Saloon, room, hall o’erflow beyond their brink, And long the latest of arrivals halts, ’Midst royal dukes and dames condemned to climb, And gain an inch of staircase at a time.

You know damned straight what this is about, or you ain't as smart as you been frontin'.

Returne our Mules and emptie Camels backe, That we may trauell into Siria, […]

It is the kind of nonegotistical performance, moreover, that allows her to fit in a period context without any hint of anachronism--a virtue she already displayed as Goldie Hawn's next-door neighbor in Swing Shift, and which Keaton conspicuously lacked as Louise Bryant in Reds.