- Is It Reasonable, Wretch, That Your Tongue Should Be Fresh and Clean When Your Voice Is Foul and Ordure?

I can imagine him delivering it with that tone if he was in a schoolyard. I would love to seen how he delivered it in the vestures. He used that she should promise me a modest dowry, not a large one. So what he's referring to there is this part of greek myth, probably originally near eastern myth, that there had been a great flood and ducalion pirra had recreated the human race. You have to know about that myth to understand what he's talking about.