The Knight of the Rum Bottle & Co. (1818)

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Respectfully dedicated to the managers of the New-York theatre , BY THE EDITOR OF THE CITY-HALL RECORDER.

The Knight of the Rum Bottle,
A roman soothsayer,
The giant Grumbo,
Lothario,
Field marshal, friends to each other
Young gentleman, friends to each other
Aristides, a gentleman of the bar ,
Counsellor at law
Attorney's clerk, assistant to the knight.

ACT I.

SCENE I.

— a SOOTHSAYER is discovered with a great number of magical books on a table, and among them the Roman History and Pope's Homer, the latter of which he is perusing — he rises brandishing his clenched fist.

Sooth.

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exit

SCENE II.

— a cave strewn over with flaming political speeches, of old date, old commissions and turned coats — the giant GRUMBO has a long speech written, over which he is coning — he rises with a look calculated to draw

"Audience and attention still as night,

Or summer's noontide sir."

Grum.

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exit

END OF THE FIRST ACT.

ACT II.

SCENE I.

— discovers the KNIGHT OF THE RUM BOTTLE in an office, sitting by a table with three law books thereon, odd volumes — a lighted candle almost burnt to the socket — a rum bottle beside him, and in the middle of the floor a nameless vessel, three fourths filled — the floor six inches deep with dirt — and in the room a bed, unmade for six weeks before.

enter SOOTHSAYER , in disguise.

Sooth.

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Knight.

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Sooth.

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Knight.

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Will end: ( hiccups )

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Sooth.

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Knight.

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( hiccups )

Sooth.

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( at this moment the candle goes suddenly out, and in staggering about to get another, the nameless vessel is turned over by the knight )

Sooth.

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( knock, knock, knock )

GRUMBO enters, and the soothsayer, unperceived, passes him and escapes.

Grum.

( feeling about in the dark )

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he holds his nose, and takes to his heels

END OF THE SECOND ACT.

ACT III.

SCENE I.

KNIGHT

— a court-room is discovered, crowded with spectators — when the trial is about half over, the is seen with a huge bundle of waste paper, trying to seat himself at the table where the counsel engaged are — but, being denied admission, he seats himself exactly where he has no business — an understrapper in an attorney's office, about the time the counsel commence summing up, also seats himself as assistant, and they pretend to write "short-hand."

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exeunt.

SCENE II.

— discovers the FIELD MARSHAL in a room covered with bundles of newspapers.

Mar.

( solus )

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enter the. KNIGHT OF THE RUM BOTTLE , with a proof sheet, which he hands to the marshal.

Mar.

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Knight.

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( marshal examines it hastily )

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Knight.

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Mar.

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Knight.

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Mar.

( interrupting him )

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Knight.

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Mar.

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Knight.

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Mar.

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enter GRUMBO.

Shall you write out your speech entire, I pray?

For if you do, why then I know the course

I must adopt,

( casting his eyes to a pair of holsters hanging up )

as sure as I'm no horse.

Grumbo.

( turns pale and trembles )

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Mar.

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( looking furiously at both )

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Knight.

( aside — trembling )

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Grumbo.

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Mar.

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( to the knight )

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exeunt Grumbo and knight

Mar.

( solus )

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exit

SCENE. III.

— discovers the SOOTHSAYER in his room in his shirt sleeves, biting his nails, sweating, pondering, blotting out, and interlining and fixing a long speech.

enter GRUMBO, LOTHARIO , and ARISTIDES.

Arist.

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Grum.

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Arist.

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Loth.

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Sooth.

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Grum.

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Sooth.

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Loth.

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( aside )

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END OF THE THIRD ACT.

ACT IV.

SCENE I.

— the curtain rises, and discovers the knight at a table covered with speeches in different hand writings, reading a note — he rolls up his eyes, and looks amazed.

Knight.

( reads )

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( rolling his eyes strangely )

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exit

SCENE II.

— a counsellor's office, a brick building adjoining a large brick house — the counsellor has a client consulting him — finding him busily engaged, the KNIGHT , on entering, begins to address him — but the counsellor takes no notice — in a few moments the client goes out.

Knight.

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Couns.

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the knight takes to his heels

enter a YOUNG GENTLEMAN , wearing a cockade.

Y. Gent.

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Couns.

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exeunt

END OF THE FOURTH ACT.

ACT V.

SCENE I

— the KNIGHT discovered in his office, which is filled with huge piles of pamphlets, "taken in short-hand" — he has a large new tin trumpet, fifteen feet long, which he is essaying to blow — on the table is a rum bottle, filled.

enter SOOTHSAYER and GRUMBO.

Knight.

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Grumbo.

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Knight.

( reads )

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Soothsayer.

( aside )

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Knight.

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Grumbo.

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Knight.

( seizing his trumpet )

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the knight, in trying to make a huge blast with his trumpet, and a rhetorical flourish, adapted to the rapture with which he is inspired, turns over the rum bottle and spills the rum — at the same instant the FIELD MARSHAL enters, sweating under a huge brazen speaking trumpet, thirty feet long, in the trumpet end of which he deliberately fits the blowing end of the knight's trumpet, and fixes the trumpets carefully across the table, running the knight's trumpet about ten feet out of the window — he then applies his mouth — loud blast)

Mar.

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THE END OF THE KNIGHT OF THE RUM BOTTLE.

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