BURR

There’s nothing like summer in the city.

Someone under stress meets someone

looking pretty.

There’s trouble in the air, you can smell it.

and Alexander’s by himself. I’ll let him tell it.

HAMILTON

I hadn’t slept in a week.

I was weak, I was awake.

You never seen a bastard orphan

more in need of a break.

Longing for Angelica.

Missing my wife.

That’s when Miss Maria Reynolds walked into

my life, she said:

MARIA REYNOLDS

I know you are a man of honor,

I’m so sorry to bother you at home

but I don’t know where to go, and I came here

all alone...

HAMILTON

She said:

MARIA

My husband’s doin’ me wrong

beatin’ me, cheatin’ me, mistreatin’ me...

Suddenly he’s up and gone.

I don’t have the means to go on.

HAMILTON

So I offered her a loan, I offered to walk her

home, she said

MARIA

You’re too kind, sir.

HAMILTON

I gave her thirty bucks that I had socked away,

she lived a block away, she said:

MARIA

This one’s mine, sir.

HAMILTON

Then I said, “well, I should head back home,”

she turned red, she led me to her bed, let her

legs spread and said:

MARIA

Stay?

HAMILTON

Hey...

MARIA

Hey...

HAMILTON

That’s when I began to pray:

Lord, show me how to

say no to this.

I don’t know how to

say no to this.

HAMILTON

But my God, she looks so helpless

And her body’s saying, “hell, yes”

MARIA

Whoa…

HAMILTON

Nooo, show me how to

HAMILTON/ENSEMBLE

Say no to this.

HAMILTON

I don’t know how to

HAMILTON/ENSEMBLE

Say no to this.

HAMILTON

In my mind, I’m tryin’ to go

ENSEMBLE

Go! Go! Go!

HAMILTON

Then her mouth is on mine, and I don’t say...

ENSEMBLE

No! No!

Say no to this!

No! No!

Say no to this!

No! No!

Say no to this!

No! No!

Say no to this!

HAMILTON

I wish I could say that was the last time.

I said that last time. It became a pastime.

A month into this endeavor I received a letter

from a Mr. James Reynolds, even better, it

said:

JAMES REYNOLDS

Dear Sir, I hope this letter finds you in good

health,

and in a prosperous enough position to put

wealth

in the pockets of people like me: down on

their luck.

You see, that was my wife who you decided to

HAMILTON

Fuuuu—

JAMES REYNOLDS

Uh-oh! You made the wrong sucker a cuckold,

so time to pay the piper for the pants you

unbuckled.

And hey, you can keep seein’ my whore wife

if the price is right: if not I’m telling your wife.

HAMILTON

I hid the letter and I raced to her place,

screamed “How could you?!” in her face,

she said:

MARIA

No, sir!

HAMILTON

Half dressed, apologetic. A mess, she looked

pathetic, she cried:

MARIA

Please don’t go, sir!

HAMILTON

So was your whole story a setup?

MARIA

I don’t know about any letter!

HAMILTON

Stop crying Goddamnit, get up!

MARIA

I didn’t know any better

HAMILTON

I am ruined...

MARIA HAMILTON

Please don’t leave me

with him helpless.

I am

helpless—how could I

do this?

Just give him what

he wants and you can

have me. I don’t want you

Whatever you want, I don’t want you

MARIA HAMILTON

If you pay, I don’t…

You can stay.

Lord, show

me how to ENSEMBLE

say no to this. Say no to this!

Tonight

I don’t know

how to

say no to this. Say no to this!

Cuz the

situation’s

helpless.

Helpless.

And her

body’s

screaming,

“Hell, yes”

Whoa!

No, show me

how to

say no to this. Say no to this!

How can I

How can you

say no to

this?

Say no to

this? Say no to this!

There is

nowhere I

can go.

When her

body’s on

mine Go! Go! Go!

I do not say...

No!

No!

HAMILTON ENSEMBLE

Yes. MARIA Say no to this!

Yes!

Yes.

No!

No!

Yes!

Say no to this!

Yes. Yes! No!

No!

Say no to this!

Yes. Yes!

No!

No!

Say no to this!

HAMILTON

Say no to this. MARIA

I don’t say no to this, Don’t say no to this.

there is nowhere I

can go. ENSEMBLE

Go go go…

JAMES REYNOLDS

So?

HAMILTON

Nobody needs to know.