登陆注册
5419900000062

第62章

Propriety, we know, Says we ought to stay;While sympathy exclaims, "Free them from your tether--Play at other games--Leave them here together."

KATE

Her case may, any day, Be yours, my dear, or mine.

Let her make her hay While the sun doth shine.

Let us compromise (Our hearts are not of leather):

Let us shut our eyes And talk about the weather.

GIRLS:Yes, yes, let's talk about the weather.

Chattering chorusHow beautifully blue the sky, The glass is rising very high, Continue fine I hope it may, And yet it rained but yesterday.

To-morrow it may pour again (I hear the country wants some rain), Yet people say, I know not why, That we shall have a warm July.

To-morrow it may pour again (I hear the country wants some rain), Yet people say, I know not why, That we shall have a warm July.

Enter MABEL and FREDERIC

.During MABEL's solo the GIRLS continue chatter pianissimo, but listening eagerly all the time.

SOLO--MABEL

Did ever maiden wake From dream of homely duty, To find her daylight break With such exceeding beauty?

Did ever maiden close Her eyes on waking sadness, To dream of such exceeding gladness?

FREDERIC: Ah, yes! ah, yes! this is exceeding gladness GIRLS:How beautifully blue the sky, etc.

SOLO--FREDERIC

.During this, GIRLS continue their chatter pianissimo as before, but listening intently all the time.

Did ever pirate roll His soul in guilty dreaming, And wake to find that soul With peace and virtue beaming?

ENSEMBLE

FREDERICMABEL GIRLSDid ever pirate Did ever maiden wake How beautifully blue loathed From dream of homelythe sky, etc.

Forsake his hideousduty, mission To find her daylight To find himselfbreak betrothedWith such exceeding To lady of position? beauty?

RECIT--FREDERIC

Stay, we must not lose our senses;

Men who stick at no offences Will anon be here!

Piracy their dreadful trade is;

Pray you, get you hence, young ladies, While the coast is clear (FREDERIC and MABEL retire)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 disap--.

(During this chorus the PIRATES have entered stealthily, and formed in a semicircle behind the GIRLS.As the GIRLS move to go off, each PIRATE seizes a GIRL.KING seizes EDITH and ISABEL, SAMUEL seizes KATE.)GIRLS:Too late!

PIRATES: Ha, ha!

GIRLS: Too late!

PIRATES: Ho, ho!

Ha, ha, ha, ha! Ho, ho, ho, ho!

ENSEMBLE

(Pirates pass in front of(Girls pass in front of Girls.) Pirates.)PIRATESGIRLSHere's a first-rate opportunity We have missed our opportunity To get married with impunity,Of escaping with impunity;And indulge in the felicity So farewell to the felicity Of unbounded domesticity.Of our maiden domesticity!

You shall quickly be We shall quickly be parsonified, parsonified, Conjugally matrimonified,Conjugally matrimonified, By a doctor of divinity By a doctor of divinity, Who is located in this Who is located in this vicinity.vicinity.

By a doctor of divinity, By a doctor of divinity, Who resides in this vicinity,Who resides in this vicinity, By a doctor, a doctor, a doctor By a doctor, a doctor, a doctor of divinity, of divinity.of divinity, of divinity.

RECIT

MABEL:(coming forward) Hold, monsters! Ere your pirate caravanserai Proceed, against our will, to wed us all, Just bear in mind that we are Wards in Chancery, And father is a Major-General!

SAMUEL: (cowed) We'd better pause, or danger may befall, Their father is a Major-General.

GIRLS:Yes, yes; he is a Major-General!

(The MAJOR-GENERAL has entered unnoticed, on the rock)GENERAL: Yes, yes, I am a Major-General!

SAMUEL: For he is a Major-General!

ALL: He is! Hurrah for the Major-General!

GENERAL: And it is, it is a glorious thing To be a Major-General!

ALL: It is! Hurrah for the Major-General!

Hurrah for the Major-General!

SONG--MAJOR-GENERAL

I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news, With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.

ALL: With many cheerful facts, etc.

GENERAL: I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:

In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

ALL: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, He is the very model of a modern Major-General.

GENERAL: I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox, I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus, In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies, I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes!

Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.

ALL: And whistle all the airs, etc.

GENERAL: Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform, And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform:

In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

ALL: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, He is the very model of a modern Major-General.

GENERAL: In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin", When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin, When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at, And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat", When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery, When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery--In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy, You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.

ALL: You'll say a better Major-General, etc.

同类推荐
  • The Two Captains

    The Two Captains

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
  • 佛说尊胜大明王经

    佛说尊胜大明王经

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
  • 神仙食炁金柜妙录

    神仙食炁金柜妙录

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
  • 杏庭摘稿

    杏庭摘稿

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
  • 研经言

    研经言

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
热门推荐
  • 莫宕跎蹉

    莫宕跎蹉

    美好的记忆应该忘记吗?痛苦的挫折应该忘记吗?你所坚持的,应该忘记吗?
  • 企业家的“基因”(吴晓波细说商业史04)

    企业家的“基因”(吴晓波细说商业史04)

    “吴晓波细说商业史”系列图书为全数字系列产品,是对《激荡三十年》《跌荡一百年》《浩荡两千年》的补充。该系列整理了吴晓波近年来所写作的文章,了解中国百年商业的风雨历程,再现那些可歌可泣的历史商人,探寻中国商业百年变迁,深入中国商人企业家精神内核。《企业家的“基因”(吴晓波细说商业史04)》:从杜月笙到王石,聚焦中国企业家百年史。
  • 匆匆那年(上册)

    匆匆那年(上册)

    80年代生人的张楠因大学毕业找不到好工作而留学澳洲,在那里他认识了同样留学的方茴。就在他被方茴的神秘感吸引时,却听说她竟然是同性恋。阴错阳差,他与方茴住在了同一屋檐下,并且通过其他朋友知道方茴并不是真正的同性恋者,而是曾经深受伤害,有过一段难以忘怀的经历。一次偶然的机会,在张楠的房间里,方茴给他讲述了自己的故事…
  • 葬书

    葬书

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
  • 脊梁

    脊梁

    当全国一些地方的农村干群关系日趋紧张的时候,河南濮阳农村一位叫李连成的村支书却不但赢得了所有乡亲的爱戴,而且因自己感人的作为和精神博得了中央有关领导同志的高度赞赏。在李连成的带领下,他所在的西辛庄村从一个年收入人均不足700元的贫穷村,一跃成为年收入人均超过5000元、固定资产达6000万元的富裕村。然而西辛庄村每前进一步,都是李连成以牺牲自己的利益为代价的。
  • 旧店的爱情

    旧店的爱情

    旧店的爱情一直都比较古老。在旧店这样一个地方,爱情当然是比较古老的。你怎么可以企求旧店能有崭新而时髦的爱情出现呢?尽管在旧店人家里的电视屏幕上,但凡有爱情出现,必然是如火如荼,轰轰烈烈,必然九曲十八拐,再佐以生生死死撕心裂肺山高水低,甚至刚见了面,手还没拉一下,就急急忙忙上床做事。但那是电视,是旧店以外的人胡乱编造出来,教峻旧店人变坏的。是应该把他们从电视里拖扯出来,剥了裤子,恶狠狠打屁股的。“先结婚,后恋爱”,旧店有点儿岁数的人都会说这句话。这句话是老早以前一部电影里的人说的。
  • 三国吕布重生之现代称霸

    三国吕布重生之现代称霸

    三国吕布因被曹操赐死,但却怨恨刘备忘恩负义不替他求情,由于吕布的大业未成,想施展自己的抱负。后因时空错乱,被穿越到现代一名男子也叫呂布身上,我们且看吕布如何在现代中称霸?
  • 重生国民女神:系统狂霸酷拽

    重生国民女神:系统狂霸酷拽

    【爽文+娱乐圈+身心干净】乔青落,校花女神级别人物!沉鱼落雁、闭月羞花,在她身上可以得到淋漓尽致的表现。从小到大,胸大无脑、最佳学渣一直都是她的代名词。生活平淡的她,却因为一张大学录取通知书惨遭谋杀!当她带着系统重生归来,她微笑,男神、宝物,一个都不能少!嗯,天凉了,顺便白莲花领饭盒吧!
  • 何以负君心

    何以负君心

    她于兰陵王府上一舞惊艳了他,自此与这风流之名传遍邺城的纨绔子弟结下了不解之缘。“本王喜欢你,明儿个就娶你进门,做我的妾室。”他自大地令人厌恶,偏是自己一丝都不察觉。她心中,曾经只有幼年雪地之上给她暖意的那个人,那个身为九五之尊,却一身内庸外患,一口欺瞒哄骗,终是令她心如死灰的男人“你就是仗着朕喜欢你,才敢如此放肆!”重遇孙涟漪,宇文邕原本满心欢喜,却不晓,她心中已再无他。自遇上宇文邕起,孙涟漪便以为情既是如此。可重遇高延宗之后,她才知道,原来情不止如此。“皇上,您动过心吗?您会为一人茶饭不思、魂牵梦萦吗?“【情节虚构,请勿模仿】
  • 苏粒的丑男人

    苏粒的丑男人

    天底下所有人都知道安城的苏粒,肤白貌美大长腿,红唇烈焰性子野,家里还是富二代。未婚先孕;家族破产;美貌被毁……看她如何涅火重生!唐时小心翼翼守护了苏粒十三年,终于等来了苏粒一句:“你的优秀配得起我的骄傲!”苏粒等了唐时九年,终于明白了此心安处是吾乡。