Jere Monologue from William Congreve

From William Congreve by Love for Love

male · sarcastic · 51 sec

Sir, you’re a gentleman, and probably understand this fine feeding: but if you please, I had rather be at board wages. Does your Epictetus, or your Seneca here, or any of these poor rich rogues, teach you how to pay your debts without money? Will they shut up the mouths of your creditors? Will Plato be bail for you? Or Diogenes, because he understands confinement, and lived in a tub, go to prison for you? ’Slife, sir, what do you mean, to mew yourself up here with three or four musty books, in commendation of starving and poverty?

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