2d Play. I would sooner give five hundred pounds than bring some plays on the stage; an audience little considers whether 'tis the author or the actor that is hiss'd, our character suffers.
1st Play. Damn our character—We shall lose money by it.
Clink. I'll deposit a sum myself upon the success of it. Well, since it is to be play'd—I will prevail upon him to strike out some few things.—Take the play, Sir Tremendous.
Sir Tremendous reads in a muttering tone.
Sir Trem. Absurd to the last degree [strikes out.] palpable nonsense! [strikes out.]
Clink. What all those lines! spare those for a lady's sake, for those indeed, I gave him.
Sir Trem. Such stuff! [strikes out.] abominable! [strikes out.] most execrable!
1st Play. This thought must out.
2d Play. Madam, with submission, this metaphor.
1st Play. This whole speech.