Churchill. A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a merry. Now, good Salisbury, call forth your actors by the scroll. Masters, spread yourselves.
Salisbury. Answer as I call you: Randolph Churchill, the “Woodstock Wonder” and “Champion of the Universe.”
Churchill. Ready! Name the part I set myself down for, and proceed.
Salisbury. You, Randolph Churchill, are set down as Secretary for India.
Churchill. What is Secretary for India?—a statesman or a fool?
Salisbury. A statesman that spends himself most loyally for the State.
Churchill. That will require some brains in the true performance of it. If I do it, let the country look to’t. I will move storms; I will be wise in some measure. To the rest—Yet my chief humour is for a fool. I could play a fool rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split.
The raging Rads
Are blackguardly cads,
With lots of fads,