Salisbury. If that may be, then all is well. Come sit down, every mother’s son, and rehearse your parts.
Funny Folks, June 27, 1885.
Act II.—The Casting of the Cabinet.
Scene—Room in Arlington House.
Enter Members of the Conservative Party.
Salisbury. Is all our company here?
Churchill. You were best to call them generally, man by man, according to my list.
Salisbury. Here is the scroll of every man’s name which is thought fit by Churchill and myself to play in our interlude before the Houses of Parliament, and all England.
Churchill. First, good Salisbury, say what the play treats on; then read the names of the actors; and so grow to a point.
Salisbury. Marry, our play is the most lamentable comedy and laughable tragedy—A Conservative Government.