Your obedient servant; it is too great an honor by far. Yes, God knows, he is a wretched writer—only to give a bad example; what a miserable part he has given me! Where, pray, am I witty and funny? I appear in so few scenes, and I believe, if I hadn't stepped forward even now, by a lucky chance, I should not have appeared again at all.
PLAYWRIGHT (rushing forward).
Impudent fellow—
JACKPUD.
Look, he is even jealous of the small part I am playing now.
PLAYWRIGHT (on the other side of the stage with a bow).
Worthy friends! I never should have dared to give this man a more important part since I know your taste—
JACKPUDDING (on the other side).
Your taste? Now you see his jealousy—and they have all just declared that my taste is the same as theirs.