Walpole, Or, Every Man Has His Price, a Comedy in Rhyme - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1869 Excerpt: ... WALPOLE. v Every man has his price; I must bribe left and right. So you've failed with Bellair--a fresh bait we must try.: As for Blount Enter Servant. Servant. Mr Blount. WALPOLE. Pray admit him. Good-bye. (Exit Veasey). SCENE II. Walpole, Blount. BLOUNT. Mr Walpole, you ask my advice on the dues Which the City imposes on coal. WALPOLE. Sir, excuse That pretence for some talk on more weighty a theme, With a man who commands Blount (aside). Forty votes. WALPOLE. My esteem. You're a patriot, and therefore I courted this visit. Hark! your country's in danger--great danger, sir. Blount (drily). Is it? WALPOLE. And I ask you to save it from certain perdition. WALPOLE. Yes, at present in hot opposition. But what's party % Mere cricket--some out and some in; I have been out myself. At that time I was thin, Atrabilious, sir--jaundiced; now, rosy and stout, Nothing pulls down a statesman like long fagging out. And to come to the point, now there's nobody by, Be as stout and as rosy, dear Selden, as I. What! when bad men conspire, shall not good men combine? There's a place--the Paymastership--just in your line; I may say that the fees are ten thousand a-year, Besides extras--not mentioned. (Aside.) The rogue will cost dear. BLOUNT. What has that, sir, to do with the national danger To which WALPOLE. You're too wise to be wholly a stranger. Need I name to a man of your Protestant true heart All the risks we yet run from the Pope and the Stuart? And the indolent public is so unenlightened That 'tis not to be trusted, and scarce to be frightened. When the term of this Parliament draws to its close, Should King George call another, 'tis filled with his foes. BLOUNT. You pay soldiers eno' if the Jacobites rise WALPOLE. But a Jacobite house would soon stop their supplies...

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