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Piracy their dreadful trade is ;
Pray you get you hence, young ladies.
While the coast is clear.
Pray you get you hence, young ladies.
While the coast is clear.
Girls.
No, we must not lose our senses,
If they stick at no offences.
We should not be here.
Piracy their dreadful trade is —
Nice companions for young ladies !
Let us disappear.
No, we must not lose our senses,
If they stick at no offences.
We should not be here.
Piracy their dreadful trade is —
Nice companions for young ladies !
Let us disappear.
(During this Chorus the Pirates enter stealthily from R. U. E., and form in a semicircle behind the girls. As the girls move to go off, each Pirate seizes a girl.)
All. Too late!
Pirates. Ha! ha!
All. Too late!
Ha! ha!
Pirates.
Ha! ha! ha! ha! ho! ho! ho! ho!
Ha! ha! ha! ha! ho! ho! ho! ho!
| ENSEMBLE. | |
| Pirates. | Ladies. |
Now here's a first-rate opportunity To get married with impunity, And indulge in the felicity Of unbounded domesticity. You shall quickly be parsonified, Conjugally matrimonified By a doctor of divinity Who is located in this vicinity. |
We have missed our opportunity Of escaping with impunity; So farewell to the felicity Of our maiden domesticity. You shall quickly be parsonified, Conjugally matrimonified By a doctor of divinity Who is located in this vicinity. |
Mabel (coming forward), Recit
Hold, monsters ! ere your pirate caravanserai
Proceeds against our will to wed us all,
Just bear in mind that we are wards in chancery,
And father is a Major-General!
Hold, monsters ! ere your pirate caravanserai
Proceeds against our will to wed us all,
Just bear in mind that we are wards in chancery,
And father is a Major-General!
Samuel.
We'd better pause, or dangers may befall ;
Their father is a Major-General.
We'd better pause, or dangers may befall ;
Their father is a Major-General.
ALL THE LADIES.
Yes, yes, he is a Major-General.
Yes, yes, he is a Major-General.
(The Major-General has entered unnoticed on rock L. U. E.)
