Monologue

Humphry Monologue from The Politician Out-Witted

From The Politician Out-Witted by Samuel Low

male · comedic · 1:52 min

What's your will? (LOVEYET: Can you inform me, friend, where one Mr. Frankton lives?) No, I don't know where anybody lives in this big city, not I; for my part, I believe how they all lives in the street, there's such a monstrous sight of people a scrouging backards and forards, as the old saying is. If I was home now-- (LOVEYET: Where is your home, if I may make so free?) Oh, you may make free and welcome, for the more freer the more welcomer, as the old saying is; I never thinks myself too good to discourse my superiors: There's some of our townsfolks now, why some of 'um isn't so good as I, to be sure. There's Tom Forge, the blacksmith, and little Daniel Snip, the tailor, and Roger Peg, the cobbler, and Tim Frize, the barber, and Landlord Tipple, that keeps the ale-house at the sign of the Turk's Head, and Jeremy Stave, the clerk of the meeting-house, why, there an't one of 'um that's a single copper before a beggar, as the old saying is; but what o' that? We isn't all born alike, as father says; for my part, I likes to be friendly, so give us your hand. You mus'n't think how I casts any reflections on you; no, no, I scorn the action. (They shake hands.) That's hearty now--Friendship is a fine thing, and, a friend indeed is a friend in need, as the saying is.

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