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Police. We do !
Wp charge yon yield in Queen Victoria's name!
{Pirates kneel ; Police stand over them trituuphanily.)
King. We yield at once with humbled rairn,
Becnise, with all our faults, we love our queen. Police. Yes, yes, with all their faults they love their queen.
Police, holdiuQ Pirates by the collar, take out luindkercKiefs f>.nd
weep.)
General. Away with them, and place them at the bar ! Ruth. One moment: let me tell you who they are.
They are no members of the common throng ;
They are all noblemen who have gone wrong. General, Police, and GrRLS. What! ^/T noblemen? King and Pirates. Yes, all noblemen! General, Police, a«cZ Gt^tji What! All? King. Well, nearly all.
General. No Englishman unmoved that statement hears,
Because, with all our faults, we love our House of Peers !
(All kneel.)
Recit. — General.
I pray you pardon me, ex-pirate king ;
Peers will be peers, and youth will have its fling.
Resume your ranks and legislative duties,
And take my daughters, all of whom are beauties,
{All rise. Each Pirate takes a Girl.)
FINALE. Ruth. At length we are provided, with unusual facility,
To change piratic crime for dignified respectability King. Combined, I needn't say, with the unparalleled
felicity Of what we have been longing for — unbounded domesticity. Mabel. To-morrow morning early we will quickly be par- soniticd — llyraeneally coupled, conjugally matrimoiufied. Skroeant. And this shall be accomplished by th*. doctoi of divinity Who hap]>ily resides in the immedi*>. ;idity. Ohoku.'^. Who happily resides in the inmied'tit uinity.
