Mirabell Monologue from The Way of the World

From The Way of the World by William Congreve

male · comedic · 1:02 min

Has the tailor brought Waitwell’s clothes home, and the new liveries? (SERV: Yes, sir.) That’s well. Do you go home again, d’ye hear, and adjourn the consummation till farther order; bid Waitwell shake his ears, and Dame Partlet rustle up her feathers, and meet me at one a’ clock by Rosamond’s pond, that I may see her before she returns to her lady. And, as you tender your ears, be secret. (FAIN: Joy of your success, Mirabell; you look pleased.) Ay; I have been engaged in a matter of some sort of mirth, which is not yet ripe for discovery. I am glad this is not a cabal-night. I wonder, Fainall, that you who are married, and of consequence should be discreet, will suffer your wife to be of such a party.

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