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No. 21: RECITATIVE (Mabel & Frederic)
No. 22: DUET (Mabel & Frederic)
"All is prepared, your gallant crew await you...
Stay, Frederic stay!"
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Enter MABEL.
| Mabel. |  Mabel (Elsie Griffin) 1919 |
| All is prepared, your gallant crew await you. My Frederic in tears? It cannot be That lion-heart quails at the coming conflict? |
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| Frederic. | |
| No, Mabel, no. A terrible disclosure Has just been made. Mabel, my dearly-loved one, I bound myself to serve the pirate captain Until I reached my one-and-twentieth birthday – |
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| Mabel. | |
| But you are twenty-one? | |
| Frederic. | |
| I’ve just discovered That I was born in leap-year, and that birthday Will not be reached by me till nineteen forty! |
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| Mabel. | |
| Oh, horrible! catastrophe appalling! | |
| Frederic. | |
| And so, farewell! | |
| Mabel. | |
| No, no! Ah, Frederic, hear me. |
DUET.
| Mabel. |
| Stay, Frederic, stay! They have no legal claim, No shadow of a shame Will fall upon thy name. Stay, Frederic, stay! |
| Frederic. |
| Nay, Mabel, nay! Tonight I quit these walls, The thought my soul appalls, But when stern Duty calls, I must obey. |
| Mabel. | Frederic. |
| Stay, Frederic, stay! | |
| Nay, Mabel, nay! | |
| They have no claim, | |
| But duty's name. | |
| No shadow of a shame | The thought my soul appalls, |
| Will fall upon thy name. | But when stern Duty calls, |
| Stay, Frederic, stay! | |
| I must obey. |
| Mabel. |
| Ah, leave me not to pine Alone and desolate; No fate seemed fair as mine, No happiness so great! And Nature, day by day, Has sung in accents clear This joyous roundelay, "He loves thee – he is here. Fal, la, la, la, Fal, la, la, la. He loves thee – he is here. Fal, la, la, Fal, la!" |
| Frederic. |  1926 |
| Ah, must I leave thee here In endless night to dream, Where joy is dark and drear, And sorrow all supreme – Where nature, day by day, Will sing, in altered tone, This weary roundelay, "He loves thee – he is gone. Fal, la, la, la, Fal, la, la, la. He loves thee – he is gone." |
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| Both. | |
| Fal, la, la, Fal, la! |
| Frederic. |
| In 1940 I of age shall be, I’ll then return, and claim you – I declare it! |
| Mabel. |
| It seems so long! |
| Frederic. |
| Swear that, till then, you will be true to me. |
| Mabel. |
| Yes, I’ll be strong! By all the Stanleys dead and gone, I swear it! |
| Mabel & Frederic. |  1933 |
| Oh, here is love, and here is truth, And here is food for joyous laughter: He/She will be faithful to his/her sooth Till we are wed, and even after. |
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| Frederic. | |
| Oh, here is love, and here is truth, | |
| Mabel. | |
| Oh, here is love, and here is truth, | |
| Frederic. | |
| She will be faithful to her sooth, | |
| Mabel. | |
| He will be faithful to his sooth, | |
| Frederic. | |
| Till we are wed, and even after. | |
| Mabel. | |
| Till we are wed, | |
| Frederic. | |
| And even after. | |
| Mabel. | |
| Yes, even after! |
| Mabel. | Frederic. |
| Oh, here is love, and here is truth, | Oh, here is love, and here is truth, |
| And here is food for joyous laughter: | And here is food for joyous laughter: |
| He will be faithful to his sooth, | She will be faithful to her sooth, |
| Till we are wed and even after! | |
| He will be faithful to his sooth, | She will be faithful to her sooth, |
| And after, | Till we are wed and even after, |
| Even after! | Even after! |
| Oh, here is love, and here is truth, | Oh, here is love, and here is truth, |
| Oh, here is love, is love! | Oh, here is love, is love! |
FREDERIC rushes to window and leaps out.
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