Horace Monologue from The Brass Bottle: A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts

From The Brass Bottle: A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts by F. Anstey

male · comedic · 47 sec

Wait a bit. I won't have him rattled. (FAKRASH looks puzzled.) I mean, no popping up through the floor or down the chimney. You'll just walk quietly up to his front door, and ask to see him. Then you can explain who you are and what you want, and, if you're decently polite, I'm sure the Professor will give you back your property. (FAKRASH: All these instructions will I observe.) But you can't go in that get-up, or you'll have a crowd of small boys at your heels. Couldn't you raise the sort of costume respectable elderly gentlemen go about in nowadays?

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