Monologue

Mask Monologue from The Double Dealer

From The Double Dealer by William Congreve

male · sarcastic · 47 sec

Why, qui vult decipi decipiatur.--'Tis no fault of mine: I have told 'em in plain terms how easy 'tis for me to cheat 'em, and if they will not hear the serpent's hiss, they must be stung into experience and future caution. Now to prepare my lord to consent to this. But first I must instruct my little Levite; there is no plot, public or private, that can expect to prosper without one of them has a finger in't: he promised me to be within at this hour,--Mr. Saygrace, Mr. Saygrace!

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