Whetstone monologue (Act 5) — The Merchant Prince of Cornville: A Comedy

All right, I’ll give the motions. Now, let’s see what we have in the song-book. [_Opening song-book._] Here’s the Midnight Serenade; and Beauteous Lady I Adore Thee. That’s business. Here’s a whole grist of meeting songs: [_reading_] Meet Me at the Lane; Meet Me by Moonlight; Meet Me, Darling, in the Dell; Meet Me down by the Sea; Meet Me in the Arbor; Meet Me in the Twilight. Where’ll this end? Meet Me ’neath the Slippery-Elm Tree. Meet Me in the Willow-Glen. Why, Major, the earth is covered with meeting-places. But wait! [_Examining book and pondering._] What book-carpenter did this work? Here’s Black-Eyed Susan--[_aside_] Susan has brown eyes--[_aloud_] sandwiched between Paddle your own Canoe and the Pirates’ Chorus.