLEQUIN: Pardon, my lord, the bell.) That's the man of law. Show him in. You can bring water in here ... my turban... pantoufles. [The door opens and in totters Pantaloon. You know him for Pantaloon, as you knew him as Pantaloon for Charon, for all he's Mr. Talon with his tie wig, his spectacles, and his lawyer's blue bag.

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